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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
482			no delay (0).
483			Format: integer
484
485	bootconfig	[KNL]
486			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
487			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
488
489			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
490
491	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
492	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
493			kernel args too.
494	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
495	bttv.tuner=
496
497	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
498			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
499			at a time.
500
501	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
502
503	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
504			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
505			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
506			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
507			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
508			This option provides an override for these situations.
509
510	carrier_timeout=
511			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
512			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
513			it waits 120 seconds.
514
515	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
516			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
517			trust validation.
518			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
519
520	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
521			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
522			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
523			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
524			others).
525
526	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528
529	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
530			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
531			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
532			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
533			  a single hierarchy
534			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
535			  subsystem
536			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
537			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
538			  created
539			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
540			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
541			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
542			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
543			stall information accounting feature
544
545	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
546			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
547			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
548			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
549			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
550			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
551			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
552			all v1 hierarchies.
553
554	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
555			Format: <string>
556			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
557			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
558
559	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
560			Format: { "0" | "1" }
561			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
562			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
563				any implied execute protection).
564			1 -- check protection requested by application.
565			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
566			Value can be changed at runtime via
567				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
568			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
569
570	cio_ignore=	[S390]
571			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
572
573	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
574			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
575			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
576			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
577			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
578			ones should be.
579			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
580			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
581			instability issue. However, not all features have names
582			in /proc/cpuinfo.
583			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
584			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
585			or using the feature without checking anything
586			will still see it. This just prevents it from
587			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
588			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
589			some critical bits.
590
591	clk_ignore_unused
592			[CLK]
593			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
594			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
595			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
596			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
597			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
598			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
599			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
600			platform with proper driver support.  For more
601			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
602
603	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
604			[Deprecated]
605			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
606			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
607			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
608			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
609
610	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
611			Format: <string>
612			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
613			with the name specified.
614			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
615			the platform:
616			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
617			[ACPI] acpi_pm
618			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
619				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
620			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
621				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
622			[MIPS] MIPS
623			[PARISC] cr16
624			[S390] tod
625			[SH] SuperH
626			[SPARC64] tick
627			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
628
629	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
630			[ARM,ARM64]
631			Format: <bool>
632			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
633			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
634			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
635			systems.
636
637	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
638			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
639			external delays before the clock will be marked
640			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
641			three attempts to read the clock under test.
642
643	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
644			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
645			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
646			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
647			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
648			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
649			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
650			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
651			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
652
653	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
654			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
655			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
656			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
657			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
658
659	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
660			[KNL,CMA]
661			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
662			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
663			placement constraint by the physical address range of
664			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
665			altogether. For more information, see
666			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
667
668	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
669			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
670			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
671			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
672			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
673			specificed, the default value is 0.
674			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
675			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
676			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
677			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
678
679	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
680			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
681			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
682			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
683			a hypervisor.
684			Default: yes
685
686	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
687			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
688			allocations, by default set to 256K.
689
690	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
691			Format:
692			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
693
694	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
695			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
696
697	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
698			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
699			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
700
701	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
702	conmode=
703
704	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
705
706		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
707
708		ttyS<n>[,options]
709		ttyUSB0[,options]
710			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
711			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
712			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
713			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
714			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
715
716			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
717			information.  See
718			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
719			alternative.
720
721		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
722		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
723		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
724		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
725		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
726			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
727			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
728			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
729			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
730			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
731			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
732			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
733			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
734			the h/w is not re-initialized.
735
736		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
737			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
738
739		{ null | "" }
740			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
741			console messages discarded.
742			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
743			kernel command line.
744
745		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
746		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
747			console=brl,ttyS0
748		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
749
750	console_msg_format=
751			[KNL] Change console messages format
752		default
753			By default we print messages on consoles in
754			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
755			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
756			`printk_time' param).
757		syslog
758			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
759			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
760			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
761			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
762			from /proc/kmsg.
763
764	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
765			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
766			Defaults to 0.
767
768	coredump_filter=
769			[KNL] Change the default value for
770			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
771			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
772
773	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
774			[ARM,ARM64]
775			Format: <bool>
776			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
777			0: default value, disable debugging
778			1: enable debugging at boot time
779
780	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
781			Format:
782			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
783
784	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
785			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
786			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
787			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
788			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
789			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
790			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
791			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
792			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
793			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
794			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
795			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
796			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
797
798	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
799			disable the cpuidle sub-system
800
801	cpuidle.governor=
802			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
803
804	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
805			disable the cpufreq sub-system
806
807	cpufreq.default_governor=
808			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
809			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
810			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
811
812	cpu_init_udelay=N
813			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
814			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
815			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
816			Default: 10000
817
818	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
819			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
820			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
821			succeeds in any situation.
822			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
823			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
824			kernel more unstable.
825
826	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
827			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
828			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
829			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
830			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
831			is selected automatically.
832			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
833			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
834			hasn't been specified.
835			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
836
837	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
838			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
839			in the running system. The syntax of range is
840			start-[end] where start and end are both
841			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
842			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
843
844	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
845			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
846			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
847			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
848			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
849			available.
850			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
851	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
852			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
853			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
854			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
855			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
856			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
857			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
858			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
859			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
860			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
861			for second kernel instead.
862			0: to disable low allocation.
863			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
864			or memory reserved is below 4G.
865
866			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
867			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
868			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
869			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
870			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
871
872	cryptomgr.notests
873			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
874
875	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
876			Format: <dma>
877
878	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
879			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
880
881	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
882			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
883			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
884			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
885			to resolve the hang situation.
886			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
887			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
888			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
889			     but more data)
890
891	dasd=		[HW,NET]
892			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
893
894	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
895			(one device per port)
896			Format: <port#>,<type>
897			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
898
899	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
900
901	debug_boot_weak_hash
902			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
903			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
904			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
905			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
906			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
907			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
908
909	debug_locks_verbose=
910			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
911			Format: <int>
912			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
913			self-tests.
914			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
915			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
916			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
917			useful to lockdep developers.
918
919	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
920
921	no_debug_objects
922			[KNL] Disable object debugging
923
924	debug_guardpage_minorder=
925			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
926			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
927			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
928			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
929			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
930			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
931			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
932			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
933			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
934			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
935			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
936			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
937			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
938			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
939			bypassed) which are not detectable by
940			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
941			tracking down these problems.
942
943	debug_pagealloc=
944			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
945			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
946			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
947			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
948			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
949			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
950			on: enable the feature
951
952	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
953			and debugfs internal clients.
954			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
955			on: 	All functions are enabled.
956			no-mount:
957				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
958			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
959				its content. There is nothing to mount.
960			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
961			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
962				or directories within debugfs.
963				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
964				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
965			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
966
967	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
968
969	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
970			Format: <area>[,<node>]
971			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
972
973	default_hugepagesz=
974			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
975			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
976			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
977			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
978			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
979			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
980			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
981			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
982			Format: size[KMG]
983
984	deferred_probe_timeout=
985			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
986			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
987			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
988			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
989			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
990			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
991			successful driver registration. This option will also
992			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
993			retrying.
994
995	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
996
997	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
998			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
999			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1000			hardware.
1001
1002	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1003			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1004			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1005			blacklisted features.
1006
1007	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1008			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1009			(disabled by default).
1010
1011	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1012			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1013			capability is set.
1014
1015	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1016			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1017
1018	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1019			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1020
1021	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1022			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1023			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1024			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1025			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1026			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1027			          only (compression on level 1)
1028			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1029			          only (decompression)
1030			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1031			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1032
1033	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1034			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1035
1036	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1037			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1038			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1039			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1040			miss to occur.
1041
1042	stress_slb	[PPC]
1043			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1044			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1045			on kernel addresses.
1046
1047	disable=	[IPV6]
1048			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1049
1050	disable_radix	[PPC]
1051			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1052
1053	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1054			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1055			invalidate.
1056
1057	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1058			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1059			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1060
1061	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1062			Format: <int>
1063			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1064			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1065			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1066			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1067			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1068			INIT from AP to BSP.
1069
1070	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1071			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1072			to workaround buggy firmware.
1073
1074	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1075			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1076
1077	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1078			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1079			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1080			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1081
1082	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1083			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1084			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1085			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1086			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1087
1088	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1089			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1090			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1091
1092	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1093
1094	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1095			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1096
1097	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1098			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1099			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1100			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1101			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1102			architectural default is too low.
1103
1104	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1105			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1106			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1107			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1108			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1109			driver later using sysfs.
1110
1111	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1112			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1113			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1114			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1115			match the *.
1116			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1117
1118	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1119			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1120			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1121			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1122			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1123			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1124			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1125			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1126			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1127			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1128			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1129			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1130			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1131			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1132			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1133			data set with no connector name will be used for
1134			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1135
1136	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1137
1138	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1139			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1140			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1141			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1142			exists).
1143			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1144			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1145			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1146
1147	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1148			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1149			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1150			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1151
1152	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1153	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1154			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1155			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1156			for details.
1157
1158	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1159			in some Intel CPUs.
1160
1161	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1162			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1163
1164	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1165			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1166			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1167			which are not unmapped.
1168
1169	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1170
1171			When used with no options, the early console is
1172			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1173			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1174			the platform.
1175
1176		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1177			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1178			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1179			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1180			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1181			configured.
1182
1183		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1184		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1185		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1186		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1187		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1188			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1189			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1190			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1191			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1192			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1193			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1194			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1195			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1196
1197		pl011,<addr>
1198		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1199			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1200			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1201			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1202			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1203			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1204			the device registers.
1205
1206		liteuart,<addr>
1207			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1208			specified address. The serial port must already be
1209			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1210
1211		meson,<addr>
1212			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1213			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1214			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1215			supported.
1216
1217		msm_serial,<addr>
1218			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1219			port at the specified address. The serial port
1220			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1221			yet supported.
1222
1223		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1225			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1226			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1227			yet supported.
1228
1229		owl,<addr>
1230			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1231			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1232			specified address. The serial port must already be
1233			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1234
1235		rda,<addr>
1236			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1237			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1238			specified address. The serial port must already be
1239			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1240
1241		sbi
1242			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1243			console.
1244
1245		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1246
1247		s3c2410,<addr>
1248		s3c2412,<addr>
1249		s3c2440,<addr>
1250		s3c6400,<addr>
1251		s5pv210,<addr>
1252		exynos4210,<addr>
1253			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1254			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1255			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1256			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1257			Options are not yet supported.
1258
1259		lantiq,<addr>
1260			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1261			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1262			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1263			yet supported.
