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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=  [HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112                        GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113                        the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
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_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
393			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394			    until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400			    auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466			trust validation.
467			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473			others).
474
475	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482			  a single hierarchy
483			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484			  subsystem
485			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495			Format: <string>
496			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500			Format: { "0" | "1" }
501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503				any implied execute protection).
504			1 -- check protection requested by application.
505			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506			Value can be changed at runtime via
507				/selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509	cio_ignore=	[S390]
510			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511	clk_ignore_unused
512			[CLK]
513			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520			platform with proper driver support.  For more
521			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
522
523	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524			[Deprecated]
525			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
531			Format: <string>
532			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533			with the name specified.
534			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535			the platform:
536			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537			[ACPI] acpi_pm
538			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542			[MIPS] MIPS
543			[PARISC] cr16
544			[S390] tod
545			[SH] SuperH
546			[SPARC64] tick
547			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550			[ARM,ARM64]
551			Format: <bool>
552			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555			systems.
556
557	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562			ones should be.
563			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564			or using the feature without checking anything
565			will still see it. This just prevents it from
566			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568			some critical bits.
569
570	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571			[ARM,X86,KNL]
572			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574			placement constraint by the physical address range of
575			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576			altogether. For more information, see
577			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
582			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583			a hypervisor.
584			Default: yes
585
586	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
587			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588			allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
591			in an oops report.
592			Range: 0 - 8192
593			Default: 64
594
595	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
596			Format:
597			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
598
599	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
602	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
603			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
604			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
607	conmode=
608
609	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613		ttyS<n>[,options]
614		ttyUSB0[,options]
615			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
616			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
620
621			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
622			information.  See
623			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624			alternative.
625
626		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
628		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
629		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
631			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
633			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
635			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
639			the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
641		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
642			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
643
644                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646			console=brl,ttyS0
647		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
649	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
650			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
651                       Defaults to 0.
652
653	coredump_filter=
654			[KNL] Change the default value for
655			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
656			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
657
658	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
659			[ARM,ARM64]
660			Format: <bool>
661			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
662			0: default value, disable debugging
663			1: enable debugging at boot time
664
665	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
666			disable the cpuidle sub-system
667
668	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
669			disable the cpufreq sub-system
670
671	cpu_init_udelay=N
672			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
673			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
674			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
675			Default: 10000
676
677	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
678			Format:
679			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
680
681	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
682			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
683			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
684			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
685			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
686			is selected automatically. Check
687			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
688
689	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
690			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
691			in the running system. The syntax of range is
692			start-[end] where start and end are both
693			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
694			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
695
696	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
697			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
698			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
699			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
700			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
701			available.
702			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
703	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
704			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
705			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
706			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
707			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
708			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
709			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
710			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
711			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
712			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
713			for second kernel instead.
714			0: to disable low allocation.
715			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
716			or memory reserved is below 4G.
717
718	cryptomgr.notests
719                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
720
721	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
722			Format: <dma>
723
724	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
725			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
726
727	dasd=		[HW,NET]
728			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
729
730	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
731			(one device per port)
732			Format: <port#>,<type>
733			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
734
735	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
736			time. See
737			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
738			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
739
740	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
741
742	debug_locks_verbose=
743			[KNL] verbose self-tests
744			Format=<0|1>
745			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
746			self-tests.
747			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
748			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
749			only useful to kernel developers.
750
751	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
752
753	no_debug_objects
754			[KNL] Disable object debugging
755
756	debug_guardpage_minorder=
757			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
758			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
759			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
760			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
761			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
762			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
763			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
764			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
765			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
766			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
767			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
768			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
769			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
770			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
771			bypassed) which are not detectable by
772			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
773			tracking down these problems.
774
775	debug_pagealloc=
776			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
777			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
778			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
779			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
780			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
781			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
782			on: enable the feature
783
784	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
785
786	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
787			Format: <area>[,<node>]
788			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
789
790	default_hugepagesz=
791			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
792			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
793			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
794			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
795			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
796			if not specified.
797
798	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
799			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
800
801	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
802			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
803			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
804			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
805			miss to occur.
806
807	disable=	[IPV6]
808			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
809
810	disable_radix	[PPC]
811			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
812
813	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
814			Format: <int>
815			The number of initial APIC ID for the
816			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
817			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
818			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
819			causing system reset or hang due to sending
820			INIT from AP to BSP.
821
822	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
823			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
824			to workaround buggy firmware.
825
826	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
827			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
828
829	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
830			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
831			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
832			entry later. This parameter disables that.
833
834	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
835			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
836			memory out of your available memory pool based on
837			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
838			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
839
840	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
841			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
842			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
843
844	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
845
846	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
847			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
848
849	dma_debug_entries=<number>
850			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
851			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
852			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
853			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
854			architectural default is too low.
855
856	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
857			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
858			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
859			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
860			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
861			driver later using sysfs.
862
863	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
864			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
865			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
866			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
867			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
868			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
869			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
870			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
871			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
872			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
873			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
874			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
875			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
876			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
877			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
878			data set with no connector name will be used for
879			any connectors not explicitly specified.
880
881	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
882
883	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
884			Format: {"off" | "known"}
885			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
886			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
887			exists).
888			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
889			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
890			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
891
892	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
893			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
894			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
895			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
896
897	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
898	module.dyndbg[="val"]
899			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
900			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
901			for details.
902
903	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
904			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
905			information about the feature.
906
907	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
908			in some Intel CPUs.
909
910	module.async_probe [KNL]
911			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
912
913	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
914			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
915			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
916			which are not unmapped.
917
918	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
919
920			When used with no options, the early console is
921			determined by the stdout-path property in device
922			tree's chosen node.
923
924		cdns,<addr>[,options]
925			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
926			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
927			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
928			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
929			configured.
930
931		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
932		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
933		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
934		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
935		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
936			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
937			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
938			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
939			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
940			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
941			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
942			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
943			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
944
945		pl011,<addr>
946		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
947			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
948			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
949			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
950			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
951			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
952			the device registers.
953
954		meson,<addr>
955			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
956			port at the specified address. The serial port must
957			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
958			supported.
959
960		msm_serial,<addr>
961			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
962			port at the specified address. The serial port
963			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
964			yet supported.
965
966		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
967			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
968			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
969			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
970			yet supported.
971
972		owl,<addr>
973			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
974			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
975			specified address. The serial port must already be
976			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
977
978		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
979
980		s3c2410,<addr>
981		s3c2412,<addr>
982		s3c2440,<addr>
983		s3c6400,<addr>
984		s5pv210,<addr>
985		exynos4210,<addr>
986			Use early console provided by serial driver available
987			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
988			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
989			serial port must already be setup and configured.
990			Options are not yet supported.
991
992		lantiq,<addr>
993			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
994			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
995			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
996			yet supported.
997
998		lpuart,<addr>
999		lpuart32,<addr>
1000			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1001			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1002			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1003			port must already be setup and configured.
