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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=  [HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112                        GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113                        the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117			Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
120			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123			auto-serialization feature.
124			This feature is enabled by default.
125			This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
128			   kernels.
129
130	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
131			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133			installed automatically and they will appear under
134			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135			This option turns off this feature.
136			Note that specifying this option does not affect
137			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143			second kernel for kdump.
144
145	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
148	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
154	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
155			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
156			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
157			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
158			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
159						  strings
160			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
161						  strings
162			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
163
164			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
167			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
171			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
172			care about the state of the feature group strings which
173			should be controlled by the OSPM.
174			Examples:
175			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
182			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183			multiple times through kernel command line is also
184			meaningless.
185			Examples:
186			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187			     FALSE.
188
189			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
192			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
195			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
197			is useful when one want to control the state of the
198			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199			the OSPM features.
200			Examples:
201			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206			     equivalent to
207			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208			     and
209			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
212	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
213			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215			and always returns good values.
216
217	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
220	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
226				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
227			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228			s3_bios and s3_mode.
229			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232			used during resume from hibernation.
233			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234			control method, with respect to putting devices into
235			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236			of _PTS is used by default).
237			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
239			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241			but some broken systems don't work without it).
242
243	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
247	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
250	agp=		[AGP]
251			{ off | try_unsupported }
252			off: disable AGP support
253			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
256	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
257			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
259	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
260			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
262			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
264	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
265			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
272			32: only for 32-bit processes
273			64: only for 64-bit processes
274			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
277	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
278			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
284	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
285			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286			Possible values are:
287			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289				    flushed before they will be reused, which
290				    is a lot of faster
291			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292				    the system
293			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
296					  requirements as needed. This option
297					  does not override iommu=pt
298
299	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
300			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303			IOMMU initialization.
304
305	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307			remapping modes:
308			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
314	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316			Format: <a>,<b>
317			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
318
319	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321			connected to one of 16 gameports
322			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
324	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
325			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
326			Format: noidle
327			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329			APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
331	apic=		[APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
332			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
333			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334			Change the amount of debugging information output
335			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
336
337	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341			      backup of CPU 0
342			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344			      shot down by NMI
345
346	autoconf=	[IPV6]
347			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
349	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355			apic=verbose is specified.
356			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
358	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
359			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
360
361	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
365
366	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
368	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369			EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
373	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
374			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
375
376	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377			keyboards
378
379	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
381
382	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383			Use software keyboard repeat
384
385	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
387			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388			    until the next reboot
389			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394			    auditd.
395			Default: unset
396
397	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399			Default: 64
400
401	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
402			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403			Format: { "0" | "1" }
404			0 - Disable the BAU.
405			1 - Enable the BAU.
406			unset - Disable the BAU.
407
408	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
409			Format: <io>,<mode>
410
411	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412			Format: <io>,<mode>
413			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
415	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
416			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
417			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
420	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
421			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
422			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
425	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426			embedded devices based on command line input.
427			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
429	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431			no delay (0).
432			Format: integer
433
434	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
436	bert_disable	[ACPI]
437			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
439	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
440	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
441			kernel args too.
442	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
443	bttv.tuner=
444
445	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447			at a time.
448
449	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
451	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
452			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456			This option provides an override for these situations.
457
458	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460			trust validation.
461			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
462
463	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467			others).
468
469	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
471
472	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
474			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476			  a single hierarchy
477			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478			  subsystem
479			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
482
483	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
488	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489			Format: <string>
490			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
491			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
492
493	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494			Format: { "0" | "1" }
495			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
496			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497				any implied execute protection).
498			1 -- check protection requested by application.
499			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
500			Value can be changed at runtime via
501				/selinux/checkreqprot.
502
503	cio_ignore=	[S390]
504			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
505	clk_ignore_unused
506			[CLK]
507			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514			platform with proper driver support.  For more
515			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
516
517	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
518			[Deprecated]
519			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
520			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
521			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
522			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
524	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
525			Format: <string>
526			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527			with the name specified.
528			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529			the platform:
530			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531			[ACPI] acpi_pm
532			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
534			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
535				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536			[MIPS] MIPS
537			[PARISC] cr16
538			[S390] tod
539			[SH] SuperH
540			[SPARC64] tick
541			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
543	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544			[ARM,ARM64]
545			Format: <bool>
546			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549			systems.
550
551	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
553			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
554			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
555			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556			ones should be.
557			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558			or using the feature without checking anything
559			will still see it. This just prevents it from
560			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562			some critical bits.
563
564	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565			[ARM,X86,KNL]
566			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568			placement constraint by the physical address range of
569			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570			altogether. For more information, see
571			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
573	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
576			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577			a hypervisor.
578			Default: yes
579
580	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
581			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
582			allocations, by default set to 256K.
583
584	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
585			in an oops report.
586			Range: 0 - 8192
587			Default: 64
588
589	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
590			Format:
591			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
592
593	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
596	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
597			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
601	conmode=
602
603	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607		ttyS<n>[,options]
608		ttyUSB0[,options]
609			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
610			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
614
615			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
616			information.  See
617			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618			alternative.
619
620		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
625			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
627			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
629			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
633			the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
635		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
637
638                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640			console=brl,ttyS0
641		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
643	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
645                       Defaults to 0.
646
647	coredump_filter=
648			[KNL] Change the default value for
649			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
652	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653			[ARM,ARM64]
654			Format: <bool>
655			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656			0: default value, disable debugging
657			1: enable debugging at boot time
658
659	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
660			disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
662	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
663			disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
665	cpu_init_udelay=N
666			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
668			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669			Default: 10000
670
671	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
672			Format:
673			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
674
675	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680			is selected automatically. Check
681			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
682
683	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685			in the running system. The syntax of range is
686			start-[end] where start and end are both
687			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
688			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
689
690	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
691			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695			available.
696			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
697	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
700			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
702			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
706			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707			for second kernel instead.
708			0: to disable low allocation.
709			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
710			or memory reserved is below 4G.
711
712	crossrelease_fullstack
713			[KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
714
715	cryptomgr.notests
716                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
717
718	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
719			Format: <dma>
720
721	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
722			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
723
724	dasd=		[HW,NET]
725			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
726
727	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
728			(one device per port)
729			Format: <port#>,<type>
730			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
731
732	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
733			time. See
734			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
735			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
736
737	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
738
739	debug_locks_verbose=
740			[KNL] verbose self-tests
741			Format=<0|1>
742			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
743			self-tests.
744			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
745			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
746			only useful to kernel developers.
747
748	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
749
750	no_debug_objects
751			[KNL] Disable object debugging
752
753	debug_guardpage_minorder=
754			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
755			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
756			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
757			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
758			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
759			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
760			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
761			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
762			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
763			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
764			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
765			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
766			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
767			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
768			bypassed) which are not detectable by
769			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
770			tracking down these problems.
771
772	debug_pagealloc=
773			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
774			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
775			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
776			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
777			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
778			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
779			on: enable the feature
780
781	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
782
783	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
784			Format: <area>[,<node>]
785			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
786
787	default_hugepagesz=
788			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
789			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
790			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
791			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
792			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
793			if not specified.
794
795	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
796			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
797
798	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
799			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
800			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
801			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
802			miss to occur.
