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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=  [HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112                        GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113                        the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
393			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394			    until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400			    auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466			trust validation.
467			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473			others).
474
475	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482			  a single hierarchy
483			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484			  subsystem
485			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495			Format: <string>
496			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500			Format: { "0" | "1" }
501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503				any implied execute protection).
504			1 -- check protection requested by application.
505			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506			Value can be changed at runtime via
507				/selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509	cio_ignore=	[S390]
510			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511	clk_ignore_unused
512			[CLK]
513			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520			platform with proper driver support.  For more
521			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
522
523	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524			[Deprecated]
525			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
531			Format: <string>
532			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533			with the name specified.
534			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535			the platform:
536			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537			[ACPI] acpi_pm
538			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542			[MIPS] MIPS
543			[PARISC] cr16
544			[S390] tod
545			[SH] SuperH
546			[SPARC64] tick
547			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550			[ARM,ARM64]
551			Format: <bool>
552			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555			systems.
556
557	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562			ones should be.
563			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564			or using the feature without checking anything
565			will still see it. This just prevents it from
566			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568			some critical bits.
569
570	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571			[ARM,X86,KNL]
572			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574			placement constraint by the physical address range of
575			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576			altogether. For more information, see
577			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
582			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583			a hypervisor.
584			Default: yes
585
586	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
587			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588			allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
591			in an oops report.
592			Range: 0 - 8192
593			Default: 64
594
595	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
596			Format:
597			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
598
599	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
602	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
603			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
604			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
607	conmode=
608
609	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613		ttyS<n>[,options]
614		ttyUSB0[,options]
615			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
616			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
620
621			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
622			information.  See
623			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624			alternative.
625
626		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
628		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
629		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
631			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
633			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
635			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
639			the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
641		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
642			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
643
644                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646			console=brl,ttyS0
647		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
649	console_msg_format=
650			[KNL] Change console messages format
651		default
652			By default we print messages on consoles in
653			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
654			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
655			`printk_time' param).
656		syslog
657			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
658			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
659			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
660			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
661			from /proc/kmsg.
662
663	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
664			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
665                       Defaults to 0.
666
667	coredump_filter=
668			[KNL] Change the default value for
669			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
670			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
671
672	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
673			[ARM,ARM64]
674			Format: <bool>
675			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
676			0: default value, disable debugging
677			1: enable debugging at boot time
678
679	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
680			disable the cpuidle sub-system
681
682	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
683			disable the cpufreq sub-system
684
685	cpu_init_udelay=N
686			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
687			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
688			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
689			Default: 10000
690
691	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
692			Format:
693			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
694
695	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
696			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
697			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
698			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
699			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
700			is selected automatically. Check
701			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
702
703	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
704			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
705			in the running system. The syntax of range is
706			start-[end] where start and end are both
707			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
708			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
709
710	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
711			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
712			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
713			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
714			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
715			available.
716			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
717	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
718			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
719			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
720			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
721			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
722			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
723			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
724			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
725			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
726			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
727			for second kernel instead.
728			0: to disable low allocation.
729			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
730			or memory reserved is below 4G.
731
732	cryptomgr.notests
733                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
734
735	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
736			Format: <dma>
737
738	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
739			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
740
741	dasd=		[HW,NET]
742			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
743
744	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
745			(one device per port)
746			Format: <port#>,<type>
747			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
748
749	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
750			time. See
751			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
752			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
753
754	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
755
756	debug_locks_verbose=
757			[KNL] verbose self-tests
758			Format=<0|1>
759			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
760			self-tests.
761			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
762			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
763			only useful to kernel developers.
764
765	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
766
767	no_debug_objects
768			[KNL] Disable object debugging
769
770	debug_guardpage_minorder=
771			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
772			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
773			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
774			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
775			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
776			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
777			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
778			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
779			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
780			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
781			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
782			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
783			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
784			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
785			bypassed) which are not detectable by
786			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
787			tracking down these problems.
788
789	debug_pagealloc=
790			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
791			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
792			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
793			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
794			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
795			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
796			on: enable the feature
797
798	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
799
800	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
801			Format: <area>[,<node>]
802			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
803
804	default_hugepagesz=
805			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
806			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
807			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
808			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
809			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
810			if not specified.
811
812	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
813			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
814
815	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
816			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
817			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
818			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
819			miss to occur.
820
821	disable=	[IPV6]
822			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
823
824	disable_radix	[PPC]
825			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
826
827	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
828			Format: <int>
829			The number of initial APIC ID for the
830			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
831			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
832			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
833			causing system reset or hang due to sending
834			INIT from AP to BSP.
835
836	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
837			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
838			to workaround buggy firmware.
839
840	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
841			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
843	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
844			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
845			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
846			entry later. This parameter disables that.
847
848	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
849			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
850			memory out of your available memory pool based on
851			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
852			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
853
854	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
855			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
856			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
857
858	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
859
860	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
861			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
862
863	dma_debug_entries=<number>
864			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
865			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
866			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
867			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
868			architectural default is too low.
869
870	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
871			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
872			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
873			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
874			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
875			driver later using sysfs.
876
877	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
878			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
879			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
880			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
881			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
882			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
883			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
884			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
885			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
886			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
887			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
888			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
889			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
890			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
891			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
892			data set with no connector name will be used for
893			any connectors not explicitly specified.
894
895	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
896
897	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
898			Format: {"off" | "known"}
899			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
900			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
901			exists).
902			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
903			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
904			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
905
906	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
907			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
908			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
909			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
910
911	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
912	module.dyndbg[="val"]
913			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
914			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
915			for details.
916
917	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
918			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
919			information about the feature.
920
921	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
922			in some Intel CPUs.
923
924	module.async_probe [KNL]
925			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
926
927	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
928			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
929			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
930			which are not unmapped.
931
932	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
933
934			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
935			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
936			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
937
938			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
939			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
940
941		cdns,<addr>[,options]
942			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
943			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
944			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
945			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
946			configured.
947
948		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
949		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
950		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
951		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
952		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
953			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
954			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
955			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
956			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
957			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
958			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
959			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
960			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
961
962		pl011,<addr>
963		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
964			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
965			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
966			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
967			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
968			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
969			the device registers.
970
971		meson,<addr>
972			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
973			port at the specified address. The serial port must
974			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
975			supported.
976
977		msm_serial,<addr>
978			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979			port at the specified address. The serial port
980			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981			yet supported.
982
983		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
984			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
985			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
986			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
987			yet supported.
988
989		owl,<addr>
990			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
991			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
992			specified address. The serial port must already be
993			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
994
995		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
996
997		s3c2410,<addr>
998		s3c2412,<addr>
999		s3c2440,<addr>
1000		s3c6400,<addr>
1001		s5pv210,<addr>
1002		exynos4210,<addr>
1003			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1004			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1005			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1006			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1007			Options are not yet supported.
1008
1009		lantiq,<addr>
1010			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1011			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1012			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013			yet supported.