1004
1005		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1006			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1007			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1008			address. The serial port must already be setup
1009			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1010
1011	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1012			earlyprintk=vga
1013			earlyprintk=efi
1014			earlyprintk=sclp
1015			earlyprintk=xen
1016			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1017			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1018			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1019			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1020			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1021			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1022
1023			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1024			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1025			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1026
1027			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1028			takes over.
1029
1030			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1031			be used at a time.
1032
1033			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1034			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1035			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1036			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1037				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1038			You can find the port for a given device in
1039			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1040				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1041
1042			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1043			very good.
1044
1045			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1046			the real console.
1047
1048			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1049
1050			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1051
1052	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1053			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1054			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1055			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1056			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1057			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1058			default: on.
1059
1060	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1061			ekgdboc=kbd
1062
1063			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1064			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1065
1066	edd=		[EDD]
1067			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1068
1069	efi=		[EFI]
1070			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1071			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1072			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1073			default.
1074			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1075			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1076			firmware implementations.
1077			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1078			debug: enable misc debug output
1079
1080	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1081			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1082			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1083			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1084			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1085
1086	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1087			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1088			updating original EFI memory map.
1089			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1090			from ss to ss+nn.
1091			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1092			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1093			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1094			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1095
1096			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1097			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1098			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1099			doesn't support it.
1100
1101	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1102			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1103			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1104			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1105			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1106
1107
1108	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1109			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1110
1111	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1112			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1113			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1114
1115	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1116			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1117			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1118			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1119
1120	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1121			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1122			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1123			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1124			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1125
1126	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1127			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1128			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1129			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1130
1131	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1132			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1133			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1134			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1135			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1136
1137	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1138			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1139			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1140			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1141			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1142			Default value is 0.
1143			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1144
1145	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1146			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1147			support.
1148
1149	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1150			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1151			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1152
1153	evm=		[EVM]
1154			Format: { "fix" }
1155			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1156			current integrity status.
1157
1158	failslab=
1159	fail_page_alloc=
1160	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1161			General fault injection mechanism.
1162			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1163			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1164
1165	floppy=		[HW]
1166			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1167
1168	force_pal_cache_flush
1169			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1170			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1171			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1172			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1173
1174	forcepae [X86-32]
1175			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1176			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1177			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1178			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1179			and may cause unknown problems.
1180
1181	ftrace=[tracer]
1182			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1183			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1184			boot debugging.
1185
1186	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1187			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1188			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1189			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1190			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1191			oops.
1192
1193	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1194			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1195			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1196			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1197			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1198			tracing directory.
1199
1200	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1201			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1202			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1203			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1204			tracing directory.
1205
1206	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1207			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1208			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1209			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1210			that can be changed at run time by the
1211			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1212
1213	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1214			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1215			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1216			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1217			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1218
1219	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1220			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1221			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1222			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1223			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1224
1225	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1226			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1227			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1228			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1229			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1230
1231	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1232
1233	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1234			Format: off | on
1235			default: on
1236
1237	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1238			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1239			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1240			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1241			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1242
1243	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1244			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1245			android emulator
1246
1247	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1248			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1249			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1250			GPT to be used instead.
1251
1252	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1253			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1254			Format: 0 | 1
1255			Default: 0
1256	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1257			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1258			Format: 0 | 1
1259			Default: 0
1260	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1261			Format: 0 | 1
1262			Default: 0
1263	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1264			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1265			Default: 1024
1266	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1267			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1268			Default: 1024
1269
1270	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1271			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1272			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1273
1274	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1275			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1276			backtraces on all cpus.
1277			Format: <integer>
1278
1279	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1280			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1281			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1282			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1283
1284	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1285
1286	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1287			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1288
1289	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1290			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1291			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1292			logic will be disabled.
1293
1294	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1295			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1296			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1297			size on bigger boxes.
1298
1299	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1300			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1301			Default: "on"
1302
1303	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1304			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1305
1306	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1307
1308	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1309			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1310				verbose }
1311			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1312			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1313				VIA, nVidia)
1314			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1315
1316	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1317			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1318
1319	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1320	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1321			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1322			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1323			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1324			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1325			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1326
1327	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1328			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1329	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1330			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1331			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1332
1333	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1334			        hardware thread id mappings.
1335				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1336
1337	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1338			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1339			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1340			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1341			the real console.
1342
1343	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1344			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1345			     registered from board initialization code.
1346			     Format:
1347			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1348
1349	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1350	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1351			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1352			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1353			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1354	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1355	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1356			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1357			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1358	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1359	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1360	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1361			     for the AUX port
1362	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1363			     controller
1364	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1365			     controllers
1366	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1367	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1368			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1369			     transitions, or never reset
1370			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1371			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1372			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1373			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1374			architectures force reset to be always executed
1375	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1376	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1377
1378	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1379
1380	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1381			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1382			hardware.
1383	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1384			does not match list of supported models.
1385	i8k.power_status
1386			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1387			(disabled by default)
1388	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1389			capability is set.
1390
1391	i915.invert_brightness=
1392			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1393			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1394			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1395			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1396			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1397			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1398			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1399			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1400			value switches the backlight off.
1401			-1 -- never invert brightness
1402			 0 -- machine default
1403			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1404
1405	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1406			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1407
1408	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1409			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1410			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1411			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1412			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1413
1414	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1415			Format: <int>
1416			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1417			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1418			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1419			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1420			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1421			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1422			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1423			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1424			was 0x3.
1425
1426	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1427			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1428
1429	idle=		[X86]
1430			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1431			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1432			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1433			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1434			Not recommended.
1435			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1436			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1437			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1438
1439	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1440			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1441			Default: strict
1442
1443			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1444			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1445			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1446			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1447			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1448			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1449			encoding mode.
1450
1451			Available settings are as follows:
1452			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1453				supported by the FPU
1454			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1455				by the FPU
1456			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1457				by the FPU
1458			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1459				supported by the FPU
1460
1461			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1462			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1463			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1464			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1465			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1466			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1467			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1468			MIPS64 CPUs.
1469
1470			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1471			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1472			except where unsupported by hardware.
1473
1474	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1475			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1476			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1477			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1478			could change it dynamically, usually by
1479			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1480
1481	ignore_rlimit_data
1482			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1483			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1484			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1485
1486	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1487			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1488
1489	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1490			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1491			default: "enforce"
1492
1493	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1494			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1495			owned by uid=0.
1496
1497	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1498			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1499			measurements, instead of host native format.
1500
1501	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1502			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1503				   | sha512 | ... }
1504			default: "sha1"
1505
1506			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1507			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1508
1509	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1510			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1511			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1512
1513			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1514			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1515			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1516			uid=0.
1517
1518			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1519			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1520			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1521
1522			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1523			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1524			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1525
1526	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1527			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1528			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1529			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1530			opened for read by uid=0.
