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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			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/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst 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.rst 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-configuration.rst
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 while 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" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace 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.rst
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	carrier_timeout=
465			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467			it waits 120 seconds.
468
469	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471			trust validation.
472			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
473
474	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478			others).
479
480	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
481			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
482
483	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
484			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
485			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487			  a single hierarchy
488			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489			  subsystem
490			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
493
494	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
497			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
499			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501			all v1 hierarchies.
502
503	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504			Format: <string>
505			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
506			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
507
508	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509			Format: { "0" | "1" }
510			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
511			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512				any implied execute protection).
513			1 -- check protection requested by application.
514			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
515			Value can be changed at runtime via
516				/selinux/checkreqprot.
517
518	cio_ignore=	[S390]
519			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
520	clk_ignore_unused
521			[CLK]
522			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529			platform with proper driver support.  For more
530			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
531
532	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
533			[Deprecated]
534			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
535			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
536			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
537			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
539	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
540			Format: <string>
541			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542			with the name specified.
543			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544			the platform:
545			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546			[ACPI] acpi_pm
547			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
549			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
550				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551			[MIPS] MIPS
552			[PARISC] cr16
553			[S390] tod
554			[SH] SuperH
555			[SPARC64] tick
556			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
558	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559			[ARM,ARM64]
560			Format: <bool>
561			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564			systems.
565
566	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
568			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
569			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
570			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571			ones should be.
572			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573			or using the feature without checking anything
574			will still see it. This just prevents it from
575			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577			some critical bits.
578
579	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580			[ARM,X86,KNL]
581			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583			placement constraint by the physical address range of
584			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585			altogether. For more information, see
586			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
588	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
591			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592			a hypervisor.
593			Default: yes
594
595	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
596			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
597			allocations, by default set to 256K.
598
599	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
600			Format:
601			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
602
603	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
606	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
607			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
608			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
611	conmode=
612
613	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617		ttyS<n>[,options]
618		ttyUSB0[,options]
619			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
620			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
624
625			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
626			information.  See
627			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628			alternative.
629
630		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
632		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
633		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
635			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
637			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
639			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
643			the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
645		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
647
648		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
650			console=brl,ttyS0
651		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
653	console_msg_format=
654			[KNL] Change console messages format
655		default
656			By default we print messages on consoles in
657			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659			`printk_time' param).
660		syslog
661			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665			from /proc/kmsg.
666
667	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
668			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
669			Defaults to 0.
670
671	coredump_filter=
672			[KNL] Change the default value for
673			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
676	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677			[ARM,ARM64]
678			Format: <bool>
679			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680			0: default value, disable debugging
681			1: enable debugging at boot time
682
683	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
684			disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
686	cpuidle.governor=
687			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
689	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
690			disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
692	cpu_init_udelay=N
693			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
695			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696			Default: 10000
697
698	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
699			Format:
700			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
701
702	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
707			is selected automatically.
708			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710			hasn't been specified.
711			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
712
713	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715			in the running system. The syntax of range is
716			start-[end] where start and end are both
717			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
718			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
719
720	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
721			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725			available.
726			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
727	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
730			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
732			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
736			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737			for second kernel instead.
738			0: to disable low allocation.
739			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
740			or memory reserved is below 4G.
741
742	cryptomgr.notests
743			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
744
745	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
746			Format: <dma>
747
748	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
749			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
750
751	dasd=		[HW,NET]
752			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755			(one device per port)
756			Format: <port#>,<type>
757			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
758
759	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
760			time. See
761			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
762			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
763
764	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
766	debug_boot_weak_hash
767			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
770			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
774	debug_locks_verbose=
775			[KNL] verbose self-tests
776			Format=<0|1>
777			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778			self-tests.
779			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781			only useful to kernel developers.
782
783	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
784
785	no_debug_objects
786			[KNL] Disable object debugging
787
788	debug_guardpage_minorder=
789			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
796			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803			bypassed) which are not detectable by
804			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805			tracking down these problems.
806
807	debug_pagealloc=
808			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
809			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
810			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
811			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
812			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
813			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
814			on: enable the feature
815
816	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
817
818	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
819			Format: <area>[,<node>]
820			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
821
822	default_hugepagesz=
823			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
824			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
825			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
826			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
827			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
828			if not specified.
829
830	deferred_probe_timeout=
831			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
832			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
833			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
834			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
835			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
836			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
837			retrying.
838
839	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
840			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
841
842	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
843			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
844			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
845			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
846			miss to occur.
847
848	disable=	[IPV6]
849			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
850
851	hardened_usercopy=
852                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
853                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
854                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
855                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
856                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
857                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
858                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
859                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
860                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
861
862	disable_radix	[PPC]
863			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
864
865	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
866			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
867			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
868
869	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
870			Format: <int>
871			The number of initial APIC ID for the
872			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
873			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
874			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
875			causing system reset or hang due to sending
876			INIT from AP to BSP.
877
878	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
879			Format: <bool>
880			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
881			The feature only exists starting from
882			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
883
884	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
885			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
886			to workaround buggy firmware.
887
888	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
889			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
890
891	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
892			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
893			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
894			entry later. This parameter disables that.
895
896	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
897			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
898			memory out of your available memory pool based on
899			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
900			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
901
902	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
903			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
904			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
905
906	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
907
908	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
909			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
910
911	dma_debug_entries=<number>
912			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
913			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
914			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
915			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
916			architectural default is too low.
917
918	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
919			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
920			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
921			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
922			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
923			driver later using sysfs.
924
925	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
926			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
927			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
928
929	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
930			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
931			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
932			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
933			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
934			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
935			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
936			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
937			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
938			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
939			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
940			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
941			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
942			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
943			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
944			data set with no connector name will be used for
945			any connectors not explicitly specified.
946
947	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
948
949	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
950			Format: {"off" | "known"}
951			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
952			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
953			exists).
954			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
955			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
956			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
957
958	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
959			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
960			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
961			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
962
963	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
964	module.dyndbg[="val"]
965			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
966			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
967			for details.
968
969	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
970			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
971			information about the feature.
972
973	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
974			in some Intel CPUs.
975
976	module.async_probe [KNL]
977			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
978
979	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
980			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
981			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
982			which are not unmapped.
983
984	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
985
986			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
987			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
988			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
989
990			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
991			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
992
993		cdns,<addr>[,options]
994			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
995			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
996			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
997			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
998			configured.
999
1000		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1001		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1002		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1003		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1004		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1005			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1006			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1007			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1008			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1009			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1010			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1011			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1012			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1013
1014		pl011,<addr>
1015		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1016			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1017			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1018			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1019			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1020			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1021			the device registers.
1022
1023		meson,<addr>
1024			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1025			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1026			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1027			supported.
1028
1029		msm_serial,<addr>
1030			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1031			port at the specified address. The serial port
1032			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1033			yet supported.
1034
1035		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1036			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1037			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1038			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1039			yet supported.
1040
1041		owl,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1043			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1044			specified address. The serial port must already be
1045			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1046
1047		rda,<addr>
1048			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1049			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1050			specified address. The serial port must already be
1051			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1052
1053		sbi
1054			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1055			console.
1056
1057		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1058
1059		s3c2410,<addr>
1060		s3c2412,<addr>
1061		s3c2440,<addr>
1062		s3c6400,<addr>
1063		s5pv210,<addr>
1064		exynos4210,<addr>
1065			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1066			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1067			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1068			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1069			Options are not yet supported.
1070
1071		lantiq,<addr>
1072			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1073			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1074			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1075			yet supported.
1076
1077		lpuart,<addr>
1078		lpuart32,<addr>
1079			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1080			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1081			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1082			port must already be setup and configured.
1083
1084		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1085			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1086			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1087			address. The serial port must already be setup
1088			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1089
1090		qcom_geni,<addr>
1091			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1092			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1093			specified address. The serial port must already be
1094			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1095
1096		efifb,[options]
1097			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1098			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1099			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1100			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1101			mapped with the correct attributes.
1102
1103		linflex,<addr>
1104			Use early console provided by Freescale LinFlex UART
1105			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1106			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1107			already be setup and configured.