1264
1265		lpuart,<addr>
1266		lpuart32,<addr>
1267			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1268			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1269			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1270			port must already be setup and configured.
1271
1272		ec_imx21,<addr>
1273		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1274			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1275			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1276			must already be setup and configured.
1277
1278		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1279			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1280			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1281			address. The serial port must already be setup
1282			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		qcom_geni,<addr>
1285			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1286			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1287			specified address. The serial port must already be
1288			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1289
1290		efifb,[options]
1291			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1292			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1293			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1294			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1295			mapped with the correct attributes.
1296
1297		linflex,<addr>
1298			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1299			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1300			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1301			already be setup and configured.
1302
1303	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1304			earlyprintk=vga
1305			earlyprintk=sclp
1306			earlyprintk=xen
1307			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1308			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1309			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1310			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1311			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1312			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1313
1314			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1315			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1316			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1317
1318			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1319			takes over.
1320
1321			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1322			be used at a time.
1323
1324			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1325			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1326			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1327			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1328				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1329			You can find the port for a given device in
1330			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1331				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1332
1333			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1334			very good.
1335
1336			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1337			the real console.
1338
1339			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1340
1341			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1342
1343			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1344			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1345			UART class.
1346
1347	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1348			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1349			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1350			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1351			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1352			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1353			default: on.
1354
1355	edd=		[EDD]
1356			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1357
1358	efi=		[EFI]
1359			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1360				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1361				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1362			debug: enable misc debug output.
1363			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1364			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1365			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1366			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1367			firmware implementations.
1368			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1369			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1370			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1371			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1372			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1373			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1374			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1375			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1376			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1377			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1378
1379	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1380			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1381			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1382			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1383			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1384
1385	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1386			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1387			updating original EFI memory map.
1388			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1389			from ss to ss+nn.
1390
1391			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1392			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1393			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1394			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1395
1396			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1397			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1398			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1399
1400			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1401			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1402			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1403			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1404			"soft reserved".
1405
1406	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1407			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1408			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1409			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1410			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1411
1412
1413	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1414			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1415
1416	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1417			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1418
1419			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1420			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1421
1422			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1423			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1424			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1425			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1426
1427	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1428			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1429			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1430
1431	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1432			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1433			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1434			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1435			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1436
1437	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1438			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1439			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1440			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1441
1442	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1443			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1444			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1445			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1446			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1447
1448	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1449			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1450			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1451			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1452			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1453			Default value is 0.
1454			Value can be changed at runtime via
1455			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1456
1457	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1458			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1459			support.
1460
1461	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1462			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1463			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1464
1465	evm=		[EVM]
1466			Format: { "fix" }
1467			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1468			current integrity status.
1469
1470	failslab=
1471	fail_usercopy=
1472	fail_page_alloc=
1473	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1474			General fault injection mechanism.
1475			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1476			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1477
1478	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1479			Format: { initns | none }
1480			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1481			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1482
1483	floppy=		[HW]
1484			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1485
1486	force_pal_cache_flush
1487			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1488			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1489			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1490			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1491
1492	forcepae	[X86-32]
1493			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1494			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1495			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1496			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1497			and may cause unknown problems.
1498
1499	ftrace=[tracer]
1500			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1501			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1502			boot debugging.
1503
1504	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1505			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1506			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1507			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1508			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1509			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1510			start up functionality.
1511
1512	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1513			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1514			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1515			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1516			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1517			oops.
1518
1519	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1520			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1521			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1522			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1523			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1524			tracing directory.
1525
1526	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1527			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1528			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1529			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1530			tracing directory.
1531
1532	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1533			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1534			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1535			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1536			that can be changed at run time by the
1537			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1538
1539	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1540			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1541			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1542			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1543			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1544
1545	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1546			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1547			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1548			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1549			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1550
1551	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1552			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1553			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1554			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1555			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1556			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1557			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1558			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1559			suppliers).
1560			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1561			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1562			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1563				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1564				up (sync_state() calls).
1565			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1566				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1567			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1568
1569	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1570			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1571			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1572			Format: <bool>
1573
1574	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1575			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1576			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1577			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1578			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1579
1580	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1581
1582	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1583			Format: off | on
1584			default: on
1585
1586	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1587			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1588			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1589			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1590			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1591
1592	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1593			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1594			android emulator
1595
1596	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1597			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1598			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1599	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1600			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1601
1602	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1603			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1604			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1605			GPT to be used instead.
1606
1607	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1608			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1609			Format: 0 | 1
1610			Default: 0
1611	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1612			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1613			Format: 0 | 1
1614			Default: 0
1615	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1616			Format: 0 | 1
1617			Default: 0
1618	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1619			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1620			Default: 1024
1621	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1622			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1623			Default: 1024
1624
1625	hardened_usercopy=
1626			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1627			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1628			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1629			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1630			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1631			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1632			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1633		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1634		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1635
1636	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1637			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1638			backtraces on all cpus.
1639			Format: 0 | 1
1640
1641	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1642			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1643			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1644			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1645
1646	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1647
1648	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1649			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1650
1651	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1652			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1653			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1654			logic will be disabled.
1655
1656	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1657		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1658				present during boot.
1659		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1660		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1661		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1662				(that will set all pages holding image data
1663				during restoration read-only).
1664
1665	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1666			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1667			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1668			size on bigger boxes.
1669
1670	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1671			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1672			Default: "on"
1673
1674	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1675
1676	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1677			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1678				verbose }
1679			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1680			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1681				VIA, nVidia)
1682			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1683
1684	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1685			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1686
1687	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1688			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1689			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1690			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1691			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1692			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1693			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1694			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1695			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1696				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1697
1698	hugepagesz=
1699			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1700			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1701			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1702			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1703			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1704			architecture dependent.  See also
1705			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1706			Format: size[KMG]
1707
1708	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1709			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1710			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1711			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1712				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1713
1714			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1715			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1716			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1717
1718	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1719			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1720			enabled.
1721			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1722			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1723			Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) }
1724
1725			[oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature
1726			[oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature
1727
1728			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1729			the default is on.
1730
1731			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1732			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1733			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1734			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1735			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1736
1737	hung_task_panic=
1738			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1739			Format: 0 | 1
1740
1741			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1742			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1743			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1744			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1745			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1746
1747	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1748				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1749	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1750				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1751				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1752
1753	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1754				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1755				      guest on lock contention.
1756
1757	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1758			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1759			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1760			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1761			the real console.
1762
1763	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1764				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1765				registered from board initialization code.
1766				Format:
1767				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1768
1769	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1770	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1771			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1772			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1773			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1774	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1775	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1776			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1777			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1778	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1779	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1780	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1781			     for the AUX port
1782	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1783			     controller
1784	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1785			     controllers
1786	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1787	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1788			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1789			     transitions, or never reset
1790			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1791			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1792			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1793			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1794			architectures force reset to be always executed
1795	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1796	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1797	i8042.probe_defer
1798			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1799
1800	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1801
1802	i915.invert_brightness=
1803			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1804			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1805			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1806			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1807			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1808			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1809			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1810			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1811			value switches the backlight off.
1812			-1 -- never invert brightness
1813			 0 -- machine default
1814			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1815
1816	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1817			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1818
1819
1820	idle=		[X86]
1821			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1822			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1823			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1824			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1825			Not recommended.
1826			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1827			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1828			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1829
1830	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1831			Format: <bool>
1832			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1833			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1834			true (1).
1835
1836	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1837			Format: <bool>
1838			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1839			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1840
1841	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1842			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1843			Default: strict
1844
1845			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1846			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1847			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1848			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1849			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1850			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1851			encoding mode.
1852
1853			Available settings are as follows:
1854			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1855				supported by the FPU
1856			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1857				by the FPU
1858			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1859				by the FPU
1860			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1861				supported by the FPU
1862
1863			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1864			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1865			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1866			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1867			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1868			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1869			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1870			MIPS64 CPUs.
1871
1872			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1873			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1874			except where unsupported by hardware.
1875
1876	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1877			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1878			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1879			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1880			could change it dynamically, usually by
1881			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1882
1883	ignore_rlimit_data
1884			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1885			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1886			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1887
1888	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1889			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1890
1891	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1892			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1893			default: "enforce"
1894
1895	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1896			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1897			owned by uid=0.
1898
1899	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1900			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1901			measurements, instead of host native format.
1902
1903	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1904			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1905				   | sha512 | ... }
1906			default: "sha1"
1907
1908			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1909			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1910
1911	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1912			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1913			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1914				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1915
1916			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1917			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1918			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1919			uid=0.
1920
1921			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1922			all files owned by root.
1923
1924			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1925			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1926			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1927
1928			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1929			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1930			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1931			flag.
1932
1933			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1934			critical data.
1935
1936	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1937			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1938			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1939			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1940			opened for read by uid=0.
1941
1942	ima_template=	[IMA]
1943			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1944			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1945				   "ima-sigv2" }
1946			Default: "ima-ng"
1947
1948	ima_template_fmt=
1949			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1950			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1951
1952	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1953			Format: <min_file_size>
1954			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1955			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1956
1957			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1958			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1959			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1960
1961	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1962			Format: <bufsize>
1963			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1964
1965			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1966			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1967			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1968
1969	init=		[KNL]
1970			Format: <full_path>
1971			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1972			process.
1973
1974	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1975			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1976			startup.
1977
1978	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1979			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1980			modules and initcalls.
1981
1982	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1983			Format: <bool>
1984			Default: 1
1985			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1986			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1987			with devices being probed and
1988			initialized. This should normally just work,
1989			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1990			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1991			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1992			late_ initcalls.
1993
1994	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1995
1996	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1997			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1998			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1999			setting.
2000			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2001			Default is 0, 0
2002
2003	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2004			zeroes.
2005			Format: 0 | 1
2006			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2007
2008	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2009			Format: 0 | 1
2010			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2011
2012	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2013			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2014			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2015			override in debugfs after boot.
2016
2017	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2018			Format: <irq>
2019
2020	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2021
2022	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2023			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2024			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2025			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2026
2027	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2028		on
2029			Enable intel iommu driver.
2030		off
2031			Disable intel iommu driver.
2032		igfx_off [Default Off]
2033			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2034			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2035			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2036			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2037			DMA.
2038		strict [Default Off]
2039			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2040		sp_off [Default Off]
2041			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2042			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2043			not be supported.
2044		sm_on
2045			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2046			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2047			translation.
2048		sm_off
2049			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2050		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2051			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2052			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2053			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2054			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2055			mapping is enabled.