1014
1015		lpuart,<addr>
1016		lpuart32,<addr>
1017			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1018			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1019			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1020			port must already be setup and configured.
1021
1022		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1023			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1024			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1025			address. The serial port must already be setup
1026			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1027
1028	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1029			earlyprintk=vga
1030			earlyprintk=efi
1031			earlyprintk=sclp
1032			earlyprintk=xen
1033			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1034			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1035			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1036			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1037			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1038			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1039
1040			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1041			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1042			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1043
1044			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1045			takes over.
1046
1047			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1048			be used at a time.
1049
1050			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1051			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1052			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1053			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1054				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1055			You can find the port for a given device in
1056			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1057				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1058
1059			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1060			very good.
1061
1062			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1063			the real console.
1064
1065			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1066
1067			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1068
1069	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1070			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1071			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1072			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1073			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1074			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1075			default: on.
1076
1077	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1078			ekgdboc=kbd
1079
1080			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1081			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1082
1083	edd=		[EDD]
1084			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1085
1086	efi=		[EFI]
1087			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1088			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1089			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1090			default.
1091			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1092			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1093			firmware implementations.
1094			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1095			debug: enable misc debug output
1096
1097	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1098			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1099			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1100			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1101			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1102
1103	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1104			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1105			updating original EFI memory map.
1106			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1107			from ss to ss+nn.
1108			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1109			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1110			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1111			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1112
1113			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1114			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1115			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1116			doesn't support it.
1117
1118	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1119			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1120			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1121			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1122			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1123
1124
1125	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1126			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1127
1128	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1129			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1130			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1131
1132	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1133			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1134			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1135			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1136
1137	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1138			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1139			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1140			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1141			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1142
1143	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1144			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1145			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1146			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1147
1148	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1149			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1150			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1151			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1152			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1153
1154	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1155			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1156			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1157			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1158			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1159			Default value is 0.
1160			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1161
1162	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1163			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1164			support.
1165
1166	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1167			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1168			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1169
1170	evm=		[EVM]
1171			Format: { "fix" }
1172			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1173			current integrity status.
1174
1175	failslab=
1176	fail_page_alloc=
1177	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1178			General fault injection mechanism.
1179			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1180			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1181
1182	floppy=		[HW]
1183			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1184
1185	force_pal_cache_flush
1186			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1187			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1188			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1189			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1190
1191	forcepae [X86-32]
1192			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1193			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1194			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1195			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1196			and may cause unknown problems.
1197
1198	ftrace=[tracer]
1199			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1200			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1201			boot debugging.
1202
1203	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1204			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1205			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1206			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1207			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1208			oops.
1209
1210	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1211			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1212			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1213			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1214			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1215			tracing directory.
1216
1217	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1218			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1219			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1220			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1221			tracing directory.
1222
1223	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1224			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1225			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1226			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1227			that can be changed at run time by the
1228			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
1230	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1231			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1232			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1233			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1234			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1235
1236	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1237			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1238			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1239			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1240			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1241
1242	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1243			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1244			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1245			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1246			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1247
1248	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1249
1250	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1251			Format: off | on
1252			default: on
1253
1254	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1255			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1256			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1257			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1258			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1259
1260	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1261			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1262			android emulator
1263
1264	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1265			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1266			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1267			GPT to be used instead.
1268
1269	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1270			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1271			Format: 0 | 1
1272			Default: 0
1273	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1274			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1275			Format: 0 | 1
1276			Default: 0
1277	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1278			Format: 0 | 1
1279			Default: 0
1280	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1281			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1282			Default: 1024
1283	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1284			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1285			Default: 1024
1286
1287	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1288			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1289			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1290
1291	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1292			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1293			backtraces on all cpus.
1294			Format: <integer>
1295
1296	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1297			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1298			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1299			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1300
1301	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1302
1303	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1304			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1305
1306	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1307			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1308			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1309			logic will be disabled.
1310
1311	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1312			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1313			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1314			size on bigger boxes.
1315
1316	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1317			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1318			Default: "on"
1319
1320	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1321			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1322
1323	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1324
1325	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1326			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1327				verbose }
1328			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1329			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1330				VIA, nVidia)
1331			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1332
1333	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1334			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1335
1336	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1337	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1338			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1339			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1340			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1341			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1342			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1343
1344	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1345			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1346	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1347			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1348			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1349
1350	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1351			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1352			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1353			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1354			the real console.
1355
1356	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1357			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1358			     registered from board initialization code.
1359			     Format:
1360			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1361
1362	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1363	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1364			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1365			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1366			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1367	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1368	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1369			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1370			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1371	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1372	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1373	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1374			     for the AUX port
1375	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1376			     controller
1377	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1378			     controllers
1379	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1380	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1381			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1382			     transitions, or never reset
1383			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1384			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1385			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1386			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1387			architectures force reset to be always executed
1388	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1389	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1390
1391	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1392
1393	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1394			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1395			hardware.
1396	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1397			does not match list of supported models.
1398	i8k.power_status
1399			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1400			(disabled by default)
1401	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1402			capability is set.
1403
1404	i915.invert_brightness=
1405			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1406			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1407			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1408			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1409			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1410			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1411			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1412			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1413			value switches the backlight off.
1414			-1 -- never invert brightness
1415			 0 -- machine default
1416			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1417
1418	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1419			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1420
1421	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1422			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1423			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1424			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1425			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1426
1427	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1428			Format: <int>
1429			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1430			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1431			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1432			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1433			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1434			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1435			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1436			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1437			was 0x3.
1438
1439	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1440			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1441
1442	idle=		[X86]
1443			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1444			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1445			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1446			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1447			Not recommended.
1448			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1449			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1450			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1451
1452	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1453			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1454			Default: strict
1455
1456			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1457			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1458			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1459			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1460			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1461			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1462			encoding mode.
1463
1464			Available settings are as follows:
1465			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1466				supported by the FPU
1467			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1468				by the FPU
1469			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1470				by the FPU
1471			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1472				supported by the FPU
1473
1474			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1475			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1476			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1477			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1478			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1479			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1480			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1481			MIPS64 CPUs.
1482
1483			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1484			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1485			except where unsupported by hardware.
1486
1487	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1488			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1489			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1490			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1491			could change it dynamically, usually by
1492			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1493
1494	ignore_rlimit_data
1495			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1496			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1497			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1498
1499	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1500			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1501
1502	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1503			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1504			default: "enforce"
1505
1506	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1507			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1508			owned by uid=0.
1509
1510	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1511			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1512			measurements, instead of host native format.
1513
1514	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1515			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1516				   | sha512 | ... }
1517			default: "sha1"
1518
1519			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1520			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1521
1522	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1523			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1524			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1525
1526			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1527			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1528			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1529			uid=0.
1530
1531			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1532			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1533			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1534
1535			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1536			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1537			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1538
1539	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1540			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1541			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1542			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1543			opened for read by uid=0.