803
804	disable=	[IPV6]
805			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
806
807	disable_radix	[PPC]
808			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
809
810	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
811			Format: <int>
812			The number of initial APIC ID for the
813			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
814			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
815			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
816			causing system reset or hang due to sending
817			INIT from AP to BSP.
818
819	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
820			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
821			to workaround buggy firmware.
822
823	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
824			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
825
826	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
827			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
828			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
829			entry later. This parameter disables that.
830
831	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
832			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
833			memory out of your available memory pool based on
834			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
835			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
836
837	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
838			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
839			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
840
841	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
842
843	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
844			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
845
846	dma_debug_entries=<number>
847			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
848			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
849			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
850			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
851			architectural default is too low.
852
853	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
854			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
855			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
856			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
857			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
858			driver later using sysfs.
859
860	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
861			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
862			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
863			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
864			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
865			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
866			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
867			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
868			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
869			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
870			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
871			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
872			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
873			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
874			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
875			data set with no connector name will be used for
876			any connectors not explicitly specified.
877
878	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
879
880	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
881			Format: {"off" | "known"}
882			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
883			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
884			exists).
885			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
886			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
887			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
888
889	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
890			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
891			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
892			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
893
894	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
895	module.dyndbg[="val"]
896			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
897			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
898			for details.
899
900	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
901			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
902			information about the feature.
903
904	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
905			in some Intel CPUs.
906
907	module.async_probe [KNL]
908			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
909
910	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
911			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
912			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
913			which are not unmapped.
914
915	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
916
917			When used with no options, the early console is
918			determined by the stdout-path property in device
919			tree's chosen node.
920
921		cdns,<addr>[,options]
922			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
923			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
924			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
925			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
926			configured.
927
928		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
929		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
930		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
931		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
932		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
933			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
934			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
935			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
936			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
937			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
938			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
939			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
940			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
941
942		pl011,<addr>
943		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
944			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
945			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
946			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
947			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
948			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
949			the device registers.
950
951		meson,<addr>
952			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
953			port at the specified address. The serial port must
954			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
955			supported.
956
957		msm_serial,<addr>
958			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
959			port at the specified address. The serial port
960			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
961			yet supported.
962
963		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
964			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
965			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
966			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
967			yet supported.
968
969		owl,<addr>
970			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
971			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
972			specified address. The serial port must already be
973			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
974
975		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
976
977		s3c2410,<addr>
978		s3c2412,<addr>
979		s3c2440,<addr>
980		s3c6400,<addr>
981		s5pv210,<addr>
982		exynos4210,<addr>
983			Use early console provided by serial driver available
984			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
985			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
986			serial port must already be setup and configured.
987			Options are not yet supported.
988
989		lantiq,<addr>
990			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
991			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
992			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
993			yet supported.
994
995		lpuart,<addr>
996		lpuart32,<addr>
997			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
998			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
999			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1000			port must already be setup and configured.
1001
1002		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1003			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1004			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1005			address. The serial port must already be setup
1006			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1007
1008	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1009			earlyprintk=vga
1010			earlyprintk=efi
1011			earlyprintk=sclp
1012			earlyprintk=xen
1013			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1014			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1015			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1016			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1017			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1018			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1019
1020			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1021			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1022			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1023
1024			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1025			takes over.
1026
1027			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1028			be used at a time.
1029
1030			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1031			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1032			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1033			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1034				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1035			You can find the port for a given device in
1036			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1037				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1038
1039			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1040			very good.
1041
1042			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1043			the real console.
1044
1045			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1046
1047			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1048
1049	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1050			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1051			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1052			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1053			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1054			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1055			default: on.
1056
1057	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1058			ekgdboc=kbd
1059
1060			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1061			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1062
1063	edd=		[EDD]
1064			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1065
1066	efi=		[EFI]
1067			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1068			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1069			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1070			default.
1071			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1072			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1073			firmware implementations.
1074			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1075			debug: enable misc debug output
1076
1077	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1078			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1079			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1080			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1081			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1082
1083	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1084			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1085			updating original EFI memory map.
1086			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1087			from ss to ss+nn.
1088			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1089			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1090			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1091			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1092
1093			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1094			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1095			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1096			doesn't support it.
1097
1098	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1099			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1100			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1101			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1102			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1103
1104
1105	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1106			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1107
1108	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1109			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1110			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1111
1112	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1113			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1114			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1115			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1116
1117	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1118			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1119			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1120			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1121			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1122
1123	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1124			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1125			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1126			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1127
1128	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1129			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1130			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1131			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1132			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1133
1134	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1135			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1136			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1137			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1138			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1139			Default value is 0.
1140			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1141
1142	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1143			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1144			support.
1145
1146	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1147			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1148			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1149
1150	evm=		[EVM]
1151			Format: { "fix" }
1152			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1153			current integrity status.
1154
1155	failslab=
1156	fail_page_alloc=
1157	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1158			General fault injection mechanism.
1159			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1160			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1161
1162	floppy=		[HW]
1163			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1164
1165	force_pal_cache_flush
1166			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1167			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1168			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1169			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1170
1171	forcepae [X86-32]
1172			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1173			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1174			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1175			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1176			and may cause unknown problems.
1177
1178	ftrace=[tracer]
1179			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1180			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1181			boot debugging.
1182
1183	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1184			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1185			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1186			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1187			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1188			oops.
1189
1190	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1191			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1192			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1193			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1194			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1195			tracing directory.
1196
1197	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1198			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1199			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1200			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1201			tracing directory.
1202
1203	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1204			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1205			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1206			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1207			that can be changed at run time by the
1208			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1209
1210	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1211			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1212			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1213			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1214			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1215
1216	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1217			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1218			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1219			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1220			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1221
1222	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1223			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1224			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1225			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1226			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1227
1228	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1229
1230	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1231			Format: off | on
1232			default: on
1233
1234	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1235			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1236			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1237			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1238			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1239
1240	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1241			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1242			android emulator
1243
1244	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1245			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1246			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1247			GPT to be used instead.
1248
1249	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1250			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1251			Format: 0 | 1
1252			Default: 0
1253	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1254			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1255			Format: 0 | 1
1256			Default: 0
1257	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1258			Format: 0 | 1
1259			Default: 0
1260	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1261			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262			Default: 1024
1263	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1264			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1265			Default: 1024
1266
1267	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1268			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1269			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1270
1271	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1272			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1273			backtraces on all cpus.
1274			Format: <integer>
1275
1276	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1277			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1278			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1279			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1280
1281	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1282
1283	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1284			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1285
1286	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1287			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1288			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1289			logic will be disabled.
1290
1291	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1292			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1293			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1294			size on bigger boxes.
1295
1296	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1297			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1298			Default: "on"
1299
1300	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1301			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1302
1303	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1304
1305	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1306			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1307				verbose }
1308			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1309			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1310				VIA, nVidia)
1311			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1312
1313	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1314			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1315
1316	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1317	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1318			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1319			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1320			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1321			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1322			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1323
1324	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1325			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1326	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1327			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1328			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1329
1330	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1331			        hardware thread id mappings.
1332				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1333
1334	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1335			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1336			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1337			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1338			the real console.