2056			Note that using this option lowers the security
2057			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2058			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2059
2060	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2061			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2062			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2063
2064	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2065			disable
2066			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2067			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2068			passive
2069			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2070			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2071			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2072			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2073			  feature.
2074			force
2075			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2076			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2077			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2078			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2079			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2080			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2081			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2082			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2083			no_hwp
2084			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2085			  if available.
2086			hwp_only
2087			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2088			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2089			support_acpi_ppc
2090			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2091			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2092			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2093			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2094			per_cpu_perf_limits
2095			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2096			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2097
2098	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2099			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2100			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2101			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2102			no_x2apic_optout
2103				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2104			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2105
2106	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2107		strict	regions from userspace.
2108		relaxed
2109
2110	iommu=		[X86]
2111		off
2112		force
2113		noforce
2114		biomerge
2115		panic
2116		nopanic
2117		merge
2118		nomerge
2119		soft
2120		pt		[X86]
2121		nopt		[X86]
2122		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2123			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2124
2125	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2126			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2127			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2128			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2129			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2130			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2131			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2132
2133	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2134			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2135			0 - Lazy mode.
2136			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2137			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2138			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2139			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2140			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2141			1 - Strict mode.
2142			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2143			  synchronously.
2144			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2145			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2146			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2147
2148	iommu.passthrough=
2149			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2150			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2151			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2152			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2153			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2154
2155	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2156			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2157			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2158
2159	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2160		0x80
2161			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2162		0xed
2163			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2164		udelay
2165			Simple two microseconds delay
2166		none
2167			No delay
2168
2169	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2170			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2171
2172	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2173			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2174
2175	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2176			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2177
2178	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2179			[ARM, ARM64]
2180			Format: <bool>
2181			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2182			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2183			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2184
2185	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2186			[ARM, ARM64]
2187			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2188			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2189			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2190			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2191			LPIs.
2192
2193	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2194			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2195			requires the kernel to be built with
2196			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2197
2198	irqfixup	[HW]
2199			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2200			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2201			firmware running.
2202
2203	irqpoll		[HW]
2204			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2205			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2206			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2207			firmware running.
2208
2209	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2210			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2211
2212	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2213			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2214			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2215
2216			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2217			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2218
2219			nohz
2220			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2221
2222			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2223			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2224			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2225			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2226			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2227
2228			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2229			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2230			  be configured manually after bootup.
2231
2232			domain
2233			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2234			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2235			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2236			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2237			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2238			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2239			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2240			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2241
2242			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2243			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2244			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2245			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2246
2247			managed_irq
2248
2249			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2250			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2251			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2252			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2253			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2254
2255			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2256			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2257			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2258			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2259			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2260			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2261			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2262
2263			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2264			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2265			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2266			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2267			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2268			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2269			  queues.
2270
2271			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2272
2273	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2274
2275	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2276			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2277			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2278			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2279			For example:
2280			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2281			  write the parameter as:
2282				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2283			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2284			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2285				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2286
2287	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2288			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2289			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2290			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2291			For example:
2292			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2293			  write the parameter as:
2294				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2295			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2296			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2297				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2298
2299	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2300			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2301			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2302
2303			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2304			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2305			write the parameter as:
2306				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2307
2308			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2309			For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2310				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2311
2312	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2313			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2314
2315	nokaslr		[KNL]
2316			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2317			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2318			Layout Randomization).
2319
2320	kasan_multi_shot
2321			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2322			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2323			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2324			invalid access.
2325
2326	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2327
2328	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2329			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2330			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2331			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2332			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2333			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2334			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2335			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2336			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2337			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2338
2339			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2340			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2341			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2342			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2343			zone if it does not.
2344
2345			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2346			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2347			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2348			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2349			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2350			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2351			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2352
2353	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2354			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2355			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2356			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2357			optional and is the number seconds in between
2358			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2359			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2360			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2361			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2362			the kernel debugger.
2363
2364	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2365			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2366			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2367			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2368			 keyboard only format: kbd
2369			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2370			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2371			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2372			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2373
2374	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2375			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2376			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2377			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2378			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2379			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2380			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2381
2382			The name of the early console should be specified
2383			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2384			the early console might be different than the tty
2385			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2386			blank and the first boot console that implements
2387			read() will be picked.
2388
2389	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2390			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2391
2392	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2393			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2394			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2395
2396	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2397			Valid arguments: on, off
2398			Default: on
2399			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2400			the default is off.
2401
2402	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2403			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2404			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2405			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2406			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2407			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2408			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2409
2410			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2411
2412			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2413			Boot Parameter" section.
2414
2415	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2416			and kernel address spaces.
2417			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2418			0: force disabled
2419			1: force enabled
2420
2421	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2422			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2423
2424	kvm.eager_page_split=
2425			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2426			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2427			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2428			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2429			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2430			required to split huge pages lazily.
2431
2432			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2433			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2434			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2435			still be used for reads.
2436
2437			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2438			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2439			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2440			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2441			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2442			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2443			cleared.
2444
2445			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2446
2447			Default is Y (on).
2448
2449	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2450				   Default is false (don't support).
2451
2452	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2453			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2454			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2455			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2456			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2457			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2458				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2459
2460			Default is 'auto'.
2461
2462			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2463			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2464
2465	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2466			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2467			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2468			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2469			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2470
2471	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2472			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2473			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2474			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2475			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2476			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2477
2478	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2479			Default is 1 (enabled)
2480
2481	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2482			for all guests.
2483			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2484
2485	kvm-arm.mode=
2486			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2487
2488			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2489
2490			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2491			      protected guests.
2492
2493			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2494				   state is kept private from the host.
2495
2496			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2497			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2498			for the host.
2499
2500	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2501			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2502			system registers
2503
2504	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2505			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2506			system registers
2507
2508	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2509			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2510			system registers
2511
2512	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2513			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2514			LPIs.
2515
2516	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2517			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2518			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2519			allocation.
2520			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2521			Format: <integer>
2522			Default: 5
2523
2524	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2525			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2526			Default is 1 (enabled)
2527
2528	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2529			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2530			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2531			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2532			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2533			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2534			Default is 1 (enabled)
2535
2536	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2537			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2538			Default is 1 (enabled)
2539
2540	kvm-intel.nested=
2541			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2542			Default is 0 (disabled)
2543
2544	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2545			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2546			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2547			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2548
2549	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2550			CVE-2018-3620.
2551
2552			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2553
2554			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2555			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2556				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2557			never:	Disables the mitigation
2558
2559			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2560
2561	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2562			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2563			Default is 1 (enabled)
2564
2565	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2566			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2567
2568			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2569			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2570			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2571
2572			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2573			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2574			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2575			not have direct access.
2576
2577			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2578			options are:
2579
2580			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2581
2582	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2583			      affected CPUs
2584
2585			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2586			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2587
2588			full
2589				Provides all available mitigations for the
2590				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2591				enables all mitigations in the
2592				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2593
2594				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2595				sysfs interface is still possible after
2596				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2597				when the first VM is started in a
2598				potentially insecure configuration,
2599				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2600
2601			full,force
2602				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2603				flush runtime control. Implies the
2604				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2605				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2606
2607			flush
2608				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2609				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2610				L1D flush.
2611
2612				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2613				sysfs interface is still possible after
2614				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2615				when the first VM is started in a
2616				potentially insecure configuration,
2617				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2618
2619			flush,nosmt
2620
2621				Disables SMT and enables the default
2622				hypervisor mitigation.
2623
2624				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2625				sysfs interface is still possible after
2626				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2627				when the first VM is started in a
2628				potentially insecure configuration,
2629				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2630
2631			flush,nowarn
2632				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2633				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2634				insecure configuration.
2635
2636			off
2637				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2638				emit any warnings.
2639				It also drops the swap size and available
2640				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2641				bare metal.
2642
2643			Default is 'flush'.
2644
2645			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2646
2647	l2cr=		[PPC]
2648
2649	l3cr=		[PPC]
2650
2651	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2652			disabled it.
2653
2654	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2655			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2656			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2657			Format: notscdeadline
2658
2659	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2660			in C2 power state.
2661
2662	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2663			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2664			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2665			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2666			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2667			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2668			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2669
2670	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2671			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2672			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2673
2674	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2675			when set.
2676			Format: <int>
2677
2678	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2679			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2680			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2681			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2682			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2683			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2684			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2685			to all ports, links and devices.
2686
2687			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2688			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2689			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2690			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2691			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2692			host link and device attached to it.
2693
2694			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2695			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2696			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2697			The following configurations can be forced.
2698
2699			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2700			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2701
2702			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2703
2704			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2705			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2706			  allowed.
2707
2708			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2709			  resets.
2710
2711			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2712			  link recovery.
2713
2714			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2715			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2716			  detection.
2717
2718			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2719
2720			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2721
2722			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2723
2724			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2725
2726			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2727
2728			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2729
2730			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2731
2732			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2733
2734			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2735			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2736
2737			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2738			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2739
2740			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2741			  identify device data log.
2742
2743			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2744			  purpose log directory.
2745
2746			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2747
2748			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2749			  1024 sectors.
2750
2751			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2752			  65535 sectors.
2753
2754			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2755
2756			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2757			  should be skipped.
2758
2759			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2760
2761			* disable: Disable this device.
2762
2763			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2764			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2765
2766	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2767
2768	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2769			Format: <integer>
2770
2771	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2772			Format: <integer>
2773
2774	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2775			Format: <integer>
2776
2777	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2778			Format: <integer>
2779
2780	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2781			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2782			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2783			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2784			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2785			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2786			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2787			are also disabled.
2788
2789	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2790			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2791			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2792			number of online CPUs.
2793
2794	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2795			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2796
2797	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2798			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2799
2800	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2801			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2802			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2803
2804	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2805			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2806			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2807			mode during the locktorture test.
2808
2809	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2810			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2811			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2812
2813	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2814			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2815
2816	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2817			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2818			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2819			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2820			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2821			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2822
2823	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2824			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2825
2826	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2827			Enable additional printk() statements.
2828
2829	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2830			Format: <irq>
2831
2832	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2833			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2834			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2835			loglevels are defined as follows:
2836
2837			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2838			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2839			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2840			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2841			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2842			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2843			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2844			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2845
2846	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2847			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2848			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2849			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2850			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2851			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2852			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2853
2854	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2855			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2856			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2857			kernel boot problems.
2858
2859	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2860	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2861	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2862	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2863				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2864				attached printers to be reset. Using
2865				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2866				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2867				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2868				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2869				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2870				port specification list means that device IDs
2871				from each port should be examined, to see if
2872				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2873				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2874				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2875
2876	lpj=n		[KNL]
2877			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2878			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2879			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2880			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2881			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2882			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2883			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2884			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2885			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2886			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2887			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2888			hardware.
