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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
25			errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
26			source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
27			may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
28			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
29				default _serial_ console on ARM64
30			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
31			"acpi=nospcr" are available
32			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
33			are available
34
35			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
36
37	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
38			Format: <int>
39			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
40			1,0: use 1st APIC table
41			default: 0
42
43	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
44			{ vendor | video | native | none }
45			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
46			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
47			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
48			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
49			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
50			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
51
52	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
53			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
54			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
55			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
56			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
57
58	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
59			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
60			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
61			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
62			This option is useful for developers to identify the
63			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
64			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
65
66	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
67	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
68			Format: <int>
69			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
70			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
71			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
72			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
73			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
74			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
75			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
76			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
77			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
78			debug layers and levels.
79
80			Enable processor driver info messages:
81			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
82			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
83			object while interpreting AML:
84			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
85			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
86			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
87
88			Some values produce so much output that the system is
89			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
90			if you need to capture more output.
91
92	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
93			{ strict | lax | no }
94			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
95			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
96			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
97			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
98			can interfere with legacy drivers.
99			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
100			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
101			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
102			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
103			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
104			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
105			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
106			no further checks are performed.
107
108	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
109			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
110			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
111			size limitation.
112
113	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will balance active IRQs
115			default in APIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
118			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
119			default in PIC mode
120
121	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
125			use by PCI
126			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
127
128	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
129			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
130			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
131			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
132			the GPE dispatcher.
133			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
134			GPE floodings.
135			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
136
137	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
138			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
139			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
140			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
141			auto-serialization feature.
142			This feature is enabled by default.
143			This option allows to turn off the feature.
144
145	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
146			   kernels.
147
148	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
149			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
150			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
151			installed automatically and they will appear under
152			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
153			This option turns off this feature.
154			Note that specifying this option does not affect
155			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
156			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
157
158	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
159			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
160			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
161
162	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
163			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
164			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
165			second kernel for kdump.
166
167	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
168			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
169
170	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
171			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
172			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
173			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
174			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
175
176	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
177			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
178			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
179			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
180			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
181						  strings
182			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
183						  strings
184			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
185
186			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
187			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
188			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
189			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
190			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
191			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
192			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
193			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
194			care about the state of the feature group strings which
195			should be controlled by the OSPM.
196			Examples:
197			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
198			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
199			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
200
201			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
202			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
203			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
204			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
205			multiple times through kernel command line is also
206			meaningless.
207			Examples:
208			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
209			     FALSE.
210
211			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
212			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
213			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
214			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
215			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
216			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
217			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
218			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
219			is useful when one want to control the state of the
220			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
221			the OSPM features.
222			Examples:
223			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
224			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
225			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
226			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
227			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
228			     equivalent to
229			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
230			     and
231			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
232			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
233
234	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
235			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
236			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
237			and always returns good values.
238
239	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
240			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
241
242	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
243			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
244			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
245
246	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
247			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
248				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
249				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
250			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
251			s3_bios and s3_mode.
252			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
253			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
254			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
255			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
256			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
257			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
258			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
259			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
260			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
261			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
262			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
263			used (or even warned about) during resume.
264			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
265			control method, with respect to putting devices into
266			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
267			of _PTS is used by default).
268			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
269			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
270			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
271			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
272			but some broken systems don't work without it).
273			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
274			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
275			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
276
277	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
278			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
279			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
280
281	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
282			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
283
284	agp=		[AGP]
285			{ off | try_unsupported }
286			off: disable AGP support
287			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
288				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
289
290	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
291			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
292
293	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
294			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
295			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
296			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
297
298	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
299			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
300			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
301			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
302			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
303			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
304			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
305
306			32: only for 32-bit processes
307			64: only for 64-bit processes
308			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
309			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
310
311	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
312			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
313			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
314			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
315			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
316			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
317
318	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
319			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
320			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
321			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
322			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
323			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
324			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
325
326			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
327			information.
328
329	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
330			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
331			Possible values are:
332			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
333			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
334				    the system
335			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
336					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
337					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
338					  requirements as needed. This option
339					  does not override iommu=pt
340			force_enable    - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
341				          to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
342				          option with care.
343			pgtbl_v1        - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
344			pgtbl_v2        - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
345			irtcachedis     - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
346			nohugepages     - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
347				          to 4 KiB.
348			v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
349				          to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
350
351
352	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
353			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
354			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
355			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
356			IOMMU initialization.
357
358	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
359			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
360			remapping modes:
361			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
362			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
363			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
364			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
365			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
366
367	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
368			disable
369			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
370			  scaling driver for the supported processors
371			passive
372			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
373			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
374			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
375			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
376			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
377			active
378			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
379			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
380			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
381			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
382			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
383			  frequency.
384			guided
385			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
386			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
387			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
388			  to the current workload.
389
390	amd_prefcore=
391			[X86]
392			disable
393			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
394
395	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
396			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
397			Format: <a>,<b>
398			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
399
400	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
401			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
402			connected to one of 16 gameports
403			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
404
405	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
406			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
407			Format: noidle
408			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
409			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
410			APC and your system crashes randomly.
411
412	apic		[APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
413
414	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
415			Change the output verbosity while booting
416			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
417			Change the amount of debugging information output
418			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
419
420	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
421			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
422			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
423			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
424			      backup of CPU 0
425			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
426			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
427			      shot down by NMI
428
429	apicpmtimer	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
430			apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
431			broken.
432
433	autoconf=	[IPV6]
434			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
435
436	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
437			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
438
439	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
440			Format: { "0" | "1" }
441			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
442			0 -- disable.
443			1 -- enable.