1339
1340	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1341			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1342			     registered from board initialization code.
1343			     Format:
1344			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1345
1346	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1347	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1348			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1349			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1350			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1351	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1352	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1353			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1354			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1355	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1356	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1357	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1358			     for the AUX port
1359	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1360			     controller
1361	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1362			     controllers
1363	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1364	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1365			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1366			     transitions, or never reset
1367			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1368			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1369			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1370			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1371			architectures force reset to be always executed
1372	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1373	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1374
1375	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1376
1377	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1378			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1379			hardware.
1380	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1381			does not match list of supported models.
1382	i8k.power_status
1383			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1384			(disabled by default)
1385	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1386			capability is set.
1387
1388	i915.invert_brightness=
1389			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1390			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1391			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1392			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1393			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1394			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1395			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1396			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1397			value switches the backlight off.
1398			-1 -- never invert brightness
1399			 0 -- machine default
1400			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1401
1402	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1403			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1404
1405	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1406			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1407			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1408			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1409			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1410
1411	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1412			Format: <int>
1413			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1414			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1415			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1416			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1417			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1418			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1419			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1420			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1421			was 0x3.
1422
1423	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1424			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1425
1426	idle=		[X86]
1427			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1428			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1429			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1430			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1431			Not recommended.
1432			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1433			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1434			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1435
1436	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1437			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1438			Default: strict
1439
1440			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1441			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1442			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1443			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1444			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1445			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1446			encoding mode.
1447
1448			Available settings are as follows:
1449			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1450				supported by the FPU
1451			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1452				by the FPU
1453			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1454				by the FPU
1455			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1456				supported by the FPU
1457
1458			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1459			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1460			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1461			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1462			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1463			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1464			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1465			MIPS64 CPUs.
1466
1467			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1468			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1469			except where unsupported by hardware.
1470
1471	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1472			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1473			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1474			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1475			could change it dynamically, usually by
1476			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1477
1478	ignore_rlimit_data
1479			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1480			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1481			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1482
1483	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1484			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1485
1486	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1487			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1488			default: "enforce"
1489
1490	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1491			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1492			owned by uid=0.
1493
1494	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1495			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1496			measurements, instead of host native format.
1497
1498	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1499			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1500				   | sha512 | ... }
1501			default: "sha1"
1502
1503			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1504			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1505
1506	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1507			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1508			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1509
1510			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1511			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1512			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1513			uid=0.
1514
1515			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1516			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1517			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1518
1519			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1520			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1521			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1522
1523	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1524			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1525			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1526			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1527			opened for read by uid=0.
1528
1529	ima_template=   [IMA]
1530			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1531			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1532			Default: "ima-ng"
1533
1534	ima_template_fmt=
1535	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1536			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1537
1538	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1539			Format: <min_file_size>
1540			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1541			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1542
1543			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1544			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1545			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1546
1547	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1548			Format: <bufsize>
1549			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1550
1551			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1552			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1553			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1554
1555	init=		[KNL]
1556			Format: <full_path>
1557			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1558			process.
1559
1560	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1561			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1562			startup.
1563
1564	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1565			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1566			modules and initcalls.
1567
1568	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1569
1570	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1571			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1572			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1573			override in debugfs after boot.
1574
1575	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1576			Format: <irq>
1577
1578	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1579
1580	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1581			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1582			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1583			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1584
1585	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1586		on
1587			Enable intel iommu driver.
1588		off
1589			Disable intel iommu driver.
1590		igfx_off [Default Off]
1591			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1592			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1593			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1594			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1595			DMA.
1596		forcedac [x86_64]
1597			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1598			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1599			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1600			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1601			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1602			then look in the higher range.
1603		strict [Default Off]
1604			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1605			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1606			to batching them for performance.
1607		sp_off [Default Off]
1608			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1609			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1610			not be supported.
1611		ecs_off [Default Off]
1612			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1613			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1614			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1615			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1616			on hardware which claims to support them.
1617		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1618			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1619			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1620			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1621			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1622			mapping is enabled.
1623			Note that using this option lowers the security
1624			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1625			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1626
1627	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1628			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1629			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1630
1631	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1632		       disable
1633		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1634		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1635		       passive
1636			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1637			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1638			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1639			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1640			 feature.
1641		       force
1642			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1643			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1644			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1645			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1646			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1647			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1648			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1649			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1650		       no_hwp
1651		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1652			 if available.
1653		hwp_only
1654			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1655			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1656		support_acpi_ppc
1657			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1658			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1659			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1660			then this feature is turned on by default.
1661		per_cpu_perf_limits
1662			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1663			cpufreq sysfs interface
1664
1665	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1666			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1667			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1668			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1669			no_x2apic_optout
1670				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1671			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1672
1673	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1674		strict	regions from userspace.
1675		relaxed
1676
1677	iommu=		[x86]
1678		off
1679		force
1680		noforce
1681		biomerge
1682		panic
1683		nopanic
1684		merge
1685		nomerge
1686		forcesac
1687		soft
1688		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1689		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1690			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1691
1692	iommu.passthrough=
1693			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1694			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1695			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1696			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1697			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1698
1699	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1700			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1701			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1702
1703	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1704		0x80
1705			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1706		0xed
1707			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1708		udelay
1709			Simple two microseconds delay
1710		none
1711			No delay
1712
1713	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1714			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1715
1716	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1717			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1718
1719	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1720			[ARM, ARM64]
1721			Format: <bool>
1722			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1723			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1724			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1725
1726	irqfixup	[HW]
1727			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1728			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1729			firmware running.
1730
1731	irqpoll		[HW]
1732			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1733			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1734			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1735			firmware running.
1736
1737	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1738			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1739
1740	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1741			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1742			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1743
1744			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1745			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1746
1747			nohz
1748			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1749			domain
1750			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1751			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1752			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1753			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1754			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1755			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1756			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1757			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1758
1759			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1760			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1761			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1762			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1763
1764			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1765
1766
1767
1768	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1769
1770	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1771			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1772			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1773			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1774			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1775				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1776
1777	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1778			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1779			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1780			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1781			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1782				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1783
1784	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1785			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1786			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1787			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1788			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1789				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1790
1791	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1792			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1793
1794	nokaslr		[KNL]
1795			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1796			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1797			Layout Randomization).
1798
1799	kasan_multi_shot
1800			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1801			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1802			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1803			invalid access.
1804
1805	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1806
1807	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1808			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1809			This parameter
1810			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1811			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1812			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1813			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1814			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1815			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1816			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1817			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1818			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1819			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1820			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1821			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1822			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1823			zone if it does not.
1824
1825			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1826			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1827			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1828			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1829			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1830			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1831			time.
1832
1833	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1834			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1835			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1836			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1837			optional and is the number seconds in between
1838			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1839			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1840			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1841			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1842			the kernel debugger.
1843
1844	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1845			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1846			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1847			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1848			 keyboard only format: kbd
1849			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1850			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1851			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1852			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1853
1854	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1855			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1856
1857	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1858			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1859			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1860
1861	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1862			Valid arguments: on, off
1863			Default: on
1864			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1865			the default is off.
1866
1867	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1868			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1869
1870	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1871			KVM MMU at runtime.