1531
1532	ima_template=   [IMA]
1533			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1534			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1535			Default: "ima-ng"
1536
1537	ima_template_fmt=
1538	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1539			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1540
1541	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1542			Format: <min_file_size>
1543			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1544			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1545
1546			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1547			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1548			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1549
1550	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1551			Format: <bufsize>
1552			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1553
1554			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1555			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1556			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1557
1558	init=		[KNL]
1559			Format: <full_path>
1560			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1561			process.
1562
1563	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1564			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1565			startup.
1566
1567	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1568			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1569			modules and initcalls.
1570
1571	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1572
1573	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1574			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1575			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1576			override in debugfs after boot.
1577
1578	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1579			Format: <irq>
1580
1581	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1582
1583	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1584			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1585			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1586			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1587
1588	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1589		on
1590			Enable intel iommu driver.
1591		off
1592			Disable intel iommu driver.
1593		igfx_off [Default Off]
1594			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1595			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1596			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1597			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1598			DMA.
1599		forcedac [x86_64]
1600			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1601			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1602			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1603			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1604			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1605			then look in the higher range.
1606		strict [Default Off]
1607			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1608			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1609			to batching them for performance.
1610		sp_off [Default Off]
1611			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1612			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1613			not be supported.
1614		ecs_off [Default Off]
1615			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1616			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1617			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1618			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1619			on hardware which claims to support them.
1620		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1621			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1622			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1623			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1624			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1625			mapping is enabled.
1626			Note that using this option lowers the security
1627			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1628			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1629
1630	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1631			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1632			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1633
1634	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1635		       disable
1636		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1637		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1638		       passive
1639			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1640			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1641			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1642			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1643			 feature.
1644		       force
1645			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1646			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1647			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1648			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1649			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1650			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1651			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1652			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1653		       no_hwp
1654		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1655			 if available.
1656		hwp_only
1657			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1658			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1659		support_acpi_ppc
1660			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1661			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1662			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1663			then this feature is turned on by default.
1664		per_cpu_perf_limits
1665			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1666			cpufreq sysfs interface
1667
1668	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1669			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1670			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1671			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1672			no_x2apic_optout
1673				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1674			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1675
1676	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1677		strict	regions from userspace.
1678		relaxed
1679
1680	iommu=		[x86]
1681		off
1682		force
1683		noforce
1684		biomerge
1685		panic
1686		nopanic
1687		merge
1688		nomerge
1689		forcesac
1690		soft
1691		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1692		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1693			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1694
1695	iommu.passthrough=
1696			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1697			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1698			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1699			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1700			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1701
1702	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1703			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1704			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1705
1706	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1707		0x80
1708			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1709		0xed
1710			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1711		udelay
1712			Simple two microseconds delay
1713		none
1714			No delay
1715
1716	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1717			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1718
1719	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1720			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1721
1722	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1723			[ARM, ARM64]
1724			Format: <bool>
1725			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1726			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1727			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1728
1729	irqfixup	[HW]
1730			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1731			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1732			firmware running.
1733
1734	irqpoll		[HW]
1735			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1736			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1737			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1738			firmware running.
1739
1740	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1741			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1742
1743	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1744			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1745			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1746
1747			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1748			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1749
1750			nohz
1751			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1752			domain
1753			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1754			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1755			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1756			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1757			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1758			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1759			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1760			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1761
1762			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1763			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1764			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1765			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1766
1767			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1768
1769
1770
1771	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1772
1773	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1774			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1775			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1776			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1777			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1778				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1779
1780	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1781			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1782			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1783			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1784			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1785				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1786
1787	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1788			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1789			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1790			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1791			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1792				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1793
1794	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1795			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1796
1797	nokaslr		[KNL]
1798			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1799			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1800			Layout Randomization).
1801
1802	kasan_multi_shot
1803			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1804			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1805			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1806			invalid access.
1807
1808	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1809
1810	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1811			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1812			This parameter
1813			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1814			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1815			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1816			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1817			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1818			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1819			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1820			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1821			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1822			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1823			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1824			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1825			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1826			zone if it does not.
1827
1828			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1829			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1830			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1831			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1832			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1833			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1834			time.
1835
1836	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1837			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1838			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1839			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1840			optional and is the number seconds in between
1841			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1842			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1843			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1844			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1845			the kernel debugger.
1846
1847	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1848			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1849			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1850			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1851			 keyboard only format: kbd
1852			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1853			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1854			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1855			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1856
1857	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1858			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1859
1860	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1861			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1862			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1863
1864	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1865			Valid arguments: on, off
1866			Default: on
1867			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1868			the default is off.
1869
1870	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1871			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1872
1873	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1874			KVM MMU at runtime.
1875			Default is 0 (off)
1876
1877	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1878			Default is 1 (enabled)
1879
1880	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1881			for all guests.
1882			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1883
1884	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1885			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1886			system registers
1887
1888	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1889			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1890			system registers
1891
1892	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1893			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1894			system registers
1895
1896	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1897			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1898			LPIs.
1899
1900	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1901			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1902			Default is 1 (enabled)
1903
1904	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1905			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1906			Default is 0 (disabled)
1907
1908	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1909			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1910			Default is 1 (enabled)
1911
1912	kvm-intel.nested=
1913			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1914			Default is 0 (disabled)
1915
1916	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1917			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1918			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1919			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1920
1921	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1922			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1923			Default is 1 (enabled)
1924
1925	l2cr=		[PPC]
1926
1927	l3cr=		[PPC]
1928
1929	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1930			disabled it.
1931
1932	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1933			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1934			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1935
1936	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1937			in C2 power state.
1938
1939	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1940			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1941			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1942			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1943			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1944			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1945			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1946
1947	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1948			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1949			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1950
1951	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1952			when set.
1953			Format: <int>
1954
1955	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1956			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1957			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1958			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1959			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1960			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1961			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1962			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1963
1964			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1965			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1966			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1967			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1968			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1969			host link and device attached to it.
1970
1971			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1972			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1973			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1974			The following configurations can be forced.
1975
1976			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1977			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1978
1979			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1980
1981			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1982			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1983			  allowed.
1984
1985			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1986
1987			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1988
1989			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1990                          and both resets.
1991
1992			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1993			  hot-unplug link recovery
1994
1995			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1996
1997			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1998
1999			* disable: Disable this device.
2000
2001			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2002			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2003
2004	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2005
2006	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2007			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2008
2009	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2010			Format: <integer>
2011
2012	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2013			Format: <integer>
2014
2015	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2016			Format: <integer>
2017
2018	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2019			Format: <integer>
2020
2021	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2022			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2023			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2024			number of online CPUs.
2025
2026	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2027			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2028
2029	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2030			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2031
2032	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2033			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2034			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2035
2036	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2037			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2038			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2039			mode during the locktorture test.