1544
1545	ima_template=   [IMA]
1546			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1547			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1548			Default: "ima-ng"
1549
1550	ima_template_fmt=
1551	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1552			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1553
1554	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1555			Format: <min_file_size>
1556			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1557			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1558
1559			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1560			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1561			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1562
1563	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1564			Format: <bufsize>
1565			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1566
1567			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1568			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1569			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1570
1571	init=		[KNL]
1572			Format: <full_path>
1573			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1574			process.
1575
1576	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1577			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1578			startup.
1579
1580	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1581			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1582			modules and initcalls.
1583
1584	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1585
1586	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1587			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1588			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1589			override in debugfs after boot.
1590
1591	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1592			Format: <irq>
1593
1594	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1595
1596	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1597			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1598			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1599			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1600
1601	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1602		on
1603			Enable intel iommu driver.
1604		off
1605			Disable intel iommu driver.
1606		igfx_off [Default Off]
1607			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1608			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1609			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1610			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1611			DMA.
1612		forcedac [x86_64]
1613			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1614			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1615			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1616			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1617			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1618			then look in the higher range.
1619		strict [Default Off]
1620			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1621			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1622			to batching them for performance.
1623		sp_off [Default Off]
1624			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1625			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1626			not be supported.
1627		ecs_off [Default Off]
1628			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1629			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1630			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1631			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1632			on hardware which claims to support them.
1633		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1634			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1635			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1636			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1637			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1638			mapping is enabled.
1639			Note that using this option lowers the security
1640			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1641			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1642
1643	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1644			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1645			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1646
1647	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1648		       disable
1649		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1650		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1651		       passive
1652			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1653			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1654			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1655			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1656			 feature.
1657		       force
1658			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1659			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1660			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1661			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1662			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1663			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1664			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1665			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1666		       no_hwp
1667		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1668			 if available.
1669		hwp_only
1670			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1671			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1672		support_acpi_ppc
1673			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1674			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1675			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1676			then this feature is turned on by default.
1677		per_cpu_perf_limits
1678			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1679			cpufreq sysfs interface
1680
1681	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1682			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1683			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1684			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1685			no_x2apic_optout
1686				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1687			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1688
1689	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1690		strict	regions from userspace.
1691		relaxed
1692
1693	iommu=		[x86]
1694		off
1695		force
1696		noforce
1697		biomerge
1698		panic
1699		nopanic
1700		merge
1701		nomerge
1702		forcesac
1703		soft
1704		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1705		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1706			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1707
1708	iommu.passthrough=
1709			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1710			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1711			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1712			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1713			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1714
1715	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1716			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1717			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1718
1719	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1720		0x80
1721			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1722		0xed
1723			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1724		udelay
1725			Simple two microseconds delay
1726		none
1727			No delay
1728
1729	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1730			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1731
1732	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1733			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1734
1735	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1736			[ARM, ARM64]
1737			Format: <bool>
1738			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1739			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1740			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1741
1742	irqfixup	[HW]
1743			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1744			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1745			firmware running.
1746
1747	irqpoll		[HW]
1748			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1749			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1750			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1751			firmware running.
1752
1753	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1754			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1755
1756	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1757			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1758			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1759
1760			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1761			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1762
1763			nohz
1764			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1765
1766			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1767			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1768			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1769			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1770			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1771
1772			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1773			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1774			  be configured manually after bootup.
1775
1776			domain
1777			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1778			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1779			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1780			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1781			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1782			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1783			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1784			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1785
1786			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1787			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1788			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1789			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1790
1791			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1792
1793
1794
1795	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1796
1797	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1798			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1799			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1800			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1801			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1802				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1803
1804	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1805			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1806			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1807			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1808			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1809				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1810
1811	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1812			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1813			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1814			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1815			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1816				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1817
1818	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1819			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1820
1821	nokaslr		[KNL]
1822			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1823			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1824			Layout Randomization).
1825
1826	kasan_multi_shot
1827			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1828			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1829			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1830			invalid access.
1831
1832	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1833
1834	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1835			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1836			This parameter
1837			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1838			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1839			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1840			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1841			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1842			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1843			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1844			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1845			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1846			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1847			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1848			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1849			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1850			zone if it does not.
1851
1852			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1853			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1854			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1855			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1856			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1857			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1858			time.
1859
1860	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1861			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1862			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1863			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1864			optional and is the number seconds in between
1865			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1866			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1867			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1868			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1869			the kernel debugger.
1870
1871	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1872			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1873			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1874			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1875			 keyboard only format: kbd
1876			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1877			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1878			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1879			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1880
1881	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1882			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1883
1884	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1885			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1886			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1887
1888	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1889			Valid arguments: on, off
1890			Default: on
1891			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1892			the default is off.
1893
1894	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1895			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1896
1897	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1898			KVM MMU at runtime.
1899			Default is 0 (off)
1900
1901	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1902			Default is 1 (enabled)
1903
1904	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1905			for all guests.
1906			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1907
1908	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1909			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1910			system registers
1911
1912	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1913			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1914			system registers
1915
1916	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1917			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1918			system registers
1919
1920	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1921			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1922			LPIs.
1923
1924	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1925			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1926			Default is 1 (enabled)
1927
1928	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1929			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1930			Default is 0 (disabled)
1931
1932	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1933			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1934			Default is 1 (enabled)
1935
1936	kvm-intel.nested=
1937			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1938			Default is 0 (disabled)
1939
1940	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1941			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1942			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1943			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1944
1945	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1946			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1947			Default is 1 (enabled)
1948
1949	l2cr=		[PPC]
1950
1951	l3cr=		[PPC]
1952
1953	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1954			disabled it.
1955
1956	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1957			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1958			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1959
1960	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1961			in C2 power state.
1962
1963	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1964			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1965			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1966			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1967			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1968			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1969			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1970
1971	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1972			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1973			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1974
1975	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1976			when set.
1977			Format: <int>
1978
1979	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1980			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1981			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1982			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1983			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1984			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1985			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1986			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1987
1988			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1989			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1990			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1991			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1992			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1993			host link and device attached to it.
1994
1995			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1996			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1997			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1998			The following configurations can be forced.
1999
2000			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2001			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2002
2003			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2004
2005			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2006			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2007			  allowed.
2008
2009			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2010
2011			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2012
2013			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2014                          and both resets.
2015
2016			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2017			  hot-unplug link recovery
2018
2019			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2020
2021			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2022
2023			* disable: Disable this device.
2024
2025			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2026			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2027
2028	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2029
2030	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2031			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2032
2033	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2034			Format: <integer>
2035
2036	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2037			Format: <integer>
2038
2039	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2040			Format: <integer>
2041
2042	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2043			Format: <integer>
2044
2045	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2046			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2047			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2048			number of online CPUs.
2049
2050	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2051			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2052
2053	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2054			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2055
2056	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2057			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2058			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2059
2060	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2061			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2062			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2063			mode during the locktorture test.