1872			Default is 0 (off)
1873
1874	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1875			Default is 1 (enabled)
1876
1877	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1878			for all guests.
1879			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1880
1881	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1882			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1883			system registers
1884
1885	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1886			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1887			system registers
1888
1889	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1890			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1891			system registers
1892
1893	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1894			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1895			Default is 1 (enabled)
1896
1897	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1898			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1899			Default is 0 (disabled)
1900
1901	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1902			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1903			Default is 1 (enabled)
1904
1905	kvm-intel.nested=
1906			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1907			Default is 0 (disabled)
1908
1909	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1910			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1911			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1912			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1913
1914	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1915			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1916			Default is 1 (enabled)
1917
1918	l2cr=		[PPC]
1919
1920	l3cr=		[PPC]
1921
1922	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1923			disabled it.
1924
1925	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1926			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1927			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1928
1929	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1930			in C2 power state.
1931
1932	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1933			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1934			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1935			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1936			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1937			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1938			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1939
1940	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1941			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1942			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1943
1944	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1945			when set.
1946			Format: <int>
1947
1948	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1949			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1950			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1951			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1952			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1953			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1954			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1955			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1956
1957			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1958			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1959			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1960			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1961			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1962			host link and device attached to it.
1963
1964			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1965			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1966			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1967			The following configurations can be forced.
1968
1969			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1970			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1971
1972			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1973
1974			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1975			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1976			  allowed.
1977
1978			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1979
1980			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1981
1982			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1983                          and both resets.
1984
1985			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1986			  hot-unplug link recovery
1987
1988			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1989
1990			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1991
1992			* disable: Disable this device.
1993
1994			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1995			the same attribute, the last one is used.
1996
1997	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1998
1999	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2000			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2001
2002	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2003			Format: <integer>
2004
2005	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2006			Format: <integer>
2007
2008	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2009			Format: <integer>
2010
2011	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2012			Format: <integer>
2013
2014	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2015			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2016			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2017			number of online CPUs.
2018
2019	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2020			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2021
2022	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2023			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2024
2025	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2026			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2027			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2028
2029	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2030			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2031			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2032			mode during the locktorture test.
2033
2034	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2035			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2036			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2037
2038	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2039			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2040
2041	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2042			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2043			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2044			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2045			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2046			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2047
2048	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2049			Start locktorture running at boot time.
2050
2051	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2052			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2053
2054	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2055			Enable additional printk() statements.
2056
2057	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2058			Format: <irq>
2059
2060	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2061			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2062			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2063			loglevels are defined as follows:
2064
2065			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2066			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2067			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2068			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2069			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2070			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2071			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2072			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2073
2074	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2075			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2076			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2077			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2078			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2079			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2080			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2081
2082	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2083			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2084			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2085			kernel boot problems.
2086
2087	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2088	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2089	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2090	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2091				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2092				attached printers to be reset. Using
2093				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2094				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2095				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2096				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2097				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2098				port specification list means that device IDs
2099				from each port should be examined, to see if
2100				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2101				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2102				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2103
2104	lpj=n		[KNL]
2105			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2106			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2107			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2108			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2109			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2110			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2111			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2112			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2113			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2114			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2115			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2116			hardware.
2117
2118	ltpc=		[NET]
2119			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2120
2121	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2122			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2123			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2124
2125	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2126			 yeeloong laptop.
2127			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2128
2129	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2130			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2131
2132	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2133			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2134			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2135			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2136			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2137			only takes effect during system bootup.
2138			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2139			which also disables the IO APIC.
2140
2141	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2142	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2143			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2144			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2145			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2146			/dev/loop-control interface.
2147
2148	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2149
2150	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2151
2152	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2153			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2154
2155	mdacon=		[MDA]
2156			Format: <first>,<last>
2157			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2158
2159	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2160			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2161			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2162			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2163			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2164			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2165			belonging to unused RAM.
2166
2167	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2168			memory.
2169
2170	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2171			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2172			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2173
2174        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2175			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2176			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2177			set according to the
2178			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2179			option.
2180			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2181
2182	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2183			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2184			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2185			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2186			option description.
2187
2188	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2189			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2190			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2191			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2192			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2193			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2194			comma delimited.
2195			Example:
2196				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2197
2198	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2199			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2200			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2201
2202	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2203			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2204			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2205			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2206			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2207			         or
2208			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2209			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2210			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2211			will be eaten.
2212
2213	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2214			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2215			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2216			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2217			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2218
2219	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2220			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2221			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2222			Setting this option will scan the memory
2223			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2224			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2225			from using the memory being corrupted.
2226			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2227			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2228			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2229			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2230
2231	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2232			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2233			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2234			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2235			corruption in more or less memory.
2236
2237	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2238			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2239			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2240			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2241
2242	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2243			Format: <integer>
2244			default : 0 <disable>
2245			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2246			performed. Each pass selects another test
2247			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2248			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2249			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2250			regions that are detected.
2251
2252	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2253			Valid arguments: on, off
2254			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2255			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2256			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2257			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2258			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2259
2260			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2261			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2262
2263	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2264			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2265			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2266			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2267			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2268
2269	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2270			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2271
2272	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2273			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2274			platforms.
2275
2276	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2277			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2278			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2279			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2280
2281	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2282
2283	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2284			physical address is ignored.
2285
2286	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2287			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2288			Default: "0tb"
2289			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2290			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2291			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2292			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2293			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2294			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2295			unconfigured.
2296			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2297			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2298			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2299			VGA shield.
2300			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2301			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2302			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2303			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2304			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2305			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2306
2307	mminit_loglevel=
2308			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2309			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2310			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2311			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2312			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2313			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2314
2315	module.sig_enforce
2316			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2317			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2318			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2319			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2320
2321	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2322			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2323
2324	mousedev.tap_time=
2325			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2326			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2327			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2328			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2329			Format: <msecs>
2330	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2331			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2332	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2333			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2334
2335	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2336			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2337			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2338			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2339			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2340			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2341			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2342			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2343			is not too small.
2344
2345	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2346			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2347			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2348			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2349			allocations. Use with caution!
2350
2351	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2352			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2353
2354	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2355			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2356
2357	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2358			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2359
2360	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2361			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2362			at a time.
2363
2364	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2365
2366			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2367
2368			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2369				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2370			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2371				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2372				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2373
2374	mtdset=		[ARM]
2375			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2376
2377			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2378
2379	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2380			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2381			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2382
2383	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2384			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2385			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2386
2387	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2388			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2389			Default is 1.
2390			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2391			using up MTRRs.
2392
2393	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2394			Format: <integer>
2395			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2396			Default : 1
2397			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2398			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2399
2400	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2401
2402	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2403			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2404			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2405			something different and driver-specific.
2406			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2407			file if at all.
2408
2409	nf_conntrack.acct=
2410			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2411			0 to disable accounting
2412			1 to enable accounting
2413			Default value is 0.
2414
2415	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2416			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2417
2418	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2419			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2420
2421	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2422			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2423
2424	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2425			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2426			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2427			requests.
2428
2429	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2430			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2431			channel should listen.
2432
2433	nfs.cache_getent=
2434			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2435			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2436
2437	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2438			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2439			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2440
2441	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2442			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2443			entries.