2040
2041	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2042			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2043			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2044
2045	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2046			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2047
2048	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2049			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2050			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2051			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2052			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2053			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2054
2055	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2056			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2057
2058	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2059			Enable additional printk() statements.
2060
2061	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2062			Format: <irq>
2063
2064	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2065			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2066			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2067			loglevels are defined as follows:
2068
2069			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2070			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2071			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2072			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2073			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2074			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2075			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2076			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2077
2078	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2079			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2080			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2081			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2082			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2083			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2084			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2085
2086	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2087			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2088			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2089			kernel boot problems.
2090
2091	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2092	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2093	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2094	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2095				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2096				attached printers to be reset. Using
2097				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2098				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2099				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2100				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2101				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2102				port specification list means that device IDs
2103				from each port should be examined, to see if
2104				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2105				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2106				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2107
2108	lpj=n		[KNL]
2109			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2110			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2111			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2112			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2113			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2114			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2115			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2116			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2117			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2118			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2119			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2120			hardware.
2121
2122	ltpc=		[NET]
2123			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2124
2125	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2126			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2127			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2128
2129	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2130			 yeeloong laptop.
2131			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2132
2133	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2134			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2135
2136	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2137			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2138			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2139			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2140			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2141			only takes effect during system bootup.
2142			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2143			which also disables the IO APIC.
2144
2145	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2146	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2147			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2148			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2149			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2150			/dev/loop-control interface.
2151
2152	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2153
2154	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2155
2156	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2157			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2158
2159	mdacon=		[MDA]
2160			Format: <first>,<last>
2161			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2162
2163	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2164			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2165			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2166			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2167			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2168			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2169			belonging to unused RAM.
2170
2171	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2172			memory.
2173
2174	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2175			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2176			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2177
2178        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2179			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2180			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2181			set according to the
2182			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2183			option.
2184			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2185
2186	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2187			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2188			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2189			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2190			option description.
2191
2192	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2193			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2194			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2195			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2196			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2197			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2198			comma delimited.
2199			Example:
2200				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2201
2202	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2203			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2204			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2205
2206	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2207			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2208			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2209			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2210			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2211			         or
2212			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2213			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2214			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2215			will be eaten.
2216
2217	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2218			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2219			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2220			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2221			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2222
2223	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2224			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2225			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2226			Setting this option will scan the memory
2227			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2228			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2229			from using the memory being corrupted.
2230			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2231			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2232			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2233			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2234
2235	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2236			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2237			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2238			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2239			corruption in more or less memory.
2240
2241	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2242			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2243			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2244			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2245
2246	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2247			Format: <integer>
2248			default : 0 <disable>
2249			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2250			performed. Each pass selects another test
2251			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2252			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2253			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2254			regions that are detected.
2255
2256	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2257			Valid arguments: on, off
2258			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2259			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2260			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2261			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2262			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2263
2264			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2265			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2266
2267	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2268			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2269			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2270			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2271			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2272
2273	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2274			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2275
2276	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2277			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2278			platforms.
2279
2280	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2281			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2282			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2283			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2284
2285	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2286
2287	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2288			physical address is ignored.
2289
2290	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2291			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2292			Default: "0tb"
2293			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2294			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2295			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2296			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2297			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2298			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2299			unconfigured.
2300			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2301			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2302			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2303			VGA shield.
2304			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2305			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2306			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2307			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2308			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2309			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2310
2311	mminit_loglevel=
2312			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2313			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2314			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2315			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2316			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2317			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2318
2319	module.sig_enforce
2320			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2321			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2322			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2323			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2324
2325	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2326			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2327
2328	mousedev.tap_time=
2329			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2330			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2331			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2332			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2333			Format: <msecs>
2334	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2335			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2336	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2337			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2338
2339	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2340			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2341			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2342			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2343			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2344			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2345			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2346			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2347			is not too small.
2348
2349	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2350			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2351			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2352			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2353			allocations. Use with caution!
2354
2355	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2356			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2357
2358	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2359			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2360
2361	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2362			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2363
2364	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2365			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2366			at a time.
2367
2368	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2369
2370			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2371
2372			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2373				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2374			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2375				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2376				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2377
2378	mtdset=		[ARM]
2379			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2380
2381			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2382
2383	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2384			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2385			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2386
2387	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2388			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2389			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2390
2391	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2392			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2393			Default is 1.
2394			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2395			using up MTRRs.
2396
2397	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2398			Format: <integer>
2399			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2400			Default : 1
2401			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2402			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2403
2404	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2405
2406	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2407			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2408			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2409			something different and driver-specific.
2410			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2411			file if at all.
2412
2413	nf_conntrack.acct=
2414			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2415			0 to disable accounting
2416			1 to enable accounting
2417			Default value is 0.
2418
2419	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2420			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2421
2422	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2423			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2424
2425	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2426			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2427
2428	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2429			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2430			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2431			requests.
2432
2433	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2434			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2435			channel should listen.
2436
2437	nfs.cache_getent=
2438			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2439			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2440
2441	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2442			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2443			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2444
2445	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2446			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2447			entries.
2448
2449	nfs.enable_ino64=
2450			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2451			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2452			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2453			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2454			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2455
2456	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2457			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2458			slots the client will assign to the callback
2459			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2460			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2461			a particular server.
2462
2463	nfs.max_session_slots=
2464			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2465			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2466			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2467			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2468			Note that there is little point in setting this
2469			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2470
2471	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2472			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2473			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2474			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2475			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2476			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2477			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2478			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2479			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2480			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2481			back to using the idmapper.
2482			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2483	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2484			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2485			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2486			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2487			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2488
2489	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2490			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2491			information in exchange_id requests.
2492			If zero, no implementation identification information
2493			will be sent.
2494			The default is to send the implementation identification
2495			information.
2496
2497	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2498			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2499			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2500			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2501			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2502			after the locks are lost.
2503			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2504			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2505			parameter to '1'.
2506			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2507			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2508
2509	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2510			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2511			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2512
2513			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2514			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2515			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2516			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2517
2518	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2519			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2520			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2521			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2522			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2523			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2524
2525	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2526			when a NMI is triggered.
2527			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2528
2529	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2530			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2531			Valid num: 0 or 1
2532			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2533			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2534			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2535			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2536			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2537			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2538			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2539			need the box quickly up again.
2540
2541	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2542			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2543			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2544			waits 4 seconds.
2545
2546	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2547			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2548			is present.
2549
2550	no_console_suspend
2551			[HW] Never suspend the console
2552			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2553			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2554			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2555			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2556			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2557			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2558			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2559			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2560			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2561			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2562			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2563			turn on/off it dynamically.
2564
2565	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2566			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2567			but will impact performance.
2568
2569	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2570
2571	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2572			(CPU alternatives feature).
2573
2574	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2575			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2576
2577	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2578
2579	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2580			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2581
2582	nocache		[ARM]
2583
2584	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2585
2586	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2587
2588	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2589
2590	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2591
2592	noexec		[IA-64]
2593
2594	noexec		[X86]
2595			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2596			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2597			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2598
2599	nosmap		[X86]
2600			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2601			even if it is supported by processor.