1108
1109	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1110			earlyprintk=vga
1111			earlyprintk=sclp
1112			earlyprintk=xen
1113			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1114			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1115			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1116			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1117			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1118			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1119
1120			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1121			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1122			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1123
1124			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1125			takes over.
1126
1127			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1128			be used at a time.
1129
1130			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1131			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1132			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1133			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1134				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1135			You can find the port for a given device in
1136			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1137				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1138
1139			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1140			very good.
1141
1142			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1143			the real console.
1144
1145			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1146
1147			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1148
1149			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1150			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1151			UART class.
1152
1153	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1154			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1155			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1156			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1157			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1158			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1159			default: on.
1160
1161	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1162			ekgdboc=kbd
1163
1164			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1165			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1166
1167	edd=		[EDD]
1168			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1169
1170	efi=		[EFI]
1171			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1172			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1173			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1174			default.
1175			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1176			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1177			firmware implementations.
1178			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1179			debug: enable misc debug output
1180
1181	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1182			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1183			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1184			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1185			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1186
1187	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1188			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1189			updating original EFI memory map.
1190			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1191			from ss to ss+nn.
1192			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1193			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1194			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1195			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1196
1197			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1198			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1199			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1200			doesn't support it.
1201
1202	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1203			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1204			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1205			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1206			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1207
1208
1209	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1210			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1211
1212	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1213			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1214			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1215
1216	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1217			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1218			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1219			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1220			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1221
1222	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1223			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1224			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1225			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1226
1227	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1228			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1229			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1230			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1231			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1232
1233	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1234			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1235			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1236			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1237			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1238			Default value is 0.
1239			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1240
1241	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1242			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1243			support.
1244
1245	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1246			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1247			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1248
1249	evm=		[EVM]
1250			Format: { "fix" }
1251			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1252			current integrity status.
1253
1254	failslab=
1255	fail_page_alloc=
1256	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1257			General fault injection mechanism.
1258			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1259			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1260
1261	floppy=		[HW]
1262			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1263
1264	force_pal_cache_flush
1265			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1266			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1267			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1268			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1269
1270	forcepae	[X86-32]
1271			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1272			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1273			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1274			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1275			and may cause unknown problems.
1276
1277	ftrace=[tracer]
1278			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1279			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1280			boot debugging.
1281
1282	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1283			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1284			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1285			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1286			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1287			oops.
1288
1289	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1290			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1291			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1292			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1293			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1294			tracing directory.
1295
1296	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1297			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1298			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1299			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1300			tracing directory.
1301
1302	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1303			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1304			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1305			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1306			that can be changed at run time by the
1307			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1308
1309	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1310			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1311			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1312			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1313			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1314
1315	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1316			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1317			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1318			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1319			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1320
1321	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1322			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1323			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1324			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1325			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1326
1327	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1328
1329	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1330			Format: off | on
1331			default: on
1332
1333	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1334			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1335			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1336			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1337			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1338
1339	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1340			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1341			android emulator
1342
1343	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1344			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1345			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1346			GPT to be used instead.
1347
1348	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1349			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1350			Format: 0 | 1
1351			Default: 0
1352	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1353			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1354			Format: 0 | 1
1355			Default: 0
1356	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1357			Format: 0 | 1
1358			Default: 0
1359	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1360			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1361			Default: 1024
1362	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1363			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1364			Default: 1024
1365
1366	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1367			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1368			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1369
1370	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1371			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1372			backtraces on all cpus.
1373			Format: <integer>
1374
1375	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1376			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1377			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1378			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1379
1380	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1381
1382	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1383			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1384
1385	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1386			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1387			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1388			logic will be disabled.
1389
1390	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1391			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1392			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1393			size on bigger boxes.
1394
1395	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1396			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1397			Default: "on"
1398
1399	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1400
1401	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1402			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1403				verbose }
1404			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1405			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1406				VIA, nVidia)
1407			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1408
1409	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1410			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1411
1412	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1413	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1414			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1415			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1416			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1417			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1418			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1419
1420	hung_task_panic=
1421			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1422			Format: <integer>
1423
1424			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1425			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1426			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1427			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1428			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1429
1430	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1431				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1432	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1433				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1434				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1435
1436	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1437				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1438				      guest on lock contention.
1439
1440	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1441			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1442			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1443			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1444			the real console.
1445
1446	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1447				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1448				registered from board initialization code.
1449				Format:
1450				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1451
1452	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1453	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1454			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1455			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1456			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1457	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1458	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1459			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1460			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1461	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1462	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1463	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1464			     for the AUX port
1465	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1466			     controller
1467	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1468			     controllers
1469	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1470	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1471			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1472			     transitions, or never reset
1473			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1474			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1475			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1476			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1477			architectures force reset to be always executed
1478	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1479	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1480
1481	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1482
1483	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1484			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1485			hardware.
1486	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1487			does not match list of supported models.
1488	i8k.power_status
1489			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1490			(disabled by default)
1491	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1492			capability is set.
1493
1494	i915.invert_brightness=
1495			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1496			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1497			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1498			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1499			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1500			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1501			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1502			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1503			value switches the backlight off.
1504			-1 -- never invert brightness
1505			 0 -- machine default
1506			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1507
1508	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1509			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1510
1511	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1512			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1513			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1514			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1515			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1516
1517	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1518			Format: <int>
1519			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1520			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1521			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1522			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1523			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1524			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1525			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1526			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1527			was 0x3.
1528
1529	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1530			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1531
1532	idle=		[X86]
1533			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1534			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1535			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1536			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1537			Not recommended.
1538			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1539			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1540			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1541
1542	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1543			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1544			Default: strict
1545
1546			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1547			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1548			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1549			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1550			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1551			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1552			encoding mode.
1553
1554			Available settings are as follows:
1555			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1556				supported by the FPU
1557			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1558				by the FPU
1559			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1560				by the FPU
1561			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1562				supported by the FPU
1563
1564			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1565			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1566			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1567			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1568			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1569			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1570			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1571			MIPS64 CPUs.
1572
1573			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1574			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1575			except where unsupported by hardware.
1576
1577	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1578			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1579			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1580			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1581			could change it dynamically, usually by
1582			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1583
1584	ignore_rlimit_data
1585			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1586			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1587			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1588
1589	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1590			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1591
1592	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1593			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1594			default: "enforce"
1595
1596	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1597			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1598			owned by uid=0.
1599
1600	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1601			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1602			measurements, instead of host native format.
1603
1604	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1605			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1606				   | sha512 | ... }
1607			default: "sha1"
1608
1609			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1610			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1611
1612	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1613			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1614			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1615				 fail_securely"
1616
1617			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1618			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1619			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1620			uid=0.
1621
1622			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1623			all files owned by root.
1624
1625			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1626			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1627			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1628
1629			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1630			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1631			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1632			flag.
1633
1634	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1635			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1636			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1637			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1638			opened for read by uid=0.
1639
1640	ima_template=	[IMA]
1641			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1642			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1643			Default: "ima-ng"
1644
1645	ima_template_fmt=
1646			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1647			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1648
1649	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1650			Format: <min_file_size>
1651			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1652			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1653
1654			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1655			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1656			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1657
1658	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1659			Format: <bufsize>
1660			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1661
1662			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1663			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1664			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1665
1666	init=		[KNL]
1667			Format: <full_path>
1668			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1669			process.
1670
1671	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1672			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1673			startup.
1674
1675	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1676			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1677			modules and initcalls.
1678
1679	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1680
1681	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1682			zeroes.
1683			Format: 0 | 1
1684			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1685
1686	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1687			Format: 0 | 1
1688			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1689
1690	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1691			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1692			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1693			override in debugfs after boot.
1694
1695	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1696			Format: <irq>
1697
1698	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1699
1700	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1701			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1702			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1703			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1704
1705	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1706		on
1707			Enable intel iommu driver.
1708		off
1709			Disable intel iommu driver.
1710		igfx_off [Default Off]
1711			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1712			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1713			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1714			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1715			DMA.
1716		forcedac [x86_64]
1717			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1718			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1719			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1720			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1721			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1722			then look in the higher range.