2444
2445	nfs.enable_ino64=
2446			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2447			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2448			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2449			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2450			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2451
2452	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2453			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2454			slots the client will assign to the callback
2455			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2456			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2457			a particular server.
2458
2459	nfs.max_session_slots=
2460			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2461			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2462			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2463			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2464			Note that there is little point in setting this
2465			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2466
2467	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2468			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2469			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2470			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2471			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2472			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2473			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2474			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2475			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2476			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2477			back to using the idmapper.
2478			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2479	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2480			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2481			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2482			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2483			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2484
2485	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2486			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2487			information in exchange_id requests.
2488			If zero, no implementation identification information
2489			will be sent.
2490			The default is to send the implementation identification
2491			information.
2492
2493	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2494			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2495			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2496			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2497			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2498			after the locks are lost.
2499			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2500			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2501			parameter to '1'.
2502			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2503			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2504
2505	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2506			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2507			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2508
2509			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2510			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2511			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2512			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2513
2514	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2515			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2516			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2517			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2518			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2519			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2520
2521	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2522			when a NMI is triggered.
2523			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2524
2525	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2526			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2527			Valid num: 0 or 1
2528			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2529			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2530			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2531			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2532			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2533			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2534			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2535			need the box quickly up again.
2536
2537	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2538			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2539			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2540			waits 4 seconds.
2541
2542	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2543			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2544			is present.
2545
2546	no_console_suspend
2547			[HW] Never suspend the console
2548			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2549			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2550			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2551			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2552			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2553			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2554			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2555			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2556			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2557			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2558			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2559			turn on/off it dynamically.
2560
2561	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2562			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2563			but will impact performance.
2564
2565	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2566
2567	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2568			(CPU alternatives feature).
2569
2570	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2571			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2572
2573	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2574
2575	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2576			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2577
2578	nocache		[ARM]
2579
2580	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2581
2582	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2583
2584	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2585
2586	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2587
2588	noexec		[IA-64]
2589
2590	noexec		[X86]
2591			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2592			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2593			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2594
2595	nosmap		[X86]
2596			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2597			even if it is supported by processor.
2598
2599	nosmep		[X86]
2600			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2601			even if it is supported by processor.
2602
2603	noexec32	[X86-64]
2604			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2605			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2606				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2607			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2608				read implies executable mappings
2609
2610	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2611
2612	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2613			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2614			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2615
2616	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2617
2618	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2619			Equivalent to smt=1.
2620
2621	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2622			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2623			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2624
2625	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2626			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2627			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2628			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2629			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2630			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2631
2632	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2633			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2634			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2635			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2636			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2637			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2638			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2639
2640	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2641			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2642			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2643
2644	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2645			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2646			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2647
2648	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2649			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2650			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2651			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2652			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2653			real-time systems.
2654
2655	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2656
2657	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2658			Valid arguments: on, off
2659			Default: on
2660
2661	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
2662			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2663			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2664			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2665			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2666			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2667			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2668			just as if they had also been called out in the
2669			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2670
2671	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2672
2673	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2674			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2675
2676	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2677			broken timer IRQ sources.
2678
2679	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2680
2681	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2682			initial RAM disk.
2683
2684	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2685			remapping.
2686			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2687
2688	nointroute	[IA-64]
2689
2690	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2691
2692	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2693
2694	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2695
2696	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2697			fault handling.
2698
2699	no-vmw-sched-clock
2700			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2701			clock and use the default one.
2702
2703	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2704			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2705			behaviour
2706
2707	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2708
2709	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2710
2711	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2712			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2713
2714	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2715
2716	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2717
2718	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2719			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2720
2721	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2722			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2723			irq.
2724
2725	nomodule	Disable module load
2726
2727	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2728			pagetables) support.
2729
2730	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2731
2732	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2733			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2734
2735	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2736
2737	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2738			with UP alternatives
2739
2740	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2741			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2742			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2743			available to user space applications.
2744
2745	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2746			space.
2747
2748	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2749			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2750			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2751
2752	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2753
2754	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2755
2756	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2757			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2758
2759	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2760
2761	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2762
2763	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2764
2765	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2766                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2767
2768	nowb		[ARM]
2769
2770	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2771
2772	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2773			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2774			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2775			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2776			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2777			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2778			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2779			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2780			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2781			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2782			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2783			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2784			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2785
2786	nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2787			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2788			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2789			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2790			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2791			parameter's value.
2792			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2793			Default: 255
2794
2795	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2796			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2797			SAL PALO.
2798
2799	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2800			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2801			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2802			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2803			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2804			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2805			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2806			hot plugging.
2807
2808	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2809
2810	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2811			Allowed values are enable and disable
2812
2813	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2814			'node', 'default' can be specified
2815			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2816			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2817
2818	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2819			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2820			info.
2821
2822	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2823			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2824			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2825			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2826			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2827			interrupts *may* be lost!
2828
2829	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2830			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2831			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2832			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2833
2834	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2835			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2836
2837	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2838			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2839			userland or if you want common events.
2840			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2841			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2842				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2843				CPU specific event set.
2844			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2845				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2846				for generic hr timer mode)
2847
2848	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2849			process, but there is a small probability of
2850			deadlocking the machine.
2851			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2852			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2853
2854	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2855			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2856
2857	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2858			Storage of the information about who allocated
2859			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2860			we can turn it on.
2861			on: enable the feature
2862
2863	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2864			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2865			off: turn off poisoning
2866			on: turn on poisoning
2867
2868	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2869			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2870			timeout = 0: wait forever
2871			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2872			Format: <timeout>
2873
2874	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2875			on a WARN().
2876
2877	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2878			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2879			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2880			succeeds in any situation.
2881			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2882			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2883			kernel more unstable.
2884
2885	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2886			connected to, default is 0.
2887			Format: <parport#>
2888	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2889			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2890			Format: <mode>
2891
2892	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2893			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2894			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2895			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2896			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2897			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2898			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2899			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2900			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2901			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2902			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2903			are specified on the command line, starting
2904			with parport0.
2905
2906	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2907			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2908			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2909			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2910			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2911			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2912			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2913
2914	pause_on_oops=
2915			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2916			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2917			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2918
2919	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2920
2921	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2922			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2923			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2924
2925	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2926		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2927			        changes anything
2928		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2929		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2930				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2931				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2932		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2933				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2934				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2935				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2936		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2937				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2938				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2939		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2940				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2941				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2942				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2943				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2944				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2945				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2946		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2947				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2948				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2949		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2950				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2951		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2952				Configuration
2953		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2954				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2955				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2956		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2957				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2958				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2959		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2960				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2961				should never be necessary.
2962		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2963				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2964				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2965				when the system masks IRQs.
2966		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2967				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2968				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2969				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2970		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2971				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2972				on several machines and they hang the machine
2973				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2974				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2975				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2976				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2977				motherboard.
2978		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2979				Use with caution as certain devices share
2980				address decoders between ROMs and other
2981				resources.
2982		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2983				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2984				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2985		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2986				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2987		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2988				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2989				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2990				this way.
2991		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
2992				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2993				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2994				F0000h-100000h range.
2995		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2996				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2997				secondary buses and you want to tell it
2998				explicitly which ones they are.
