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