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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
25			errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
26			source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
27			may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
28			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
29				default _serial_ console on ARM64
30			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
31			"acpi=nospcr" are available
32			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
33			are available
34
35			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
36
37	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
38			Format: <int>
39			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
40			1,0: use 1st APIC table
41			default: 0
42
43	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
44			{ vendor | video | native | none }
45			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
46			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
47			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
48			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
49			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
50			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
51
52	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
53			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
54			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
55			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
56			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
57
58	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
59			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
60			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
61			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
62			This option is useful for developers to identify the
63			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
64			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
65
66	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
67	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
68			Format: <int>
69			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
70			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
71			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
72			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
73			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
74			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
75			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
76			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
77			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
78			debug layers and levels.
79
80			Enable processor driver info messages:
81			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
82			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
83			object while interpreting AML:
84			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
85			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
86			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
87
88			Some values produce so much output that the system is
89			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
90			if you need to capture more output.
91
92	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
93			{ strict | lax | no }
94			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
95			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
96			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
97			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
98			can interfere with legacy drivers.
99			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
100			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
101			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
102			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
103			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
104			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
105			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
106			no further checks are performed.
107
108	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
109			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
110			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
111			size limitation.
112
113	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will balance active IRQs
115			default in APIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
118			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
119			default in PIC mode
120
121	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
125			use by PCI
126			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
127
128	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
129			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
130			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
131			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
132			the GPE dispatcher.
133			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
134			GPE floodings.
135			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
136
137	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
138			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
139			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
140			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
141			auto-serialization feature.
142			This feature is enabled by default.
143			This option allows to turn off the feature.
144
145	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
146			   kernels.
147
148	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
149			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
150			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
151			installed automatically and they will appear under
152			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
153			This option turns off this feature.
154			Note that specifying this option does not affect
155			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
156			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
157
158	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
159			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
160			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
161
162	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
163			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
164			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
165			second kernel for kdump.
166
167	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
168			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
169
170	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
171			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
172			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
173			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
174			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
175
176	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
177			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
178			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
179			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
180			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
181						  strings
182			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
183						  strings
184			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
185
186			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
187			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
188			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
189			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
190			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
191			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
192			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
193			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
194			care about the state of the feature group strings which
195			should be controlled by the OSPM.
196			Examples:
197			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
198			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
199			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
200
201			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
202			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
203			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
204			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
205			multiple times through kernel command line is also
206			meaningless.
207			Examples:
208			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
209			     FALSE.
210
211			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
212			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
213			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
214			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
215			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
216			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
217			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
218			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
219			is useful when one want to control the state of the
220			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
221			the OSPM features.
222			Examples:
223			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
224			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
225			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
226			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
227			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
228			     equivalent to
229			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
230			     and
231			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
232			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
233
234	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
235			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
236			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
237			and always returns good values.
238
239	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
240			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
241
242	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
243			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
244			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
245
246	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
247			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
248				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
249				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
250			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
251			s3_bios and s3_mode.
252			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
253			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
254			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
255			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
256			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
257			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
258			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
259			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
260			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
261			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
262			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
263			used (or even warned about) during resume.
264			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
265			control method, with respect to putting devices into
266			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
267			of _PTS is used by default).
268			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
269			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
270			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
271			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
272			but some broken systems don't work without it).
273			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
274			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
275			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
276
277	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
278			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
279			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
280
281	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
282			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
283
284	agp=		[AGP]
285			{ off | try_unsupported }
286			off: disable AGP support
287			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
288				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
289
290	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
291			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
292
293	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
294			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
295			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
296			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
297
298	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
299			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
300			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
301			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
302			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
303			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
304			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
305
306			32: only for 32-bit processes
307			64: only for 64-bit processes
308			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
309			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
310
311	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
312			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
313			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
314			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
315			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
316			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
317
318	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
319			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
320			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
321			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
322			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
323			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
324			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
325
326			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
327			information.
328
329	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
330			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
331			Possible values are:
332			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
333			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
334				    the system
335			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
336					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
337					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
338					  requirements as needed. This option
339					  does not override iommu=pt
340			force_enable    - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
341				          to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
342				          option with care.
343			pgtbl_v1        - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
344			pgtbl_v2        - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
345			irtcachedis     - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
346			nohugepages     - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
347				          to 4 KiB.
348			v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
349				          to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
350
351
352	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
353			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
354			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
355			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
356			IOMMU initialization.
357
358	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
359			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
360			remapping modes:
361			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
362			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
363			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
364			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
365			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
366
367	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
368			disable
369			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
370			  scaling driver for the supported processors
371			passive
372			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
373			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
374			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
375			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
376			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
377			active
378			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
379			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
380			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
381			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
382			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
383			  frequency.
384			guided
385			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
386			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
387			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
388			  to the current workload.
389
390	amd_prefcore=
391			[X86]
392			disable
393			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
394
395	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
396			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
397			Format: <a>,<b>
398			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
399
400	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
401			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
402			connected to one of 16 gameports
403			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
404
405	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
406			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
407			Format: noidle
408			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
409			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
410			APC and your system crashes randomly.
411
412	apic		[APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
413
414	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
415			Change the output verbosity while booting
416			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
417			Change the amount of debugging information output
418			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
419
420	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
421			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
422			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
423			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
424			      backup of CPU 0
425			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
426			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
427			      shot down by NMI
428
429	apicpmtimer	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
430			apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
431			broken.
432
433	autoconf=	[IPV6]
434			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
435
436	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
437			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
438
439	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
440			Format: { "0" | "1" }
441			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
442			0 -- disable.
443			1 -- enable.
444			Default value is set via kernel config option.
445
446	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
447			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
448
449	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
450			32 bit applications.
451
452	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
453			Identification support
454
455	arm64.nogcs	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
456			support
457
458	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
459			Set instructions support
460
461	arm64.nompam	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
462			Monitoring support
463
464	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
465			support
466
467	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
468			support
469
470	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
471			Extension support
472
473	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
474			Extension support
475
476	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
477
478	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
479
480	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
481			EzKey and similar keyboards
482
483	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
484
485	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
486			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
487
488	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
489			keyboards
490
491	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
492			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
493
494	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
495			Use software keyboard repeat
496
497	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
498			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
499			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
500			    enabled until the next reboot
501			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
502			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
503			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
504			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
505			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
506			    userspace auditd.
507			Default: unset
508
509	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
510			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
511			Default: 64
512
513	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
514			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
515			Format: { "0" | "1" }
516			0 - Disable the BAU.
517			1 - Enable the BAU.
518			unset - Disable the BAU.
519
520	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
521			Format: <io>,<mode>
522
523	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
524			Format: <io>,<mode>
525			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
526
527	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
528			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
529			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
530			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
531
532	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
533			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
534			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
535			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
536
537	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
538			Format: <bool>
539			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
540			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
541			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
542			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
543			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
544			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
545			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
546			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
547			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
548
549	bert_disable	[ACPI]
550			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
551
552	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
553			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
554
555	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
556			embedded devices based on command line input.
557			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
558
559	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
560			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
562			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
563			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
564			erroneous and ignored.
565			Format: integer
566
567	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
568			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
569			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
570
571			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
572
573	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
574	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
575			kernel args too.
576	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
577	bttv.tuner=
578
579	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
580			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
581			at a time.
582
583	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
584
585	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
586			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
587			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
588			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
589			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
590			This option provides an override for these situations.
591
592	carrier_timeout=
593			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
594			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
595			it waits 120 seconds.
596
597	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
598			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
599			trust validation.
600			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
601
602	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
603			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
604			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
605			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
606			others).
607
608	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
609			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
610
611	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
612			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
613			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
614			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
615			  a single hierarchy
616			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
617			  subsystem
618			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
619			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
620			  created
621			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
622			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
623			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
624			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
625			stall information accounting feature
626
627	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
628			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
629			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
630			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
631			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
632			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
633			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
634			all v1 hierarchies.
635
636	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
637			Format: { "true" | "false" }
638			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
639
640	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
641			Format: <string>
642			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
643			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
644			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
645
646	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
647			Format: { "0" | "1" }
648			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
649			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
650				any implied execute protection).
651			1 -- check protection requested by application.
652			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
653			Value can be changed at runtime via
654				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
655			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
656
657	cio_ignore=	[S390]
658			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
659
660	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
661			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
662			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
663			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
664			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
665			ones should be.
666			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
667			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
668			instability issue. However, not all features have names
669			in /proc/cpuinfo.
670			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
671			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
672			or using the feature without checking anything
673			will still see it. This just prevents it from
674			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
675			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
676			some critical bits.
677
678	clk_ignore_unused
679			[CLK]
680			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
681			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
682			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
683			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
684			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
685			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
686			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
687			platform with proper driver support.  For more
688			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
689
690	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
691			[Deprecated]
692			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
693			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
694			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
695			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
696
697	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
698			Format: <string>
699			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
700			with the name specified.
701			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
702			the platform:
703			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
704			[ACPI] acpi_pm
705			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
706				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
707			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
708				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
709			[MIPS] MIPS
710			[PARISC] cr16
711			[S390] tod
712			[SH] SuperH
713			[SPARC64] tick
714			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
715
716	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
717			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
718			Format: <bool>
719			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
720			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
721			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
722			systems.
723
724	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
725			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
726			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
727			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
728			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
729			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
730			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
731			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
732			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
733
734	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
735			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
736			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
737			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
738			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
739
740	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
741			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
742			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
743			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
744			placement constraint by the physical address range of
745			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
746			altogether. For more information, see
747			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
748
749	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
750			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
751			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
752			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
753			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
754			specified, the default value is 0.
755			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
756			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
757			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
758			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
759
760	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
761			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
762			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
763			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
764			area for the specified node.
765
766			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
767			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
768			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
769			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
770
771	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
772			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
773			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
774			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
775			a hypervisor.
776			Default: yes
777
778	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
779			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
780			allocations, by default set to 256K.
781
782	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
783			Format:
784			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
785
786	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
787			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
788
789	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
790			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
791			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
792
793	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
794	conmode=
795
796	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
797			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
798			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
799			the console buffer is full. In this case the
800			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
801			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
802			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
803			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
804			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
805			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
806
807	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
808
809		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
810
811		ttyS<n>[,options]
812		ttyUSB0[,options]
813			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
814			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
815			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
816			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
817			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
818
819			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
820			information.  See
821			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
822			alternative.
823
824		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
825			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
826			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
827			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
828			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
829			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
830
831			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
832			can be viewed with:
833
834			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
835			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
836
837			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
838			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
839			way will only get added when the related device driver
840			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
841			the console may be desired for console output early on.
842
843		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
844		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
845		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
846		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
847		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
848			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
849			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
850			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
851			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
852			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
853			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
854			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
855			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
856			the h/w is not re-initialized.
857
858		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
859			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
860
861		{ null | "" }
862			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
863			console messages discarded.
864			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
865			kernel command line.
866
867		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
868		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
869			console=brl,ttyS0
870		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
871
872	console_msg_format=
873			[KNL] Change console messages format
874		default
875			By default we print messages on consoles in
876			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
877			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
878			`printk_time' param).
879		syslog
880			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
881			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
882			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
883			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
884			from /proc/kmsg.
885
886	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
887			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
888			Defaults to 0.
889
890	coredump_filter=
891			[KNL] Change the default value for
892			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
893			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
894
895	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
896			[ARM,ARM64]
897			Format: <bool>
898			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
899			0: default value, disable debugging
900			1: enable debugging at boot time
901
902	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
903			Format:
904			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
905
906	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
907			disable the cpuidle sub-system
908
909	cpuidle.governor=
910			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
911
912	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
913			disable the cpufreq sub-system
914
915	cpufreq.default_governor=
916			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
917			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
918			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
919
920	cpu_init_udelay=N
921			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
922			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
923			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
924			Default: 10000
925
926	cpuhp.parallel=
927			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
928			Format: <bool>
929			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
930			the parameter has no effect.
931
932	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
933			Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
934			notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
935			the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
936			notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
937			In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
938			running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
939			more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
940			or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
941			configurations enable this option unconditionally,
942			like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
943
944	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
945			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
946			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
947			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
948			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
949			is selected automatically.
950			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
951			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
952			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
953			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
954
955	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
956			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
957			in the running system. The syntax of range is
958			start-[end] where start and end are both
959			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
960			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
961
962	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
963			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
964			above 4G.
965			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
966			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
967			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
968			below 4G, if available.
969			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
970	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
971			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
972			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
973			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
974			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
975			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
976			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
977			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
978			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
979			size is	platform dependent.
980			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
981			  --> arm64: 128MiB
982			  --> riscv: 128MiB
983			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
984			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
985			for second kernel instead.
986			0: to disable low allocation.
987			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
988			or memory reserved is below 4G.
989	crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
990			[KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
991			CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
992			userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
993			balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
994			will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
995			be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
996			it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
997			may be missing from the dump.
998
999			A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1000			is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1001
1002			This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1003			transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1004			corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1005
1006			This reservation method is intended for systems that
1007			can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1008			crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1009			possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1010			all.
1011
1012	cryptomgr.notests
1013			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1014
1015	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
1016			Format: <dma>
1017
1018	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
1019			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1020
1021	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1022			function call handling. When switched on,
1023			additional debug data is printed to the console
1024			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1025			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1026			the hang situation.  The default value of this
1027			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1028			Kconfig option.
1029
1030	dasd=		[HW,NET]
1031			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1032
1033	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1034			(one device per port)
1035			Format: <port#>,<type>
1036			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1037
1038	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1039
1040	debug_boot_weak_hash
1041			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1042			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1043			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1044			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1045			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1046			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1047
1048	debug_locks_verbose=
1049			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1050			Format: <int>
1051			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1052			self-tests.
1053			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1054			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1055			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1056			useful to lockdep developers.
1057
1058	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1059
1060	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1061			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1062			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1063			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1064			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1065			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1066			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1067			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1068			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1069			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1070			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1071			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1072			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1073			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1074			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1075			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1076			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1077			help tracking down these problems.