2889
2890	ltpc=		[NET]
2891			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2892
2893	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2894
2895	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2896			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2897			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2898
2899	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2900			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2901			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2902
2903	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2904			different yeeloong laptops.
2905			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2906
2907	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2908			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2909
2910	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2911			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2912			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2913			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2914			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2915			only takes effect during system bootup.
2916			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2917			which also disables the IO APIC.
2918
2919	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2920	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2921			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2922			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2923			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2924			/dev/loop-control interface.
2925
2926	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2927
2928	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2929
2930	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2931			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2932
2933	mdacon=		[MDA]
2934			Format: <first>,<last>
2935			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2936
2937	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2938			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2939			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2940
2941			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2942			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2943			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2944
2945			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2946			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2947			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2948			not have direct access.
2949
2950			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2951			options are:
2952
2953			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2954			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2955				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2956			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2957
2958			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2959			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2960			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2961			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2962			too.
2963
2964			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2965			mds=full.
2966
2967			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2968
2969	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2970			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2971
2972	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2973			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2974
2975			1 for test;
2976			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2977			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2978			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2979			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2980
2981			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2982			high memory is not affected.
2983
2984			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2985			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
2986
2987			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2988			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2989			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2990			belonging to unused RAM.
2991
2992			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2993			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2994			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2995
2996	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2997			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2998			firmware.
2999			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3000			ss[KMG].
3001			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3002			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3003
3004	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3005			memory.
3006
3007	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3008
3009	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3010			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3011			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3012
3013	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3014			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3015			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3016			set according to the
3017			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3018			option.
3019			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3020
3021	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3022			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3023			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3024			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3025			option description.
3026
3027	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3028			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3029			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3030			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3031			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3032			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3033			comma delimited.
3034			Example:
3035				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3036
3037	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3038			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3039			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3040
3041	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3042			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3043			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3044			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3045			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3046			         or
3047			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3048			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3049			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3050			will be eaten.
3051
3052	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3053			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3054			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3055			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3056			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3057
3058	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3059			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3060			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3061			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3062			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3063			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3064			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3065			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3066
3067	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3068			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3069			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3070			Setting this option will scan the memory
3071			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3072			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3073			from using the memory being corrupted.
3074			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3075			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3076			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3077			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3078
3079	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3080			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3081			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3082			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3083			corruption in more or less memory.
3084
3085	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3086			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3087			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3088			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3089
3090	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3091			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3092			Format: {on | off (default)}
3093			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3094			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3095			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3096			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3097			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3098			lot of memory without requiring additional
3099			memory to do so.
3100			This feature is disabled by default because it
3101			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3102			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3103			memory blocks).
3104			The state of the flag can be read in
3105			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3106			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3107			the feature is not effective.
3108
3109	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3110			Format: <integer>
3111			default : 0 <disable>
3112			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3113			performed. Each pass selects another test
3114			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3115			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3116			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3117			regions that are detected.
3118
3119	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3120			Valid arguments: on, off
3121			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3122			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3123			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3124			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3125			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3126
3127			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3128			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3129
3130	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3131			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3132			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3133			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3134			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3135
3136	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3137			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3138
3139	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3140			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3141			platforms.
3142
3143	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3144			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3145			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3146			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3147
3148	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3149
3150	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3151			physical address is ignored.
3152
3153	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3154			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3155			Default: "0tb"
3156			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3157			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3158			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3159			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3160			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3161			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3162			unconfigured.
3163			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3164			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3165			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3166			VGA shield.
3167			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3168			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3169			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3170			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3171			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3172			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3173
3174	mitigations=
3175			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3176			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3177			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3178			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3179
3180			off
3181				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3182				improves system performance, but it may also
3183				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3184				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3185					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3186					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3187					       nobp=0 [S390]
3188					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3189					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3190					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3191					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3192					       l1tf=off [X86]
3193					       mds=off [X86]
3194					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3195					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3196					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3197					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3198					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3199					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3200					       retbleed=off [X86]
3201
3202				Exceptions:
3203					       This does not have any effect on
3204					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3205					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3206
3207			auto (default)
3208				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3209				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3210				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3211				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3212				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3213				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3214
3215			auto,nosmt
3216				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3217				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3218				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3219				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3220					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3221					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3222					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3223					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3224
3225	mminit_loglevel=
3226			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3227			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3228			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3229			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3230			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3231			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3232
3233	mmio_stale_data=
3234			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3235			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3236
3237			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3238			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3239			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3240			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3241			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3242			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3243
3244			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3245			options are:
3246
3247			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3248
3249			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3250				     vulnerable CPUs.
3251
3252			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3253
3254			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3255			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3256			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3257			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3258			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3259			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3260
3261			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3262			mmio_stale_data=full.
3263
3264			For details see:
3265			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3266
3267	module.sig_enforce
3268			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3269			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3270			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3271			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3272
3273	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3274			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3275
3276	mousedev.tap_time=
3277			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3278			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3279			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3280			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3281			Format: <msecs>
3282	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3283			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3284	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3285			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3286
3287	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3288			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3289			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3290			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3291			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3292			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3293			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3294			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3295			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3296			is not too small.
3297
3298	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3299			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3300			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3301			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3302			allocations. Use with caution!
3303
3304	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3305			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3306
3307	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3308			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3309
3310	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3311			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3312
3313	mtdset=		[ARM]
3314			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3315
3316			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3317
3318	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3319			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3320			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3321
3322	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3323			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3324			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3325
3326	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3327			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3328			Default is 1.
3329			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3330			using up MTRRs.
3331
3332	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3333			Format: <integer>
3334			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3335			Default : 1
3336			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3337			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3338
3339	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3340			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3341			at a time.
3342
3343	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3344
3345	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3346			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3347			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3348			something different and driver-specific.
3349			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3350			file if at all.
3351
3352	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3353			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3354			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3355			waits 4 seconds.
3356
3357	nf_conntrack.acct=
3358			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3359			0 to disable accounting
3360			1 to enable accounting
3361			Default value is 0.
3362
3363	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3364			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3365
3366	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3367			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3368
3369	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3370			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3371
3372	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3373			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3374			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3375			requests.
3376
3377	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3378			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3379			channel should listen.
3380
3381	nfs.cache_getent=
3382			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3383			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3384
3385	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3386			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3387			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3388
3389	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3390			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3391			entries.
3392
3393	nfs.enable_ino64=
3394			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3395			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3396			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3397			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3398			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3399
3400	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3401			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3402			slots the client will assign to the callback
3403			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3404			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3405			a particular server.
3406
3407	nfs.max_session_slots=
3408			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3409			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3410			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3411			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3412			Note that there is little point in setting this
3413			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3414
3415	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3416			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3417			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3418			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3419			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3420			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3421			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3422			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3423			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3424			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3425			back to using the idmapper.
3426			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3427	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3428			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3429			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3430			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3431			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3432
3433	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3434			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3435			information in exchange_id requests.
3436			If zero, no implementation identification information
3437			will be sent.
3438			The default is to send the implementation identification
3439			information.
3440
3441	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3442			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3443			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3444			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3445			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3446			after the locks are lost.
3447			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3448			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3449			parameter to '1'.
3450			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3451			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3452
3453	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3454			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3455			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3456
3457			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3458			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3459			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3460			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3461
3462	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3463			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3464			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3465			the destination of the copy.
3466
3467	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3468			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3469			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3470			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3471			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3472			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3473			this parameter.
3474
3475	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3476			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3477			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3478			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3479			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3480			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3481
3482
3483	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3484			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3485			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3486
3487	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3488			when a NMI is triggered.
3489			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3490
3491	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3492			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3493			Valid num: 0 or 1
3494			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3495			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3496			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3497			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3498			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3499			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3500			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3501			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3502			need the box quickly up again.
3503
3504			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3505			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3506
3507	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3508			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3509			is present.
3510
3511	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3512			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3513
3514	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3515
3516	no_console_suspend
3517			[HW] Never suspend the console
3518			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3519			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3520			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3521			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3522			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3523			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3524			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3525			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3526			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3527			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3528			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3529			turn on/off it dynamically.
3530
3531	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3532			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3533			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3534			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3535			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3536			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3537			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3538			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3539			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3540			is set.
3541
3542	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3543			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3544			but will impact performance.
3545
3546	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3547
3548	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3549			(CPU alternatives feature).
3550
3551	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3552			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3553
3554	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3555
3556	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3557			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3558
3559	nocache		[ARM]
3560
3561	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3562
3563	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3564
3565	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3566
3567	noexec		[IA-64]
3568
3569	nosmap		[PPC]
3570			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3571			even if it is supported by processor.
3572
3573	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3574			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3575			even if it is supported by processor.
3576
3577	noexec32	[X86-64]
3578			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3579			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3580				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3581			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3582				read implies executable mappings
3583
3584	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3585
3586	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3587			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3588			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3589
3590	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3591
3592	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3593
3594	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3595			Equivalent to smt=1.
3596
3597			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3598			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3599				     via the sysfs control file.
3600
3601	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3602			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3603			possible in the system.
3604
3605	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3606			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3607			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3608			option.
3609
3610	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3611			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3612
3613	no_uaccess_flush
3614	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3615
3616	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3617			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3618			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3619
3620	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3621			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3622			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3623			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3624			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3625			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3626
3627	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3628			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3629			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3630			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3631			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3632			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3633			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3634
3635	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3636			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3637			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3638			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3639			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3640			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3641			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3642			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3643
3644	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3645			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3646			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3647
3648	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3649			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3650			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3651			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3652			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3653			real-time systems.
3654
3655	no_hash_pointers
3656			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3657			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3658			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3659			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3660			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3661			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3662			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3663			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3664			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3665			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3666			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3667			kernels.
3668
3669	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3670
3671	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3672			Valid arguments: on, off
3673			Default: on
3674
3675	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3676			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3677			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3678			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3679			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3680			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3681			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3682			just as if they had also been called out in the
3683			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3684
3685			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3686			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3687
3688	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3689
3690	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3691			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3692
3693	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3694			broken timer IRQ sources.
3695
3696	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3697
3698	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3699			initial RAM disk.
3700
3701	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3702			remapping.
3703			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3704
3705	nointroute	[IA-64]
3706
3707	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3708
3709	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3710
3711	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3712
3713	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3714			fault handling.
3715
3716	no-vmw-sched-clock
3717			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3718			clock and use the default one.