2064
2065	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2066			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2067			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2068
2069	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2070			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2071
2072	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2073			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2074			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2075			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2076			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2077			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2078
2079	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2080			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2081
2082	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2083			Enable additional printk() statements.
2084
2085	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2086			Format: <irq>
2087
2088	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2089			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2090			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2091			loglevels are defined as follows:
2092
2093			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2094			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2095			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2096			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2097			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2098			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2099			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2100			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2101
2102	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2103			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2104			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2105			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2106			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2107			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2108			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2109
2110	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2111			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2112			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2113			kernel boot problems.
2114
2115	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2116	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2117	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2118	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2119				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2120				attached printers to be reset. Using
2121				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2122				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2123				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2124				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2125				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2126				port specification list means that device IDs
2127				from each port should be examined, to see if
2128				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2129				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2130				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2131
2132	lpj=n		[KNL]
2133			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2134			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2135			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2136			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2137			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2138			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2139			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2140			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2141			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2142			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2143			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2144			hardware.
2145
2146	ltpc=		[NET]
2147			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2148
2149	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2150			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2151			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2152
2153	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2154			 yeeloong laptop.
2155			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2156
2157	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2158			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2159
2160	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2161			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2162			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2163			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2164			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2165			only takes effect during system bootup.
2166			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2167			which also disables the IO APIC.
2168
2169	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2170	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2171			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2172			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2173			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2174			/dev/loop-control interface.
2175
2176	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2177
2178	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2179
2180	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2181			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2182
2183	mdacon=		[MDA]
2184			Format: <first>,<last>
2185			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2186
2187	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2188			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2189			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2190			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2191			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2192			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2193			belonging to unused RAM.
2194
2195	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2196			memory.
2197
2198	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2199			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2200			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2201
2202        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2203			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2204			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2205			set according to the
2206			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2207			option.
2208			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2209
2210	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2211			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2212			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2213			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2214			option description.
2215
2216	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2217			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2218			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2219			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2220			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2221			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2222			comma delimited.
2223			Example:
2224				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2225
2226	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2227			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2228			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2229
2230	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2231			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2232			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2233			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2234			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2235			         or
2236			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2237			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2238			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2239			will be eaten.
2240
2241	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2242			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2243			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2244			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2245			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2246
2247	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2248			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2249			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2250			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2251			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2252			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2253			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2254			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2255
2256	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2257			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2258			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2259			Setting this option will scan the memory
2260			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2261			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2262			from using the memory being corrupted.
2263			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2264			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2265			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2266			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2267
2268	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2269			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2270			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2271			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2272			corruption in more or less memory.
2273
2274	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2275			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2276			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2277			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2278
2279	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2280			Format: <integer>
2281			default : 0 <disable>
2282			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2283			performed. Each pass selects another test
2284			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2285			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2286			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2287			regions that are detected.
2288
2289	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2290			Valid arguments: on, off
2291			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2292			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2293			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2294			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2295			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2296
2297			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2298			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2299
2300	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2301			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2302			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2303			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2304			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2305
2306	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2307			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2308
2309	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2310			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2311			platforms.
2312
2313	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2314			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2315			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2316			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2317
2318	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2319
2320	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2321			physical address is ignored.
2322
2323	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2324			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2325			Default: "0tb"
2326			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2327			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2328			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2329			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2330			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2331			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2332			unconfigured.
2333			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2334			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2335			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2336			VGA shield.
2337			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2338			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2339			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2340			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2341			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2342			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2343
2344	mminit_loglevel=
2345			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2346			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2347			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2348			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2349			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2350			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2351
2352	module.sig_enforce
2353			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2354			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2355			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2356			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2357
2358	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2359			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2360
2361	mousedev.tap_time=
2362			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2363			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2364			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2365			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2366			Format: <msecs>
2367	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2368			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2369	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2370			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2371
2372	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2373			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2374			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2375			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2376			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2377			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2378			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2379			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2380			is not too small.
2381
2382	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2383			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2384			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2385			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2386			allocations. Use with caution!
2387
2388	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2389			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2390
2391	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2392			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2393
2394	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2395			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2396
2397	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2398			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2399			at a time.
2400
2401	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2402
2403			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2404
2405			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2406				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2407			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2408				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2409				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2410
2411	mtdset=		[ARM]
2412			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2413
2414			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2415
2416	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2417			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2418			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2419
2420	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2421			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2422			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2423
2424	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2425			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2426			Default is 1.
2427			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2428			using up MTRRs.
2429
2430	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2431			Format: <integer>
2432			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2433			Default : 1
2434			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2435			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2436
2437	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2438
2439	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2440			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2441			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2442			something different and driver-specific.
2443			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2444			file if at all.
2445
2446	nf_conntrack.acct=
2447			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2448			0 to disable accounting
2449			1 to enable accounting
2450			Default value is 0.
2451
2452	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2453			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2454
2455	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2456			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2457
2458	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2459			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2460
2461	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2462			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2463			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2464			requests.
2465
2466	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2467			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2468			channel should listen.
2469
2470	nfs.cache_getent=
2471			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2472			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2473
2474	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2475			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2476			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2477
2478	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2479			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2480			entries.
2481
2482	nfs.enable_ino64=
2483			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2484			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2485			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2486			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2487			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2488
2489	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2490			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2491			slots the client will assign to the callback
2492			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2493			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2494			a particular server.
2495
2496	nfs.max_session_slots=
2497			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2498			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2499			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2500			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2501			Note that there is little point in setting this
2502			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2503
2504	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2505			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2506			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2507			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2508			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2509			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2510			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2511			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2512			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2513			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2514			back to using the idmapper.
2515			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2516	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2517			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2518			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2519			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2520			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2521
2522	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2523			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2524			information in exchange_id requests.
2525			If zero, no implementation identification information
2526			will be sent.
2527			The default is to send the implementation identification
2528			information.
2529
2530	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2531			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2532			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2533			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2534			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2535			after the locks are lost.
2536			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2537			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2538			parameter to '1'.
2539			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2540			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2541
2542	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2543			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2544			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2545
2546			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2547			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2548			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2549			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2550
2551	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2552			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2553			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2554			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2555			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2556			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2557
2558	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2559			when a NMI is triggered.
2560			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2561
2562	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2563			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2564			Valid num: 0 or 1
2565			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2566			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2567			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2568			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2569			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2570			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2571			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2572			need the box quickly up again.
2573
2574			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2575			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2576
2577	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2578			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2579			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2580			waits 4 seconds.
2581
2582	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2583			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2584			is present.
2585
2586	no_console_suspend
2587			[HW] Never suspend the console
2588			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2589			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2590			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2591			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2592			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2593			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2594			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2595			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2596			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2597			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2598			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2599			turn on/off it dynamically.
2600
2601	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2602			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2603			but will impact performance.
2604
2605	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2606
2607	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2608			(CPU alternatives feature).