2999		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3000				numbers ourselves, overriding
3001				whatever the firmware may have done.
3002		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3003				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3004				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3005				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3006				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3007				IRQ routing is enabled.
3008		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3009				or for PCI scanning.
3010		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3011				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3012				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3013				please report a bug.
3014		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3015			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3016		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3017				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3018				so this option is a temporary workaround
3019				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3020		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3021				handle more pci cards
3022		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3023				This might help on some broken boards which
3024				machine check when some devices' config space
3025				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3026				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3027		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3028				This sorting is done to get a device
3029				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3030		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3031		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3032				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3033		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3034				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3035		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3036				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3037				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3038				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3039				or bus can support) for best performance.
3040		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3041				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3042				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3043				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3044				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3045				that hot-added devices will work.
3046		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3047				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3048				The default value is 256 bytes.
3049		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3050				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3051				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3052		resource_alignment=
3053				Format:
3054				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3055				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3056						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3057				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3058				aligned memory resources.
3059				If <order of align> is not specified,
3060				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3061				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3062				windows need to be expanded.
3063				To specify the alignment for several
3064				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3065				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3066				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3067		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3068				end-to-end CRC checking).
3069				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3070				the default.
3071				off: Turn ECRC off
3072				on: Turn ECRC on.
3073		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3074				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3075				Default size is 256 bytes.
3076		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3077				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3078				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3079		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3080				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3081				Default is 1.
3082		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3083				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3084				accommodate resources required by all child
3085				devices.
3086				off: Turn realloc off
3087				on: Turn realloc on
3088		realloc		same as realloc=on
3089		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3090		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3091				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3092				port.
3093
3094	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3095			Management.
3096		off	Disable ASPM.
3097		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3098			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3099
3100	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3101		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3102			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3103
3104	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3105		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3106			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3107			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3108		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3109			unconditionally.
3110		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3111			ports driver.
3112
3113	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3114		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3115		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3116
3117	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3118		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3119			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3120
3121	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3122
3123	pd_ignore_unused
3124			[PM]
3125			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3126			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3127			for debug and development, but should not be
3128			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3129
3130	pd.		[PARIDE]
3131			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3132
3133	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3134			boot time.
3135			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3136			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3137
3138	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3139			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3140			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3141			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3142			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3143			and performance comparison.
3144
3145	pf.		[PARIDE]
3146			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3147
3148	pg.		[PARIDE]
3149			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3150
3151	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3152			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3153
3154	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3155			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3156			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3157
3158	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3159			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3160			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3161
3162	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3163			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3164			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3165			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3166			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3167			possible settings and some assignment information.
3168
3169	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3170			{ off }
3171
3172	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3173			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3174
3175	pnp_reserve_irq=
3176			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3177
3178	pnp_reserve_dma=
3179			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3180
3181	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3182			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3183
3184	pnp_reserve_mem=
3185			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3186			autoconfiguration.
3187			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3188
3189	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3190			Default is 21.
3191			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3192			may be specified.
3193			Format: <port>,<port>....
3194
3195	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3196			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3197			platform machine description specific power_save
3198			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3199			execution priority.
3200
3201	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3202			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3203			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3204			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3205			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3206
3207	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3208			Format: {"off"}
3209			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3210
3211	print-fatal-signals=
3212			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3213
3214			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3215			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3216			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3217			coredump - etc.
3218
3219			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3220			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3221
3222			default: off.
3223
3224	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3225			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3226			panics
3227			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3228			default: disabled
3229
3230	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3231			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3232			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3233			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3234			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3235			Default: ratelimit
3236
3237	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3238			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3239
3240	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3241			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3242			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3243
3244	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3245			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3246			instead using the legacy FADT method
3247
3248	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3249			Format: [schedule,]<number>
3250			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3251			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3252				statistical time based profiling.
3253			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3254				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3255			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3256
3257	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3258			before loading.
3259			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3260
3261	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3262			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3263	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3264			per second.
3265	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3266			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3267			(0 = never).
3268	psmouse.resolution=
3269			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3270	psmouse.smartscroll=
3271			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3272			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3273
3274	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3275
3276	pt.		[PARIDE]
3277			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3278
3279	pty.legacy_count=
3280			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3281			default number.
3282
3283	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3284
3285	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3286
3287	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3288			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3289
3290	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3291			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3292
3293	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3294
3295		cec_disable	[X86]
3296				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3297				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3298
3299	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3300			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3301
3302			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3303			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3304			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3305			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3306			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3307			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3308			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3309			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3310			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3311			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3312
3313	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3314			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3315			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3316			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3317			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3318			This improves the real-time response for the
3319			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3320			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3321			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3322			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3323
3324	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3325			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3326			process in one batch.
3327
3328	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3329			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3330			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3331			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3332
3333	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3334			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3335			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3336
3337	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3338			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3339			RCU grace-period initialization.
3340
3341	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3342			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3343			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3344			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3345			the rcu_node combining tree.
3346
3347	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3348			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3349			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3350			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3351			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3352
3353	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3354			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3355			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3356			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3357			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3358			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3359			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3360
3361	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3362			Set required age in jiffies for a
3363			given grace period before RCU starts
3364			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3365			rcu_note_context_switch().
3366
3367	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3368			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3369			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3370			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3371			and maximum value is HZ.
3372
3373	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3374			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3375			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3376			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3377
3378	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3379			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3380			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3381			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3382			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3383			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3384			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3385			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3386			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3387			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3388
3389	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3390			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3391			defaults to the square root of the number of
3392			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3393			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3394			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3395
3396	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3397			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3398			batch limiting is disabled.
3399
3400	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3401			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3402			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3403
3404	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3405			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3406			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3407
3408	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3409			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3410			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3411			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3412			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3413
3414	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3415			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3416			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3417			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3418			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3419			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3420
3421	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3422			Measure performance of asynchronous
3423			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3424
3425	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3426			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3427			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3428			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3429			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3430			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3431
3432	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3433			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3434			grace-period primitives.
3435
3436	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3437			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3438			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3439			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3440			interference.
3441
3442	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3443			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3444			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3445			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3446			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3447			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3448			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3449			a single reader.
3450
3451	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3452			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3453			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3454			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3455
3456	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3457			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3458
3459	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3460			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3461
3462	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3463			Shut the system down after performance tests
3464			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3465			testing.
3466
3467	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3468			Enable additional printk() statements.
3469
3470	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3471			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3472			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3473			no holdoff.
3474
3475	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3476			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3477			callback-flood tests.
3478
3479	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3480			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3481			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3482			test.
3483
3484	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3485			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3486			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3487			disable callback-flood testing.
3488
3489	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3490			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3491			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3492
3493	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3494			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3495			in microseconds.
3496
3497	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3498			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3499			in microseconds.
3500
3501	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3502			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3503			in seconds.
3504
3505	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3506			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3507			primitives, if available.
3508
3509	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3510			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3511
3512	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3513			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3514			update-side primitives, if available.
3515
3516	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3517			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3518			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3519			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3520			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3521			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3522			they are all non-zero.
3523
3524	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3525			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3526
3527	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3528			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3529			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3530			test, hence the "fake".