3719
3720	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3721			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3722			influence scheduler behaviour
3723
3724	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3725
3726	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3727
3728	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3729			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3730
3731	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3732
3733	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3734
3735	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3736			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3737
3738	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3739			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3740			irq.
3741
3742	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3743			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3744			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3745			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3746
3747			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3748
3749	nomodule	Disable module load
3750
3751	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3752			pagetables) support.
3753
3754	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3755
3756	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3757			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3758
3759	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3760			with UP alternatives
3761
3762	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3763			space.
3764
3765	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3766			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3767			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3768
3769	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3770
3771	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3772
3773	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3774			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3775
3776	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3777
3778	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3779
3780	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3781			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3782
3783	nowb		[ARM]
3784
3785	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3786
3787	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3788			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3789			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3790			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3791			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3792			parameter's value.
3793			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3794			Default: 255
3795
3796	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3797			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3798			SAL PALO.
3799
3800	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3801			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3802			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3803			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3804			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3805			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3806			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3807			hot plugging.
3808
3809	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3810
3811	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3812			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3813
3814	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3815			NUMA balancing.
3816			Allowed values are enable and disable
3817
3818	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3819			'node', 'default' can be specified
3820			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3821			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3822
3823	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3824			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3825			info.
3826
3827	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3828			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3829			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3830			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3831			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3832			interrupts *may* be lost!
3833
3834	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3835			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3836			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3837			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3838
3839	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3840
3841			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3842
3843			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3844				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3845			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3846				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3847				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3848
3849	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3850			process, but there is a small probability of
3851			deadlocking the machine.
3852			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3853			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3854
3855	page_alloc.shuffle=
3856			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3857			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3858			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3859			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3860			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3861			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3862			can be read from sysfs at:
3863			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3864
3865	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3866			Storage of the information about who allocated
3867			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3868			we can turn it on.
3869			on: enable the feature
3870
3871	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3872			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3873			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3874			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3875			on: turn on poisoning
3876
3877	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3878			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3879			Format: <integer>
3880			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3881			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3882
3883	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3884			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3885			timeout = 0: wait forever
3886			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3887			Format: <timeout>
3888
3889	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3890			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3891			bit 0: print all tasks info
3892			bit 1: print system memory info
3893			bit 2: print timer info
3894			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3895			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3896			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3897			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3898			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3899			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3900			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3901			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3902
3903	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3904			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3905			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3906			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3907			called with any of the flags in this set.
3908			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3909			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3910			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3911			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3912			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3913			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3914			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3915
3916	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3917			on a WARN().
3918
3919	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3920			connected to, default is 0.
3921			Format: <parport#>
3922	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3923			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3924			Format: <mode>
3925
3926	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3927			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3928			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3929			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3930			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3931			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3932			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3933			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3934			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3935			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3936			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3937			are specified on the command line, starting
3938			with parport0.
3939
3940	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3941			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3942			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3943			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3944			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3945			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3946			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3947
3948	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3949			Format: <int>
3950			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3951			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3952			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3953
3954	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3955			Format: <int>
3956			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3957			changes.  Disabled by default.
3958
3959	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3960			Format: <int>
3961			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3962			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3963			Disabled by default.
3964
3965	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3966			Format: <int>
3967			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3968			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3969			Disabled by default.
3970
3971	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3972			Format: <int>
3973			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3974			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3975			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3976			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3977			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3978			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3979			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3980			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3981			all channels.
3982
3983	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3984			Format: <int>
3985			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3986			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3987			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3988
3989	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3990			Format: <int>
3991			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3992			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3993			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3994
3995	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3996			Format: <int>
3997			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3998			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3999			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4000			All modes allowed by default.
4001
4002	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4003			Format: <int>
4004			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4005			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4006
4007	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4008			Format: <int>
4009			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4010			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4011			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4012			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4013			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4014			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4015			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4016			By default all supported ports are probed.
4017
4018	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4019			Format: <int>
4020			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4021			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4022
4023	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4024			Format: <int>
4025			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4026			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4027			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4028			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4029			0 otherwise.
4030
4031	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4032			Format: <int>
4033			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4034			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4035			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4036			allowed by default.
4037
4038	pause_on_oops=
4039			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4040			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4041			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4042
4043	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4044
4045	pcd.		[PARIDE]
4046			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
4047			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4048
4049	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4050
4051				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4052				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4053				specified in one of the following formats:
4054
4055				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4056				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4057
4058				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4059				bus/device/function address which may change
4060				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4061				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4062				by other kernel parameters. If the
4063				domain is left unspecified, it is
4064				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4065				to a device through multiple device/function
4066				addresses can be specified after the base
4067				address (this is more robust against
4068				renumbering issues).  The second format
4069				selects devices using IDs from the
4070				configuration space which may match multiple
4071				devices in the system.
4072
4073		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4074				changes anything
4075		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4076		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4077				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4078				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4079		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4080				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4081				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4082				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4083		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4084				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4085				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4086		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4087				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4088				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4089				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4090				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4091				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4092				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4093		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4094				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4095				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4096		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4097				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4098		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4099				Configuration
4100		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4101				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4102				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4103		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4104				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4105				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4106		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4107				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4108				should never be necessary.
4109		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4110				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4111				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4112				when the system masks IRQs.
4113		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4114				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4115				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4116				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4117		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4118				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4119				on several machines and they hang the machine
4120				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4121				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4122				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4123				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4124				motherboard.
4125		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4126				Use with caution as certain devices share
4127				address decoders between ROMs and other
4128				resources.
4129		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4130				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4131				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4132		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4133				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4134		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4135				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4136				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4137				this way.
4138		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4139				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4140				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4141				F0000h-100000h range.
4142		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4143				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4144				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4145				explicitly which ones they are.
4146		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4147				numbers ourselves, overriding
4148				whatever the firmware may have done.
4149		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4150				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4151				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4152				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4153				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4154				IRQ routing is enabled.
4155		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4156				or for PCI scanning.
4157		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4158				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4159				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4160				please report a bug.
4161		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4162				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4163		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4164				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4165				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4166				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4167				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4168		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4169				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4170				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4171				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4172		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4173				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4174				so this option is a temporary workaround
4175				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4176		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4177				handle more pci cards
4178		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4179				This might help on some broken boards which
4180				machine check when some devices' config space
4181				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4182				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4183		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4184				This sorting is done to get a device
4185				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4186		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4187		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4188				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4189		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4190				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4191		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4192				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4193				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4194				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4195				or bus can support) for best performance.
4196		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4197				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4198				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4199				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4200				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4201				that hot-added devices will work.
4202		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4203				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4204				The default value is 256 bytes.
4205		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4206				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4207				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4208		resource_alignment=
4209				Format:
4210				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4211				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4212				aligned memory resources. How to
4213				specify the device is described above.
4214				If <order of align> is not specified,
4215				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4216				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4217				windows need to be expanded.
4218				To specify the alignment for several
4219				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4220				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4221				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4222				for 4096-byte alignment.
4223		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4224				end-to-end CRC checking).
4225				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4226				the default.
4227				off: Turn ECRC off
4228				on: Turn ECRC on.
4229		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4230				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4231				Default size is 256 bytes.
4232		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4233				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4234				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4235		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4236				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4237				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4238		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4239				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4240				MMIO_PREF window.
4241				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4242		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4243				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4244				Default is 1.
4245		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4246				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4247				accommodate resources required by all child
4248				devices.
4249				off: Turn realloc off
4250				on: Turn realloc on
4251		realloc		same as realloc=on
4252		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4253		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4254				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4255		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4256				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4257				port.
4258		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4259				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4260				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4261				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4262				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4263				taints the kernel.
4264		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4265				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4266				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4267				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4268				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4269				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4270				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4271				this removes isolation between devices and
4272				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4273		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4274		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4275		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4276				one PCI domain per PCI function
4277
4278	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4279			Management.
4280		off	Disable ASPM.
4281		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4282			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4283
4284	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4285		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4286			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4287			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4288			also tries to use these services.
4289		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4290				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4291		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4292			hotplug).
4293
4294	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4295		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4296		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4297
4298	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4299		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4300			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4301
4302	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4303
4304	pd_ignore_unused
4305			[PM]
4306			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4307			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4308			for debug and development, but should not be
4309			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4310
4311	pd.		[PARIDE]
4312			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4313
4314	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4315			boot time.
4316			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4317			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4318
4319	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4320			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4321			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4322			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4323			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4324			and performance comparison.
4325
4326	pf.		[PARIDE]
4327			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4328
4329	pg.		[PARIDE]
4330			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4331
4332	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4333			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4334
4335	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4336			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4337			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4338
4339	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4340			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4341			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4342
4343	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4344			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4345			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4346			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4347			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4348			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4349			remains 0.
4350
4351	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4352			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4353
4354	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4355			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4356			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4357			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4358			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4359			possible settings and some assignment information.
4360
4361	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4362			{ off }
4363
4364	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4365			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4366
4367	pnp_reserve_irq=
4368			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4369
4370	pnp_reserve_dma=
4371			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4372
4373	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4374			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4375
4376	pnp_reserve_mem=
4377			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4378			autoconfiguration.
4379			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4380
4381	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4382			Default is 21.
4383			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4384			may be specified.
4385			Format: <port>,<port>....
4386
4387	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4388			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4389			platform machine description specific power_save
4390			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4391			execution priority.
4392
4393	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4394			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4395			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4396			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4397			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4398
4399	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4400			Format: {"off"}
4401			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4402
4403	preempt=	[KNL]
4404			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4405			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4406			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4407			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4408			       can be preempted anytime.
4409
4410	print-fatal-signals=
4411			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4412
4413			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4414			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4415			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4416			coredump - etc.
4417
4418			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4419			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4420
4421			default: off.
4422
4423	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4424			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4425			panics
4426			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4427			default: disabled
4428
4429	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4430			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4431			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4432			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4433			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4434			in order to provide more debug information.
4435			Format: <bool>
4436			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4437
4438	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4439			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4440			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4441			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4442			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4443			Default: ratelimit
4444
4445	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4446			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4447
4448	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4449			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4450			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4451
4452	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4453			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4454			instead using the legacy FADT method
4455
4456	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4457			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4458			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4459				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4460			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4461			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4462				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4463			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4464			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4465				statistical time based profiling.
4466
4467	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4468
4469	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4470			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4471			that).
4472			Format: <bool>
4473
4474	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4475			tracking.
4476			Format: <bool>
4477
4478	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4479			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4480	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4481			per second.
4482	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4483			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4484			(0 = never).