1078
1079	debug_pagealloc=
1080			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1081			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1082			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1083			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1084			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1085			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1086			on: enable the feature
1087
1088	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1089			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1090			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1091			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1092			no-mount:
1093				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1094			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1095				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1096			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1097			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1098				or directories within debugfs.
1099				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1100				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1101			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1102
1103	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1104
1105	default_hugepagesz=
1106			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1107			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1108			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1109			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1110			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1111			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1112			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1113			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1114			Format: size[KMG]
1115
1116	deferred_probe_timeout=
1117			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1118			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1119			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1120			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1121			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1122			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1123			successful driver registration. This option will also
1124			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1125			retrying.
1126
1127	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1128
1129	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1130			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1131			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1132			hardware.
1133
1134	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1135			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1136			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1137			blacklisted features.
1138
1139	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1140			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1141			(disabled by default).
1142
1143	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1144			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1145			capability is set.
1146
1147	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1148			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1149
1150	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1151			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1152
1153	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1154			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1155			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1156			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1157			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1158			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1159			          only (compression on level 1)
1160			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1161			          only (decompression)
1162			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1163			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1164
1165	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1166			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1167
1168	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1169			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1170			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1171			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1172			miss to occur.
1173
1174	disable=	[IPV6]
1175			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1176
1177	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1178			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1179
1180	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1181			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1182			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1183
1184	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1185			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1186			to workaround buggy firmware.
1187
1188	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1189			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1190
1191	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1192			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1193			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1194			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1195
1196	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1197			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1198			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1199			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1200			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1201
1202	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1203			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1204			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1205
1206	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1207
1208	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1209			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1210
1211	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1212			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1213			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1214			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1215			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1216			architectural default is too low.
1217
1218	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1219			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1220			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1221			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1222			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1223			driver later using sysfs.
1224
1225	reg_file_data_sampling=
1226			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1227			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1228			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1229			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1230			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1231			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1232
1233			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1234			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1235
1236			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1237			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1238			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1239			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1240			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1241
1242			For details see:
1243			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1244
1245	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1246			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1247			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1248			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1249			match the *.
1250			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1251
1252	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1253			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1254			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1255			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1256			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1257			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1258			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1259			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1260			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1261			data set with no connector name will be used for
1262			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1263
1264	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1265
1266	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1267			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1268			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1269			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1270			exists).
1271			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1272			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1273			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1274
1275	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1276			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1277			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1278			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1279
1280	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1281	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1282			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1283			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1284			for details.
1285
1286	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1287			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1288			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1289			which are not unmapped.
1290
1291	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1292
1293			When used with no options, the early console is
1294			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1295			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1296			the platform.
1297
1298		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1299			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1300			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1301			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1302			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1303			configured.
1304
1305		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1306		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1307		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1308		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1309		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1310			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1311			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1312			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1313			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1314			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1315			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1316			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1317			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1318			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1319			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1320
1321		pl011,<addr>
1322		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1323			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1324			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1325			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1326			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1327			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1328			the device registers.
1329
1330		liteuart,<addr>
1331			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1332			specified address. The serial port must already be
1333			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1334
1335		meson,<addr>
1336			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1337			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1338			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1339			supported.
1340
1341		msm_serial,<addr>
1342			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1343			port at the specified address. The serial port
1344			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1345			yet supported.
1346
1347		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1348			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1349			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1350			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1351			yet supported.
1352
1353		owl,<addr>
1354			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1355			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1356			specified address. The serial port must already be
1357			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1358
1359		rda,<addr>
1360			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1361			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1362			specified address. The serial port must already be
1363			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1364
1365		sbi
1366			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1367			console.
1368
1369		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1370
1371		s3c2410,<addr>
1372		s3c2412,<addr>
1373		s3c2440,<addr>
1374		s3c6400,<addr>
1375		s5pv210,<addr>
1376		exynos4210,<addr>
1377			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1378			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1379			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1380			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1381			Options are not yet supported.
1382
1383		lantiq,<addr>
1384			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1385			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1386			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1387			yet supported.
1388
1389		lpuart,<addr>
1390		lpuart32,<addr>
1391			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1392			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1393			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1394			port must already be setup and configured.
1395
1396		ec_imx21,<addr>
1397		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1398			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1399			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1400			must already be setup and configured.
1401
1402		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1403			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1404			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1405			address. The serial port must already be setup
1406			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1407
1408		qcom_geni,<addr>
1409			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1410			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1411			specified address. The serial port must already be
1412			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1413
1414		efifb,[options]
1415			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1416			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1417			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1418			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1419			mapped with the correct attributes.
1420
1421		linflex,<addr>
1422			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1423			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1424			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1425			already be setup and configured.
1426
1427	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1428			earlyprintk=vga
1429			earlyprintk=sclp
1430			earlyprintk=xen
1431			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1432			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1433			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1434			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1435			earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1436			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1437			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1438			earlyprintk=bios
1439
1440			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1441			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1442			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1443
1444			Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1445			BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1446
1447			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1448			takes over.
1449
1450			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1451			be used at a time.
1452
1453			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1454			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1455			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1456			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1457				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1458			You can find the port for a given device in
1459			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1460				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1461
1462			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1463			very good.
1464
1465			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1466			the real console.
1467
1468			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1469
1470			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1471
1472			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1473
1474			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1475			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1476			UART class.
1477
1478	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1479			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1480			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1481			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1482			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1483			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1484			default: on.
1485
1486	edd=		[EDD]
1487			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1488
1489	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1490			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1491				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1492				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1493			debug: enable misc debug output.
1494			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1495			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1496			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1497			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1498			firmware implementations.
1499			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1500			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1501			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1502			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1503			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1504			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1505			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1506			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1507			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1508			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1509
1510	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1511			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1512			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1513			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1514			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1515
1516	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1517			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1518			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1519			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1520			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1521
1522
1523	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1524			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1525
1526	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1527			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1528
1529			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1530			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1531
1532			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1533			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1534			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1535			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1536
1537	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1538			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1539			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1540
1541	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1542			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1543			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1544			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1545			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1546
1547	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1548			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1549			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1550			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1551
1552	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1553			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1554			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1555			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1556			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1557
1558	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1559			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1560			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1561			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1562			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1563			Default value is 0.
1564			Value can be changed at runtime via
1565			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1566
1567	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1568			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1569			support.
1570
1571	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1572			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1573			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1574
1575	evm=		[EVM]
1576			Format: { "fix" }
1577			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1578			current integrity status.
1579
1580	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1581			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1582			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1583			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1584			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1585			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1586			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1587
1588	failslab=
1589	fail_usercopy=
1590	fail_page_alloc=
1591	fail_skb_realloc=
1592	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1593			General fault injection mechanism.
1594			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1595			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1596
1597	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1598			Format: { initns | none }
1599			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1600			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1601
1602	floppy=		[HW]
1603			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1604
1605	forcepae	[X86-32]
1606			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1607			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1608			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1609			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1610			and may cause unknown problems.
1611
1612	fred=		[X86-64]
1613			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1614			Format: { on | off }
1615			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1616			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1617
1618	ftrace=[tracer]
1619			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1620			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1621			boot debugging.
1622
1623	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1624			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1625			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1626			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1627			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1628			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1629			start up functionality.
1630
1631			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1632			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1633			line parameter.
1634
1635			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1636
1637			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1638			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1639
1640	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1641			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1642			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1643			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1644			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1645			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1646			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1647			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1648			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1649			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1650			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1651
1652			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1653
1654			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1655			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1656
1657			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1658
1659			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1660			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1661			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1662
1663	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1664			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1665			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1666			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1667			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1668			tracing directory.
1669
1670	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1671			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1672			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1673			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1674			tracing directory.
1675
1676	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1677			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1678			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1679			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1680			that can be changed at run time by the
1681			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1682
1683	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1684			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1685			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1686			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1687			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1688
1689	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1690			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1691			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1692			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1693			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1694
1695	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1696			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1697			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1698			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1699			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1700			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1701			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1702			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1703			suppliers).
1704			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1705			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1706			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1707				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1708				up (sync_state() calls).
1709			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1710				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1711			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1712
1713	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1714			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1715			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1716			Format: <bool>
1717
1718	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1719			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1720			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1721			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1722			calls.
1723			Format: { strict | timeout }
1724			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1725				probe successfully.
1726			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1727				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1728				received their sync_state() calls after
1729				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1730				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1731
1732	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1733			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1734			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1735			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1736			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1737
1738	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1739
1740	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1741			Format: off | on
1742			default: on
1743
1744	gather_data_sampling=
1745			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1746			mitigation.
1747
1748			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1749			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1750			previously stored in vector registers.
1751
1752			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1753			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1754			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1755			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1756
1757			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1758				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1759				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1760				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1761
1762			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1763
1764	gbpages		[X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1765
1766	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1767			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1768			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1769			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1770			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1771
1772	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1773			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1774			android emulator
1775
1776	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1777			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1778			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1779	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1780			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1781
1782	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1783			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1784			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1785			GPT to be used instead.
1786
1787	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1788			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1789			Format: 0 | 1
1790			Default: 0
1791	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1792			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1793			Format: 0 | 1
1794			Default: 0
1795	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1796			Format: 0 | 1
1797			Default: 0
1798	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1799			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1800			Default: 1024
1801	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1802			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1803			Default: 1024
1804
1805	hardened_usercopy=
1806			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1807			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1808			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1809			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1810			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1811			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1812			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1813			The default is determined by
1814			CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1815		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1816		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1817
1818	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1819			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1820			backtraces on all cpus.
1821			Format: 0 | 1
1822
1823	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1824			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1825			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1826			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1827
1828	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1829			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1830
1831	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1832			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1833			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1834			logic will be disabled.
1835
1836	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1837		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1838				present during boot.
1839		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1840		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1841		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1842				(that will set all pages holding image data
1843				during restoration read-only).
1844
1845	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1846				used with hibernation.
1847				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1848				Default: lzo
1849
1850				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1851				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1852
1853				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1854				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1855
1856	hibernate.pm_test_delay=
1857			[HIBERNATION]
1858			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
1859			mode before resuming the system (see
1860			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
1861			is set. Default value is 5.
1862
1863	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1864			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1865			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1866			size on bigger boxes.
1867
1868	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1869			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1870			Default: "on"
1871
1872	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1873
1874	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1875			Format: <string>
1876			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1877			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1878			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1879			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1880			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1881			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1882			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1883			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1884			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1885			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1886
1887	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1888			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1889				verbose }
1890			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1891			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1892				VIA, nVidia)
1893			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1894
1895	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1896			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1897
1898	hugepages=	[HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1899			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1900			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1901			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1902			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1903			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1904			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1905			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1906			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1907				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1908
1909	hugepagesz=
1910			[HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is
1911			used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
1912			allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
1913			pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
1914			for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
1915			are architecture dependent. See also
1916			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1917			Format: size[KMG]
1918
1919	hugepage_alloc_threads=
1920			[HW] The number of threads that should be used to
1921			allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
1922			used to improve system bootup time when allocating
1923			a large amount of huge pages.
1924			The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
1925
1926			Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
1927
1928	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1929			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1930			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1931			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1932				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1933
1934			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1935			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1936			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1937
1938	hugetlb_cma_only=
1939			[HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
1940			try to allocate from the CMA areas.
1941
1942			This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
1943			specified.
1944
1945	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1946			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1947			enabled.
1948			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1949			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1950			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1951			Format: { on | off (default) }
1952
1953			on: enable HVO
1954			off: disable HVO
1955
1956			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1957			the default is on.
1958
1959			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1960			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1961			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1962			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1963			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1964
1965	hung_task_panic=
1966			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1967			Format: 0 | 1
1968
1969			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1970			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1971			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1972			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1973			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1974
1975	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1976				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1977	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1978				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1979				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1980
1981	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1982			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1983			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1984			on lock contention.
1985
1986	hw_protection=	[HW]
1987			Format: reboot | shutdown
1988
1989			Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
1990			overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
1991
1992	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1993				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1994				registered from board initialization code.
1995				Format:
1996				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1997
1998	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1999			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2000			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2001			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2002			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2003			adding a DMI quirk for this.
2004
2005			Format:
2006			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2007			Where <val> is one of:
2008			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
2009			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
2010			Anything else		Set a string device-property
2011
2012			Examples (split over multiple lines):
2013			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2014			touchscreen-inverted-y
2015
2016			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2017			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2018			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2019
2020	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2021	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2022			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2023			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2024			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2025	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2026	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2027			     keyboard and cannot control its state
2028			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2029	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2030	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2031	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2032			     for the AUX port
2033	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2034			     controller
2035	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2036			     controllers
2037	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2038	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2039			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2040			     transitions, or never reset
2041			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2042			1, Y, y: always reset controller
2043			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2044			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2045			architectures force reset to be always executed
2046	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2047	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2048	i8042.probe_defer
2049			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2050
2051	i810=		[HW,DRM]
2052
2053	i915.invert_brightness=
2054			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2055			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2056			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2057			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2058			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2059			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2060			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2061			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2062			value switches the backlight off.
2063			-1 -- never invert brightness
2064			 0 -- machine default
2065			 1 -- force brightness inversion
2066
2067	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
2068			Format: <bool>
2069			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2070			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2071			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2072
2073	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
2074			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2075
2076
2077	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
2078			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2079
2080			idle=poll:  Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2081			using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2082			make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2083			to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2084			benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2085			performance counters more accurate.  Please note that
2086			on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2087			EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2088			over the normal idle loop.  It may also interact badly
2089			with hyperthreading.
2090
2091			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2092			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2093
2094			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2095
2096	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2097			Format: <bool>
2098			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2099			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2100			true (1).
2101
2102	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2103			Format: <bool>
2104			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2105			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2106
2107	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2108			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2109			Default: strict
2110
2111			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2112			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2113			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2114			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2115			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2116			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2117			encoding mode.
2118
2119			Available settings are as follows:
2120			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2121				supported by the FPU
2122			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2123				by the FPU
2124			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2125				by the FPU
2126			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2127				supported by the FPU
2128			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2129				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2130
2131			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2132			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2133			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2134			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2135			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2136			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2137			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2138			MIPS64 CPUs.