1723		strict [Default Off]
1724			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1725			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1726			to batching them for performance.
1727		sp_off [Default Off]
1728			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1729			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1730			not be supported.
1731		sm_on [Default Off]
1732			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1733			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1734			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1735			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1736		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1737			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1738			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1739			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1740			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1741			mapping is enabled.
1742			Note that using this option lowers the security
1743			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1744			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1745		nobounce [Default off]
1746			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1747			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1748			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1749			risks of DMA attacks.
1750
1751	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1752			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1753			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1754
1755	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1756			disable
1757			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1758			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1759			passive
1760			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1761			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1762			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1763			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1764			  feature.
1765			force
1766			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1767			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1768			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1769			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1770			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1771			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1772			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1773			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1774			no_hwp
1775			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1776			  if available.
1777			hwp_only
1778			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1779			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1780			support_acpi_ppc
1781			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1782			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1783			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1784			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1785			per_cpu_perf_limits
1786			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1787			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1788
1789	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1790			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1791			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1792			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1793			no_x2apic_optout
1794				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1795			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1796
1797	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1798		strict	regions from userspace.
1799		relaxed
1800
1801	iommu=		[x86]
1802		off
1803		force
1804		noforce
1805		biomerge
1806		panic
1807		nopanic
1808		merge
1809		nomerge
1810		soft
1811		pt		[x86]
1812		nopt		[x86]
1813		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1814			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1815
1816	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1817			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1818			0 - Lazy mode.
1819			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1820			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1821			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1822			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1823			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1824			1 - Strict mode (default).
1825			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1826			  synchronously.
1827
1828	iommu.passthrough=
1829			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1830			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1831			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1832			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1833			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1834
1835	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1836			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1837			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1838
1839	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1840		0x80
1841			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1842		0xed
1843			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1844		udelay
1845			Simple two microseconds delay
1846		none
1847			No delay
1848
1849	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1850			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1851
1852	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1853			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1854
1855	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1856			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1857
1858	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1859			[ARM, ARM64]
1860			Format: <bool>
1861			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1862			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1863			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1864
1865	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1866			[ARM, ARM64]
1867			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1868			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1869			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1870			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1871			LPIs.
1872
1873	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1874			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1875			requires the kernel to be built with
1876			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1877
1878	irqfixup	[HW]
1879			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1880			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1881			firmware running.
1882
1883	irqpoll		[HW]
1884			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1885			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1886			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1887			firmware running.
1888
1889	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1890			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1891
1892	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1893			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1894			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1895
1896			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1897			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1898
1899			nohz
1900			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1901
1902			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1903			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1904			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1905			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1906			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1907
1908			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1909			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1910			  be configured manually after bootup.
1911
1912			domain
1913			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1914			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1915			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1916			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1917			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1918			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1919			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1920			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1921
1922			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1923			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1924			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1925			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1926
1927			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1928
1929
1930
1931	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1932
1933	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1934			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1935			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1936			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1937			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1938				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1939
1940	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1941			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1942			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1943			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1944			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1945				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1946
1947	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1948			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1949			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1950			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1951			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1952				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1953
1954	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1955			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1956
1957	nokaslr		[KNL]
1958			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1959			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1960			Layout Randomization).
1961
1962	kasan_multi_shot
1963			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1964			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1965			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1966			invalid access.
1967
1968	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1969
1970	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1971			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1972			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1973			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1974			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1975			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1976			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1977			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1978			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1979			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1980
1981			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1982			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1983			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1984			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1985			zone if it does not.
1986
1987			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1988			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1989			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1990			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1991			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1992			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1993			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1994
1995	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1996			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1997			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1998			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1999			optional and is the number seconds in between
2000			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2001			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2002			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2003			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2004			the kernel debugger.
2005
2006	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2007			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2008			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2009			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2010			 keyboard only format: kbd
2011			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2012			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2013			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2014			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2015
2016	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2017			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2018
2019	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2020			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2021			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2022
2023	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2024			Valid arguments: on, off
2025			Default: on
2026			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2027			the default is off.
2028
2029	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2030			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2031			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2032			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2033			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2034			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2035			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2036
2037			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2038
2039			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2040			Boot Parameter" section.
2041
2042	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2043			and kernel address spaces.
2044			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2045			0: force disabled
2046			1: force enabled
2047
2048	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2049			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2050
2051	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2052				   Default is false (don't support).
2053
2054	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2055			KVM MMU at runtime.
2056			Default is 0 (off)
2057
2058	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2059			Default is 1 (enabled)
2060
2061	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2062			for all guests.
2063			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2064
2065	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2066			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2067			system registers
2068
2069	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2070			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2071			system registers
2072
2073	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2074			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2075			system registers
2076
2077	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2078			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2079			LPIs.
2080
2081	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2082			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2083			Default is 1 (enabled)
2084
2085	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2086			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2087			Default is 0 (disabled)
2088
2089	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2090			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2091			Default is 1 (enabled)
2092
2093	kvm-intel.nested=
2094			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2095			Default is 0 (disabled)
2096
2097	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2098			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2099			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2100			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2101
2102	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2103			CVE-2018-3620.
2104
2105			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2106
2107			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2108			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2109				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2110			never:	Disables the mitigation
2111
2112			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2113
2114	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2115			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2116			Default is 1 (enabled)
2117
2118	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2119			      affected CPUs
2120
2121			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2122			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2123
2124			full
2125				Provides all available mitigations for the
2126				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2127				enables all mitigations in the
2128				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2129
2130				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2131				sysfs interface is still possible after
2132				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2133				when the first VM is started in a
2134				potentially insecure configuration,
2135				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2136
2137			full,force
2138				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2139				flush runtime control. Implies the
2140				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2141				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2142
2143			flush
2144				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2145				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2146				L1D flush.
2147
2148				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2149				sysfs interface is still possible after
2150				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2151				when the first VM is started in a
2152				potentially insecure configuration,
2153				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2154
2155			flush,nosmt
2156
2157				Disables SMT and enables the default
2158				hypervisor mitigation.
2159
2160				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2161				sysfs interface is still possible after
2162				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2163				when the first VM is started in a
2164				potentially insecure configuration,
2165				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2166
2167			flush,nowarn
2168				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2169				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2170				insecure configuration.
2171
2172			off
2173				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2174				emit any warnings.
2175				It also drops the swap size and available
2176				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2177				bare metal.
2178
2179			Default is 'flush'.
2180
2181			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2182
2183	l2cr=		[PPC]
2184
2185	l3cr=		[PPC]
2186
2187	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2188			disabled it.
2189
2190	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2191			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2192			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2193
2194	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2195			in C2 power state.
2196
2197	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2198			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2199			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2200			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2201			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2202			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2203			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2204
2205	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2206			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2207			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2208
2209	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2210			when set.
2211			Format: <int>
2212
2213	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2214			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2215			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2216			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2217			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2218			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2219			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2220			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2221
2222			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2223			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2224			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2225			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2226			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2227			host link and device attached to it.
2228
2229			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2230			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2231			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2232			The following configurations can be forced.
2233
2234			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2235			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2236
2237			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2238
2239			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2240			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2241			  allowed.
2242
2243			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2244
2245			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2246
2247			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2248			  and both resets.
2249
2250			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2251			  hot-unplug link recovery
2252
2253			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2254
2255			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2256
2257			* disable: Disable this device.
2258
2259			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2260			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2261
2262	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2263
2264	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2265			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2266
2267	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2268			Format: <integer>
2269
2270	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2271			Format: <integer>
2272
2273	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2274			Format: <integer>
2275
2276	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2277			Format: <integer>
2278
2279	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2280			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2281			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2282			number of online CPUs.
2283
2284	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2285			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2286
2287	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2288			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2289
2290	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2291			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2292			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2293
2294	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2295			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2296			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2297			mode during the locktorture test.
2298
2299	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2300			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2301			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2302
2303	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2304			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2305
2306	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2307			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2308			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2309			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2310			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2311			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2312
2313	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2314			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2315
2316	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2317			Enable additional printk() statements.