4485	psmouse.resolution=
4486			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4487	psmouse.smartscroll=
4488			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4489			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4490
4491	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4492
4493	pt.		[PARIDE]
4494			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4495
4496	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4497			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4498			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4499			system calls and interrupts.
4500
4501			on   - unconditionally enable
4502			off  - unconditionally disable
4503			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4504			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4505
4506			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4507
4508	nopti		[X86-64]
4509			Equivalent to pti=off
4510
4511	pty.legacy_count=
4512			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4513			default number.
4514
4515	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4516
4517	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4518
4519	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4520			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4521
4522	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4523			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4524
4525	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4526
4527	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4528			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4529			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4530			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4531			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4532
4533	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4534			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4535			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4536			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4537			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4538
4539	randomize_kstack_offset=
4540			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4541			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4542			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4543			that depend on stack address determinism or
4544			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4545			available on architectures that have defined
4546			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4547			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4548			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4549
4550	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4551
4552		cec_disable	[X86]
4553				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4554				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4555
4556	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4557			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4558			as described above.
4559
4560			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4561			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4562			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4563			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4564			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4565			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4566			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4567			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4568			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4569			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4570			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4571			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4572
4573			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4574			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4575
4576			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4577			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4578			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4579			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4580
4581			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4582			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4583
4584	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4585			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4586			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4587			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4588			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4589			This improves the real-time response for the
4590			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4591			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4592			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4593			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4594
4595	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4596			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4597			process in one batch.
4598
4599	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4600			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4601			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4602			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4603
4604	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4605			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4606			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4607
4608	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4609			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4610			RCU grace-period initialization.
4611
4612	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4613			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4614			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4615			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4616			the rcu_node combining tree.
4617
4618	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4619			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4620			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4621			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4622			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4623
4624			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4625			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4626			to zero.
4627
4628	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4629			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4630			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4631			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4632			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4633
4634	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4635			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4636			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4637			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4638			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4639			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4640			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4641
4642	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4643			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4644			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4645			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4646			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4647			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4648			condition.
4649
4650	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4651			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4652			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4653			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4654
4655	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4656			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4657			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4658			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4659			and maximum value is HZ.
4660
4661	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4662			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4663			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4664			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4665
4666	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4667			Set required age in jiffies for a
4668			given grace period before RCU starts
4669			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4670			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4671			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4672			a value based on the most recent settings
4673			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4674			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4675			This calculated value may be viewed in
4676			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4677			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4678			overwritten.
4679
4680	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4681			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4682			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4683			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4684			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4685			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4686			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4687			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4688			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4689			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4690			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4691			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4692
4693	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4694			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4695			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4696			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4697			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4698			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4699			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4700			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4701
4702			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4703			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4704			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4705			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4706			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4707
4708	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4709			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4710			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4711			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4712			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4713			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4714			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4715			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4716			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4717			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4718			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4719			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4720
4721	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4722			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4723			each group, which defaults to the square root
4724			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4725			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4726			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4727			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4728
4729	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4730			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4731			batch limiting is disabled.
4732
4733	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4734			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4735			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4736
4737	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4738			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4739			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4740			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4741			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4742			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4743			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4744			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4745
4746	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4747			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4748			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4749			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4750			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4751			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4752
4753	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4754			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4755			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4756			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4757			Larger delays increase the probability of
4758			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4759			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4760			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4761
4762	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4763			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4764			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4765			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4766
4767	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4768			Measure performance of asynchronous
4769			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4770
4771	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4772			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4773			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4774			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4775			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4776			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4777
4778	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4779			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4780			grace-period primitives.
4781
4782	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4783			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4784			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4785			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4786			interference.
4787
4788	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4789			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4790
4791	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4792			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4793			If this parameter has the same value as
4794			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4795			and double-argument variants are tested.
4796
4797	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4798			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4799			If this parameter has the same value as
4800			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4801			and double-argument variants are tested.
4802
4803	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4804			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4805
4806	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4807			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4808
4809	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4810			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4811			of allocations and frees.
4812
4813	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4814			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4815			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4816			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4817			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4818			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4819			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4820			a single reader.
4821
4822	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4823			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4824			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4825			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4826
4827	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4828			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4829
4830	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4831			Shut the system down after performance tests
4832			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4833			testing.
4834
4835	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4836			Enable additional printk() statements.
4837
4838	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4839			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4840			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4841			no holdoff.
4842
4843	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4844			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4845			in microseconds.
4846
4847	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4848			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4849			in microseconds.
4850
4851	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4852			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4853			in seconds.
4854
4855	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4856			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4857			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4858			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4859			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4860			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4861			of CPUs to be used.
4862
4863	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4864			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4865			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4866
4867	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4868			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4869			forward-progress tests.
4870
4871	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4872			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4873			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4874			testing.
4875
4876	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4877			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4878			primitives, if available.
4879
4880	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4881			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4882
4883	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4884			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4885			update-side primitives, if available.
4886
4887	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4888			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4889			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4890			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4891			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4892			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4893			they are all non-zero.
4894
4895	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4896			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4897			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4898			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4899
4900	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4901			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4902			This can of course result in splats, and is
4903			intended to test the ability of things like
4904			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4905			such leaks.
4906
4907	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4908			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4909
4910	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4911			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4912			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4913			test, hence the "fake".
4914
4915	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4916			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4917			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4918
4919	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4920			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4921			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4922
4923	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4924			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4925			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4926			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4927			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4928			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4929
4930	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4931			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4932
4933	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4934			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4935
4936	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4937			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4938			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4939
4940	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4941			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4942			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4943			task-exit processing.
4944
4945	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4946			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4947			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4948			is spawned.
4949
4950	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4951			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4952			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4953
4954	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4955			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4956			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4957			during the rcutorture test.
4958
4959	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4960			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4961			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4962
4963	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4964			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4965			warnings, zero to disable.
4966
4967	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4968			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4969			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4970			to any other stall-related activity.
4971
4972	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4973			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4974
4975	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4976			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4977
4978	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4979			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4980			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4981			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4982			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4983			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4984
4985	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4986			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4987
4988	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4989			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4990			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4991			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4992			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4993
4994	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4995			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4996			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4997			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4998
4999	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5000			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5001
5002	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5003			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5004
5005	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5006			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5007			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5008
5009	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5010			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5011
5012	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5013			Enable additional printk() statements.
5014
5015	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5016			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5017			stall warning.
5018
5019	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5020			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5021
5022	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5023			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5024			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5025			during early boot, that is, during the time
5026			before the init task is spawned.
5027
5028	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5029			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5030			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5031			value is 300 seconds.
5032
5033	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5034			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5035			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5036			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5037			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5038			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5039			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5040			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5041			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5042
5043	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5044			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5045			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5046			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5047			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5048			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5049			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5050
5051	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5052			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5053			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5054			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5055			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5056			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5057			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5058			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5059			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5060
5061	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5062			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5063			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5064			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5065			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5066
5067			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5068			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5069			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5070			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5071			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5072			grace-period processing.
5073
5074	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5075			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5076			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5077			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5078			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5079			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5080			set to the default value of -1.
5081
5082	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5083			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5084			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5085			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5086			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5087			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5088			the default value of -1.
5089
5090	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5091			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5092			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5093			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5094			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5095			for use in testing.
5096
5097	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5098			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5099			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5100			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5101			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5102			but lengthens grace periods.
5103
5104	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5105			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5106			informational messages, which give some indication
5107			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5108			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5109			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5110			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5111			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5112			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5113			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5114
5115	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5116			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5117			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5118			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5119			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5120			the value three, so that the first informational
5121			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5122			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5123			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5124			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5125
5126	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5127			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5128			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5129			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5130			A change in value does not take effect until
5131			the beginning of the next grace period.
5132
5133	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5134			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5135
5136	rdinit=		[KNL]
5137			Format: <full_path>
5138			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5139			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5140
5141	rdrand=		[X86]
5142			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5143				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5144				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5145				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5146				path).
5147
5148	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5149			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5150			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5151			mba.
5152			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5153				rdt=cmt,!mba
5154
5155	reboot=		[KNL]
5156			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5157				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5158				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5159				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5160				[[,]f[orce]
5161			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5162					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5163					reboot only),
5164			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5165			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5166			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5167					to be used for rebooting.
5168
5169	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5170			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5171			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5172			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5173			interference.
5174
5175	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5176			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5177			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5178			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5179			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5180			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5181			x86 laptops.
5182
5183	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5184			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5185			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5186			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5187
5188	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5189			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5190			the console log.
5191
5192	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5193			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5194			measured in microseconds.
5195
5196	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5197			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5198
5199	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5200			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5201			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5202			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5203			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5204
5205	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5206			Enable additional printk() statements.
5207
5208	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5209			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5210			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5211			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5212			specified.
5213
5214	relax_domain_level=
5215			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5216			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5217
5218	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5219			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5220			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5221			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5222			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5223
5224	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5225			Format: nn[KMG]
5226			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5227			address space.
5228
5229	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5230			during initialization.
5231
5232	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5233			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5234			Format:
5235			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5236
5237	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5238			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5239			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5240			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5241			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5242
5243	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5244			read the resume files
5245
5246	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5247			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5248			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5249
5250	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5251
5252	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5253			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5254			vulnerability.
5255
5256			off          - no mitigation
5257			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5258			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5259				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5260				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5261				       and older without STIBP).
5262			ibpb	     - mitigate short speculation windows on
5263				       basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest
5264				       perf impact.
5265			unret        - force enable untrained return thunks,
5266				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h
5267				       based systems.
5268			unret,nosmt  - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP
5269			               is not available.
5270
5271			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5272			time according to the CPU.
5273
5274			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5275
5276	rfkill.default_state=
5277		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5278			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5279		1	Unblocked.
5280
5281	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5282		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5283		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5284			blocked and the previous configuration.
5285		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5286			blocked and everything unblocked.
5287
5288	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5289			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5290
5291	ring3mwait=disable
5292			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5293			CPUs.
5294
5295	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5296
5297	rodata=		[KNL]
5298		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5299		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5300
5301	rockchip.usb_uart
5302			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5303			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5304			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5305			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5306
5307	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5308			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5309
5310	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5311			mount the root filesystem
5312
5313	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5314
5315	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5316
5317	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5318			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5319			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5320
5321	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5322			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5323			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5324			managed by CMA.
5325
5326	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5327
5328	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5329
5330	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5331			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5332		strict
5333			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5334			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5335			which is faster.
5336
5337	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5338			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5339			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5340			factor of the size of main memory.