2139
2140			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2141			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2142			except where unsupported by hardware.
2143
2144	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2145			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2146			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2147			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2148			could change it dynamically, usually by
2149			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2150
2151	ignore_rlimit_data
2152			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2153			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2154			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2155
2156	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2157			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2158
2159	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2160			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2161			default: "enforce"
2162
2163	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2164			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2165			owned by uid=0.
2166
2167	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2168			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2169			measurements, instead of host native format.
2170
2171	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2172			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2173				   | sha512 | ... }
2174			default: "sha1"
2175
2176			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2177			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2178
2179	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2180			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2181			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2182				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2183
2184			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2185			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2186			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2187			uid=0.
2188
2189			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2190			all files owned by root.
2191
2192			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2193			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2194			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2195
2196			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2197			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2198			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2199			flag.
2200
2201			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2202			critical data.
2203
2204	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2205			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2206			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2207			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2208			opened for read by uid=0.
2209
2210	ima_template=	[IMA]
2211			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2212			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2213				   "ima-sigv2" }
2214			Default: "ima-ng"
2215
2216	ima_template_fmt=
2217			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2218			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2219
2220	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2221			Format: <min_file_size>
2222			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2223			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2224
2225			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2226			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2227			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2228
2229	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2230			Format: <bufsize>
2231			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2232
2233			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2234			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2235			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2236
2237	indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2238			Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2239			microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2240
2241			on:     Enable mitigation (default).
2242			off:    Disable mitigation.
2243			force:	Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2244				mitigation.
2245			vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2246				guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2247			stuff:	Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2248				also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2249				mitigation.
2250
2251			For details see:
2252			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2253
2254	init=		[KNL]
2255			Format: <full_path>
2256			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2257			process.
2258
2259	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2260			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2261			startup.
2262
2263	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2264			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2265			modules and initcalls.
2266
2267	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2268			Format: <bool>
2269			Default: 1
2270			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2271			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2272			with devices being probed and
2273			initialized. This should normally just work,
2274			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2275			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2276			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2277			late_ initcalls.
2278
2279	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2280
2281	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2282			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2283			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2284			setting.
2285			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2286			Default is 0, 0
2287
2288	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2289			zeroes.
2290			Format: 0 | 1
2291			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2292
2293	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2294			Format: 0 | 1
2295			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2296
2297	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2298			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2299			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2300			override in debugfs after boot.
2301
2302	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2303			Format: <irq>
2304
2305	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2306
2307	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2308			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2309			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2310			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2311
2312	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2313		on
2314			Enable intel iommu driver.
2315		off
2316			Disable intel iommu driver.
2317		igfx_off [Default Off]
2318			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2319			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2320			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2321			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2322			DMA.
2323		strict [Default Off]
2324			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2325		sp_off [Default Off]
2326			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2327			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2328			not be supported.
2329		sm_on
2330			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2331			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2332			translation.
2333		sm_off
2334			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2335		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2336			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2337			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2338			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2339			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2340			mapping is enabled.
2341			Note that using this option lowers the security
2342			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2343			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2344
2345	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2346			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2347			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2348
2349	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2350			disable
2351			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2352			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2353                        active
2354                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2355                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2356                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2357                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2358                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2359                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2360                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2361                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2362                          and possibly on the processor model.
2363			passive
2364			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2365			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2366			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2367			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2368			  feature.
2369			force
2370			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2371			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2372			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2373			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2374			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2375			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2376			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2377			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2378			no_hwp
2379			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2380			  if available.
2381			hwp_only
2382			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2383			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2384			support_acpi_ppc
2385			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2386			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2387			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2388			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2389			per_cpu_perf_limits
2390			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2391			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2392			no_cas
2393			  Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2394			  hybrid systems
2395
2396	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2397			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2398			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2399			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2400			no_x2apic_optout
2401				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2402			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2403			posted_msi
2404				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2405
2406	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2407		strict	regions from userspace.
2408		relaxed
2409
2410	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2411
2412		off
2413			Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2414
2415		force
2416			Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2417			it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2418			memory).
2419
2420		noforce
2421			Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2422			needed. (default).
2423
2424		biomerge
2425		panic
2426		nopanic
2427		merge
2428		nomerge
2429
2430		soft
2431			Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2432			Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2433			of an available hardware IOMMU.
2434
2435			[X86]
2436		pt
2437			[X86]
2438		nopt
2439			[PPC/POWERNV]
2440		nobypass
2441			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2442
2443		[X86]
2444		AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2445
2446		<size>
2447			Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2448
2449		allowed
2450			Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2451
2452		fullflush
2453			Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2454
2455		nofullflush
2456			Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2457
2458		memaper[=<order>]
2459			Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2460			32MB<<order.  (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2461
2462		merge
2463			Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2464			(experimental).
2465
2466		nomerge
2467			Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2468
2469		noaperture
2470			Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2471
2472		noagp
2473			Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2474
2475		panic
2476			Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2477
2478	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2479			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2480			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2481			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2482			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2483			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2484			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2485
2486	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2487			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2488			0 - Lazy mode.
2489			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2490			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2491			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2492			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2493			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2494			1 - Strict mode.
2495			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2496			  synchronously.
2497			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2498			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2499			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2500
2501	iommu.passthrough=
2502			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2503			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2504			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2505			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2506			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2507
2508	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2509			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2510			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2511
2512	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2513		0x80
2514			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2515		0xed
2516			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2517		udelay
2518			Simple two microseconds delay
2519		none
2520			No delay
2521
2522	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2523			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2524
2525	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2526			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2527
2528	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2529			Format: <bool>
2530			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2531			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2532
2533	ipe.success_audit=
2534			[IPE]
2535			Format: <bool>
2536			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2537			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2538			is 0.
2539
2540	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2541			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2542
2543	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2544			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2545			Format: <bool>
2546			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2547			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2548			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2549
2550	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2551			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2552			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2553			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2554			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2555			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2556			LPIs.
2557
2558	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2559			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2560			requires the kernel to be built with
2561			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2562
2563	irqfixup	[HW]
2564			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2565			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2566			firmware running.
2567
2568	irqpoll		[HW]
2569			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2570			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2571			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2572			firmware running.
2573
2574	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2575			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2576
2577	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2578			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2579			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2580
2581			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2582			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2583
2584			nohz
2585			  Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2586			  disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2587			  offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2588
2589			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2590			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2591			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2592			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2593			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2594
2595			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2596			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2597			  be configured manually after bootup.
2598
2599			domain
2600			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2601			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2602			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2603			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2604			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2605			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2606			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2607			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2608
2609			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2610			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2611			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2612			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2613
2614			managed_irq
2615
2616			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2617			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2618			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2619			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2620			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2621
2622			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2623			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2624			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2625			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2626			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2627			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2628			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2629
2630			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2631			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2632			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2633			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2634			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2635			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2636			  queues.
2637
2638			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2639
2640	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2641
2642	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2643			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2644			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2645			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2646
2647			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2648			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2649			write the parameter as:
2650				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2651
2652			Deprecated formats:
2653			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2654			  write the parameter as:
2655				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2656			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2657			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2658				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2659
2660	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2661			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2662			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2663			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2664
2665			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2666			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2667			write the parameter as:
2668				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2669
2670			Deprecated formats:
2671			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2672			  write the parameter as:
2673				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2674			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2675			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2676				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2677
2678	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2679			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2680			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2681			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2682
2683			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2684			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2685			write the parameter as:
2686				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2687
2688			Deprecated formats:
2689			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2690			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2691				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2692			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2693			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2694				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2695
2696	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2697			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2698
2699	kasan_multi_shot
2700			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2701			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2702			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2703			invalid access.
2704
2705	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2706			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2707			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2708			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2709			the real console.
2710
2711	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2712
2713	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2714			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2715			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2716			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2717			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2718			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2719			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2720			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2721			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2722			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2723
2724			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2725			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2726			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2727			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2728			zone if it does not.
2729
2730			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2731			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2732			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2733			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2734			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2735			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2736			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2737
2738	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2739			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2740			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2741			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2742			optional and is the number seconds in between
2743			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2744			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2745			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2746			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2747			the kernel debugger.
2748
2749	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2750			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2751			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2752			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2753			 keyboard only format: kbd
2754			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2755			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2756			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2757			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2758
2759	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2760			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2761			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2762			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2763			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2764			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2765			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2766
2767			The name of the early console should be specified
2768			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2769			the early console might be different than the tty
2770			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2771			blank and the first boot console that implements
2772			read() will be picked.
2773
2774	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2775			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2776
2777	kho=		[KEXEC,EARLY]
2778			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2779			Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2780			"0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2781			"1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2782
2783	kho_scratch=	[KEXEC,EARLY]
2784			Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
2785			Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
2786			scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
2787			ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
2788			allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
2789			fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
2790			kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
2791			bootstrap itself.
2792
2793			It is possible to specify the exact amount of
2794			memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
2795			where the first parameter defines the size of a low
2796			memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
2797			the size of a global scratch area and the third
2798			parameter defines the size of additional per-node
2799			scratch areas.  The form "nn%" defines scale factor
2800			(in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
2801
2802	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2803			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2804			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2805
2806	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2807			Valid arguments: on, off
2808			Default: on
2809			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2810			the default is off.
2811
2812	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2813			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2814			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2815			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2816			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2817			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2818			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2819
2820			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2821
2822			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2823			Boot Parameter" section.
2824
2825	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2826			user and kernel address spaces.
2827			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2828			0: force disabled
2829			1: force enabled
2830
2831	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2832			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2833			default value can be overridden via
2834			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2835			Default is 1 (enabled)
2836
2837	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2838			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2839
2840	kvm.eager_page_split=
2841			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2842			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2843			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2844			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2845			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2846			required to split huge pages lazily.
2847
2848			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2849			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2850			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2851			still be used for reads.
2852
2853			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2854			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2855			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2856			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2857			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2858			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2859			cleared.
2860
2861			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2862
2863			Default is Y (on).
2864
2865	kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
2866			If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
2867			when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
2868			is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
2869
2870			If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
2871			virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2872			VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
2873			number of VMs.
2874
2875			Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
2876			latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
2877			virtualization enabling across all online CPUs.  The
2878			"cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
2879			is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2880			hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
2881
2882	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2883				   Default is false (don't support).
2884
2885	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2886			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2887			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2888			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2889			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2890			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2891				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2892
2893			Default is 'auto'.
2894
2895			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2896			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2897
2898	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2899			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2900			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2901			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2902			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2903
2904	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2905			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2906			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2907			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2908			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2909			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2910
2911	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2912			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2913
2914	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2915			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2916			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2917			for NPT.
2918
2919	kvm-arm.mode=
2920			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2921			operation.
2922
2923			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2924
2925			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2926			      protected guests.
2927
2928			protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
2929				   kept private from the host, using VHE or
2930				   nVHE depending on HW support.
2931
2932			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2933				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
2934				hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
2935
2936			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2937			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2938			for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
2939			"arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
2940			command-line.
2941			"nested" is experimental and should be used with
2942			extreme caution.
2943
2944	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2945			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2946			system registers
2947
2948	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2949			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2950			system registers
2951
2952	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2953			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2954			system registers
2955
2956	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2957			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2958			injection of LPIs.
2959
2960	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2961			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2962			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2963			CPU architecture.
2964
2965			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2966
2967			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2968
2969	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2970			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2971			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2972			CPU architecture.
2973
2974			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2975
2976			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2977
2978	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2979			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2980			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2981			allocation.
2982			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2983			Format: <integer>
2984			Default: 5
2985
2986	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2987			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2988			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2989			for EPT.
2990
2991	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2992			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2993			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2994			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2995			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2996			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2997			Default is 1 (enabled).
2998
2999	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3000			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3001			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3002			hardware lacks support for it.
3003
3004	kvm-intel.nested=
3005			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3006			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3007
3008	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3009			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3010			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3011			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3012			hardware lacks support for it.
3013
3014	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3015			CVE-2018-3620.
3016
3017			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3018
3019			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3020			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3021				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3022			never:	Disables the mitigation
3023
3024			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3025
3026	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3027			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3028			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3029			for it.
3030
3031	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3032			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3033
3034			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3035			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3036			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3037
3038			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3039			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3040			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3041			not have direct access.
3042
3043			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3044			options are:
3045
3046			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
3047
3048	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3049			      affected CPUs
3050
3051			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3052			enabled and cannot be disabled.
3053
3054			full
3055				Provides all available mitigations for the
3056				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3057				enables all mitigations in the
3058				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3059
3060				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3061				sysfs interface is still possible after
3062				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3063				when the first VM is started in a
3064				potentially insecure configuration,
3065				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3066
3067			full,force
3068				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3069				flush runtime control. Implies the
3070				'nosmt=force' command line option.
3071				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3072
3073			flush
3074				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3075				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3076				L1D flush.
3077
3078				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3079				sysfs interface is still possible after
3080				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3081				when the first VM is started in a
3082				potentially insecure configuration,
3083				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3084
3085			flush,nosmt
3086
3087				Disables SMT and enables the default
3088				hypervisor mitigation.
3089
3090				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3091				sysfs interface is still possible after
3092				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3093				when the first VM is started in a
3094				potentially insecure configuration,
3095				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3096
3097			flush,nowarn
3098				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3099				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3100				insecure configuration.
3101
3102			off
3103				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3104				emit any warnings.
3105				It also drops the swap size and available
3106				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3107				bare metal.
3108
3109			Default is 'flush'.
3110
3111			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3112
3113	l2cr=		[PPC]
3114
3115	l3cr=		[PPC]
3116
3117	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3118			disabled it.
3119
3120	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3121			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3122			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3123			Format: notscdeadline
3124
3125	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3126			in C2 power state.
3127
3128	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
3129			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3130			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3131			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3132			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
3133			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3134			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3135
3136	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3137			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
3138			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
3139
3140	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3141			when set.
3142			Format: <int>
3143
3144	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
3145			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3146			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3147			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3148			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
3149			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
3150			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3151			to all ports, links and devices.
