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