5341			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5342			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5343			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5344			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5345			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5346			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5347			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5348
5349	sa1100ir	[NET]
5350			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5351
5352	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5353
5354	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5355			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5356			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5357			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5358
5359	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5360			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5361			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5362			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5363			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5364			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5365			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5366			value.
5367			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5368			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5369				1			64 ms
5370				2			128 ms
5371			and so on.
5372			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5373			Default is 0.
5374
5375	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5376			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5377			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5378			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5379			tests.
5380
5381	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5382			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5383			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5384			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5385			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5386			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5387			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5388
5389	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5390			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5391			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5392			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5393			equal to the number of CPUs.
5394
5395	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5396			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5397			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5398
5399	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5400			Number seconds to wait between successive
5401			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5402			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5403
5404	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5405			The number of seconds following the start of the
5406			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5407			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5408			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5409
5410	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5411			The number of seconds between outputting the
5412			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5413			of zero disables statistics output.
5414
5415	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5416			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5417			to the set of CPUs under test.
5418
5419	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5420			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5421			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5422			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5423			functions.
5424
5425	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5426			Enable additional printk() statements.
5427
5428	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5429			The probability weighting to use for the
5430			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5431			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5432			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5433			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5434			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5435
5436	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5437			The probability weighting to use for the
5438			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5439			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5440
5441	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5442			The probability weighting to use for the
5443			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5444			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5445			Note well that setting a high probability for
5446			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5447			on the system.
5448
5449	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5450			The probability weighting to use for the
5451			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5452			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5453			and weight_many.
5454
5455	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5456			The probability weighting to use for the
5457			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5458			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5459			weight_many.
5460
5461	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5462			The probability weighting to use for the
5463			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5464			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5465			and weight_many.
5466
5467	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5468			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5469			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5470			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5471			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5472			1 -- enable.
5473			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5474			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5475
5476	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5477			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5478			"lsm=" parameter.
5479
5480	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5481			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5482			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5483			0 -- disable.
5484			1 -- enable.
5485			Default value is 1.
5486
5487	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5488			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5489			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5490			0 -- disable.
5491			1 -- enable.
5492			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5493
5494	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5495
5496	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5497
5498	shapers=	[NET]
5499			Maximal number of shapers.
5500
5501	simeth=		[IA-64]
5502	simscsi=
5503
5504	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5505
5506	slab_merge	[MM]
5507			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5508			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5509
5510	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5511			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5512			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5513			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5514			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5515			layout control by attackers can usually be
5516			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5517			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5518			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5519			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5520			own.
5521			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5522
5523	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5524			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5525			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5526			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5527			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5528
5529	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5530			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5531			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5532			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5533			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5534			last alloc / free. For more information see
5535			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5536
5537	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5538			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5539			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5540			fragmentation. For more information see
5541			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5542
5543	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5544			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5545			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5546			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5547			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5548			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5549			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5550			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5551
5552	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5553			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5554			lower than slub_max_order.
5555			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5556
5557	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5558			Same with slab_merge.
5559
5560	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5561			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5562			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5563
5564	smart2=		[HW]
5565			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5566
5567	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5568			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5569			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5570			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5571			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5572			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5573			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5574			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5575			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5576			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5577
5578	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5579	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5580	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5581	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5582	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5583	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5584	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5585				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5586				1: Fast pin select (default)
5587				2: ATC IRMode
5588
5589	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5590			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5591			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5592			actual hardware limit.
5593			Format: <integer>
5594			Default: -1 (no limit)
5595
5596	softlockup_panic=
5597			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5598			Format: 0 | 1
5599
5600			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5601			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5602			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5603			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5604			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5605
5606	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5607			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5608			backtraces on all cpus.
5609			Format: 0 | 1
5610
5611	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5612			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5613
5614	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5615			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5616			The default operation protects the kernel from
5617			user space attacks.
5618
5619			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5620			       spectre_v2_user=on
5621			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5622			       spectre_v2_user=off
5623			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5624			       vulnerable
5625
5626			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5627			mitigation method at run time according to the
5628			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5629			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5630			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5631
5632			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5633			against user space to user space task attacks.
5634
5635			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5636			the user space protections.
5637
5638			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5639
5640			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5641			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5642			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5643			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5644			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5645			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5646			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5647			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5648
5649			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5650			spectre_v2=auto.
5651
5652	spectre_v2_user=
5653			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5654		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5655		        user space tasks
5656
5657			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5658				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5659
5660			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5661				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5662
5663			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5664				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5665				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5666				  is inherited on fork.
5667
5668			prctl,ibpb
5669				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5670				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5671				  always when switching between different user
5672				  space processes.
5673
5674			seccomp
5675				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5676				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5677				  they explicitly opt out.
5678
5679			seccomp,ibpb
5680				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5681				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5682				  always when switching between different
5683				  user space processes.
5684
5685			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5686				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5687
5688			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5689
5690			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5691			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5692
5693	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5694			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5695			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5696
5697			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5698			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5699			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5700			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5701			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5702			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5703			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5704			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5705
5706			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5707			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5708			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5709			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5710
5711			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5712			Bypass optimization is used.
5713
5714			On x86 the options are:
5715
5716			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5717			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5718			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5719				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5720				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5721				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5722				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5723				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5724			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5725				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5726				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5727				  is inherited on fork.
5728			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5729				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5730
5731			Default mitigations:
5732			X86:	"prctl"
5733
5734			On powerpc the options are:
5735
5736			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5737				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5738				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5739				  exit.
5740			off	- No action.
5741
5742			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5743			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5744
5745	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5746	spia_fio_base=
5747	spia_pedr=
5748	spia_peddr=
5749
5750	split_lock_detect=
5751			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5752
5753			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5754			instructions that access data across cache line
5755			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5756			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5757			bus lock detection.
5758
5759			off	- not enabled
5760
5761			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5762				  about applications triggering the #AC
5763				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5764				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5765				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5766				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5767				  enabled in hardware.
5768
5769			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5770				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5771				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5772				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5773
5774			ratelimit:N -
5775				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5776				  per second for bus lock detection.
5777				  0 < N <= 1000.
5778
5779				  N/A for split lock detection.
5780
5781
5782			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5783			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5784			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5785			mode.
5786
5787			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5788			CPL > 0.
5789
5790	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5791			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5792			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5793
5794			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5795			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5796			number generator.
5797
5798			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5799			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5800			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5801			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5802			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5803
5804			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5805			the following option:
5806
5807			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5808				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5809
5810	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5811			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5812			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5813			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5814			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5815			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5816			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5817			(decide at boot).
5818
5819	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5820			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5821			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5822			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5823
5824				   0:  Never.
5825				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5826				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5827				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5828				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5829
5830			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5831			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5832			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5833
5834	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5835			Specifies how frequently to check for
5836			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5837			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5838			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5839			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5840			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5841			are ignored.
5842
5843	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5844			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5845			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5846			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5847			grace period will be considered for automatic
5848			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5849			expediting.
5850
5851	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5852			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5853			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5854			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5855			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5856			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5857
5858	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5859			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5860			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5861			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5862			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5863			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5864
5865	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5866			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5867			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5868
5869	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5870			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5871			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5872			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5873			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5874			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5875			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5876
5877	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5878			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5879
5880			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5881			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5882			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5883			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5884
5885			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5886				   for both kernel and userspace
5887			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5888				   for both kernel and userspace
5889			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5890				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5891				   to allow userspace to register its
5892				   interest in being mitigated too.
5893
5894	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5895			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5896			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5897			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5898			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5899			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5900
5901	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5902			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5903			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5904			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5905			to false.
5906
5907	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5908			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5909
5910	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5911			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5912			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5913			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5914			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5915			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5916			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5917
5918	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5919			Format: <num>
5920			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5921			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5922			as the initial boot-console.
5923			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5924
5925	sti_font=	[HW]
5926			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5927
5928	stifb=		[HW]
5929			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5930
5931        strict_sas_size=
5932			[X86]
5933			Format: <bool>
5934			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5935			against the required signal frame size which
5936			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5937			be used to filter out binaries which have
5938			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5939
5940	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5941	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5942			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5943			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5944			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5945			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5946			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5947			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5948			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5949			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5950			maximum port values.
5951
5952	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5953			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5954			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5955			process in parallel from a single connection.
5956			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5957
5958	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5959			[NFS]
5960			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5961			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5962			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5963			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5964			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5965			NFS server is running.
5966
5967			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5968				    automatically using heuristics
5969			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5970			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5971			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5972				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5973
5974	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5975	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5976			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5977			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5978			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5979			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5980			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5981			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5982
5983	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5984			[SUSPEND]
5985			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5986			mode before resuming the system (see
5987			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5988			is set. Default value is 5.
5989
5990	svm=		[PPC]
5991			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5992			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5993			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5994
5995	swapaccount=	[KNL]
5996			Format: [0|1]
5997			Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5998			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5999			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
6000
6001	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6002			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6003			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6004			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6005				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6006				 to a power of 2.
6007			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6008			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6009			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6010
6011	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6012
6013	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6014			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6015			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6016			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6017			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6018			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6019			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6020			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6021
6022	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6023			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6024			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6025			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6026			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6027			in older udev will not work anymore.
6028			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6029			the kernel configuration.
6030
6031	sysrq_always_enabled
6032			[KNL]
6033			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6034			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6035			Useful for debugging.
6036
6037	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6038			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6039			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6040			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6041			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6042			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6043
6044	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6045
6046	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6047			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6048			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6049			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6050			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6051			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6052			The system is woken from this state using a
6053			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6054
6055	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6056			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6057
6058	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6059			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6060			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6061
6062	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6063			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6064			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6065
6066	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6067			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6068			critical and hot trip points.
6069
6070	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6071			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6072
6073	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6074			-1: disable all passive trip points
6075			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6076			value
6077
6078	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6079			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6080			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6081			0: no polling (default)
6082
6083	threadirqs	[KNL]
6084			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6085			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6086
6087	topology=	[S390]
6088			Format: {off | on}
6089			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6090			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6091			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6092			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6093			Default is on.
6094
6095	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6096			Format: {off}
6097			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6098			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6099			LPAR.
6100
6101	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6102			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6103			until after init has spawned.
6104
6105	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6106			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6107			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6108			very costly operation when many torture tests
6109			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6110			with rotating-rust storage.
6111
6112	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6113			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6114			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6115			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6116
6117	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6118			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6119
6120	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6121
6122	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6123			Format: integer pcr id
6124			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6125			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6126			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6127			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6128			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6129			are saved.
6130
6131	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6132			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6133			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6134			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6135			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6136			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6137
6138			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6139			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6140			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6141			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6142
6143			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6144			to stop the printing of events to console at
6145			late_initcall_sync.