3152
3153			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3154			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
3155			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3156			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
3157			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3158			host link and device attached to it.
3159
3160			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
3161			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3162			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3163			The following configurations can be forced.
3164
3165			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3166			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3167
3168			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3169
3170			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3171			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3172			  allowed.
3173
3174			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3175			  resets.
3176
3177			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3178			  link recovery.
3179
3180			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3181			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3182			  detection.
3183
3184			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3185
3186			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3187
3188			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3189
3190			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3191
3192			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3193
3194			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3195
3196			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3197
3198			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3199
3200			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3201			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3202
3203			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3204			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3205
3206			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3207			  identify device data log.
3208
3209			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3210			  purpose log directory.
3211
3212			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3213
3214			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3215			  1024 sectors.
3216
3217			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3218			  65535 sectors.
3219
3220			* external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3221
3222			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3223
3224			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3225			  should be skipped.
3226
3227			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3228			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3229
3230			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3231
3232			* disable: Disable this device.
3233
3234			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3235			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3236
3237	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3238
3239	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3240			Format: <integer>
3241
3242	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3243			Format: <integer>
3244
3245	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3246			Format: <integer>
3247
3248	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3249			Format: <integer>
3250
3251	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3252			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3253			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3254			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3255			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3256			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3257			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3258			are also disabled.
3259
3260	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3261			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3262			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3263			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3264
3265	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3266			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3267			to be bound.
3268
3269	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3270			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3271			to be bound.
3272
3273	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3274			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3275			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3276			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3277			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3278			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3279
3280	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3281			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3282			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3283			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3284
3285	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3286			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3287			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3288			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3289			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3290			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3291
3292	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3293			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3294			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3295			number of online CPUs.
3296
3297	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3298			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3299
3300	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3301			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3302
3303	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3304			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3305			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3306
3307	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3308			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3309			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3310			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3311			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3312			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3313			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3314			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3315			disable boosting.
3316
3317	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3318			Number that determines how often and for how
3319			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3320			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3321			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3322			constant as the number of writers increases.
3323			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3324			increases with the number of writers.
3325
3326	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3327			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3328			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3329			mode during the locktorture test.
3330
3331	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3332			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3333			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3334
3335	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3336			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3337
3338	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3339			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3340			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3341			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3342			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3343			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3344
3345	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3346			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3347
3348	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3349			Enable additional printk() statements.
3350
3351	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3352			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3353			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3354
3355	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3356			Format: <irq>
3357
3358	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3359			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3360			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3361			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3362			loglevels are defined as follows:
3363
3364			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3365			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3366			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3367			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3368			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3369			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3370			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3371			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3372
3373	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3374			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3375			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3376			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3377			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3378			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3379			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3380			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3381			for more details.
3382
3383	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3384			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3385			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3386			kernel boot problems.
3387
3388	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3389	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3390	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3391	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3392				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3393				attached printers to be reset. Using
3394				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3395				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3396				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3397				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3398				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3399				port specification list means that device IDs
3400				from each port should be examined, to see if
3401				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3402				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3403				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3404
3405	lpj=n		[KNL]
3406			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3407			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3408			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3409			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3410			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3411			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3412			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3413			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3414			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3415			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3416			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3417			hardware.
3418
3419	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3420
3421	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3422			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3423			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3424
3425	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3426			different yeeloong laptops.
3427			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3428
3429	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3430			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3431			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3432			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3433			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3434			only takes effect during system bootup.
3435			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3436			which also disables the IO APIC.
3437
3438	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3439	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3440			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3441			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3442			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3443			/dev/loop-control interface.
3444
3445	mce=		[X86-{32,64}]
3446
3447			Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3448
3449		off
3450			disable machine check
3451
3452		no_cmci
3453			disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3454			Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
3455			not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3456			hardware is misbehaving.
3457
3458			Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3459			with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3460			duplicated error logs.
3461
3462		dont_log_ce
3463			don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events
3464			reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3465			option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3466			of corrected errors.
3467
3468		ignore_ce
3469			disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3470			polling timer and CMCI.  All events reported as
3471			corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3472			error banks.
3473
3474			Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3475			if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3476			errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3477			applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3478			and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3479			will be a help.
3480
3481		no_lmce
3482			do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3483			to broadcast MCEs.
3484
3485		bootlog
3486			enable logging of machine checks left over from
3487			booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3488			because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3489
3490			If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3491			enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3492			events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3493			enabled by default.
3494
3495		nobootlog
3496			disable boot machine check logging.
3497
3498		monarchtimeout (number)
3499			sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3500			checks. 0 to disable.
3501
3502		bios_cmci_threshold
3503			don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3504			option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3505			threshold set by the bios.  Without this option, Linux
3506			always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3507			make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3508			if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3509			will not see details for all errors.
3510
3511		recovery
3512			force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3513
3514			Everything else is in sysfs now.
3515
3516
3517	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3518			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3519
3520	mdacon=		[MDA]
3521			Format: <first>,<last>
3522			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3523
3524	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3525			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3526			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3527
3528			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3529			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3530			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3531
3532			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3533			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3534			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3535			not have direct access.
3536
3537			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3538			options are:
3539
3540			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3541			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3542				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3543			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3544
3545			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3546			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3547			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3548			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3549			too.
3550
3551			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3552			mds=full.
3553
3554			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3555
3556	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3557			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3558
3559	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3560			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3561			as follows:
3562
3563			1 for test;
3564			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3565			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3566			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3567			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3568
3569			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3570			high memory is not affected.
3571
3572			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3573			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3574
3575			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3576			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3577			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3578			belonging to unused RAM.
3579
3580			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3581			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3582			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3583
3584	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3585			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3586			reported by firmware.
3587			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3588			ss[KMG].
3589			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3590			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3591
3592	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3593			memory.
3594
3595	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3596
3597	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3598			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3599			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3600
3601	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3602			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3603			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3604			set according to the
3605			CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3606			options.
3607			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3608
3609	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3610			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3611			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3612			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3613			option description.
3614
3615	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3616			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3617			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3618			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3619			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3620			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3621			comma delimited.
3622			Example:
3623				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3624
3625	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3626			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3627			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3628
3629	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3630			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3631			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3632			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3633			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3634			         or
3635			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3636			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3637			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3638			will be eaten.
3639
3640	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3641			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3642			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3643			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3644			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3645
3646	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3647			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3648			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3649			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3650			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3651			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3652			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3653			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3654
3655	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3656			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3657			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3658			Setting this option will scan the memory
3659			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3660			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3661			from using the memory being corrupted.
3662			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3663			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3664			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3665			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3666
3667	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3668			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3669			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3670			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3671			corruption in more or less memory.
3672
3673	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3674			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3675			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3676			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3677
3678	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3679			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3680			Format: {on | off (default)}
3681			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3682			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3683			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3684			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3685			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3686			lot of memory without requiring additional
3687			memory to do so.
3688			This feature is disabled by default because it
3689			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3690			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3691			memory blocks).
3692			The state of the flag can be read in
3693			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3694			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3695			the feature is not effective.
3696
3697	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3698			Format: <integer>
3699			default : 0 <disable>
3700			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3701			performed. Each pass selects another test
3702			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3703			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3704			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3705			regions that are detected.
3706
3707	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3708			Valid arguments: on, off
3709			Default: off
3710			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3711			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3712
3713			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3714			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3715
3716	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3717			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3718			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3719			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3720			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3721
3722	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3723			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3724			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3725			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3726
3727	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3728
3729	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3730			Format: <bool>
3731			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3732			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3733
3734	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3735			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3736			Default: "0tb"
3737			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3738			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3739			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3740			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3741			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3742			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3743			unconfigured.
3744			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3745			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3746			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3747			VGA shield.
3748			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3749			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3750			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3751			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3752			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3753			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3754
3755	mitigations=
3756			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3757			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3758			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3759			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3760
3761			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3762			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3763
3764			off
3765				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3766				improves system performance, but it may also
3767				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3768				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3769					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3770					       indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
3771					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3772					       l1tf=off [X86]
3773					       mds=off [X86]
3774					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3775					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3776					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3777					       nobp=0 [S390]
3778					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3779					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3780					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3781					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3782					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3783					       retbleed=off [X86]
3784					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3785					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3786					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3787					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3788					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3789					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3790					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3791
3792				Exceptions:
3793					       This does not have any effect on
3794					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3795					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3796
3797			auto (default)
3798				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3799				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3800				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3801				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3802				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3803				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3804
3805			auto,nosmt
3806				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3807				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3808				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3809				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3810					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3811					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3812					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3813					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3814
3815	mminit_loglevel=
3816			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3817			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3818			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3819			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3820			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3821			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3822
3823	mmio_stale_data=
3824			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3825			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3826
3827			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3828			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3829			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3830			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3831			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3832			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3833
3834			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3835			options are:
3836
3837			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3838
3839			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3840				     vulnerable CPUs.
3841
3842			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3843
3844			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3845			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3846			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3847			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3848			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3849			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3850
3851			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3852			mmio_stale_data=full.
3853
3854			For details see:
3855			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3856
3857	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3858			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3859			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3860			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3861			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3862			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3863
3864	module.async_probe=<bool>
3865			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3866			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3867			specific module, use the module specific control that
3868			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3869			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3870			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3871			the specific module.
3872
3873	module.enable_dups_trace
3874			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3875			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3876			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3877			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3878			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3879	module.sig_enforce
3880			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3881			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3882			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3883			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3884
3885	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3886			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3887
3888	mousedev.tap_time=
3889			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3890			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3891			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3892			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3893			Format: <msecs>
3894	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3895			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3896	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3897			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3898
3899	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3900			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3901			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3902			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3903			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3904			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3905			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3906			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3907			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3908			is not too small.
3909
3910	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3911			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3912			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3913			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3914			allocations. Use with caution!
3915
3916	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3917			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3918
3919	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3920			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3921
3922	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3923			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3924
3925	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3926			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3927			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3928
3929	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3930			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3931			registers at boot time.
3932
3933	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3934			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3935			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3936
3937	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3938			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3939			Default is 1.
3940			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3941			using up MTRRs.
3942
3943	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3944			Format: <integer>
3945			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3946			Default : 1
3947			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3948			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3949
3950	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3951			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3952			at a time.
3953
3954	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3955
3956	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3957			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3958			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3959			something different and driver-specific.
3960			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3961			file if at all.
3962
3963	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3964			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3965			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3966			waits 4 seconds.
3967
3968	nf_conntrack.acct=
3969			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3970			0 to disable accounting
3971			1 to enable accounting
3972			Default value is 0.
3973
3974	nfs.cache_getent=
3975			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3976			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3977
3978	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3979			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3980			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3981
3982	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3983			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3984			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3985			requests.
3986
3987	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3988			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3989			channel should listen.
3990
3991	nfs.delay_retrans=
3992			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3993			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3994			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3995			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3996			and the specified value is >= 0.
3997
3998	nfs.enable_ino64=
3999			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4000			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4001			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4002			of returning the full 64-bit number.
4003			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4004
4005	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4006			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4007			entries.
4008
4009	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4010			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4011			slots the client will assign to the callback
4012			channel. This determines the maximum number of
4013			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4014			a particular server.
4015
4016	nfs.max_session_slots=
4017			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4018			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4019			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4020			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4021			Note that there is little point in setting this
4022			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4023
4024	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4025			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4026			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4027			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4028			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4029			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4030			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4031			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4032			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4033			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4034			back to using the idmapper.
4035			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4036
4037	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4038			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4039			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4040			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
4041			UUID that is generated at system install time.
4042
4043	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4044			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4045			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4046			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4047			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4048			after the locks are lost.
4049			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4050			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4051			parameter to '1'.
4052			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4053			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4054
4055	nfs.send_implementation_id=
4056			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4057			information in exchange_id requests.
4058			If zero, no implementation identification information
4059			will be sent.
4060			The default is to send the implementation identification
4061			information.
4062
4063	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4064			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4065			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4066
4067			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4068			whatever value is the default set by the layout
4069			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4070			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4071
4072	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4073			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4074			server-to-server copies for which this server is
4075			the destination of the copy.
4076
4077	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4078			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4079			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4080			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4081			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
4082			migration from NFSv2/v3.
4083
4084	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4085			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4086			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4087			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
4088			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4089			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4090			this parameter.
4091
4092	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
4093			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4094
4095	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4096			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4097
4098	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4099			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4100
4101	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4102			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4103			NMI stack-backtrace request.
4104
4105	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4106			when a NMI is triggered.
4107			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4108
4109	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4110			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4111			Valid num: 0 or 1
4112			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4113			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4114			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4115
4116			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4117			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4118			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4119			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4120			please see 'nowatchdog'.
4121			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4122			need the box quickly up again.
4123
4124			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4125			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4126
4127	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4128			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4129			is present.
4130
4131	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4132			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4133
4134	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4135			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4136
4137	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
4138
4139	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4140			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4141
4142	noapictimer	[APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4143
4144	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4145
4146	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
4147
4148	no_console_suspend
4149			[HW] Never suspend the console
4150			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4151			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
4152			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4153			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4154			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
4155			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4156			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4157			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4158			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4159			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4160			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4161			turn on/off it dynamically.
4162
4163	no_debug_objects
4164			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4165
4166	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4167
4168	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4169
4170	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4171
4172	noexec32	[X86-64]
4173			This affects only 32-bit executables.
4174			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4175				read doesn't imply executable mappings
4176			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4177				read implies executable mappings
4178
4179	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
4180			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4181			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4182
4183	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4184
4185	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4186
4187	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4188			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4189			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4190
4191	nogbpages	[X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4192
4193	no_hash_pointers
4194			[KNL,EARLY]
4195			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
4196			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
4197			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
4198			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
4199			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
4200			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
4201			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
4202			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
4203			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
4204			value printed. This option should only be specified when
4205			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
4206			kernels.
4207
4208	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4209
4210	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4211			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4212			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4213			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4214			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4215			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4216			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4217			useful when using JTAG debugger.