2602
2603	nosmep		[X86]
2604			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2605			even if it is supported by processor.
2606
2607	noexec32	[X86-64]
2608			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2609			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2610				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2611			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2612				read implies executable mappings
2613
2614	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2615
2616	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2617			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2618			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2619
2620	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2621
2622	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2623			Equivalent to smt=1.
2624
2625	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2626			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2627			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2628			to spectre_v2=off.
2629
2630	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2631			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2632			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2633
2634	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2635			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2636			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2637			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2638			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2639			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2640
2641	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2642			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2643			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2644			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2645			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2646			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2647			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2648
2649	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2650			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2651			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2652
2653	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2654			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2655			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2656
2657	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2658			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2659			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2660			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2661			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2662			real-time systems.
2663
2664	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2665
2666	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2667			Valid arguments: on, off
2668			Default: on
2669
2670	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2671			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2672			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2673			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2674			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2675			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2676			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2677			just as if they had also been called out in the
2678			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2679
2680	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2681
2682	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2683			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2684
2685	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2686			broken timer IRQ sources.
2687
2688	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2689
2690	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2691			initial RAM disk.
2692
2693	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2694			remapping.
2695			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2696
2697	nointroute	[IA-64]
2698
2699	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2700
2701	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2702
2703	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2704
2705	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2706			fault handling.
2707
2708	no-vmw-sched-clock
2709			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2710			clock and use the default one.
2711
2712	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2713			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2714			behaviour
2715
2716	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2717
2718	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2719
2720	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2721			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2722
2723	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2724
2725	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2726
2727	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2728			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2729
2730	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2731			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2732			irq.
2733
2734	nomodule	Disable module load
2735
2736	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2737			pagetables) support.
2738
2739	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2740
2741	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2742			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2743
2744	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2745
2746	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2747			with UP alternatives
2748
2749	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2750			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2751			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2752			available to user space applications.
2753
2754	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2755			space.
2756
2757	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2758			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2759			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2760
2761	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2762
2763	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2764
2765	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2766			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2767
2768	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2769
2770	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2771
2772	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2773
2774	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2775                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2776
2777	nowb		[ARM]
2778
2779	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2780
2781	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2782			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2783			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2784			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2785			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2786			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2787			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2788			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2789			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2790			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2791			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2792			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2793			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2794
2795	nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2796			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2797			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2798			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2799			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2800			parameter's value.
2801			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2802			Default: 255
2803
2804	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2805			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2806			SAL PALO.
2807
2808	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2809			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2810			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2811			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2812			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2813			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2814			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2815			hot plugging.
2816
2817	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2818
2819	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2820			Allowed values are enable and disable
2821
2822	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2823			'node', 'default' can be specified
2824			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2825			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2826
2827	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2828			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2829			info.
2830
2831	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2832			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2833			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2834			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2835			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2836			interrupts *may* be lost!
2837
2838	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2839			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2840			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2841			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2842
2843	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2844			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2845
2846	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2847			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2848			userland or if you want common events.
2849			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2850			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2851				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2852				CPU specific event set.
2853			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2854				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2855				for generic hr timer mode)
2856
2857	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2858			process, but there is a small probability of
2859			deadlocking the machine.
2860			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2861			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2862
2863	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2864			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2865
2866	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2867			Storage of the information about who allocated
2868			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2869			we can turn it on.
2870			on: enable the feature
2871
2872	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2873			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2874			off: turn off poisoning
2875			on: turn on poisoning
2876
2877	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2878			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2879			timeout = 0: wait forever
2880			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2881			Format: <timeout>
2882
2883	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2884			on a WARN().
2885
2886	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2887			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2888			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2889			succeeds in any situation.
2890			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2891			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2892			kernel more unstable.
2893
2894	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2895			connected to, default is 0.
2896			Format: <parport#>
2897	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2898			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2899			Format: <mode>
2900
2901	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2902			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2903			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2904			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2905			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2906			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2907			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2908			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2909			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2910			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2911			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2912			are specified on the command line, starting
2913			with parport0.
2914
2915	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2916			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2917			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2918			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2919			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2920			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2921			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2922
2923	pause_on_oops=
2924			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2925			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2926			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2927
2928	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2929
2930	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2931			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2932			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2933
2934	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2935		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2936			        changes anything
2937		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2938		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2939				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2940				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2941		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2942				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2943				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2944				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2945		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2946				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2947				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2948		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2949				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2950				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2951				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2952				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2953				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2954				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2955		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2956				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2957				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2958		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2959				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2960		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2961				Configuration
2962		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2963				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2964				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2965		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2966				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2967				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2968		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2969				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2970				should never be necessary.
2971		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2972				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2973				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2974				when the system masks IRQs.
2975		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2976				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2977				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2978				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2979		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2980				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2981				on several machines and they hang the machine
2982				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2983				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2984				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2985				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2986				motherboard.
2987		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2988				Use with caution as certain devices share
2989				address decoders between ROMs and other
2990				resources.
2991		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2992				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2993				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2994		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2995				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2996		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2997				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2998				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2999				this way.
3000		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3001				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3002				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3003				F0000h-100000h range.
3004		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3005				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3006				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3007				explicitly which ones they are.
3008		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3009				numbers ourselves, overriding
3010				whatever the firmware may have done.
3011		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3012				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3013				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3014				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3015				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3016				IRQ routing is enabled.
3017		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3018				or for PCI scanning.
3019		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3020				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3021				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3022				please report a bug.
3023		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3024			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3025		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3026				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3027				so this option is a temporary workaround
3028				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3029		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3030				handle more pci cards
3031		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3032				This might help on some broken boards which
3033				machine check when some devices' config space
3034				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3035				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3036		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3037				This sorting is done to get a device
3038				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3039		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3040		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3041				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3042		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3043				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3044		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3045				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3046				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3047				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3048				or bus can support) for best performance.
3049		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3050				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3051				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3052				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3053				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3054				that hot-added devices will work.
3055		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3056				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3057				The default value is 256 bytes.
3058		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3059				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3060				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3061		resource_alignment=
3062				Format:
3063				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3064				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3065						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3066				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3067				aligned memory resources.
3068				If <order of align> is not specified,
3069				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3070				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3071				windows need to be expanded.
3072				To specify the alignment for several
3073				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3074				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3075				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3076		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3077				end-to-end CRC checking).
3078				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3079				the default.
3080				off: Turn ECRC off
3081				on: Turn ECRC on.
3082		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3083				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3084				Default size is 256 bytes.
3085		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3086				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3087				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3088		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3089				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3090				Default is 1.
3091		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3092				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3093				accommodate resources required by all child
3094				devices.