2318
2319	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2320			Format: <irq>
2321
2322	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2323			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2324			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2325			loglevels are defined as follows:
2326
2327			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2328			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2329			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2330			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2331			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2332			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2333			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2334			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2335
2336	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2337			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2338			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2339			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2340			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2341			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2342			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2343
2344	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2345			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2346			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2347			kernel boot problems.
2348
2349	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2350	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2351	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2352	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2353				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2354				attached printers to be reset. Using
2355				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2356				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2357				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2358				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2359				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2360				port specification list means that device IDs
2361				from each port should be examined, to see if
2362				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2363				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2364				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2365
2366	lpj=n		[KNL]
2367			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2368			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2369			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2370			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2371			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2372			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2373			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2374			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2375			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2376			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2377			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2378			hardware.
2379
2380	ltpc=		[NET]
2381			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2382
2383	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2384
2385	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2386			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2387			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2388
2389	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2390			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2391			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2392
2393	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2394			 yeeloong laptop.
2395			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2396
2397	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2398			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2399
2400	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2401			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2402			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2403			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2404			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2405			only takes effect during system bootup.
2406			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2407			which also disables the IO APIC.
2408
2409	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2410	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2411			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2412			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2413			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2414			/dev/loop-control interface.
2415
2416	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2417
2418	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2419
2420	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2421			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2422
2423	mdacon=		[MDA]
2424			Format: <first>,<last>
2425			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2426
2427	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2428			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2429			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2430
2431			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2432			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2433			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2434
2435			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2436			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2437			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2438			not have direct access.
2439
2440			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2441			options are:
2442
2443			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2444			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2445				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2446			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2447
2448			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2449			mds=full.
2450
2451			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2452
2453	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2454			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2455			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2456			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2457			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2458			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2459			belonging to unused RAM.
2460
2461	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2462			memory.
2463
2464	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2465			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2466			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2467
2468	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2469			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2470			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2471			set according to the
2472			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2473			option.
2474			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2475
2476	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2477			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2478			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2479			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2480			option description.
2481
2482	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2483			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2484			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2485			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2486			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2487			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2488			comma delimited.
2489			Example:
2490				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2491
2492	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2493			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2494			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2495
2496	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2497			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2498			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2499			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2500			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2501			         or
2502			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2503			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2504			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2505			will be eaten.
2506
2507	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2508			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2509			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2510			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2511			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2512
2513	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2514			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2515			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2516			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2517			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2518			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2519			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2520			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2521
2522	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2523			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2524			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2525			Setting this option will scan the memory
2526			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2527			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2528			from using the memory being corrupted.
2529			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2530			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2531			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2532			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2533
2534	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2535			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2536			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2537			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2538			corruption in more or less memory.
2539
2540	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2541			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2542			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2543			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2544
2545	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2546			Format: <integer>
2547			default : 0 <disable>
2548			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2549			performed. Each pass selects another test
2550			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2551			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2552			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2553			regions that are detected.
2554
2555	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2556			Valid arguments: on, off
2557			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2558			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2559			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2560			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2561			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2562
2563			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2564			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2565
2566	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2567			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2568			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2569			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2570			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2571
2572	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2573			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2574
2575	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2576			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2577			platforms.
2578
2579	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2580			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2581			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2582			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2583
2584	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2585
2586	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2587			physical address is ignored.
2588
2589	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2590			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2591			Default: "0tb"
2592			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2593			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2594			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2595			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2596			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2597			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2598			unconfigured.
2599			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2600			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2601			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2602			VGA shield.
2603			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2604			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2605			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2606			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2607			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2608			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2609
2610	mitigations=
2611			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2612			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2613			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2614			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2615
2616			off
2617				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2618				improves system performance, but it may also
2619				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2620				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2621					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2622					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2623					       nobp=0 [S390]
2624					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2625					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2626					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2627					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2628					       l1tf=off [X86]
2629					       mds=off [X86]
2630
2631			auto (default)
2632				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2633				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2634				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2635				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2636				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2637				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2638
2639			auto,nosmt
2640				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2641				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2642				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2643				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2644					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2645
2646	mminit_loglevel=
2647			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2648			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2649			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2650			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2651			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2652			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2653
2654	module.sig_enforce
2655			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2656			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2657			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2658			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2659
2660	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2661			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2662
2663	mousedev.tap_time=
2664			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2665			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2666			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2667			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2668			Format: <msecs>
2669	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2670			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2671	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2672			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2673
2674	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2675			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2676			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2677			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2678			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2679			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2680			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2681			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2682			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2683			is not too small.
2684
2685	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2686			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2687			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2688			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2689			allocations. Use with caution!
2690
2691	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2692			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2693
2694	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2695			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2696
2697	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2698			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2699
2700	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2701			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2702			at a time.
2703
2704	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2705
2706			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2707
2708			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2709				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2710			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2711				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2712				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2713
2714	mtdset=		[ARM]
2715			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2716
2717			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2718
2719	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2720			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2721			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2722
2723	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2724			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2725			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2726
2727	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2728			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2729			Default is 1.
2730			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2731			using up MTRRs.
2732
2733	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2734			Format: <integer>
2735			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2736			Default : 1
2737			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2738			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2739
2740	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2741
2742	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2743			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2744			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2745			something different and driver-specific.
2746			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2747			file if at all.
2748
2749	nf_conntrack.acct=
2750			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2751			0 to disable accounting
2752			1 to enable accounting
2753			Default value is 0.
2754
2755	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2756			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2757
2758	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2759			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2760
2761	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2762			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2763
2764	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2765			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2766			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2767			requests.
2768
2769	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2770			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2771			channel should listen.
2772
2773	nfs.cache_getent=
2774			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2775			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2776
2777	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2778			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2779			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2780
2781	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2782			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2783			entries.
2784
2785	nfs.enable_ino64=
2786			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2787			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2788			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2789			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2790			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2791
2792	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2793			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2794			slots the client will assign to the callback
2795			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2796			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2797			a particular server.
2798
2799	nfs.max_session_slots=
2800			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2801			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2802			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2803			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2804			Note that there is little point in setting this
2805			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2806
2807	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2808			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2809			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2810			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2811			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2812			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2813			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2814			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2815			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2816			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2817			back to using the idmapper.
2818			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2819	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2820			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2821			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2822			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2823			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2824
2825	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2826			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2827			information in exchange_id requests.
2828			If zero, no implementation identification information
2829			will be sent.
2830			The default is to send the implementation identification
2831			information.
2832
2833	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2834			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2835			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2836			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2837			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2838			after the locks are lost.
2839			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2840			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2841			parameter to '1'.
2842			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2843			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2844
2845	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2846			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2847			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2848
2849			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2850			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2851			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2852			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2853
2854	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2855			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2856			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2857			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2858			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2859			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2860
2861	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2862			when a NMI is triggered.
2863			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2864
2865	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2866			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2867			Valid num: 0 or 1
2868			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2869			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2870			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2871			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2872			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2873			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2874			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2875			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2876			need the box quickly up again.
2877
2878			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2879			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2880
2881	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2882			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2883			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2884			waits 4 seconds.
2885
2886	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2887			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2888			is present.
2889
2890	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2891			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2892
2893	no_console_suspend
2894			[HW] Never suspend the console
2895			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2896			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2897			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2898			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2899			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2900			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2901			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2902			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2903			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2904			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2905			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2906			turn on/off it dynamically.
2907
2908	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
2909			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2910			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2911			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
2912			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2913			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
2914			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2915			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
2916			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2917			is set.
2918
2919	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2920			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2921			but will impact performance.
2922
2923	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2924
2925	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2926			(CPU alternatives feature).
2927
2928	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2929			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2930
2931	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2932
2933	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2934			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2935
2936	nocache		[ARM]
2937
2938	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2939
2940	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2941
2942	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2943
2944	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2945
2946	noexec		[IA-64]
2947
2948	noexec		[X86]
2949			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2950			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2951			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2952
2953	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
2954			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2955			even if it is supported by processor.
2956
2957	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
2958			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2959			even if it is supported by processor.