4218
4219	nohpet		[X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4220
4221	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4222
4223	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4224
4225	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4226			Valid arguments: on, off
4227			Default: on
4228
4229	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4230			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4231			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4232			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4233			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4234			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
4235			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4236			just as if they had also been called out in the
4237			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4238
4239			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4240			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4241
4242	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4243			initial RAM disk.
4244
4245	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4246			remapping.
4247			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4248
4249	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4250
4251	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4252
4253	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4254			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4255
4256	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4257
4258	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
4259			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4260			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4261			Layout Randomization).
4262
4263	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4264			fault handling.
4265
4266	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4267
4268	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4269
4270	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4271
4272	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4273
4274	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4275			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4276
4277	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4278			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4279			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4280			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4281			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4282			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4283			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4284
4285			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4286
4287	nomodule	Disable module load
4288
4289	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4290			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4291			irq.
4292
4293	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4294			pagetables) support.
4295
4296	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4297
4298	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4299			in some Intel CPUs.
4300
4301	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4302			Equivalent to pti=off
4303
4304	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4305			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4306			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4307			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4308
4309	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4310			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4311			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4312			contention.
4313
4314	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4315			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4316
4317	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4318			with UP alternatives
4319
4320	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4321			space.
4322
4323	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4324			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4325			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4326
4327	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4328
4329	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4330			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4331			even if it is supported by processor.
4332
4333	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4334			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4335			even if it is supported by processor.
4336
4337	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4338			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4339
4340	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4341			Equivalent to smt=1.
4342
4343			[KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4344			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4345				     via the sysfs control file.
4346
4347	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4348
4349	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4350			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4351			Store Bypass vulnerability
4352
4353	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4354			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4355			with this option.
4356
4357	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4358			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4359			possible in the system.
4360
4361	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4362			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4363			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4364			leaks with this option.
4365
4366	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4367			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4368			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4369
4370	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4371
4372	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4373			timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4374			work around problems with incorrect timer
4375			initialization on some boards.
4376
4377	no_uaccess_flush
4378	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4379
4380	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4381			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4382			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4383			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4384			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4385			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4386			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4387			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4388			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4389			is set.
4390
4391	no-vmw-sched-clock
4392			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4393			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4394
4395	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4396			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4397
4398	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4399
4400	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4401
4402			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4403			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4404			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4405
4406	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4407			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4408			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4409
4410	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4411			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4412			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4413			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4414			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4415			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4416
4417	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4418			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4419			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4420			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4421			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4422			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4423			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4424
4425	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4426			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4427			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4428			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4429			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4430			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4431			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4432			hot plugging.
4433
4434	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4435
4436	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4437			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4438			spanning all memory.
4439
4440	numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4441			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4442			If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4443			nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4444
4445	numa=fake=<N>
4446			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4447			If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4448			fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4449
4450	numa=fake=<N>U
4451			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4452			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4453			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4454
4455	numa=noacpi	[X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4456
4457	numa=nohmat	[X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4458			soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4459
4460	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4461			NUMA balancing.
4462			Allowed values are enable and disable
4463
4464	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4465			'node', 'default' can be specified
4466			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4467			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4468
4469	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4470			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4471			info.
4472
4473	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4474			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4475			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4476			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4477			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4478			interrupts *may* be lost!
4479
4480	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4481			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4482			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4483			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4484
4485	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4486
4487			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4488
4489			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4490				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4491			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4492				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4493				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4494
4495	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4496			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4497			process, but there is a small probability of
4498			deadlocking the machine.
4499			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4500			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4501
4502	page_alloc.shuffle=
4503			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4504			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4505			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4506			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4507			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4508			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4509
4510	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4511			Storage of the information about who allocated
4512			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4513			we can turn it on.
4514			on: enable the feature
4515
4516	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4517			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4518			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4519			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4520			on: turn on poisoning
4521
4522	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4523			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4524			Format: <integer>
4525			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4526			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4527
4528	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4529			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4530			timeout = 0: wait forever
4531			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4532			Format: <timeout>
4533
4534	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4535			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4536			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4537			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4538			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4539			called with any of the flags in this set.
4540			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4541			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4542			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4543			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4544			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4545			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4546			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4547
4548	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4549			on a WARN().
4550
4551	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4552			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4553			bit 0: print all tasks info
4554			bit 1: print system memory info
4555			bit 2: print timer info
4556			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4557			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4558			bit 5: replay all messages on consoles at the end of panic
4559			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4560			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4561			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4562			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4563			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4564			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4565
4566	panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4567                        on panic.
4568                        Format: val[,val...]
4569                        Where @val can be any of the following:
4570
4571                        tasks:          print all tasks info
4572                        mem:            print system memory info
4573			timers:         print timers info
4574                        locks:          print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4575                        ftrace:         print ftrace buffer
4576                        all_bt:         print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4577                        blocked_tasks:  print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4578
4579                        This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4580
4581	panic_console_replay
4582			When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4583			consoles at the end of panic.
4584
4585	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4586			connected to, default is 0.
4587			Format: <parport#>
4588	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4589			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4590			Format: <mode>
4591
4592	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4593			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4594			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4595			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4596			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4597			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4598			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4599			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4600			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4601			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4602			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4603			are specified on the command line, starting
4604			with parport0.
4605
4606	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4607			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4608			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4609			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4610			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4611			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4612			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4613
4614	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4615			Format: <int>
4616			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4617			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4618			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4619
4620	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4621			Format: <int>
4622			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4623			changes.  Disabled by default.
4624
4625	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4626			Format: <int>
4627			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4628			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4629			Disabled by default.
4630
4631	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4632			Format: <int>
4633			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4634			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4635			Disabled by default.
4636
4637	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4638			Format: <int>
4639			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4640			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4641			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4642			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4643			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4644			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4645			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4646			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4647			all channels.
4648
4649	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4650			Format: <int>
4651			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4652			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4653			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4654
4655	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4656			Format: <int>
4657			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4658			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4659			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4660
4661	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4662			Format: <int>
4663			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4664			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4665			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4666			All modes allowed by default.
4667
4668	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4669			Format: <int>
4670			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4671			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4672
4673	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4674			Format: <int>
4675			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4676			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4677			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4678			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4679			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4680			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4681			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4682			By default all supported ports are probed.
4683
4684	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4685			Format: <int>
4686			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4687			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4688
4689	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4690			Format: <int>
4691			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4692			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4693			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4694			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4695			0 otherwise.
4696
4697	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4698			Format: <int>
4699			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4700			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4701			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4702			allowed by default.
4703
4704	pause_on_oops=<int>
4705			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4706			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4707			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4708
4709	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4710
4711	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4712
4713				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4714				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4715				specified in one of the following formats:
4716
4717				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4718				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4719
4720				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4721				bus/device/function address which may change
4722				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4723				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4724				by other kernel parameters. If the
4725				domain is left unspecified, it is
4726				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4727				to a device through multiple device/function
4728				addresses can be specified after the base
4729				address (this is more robust against
4730				renumbering issues).  The second format
4731				selects devices using IDs from the
4732				configuration space which may match multiple
4733				devices in the system.
4734
4735		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4736				changes anything
4737		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4738		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4739				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4740				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4741		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4742				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4743				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4744				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4745		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4746				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4747				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4748		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4749				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4750				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4751				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4752				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4753				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4754				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4755		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4756				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4757				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4758		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4759				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4760		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4761				Configuration
4762		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4763				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4764				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4765		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4766				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4767				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4768		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4769				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4770				should never be necessary.
4771		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4772				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4773				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4774				when the system masks IRQs.
4775		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4776				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4777				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4778				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4779		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4780				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4781				on several machines and they hang the machine
4782				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4783				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4784				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4785				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4786				motherboard.
4787		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4788				Use with caution as certain devices share
4789				address decoders between ROMs and other
4790				resources.
4791		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4792				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4793				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4794		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4795				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4796		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4797				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4798				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4799				this way.
4800		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4801				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4802				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4803				F0000h-100000h range.
4804		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4805				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4806				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4807				explicitly which ones they are.
4808		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4809				numbers ourselves, overriding
4810				whatever the firmware may have done.
4811		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4812				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4813				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4814				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4815				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4816				IRQ routing is enabled.
4817		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4818				or for PCI scanning.
4819		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4820				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4821				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4822				please report a bug.
4823		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4824				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4825		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4826				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4827				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4828				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4829				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4830		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4831				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4832				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4833				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4834		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4835				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4836				so this option is a temporary workaround
4837				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4838		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4839				handle more pci cards
4840		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4841				This might help on some broken boards which
4842				machine check when some devices' config space
4843				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4844				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4845		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4846				This sorting is done to get a device
4847				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4848		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4849		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4850				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4851		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4852				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4853		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4854				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4855				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4856				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4857				or bus can support) for best performance.
4858		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4859				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4860				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4861				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4862				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4863				that hot-added devices will work.
4864		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4865				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4866				The default value is 256 bytes.
4867		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4868				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4869				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4870		resource_alignment=
4871				Format:
4872				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4873				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4874				aligned memory resources. How to
4875				specify the device is described above.
4876				If <order of align> is not specified,
4877				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4878				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4879				windows need to be expanded.
4880				To specify the alignment for several
4881				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4882				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4883				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4884				for 4096-byte alignment.
4885		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4886				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4887				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4888				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4889				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4890				the default.
4891				off: Turn ECRC off
4892				on: Turn ECRC on.
4893		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4894				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4895				Default size is 256 bytes.
4896		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4897				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4898				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4899		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4900				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4901				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4902		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4903				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4904				MMIO_PREF window.
4905				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4906		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4907				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4908				Default is 1.
4909		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4910				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4911				accommodate resources required by all child
4912				devices.
4913				off: Turn realloc off
4914				on: Turn realloc on
4915		realloc		same as realloc=on
4916		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4917		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4918				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4919		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4920				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4921				port.
4922		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4923				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4924				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4925				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4926				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4927				taints the kernel.
4928		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4929				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4930				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4931				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4932				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4933				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4934				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4935				this removes isolation between devices and
4936				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4937		config_acs=
4938				Format:
4939				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4940				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4941				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4942				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4943				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4944				unchanged based on what is specified in
4945				flags.
4946
4947				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4948				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4949				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4950				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4951				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4952				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4953				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4954				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4955				Each bit can be marked as:
4956				  '0' – force disabled
4957				  '1' – force enabled
4958				  'x' – unchanged
4959				For example,
4960				  pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
4961				would configure all devices that support
4962				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4963				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4964				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4965				or firmware set it to.
4966
4967				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4968				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4969		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4970		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4971		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4972				one PCI domain per PCI function
4973		notph		[PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
4974				is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
4975				to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
4976				system-wide.
4977
4978	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4979			Management.
4980		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4981			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4982		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4983			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4984
4985	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4986		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4987			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4988			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4989			also tries to use these services.
4990		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4991				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4992		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4993			hotplug).
4994
4995	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4996		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4997		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4998
4999	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5000		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5001			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5002
5003	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5004
5005	pd_ignore_unused
5006			[PM]
5007			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5008			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5009			for debug and development, but should not be
5010			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5011
5012	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5013			boot time.
5014			Format: { 0 | 1 }
5015			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5016
5017	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
5018			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5019			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5020			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
5021			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5022			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
5023			and performance comparison.
5024
5025	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5026			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5027
5028	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5029			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5030			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5031
5032	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5033			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5034			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5035
5036	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
5037			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5038			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5039			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5040			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5041			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5042			remains 0.
5043
5044	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
5045			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5046
5047	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
5048			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5049			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
5050			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
5051			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5052			possible settings and some assignment information.
5053
5054	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
5055			{ off }
5056
5057	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
5058			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5059
5060	pnp_reserve_irq=
5061			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5062
5063	pnp_reserve_dma=
5064			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5065
5066	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5067			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5068
5069	pnp_reserve_mem=
5070			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5071			autoconfiguration.
5072			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5073
5074	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5075			Default is 21.
5076			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5077			may be specified.
5078			Format: <port>,<port>....
5079
5080	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
5081			Format: <unsigned int>
5082			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5083			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5084
5085	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5086			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5087			platform machine description specific power_save
5088			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5089			execution priority.
5090
5091	ppc_strict_facility_enable
5092			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5093			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5094			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5095			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5096
5097	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
5098			Format: {"off"}
5099			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5100
5101	preempt=	[KNL]
5102			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5103			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5104			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5105			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5106			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
5107			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5108			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5109			lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5110			       of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5111			       one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5112			       preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5113			       task returns to user space.
5114
5115	print-fatal-signals=
5116			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5117
5118			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5119			related application anomalies: too many signals,
5120			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5121			coredump - etc.
5122
5123			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5124			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5125
5126			default: off.
5127
5128	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5129			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5130			panics
5131			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5132			default: disabled
5133
5134	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5135			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5136			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5137			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5138			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5139			in order to provide more debug information.
5140			Format: <bool>
5141			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5142
5143	printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5144			Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5145			the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5146			flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5147			a best-effort basis.
5148			Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5149			Default: disabled
5150
5151	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5152			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5153			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5154			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5155			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5156			Default: ratelimit
5157
5158	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5159			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5160
5161	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5162			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5163			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5164			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5165			restrict that. Can be one of:
5166			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5167			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5168			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
5169			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5170
5171	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
5172			Limit processor to maximum C-state
5173			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5174
5175	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
5176			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5177			instead using the legacy FADT method
5178
5179	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5180			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5181			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5182				[defaults to kernel profiling]
5183			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5184			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5185			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5186				statistical time based profiling.
5187
5188	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
5189
5190	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5191			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5192			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5193			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5194			Layout Randomization is disabled.
5195			Format: <bool>
5196
5197	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5198			tracking.
5199			Format: <bool>
5200
5201	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5202			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5203	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5204			per second.
5205	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
5206			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5207			(0 = never).
5208	psmouse.resolution=
5209			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5210	psmouse.smartscroll=
5211			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5212			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5213
5214	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5215
5216	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5217			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
5218			removes hardening, but improves performance of
5219			system calls and interrupts.
5220
5221			on   - unconditionally enable
5222			off  - unconditionally disable
5223			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5224			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5225
5226			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5227
5228	pty.legacy_count=
5229			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5230			default number.