2609
2610	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2611			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2612
2613	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2614
2615	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2616			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2617
2618	nocache		[ARM]
2619
2620	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2621
2622	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2623
2624	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2625
2626	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2627
2628	noexec		[IA-64]
2629
2630	noexec		[X86]
2631			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2632			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2633			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2634
2635	nosmap		[X86]
2636			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2637			even if it is supported by processor.
2638
2639	nosmep		[X86]
2640			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2641			even if it is supported by processor.
2642
2643	noexec32	[X86-64]
2644			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2645			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2646				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2647			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2648				read implies executable mappings
2649
2650	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2651
2652	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2653			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2654			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2655
2656	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2657
2658	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2659			Equivalent to smt=1.
2660
2661	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2662			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2663			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2664			to spectre_v2=off.
2665
2666	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2667			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2668			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2669
2670	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2671			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2672			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2673			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2674			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2675			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2676
2677	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2678			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2679			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2680			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2681			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2682			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2683			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2684
2685	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2686			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2687			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2688
2689	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2690			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2691			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2692
2693	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2694			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2695			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2696			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2697			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2698			real-time systems.
2699
2700	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2701
2702	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2703			Valid arguments: on, off
2704			Default: on
2705
2706	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2707			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2708			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2709			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2710			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2711			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2712			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2713			just as if they had also been called out in the
2714			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2715
2716	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2717
2718	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2719			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2720
2721	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2722			broken timer IRQ sources.
2723
2724	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2725
2726	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2727			initial RAM disk.
2728
2729	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2730			remapping.
2731			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2732
2733	nointroute	[IA-64]
2734
2735	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2736
2737	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2738
2739	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2740
2741	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2742			fault handling.
2743
2744	no-vmw-sched-clock
2745			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2746			clock and use the default one.
2747
2748	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2749			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2750			behaviour
2751
2752	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2753
2754	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2755
2756	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2757			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2758
2759	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2760
2761	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2762
2763	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2764			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2765
2766	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2767			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2768			irq.
2769
2770	nomodule	Disable module load
2771
2772	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2773			pagetables) support.
2774
2775	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2776
2777	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2778			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2779
2780	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2781			with UP alternatives
2782
2783	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2784			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2785			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2786			available to user space applications.
2787
2788	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2789			space.
2790
2791	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2792			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2793			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2794
2795	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2796
2797	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2798
2799	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2800			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2801
2802	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2803
2804	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2805
2806	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2807
2808	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2809                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2810
2811	nowb		[ARM]
2812
2813	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2814
2815	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2816			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2817			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2818			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2819			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2820			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2821			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2822			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2823			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2824			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2825			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2826			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2827			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2828
2829	nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2830			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2831			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2832			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2833			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2834			parameter's value.
2835			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2836			Default: 255
2837
2838	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2839			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2840			SAL PALO.
2841
2842	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2843			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2844			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2845			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2846			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2847			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2848			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2849			hot plugging.
2850
2851	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2852
2853	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2854			Allowed values are enable and disable
2855
2856	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2857			'node', 'default' can be specified
2858			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2859			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2860
2861	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2862			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2863			info.
2864
2865	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2866			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2867			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2868			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2869			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2870			interrupts *may* be lost!
2871
2872	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2873			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2874			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2875			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2876
2877	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2878			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2879
2880	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2881			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2882			userland or if you want common events.
2883			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2884			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2885				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2886				CPU specific event set.
2887			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2888				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2889				for generic hr timer mode)
2890
2891	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2892			process, but there is a small probability of
2893			deadlocking the machine.
2894			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2895			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2896
2897	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2898			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2899
2900	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2901			Storage of the information about who allocated
2902			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2903			we can turn it on.
2904			on: enable the feature
2905
2906	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2907			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2908			off: turn off poisoning
2909			on: turn on poisoning
2910
2911	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2912			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2913			timeout = 0: wait forever
2914			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2915			Format: <timeout>
2916
2917	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2918			on a WARN().
2919
2920	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2921			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2922			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2923			succeeds in any situation.
2924			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2925			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2926			kernel more unstable.
2927
2928	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2929			connected to, default is 0.
2930			Format: <parport#>
2931	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2932			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2933			Format: <mode>
2934
2935	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2936			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2937			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2938			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2939			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2940			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2941			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2942			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2943			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2944			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2945			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2946			are specified on the command line, starting
2947			with parport0.
2948
2949	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2950			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2951			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2952			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2953			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2954			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2955			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2956
2957	pause_on_oops=
2958			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2959			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2960			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2961
2962	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2963
2964	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2965			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2966			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2967
2968	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2969		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2970			        changes anything
2971		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2972		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2973				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2974				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2975		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2976				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2977				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2978				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2979		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2980				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2981				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2982		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2983				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2984				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2985				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2986				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2987				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2988				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2989		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2990				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2991				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2992		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2993				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2994		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2995				Configuration
2996		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2997				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2998				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2999		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3000				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3001				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3002		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3003				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3004				should never be necessary.
3005		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3006				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3007				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3008				when the system masks IRQs.
3009		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3010				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3011				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3012				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3013		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3014				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3015				on several machines and they hang the machine
3016				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3017				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3018				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3019				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3020				motherboard.
3021		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3022				Use with caution as certain devices share
3023				address decoders between ROMs and other
3024				resources.
3025		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3026				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3027				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3028		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3029				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3030		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3031				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3032				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3033				this way.
3034		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3035				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3036				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3037				F0000h-100000h range.
3038		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3039				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3040				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3041				explicitly which ones they are.
3042		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3043				numbers ourselves, overriding
3044				whatever the firmware may have done.
3045		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3046				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3047				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3048				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3049				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3050				IRQ routing is enabled.
3051		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3052				or for PCI scanning.
3053		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3054				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3055				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3056				please report a bug.
3057		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3058			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3059		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3060				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3061				so this option is a temporary workaround
3062				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3063		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3064				handle more pci cards
3065		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3066				This might help on some broken boards which
3067				machine check when some devices' config space
3068				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3069				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3070		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3071				This sorting is done to get a device
3072				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3073		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3074		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3075				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3076		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3077				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3078		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3079				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3080				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3081				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3082				or bus can support) for best performance.
3083		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3084				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3085				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3086				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3087				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3088				that hot-added devices will work.
3089		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3090				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3091				The default value is 256 bytes.
3092		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3093				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3094				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3095		resource_alignment=
3096				Format:
3097				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3098				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3099						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3100				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3101				aligned memory resources.
3102				If <order of align> is not specified,
3103				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3104				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3105				windows need to be expanded.
3106				To specify the alignment for several
3107				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3108				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3109				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3110		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3111				end-to-end CRC checking).
3112				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3113				the default.
3114				off: Turn ECRC off
3115				on: Turn ECRC on.
3116		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3117				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3118				Default size is 256 bytes.
3119		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3120				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3121				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3122		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3123				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3124				Default is 1.