3531
3532	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3533			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3534			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3535			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3536			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3537			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3538
3539	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3540			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3541
3542	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3543			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3544
3545	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3546			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3547			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3548
3549	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3550			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3551			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3552			during the rcutorture test.
3553
3554	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3555			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3556			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3557
3558	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3559			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3560			warnings, zero to disable.
3561
3562	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3563			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3564
3565	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3566			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3567
3568	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3569			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3570
3571	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3572			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3573			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3574			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3575			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3576
3577	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3578			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3579			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3580			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3581
3582	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3583			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3584
3585	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3586			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3587
3588	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3589			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3590			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3591
3592	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3593			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3594
3595	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3596			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3597
3598	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3599			Enable additional printk() statements.
3600
3601	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3602			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3603
3604	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3605			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3606
3607	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3608			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3609			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3610			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3611			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3612			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3613			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3614
3615	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3616			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3617			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3618			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3619			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3620			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3621			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3622			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3623			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3624
3625	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3626			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3627			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3628			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3629			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3630
3631	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3632			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3633			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3634			to zero.
3635
3636	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3637			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3638
3639	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3640			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3641
3642	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3643			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3644
3645	rdinit=		[KNL]
3646			Format: <full_path>
3647			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3648			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3649
3650	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3651			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3652			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3653			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3654				rdt=cmt,!mba
3655
3656	reboot=		[KNL]
3657			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3658				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3659				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3660				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3661				[[,]f[orce]
3662			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3663			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3664			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3665			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3666					to be used for rebooting.
3667
3668	relax_domain_level=
3669			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3670			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3671
3672	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3673
3674	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3675			Format: nn[KMG]
3676			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3677			address space.
3678
3679	reservelow=	[X86]
3680			Format: nn[K]
3681			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3682			the bottom of the address space.
3683
3684	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3685			during initialization.
3686
3687	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3688			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3689			Format:
3690			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3691
3692	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3693			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3694			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3695			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3696			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3697
3698	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3699			read the resume files
3700
3701	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3702			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3703			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3704
3705	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3706		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3707				present during boot.
3708		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3709		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3710		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3711				(that will set all pages holding image data
3712				during restoration read-only).
3713
3714	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3715
3716	rfkill.default_state=
3717		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3718			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3719		1	Unblocked.
3720
3721	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3722		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3723		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3724			blocked and the previous configuration.
3725		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3726			blocked and everything unblocked.
3727
3728	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3729			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3730
3731	ring3mwait=disable
3732			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3733			CPUs.
3734
3735	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3736
3737	rodata=		[KNL]
3738		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3739		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3740
3741	rockchip.usb_uart
3742			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3743			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3744			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3745			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3746
3747	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3748			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3749
3750	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3751			mount the root filesystem
3752
3753	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3754
3755	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3756
3757	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3758			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3759			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3760
3761	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3762			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3763			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3764			managed by CMA.
3765
3766	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3767
3768	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3769
3770	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3771			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3772		strict
3773			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3774			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3775			which is faster.
3776
3777	sa1100ir	[NET]
3778			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3779
3780	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3781
3782	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3783
3784	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3785			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3786			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3787			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3788
3789	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3790			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3791			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3792			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3793			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3794			1 -- enable.
3795			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3796			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3797
3798	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3799			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3800			security module asking for security registration will be
3801			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3802			as if no module has been chosen.
3803
3804	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3805			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3806			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3807			0 -- disable.
3808			1 -- enable.
3809			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3810			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3811			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3812
3813	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3814			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3815			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3816			0 -- disable.
3817			1 -- enable.
3818			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3819
3820	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3821
3822	shapers=	[NET]
3823			Maximal number of shapers.
3824
3825	simeth=		[IA-64]
3826	simscsi=
3827
3828	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3829
3830	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3831			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3832			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3833			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3834			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3835			layout control by attackers can usually be
3836			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3837			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3838			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3839			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3840			own.
3841			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3842
3843	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3844			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3845			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3846			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3847			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3848
3849	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3850			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3851			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3852			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3853			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3854			last alloc / free. For more information see
3855			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3856
3857	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3858			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3859			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3860			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3861			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3862			directories and files being created under
3863			/sys/kernel/slub.
3864
3865	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3866			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3867			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3868			fragmentation. For more information see
3869			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3870
3871	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3872			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3873			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3874			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3875			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3876			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3877			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3878			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3879
3880	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3881			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3882			lower than slub_max_order.
3883			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3884
3885	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3886			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3887			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3888
3889	smart2=		[HW]
3890			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3891
3892	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3893	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3894	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3895	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3896	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3897	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3898	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3899				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3900				1: Fast pin select (default)
3901				2: ATC IRMode
3902
3903	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3904			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3905			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3906			actual hardware limit.
3907			Format: <integer>
3908			Default: -1 (no limit)
3909
3910	softlockup_panic=
3911			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3912			Format: <integer>
3913
3914			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3915			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3916			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3917			which is the respective build-time switch to that
3918			functionality.
3919
3920	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3921			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3922			backtraces on all cpus.
3923			Format: <integer>
3924
3925	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3926			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3927
3928	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3929	spia_fio_base=
3930	spia_pedr=
3931	spia_peddr=
3932
3933	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3934			Specifies how frequently to check for
3935			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3936			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3937			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3938			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3939			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
3940			are ignored.
3941
3942	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3943			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3944			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3945			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3946			grace period will be considered for automatic
3947			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
3948			expediting.
3949
3950	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
3951			override the default stack gap protection. The value
3952			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3953			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3954			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3955			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3956
3957	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
3958			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3959
3960	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3961			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3962			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3963			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3964			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3965			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3966			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3967
3968	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
3969			Format: <num>
3970			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3971			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3972			as the initial boot-console.
3973			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3974
3975	sti_font=	[HW]
3976			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3977
3978	stifb=		[HW]
3979			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3980
3981	sunrpc.min_resvport=
3982	sunrpc.max_resvport=
3983			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3984			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3985			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3986			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3987			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3988			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3989			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3990			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3991			maximum port values.
3992
3993	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3994			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3995			Limit the number of requests that the server will
3996			process in parallel from a single connection.
3997			The default value is 0 (no limit).
3998
3999	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4000			[NFS]
4001			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4002			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4003			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4004			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4005			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4006			NFS server is running.
4007
4008			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4009				    automatically using heuristics
4010			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4011			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4012			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4013				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4014
4015	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4016	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4017			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4018			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4019			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4020			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4021			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4022			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4023
4024	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4025			[SUSPEND]
4026			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4027			mode before resuming the system (see
4028			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4029			is set. Default value is 5.
4030
4031	swapaccount=[0|1]
4032			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4033			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4034			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4035
4036	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4037			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4038			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4039			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4040			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4041			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4042
4043	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4044
4045	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4046			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4047			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4048			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4049			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4050			in older udev will not work anymore.
4051			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4052			the kernel configuration.
4053
4054	sysrq_always_enabled
4055			[KNL]
4056			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4057			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4058			Useful for debugging.
4059
4060	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4061			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4062			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4063			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4064			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4065			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4066
4067	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4068
4069	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4070			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4071			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4072			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4073			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4074			The system is woken from this state using a
4075			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4076
4077	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4078			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4079
4080	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4081			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4082			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4083
4084	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4085			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4086			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4087
4088	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4089			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4090			critical and hot trip points.