5231
5232	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5233
5234	r128=		[HW,DRM]
5235
5236	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
5237			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5238			invalidate.
5239
5240	raid=		[HW,RAID]
5241			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5242
5243	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5244			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5245
5246	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
5247
5248	random.trust_cpu=off
5249			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5250			random number generator (if available) to
5251			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5252
5253	random.trust_bootloader=off
5254			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5255			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5256			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5257
5258	randomize_kstack_offset=
5259			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5260			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5261			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5262			that depend on stack address determinism or
5263			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5264			available on architectures that have defined
5265			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5266			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5267			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5268
5269	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
5270
5271		cec_disable	[X86]
5272				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5273				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5274
5275	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5276			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5277			as described above.
5278
5279			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5280			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5281			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5282			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5283			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5284			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5285			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5286			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5287			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5288			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5289			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
5290			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5291
5292			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5293			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5294
5295			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5296			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5297			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5298			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5299
5300			Note that this argument takes precedence over
5301			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5302
5303	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
5304			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5305			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5306			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5307			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5308			This improves the real-time response for the
5309			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5310			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5311			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5312			periodically wake up to do the polling.
5313
5314	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
5315			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5316			process in one batch.
5317
5318	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
5319			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5320			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5321
5322	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
5323			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
5324			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5325			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5326			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5327			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5328
5329	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
5330			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5331			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
5332			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5333
5334	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
5335			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5336			RCU grace-period cleanup.
5337
5338	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
5339			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5340			RCU grace-period initialization.
5341
5342	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
5343			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5344			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5345			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5346			the rcu_node combining tree.
5347
5348	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5349			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5350			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5351			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5352			and maximum value is HZ.
5353
5354	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5355			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5356			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5357			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5358
5359	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5360			Set required age in jiffies for a
5361			given grace period before RCU starts
5362			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5363			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5364			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5365			a value based on the most recent settings
5366			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5367			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5368			This calculated value may be viewed in
5369			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5370			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5371			overwritten.
5372
5373	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5374			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5375			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5376			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5377			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5378			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5379			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5380			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5381			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5382			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5383			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5384			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5385
5386	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5387			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5388			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5389			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5390			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5391			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5392			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5393			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5394			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5395			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5396			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5397			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5398
5399	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5400			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5401			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5402			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5403			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5404			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5405			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5406
5407	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5408			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5409			batch limiting is disabled.
5410
5411	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5412			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5413			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5414
5415	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5416			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5417			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5418			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5419			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5420			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5421			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5422			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5423
5424	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5425			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5426			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5427			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5428
5429	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5430			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5431			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5432			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5433			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5434			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5435			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5436			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5437
5438			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5439			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5440			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5441			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5442			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5443
5444	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5445			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5446			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5447			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5448			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5449
5450	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5451			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5452			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5453			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5454			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5455			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5456			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5457
5458	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5459			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5460			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5461			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5462			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5463			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5464			condition.
5465
5466	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5467			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5468			each group, which defaults to the square root
5469			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5470			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5471			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5472			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5473
5474	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5475			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5476			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5477			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5478			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5479			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5480
5481	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5482			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5483			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5484			By default, this limit is checked only once
5485			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5486			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5487
5488	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5489			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5490			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5491			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5492			Larger delays increase the probability of
5493			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5494			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5495			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5496
5497	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5498			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5499			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5500			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5501
5502	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5503			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5504			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5505			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5506			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5507
5508			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5509			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5510			to zero.
5511
5512	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5513			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5514			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5515			big.
5516
5517	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5518			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5519			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5520			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5521			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5522			normal grace period.
5523
5524			How to enable it:
5525
5526			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5527			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5528
5529			Default is 0.
5530
5531	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5532			Measure performance of asynchronous
5533			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5534
5535	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5536			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5537			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5538			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5539			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5540			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5541
5542	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5543			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5544			grace-period primitives.
5545
5546	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5547			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5548			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5549			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5550			interference.
5551
5552	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5553			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5554			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5555
5556	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5557			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5558			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5559			Defaults to 1.
5560
5561	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5562			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5563
5564	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5565			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5566			If this parameter has the same value as
5567			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5568			and double-argument variants are tested.
5569
5570	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5571			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5572			If this parameter has the same value as
5573			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5574			and double-argument variants are tested.
5575
5576	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5577			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5578
5579	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5580			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5581
5582	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5583			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5584			of allocations and frees.
5585
5586	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5587			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5588			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5589			but instead allows better measurement of things
5590			like CPU consumption.
5591
5592	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5593			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5594			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5595			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5596			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5597			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5598			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5599			a single reader.
5600
5601	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5602			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5603			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5604			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5605
5606	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5607			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5608
5609	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5610			Shut the system down after performance tests
5611			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5612			testing.
5613
5614	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5615			Enable additional printk() statements.
5616
5617	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5618			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5619			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5620			no holdoff.
5621
5622	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5623			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5624			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5625			says no holdoff.
5626
5627	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5628			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5629			in microseconds.
5630
5631	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5632			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5633			in microseconds.
5634
5635	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5636			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5637			in seconds.
5638
5639	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5640			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5641			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5642			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5643			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5644			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5645			of CPUs to be used.
5646
5647	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5648			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5649			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5650
5651	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5652			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5653			forward-progress tests.
5654
5655	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5656			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5657			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5658			testing.
5659
5660	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5661			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5662			normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5663
5664	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5665			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5666			expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5667
5668	rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5669			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5670			normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5671			concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5672			if available.
5673
5674	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5675			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5676			expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5677			concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5678			if available.
5679
5680	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5681			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5682			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5683			gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5684			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5685			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5686			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5687			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5688			with HZ=1000.
5689
5690	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5691			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5692			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5693			gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5694			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5695			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5696			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5697			128 microseconds.
5698
5699	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5700			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5701
5702	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5703			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5704			update-side primitives, if available.
5705
5706	rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5707			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5708			primitives, if available.
5709
5710	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5711			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5712			primitives, if available.
5713
5714	rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5715			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5716			primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5717			grace periods into account, if available.
5718
5719	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5720			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5721			primitives that also take concurrent normal
5722			grace periods into account, if available.
5723
5724	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5725			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5726			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5727			gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5728			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5729			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5730			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5731			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5732			with HZ=1000.
5733
5734	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5735			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5736			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5737			gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5738			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5739			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5740			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5741			128 microseconds.
5742
5743	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5744			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5745			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5746			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5747			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5748			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5749			they are all non-zero.
5750
5751	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
5752			Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
5753			to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
5754			running. Default is true.
5755
5756	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
5757			Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
5758			active lag testing periods. This controls how many
5759			grace periods differences we tolerate between
5760			rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
5761			The default is always set to 8.
5762
5763	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
5764			Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
5765			testing in minutes. This is the total time for
5766			one complete cycle of active and inactive
5767			testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
5768
5769	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
5770			Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
5771			within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
5772			the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
5773			value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
5774			5 minutes.
5775
5776	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5777			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5778			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5779			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5780
5781	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5782			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5783			This can of course result in splats, and is
5784			intended to test the ability of things like
5785			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5786			such leaks.
5787
5788	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5789			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5790
5791	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5792			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5793			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5794			test, hence the "fake".
5795
5796	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5797			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5798			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5799
5800	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5801			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5802			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5803
5804	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5805			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5806			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5807			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5808			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5809			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5810
5811	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5812			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5813
5814	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5815			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5816
5817	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5818			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5819			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5820
5821	rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
5822			Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
5823			by a high-priority FIFO real-time task.  Set to
5824			zero (the default) to disable.	The CPUs to
5825			preempt are selected randomly from the set that
5826			are online at a given point in time.  Races with
5827			CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
5828			at preemption skipped.
5829
5830	rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
5831			Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
5832			second) between preemptions by a high-priority
5833			FIFO real-time task.  This delay is mediated
5834			by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
5835			inadvertent synchronizations.
5836
5837	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5838			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5839			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5840			is spawned.
5841
5842	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5843			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5844			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5845
5846	rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
5847			A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
5848			If there is more than one bit set, the readers
5849			are entered from low-order bit up, and are
5850			exited in the opposite order.  For SRCU, the
5851			0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
5852			and 0x4 light-weight readers.
5853
5854	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5855			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5856			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5857			during the rcutorture test.
5858
5859	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5860			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5861			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5862
5863	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5864			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5865			warnings, zero to disable.
5866
5867	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5868			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5869			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5870			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5871			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5872			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5873			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5874			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5875			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5876			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5877
5878			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5879
5880
5881	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5882			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5883
5884	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5885			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
5886			on the first stall in the set.
5887
5888	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
5889			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5890			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
5891			in four stall sequences.
5892
5893	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5894			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5895			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5896			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5897			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5898			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5899
5900	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5901			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5902
5903	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5904			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5905			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5906			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5907			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5908
5909	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5910			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5911			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5912			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5913
5914	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5915			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5916
5917	rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
5918			Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
5919			of RCU priority-boost testing.	Defaults to zero,
5920			that is, no holdoff.
5921
5922	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5923			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5924
5925	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5926			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5927			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5928
5929	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5930			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5931
5932	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5933			Enable additional printk() statements.
5934
5935	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5936			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5937			stall warning.
5938
5939	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5940			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5941			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5942			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5943			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5944
5945	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5946			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5947
5948	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5949			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5950			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5951			during early boot, that is, during the time
5952			before the init task is spawned.
5953
5954	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5955			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5956			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5957			value is 300 seconds.
5958
5959	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5960			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5961			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5962			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5963			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5964			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5965			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5966			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5967			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5968
5969	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5970			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5971			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5972			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5973			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5974
5975	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5976			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5977			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5978			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5979
5980	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5981			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5982			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5983			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5984			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5985			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5986			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5987
5988	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5989			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5990			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5991			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5992			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5993			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5994			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5995			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5996			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5997
5998	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5999			Once boot has completed (that is, after
6000			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6001			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
6002			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6003
6004			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6005			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6006			it to the value one, that is, converting any
6007			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6008			period to instead use normal non-expedited
6009			grace-period processing.
6010
6011	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6012			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6013			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6014			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6015			a single callback queue.  This switching only
6016			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6017			set to the default value of -1.
6018
6019	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6020			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6021			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6022			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6023			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
6024			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6025			the default value of -1.
6026
6027	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6028			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6029			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
6030			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6031			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
6032			for use in testing.
6033
6034	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6035			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6036			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6037			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
6038			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6039			but lengthens grace periods.
6040
6041	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6042			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6043			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
6044			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6045			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6046			callback flooding.
6047
6048	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6049			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6050			informational messages, which give some indication
6051			of the problem for those not patient enough to
6052			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
6053			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6054			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6055			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
6056			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
6057			until the beginning of the next grace period.
6058
6059	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6060			Multiplier for time interval between successive
6061			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6062			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
6063			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
6064			the value three, so that the first informational
6065			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6066			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6067			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6068			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6069
6070	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6071			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6072			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
6073			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
6074			A change in value does not take effect until
6075			the beginning of the next grace period.
6076
6077	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6078			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6079			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6080			A negative value will take the default.  A value
6081			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
6082			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6083
6084	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6085			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6086			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6087			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
6088			will take the default.	A value of zero will
6089			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
6090			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6091
6092	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6093			Run the RCU early boot self tests
6094
6095	rdinit=		[KNL]
6096			Format: <full_path>
6097			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6098			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6099
6100	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
6101			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6102				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6103				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6104				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6105				path).
6106
6107	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
6108			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6109			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6110			mba, smba, bmec.
6111			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6112				rdt=cmt,!mba
6113
6114	reboot=		[KNL]
6115			Format (x86 or x86_64):
6116				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6117				[[,]s[mp]#### \
6118				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6119				[[,]f[orce]
6120			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6121					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6122					reboot only),
6123			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6124			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6125			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6126					to be used for rebooting.
6127
6128		acpi
6129			Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6130			configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6131			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6132
6133		bios
6134			Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6135
6136		cold
6137			Set the cold reboot flag
6138
6139		default
6140			There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6141			- you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6142			Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6143			think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6144			or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6145			built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6146			reboot actions.
6147
6148		efi
6149			Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6150			configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6151			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6152
6153		force
6154			Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6155			more reliable in some cases.
6156
6157		kbd
6158			Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6159
6160		pci
6161			Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6162			trigger reboot.
6163
6164		triple
6165			Force a triple fault (init)
6166
6167		warm
6168			Don't set the cold reboot flag
6169
6170			Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6171			memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6172			the memory check.  Disadvantage is that not all
6173			hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6174			there may be boot problems on some systems.
6175
6176
6177	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6178			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
6179			this parameter is to delay the start of the
6180			test until boot completes in order to avoid
6181			interference.
6182
6183	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6184			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6185			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
6186			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6187			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6188
6189	refscale.loops= [KNL]
6190			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6191			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
6192			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6193			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6194			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6195			x86 laptops.
6196
6197	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6198			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
6199			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6200			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6201
6202	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6203			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6204			the console log.
6205
6206	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6207			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6208			measured in microseconds.
6209
6210	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6211			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6212
6213	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6214			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6215			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6216			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6217			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6218
6219	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6220			Enable additional printk() statements.
6221
6222	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6223			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
6224			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
6225			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6226			specified.
6227
6228	regulator_ignore_unused
6229			[REGULATOR]
6230			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6231			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6232			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6233			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6234
6235	relax_domain_level=
6236			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6237			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6238
6239	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6240			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6241			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6242			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6243			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6244
6245	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
6246			Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6247			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6248			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6249			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6250			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6251			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6252			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6253			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6254			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6255			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6256			different location.
6257			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6258			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6259			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6260			located at the same location.
6261
6262			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6263			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6264
6265			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6266
6267	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
6268			Format: nn[KMG]
6269			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6270			address space.
6271
6272	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6273			during initialization.
6274
6275	resume=		[SWSUSP]
6276			Specify the partition device for software suspend
6277			Format:
6278			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6279
6280	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
6281			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6282			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6283			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6284			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6285
6286	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6287			read the resume files
6288
6289	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6290			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6291			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6292
6293	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6294			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6295
6296	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6297			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6298			vulnerability.