3125		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3126				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3127				accommodate resources required by all child
3128				devices.
3129				off: Turn realloc off
3130				on: Turn realloc on
3131		realloc		same as realloc=on
3132		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3133		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3134				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3135				port.
3136		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3137				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3138				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3139				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3140				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3141				taints the kernel.
3142
3143	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3144			Management.
3145		off	Disable ASPM.
3146		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3147			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3148
3149	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3150		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3151			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3152
3153	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3154		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3155			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3156			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3157		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3158			unconditionally.
3159		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3160			ports driver.
3161
3162	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3163		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3164		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3165
3166	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3167		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3168			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3169
3170	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3171
3172	pd_ignore_unused
3173			[PM]
3174			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3175			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3176			for debug and development, but should not be
3177			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3178
3179	pd.		[PARIDE]
3180			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3181
3182	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3183			boot time.
3184			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3185			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3186
3187	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3188			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3189			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3190			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3191			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3192			and performance comparison.
3193
3194	pf.		[PARIDE]
3195			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3196
3197	pg.		[PARIDE]
3198			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3199
3200	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3201			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3202
3203	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3204			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3205			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3206
3207	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3208			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3209			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3210
3211	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3212			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3213			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3214			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3215			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3216			possible settings and some assignment information.
3217
3218	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3219			{ off }
3220
3221	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3222			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3223
3224	pnp_reserve_irq=
3225			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3226
3227	pnp_reserve_dma=
3228			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3229
3230	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3231			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3232
3233	pnp_reserve_mem=
3234			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3235			autoconfiguration.
3236			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3237
3238	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3239			Default is 21.
3240			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3241			may be specified.
3242			Format: <port>,<port>....
3243
3244	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3245			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3246			platform machine description specific power_save
3247			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3248			execution priority.
3249
3250	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3251			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3252			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3253			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3254			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3255
3256	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3257			Format: {"off"}
3258			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3259
3260	print-fatal-signals=
3261			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3262
3263			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3264			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3265			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3266			coredump - etc.
3267
3268			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3269			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3270
3271			default: off.
3272
3273	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3274			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3275			panics
3276			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3277			default: disabled
3278
3279	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3280			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3281			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3282			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3283			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3284			Default: ratelimit
3285
3286	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3287			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3288
3289	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3290			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3291			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3292
3293	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3294			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3295			instead using the legacy FADT method
3296
3297	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3298			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3299			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3300				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3301			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3302			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3303				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3304			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3305			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3306				statistical time based profiling.
3307
3308	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3309			before loading.
3310			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3311
3312	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3313			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3314	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3315			per second.
3316	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3317			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3318			(0 = never).
3319	psmouse.resolution=
3320			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3321	psmouse.smartscroll=
3322			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3323			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3324
3325	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3326
3327	pt.		[PARIDE]
3328			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3329
3330	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3331			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3332			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3333			system calls and interrupts.
3334
3335			on   - unconditionally enable
3336			off  - unconditionally disable
3337			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3338			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3339
3340			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3341
3342	nopti		[X86_64]
3343			Equivalent to pti=off
3344
3345	pty.legacy_count=
3346			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3347			default number.
3348
3349	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3350
3351	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3352
3353	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3354			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3355
3356	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3357			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3358
3359	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3360
3361		cec_disable	[X86]
3362				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3363				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3364
3365	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3366			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3367
3368			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3369			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3370			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3371			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3372			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3373			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3374			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3375			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3376			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3377			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3378
3379	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3380			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3381			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3382			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3383			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3384			This improves the real-time response for the
3385			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3386			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3387			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3388			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3389
3390	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3391			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3392			process in one batch.
3393
3394	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3395			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3396			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3397			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3398
3399	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3400			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3401			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3402
3403	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3404			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3405			RCU grace-period initialization.
3406
3407	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3408			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3409			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3410			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3411			the rcu_node combining tree.
3412
3413	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3414			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3415			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3416			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3417			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3418
3419	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3420			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3421			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3422			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3423			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3424			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3425			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3426
3427	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3428			Set required age in jiffies for a
3429			given grace period before RCU starts
3430			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3431			rcu_note_context_switch().
3432
3433	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3434			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3435			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3436			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3437			and maximum value is HZ.
3438
3439	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3440			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3441			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3442			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3443
3444	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3445			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3446			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3447			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3448			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3449			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3450			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3451			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3452			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3453			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3454
3455	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3456			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3457			defaults to the square root of the number of
3458			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3459			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3460			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3461
3462	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3463			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3464			batch limiting is disabled.
3465
3466	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3467			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3468			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3469
3470	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3471			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3472			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3473
3474	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3475			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3476			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3477			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3478			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3479
3480	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3481			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3482			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3483			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3484			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3485			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3486
3487	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3488			Measure performance of asynchronous
3489			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3490
3491	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3492			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3493			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3494			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3495			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3496			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3497
3498	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3499			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3500			grace-period primitives.
3501
3502	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3503			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3504			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3505			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3506			interference.
3507
3508	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3509			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3510			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3511			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3512			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3513			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3514			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3515			a single reader.
3516
3517	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3518			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3519			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3520			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3521
3522	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3523			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3524
3525	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3526			Shut the system down after performance tests
3527			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3528			testing.
3529
3530	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3531			Enable additional printk() statements.
3532
3533	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3534			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3535			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3536			no holdoff.
3537
3538	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3539			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3540			callback-flood tests.
3541
3542	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3543			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3544			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3545			test.
3546
3547	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3548			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3549			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3550			disable callback-flood testing.
3551
3552	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3553			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3554			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3555
3556	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3557			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3558			in microseconds.
3559
3560	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3561			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3562			in microseconds.
3563
3564	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3565			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3566			in seconds.
3567
3568	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3569			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3570			primitives, if available.
3571
3572	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3573			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3574
3575	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3576			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3577			update-side primitives, if available.
3578
3579	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3580			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3581			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3582			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3583			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3584			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3585			they are all non-zero.
3586
3587	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3588			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3589
3590	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3591			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3592			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3593			test, hence the "fake".
3594
3595	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3596			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3597			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3598			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3599			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3600			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3601
3602	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3603			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3604
3605	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3606			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3607
3608	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3609			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3610			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3611
3612	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3613			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3614			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3615			during the rcutorture test.
3616
3617	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3618			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3619			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3620
3621	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3622			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3623			warnings, zero to disable.
3624
3625	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3626			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3627
3628	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3629			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3630
3631	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3632			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3633
3634	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3635			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3636			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3637			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3638			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3639
3640	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3641			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3642			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3643			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3644
3645	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3646			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3647
3648	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3649			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3650
3651	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3652			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3653			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3654
3655	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3656			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3657
3658	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3659			Enable additional printk() statements.
3660
3661	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3662			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3663
3664	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3665			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3666
3667	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3668			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3669			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3670			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3671			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3672			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3673			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3674
3675	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3676			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3677			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3678			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3679			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3680			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3681			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3682			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3683			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3684
3685	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3686			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3687			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3688			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3689			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3690
3691	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3692			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3693			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3694			to zero.