3095				off: Turn realloc off
3096				on: Turn realloc on
3097		realloc		same as realloc=on
3098		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3099		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3100				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3101				port.
3102		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3103				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3104				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3105				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3106				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3107				taints the kernel.
3108
3109	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3110			Management.
3111		off	Disable ASPM.
3112		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3113			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3114
3115	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3116		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3117			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3118
3119	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3120		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3121			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3122			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3123		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3124			unconditionally.
3125		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3126			ports driver.
3127
3128	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3129		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3130		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3131
3132	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3133		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3134			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3135
3136	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3137
3138	pd_ignore_unused
3139			[PM]
3140			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3141			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3142			for debug and development, but should not be
3143			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3144
3145	pd.		[PARIDE]
3146			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3147
3148	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3149			boot time.
3150			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3151			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3152
3153	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3154			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3155			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3156			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3157			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3158			and performance comparison.
3159
3160	pf.		[PARIDE]
3161			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3162
3163	pg.		[PARIDE]
3164			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3165
3166	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3167			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3168
3169	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3170			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3171			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3172
3173	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3174			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3175			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3176
3177	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3178			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3179			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3180			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3181			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3182			possible settings and some assignment information.
3183
3184	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3185			{ off }
3186
3187	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3188			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3189
3190	pnp_reserve_irq=
3191			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3192
3193	pnp_reserve_dma=
3194			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3195
3196	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3197			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3198
3199	pnp_reserve_mem=
3200			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3201			autoconfiguration.
3202			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3203
3204	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3205			Default is 21.
3206			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3207			may be specified.
3208			Format: <port>,<port>....
3209
3210	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3211			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3212			platform machine description specific power_save
3213			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3214			execution priority.
3215
3216	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3217			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3218			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3219			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3220			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3221
3222	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3223			Format: {"off"}
3224			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3225
3226	print-fatal-signals=
3227			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3228
3229			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3230			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3231			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3232			coredump - etc.
3233
3234			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3235			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3236
3237			default: off.
3238
3239	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3240			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3241			panics
3242			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3243			default: disabled
3244
3245	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3246			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3247			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3248			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3249			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3250			Default: ratelimit
3251
3252	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3253			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3254
3255	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3256			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3257			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3258
3259	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3260			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3261			instead using the legacy FADT method
3262
3263	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3264			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3265			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3266				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3267			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3268			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3269				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3270			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3271			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3272				statistical time based profiling.
3273
3274	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3275			before loading.
3276			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3277
3278	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3279			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3280	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3281			per second.
3282	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3283			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3284			(0 = never).
3285	psmouse.resolution=
3286			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3287	psmouse.smartscroll=
3288			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3289			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3290
3291	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3292
3293	pt.		[PARIDE]
3294			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3295
3296	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3297			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3298			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3299			system calls and interrupts.
3300
3301			on   - unconditionally enable
3302			off  - unconditionally disable
3303			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3304			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3305
3306			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3307
3308	nopti		[X86_64]
3309			Equivalent to pti=off
3310
3311	pty.legacy_count=
3312			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3313			default number.
3314
3315	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3316
3317	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3318
3319	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3320			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3321
3322	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3323			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3324
3325	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3326
3327		cec_disable	[X86]
3328				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3329				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3330
3331	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3332			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3333
3334			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3335			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3336			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3337			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3338			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3339			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3340			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3341			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3342			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3343			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3344
3345	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3346			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3347			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3348			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3349			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3350			This improves the real-time response for the
3351			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3352			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3353			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3354			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3355
3356	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3357			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3358			process in one batch.
3359
3360	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3361			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3362			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3363			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3364
3365	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3366			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3367			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3368
3369	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3370			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3371			RCU grace-period initialization.
3372
3373	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3374			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3375			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3376			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3377			the rcu_node combining tree.
3378
3379	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3380			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3381			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3382			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3383			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3384
3385	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3386			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3387			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3388			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3389			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3390			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3391			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3392
3393	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3394			Set required age in jiffies for a
3395			given grace period before RCU starts
3396			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3397			rcu_note_context_switch().
3398
3399	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3400			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3401			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3402			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3403			and maximum value is HZ.
3404
3405	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3406			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3407			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3408			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3409
3410	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3411			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3412			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3413			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3414			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3415			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3416			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3417			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3418			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3419			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3420
3421	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3422			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3423			defaults to the square root of the number of
3424			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3425			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3426			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3427
3428	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3429			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3430			batch limiting is disabled.
3431
3432	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3433			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3434			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3435
3436	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3437			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3438			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3439
3440	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3441			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3442			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3443			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3444			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3445
3446	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3447			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3448			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3449			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3450			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3451			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3452
3453	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3454			Measure performance of asynchronous
3455			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3456
3457	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3458			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3459			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3460			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3461			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3462			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3463
3464	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3465			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3466			grace-period primitives.
3467
3468	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3469			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3470			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3471			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3472			interference.
3473
3474	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3475			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3476			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3477			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3478			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3479			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3480			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3481			a single reader.
3482
3483	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3484			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3485			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3486			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3487
3488	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3489			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3490
3491	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3492			Shut the system down after performance tests
3493			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3494			testing.
3495
3496	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3497			Enable additional printk() statements.
3498
3499	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3500			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3501			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3502			no holdoff.
3503
3504	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3505			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3506			callback-flood tests.
3507
3508	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3509			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3510			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3511			test.
3512
3513	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3514			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3515			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3516			disable callback-flood testing.
3517
3518	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3519			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3520			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3521
3522	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3523			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3524			in microseconds.
3525
3526	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3527			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3528			in microseconds.
3529
3530	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3531			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3532			in seconds.
3533
3534	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3535			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3536			primitives, if available.
3537
3538	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3539			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3540
3541	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3542			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3543			update-side primitives, if available.
3544
3545	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3546			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3547			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3548			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3549			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3550			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3551			they are all non-zero.
3552
3553	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3554			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3555
3556	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3557			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3558			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3559			test, hence the "fake".
3560
3561	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3562			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3563			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3564			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3565			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3566			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3567
3568	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3569			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3570
3571	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3572			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3573
3574	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3575			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3576			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3577
3578	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3579			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3580			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3581			during the rcutorture test.
3582
3583	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3584			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3585			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3586
3587	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3588			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3589			warnings, zero to disable.
3590
3591	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3592			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3593
3594	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3595			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3596
3597	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3598			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3599
3600	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3601			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3602			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3603			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3604			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3605
3606	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3607			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3608			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3609			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3610
3611	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3612			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3613
3614	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3615			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3616
3617	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3618			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3619			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3620
3621	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3622			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3623
3624	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3625			Enable additional printk() statements.
3626
3627	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3628			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3629
3630	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3631			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3632
3633	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3634			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3635			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3636			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3637			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3638			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3639			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3640
3641	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3642			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3643			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3644			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3645			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3646			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3647			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3648			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3649			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3650
3651	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3652			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3653			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3654			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3655			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3656
3657	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3658			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3659			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3660			to zero.