6299
6300			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6301			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6302			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6303			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6304			that don't.
6305
6306			off          - no mitigation
6307			auto         - automatically select a migitation
6308			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
6309				       disabling SMT if necessary for
6310				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6311				       and older without STIBP).
6312			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6313				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
6314				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6315				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6316				       on Intel.
6317			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6318				       when STIBP is not available. This is
6319				       the alternative for systems which do not
6320				       have STIBP.
6321			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6322				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6323				       systems.
6324			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6325				       is not available. This is the alternative for
6326				       systems which do not have STIBP.
6327
6328			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6329			time according to the CPU.
6330
6331			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6332
6333	rfkill.default_state=
6334		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6335			etc. communication is blocked by default.
6336		1	Unblocked.
6337
6338	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6339		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6340		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6341			blocked and the previous configuration.
6342		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6343			blocked and everything unblocked.
6344
6345	ring3mwait=disable
6346			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6347			CPUs.
6348
6349	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6350			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6351			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6352			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6353			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6354			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6355
6356	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6357
6358	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
6359		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6360		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6361		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
6362		        [arm64]
6363
6364	rockchip.usb_uart
6365			[EARLY]
6366			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6367			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6368			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6369			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6370
6371	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
6372			Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6373			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6374			block/early-lookup.c for details.
6375			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6376			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6377			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6378
6379	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6380			mount the root filesystem
6381
6382	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6383
6384	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
6385
6386	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6387			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6388			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6389
6390	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6391			to show up before attempting to mount the root
6392			filesystem.
6393
6394	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6395			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6396			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6397			managed by CMA.
6398
6399	rt_group_sched=	[KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6400			when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6401			!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6402			Format: <bool>
6403
6404	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6405
6406	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
6407
6408	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
6409			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6410		strict
6411			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6412			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6413			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6414			iommu.strict=1.
6415
6416	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
6417			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6418			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6419			factor of the size of main memory.
6420			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6421			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6422			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6423			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6424			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6425			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6426			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6427
6428	sa1100ir	[NET]
6429			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6430
6431	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6432
6433	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6434			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6435			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6436			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6437
6438	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6439			[Deprecated]
6440			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6441			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6442			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6443			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6444			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6445			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6446			value.
6447			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6448			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
6449				1			64 ms
6450				2			128 ms
6451			and so on.
6452			Format: integer between 0 and 10
6453			Default is 0.
6454
6455	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6456			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6457			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6458			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6459			tests.
6460
6461	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6462			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6463			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
6464			default) disables this feature.  Please note
6465			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6466			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6467			softlockup complaints, and so on.
6468
6469	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6470			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6471			smp_call_function() family of functions.
6472			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6473			equal to the number of CPUs.
6474
6475	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6476			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6477			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6478
6479	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6480			Number seconds to wait between successive
6481			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
6482			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6483
6484	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6485			The number of seconds following the start of the
6486			test after which to shut down the system.  The
6487			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6488			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6489
6490	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6491			The number of seconds between outputting the
6492			current test statistics to the console.  A value
6493			of zero disables statistics output.
6494
6495	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6496			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6497			to the set of CPUs under test.
6498
6499	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6500			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6501			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6502			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6503			functions.
6504
6505	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6506			Enable additional printk() statements.
6507
6508	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6509			The probability weighting to use for the
6510			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6511			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
6512			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
6513			if at least one weight has some other value, a
6514			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6515
6516	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6517			The probability weighting to use for the
6518			smp_call_function_single() function with a
6519			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6520
6521	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6522			The probability weighting to use for the
6523			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6524			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6525			Note well that setting a high probability for
6526			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6527			on the system.
6528
6529	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6530			The probability weighting to use for the
6531			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6532			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6533			and weight_many.
6534
6535	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6536			The probability weighting to use for the
6537			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6538			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6539			weight_many.
6540
6541	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6542			The probability weighting to use for the
6543			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6544			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6545			and weight_many.
6546
6547	sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6548			Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6549			case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6550
6551	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6552			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6553			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6555			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6556			1 -- enable.
6557			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6558			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6559
6560	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6561			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6562			"lsm=" parameter.
6563
6564	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6565			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6566			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6567			0 -- disable.
6568			1 -- enable.
6569			Default value is 1.
6570
6571	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6572
6573	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6574
6575		debug
6576			Enable debug messages.
6577
6578		nosnp
6579			Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6580			only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6581			in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6582			SEV-SNP guests.
6583
6584	shapers=	[NET]
6585			Maximal number of shapers.
6586
6587	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6588			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6589			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6590			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6591			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6592			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6593			apic=verbose is specified.
6594			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6595
6596	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6597			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6598			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6599			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6600			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6601			last alloc / free. For more information see
6602			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6603			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6604
6605	slab_max_order= [MM]
6606			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6607			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6608			fragmentation. For more information see
6609			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6610			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6611
6612	slab_merge	[MM]
6613			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6614			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6615			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6616
6617	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6618			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6619			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6620			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6621			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6622			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6623			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6624			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6625			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6626
6627	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6628			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6629			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6630			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6631			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6632
6633	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6634			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6635			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6636			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6637			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6638			layout control by attackers can usually be
6639			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6640			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6641			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6642			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6643			own.
6644			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6645			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6646
6647	slab_strict_numa	[MM]
6648			Support memory policies on a per object level
6649			in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6650			policies to be applied at the folio level when
6651			a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6652			retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6653			in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6654			NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6655			interconnects in NUMA systems.
6656
6657	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6658
6659	smart2=		[HW]
6660			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6661
6662	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6663			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6664			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6665			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6666			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6667			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6668			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6669			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6670			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6671			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6672
6673	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6674			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6675			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6676			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6677			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6678			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6679
6680	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6681	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6682	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6683	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6684	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6685	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6686	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6687				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6688				1: Fast pin select (default)
6689				2: ATC IRMode
6690
6691	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6692			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6693			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6694			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6695			Format: <integer>
6696			Default: -1 (no limit)
6697
6698	softlockup_panic=
6699			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6700			Format: 0 | 1
6701
6702			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6703			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6704			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6705			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6706			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6707
6708	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6709			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6710			backtraces on all cpus.
6711			Format: 0 | 1
6712
6713	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6714			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6715
6716	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6717			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6718			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6719			clearing sequence.
6720
6721			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6722				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6723				 both syscalls and VMs.
6724			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6725				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6726				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6727				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6728				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6729			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6730
6731	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6732			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6733			The default operation protects the kernel from
6734			user space attacks.
6735
6736			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6737			       spectre_v2_user=on
6738			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6739			       spectre_v2_user=off
6740			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6741			       vulnerable
6742
6743			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6744			mitigation method at run time according to the
6745			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6746			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6747			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6748
6749			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6750			against user space to user space task attacks.
6751			Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
6752			user mitigations.
6753
6754			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6755			the user space protections.
6756
6757			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6758
6759			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6760			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6761			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6762			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6763			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6764			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6765			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6766			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6767
6768			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6769			spectre_v2=auto.
6770
6771	spectre_v2_user=
6772			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6773		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6774		        user space tasks
6775
6776			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6777				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6778
6779			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6780				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6781
6782			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6783				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6784				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6785				  is inherited on fork.
6786
6787			prctl,ibpb
6788				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6789				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6790				  always when switching between different user
6791				  space processes.
6792
6793			seccomp
6794				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6795				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6796				  they explicitly opt out.
6797
6798			seccomp,ibpb
6799				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6800				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6801				  always when switching between different
6802				  user space processes.
6803
6804			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6805				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6806
6807			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6808
6809			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6810			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6811
6812	spec_rstack_overflow=
6813			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6814
6815			off		- Disable mitigation
6816			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6817			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6818			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6819					  kernel entry
6820			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6821					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6822
6823	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6824			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6825			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6826
6827			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6828			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6829			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6830			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6831			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6832			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6833			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6834			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6835
6836			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6837			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6838			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6839			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6840
6841			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6842			Bypass optimization is used.
6843
6844			On x86 the options are:
6845
6846			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6847			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6848			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6849				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6850				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6851				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6852				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6853				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6854			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6855				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6856				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6857				  is inherited on fork.
6858			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6859				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6860
6861			Default mitigations:
6862			X86:	"prctl"
6863
6864			On powerpc the options are:
6865
6866			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6867				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6868				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6869				  exit.
6870			off	- No action.
6871
6872			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6873			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6874
6875	split_lock_detect=
6876			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6877
6878			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6879			instructions that access data across cache line
6880			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6881			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6882			bus lock detection.
6883
6884			off	- not enabled
6885
6886			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6887				  about applications triggering the #AC
6888				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6889				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6890				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6891				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6892				  enabled in hardware.
6893
6894			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6895				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6896				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6897				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6898
6899			ratelimit:N -
6900				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6901				  per second for bus lock detection.
6902				  0 < N <= 1000.
6903
6904				  N/A for split lock detection.
6905
6906
6907			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6908			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6909			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6910			mode.
6911
6912			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6913			CPL > 0.
6914
6915	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6916			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6917			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6918
6919			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6920			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6921			number generator.
6922
6923			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6924			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6925			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6926			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6927			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6928
6929			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6930			the following option:
6931
6932			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6933				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6934
6935	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6936			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6937			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6938			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6939			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6940			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6941			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6942			(decide at boot).
6943
6944	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6945			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6946			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6947			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6948
6949				   0:  Never.
6950				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6951				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6952				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6953				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6954
6955			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6956			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6957			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6958
6959	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6960			Specifies how frequently to check for
6961			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6962			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6963			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6964			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6965			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6966			are ignored.
6967
6968	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6969			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6970			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6971			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6972			grace period will be considered for automatic
6973			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6974			expediting.
6975
6976	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6977			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6978			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6979			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6980			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6981			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6982
6983	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6984			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6985			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6986			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6987			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6988			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6989
6990	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6991			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6992			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6993
6994	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6995			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6996			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6997			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6998			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6999			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7000			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7001
7002	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7003			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7004
7005			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7006			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7007			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7008			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7009
7010			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7011				   for both kernel and userspace
7012			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7013				   for both kernel and userspace
7014			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
7015				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7016				   to allow userspace to register its
7017				   interest in being mitigated too.
7018
7019	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
7020			override the default stack gap protection. The value
7021			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7022			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7023			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7024			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7025
7026	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7027			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7028			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7029			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7030			to false.
7031
7032	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
7033			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
7034
7035	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7036			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7037			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7038			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7039			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7040			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7041			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7042
7043	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
7044			Format: <num>
7045			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7046			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7047			as the initial boot-console.
7048			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7049
7050	sti_font=	[HW]
7051			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7052
7053	stifb=		[HW]
7054			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7055
7056        strict_sas_size=
7057			[X86]
7058			Format: <bool>
7059			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7060			against the required signal frame size which
7061			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7062			be used to filter out binaries which have
7063			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7064
7065	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
7066			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7067			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7068			faults on kernel addresses.
7069
7070	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
7071			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7072			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7073			on kernel addresses.
7074
7075	sunrpc.min_resvport=
7076	sunrpc.max_resvport=
7077			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7078			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7079			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7080			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7081			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7082			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7083			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7084			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7085			maximum port values.
7086
7087	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7088			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7089			Limit the number of requests that the server will
7090			process in parallel from a single connection.
7091			The default value is 0 (no limit).
7092
7093	sunrpc.pool_mode=
7094			[NFS]
7095			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7096			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
7097			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7098			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7099			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7100			NFS server is running.
7101
7102			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
7103				    automatically using heuristics
7104			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
7105			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
7106			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7107				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
7108
7109	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7110	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7111			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7112			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7113			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7114			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7115			improve throughput, but will also increase the
7116			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7117
7118	suspend.pm_test_delay=
7119			[SUSPEND]
7120			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7121			mode before resuming the system (see
7122			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7123			is set. Default value is 5.
7124
7125	svm=		[PPC]
7126			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7127			This parameter controls use of the Protected
7128			Execution Facility on pSeries.
7129
7130	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7131			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7132			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7133			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7134				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7135				 to a power of 2.
7136			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7137			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7138			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7139
7140	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
7141
7142	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
7143			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7144			process, as if the value was written to the respective
7145			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7146			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7147			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7148			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7149			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7150
7151	sysrq_always_enabled
7152			[KNL]
7153			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7154			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7155			Useful for debugging.
7156
7157	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7158			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7159			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7160			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7161			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7162			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7163
7164	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
7165
7166	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
7167			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7168			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7169			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7170			as the system sleep state during system startup with
7171			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7172			The system is woken from this state using a
7173			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7174
7175	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7176			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7177
7178	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
7179			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7180			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7181
7182	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
7183			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7184			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7185
7186	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
7187			1: disable ACPI thermal control
7188
7189	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
7190			-1: disable all passive trip points
7191			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7192			value
7193
7194	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
7195			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7196			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7197			0: no polling (default)
7198
7199	thp_anon=	[KNL]
7200			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7201			state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7202			Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7203			to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7204			Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7205			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7206			details.
7207
7208	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
7209			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7210			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7211
7212	thp_shmem=	[KNL]
7213			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7214			Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7215			internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7216			for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7217			and "advise").
7218			It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7219			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7220			details.
7221
7222	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
7223			Format: {off | on}
7224			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7225			topology information if the hardware supports this.
7226			The scheduler will make use of this information and
7227			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7228			Default is on.
7229
7230	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7231			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7232			until after init has spawned.
7233
7234	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7235			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7236			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
7237			very costly operation when many torture tests
7238			are running concurrently, especially on systems
7239			with rotating-rust storage.
7240
7241	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7242			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7243			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
7244			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7245
7246	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7247			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7248
7249	tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7250			Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7251			access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7252			having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7253			TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7254			where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7255			causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7256			machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7257
7258	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7259			Format: integer pcr id
7260			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7261			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7262			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7263			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7264			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7265			are saved.