3695
3696	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3697			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3698
3699	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3700			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3701
3702	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3703			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3704
3705	rdinit=		[KNL]
3706			Format: <full_path>
3707			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3708			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3709
3710	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3711			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3712			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3713			mba.
3714			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3715				rdt=cmt,!mba
3716
3717	reboot=		[KNL]
3718			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3719				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3720				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3721				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3722				[[,]f[orce]
3723			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3724			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3725			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3726			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3727					to be used for rebooting.
3728
3729	relax_domain_level=
3730			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3731			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3732
3733	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3734			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3735			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3736			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3737			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
3738
3739	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3740			Format: nn[KMG]
3741			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3742			address space.
3743
3744	reservelow=	[X86]
3745			Format: nn[K]
3746			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3747			the bottom of the address space.
3748
3749	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3750			during initialization.
3751
3752	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3753			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3754			Format:
3755			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3756
3757	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3758			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3759			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3760			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3761			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3762
3763	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3764			read the resume files
3765
3766	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3767			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3768			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3769
3770	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3771		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3772				present during boot.
3773		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3774		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3775		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3776				(that will set all pages holding image data
3777				during restoration read-only).
3778
3779	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3780
3781	rfkill.default_state=
3782		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3783			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3784		1	Unblocked.
3785
3786	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3787		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3788		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3789			blocked and the previous configuration.
3790		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3791			blocked and everything unblocked.
3792
3793	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3794			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3795
3796	ring3mwait=disable
3797			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3798			CPUs.
3799
3800	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3801
3802	rodata=		[KNL]
3803		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3804		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3805
3806	rockchip.usb_uart
3807			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3808			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3809			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3810			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3811
3812	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3813			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3814
3815	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3816			mount the root filesystem
3817
3818	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3819
3820	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3821
3822	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3823			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3824			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3825
3826	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3827			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3828			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3829			managed by CMA.
3830
3831	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3832
3833	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3834
3835	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3836			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3837		strict
3838			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3839			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3840			which is faster.
3841
3842	sa1100ir	[NET]
3843			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3844
3845	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3846
3847	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3848
3849	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3850			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3851			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3852			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3853
3854	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3855			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3856			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3857			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3858			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3859			1 -- enable.
3860			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3861			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3862
3863	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3864			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3865			security module asking for security registration will be
3866			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3867			as if no module has been chosen.
3868
3869	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3870			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3871			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3872			0 -- disable.
3873			1 -- enable.
3874			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3875			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3876			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3877
3878	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3879			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3880			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3881			0 -- disable.
3882			1 -- enable.
3883			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3884
3885	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3886
3887	shapers=	[NET]
3888			Maximal number of shapers.
3889
3890	simeth=		[IA-64]
3891	simscsi=
3892
3893	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3894
3895	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3896			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3897			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3898			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3899			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3900			layout control by attackers can usually be
3901			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3902			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3903			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3904			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3905			own.
3906			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3907
3908	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3909			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3910			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3911			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3912			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3913
3914	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3915			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3916			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3917			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3918			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3919			last alloc / free. For more information see
3920			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3921
3922	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3923			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3924			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3925			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3926			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3927			directories and files being created under
3928			/sys/kernel/slub.
3929
3930	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3931			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3932			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3933			fragmentation. For more information see
3934			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3935
3936	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3937			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3938			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3939			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3940			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3941			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3942			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3943			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3944
3945	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3946			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3947			lower than slub_max_order.
3948			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3949
3950	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3951			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3952			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3953
3954	smart2=		[HW]
3955			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3956
3957	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3958	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3959	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3960	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3961	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3962	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3963	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3964				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3965				1: Fast pin select (default)
3966				2: ATC IRMode
3967
3968	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3969			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3970			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3971			actual hardware limit.
3972			Format: <integer>
3973			Default: -1 (no limit)
3974
3975	softlockup_panic=
3976			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3977			Format: <integer>
3978
3979			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3980			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3981			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3982			which is the respective build-time switch to that
3983			functionality.
3984
3985	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3986			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3987			backtraces on all cpus.
3988			Format: <integer>
3989
3990	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3991			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3992
3993	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3994			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3995
3996			on   - unconditionally enable
3997			off  - unconditionally disable
3998			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3999			       vulnerable
4000
4001			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4002			mitigation method at run time according to the
4003			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4004			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4005			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4006
4007			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4008
4009			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4010			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4011			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4012
4013			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4014			spectre_v2=auto.
4015
4016	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4017	spia_fio_base=
4018	spia_pedr=
4019	spia_peddr=
4020
4021	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4022			Specifies how frequently to check for
4023			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4024			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4025			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4026			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4027			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4028			are ignored.
4029
4030	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4031			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4032			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4033			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4034			grace period will be considered for automatic
4035			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4036			expediting.
4037
4038	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4039			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4040			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4041			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4042			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4043			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4044
4045	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4046			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4047
4048	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4049			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4050			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4051			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4052			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4053			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4054			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4055
4056	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4057			Format: <num>
4058			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4059			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4060			as the initial boot-console.
4061			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4062
4063	sti_font=	[HW]
4064			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4065
4066	stifb=		[HW]
4067			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4068
4069	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4070	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4071			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4072			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4073			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4074			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4075			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4076			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4077			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4078			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4079			maximum port values.
4080
4081	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4082			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4083			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4084			process in parallel from a single connection.
4085			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4086
4087	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4088			[NFS]
4089			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4090			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4091			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4092			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4093			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4094			NFS server is running.
4095
4096			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4097				    automatically using heuristics
4098			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4099			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4100			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4101				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4102
4103	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4104	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4105			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4106			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4107			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4108			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4109			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4110			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4111
4112	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4113			[SUSPEND]
4114			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4115			mode before resuming the system (see
4116			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4117			is set. Default value is 5.
4118
4119	swapaccount=[0|1]
4120			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4121			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4122			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4123
4124	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4125			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4126			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4127			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4128			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4129			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4130
4131	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4132
4133	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4134			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4135			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4136			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4137			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4138			in older udev will not work anymore.
4139			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4140			the kernel configuration.
4141
4142	sysrq_always_enabled
4143			[KNL]
4144			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4145			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4146			Useful for debugging.
4147
4148	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4149			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4150			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4151			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4152			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4153			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4154
4155	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4156
4157	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4158			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4159			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4160			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4161			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4162			The system is woken from this state using a
4163			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4164
4165	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4166			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4167
4168	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4169			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4170			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4171
4172	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4173			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4174			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4175
4176	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4177			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4178			critical and hot trip points.
4179
4180	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4181			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4182
4183	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4184			-1: disable all passive trip points
4185			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4186			value
4187
4188	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4189			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4190			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4191			0: no polling (default)
4192
4193	threadirqs	[KNL]
4194			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4195			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4196
4197	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4198			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4199
4200	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4201			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4202			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4203
4204	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4205			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4206			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4207			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4208
4209	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4210			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4211			to the hypervisor.