6146
6147			** CAUTION **
6148
6149			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6150			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6151			the system to live lock.
6152
6153	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6154			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6155			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6156			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6157			make the system inoperable.
6158
6159			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6160			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6161
6162	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6163			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6164
6165	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6166			at boot up.
6167			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6168				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6169				depending on the architecture, may not be
6170				in sync between CPUs.
6171			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6172				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6173				but better for some race conditions.
6174			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6175				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6176				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6177				once per event.
6178			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6179			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6180			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6181			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6182				stamps.
6183			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6184			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6185			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6186
6187	trace_event=[event-list]
6188			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6189			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6190			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6191			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6192
6193	trace_options=[option-list]
6194			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6195			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6196			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6197			to echo the option name into
6198
6199			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
6200
6201			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6202			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6203
6204			      trace_options=stacktrace
6205
6206			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6207			section.
6208
6209	traceoff_on_warning
6210			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6211			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6212			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6213			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
6214
6215			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6216			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6217			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6218
6219			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6220			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6221
6222	transparent_hugepage=
6223			[KNL]
6224			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6225			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6226			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6227			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6228			for more details.
6229
6230	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6231			Format: <string>
6232			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6233			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6234			sources:
6235			- "tpm"
6236			- "tee"
6237			- "caam"
6238			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6239			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6240			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6241			successfully during iteration.
6242
6243	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6244			Format: <string>
6245			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6246			Can be one of:
6247			- "kernel"
6248			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6249			- "default"
6250			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6251			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6252
6253	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6254			Format: <string>
6255			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6256			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6257			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6258			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6259			virtualized environment.
6260			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6261			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6262			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6263			can add overhead.
6264			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6265			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6266			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6267			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6268			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6269			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6270			acceptable).
6271
6272	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6273			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6274			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6275			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6276			Format: <unsigned int>
6277
6278	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6279			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6280			support TSX control.
6281
6282			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6283
6284			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6285				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6286				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6287				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6288				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6289				with leaving it enabled.
6290
6291			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6292				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6293				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6294				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6295				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6296				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6297				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6298
6299			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6300				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6301
6302			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6303
6304			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6305			for more details.
6306
6307	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6308			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6309
6310			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6311			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6312			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6313			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6314			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6315			conditions.
6316
6317			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6318			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6319			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6320			access.
6321
6322			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6323			options are:
6324
6325			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6326				     if TSX is enabled.
6327
6328			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6329				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6330				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6331				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6332			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6333
6334			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6335			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6336			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6337			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6338
6339			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6340			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6341			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6342			required and doesn't provide any additional
6343			mitigation.
6344
6345			For details see:
6346			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6347
6348	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6349			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6350			Format:
6351			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6352			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6353
6354	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6355			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6356			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6357			help "seeing" what's going on.
6358
6359	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6360			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6361
6362	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6363			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6364			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6365			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6366			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6367			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6368			reported either.
6369
6370	unknown_nmi_panic
6371			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6372
6373	usbcore.authorized_default=
6374			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6375			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6376			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6377			if device connected to internal port)
6378
6379	usbcore.autosuspend=
6380			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6381			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6382			is the time required before an idle device will be
6383			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6384			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6385
6386	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6387			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6388
6389	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6390			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6391			(default = 65536).
6392
6393	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6394			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6395
6396	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6397			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6398			scheme (default 0 = off).
6399
6400	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6401			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6402			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6403
6404	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6405			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6406			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6407
6408	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6409			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6410			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6411			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6412
6413	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6414
6415	usbcore.quirks=
6416			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6417			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6418			commas. Each entry has the form
6419			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6420			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6421			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6422			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6423			the following meanings:
6424				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6425					descriptors must not be fetched using
6426					a 255-byte read);
6427				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6428					correctly so reset it instead);
6429				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6430					Set-Interface requests);
6431				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6432					handle its Configuration or Interface
6433					strings);
6434				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6435					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6436				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6437					more interface descriptions than the
6438					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6439					talking to these interfaces);
6440				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6441					during initialization, after we read
6442					the device descriptor);
6443				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6444					high speed and super speed interrupt
6445					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6446					require the interval in microframes (1
6447					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6448					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6449					(bInterval-1).
6450					Devices with this quirk report their
6451					bInterval as the result of this
6452					calculation instead of the exponent
6453					variable used in the calculation);
6454				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6455					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6456					requests);
6457				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6458					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6459					remote wakeup capability);
6460				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6461					Power Management);
6462				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6463					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6464					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6465					calculation);
6466				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6467					to be disconnected before suspend to
6468					prevent spurious wakeup);
6469				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6470					pause after every control message);
6471				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6472					delay after resetting its port);
6473			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6474
6475	usbhid.mousepoll=
6476			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6477
6478	usbhid.jspoll=
6479			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6480
6481	usbhid.kbpoll=
6482			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6483
6484	usb-storage.delay_use=
6485			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6486			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6487
6488	usb-storage.quirks=
6489			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6490			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6491			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6492			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6493			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6494			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6495			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6496				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6497					of sense data, not on uas);
6498				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6499					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6500				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6501					device capacity by one sector);
6502				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6503					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6504				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6505					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6506				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6507					command, uas only);
6508				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6509					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6510				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6511					reported device capacity by one
6512					sector if the number is odd);
6513				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6514					device);
6515				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6516					command, uas only);
6517				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6518				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6519					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6520				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6521					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6522					not on uas);
6523				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6524					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6525				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6526					reported by the device, not on uas);
6527				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6528					by default, not on uas);
6529				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6530					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6531				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6532					Logical Unit);
6533				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6534					commands, uas only);
6535				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6536				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6537					medium is write-protected).
6538				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6539					even if the device claims no cache,
6540					not on uas)
6541			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6542
6543	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6544			Format: <int>
6545			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6546				 1 - undefined instruction events
6547				 2 - system calls
6548				 4 - invalid data aborts
6549				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6550				16 - SIGBUS faults
6551			Example: user_debug=31
6552
6553	userpte=
6554			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6555
6556				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6557					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6558					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6559
6560	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6561			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6562
6563			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6564			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6565
6566	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6567			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6568			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6569
6570			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6571			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6572			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6573
6574			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6575			alias for vdso32=0.
6576
6577			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6578			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6579
6580	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6581			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6582
6583	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6584			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6585
6586	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6587			Format: [0|1]
6588			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6589			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6590			level and then send out the event to user space through
6591			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6592			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6593			brightness level.
6594			default: 1
6595
6596	virtio_mmio.device=
6597			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6598
6599				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6600			where:
6601				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6602						like K, M and G)
6603				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6604				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6605						request_irq())
6606				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6607			example:
6608				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6609
6610			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6611
6612	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6613			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6614			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6615			Use vga=ask for menu.
6616			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6617			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6618
6619	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6620			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6621			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6622			All options are enabled by default, and this
6623			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6624			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6625			debugging features.
6626
6627			Available options are:
6628			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6629			  -	Disable all of the above options
6630
6631	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6632			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6633			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6634			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6635			mapped kernel RAM.
6636
6637	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6638			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6639			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6640
6641	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6642			Format: <command>
6643
6644	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6645			Format: <command>
6646
6647	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6648			Format: <command>
6649
6650	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6651			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6652			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6653			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6654			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6655			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6656			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6657
6658			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6659			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6660				    page is readable.
6661
6662			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6663			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6664				    page is not readable.
6665
6666			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6667			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6668			            might break your system.
6669
6670	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6671			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6672			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6673
6674	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6675			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6676			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6677			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6678
6679	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6680			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6681			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6682			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6683			ranging from 0-255.
6684
6685	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6686			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6687			Change the default green palette of the console.
6688			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6689			ranging from 0-255.
6690
6691	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6692			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6693			Change the default red palette of the console.
6694			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6695			ranging from 0-255.
6696
6697	vt.default_utf8=
6698			[VT]
6699			Format=<0|1>
6700			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6701			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6702			newly opened terminals.
6703
6704	vt.global_cursor_default=
6705			[VT]
6706			Format=<-1|0|1>
6707			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6708			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6709			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6710			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6711			cursors, 1 will display them.
6712
6713	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6714			Default: 2 = green.
6715
6716	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6717			Default: 3 = cyan.
6718
6719	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6720			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6721			or other driver-specific files in the
6722			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6723
6724	watchdog_thresh=
6725			[KNL]
6726			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6727			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6728			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6729			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6730			seconds.
6731
6732	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6733			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6734			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6735			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6736			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6737			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6738			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6739			corresponding sysfs file.
6740
6741	workqueue.disable_numa
6742			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6743			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6744			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6745			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6746			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6747			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6748			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6749
6750	workqueue.power_efficient
6751			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6752			they show better performance thanks to cache
6753			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6754			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6755
6756			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6757			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6758			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6759			power usage at the cost of small performance
6760			overhead.
6761
6762			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6763			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6764
6765	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6766			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6767			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6768			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6769			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6770			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6771			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6772			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6773			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6774			impacted.
6775
6776	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6777			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6778			supporting x2apic.
6779
6780	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6781			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6782			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6783			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6784			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6785			domains.
6786
6787	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6788			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6789			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6790			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6791			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6792			nics -- unplug network devices
6793			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6794			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6795				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6796				the unplug protocol
6797			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6798
6799	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6800			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6801			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6802
6803	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6804			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6805			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6806			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6807
6808	xen_nopv	[X86]
6809			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6810			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6811			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6812			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6813
6814	xen_no_vector_callback
6815			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6816			event channel interrupts.
6817
6818	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6819			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6820			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6821			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6822			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6823
6824	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6825			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6826			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6827			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6828			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6829			more timer interrupts.
6830
6831	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6832			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6833			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6834			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6835			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6836			max. Default is 180.
6837
6838	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6839			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6840			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6841
6842	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6843			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6844			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6845
6846	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6847			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6848			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6849			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6850			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6851			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6852
6853	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6854			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6855			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6856			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6857
6858	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6859			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6860			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6861			contention.
6862
6863	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6864			Format:
6865			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6866
6867	xive=		[PPC]
6868			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6869			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6870			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6871
6872			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6873				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6874				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6875
6876	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6877			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6878			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6879			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6880			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6881
6882	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6883			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6884			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6885			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6886
6887	xmon		[PPC]
6888			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6889			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6890			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6891			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6892				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6893			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6894				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6895				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6896				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6897			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6898				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6899				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6900				can be written using xmon commands.
6901			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6902				memory, and other data can't be written using
6903				xmon commands.
6904			off	xmon is disabled.
6905