2960
2961	noexec32	[X86-64]
2962			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2963			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2964				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2965			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2966				read implies executable mappings
2967
2968	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2969
2970	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2971			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2972			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2973
2974	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2975
2976	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2977			Equivalent to smt=1.
2978
2979			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2980			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2981				     via the sysfs control file.
2982
2983	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2984			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2985			possible in the system.
2986
2987	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2988			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2989			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2990			option.
2991
2992	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2993			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2994
2995	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2996			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2997			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2998
2999	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3000			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3001			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3002			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3003			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3004			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3005
3006	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3007			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3008			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3009			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3010			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3011			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3012			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3013
3014	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3015			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3016			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3017
3018	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3019			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3020			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3021
3022	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3023			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3024			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3025			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3026			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3027			real-time systems.
3028
3029	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3030
3031	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3032			Valid arguments: on, off
3033			Default: on
3034
3035	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3036			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3037			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3038			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3039			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3040			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3041			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3042			just as if they had also been called out in the
3043			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3044
3045	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3046
3047	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3048			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3049
3050	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3051			broken timer IRQ sources.
3052
3053	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3054
3055	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3056			initial RAM disk.
3057
3058	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3059			remapping.
3060			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3061
3062	nointroute	[IA-64]
3063
3064	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3065
3066	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3067
3068	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3069
3070	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3071			fault handling.
3072
3073	no-vmw-sched-clock
3074			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3075			clock and use the default one.
3076
3077	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3078			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3079			behaviour
3080
3081	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3082
3083	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3084
3085	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3086			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3087
3088	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3089
3090	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3091
3092	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3093			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3094
3095	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3096			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3097			irq.
3098
3099	nomodule	Disable module load
3100
3101	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3102			pagetables) support.
3103
3104	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3105
3106	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3107			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3108
3109	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3110			with UP alternatives
3111
3112	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3113			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3114			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3115			available to user space applications.
3116
3117	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3118			space.
3119
3120	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3121			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3122			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3123
3124	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3125
3126	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3127
3128	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3129			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3130
3131	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3132
3133	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3134
3135	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3136			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3137
3138	nowb		[ARM]
3139
3140	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3141
3142	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3143			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3144			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3145			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3146			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3147			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3148			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3149			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3150			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3151			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3152			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3153			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3154			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3155
3156	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3157			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3158			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3159			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3160			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3161			parameter's value.
3162			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3163			Default: 255
3164
3165	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3166			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3167			SAL PALO.
3168
3169	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3170			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3171			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3172			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3173			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3174			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3175			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3176			hot plugging.
3177
3178	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3179
3180	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3181			Allowed values are enable and disable
3182
3183	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3184			'node', 'default' can be specified
3185			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3186			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3187
3188	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3189			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3190			info.
3191
3192	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3193			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3194			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3195			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3196			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3197			interrupts *may* be lost!
3198
3199	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3200			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3201			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3202			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3203
3204	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3205			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3206
3207	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3208			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3209			userland or if you want common events.
3210			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3211			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3212				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3213				CPU specific event set.
3214			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3215				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3216				for generic hr timer mode)
3217
3218	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3219			process, but there is a small probability of
3220			deadlocking the machine.
3221			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3222			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3223
3224	page_alloc.shuffle=
3225			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3226			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3227			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3228			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3229			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3230			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3231			can be read from sysfs at:
3232			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3233
3234	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3235			Storage of the information about who allocated
3236			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3237			we can turn it on.
3238			on: enable the feature
3239
3240	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3241			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3242			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3243			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3244			on: turn on poisoning
3245
3246	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3247			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3248			timeout = 0: wait forever
3249			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3250			Format: <timeout>
3251
3252	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3253			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3254			bit 0: print all tasks info
3255			bit 1: print system memory info
3256			bit 2: print timer info
3257			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3258			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3259			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3260
3261	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3262			on a WARN().
3263
3264	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3265			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3266			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3267			succeeds in any situation.
3268			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3269			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3270			kernel more unstable.
3271
3272	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3273			connected to, default is 0.
3274			Format: <parport#>
3275	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3276			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3277			Format: <mode>
3278
3279	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3280			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3281			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3282			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3283			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3284			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3285			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3286			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3287			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3288			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3289			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3290			are specified on the command line, starting
3291			with parport0.
3292
3293	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3294			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3295			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3296			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3297			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3298			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3299			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3300
3301	pause_on_oops=
3302			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3303			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3304			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3305
3306	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3307
3308	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3309			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3310			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3311
3312	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3313
3314				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3315				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3316				specified in one of the following formats:
3317
3318				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3319				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3320
3321				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3322				bus/device/function address which may change
3323				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3324				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3325				by other kernel parameters. If the
3326				domain is left unspecified, it is
3327				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3328				to a device through multiple device/function
3329				addresses can be specified after the base
3330				address (this is more robust against
3331				renumbering issues).  The second format
3332				selects devices using IDs from the
3333				configuration space which may match multiple
3334				devices in the system.
3335
3336		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3337				changes anything
3338		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3339		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3340				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3341				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3342		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3343				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3344				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3345				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3346		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3347				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3348				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3349		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3350				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3351				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3352				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3353				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3354				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3355				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3356		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3357				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3358				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3359		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3360				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3361		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3362				Configuration
3363		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3364				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3365				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3366		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3367				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3368				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3369		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3370				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3371				should never be necessary.
3372		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3373				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3374				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3375				when the system masks IRQs.
3376		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3377				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3378				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3379				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3380		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3381				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3382				on several machines and they hang the machine
3383				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3384				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3385				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3386				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3387				motherboard.
3388		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3389				Use with caution as certain devices share
3390				address decoders between ROMs and other
3391				resources.
3392		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3393				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3394				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3395		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3396				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3397		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3398				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3399				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3400				this way.
3401		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3402				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3403				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3404				F0000h-100000h range.
3405		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3406				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3407				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3408				explicitly which ones they are.
3409		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3410				numbers ourselves, overriding
3411				whatever the firmware may have done.
3412		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3413				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3414				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3415				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3416				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3417				IRQ routing is enabled.
3418		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3419				or for PCI scanning.
3420		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3421				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3422				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3423				please report a bug.
3424		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3425				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3426		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3427				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3428				so this option is a temporary workaround
3429				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3430		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3431				handle more pci cards
3432		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3433				This might help on some broken boards which
3434				machine check when some devices' config space
3435				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3436				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3437		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3438				This sorting is done to get a device
3439				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3440		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3441		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3442				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3443		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3444				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3445		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3446				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3447				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3448				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3449				or bus can support) for best performance.
3450		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3451				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3452				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3453				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3454				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3455				that hot-added devices will work.
3456		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3457				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3458				The default value is 256 bytes.
3459		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3460				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3461				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3462		resource_alignment=
3463				Format:
3464				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3465				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3466				aligned memory resources. How to
3467				specify the device is described above.
3468				If <order of align> is not specified,
3469				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3470				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3471				windows need to be expanded.
3472				To specify the alignment for several
3473				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3474				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3475				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3476				for 4096-byte alignment.
3477		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3478				end-to-end CRC checking).
3479				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3480				the default.
3481				off: Turn ECRC off
3482				on: Turn ECRC on.
3483		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3484				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3485				Default size is 256 bytes.
3486		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3487				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3488				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3489		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3490				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3491				Default is 1.
3492		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3493				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3494				accommodate resources required by all child
3495				devices.
3496				off: Turn realloc off
3497				on: Turn realloc on
3498		realloc		same as realloc=on
3499		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3500		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3501				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3502		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3503				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3504				port.
3505		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3506				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3507				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3508				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3509				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3510				taints the kernel.
3511		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3512				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3513				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3514				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3515				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3516				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3517				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3518				this removes isolation between devices and
3519				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3520		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3521		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3522
3523	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3524			Management.
3525		off	Disable ASPM.
3526		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3527			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3528
3529	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3530		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3531			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3532			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3533			also tries to use these services.
3534		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3535			hotplug).