4212
4213	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4214			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4215			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4216			kernel based on different criteria.
4217
4218	topology=	[S390]
4219			Format: {off | on}
4220			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4221			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4222			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4223			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4224			Default is on.
4225
4226	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4227			Format: {off}
4228			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4229			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4230			LPAR.
4231
4232	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4233
4234	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4235			Format: integer pcr id
4236			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4237			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4238			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4239			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4240			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4241			are saved.
4242
4243	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4244			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4245
4246	trace_event=[event-list]
4247			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4248			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4249			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4250			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4251
4252	trace_options=[option-list]
4253			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4254			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4255			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4256			to echo the option name into
4257
4258			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4259
4260			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4261			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4262
4263			      trace_options=stacktrace
4264
4265			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4266			section.
4267
4268	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4269			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4270			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4271			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4272			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4273			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4274
4275			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4276			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4277			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4278			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4279
4280			** CAUTION **
4281
4282			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4283			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4284			the system to live lock.
4285
4286	traceoff_on_warning
4287			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4288			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4289			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4290			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4291
4292			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4293			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4294			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4295
4296			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4297			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4298
4299	transparent_hugepage=
4300			[KNL]
4301			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4302			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4303			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4304			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4305
4306	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4307			Format: <string>
4308			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4309			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4310			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4311			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4312			virtualized environment.
4313			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4314			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4315			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4316			can add overhead.
4317			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4318			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4319			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4320
4321	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4322			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4323			Format:
4324			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4325			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4326
4327	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4328			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4329			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4330			help "seeing" what's going on.
4331
4332	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4333			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4334
4335	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4336			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4337			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4338			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4339			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4340			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4341			reported either.
4342
4343	unknown_nmi_panic
4344			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4345
4346	usbcore.authorized_default=
4347			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4348			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4349			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4350
4351	usbcore.autosuspend=
4352			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4353			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4354			is the time required before an idle device will be
4355			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4356			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4357
4358	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4359			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4360
4361	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4362			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4363			(default = 65536).
4364
4365	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4366			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4367
4368	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4369			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4370			scheme (default 0 = off).
4371
4372	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4373			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4374			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4375
4376	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4377			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4378			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4379
4380	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4381			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4382                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4383			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4384
4385	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4386
4387	usbhid.mousepoll=
4388			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4389
4390	usbhid.jspoll=
4391			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4392
4393	usb-storage.delay_use=
4394			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4395			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4396
4397	usb-storage.quirks=
4398			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4399			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4400			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4401			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4402			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4403			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4404			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4405				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4406					of sense data);
4407				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4408					bytes of sense data);
4409				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4410					device capacity by one sector);
4411				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4412					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4413				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4414					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4415				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4416					command, uas only);
4417				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4418					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4419				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4420					reported device capacity by one
4421					sector if the number is odd);
4422				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4423					device);
4424				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4425					command, uas only);
4426				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4427					unlock ejectable media);
4428				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4429					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4430				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4431					initial READ(10) command);
4432				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4433					reported by the device);
4434				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4435					by default);
4436				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4437					bogus residue values);
4438				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4439					Logical Unit);
4440				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4441					commands, uas only);
4442				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4443				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4444					medium is write-protected).
4445				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4446					even if the device claims no cache)
4447			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4448
4449	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4450			Format: <int>
4451			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4452				 1 - undefined instruction events
4453				 2 - system calls
4454				 4 - invalid data aborts
4455				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4456				16 - SIGBUS faults
4457			Example: user_debug=31
4458
4459	userpte=
4460			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4461
4462				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4463					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4464					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4465
4466	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4467			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4468
4469			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4470			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4471
4472	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4473			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4474			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4475
4476			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4477			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4478			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4479
4480			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4481			alias for vdso32=0.
4482
4483			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4484			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4485
4486	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4487			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4488
4489	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4490			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4491
4492	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4493			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4494			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4495			level and then send out the event to user space through
4496			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4497			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4498			brightness level.
4499			default: 1
4500
4501	virtio_mmio.device=
4502			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4503
4504				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4505			where:
4506				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4507						like K, M and G)
4508				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4509				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4510						request_irq())
4511				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4512			example:
4513				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4514
4515			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4516
4517	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4518			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4519			Documentation/svga.txt.
4520			Use vga=ask for menu.
4521			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4522			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4523
4524	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4525			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4526			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4527			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4528			mapped kernel RAM.
4529
4530	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4531			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4532			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4533
4534	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4535			Format: <command>
4536
4537	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4538			Format: <command>
4539
4540	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4541			Format: <command>
4542
4543	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4544			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4545			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4546			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4547			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4548			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4549			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4550
4551			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4552			            emulated reasonably safely.
4553
4554			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4555			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4556			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4557			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4558			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4559
4560			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4561			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4562			            might break your system.
4563
4564	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4565			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4566			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4567
4568	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4569			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4570			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4571			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4572
4573	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4574			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4575			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4576			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4577			ranging from 0-255.
4578
4579	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4580			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4581			Change the default green palette of the console.
4582			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4583			ranging from 0-255.
4584
4585	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4586			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4587			Change the default red palette of the console.
4588			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4589			ranging from 0-255.
4590
4591	vt.default_utf8=
4592			[VT]
4593			Format=<0|1>
4594			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4595			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4596			newly opened terminals.
4597
4598	vt.global_cursor_default=
4599			[VT]
4600			Format=<-1|0|1>
4601			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4602			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4603			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4604			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4605			cursors, 1 will display them.
4606
4607	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4608			Default: 2 = green.
4609
4610	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4611			Default: 3 = cyan.
4612
4613	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4614			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4615			or other driver-specific files in the
4616			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4617
4618	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4619			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4620			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4621			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4622			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4623			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4624			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4625			corresponding sysfs file.
4626
4627	workqueue.disable_numa
4628			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4629			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4630			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4631			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4632			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4633			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4634			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4635
4636	workqueue.power_efficient
4637			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4638			they show better performance thanks to cache
4639			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4640			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4641
4642			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4643			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4644			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4645			power usage at the cost of small performance
4646			overhead.
4647
4648			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4649			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4650
4651	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4652			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4653			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4654			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4655			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4656			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4657			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4658			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4659			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4660			impacted.
4661
4662	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4663			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4664			supporting x2apic.
4665
4666	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4667			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4668			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4669			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4670			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4671
4672	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4673			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4674			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4675			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4676			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4677			domains.
4678
4679	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4680			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4681			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4682			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4683			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4684			nics -- unplug network devices
4685			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4686			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4687				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4688				the unplug protocol
4689			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4690
4691	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4692			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4693			optimizations.
4694
4695	xen_nopv	[X86]
4696			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4697			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4698
4699	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4700			Format:
4701			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4702