7266
7267	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7268			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7269			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7270			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7271			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7272			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7273
7274	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
7275			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7276			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7277			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7278			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7279			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7280
7281			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7282			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7283			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7284			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7285
7286			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7287			to stop the printing of events to console at
7288			late_initcall_sync.
7289
7290			** CAUTION **
7291
7292			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7293			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7294			the system to live lock.
7295
7296	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7297			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7298			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7299			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7300			make the system inoperable.
7301
7302			This command line option will stop the printing of events
7303			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7304
7305	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7306			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7307
7308	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7309			at boot up.
7310			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7311				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7312				depending on the architecture, may not be
7313				in sync between CPUs.
7314			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
7315				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7316				but better for some race conditions.
7317			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7318				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7319				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7320				once per event.
7321			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7322			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7323			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7324			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7325				stamps.
7326			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7327			Architectures may add more clocks. See
7328			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7329
7330	trace_event=[event-list]
7331			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7332			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7333			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7334			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7335
7336			To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7337
7338			trace_event=:mod:<module>
7339
7340			The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7341			that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7342			document for more information.
7343
7344	trace_instance=[instance-info]
7345			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7346			This will be listed in:
7347
7348				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7349
7350			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7351			via:
7352
7353				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7354
7355			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7356			unique.
7357
7358				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7359
7360			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7361			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7362			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7363
7364			Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7365			created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7366
7367			The available flags are:
7368
7369			    traceoff	- Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7370			    traceprintk	- Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7371					  (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7372
7373				trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7374
7375			The flags must come before the defined events.
7376
7377			If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7378			can use that memory:
7379
7380				memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7381
7382			The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7383			memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7384			instance will be split up accordingly.
7385
7386			Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7387
7388				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7389
7390			This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7391			and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7392			memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7393			the buffer content.
7394
7395			Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7396			kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7397			if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7398
7399			If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7400			it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7401			mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7402			at boot up).
7403
7404				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7405
7406			Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7407			is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7408			can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7409			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7410			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7411
7412			NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7413
7414			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7415
7416
7417	trace_options=[option-list]
7418			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7419			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7420			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7421			to echo the option name into
7422
7423			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7424
7425			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7426			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7427
7428			      trace_options=stacktrace
7429
7430			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7431			section.
7432
7433	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7434			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
7435			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7436			filter.
7437
7438			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7439			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
7440
7441			For example:
7442
7443			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7444
7445			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7446			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7447			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
7448
7449			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7450
7451
7452	traceoff_after_boot
7453			[FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7454			during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7455			limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7456			disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7457			the critical information may be overwritten.  With this
7458			option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7459			the end of the boot process.
7460
7461	traceoff_on_warning
7462			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7463			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7464			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7465			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7466
7467			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7468			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7469			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7470
7471			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7472			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7473
7474	transparent_hugepage=
7475			[KNL]
7476			Format: [always|madvise|never]
7477			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7478			with respect to transparent hugepages.
7479			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7480			for more details.
7481
7482	transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7483			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7484			Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7485			the internal shmem mount.
7486			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7487			for more details.
7488
7489	transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7490			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7491			Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7492			for the tmpfs mount.
7493			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7494			for more details.
7495
7496	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
7497			Format: <string>
7498			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7499			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7500			sources:
7501			- "tpm"
7502			- "tee"
7503			- "caam"
7504			- "dcp"
7505			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7506			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7507			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7508			successfully during iteration.
7509
7510	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
7511			Format: <string>
7512			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7513			Can be one of:
7514			- "kernel"
7515			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7516			- "default"
7517			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7518			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7519
7520	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7521			This is intended to be used in combination with
7522			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7523			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7524
7525	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7526			This is intended to be used in combination with
7527			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7528			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7529			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7530			scenarios.
7531
7532	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7533			Format: <string>
7534			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7535			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7536			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
7537			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7538			virtualized environment.
7539			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7540			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7541			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7542			can add overhead.
7543			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7544			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7545			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7546			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7547			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7548			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7549			acceptable).
7550			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7551			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7552			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7553			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7554			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7555			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7556			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7557			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7558			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
7559			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7560
7561	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7562			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7563			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7564			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7565			Format: <unsigned int>
7566
7567	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7568			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7569			support TSX control.
7570
7571			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7572
7573			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7574				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7575				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7576				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7577				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
7578				with leaving it enabled.
7579
7580			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7581				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7582				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7583				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7584				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7585				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7586				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7587
7588			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7589				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7590
7591			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7592
7593			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7594			for more details.
7595
7596	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7597			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7598
7599			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7600			certain CPUs that support Transactional
7601			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7602			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7603			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7604			conditions.
7605
7606			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7607			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7608			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7609			access.
7610
7611			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
7612			options are:
7613
7614			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7615				     if TSX is enabled.
7616
7617			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7618				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7619				     is not disabled because CPU is not
7620				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7621			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7622
7623			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7624			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7625			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7626			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7627
7628			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7629			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
7630			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7631			required and doesn't provide any additional
7632			mitigation.
7633
7634			For details see:
7635			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7636
7637	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
7638			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7639			Format:
7640			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7641			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7642
7643	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7644			happen after console_init() and before a proper
7645			console driver takes over, this boot options might
7646			help "seeing" what's going on.
7647
7648	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7649			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7650
7651	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7652			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7653			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7654			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7655			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7656			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7657			reported either.
7658
7659	unaligned_scalar_speed=
7660			[RISCV]
7661			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7662			Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7663			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7664			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7665			CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7666
7667	unaligned_vector_speed=
7668			[RISCV]
7669			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7670			Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7671			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7672			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7673			CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7674
7675	unknown_nmi_panic
7676			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7677
7678	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
7679			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
7680			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7681			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7682			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7683
7684	usbcore.authorized_default=
7685			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
7686			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7687			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7688			if device connected to internal port)
7689
7690	usbcore.autosuspend=
7691			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7692			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
7693			is the time required before an idle device will be
7694			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
7695			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7696
7697	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7698			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7699
7700	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7701			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7702			(default = 65536).
7703
7704	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7705			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7706
7707	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7708			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7709			scheme (default 0 = off).
7710
7711	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7712			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7713			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7714
7715	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7716			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7717			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7718
7719	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7720			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7721			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7722			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7723
7724	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7725
7726	usbcore.quirks=
7727			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7728			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7729			commas. Each entry has the form
7730			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7731			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7732			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7733			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7734			the following meanings:
7735				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7736					descriptors must not be fetched using
7737					a 255-byte read);
7738				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7739					correctly so reset it instead);
7740				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7741					Set-Interface requests);
7742				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7743					handle its Configuration or Interface
7744					strings);
7745				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7746					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7747				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7748					more interface descriptions than the
7749					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7750					talking to these interfaces);
7751				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7752					during initialization, after we read
7753					the device descriptor);
7754				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7755					high speed and super speed interrupt
7756					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7757					require the interval in microframes (1
7758					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7759					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7760					(bInterval-1).
7761					Devices with this quirk report their
7762					bInterval as the result of this
7763					calculation instead of the exponent
7764					variable used in the calculation);
7765				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7766					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7767					requests);
7768				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7769					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7770					remote wakeup capability);
7771				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7772					Power Management);
7773				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7774					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7775					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7776					calculation);
7777				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7778					to be disconnected before suspend to
7779					prevent spurious wakeup);
7780				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7781					pause after every control message);
7782				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7783					delay after resetting its port);
7784				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7785					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7786					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7787			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7788
7789	usbhid.mousepoll=
7790			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7791
7792	usbhid.jspoll=
7793			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7794
7795	usbhid.kbpoll=
7796			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7797
7798	usb-storage.delay_use=
7799			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7800			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7801			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7802			suffix with "ms".
7803			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7804
7805	usb-storage.quirks=
7806			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7807			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7808			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7809			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7810			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7811			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7812			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7813				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7814					of sense data, not on uas);
7815				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7816					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7817				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7818					device capacity by one sector);
7819				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7820					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7821				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7822					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7823				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7824					command, uas only);
7825				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7826					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7827				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7828					reported device capacity by one
7829					sector if the number is odd);
7830				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7831					device);
7832				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7833					command, uas only);
7834				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7835				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7836					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7837				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7838					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7839					not on uas);
7840				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7841					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7842				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7843					reported by the device, not on uas);
7844				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7845					by default, not on uas);
7846				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7847					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7848				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7849					Logical Unit);
7850				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7851					commands, uas only);
7852				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7853				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7854					medium is write-protected).
7855				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7856					even if the device claims no cache,
7857					not on uas)
7858			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7859
7860	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7861			Format: <int>
7862			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7863				 1 - undefined instruction events
7864				 2 - system calls
7865				 4 - invalid data aborts
7866				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7867				16 - SIGBUS faults
7868			Example: user_debug=31
7869
7870	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7871			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7872
7873			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7874			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7875
7876	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7877			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7878			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7879
7880			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7881			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7882			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7883
7884			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7885			alias for vdso32=0.
7886
7887			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7888			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7889
7890	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7891			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7892
7893	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7894			Format: [0|1]
7895			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7896			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7897			level and then send out the event to user space through
7898			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7899			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7900			brightness level.
7901			default: 1
7902
7903	virtio_mmio.device=
7904			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7905
7906				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7907			where:
7908				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7909						like K, M and G)
7910				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7911				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7912						request_irq())
7913				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7914			example:
7915				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7916
7917			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7918
7919	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7920			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7921			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7922			Use vga=ask for menu.
7923			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7924			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7925
7926	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7927			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7928			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7929			All options are enabled by default, and this
7930			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7931			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7932			debugging features.
7933
7934			Available options are:
7935			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7936			  -	Disable all of the above options
7937
7938	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7939			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7940			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
7941			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
7942			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7943			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
7944			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
7945			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
7946
7947	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7948			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7949			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7950
7951	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7952			Format: <command>
7953
7954	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7955			Format: <command>
7956
7957	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7958			Format: <command>
7959
7960	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7961			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7962			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7963			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7964			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7965			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7966			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7967
7968			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7969			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7970				    readable.
7971
7972			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7973			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7974				    page is not readable.
7975
7976			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7977			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7978			            might break your system.
7979
7980	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7981			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7982			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7983
7984	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7985			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7986			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7987			see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
7988
7989	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7990			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7991			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7992			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7993			ranging from 0-255.
7994
7995	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7996			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7997			Change the default green palette of the console.
7998			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7999			ranging from 0-255.
8000
8001	vt.default_red=	[VT]
8002			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8003			Change the default red palette of the console.
8004			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8005			ranging from 0-255.
8006
8007	vt.default_utf8=
8008			[VT]
8009			Format=<0|1>
8010			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8011			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8012			newly opened terminals.
8013
8014	vt.global_cursor_default=
8015			[VT]
8016			Format=<-1|0|1>
8017			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8018			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8019			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8020			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8021			cursors, 1 will display them.
8022
8023	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8024			Default: 2 = green.
8025
8026	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8027			Default: 3 = cyan.
8028
8029	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8030			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8031			or other driver-specific files in the
8032			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8033
8034	watchdog_thresh=
8035			[KNL]
8036			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8037			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8038			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8039			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8040			seconds.
8041
8042	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8043			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8044			to use in unbound workqueues.
8045			Format: <cpu-list>
8046			By default, all online CPUs are available for
8047			unbound workqueues.
8048
8049	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8050			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8051			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8052			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
8053			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8054			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
8055			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8056			corresponding sysfs file.
8057
8058	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8059			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8060			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8061			stall to trigger panic.
8062
8063			The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8064
8065	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8066			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8067			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8068			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8069			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8070			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8071
8072			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8073			will report the work functions which violate this
8074			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8075			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8076
8077	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8078			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8079			will report the work functions which violate the
8080			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8081			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8082			function has violated this threshold number of times.
8083
8084			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8085
8086	workqueue.power_efficient
8087			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8088			they show better performance thanks to cache
8089			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8090			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8091
8092			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8093			were observed to contribute significantly to power
8094			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8095			power usage at the cost of small performance
8096			overhead.
8097
8098			The default value of this parameter is determined by
8099			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8100
8101        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8102			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8103			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8104			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8105			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8106			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8107
8108			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8109			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8110			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8111			updated accordingly.
8112
8113	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8114			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8115			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8116			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
8117			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8118			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
8119			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8120			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8121			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8122			impacted.
8123
8124	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8125			Type) of ioremap_wc().
8126
8127			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8128			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8129
8130	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8131			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8132			supporting x2apic.
8133
8134	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8135			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8136			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8137			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8138			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8139			domains.
8140
8141	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8142			Unplug Xen emulated devices
8143			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8144			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8145			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8146			nics -- unplug network devices
8147			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8148			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8149				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8150				the unplug protocol
8151			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8152
8153	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8154			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8155			panic() code such as dumping handler.
8156
8157	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8158			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8159			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8160			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8161			debug data in case of multicall errors.
8162
8163	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8164			Format: <bool>
8165			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8166			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8167			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8168
8169	xen_nopv	[X86]
8170			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8171			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8172			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8173			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8174
8175	xen_no_vector_callback
8176			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8177			event channel interrupts.
8178
8179	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
8180			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8181			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8182			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8183			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8184
8185	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8186			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8187			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8188			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8189			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8190			more timer interrupts.
8191
8192	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8193			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8194			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8195			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8196			started with less memory configured than allowed at
8197			max. Default is 180.
8198
8199	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
8200			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8201			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8202
8203	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
8204			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8205			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8206
8207	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
8208			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8209			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8210			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8211			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8212			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8213
8214	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
8215			Format:
8216			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8217
8218	xive=		[PPC]
8219			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8220			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8221			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8222
8223			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8224				  controller on both pseries and powernv
8225				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8226
8227	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
8228			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8229			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8230			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8231			loads instead, as on POWER9.
8232
8233	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
8234			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8235			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8236			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8237
8238	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
8239			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8240			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8241			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8242			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8243				debugger is called from setup_arch().
8244			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8245				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8246				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8247				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8248			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8249				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8250				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8251				can be written using xmon commands.
8252			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8253				memory, and other data can't be written using
8254				xmon commands.
8255			off	xmon is disabled.
8256