3661
3662	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3663			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3664
3665	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3666			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3667
3668	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3669			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3670
3671	rdinit=		[KNL]
3672			Format: <full_path>
3673			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3674			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3675
3676	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3677			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3678			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3679			mba.
3680			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3681				rdt=cmt,!mba
3682
3683	reboot=		[KNL]
3684			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3685				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3686				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3687				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3688				[[,]f[orce]
3689			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3690			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3691			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3692			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3693					to be used for rebooting.
3694
3695	relax_domain_level=
3696			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3697			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3698
3699	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3700
3701	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3702			Format: nn[KMG]
3703			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3704			address space.
3705
3706	reservelow=	[X86]
3707			Format: nn[K]
3708			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3709			the bottom of the address space.
3710
3711	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3712			during initialization.
3713
3714	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3715			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3716			Format:
3717			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3718
3719	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3720			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3721			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3722			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3723			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3724
3725	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3726			read the resume files
3727
3728	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3729			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3730			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3731
3732	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3733		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3734				present during boot.
3735		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3736		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3737		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3738				(that will set all pages holding image data
3739				during restoration read-only).
3740
3741	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3742
3743	rfkill.default_state=
3744		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3745			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3746		1	Unblocked.
3747
3748	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3749		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3750		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3751			blocked and the previous configuration.
3752		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3753			blocked and everything unblocked.
3754
3755	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3756			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3757
3758	ring3mwait=disable
3759			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3760			CPUs.
3761
3762	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3763
3764	rodata=		[KNL]
3765		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3766		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3767
3768	rockchip.usb_uart
3769			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3770			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3771			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3772			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3773
3774	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3775			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3776
3777	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3778			mount the root filesystem
3779
3780	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3781
3782	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3783
3784	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3785			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3786			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3787
3788	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3789			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3790			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3791			managed by CMA.
3792
3793	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3794
3795	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3796
3797	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3798			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3799		strict
3800			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3801			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3802			which is faster.
3803
3804	sa1100ir	[NET]
3805			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3806
3807	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3808
3809	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3810
3811	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3812			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3813			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3814			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3815
3816	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3817			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3818			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3819			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3820			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3821			1 -- enable.
3822			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3823			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3824
3825	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3826			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3827			security module asking for security registration will be
3828			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3829			as if no module has been chosen.
3830
3831	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3832			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3833			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3834			0 -- disable.
3835			1 -- enable.
3836			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3837			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3838			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3839
3840	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3841			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3842			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3843			0 -- disable.
3844			1 -- enable.
3845			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3846
3847	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3848
3849	shapers=	[NET]
3850			Maximal number of shapers.
3851
3852	simeth=		[IA-64]
3853	simscsi=
3854
3855	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3856
3857	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3858			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3859			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3860			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3861			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3862			layout control by attackers can usually be
3863			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3864			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3865			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3866			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3867			own.
3868			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3869
3870	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3871			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3872			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3873			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3874			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3875
3876	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3877			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3878			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3879			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3880			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3881			last alloc / free. For more information see
3882			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3883
3884	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3885			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3886			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3887			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3888			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3889			directories and files being created under
3890			/sys/kernel/slub.
3891
3892	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3893			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3894			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3895			fragmentation. For more information see
3896			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3897
3898	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3899			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3900			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3901			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3902			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3903			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3904			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3905			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3906
3907	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3908			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3909			lower than slub_max_order.
3910			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3911
3912	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3913			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3914			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3915
3916	smart2=		[HW]
3917			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3918
3919	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3920	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3921	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3922	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3923	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3924	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3925	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3926				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3927				1: Fast pin select (default)
3928				2: ATC IRMode
3929
3930	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3931			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3932			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3933			actual hardware limit.
3934			Format: <integer>
3935			Default: -1 (no limit)
3936
3937	softlockup_panic=
3938			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3939			Format: <integer>
3940
3941			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3942			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3943			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3944			which is the respective build-time switch to that
3945			functionality.
3946
3947	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3948			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3949			backtraces on all cpus.
3950			Format: <integer>
3951
3952	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3953			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3954
3955	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3956			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3957
3958			on   - unconditionally enable
3959			off  - unconditionally disable
3960			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3961			       vulnerable
3962
3963			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3964			mitigation method at run time according to the
3965			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3966			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3967			compiler with which the kernel was built.
3968
3969			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3970
3971			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
3972			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3973			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3974
3975			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3976			spectre_v2=auto.
3977
3978	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3979	spia_fio_base=
3980	spia_pedr=
3981	spia_peddr=
3982
3983	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3984			Specifies how frequently to check for
3985			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3986			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3987			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3988			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3989			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
3990			are ignored.
3991
3992	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3993			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3994			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3995			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3996			grace period will be considered for automatic
3997			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
3998			expediting.
3999
4000	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4001			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4002			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4003			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4004			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4005			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4006
4007	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4008			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4009
4010	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4011			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4012			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4013			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4014			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4015			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4016			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4017
4018	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4019			Format: <num>
4020			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4021			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4022			as the initial boot-console.
4023			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4024
4025	sti_font=	[HW]
4026			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4027
4028	stifb=		[HW]
4029			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4030
4031	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4032	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4033			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4034			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4035			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4036			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4037			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4038			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4039			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4040			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4041			maximum port values.
4042
4043	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4044			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4045			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4046			process in parallel from a single connection.
4047			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4048
4049	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4050			[NFS]
4051			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4052			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4053			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4054			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4055			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4056			NFS server is running.
4057
4058			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4059				    automatically using heuristics
4060			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4061			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4062			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4063				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4064
4065	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4066	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4067			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4068			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4069			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4070			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4071			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4072			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4073
4074	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4075			[SUSPEND]
4076			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4077			mode before resuming the system (see
4078			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4079			is set. Default value is 5.
4080
4081	swapaccount=[0|1]
4082			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4083			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4084			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4085
4086	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4087			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4088			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4089			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4090			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4091			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4092
4093	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4094
4095	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4096			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4097			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4098			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4099			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4100			in older udev will not work anymore.
4101			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4102			the kernel configuration.
4103
4104	sysrq_always_enabled
4105			[KNL]
4106			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4107			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4108			Useful for debugging.
4109
4110	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4111			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4112			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4113			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4114			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4115			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4116
4117	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4118
4119	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4120			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4121			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4122			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4123			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4124			The system is woken from this state using a
4125			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4126
4127	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4128			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4129
4130	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4131			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4132			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4133
4134	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4135			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4136			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4137
4138	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4139			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4140			critical and hot trip points.
4141
4142	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4143			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4144
4145	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4146			-1: disable all passive trip points
4147			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4148			value
4149
4150	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4151			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4152			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4153			0: no polling (default)
4154
4155	threadirqs	[KNL]
4156			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4157			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4158
4159	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4160			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4161
4162	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4163			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4164			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4165
4166	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4167			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4168			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4169			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4170
4171	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4172			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4173			to the hypervisor.