3536
3537	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3538		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3539		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3540
3541	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3542		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3543			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3544
3545	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3546
3547	pd_ignore_unused
3548			[PM]
3549			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3550			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3551			for debug and development, but should not be
3552			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3553
3554	pd.		[PARIDE]
3555			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3556
3557	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3558			boot time.
3559			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3560			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3561
3562	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3563			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3564			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3565			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3566			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3567			and performance comparison.
3568
3569	pf.		[PARIDE]
3570			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3571
3572	pg.		[PARIDE]
3573			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3574
3575	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3576			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3577
3578	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3579			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3580			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3581
3582	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3583			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3584			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3585
3586	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3587			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3588			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3589			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3590			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3591			possible settings and some assignment information.
3592
3593	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3594			{ off }
3595
3596	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3597			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3598
3599	pnp_reserve_irq=
3600			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3601
3602	pnp_reserve_dma=
3603			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3604
3605	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3606			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3607
3608	pnp_reserve_mem=
3609			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3610			autoconfiguration.
3611			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3612
3613	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3614			Default is 21.
3615			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3616			may be specified.
3617			Format: <port>,<port>....
3618
3619	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3620			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3621			platform machine description specific power_save
3622			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3623			execution priority.
3624
3625	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3626			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3627			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3628			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3629			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3630
3631	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3632			Format: {"off"}
3633			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3634
3635	print-fatal-signals=
3636			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3637
3638			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3639			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3640			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3641			coredump - etc.
3642
3643			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3644			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3645
3646			default: off.
3647
3648	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3649			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3650			panics
3651			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3652			default: disabled
3653
3654	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3655			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3656			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3657			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3658			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3659			Default: ratelimit
3660
3661	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3662			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3663
3664	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3665			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3666			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3667
3668	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3669			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3670			instead using the legacy FADT method
3671
3672	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3673			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3674			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3675				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3676			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3677			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3678				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3679			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3680			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3681				statistical time based profiling.
3682
3683	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3684			before loading.
3685			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3686
3687	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3688			tracking.
3689			Format: <bool>
3690
3691	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3692			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3693	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3694			per second.
3695	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3696			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3697			(0 = never).
3698	psmouse.resolution=
3699			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3700	psmouse.smartscroll=
3701			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3702			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3703
3704	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3705
3706	pt.		[PARIDE]
3707			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3708
3709	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3710			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3711			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3712			system calls and interrupts.
3713
3714			on   - unconditionally enable
3715			off  - unconditionally disable
3716			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3717			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3718
3719			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3720
3721	nopti		[X86_64]
3722			Equivalent to pti=off
3723
3724	pty.legacy_count=
3725			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3726			default number.
3727
3728	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3729
3730	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3731
3732	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3733			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3734
3735	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3736			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3737
3738	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3739			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3740			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3741			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3742			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3743
3744	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3745
3746		cec_disable	[X86]
3747				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3748				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3749
3750	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3751			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3752			except that the string "all" can be used to
3753			specify every CPU on the system.
3754
3755			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3756			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3757			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3758			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3759			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3760			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3761			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3762			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3763			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3764			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3765
3766	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3767			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3768			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3769			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3770			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3771			This improves the real-time response for the
3772			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3773			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3774			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3775			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3776
3777	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3778			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3779			process in one batch.
3780
3781	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3782			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3783			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3784			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3785
3786	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3787			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3788			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3789
3790	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3791			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3792			RCU grace-period initialization.
3793
3794	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3795			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3796			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3797			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3798			the rcu_node combining tree.
3799
3800	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3801			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3802			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3803			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3804			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3805
3806	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3807			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3808			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3809			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3810			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3811
3812	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3813			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3814			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3815			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3816			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3817			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3818			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3819
3820	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3821			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3822			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3823			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3824			and maximum value is HZ.
3825
3826	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3827			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3828			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3829			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3830
3831	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3832			Set required age in jiffies for a
3833			given grace period before RCU starts
3834			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3835			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3836			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3837			a value based on the most recent settings
3838			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3839			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3840			This calculated value may be viewed in
3841			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3842			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3843			overwritten.
3844
3845	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3846			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3847			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3848			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3849			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3850			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3851			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3852			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3853			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3854			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3855
3856	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3857			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3858			each group, which defaults to the square root
3859			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3860			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3861			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3862			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3863
3864	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3865			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3866			batch limiting is disabled.
3867
3868	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3869			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3870			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3871
3872	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3873			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3874			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3875
3876	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3877			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3878			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3879			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3880			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3881
3882	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3883			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3884			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3885			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3886			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3887			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3888
3889	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3890			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3891			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3892			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3893
3894	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3895			Measure performance of asynchronous
3896			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3897
3898	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3899			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3900			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3901			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3902			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3903			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3904
3905	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3906			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3907			grace-period primitives.
3908
3909	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3910			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3911			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3912			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3913			interference.
3914
3915	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3916			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3917			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3918			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3919			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3920			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3921			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3922			a single reader.
3923
3924	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3925			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3926			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3927			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3928
3929	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3930			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3931
3932	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3933			Shut the system down after performance tests
3934			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3935			testing.
3936
3937	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3938			Enable additional printk() statements.
3939
3940	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3941			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3942			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3943			no holdoff.
3944
3945	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3946			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3947			in microseconds.
3948
3949	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3950			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3951			in microseconds.
3952
3953	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3954			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3955			in seconds.
3956
3957	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3958			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3959			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3960
3961	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3962			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3963			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3964
3965	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3966			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3967			forward-progress tests.
3968
3969	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3970			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3971			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3972			testing.
3973
3974	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3975			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3976			primitives, if available.
3977
3978	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3979			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3980
3981	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3982			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3983			update-side primitives, if available.
3984
3985	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3986			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3987			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3988			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3989			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3990			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3991			they are all non-zero.
3992
3993	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3994			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3995
3996	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3997			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3998			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3999			test, hence the "fake".
4000
4001	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4002			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4003			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4004			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4005			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4006			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4007
4008	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4009			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4010
4011	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4012			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4013
4014	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4015			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4016			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4017
4018	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4019			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4020			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4021			during the rcutorture test.
4022
4023	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4024			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4025			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4026
4027	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4028			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4029			warnings, zero to disable.
4030
4031	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4032			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4033
4034	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4035			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4036
4037	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4038			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4039
4040	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4041			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4042			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4043			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4044			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4045
4046	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4047			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4048			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4049			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4050
4051	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4052			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4053
4054	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4055			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4056
4057	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4058			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4059			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4060
4061	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4062			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4063
4064	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4065			Enable additional printk() statements.
4066
4067	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4068			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4069			stall warning.
4070
4071	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4072			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4073
4074	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4075			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4076
4077	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4078			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4079			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4080			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4081			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4082			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4083			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4084
4085	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4086			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4087			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4088			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4089			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4090			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4091			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4092			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4093			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4094
4095	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4096			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4097			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4098			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4099			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4100
4101	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4102			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4103			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4104			to zero.
4105
4106	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4107			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4108
4109	rdinit=		[KNL]
4110			Format: <full_path>
4111			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4112			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4113
4114	rdrand=		[X86]
4115			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4116				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4117				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4118				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4119				path).
4120
4121	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4122			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4123			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4124			mba.
4125			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4126				rdt=cmt,!mba
4127
4128	reboot=		[KNL]
4129			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4130				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4131				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4132				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4133				[[,]f[orce]
4134			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4135					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4136					reboot only),
4137			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4138			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4139			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4140					to be used for rebooting.
4141
4142	relax_domain_level=
4143			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4144			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4145
4146	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4147			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4148			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4149			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4150			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4151
4152	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4153			Format: nn[KMG]
4154			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4155			address space.
4156
4157	reservelow=	[X86]
4158			Format: nn[K]
4159			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4160			the bottom of the address space.
4161
4162	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4163			during initialization.
4164
4165	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4166			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4167			Format:
4168			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4169
4170	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4171			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4172			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4173			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4174			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4175
4176	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4177			read the resume files
4178
4179	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4180			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4181			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4182
4183	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4184		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4185				present during boot.
4186		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4187		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4188		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4189				(that will set all pages holding image data
4190				during restoration read-only).