4091
4092	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4093			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4094
4095	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4096			-1: disable all passive trip points
4097			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4098			value
4099
4100	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4101			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4102			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4103			0: no polling (default)
4104
4105	threadirqs	[KNL]
4106			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4107			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4108
4109	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4110			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4111
4112	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4113			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4114			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4115
4116	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4117			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4118			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4119			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4120
4121	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4122			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4123			to the hypervisor.
4124
4125	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4126			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4127			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4128			kernel based on different criteria.
4129
4130	topology=	[S390]
4131			Format: {off | on}
4132			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4133			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4134			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4135			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4136			Default is on.
4137
4138	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4139			Format: {off}
4140			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4141			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4142			LPAR.
4143
4144	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4145
4146	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4147			Format: integer pcr id
4148			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4149			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4150			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4151			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4152			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4153			are saved.
4154
4155	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4156			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4157
4158	trace_event=[event-list]
4159			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4160			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4161			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4162			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4163
4164	trace_options=[option-list]
4165			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4166			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4167			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4168			to echo the option name into
4169
4170			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4171
4172			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4173			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4174
4175			      trace_options=stacktrace
4176
4177			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4178			section.
4179
4180	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4181			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4182			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4183			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4184			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4185			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4186
4187			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4188			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4189			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4190			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4191
4192			** CAUTION **
4193
4194			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4195			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4196			the system to live lock.
4197
4198	traceoff_on_warning
4199			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4200			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4201			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4202			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4203
4204			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4205			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4206			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4207
4208			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4209			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4210
4211	transparent_hugepage=
4212			[KNL]
4213			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4214			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4215			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4216			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4217
4218	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4219			Format: <string>
4220			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4221			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4222			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4223			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4224			virtualized environment.
4225			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4226			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4227			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4228			can add overhead.
4229			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4230			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4231			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4232
4233	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4234			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4235			Format:
4236			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4237			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4238
4239	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4240			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4241			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4242			help "seeing" what's going on.
4243
4244	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4245			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4246
4247	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4248			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4249			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4250			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4251			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4252			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4253			reported either.
4254
4255	unknown_nmi_panic
4256			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4257
4258	usbcore.authorized_default=
4259			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4260			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4261			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4262
4263	usbcore.autosuspend=
4264			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4265			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4266			is the time required before an idle device will be
4267			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4268			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4269
4270	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4271			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4272
4273	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4274			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4275			(default = 65536).
4276
4277	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4278			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4279
4280	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4281			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4282			scheme (default 0 = off).
4283
4284	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4285			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4286			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4287
4288	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4289			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4290			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4291
4292	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4293			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4294                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4295			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4296
4297	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4298
4299	usbhid.mousepoll=
4300			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4301
4302	usbhid.jspoll=
4303			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4304
4305	usb-storage.delay_use=
4306			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4307			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4308
4309	usb-storage.quirks=
4310			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4311			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4312			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4313			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4314			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4315			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4316			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4317				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4318					of sense data);
4319				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4320					bytes of sense data);
4321				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4322					device capacity by one sector);
4323				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4324					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4325				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4326					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4327				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4328					command, uas only);
4329				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4330					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4331				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4332					reported device capacity by one
4333					sector if the number is odd);
4334				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4335					device);
4336				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4337					command, uas only);
4338				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4339					unlock ejectable media);
4340				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4341					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4342				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4343					initial READ(10) command);
4344				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4345					reported by the device);
4346				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4347					by default);
4348				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4349					bogus residue values);
4350				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4351					Logical Unit);
4352				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4353					commands, uas only);
4354				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4355				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4356					medium is write-protected).
4357				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4358					even if the device claims no cache)
4359			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4360
4361	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4362			Format: <int>
4363			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4364				 1 - undefined instruction events
4365				 2 - system calls
4366				 4 - invalid data aborts
4367				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4368				16 - SIGBUS faults
4369			Example: user_debug=31
4370
4371	userpte=
4372			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4373
4374				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4375					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4376					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4377
4378	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4379			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4380
4381			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4382			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4383
4384	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4385			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4386			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4387
4388			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4389			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4390			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4391
4392			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4393			alias for vdso32=0.
4394
4395			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4396			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4397
4398	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4399			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4400
4401	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4402			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4403
4404	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4405			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4406			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4407			level and then send out the event to user space through
4408			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4409			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4410			brightness level.
4411			default: 1
4412
4413	virtio_mmio.device=
4414			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4415
4416				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4417			where:
4418				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4419						like K, M and G)
4420				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4421				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4422						request_irq())
4423				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4424			example:
4425				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4426
4427			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4428
4429	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4430			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4431			Documentation/svga.txt.
4432			Use vga=ask for menu.
4433			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4434			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4435
4436	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4437			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4438			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4439			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4440			mapped kernel RAM.
4441
4442	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4443			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4444			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4445
4446	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4447			Format: <command>
4448
4449	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4450			Format: <command>
4451
4452	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4453			Format: <command>
4454
4455	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4456			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4457			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4458			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4459			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4460			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4461			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4462
4463			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4464			            emulated reasonably safely.
4465
4466			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4467			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4468			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4469			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4470			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4471
4472			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4473			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4474			            might break your system.
4475
4476	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4477			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4478			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4479
4480	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4481			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4482			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4483			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4484
4485	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4486			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4487			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4488			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4489			ranging from 0-255.
4490
4491	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4492			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4493			Change the default green palette of the console.
4494			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4495			ranging from 0-255.
4496
4497	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4498			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4499			Change the default red palette of the console.
4500			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4501			ranging from 0-255.
4502
4503	vt.default_utf8=
4504			[VT]
4505			Format=<0|1>
4506			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4507			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4508			newly opened terminals.
4509
4510	vt.global_cursor_default=
4511			[VT]
4512			Format=<-1|0|1>
4513			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4514			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4515			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4516			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4517			cursors, 1 will display them.
4518
4519	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4520			Default: 2 = green.
4521
4522	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4523			Default: 3 = cyan.
4524
4525	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4526			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4527			or other driver-specific files in the
4528			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4529
4530	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4531			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4532			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4533			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4534			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4535			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4536			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4537			corresponding sysfs file.
4538
4539	workqueue.disable_numa
4540			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4541			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4542			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4543			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4544			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4545			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4546			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4547
4548	workqueue.power_efficient
4549			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4550			they show better performance thanks to cache
4551			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4552			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4553
4554			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4555			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4556			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4557			power usage at the cost of small performance
4558			overhead.
4559
4560			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4561			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4562
4563	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4564			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4565			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4566			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4567			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4568			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4569			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4570			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4571			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4572			impacted.
4573
4574	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4575			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4576			supporting x2apic.
4577
4578	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4579			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4580			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4581			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4582			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4583
4584	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4585			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4586			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4587			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4588			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4589			domains.
4590
4591	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4592			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4593			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4594			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4595			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4596			nics -- unplug network devices
4597			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4598			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4599				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4600				the unplug protocol
4601			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4602
4603	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4604			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4605			optimizations.
4606
4607	xen_nopv	[X86]
4608			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4609			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4610
4611	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4612			Format:
4613			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4614