4174
4175	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4176			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4177			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4178			kernel based on different criteria.
4179
4180	topology=	[S390]
4181			Format: {off | on}
4182			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4183			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4184			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4185			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4186			Default is on.
4187
4188	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4189			Format: {off}
4190			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4191			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4192			LPAR.
4193
4194	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4195
4196	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4197			Format: integer pcr id
4198			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4199			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4200			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4201			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4202			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4203			are saved.
4204
4205	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4206			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4207
4208	trace_event=[event-list]
4209			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4210			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4211			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4212			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4213
4214	trace_options=[option-list]
4215			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4216			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4217			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4218			to echo the option name into
4219
4220			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4221
4222			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4223			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4224
4225			      trace_options=stacktrace
4226
4227			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4228			section.
4229
4230	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4231			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4232			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4233			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4234			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4235			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4236
4237			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4238			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4239			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4240			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4241
4242			** CAUTION **
4243
4244			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4245			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4246			the system to live lock.
4247
4248	traceoff_on_warning
4249			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4250			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4251			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4252			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4253
4254			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4255			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4256			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4257
4258			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4259			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4260
4261	transparent_hugepage=
4262			[KNL]
4263			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4264			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4265			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4266			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4267
4268	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4269			Format: <string>
4270			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4271			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4272			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4273			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4274			virtualized environment.
4275			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4276			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4277			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4278			can add overhead.
4279			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4280			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4281			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4282
4283	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4284			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4285			Format:
4286			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4287			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4288
4289	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4290			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4291			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4292			help "seeing" what's going on.
4293
4294	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4295			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4296
4297	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4298			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4299			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4300			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4301			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4302			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4303			reported either.
4304
4305	unknown_nmi_panic
4306			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4307
4308	usbcore.authorized_default=
4309			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4310			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4311			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4312
4313	usbcore.autosuspend=
4314			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4315			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4316			is the time required before an idle device will be
4317			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4318			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4319
4320	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4321			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4322
4323	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4324			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4325			(default = 65536).
4326
4327	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4328			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4329
4330	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4331			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4332			scheme (default 0 = off).
4333
4334	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4335			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4336			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4337
4338	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4339			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4340			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4341
4342	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4343			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4344                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4345			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4346
4347	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4348
4349	usbhid.mousepoll=
4350			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4351
4352	usbhid.jspoll=
4353			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4354
4355	usb-storage.delay_use=
4356			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4357			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4358
4359	usb-storage.quirks=
4360			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4361			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4362			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4363			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4364			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4365			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4366			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4367				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4368					of sense data);
4369				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4370					bytes of sense data);
4371				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4372					device capacity by one sector);
4373				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4374					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4375				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4376					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4377				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4378					command, uas only);
4379				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4380					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4381				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4382					reported device capacity by one
4383					sector if the number is odd);
4384				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4385					device);
4386				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4387					command, uas only);
4388				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4389					unlock ejectable media);
4390				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4391					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4392				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4393					initial READ(10) command);
4394				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4395					reported by the device);
4396				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4397					by default);
4398				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4399					bogus residue values);
4400				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4401					Logical Unit);
4402				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4403					commands, uas only);
4404				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4405				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4406					medium is write-protected).
4407				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4408					even if the device claims no cache)
4409			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4410
4411	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4412			Format: <int>
4413			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4414				 1 - undefined instruction events
4415				 2 - system calls
4416				 4 - invalid data aborts
4417				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4418				16 - SIGBUS faults
4419			Example: user_debug=31
4420
4421	userpte=
4422			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4423
4424				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4425					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4426					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4427
4428	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4429			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4430
4431			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4432			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4433
4434	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4435			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4436			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4437
4438			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4439			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4440			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4441
4442			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4443			alias for vdso32=0.
4444
4445			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4446			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4447
4448	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4449			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4450
4451	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4452			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4453
4454	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4455			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4456			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4457			level and then send out the event to user space through
4458			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4459			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4460			brightness level.
4461			default: 1
4462
4463	virtio_mmio.device=
4464			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4465
4466				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4467			where:
4468				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4469						like K, M and G)
4470				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4471				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4472						request_irq())
4473				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4474			example:
4475				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4476
4477			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4478
4479	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4480			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4481			Documentation/svga.txt.
4482			Use vga=ask for menu.
4483			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4484			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4485
4486	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4487			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4488			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4489			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4490			mapped kernel RAM.
4491
4492	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4493			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4494			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4495
4496	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4497			Format: <command>
4498
4499	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4500			Format: <command>
4501
4502	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4503			Format: <command>
4504
4505	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4506			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4507			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4508			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4509			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4510			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4511			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4512
4513			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4514			            emulated reasonably safely.
4515
4516			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4517			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4518			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4519			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4520			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4521
4522			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4523			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4524			            might break your system.
4525
4526	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4527			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4528			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4529
4530	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4531			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4532			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4533			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4534
4535	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4536			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4537			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4538			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4539			ranging from 0-255.
4540
4541	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4542			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4543			Change the default green palette of the console.
4544			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4545			ranging from 0-255.
4546
4547	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4548			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4549			Change the default red palette of the console.
4550			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4551			ranging from 0-255.
4552
4553	vt.default_utf8=
4554			[VT]
4555			Format=<0|1>
4556			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4557			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4558			newly opened terminals.
4559
4560	vt.global_cursor_default=
4561			[VT]
4562			Format=<-1|0|1>
4563			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4564			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4565			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4566			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4567			cursors, 1 will display them.
4568
4569	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4570			Default: 2 = green.
4571
4572	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4573			Default: 3 = cyan.
4574
4575	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4576			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4577			or other driver-specific files in the
4578			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4579
4580	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4581			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4582			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4583			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4584			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4585			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4586			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4587			corresponding sysfs file.
4588
4589	workqueue.disable_numa
4590			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4591			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4592			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4593			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4594			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4595			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4596			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4597
4598	workqueue.power_efficient
4599			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4600			they show better performance thanks to cache
4601			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4602			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4603
4604			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4605			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4606			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4607			power usage at the cost of small performance
4608			overhead.
4609
4610			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4611			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4612
4613	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4614			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4615			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4616			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4617			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4618			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4619			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4620			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4621			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4622			impacted.
4623
4624	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4625			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4626			supporting x2apic.
4627
4628	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4629			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4630			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4631			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4632			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4633
4634	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4635			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4636			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4637			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4638			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4639			domains.
4640
4641	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4642			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4643			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4644			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4645			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4646			nics -- unplug network devices
4647			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4648			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4649				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4650				the unplug protocol
4651			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4652
4653	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4654			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4655			optimizations.
4656
4657	xen_nopv	[X86]
4658			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4659			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4660
4661	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4662			Format:
4663			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4664