4191
4192	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4193
4194	rfkill.default_state=
4195		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4196			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4197		1	Unblocked.
4198
4199	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4200		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4201		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4202			blocked and the previous configuration.
4203		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4204			blocked and everything unblocked.
4205
4206	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4207			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4208
4209	ring3mwait=disable
4210			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4211			CPUs.
4212
4213	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4214
4215	rodata=		[KNL]
4216		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4217		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4218
4219	rockchip.usb_uart
4220			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4221			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4222			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4223			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4224
4225	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4226			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4227
4228	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4229			mount the root filesystem
4230
4231	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4232
4233	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4234
4235	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4236			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4237			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4238
4239	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4240			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4241			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4242			managed by CMA.
4243
4244	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4245
4246	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4247
4248	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4249			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4250		strict
4251			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4252			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4253			which is faster.
4254
4255	sa1100ir	[NET]
4256			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4257
4258	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4259
4260	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4261
4262	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4263			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4264			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4265			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4266
4267	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4268			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4269			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4270			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4271			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4272			1 -- enable.
4273			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4274			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4275
4276	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4277			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4278			"lsm=" parameter.
4279
4280	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4281			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4282			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4283			0 -- disable.
4284			1 -- enable.
4285			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4286			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4287			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4288
4289	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4290			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4291			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4292			0 -- disable.
4293			1 -- enable.
4294			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4295
4296	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4297
4298	shapers=	[NET]
4299			Maximal number of shapers.
4300
4301	simeth=		[IA-64]
4302	simscsi=
4303
4304	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4305
4306	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4307			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4308			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4309			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4310			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4311			layout control by attackers can usually be
4312			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4313			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4314			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4315			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4316			own.
4317			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4318
4319	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4320			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4321			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4322			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4323			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4324
4325	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4326			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4327			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4328			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4329			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4330			last alloc / free. For more information see
4331			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4332
4333	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4334			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4335			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4336			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4337			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4338			directories and files being created under
4339			/sys/kernel/slub.
4340
4341	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4342			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4343			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4344			fragmentation. For more information see
4345			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4346
4347	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4348			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4349			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4350			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4351			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4352			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4353			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4354			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4355
4356	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4357			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4358			lower than slub_max_order.
4359			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4360
4361	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4362			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4363			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4364
4365	smart2=		[HW]
4366			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4367
4368	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4369	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4370	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4371	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4372	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4373	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4374	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4375				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4376				1: Fast pin select (default)
4377				2: ATC IRMode
4378
4379	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4380			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4381			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4382			actual hardware limit.
4383			Format: <integer>
4384			Default: -1 (no limit)
4385
4386	softlockup_panic=
4387			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4388			Format: <integer>
4389
4390			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4391			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4392			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4393			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4394			functionality.
4395
4396	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4397			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4398			backtraces on all cpus.
4399			Format: <integer>
4400
4401	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4402			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4403
4404	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4405			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4406			The default operation protects the kernel from
4407			user space attacks.
4408
4409			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4410			       spectre_v2_user=on
4411			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4412			       spectre_v2_user=off
4413			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4414			       vulnerable
4415
4416			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4417			mitigation method at run time according to the
4418			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4419			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4420			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4421
4422			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4423			against user space to user space task attacks.
4424
4425			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4426			the user space protections.
4427
4428			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4429
4430			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4431			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4432			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4433
4434			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4435			spectre_v2=auto.
4436
4437	spectre_v2_user=
4438			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4439		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4440		        user space tasks
4441
4442			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4443				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4444
4445			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4446				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4447
4448			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4449				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4450				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4451				  is inherited on fork.
4452
4453			prctl,ibpb
4454				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4455				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4456				  always when switching between different user
4457				  space processes.
4458
4459			seccomp
4460				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4461				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4462				  they explicitly opt out.
4463
4464			seccomp,ibpb
4465				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4466				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4467				  always when switching between different
4468				  user space processes.
4469
4470			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4471				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4472
4473			Default mitigation:
4474			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4475
4476			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4477			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4478
4479	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4480			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4481			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4482
4483			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4484			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4485			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4486			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4487			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4488			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4489			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4490			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4491
4492			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4493			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4494			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4495			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4496
4497			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4498			Bypass optimization is used.
4499
4500			On x86 the options are:
4501
4502			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4503			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4504			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4505				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4506				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4507				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4508				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4509				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4510			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4511				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4512				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4513				  is inherited on fork.
4514			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4515				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4516
4517			Default mitigations:
4518			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4519
4520			On powerpc the options are:
4521
4522			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4523				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4524				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4525				  exit.
4526			off	- No action.
4527
4528			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4529			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4530
4531	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4532	spia_fio_base=
4533	spia_pedr=
4534	spia_peddr=
4535
4536	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4537			Specifies how frequently to check for
4538			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4539			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4540			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4541			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4542			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4543			are ignored.
4544
4545	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4546			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4547			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4548			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4549			grace period will be considered for automatic
4550			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4551			expediting.
4552
4553	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4554			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4555
4556			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4557			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4558			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4559			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4560
4561			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4562				   for both kernel and userspace
4563			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4564				   for both kernel and userspace
4565			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4566				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4567				   to allow userspace to register its
4568				   interest in being mitigated too.
4569
4570	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4571			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4572			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4573			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4574			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4575			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4576
4577	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4578			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4579
4580	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4581			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4582			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4583			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4584			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4585			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4586			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4587
4588	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4589			Format: <num>
4590			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4591			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4592			as the initial boot-console.
4593			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4594
4595	sti_font=	[HW]
4596			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4597
4598	stifb=		[HW]
4599			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4600
4601	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4602	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4603			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4604			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4605			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4606			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4607			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4608			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4609			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4610			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4611			maximum port values.
4612
4613	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4614			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4615			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4616			process in parallel from a single connection.
4617			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4618
4619	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4620			[NFS]
4621			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4622			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4623			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4624			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4625			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4626			NFS server is running.
4627
4628			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4629				    automatically using heuristics
4630			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4631			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4632			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4633				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4634
4635	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4636	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4637			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4638			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4639			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4640			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4641			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4642			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4643
4644	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4645			[SUSPEND]
4646			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4647			mode before resuming the system (see
4648			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4649			is set. Default value is 5.
4650
4651	svm=		[PPC]
4652			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4653			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4654			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4655
4656	swapaccount=[0|1]
4657			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4658			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4659			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4660
4661	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4662			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4663			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4664			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4665			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4666			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4667
4668	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4669
4670	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4671			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4672			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4673			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4674			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4675			in older udev will not work anymore.
4676			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4677			the kernel configuration.
4678
4679	sysrq_always_enabled
4680			[KNL]
4681			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4682			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4683			Useful for debugging.
4684
4685	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4686			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4687			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4688			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4689			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4690			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4691
4692	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4693
4694	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4695			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4696			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4697			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4698			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4699			The system is woken from this state using a
4700			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4701
4702	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4703			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4704
4705	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4706			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4707			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4708
4709	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4710			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4711			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4712
4713	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4714			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4715			critical and hot trip points.
4716
4717	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4718			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4719
4720	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4721			-1: disable all passive trip points
4722			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4723			value
4724
4725	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4726			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4727			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4728			0: no polling (default)
4729
4730	threadirqs	[KNL]
4731			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4732			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4733
4734	topology=	[S390]
4735			Format: {off | on}
4736			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4737			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4738			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4739			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4740			Default is on.
4741
4742	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4743			Format: {off}
4744			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4745			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4746			LPAR.
4747
4748	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4749
4750	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4751			Format: integer pcr id
4752			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4753			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4754			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4755			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4756			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4757			are saved.
4758
4759	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4760			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4761
4762	trace_event=[event-list]
4763			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4764			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4765			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4766			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4767
4768	trace_options=[option-list]
4769			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4770			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4771			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4772			to echo the option name into
4773
4774			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4775
4776			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4777			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4778
4779			      trace_options=stacktrace
4780
4781			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4782			section.
4783
4784	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4785			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4786			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4787			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4788			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4789			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4790
4791			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4792			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4793			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4794			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4795
4796			** CAUTION **
4797
4798			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4799			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4800			the system to live lock.
4801
4802	traceoff_on_warning
4803			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4804			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4805			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4806			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4807
4808			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4809			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4810			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4811
4812			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4813			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4814
4815	transparent_hugepage=
4816			[KNL]
4817			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4818			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4819			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4820			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4821			for more details.
4822
4823	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4824			Format: <string>
4825			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4826			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4827			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4828			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4829			virtualized environment.
4830			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4831			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4832			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4833			can add overhead.
4834			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4835			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4836			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4837			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4838			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4839			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4840			acceptable).
4841
4842	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4843			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4844			Format:
4845			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4846			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4847
4848	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4849			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4850			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4851			help "seeing" what's going on.
4852
4853	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4854			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4855
4856	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4857			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4858			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4859			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4860			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4861			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4862			reported either.
4863
4864	unknown_nmi_panic
4865			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4866
4867	usbcore.authorized_default=
4868			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4869			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4870			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4871			if device connected to internal port)
4872
4873	usbcore.autosuspend=
4874			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4875			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4876			is the time required before an idle device will be
4877			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4878			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4879
4880	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4881			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4882
4883	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4884			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4885			(default = 65536).
4886
4887	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4888			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4889
4890	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4891			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4892			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4893			 (default 0 = off).
4894
4895	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4896			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4897			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4898
4899	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4900			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4901			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4902
4903	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4904			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4905			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4906			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4907
4908	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4909
4910	usbcore.quirks=
4911			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4912			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4913			commas. Each entry has the form
4914			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4915			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4916			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4917			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4918			the following meanings:
4919				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4920					descriptors must not be fetched using
4921					a 255-byte read);
4922				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4923					correctly so reset it instead);
4924				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4925					Set-Interface requests);
4926				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4927					handle its Configuration or Interface
4928					strings);
4929				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4930					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4931				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4932					more interface descriptions than the
4933					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4934					talking to these interfaces);
4935				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4936					during initialization, after we read
4937					the device descriptor);
4938				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4939					high speed and super speed interrupt
4940					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4941					require the interval in microframes (1
4942					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4943					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4944					(bInterval-1).
4945					Devices with this quirk report their
4946					bInterval as the result of this
4947					calculation instead of the exponent
4948					variable used in the calculation);
4949				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4950					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4951					requests);
4952				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4953					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4954					remote wakeup capability);
4955				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4956					Power Management);
4957				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4958					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4959					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4960					calculation);
4961				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4962					to be disconnected before suspend to
4963					prevent spurious wakeup);
4964				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4965					pause after every control message);
4966				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4967					delay after resetting its port);
4968			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4969
4970	usbhid.mousepoll=
4971			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4972
4973	usbhid.jspoll=
4974			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4975
4976	usbhid.kbpoll=
4977			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4978
4979	usb-storage.delay_use=
4980			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4981			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4982
4983	usb-storage.quirks=
4984			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4985			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4986			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4987			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4988			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4989			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4990			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4991				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4992					of sense data);
4993				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4994					bytes of sense data);
4995				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4996					device capacity by one sector);
4997				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4998					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4999				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5000					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5001				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5002					command, uas only);
5003				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5004					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5005				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5006					reported device capacity by one
5007					sector if the number is odd);
5008				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5009					device);
5010				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5011					command, uas only);
5012				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5013					unlock ejectable media);
5014				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5015					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
5016				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5017					initial READ(10) command);
5018				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5019					reported by the device);
5020				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5021					by default);
5022				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5023					bogus residue values);
5024				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5025					Logical Unit);
5026				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5027					commands, uas only);
5028				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5029				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5030					medium is write-protected).
5031				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5032					even if the device claims no cache)
5033			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5034
5035	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5036			Format: <int>
5037			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5038				 1 - undefined instruction events
5039				 2 - system calls
5040				 4 - invalid data aborts
5041				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5042				16 - SIGBUS faults
5043			Example: user_debug=31
5044
5045	userpte=
5046			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5047
5048				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5049					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5050					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5051
5052	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5053			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5054
5055			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5056			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5057
5058	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5059			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5060			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5061
5062			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5063			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5064			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5065
5066			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5067			alias for vdso32=0.
5068
5069			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5070			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5071
5072	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5073			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5074
5075	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5076			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5077
5078	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5079			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5080			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5081			level and then send out the event to user space through
5082			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5083			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5084			brightness level.
5085			default: 1
5086
5087	virtio_mmio.device=
5088			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5089
5090				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5091			where:
5092				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5093						like K, M and G)
5094				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5095				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5096						request_irq())
5097				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5098			example:
5099				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5100
5101			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5102
5103	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5104			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5105			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5106			Use vga=ask for menu.
5107			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5108			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5109
5110	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5111			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5112			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5113			All options are enabled by default, and this
5114			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5115			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5116			debugging features.
5117
5118			Available options are:
5119			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5120			  -	Disable all of the above options
5121
5122	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5123			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5124			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5125			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5126			mapped kernel RAM.
5127
5128	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5129			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5130			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5131
5132	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5133			Format: <command>
5134
5135	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5136			Format: <command>
5137
5138	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5139			Format: <command>
5140
5141	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5142			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5143			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5144			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5145			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5146			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5147			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5148
5149			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5150			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5151				    page is readable.
5152
5153			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5154			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5155				    page is not readable.
5156
5157			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5158			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5159			            might break your system.
5160
5161	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5162			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5163			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5164
5165	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5166			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5167			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5168			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5169
5170	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5171			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5172			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5173			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5174			ranging from 0-255.
5175
5176	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5177			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5178			Change the default green palette of the console.
5179			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5180			ranging from 0-255.
5181
5182	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5183			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5184			Change the default red palette of the console.
5185			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5186			ranging from 0-255.
5187
5188	vt.default_utf8=
5189			[VT]
5190			Format=<0|1>
5191			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5192			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5193			newly opened terminals.
5194
5195	vt.global_cursor_default=
5196			[VT]
5197			Format=<-1|0|1>
5198			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5199			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5200			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5201			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5202			cursors, 1 will display them.
5203
5204	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5205			Default: 2 = green.
5206
5207	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5208			Default: 3 = cyan.
5209
5210	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5211			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5212			or other driver-specific files in the
5213			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5214
5215	watchdog_thresh=
5216			[KNL]
5217			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5218			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5219			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5220			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5221			seconds.
5222
5223	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5224			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5225			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5226			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5227			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5228			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5229			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5230			corresponding sysfs file.
5231
5232	workqueue.disable_numa
5233			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5234			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5235			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5236			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5237			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5238			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5239			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5240
5241	workqueue.power_efficient
5242			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5243			they show better performance thanks to cache
5244			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5245			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5246
5247			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5248			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5249			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5250			power usage at the cost of small performance
5251			overhead.
5252
5253			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5254			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5255
5256	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5257			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5258			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5259			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5260			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5261			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5262			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5263			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5264			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5265			impacted.
5266
5267	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5268			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5269			supporting x2apic.
5270
5271	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5272			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5273			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5274			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5275			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5276
5277	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5278			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5279			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5280			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5281			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5282			domains.
5283
5284	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5285			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5286			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5287			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5288			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5289			nics -- unplug network devices
5290			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5291			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5292				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5293				the unplug protocol
5294			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5295
5296	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5297			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5298			optimizations.
5299
5300	xen_nopv	[X86]
5301			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5302			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5303			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5304			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5305
5306	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5307			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5308			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5309			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5310			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5311
5312	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5313			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5314			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5315			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5316			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5317			more timer interrupts.
5318
5319	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5320			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5321			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5322			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5323
5324	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5325			Format:
5326			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5327
5328	xive=		[PPC]
5329			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5330			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5331			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5332
5333			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5334				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5335				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5336
5337	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5338			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5339			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5340			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5341
5342	xmon		[PPC]
5343			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5344			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5345			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5346			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5347				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5348			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5349				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5350				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5351				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5352			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5353				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5354				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5355				can be written using xmon commands.
5356			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5357				memory, and other data can't be written using
5358				xmon commands.
5359			off	xmon is disabled.
5360