444			Default value is set via kernel config option.
445
446	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
447			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
448
449	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
450			32 bit applications.
451
452	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
453			Identification support
454
455	arm64.nogcs	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
456			support
457
458	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
459			Set instructions support
460
461	arm64.nompam	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
462			Monitoring support
463
464	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
465			support
466
467	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
468			support
469
470	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
471			Extension support
472
473	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
474			Extension support
475
476	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
477
478	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
479
480	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
481			EzKey and similar keyboards
482
483	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
484
485	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
486			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
487
488	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
489			keyboards
490
491	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
492			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
493
494	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
495			Use software keyboard repeat
496
497	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
498			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
499			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
500			    enabled until the next reboot
501			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
502			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
503			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
504			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
505			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
506			    userspace auditd.
507			Default: unset
508
509	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
510			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
511			Default: 64
512
513	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
514			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
515			Format: { "0" | "1" }
516			0 - Disable the BAU.
517			1 - Enable the BAU.
518			unset - Disable the BAU.
519
520	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
521			Format: <io>,<mode>
522
523	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
524			Format: <io>,<mode>
525			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
526
527	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
528			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
529			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
530			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
531
532	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
533			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
534			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
535			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
536
537	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
538			Format: <bool>
539			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
540			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
541			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
542			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
543			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
544			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
545			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
546			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
547			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
548
549	bert_disable	[ACPI]
550			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
551
552	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
553			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
554
555	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
556			embedded devices based on command line input.
557			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
558
559	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
560			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
562			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
563			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
564			erroneous and ignored.
565			Format: integer
566
567	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
568			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
569			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
570
571			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
572
573	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
574	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
575			kernel args too.
576	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
577	bttv.tuner=
578
579	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
580			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
581			at a time.
582
583	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
584
585	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
586			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
587			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
588			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
589			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
590			This option provides an override for these situations.
591
592	carrier_timeout=
593			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
594			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
595			it waits 120 seconds.
596
597	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
598			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
599			trust validation.
600			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
601
602	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
603			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
604			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
605			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
606			others).
607
608	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
609			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
610
611	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
612			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
613			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
614			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
615			  a single hierarchy
616			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
617			  subsystem
618			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
619			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
620			  created
621			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
622			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
623			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
624			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
625			stall information accounting feature
626
627	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
628			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
629			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
630			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
631			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
632			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
633			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
634			all v1 hierarchies.
635
636	cgroup_v1_proc=	[KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
637			Format: { "true" | "false" }
638			/proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
639			This compatibility option enables listing also v2
640			controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
641			semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
642			about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
643
644	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
645			Format: { "true" | "false" }
646			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
647
648	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
649			Format: <string>
650			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
651			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
652			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
653
654	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
655			Format: { "0" | "1" }
656			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
657			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
658				any implied execute protection).
659			1 -- check protection requested by application.
660			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
661			Value can be changed at runtime via
662				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
663			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
664
665	cio_ignore=	[S390]
666			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
667
668	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
669			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
670			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
671			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
672			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
673			ones should be.
674			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
675			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
676			instability issue. However, not all features have names
677			in /proc/cpuinfo.
678			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
679			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
680			or using the feature without checking anything
681			will still see it. This just prevents it from
682			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
683			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
684			some critical bits.
685
686	clk_ignore_unused
687			[CLK]
688			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
689			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
690			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
691			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
692			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
693			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
694			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
695			platform with proper driver support.  For more
696			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
697
698	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
699			[Deprecated]
700			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
701			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
702			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
703			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
704
705	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
706			Format: <string>
707			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
708			with the name specified.
709			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
710			the platform:
711			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
712			[ACPI] acpi_pm
713			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
714				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
715			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
716				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
717			[MIPS] MIPS
718			[PARISC] cr16
719			[S390] tod
720			[SH] SuperH
721			[SPARC64] tick
722			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
723
724	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
725			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
726			Format: <bool>
727			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
728			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
729			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
730			systems.
731
732	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
733			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
734			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
735			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
736			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
737			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
738			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
739			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
740			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
741
742	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
743			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
744			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
745			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
746			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
747
748	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
749			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
751			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
752			placement constraint by the physical address range of
753			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
754			altogether. For more information, see
755			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
756
757	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
758			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
759			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
760			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
761			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
762			specified, the default value is 0.
763			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
764			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
765			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
766			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
767
768	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
769			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
770			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
771			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
772			area for the specified node.
773
774			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
775			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
776			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
777			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
778
779	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
780			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
781			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
782			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
783			a hypervisor.
784			Default: yes
785
786	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
787			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
788			allocations, by default set to 256K.
789
790	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
791			Format:
792			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
793
794	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
795			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
796
797	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
798			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
799			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
800
801	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
802	conmode=
803
804	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
805			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
806			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
807			the console buffer is full. In this case the
808			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
809			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
810			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
811			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
812			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
813			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
814
815	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
816
817		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
818
819		ttyS<n>[,options]
820		ttyUSB0[,options]
821			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
822			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
823			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
824			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
825			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
826
827			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
828			information.  See
829			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
830			alternative.
831
832		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
833			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
834			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
835			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
836			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
837			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
838
839			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
840			can be viewed with:
841
842			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
843			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
844
845			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
846			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
847			way will only get added when the related device driver
848			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
849			the console may be desired for console output early on.
850
851		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
852		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
853		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
854		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
855		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
856			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
857			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
858			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
859			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
860			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
861			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
862			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
863			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
864			the h/w is not re-initialized.
865
866		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
867			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
868
869		{ null | "" }
870			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
871			console messages discarded.
872			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
873			kernel command line.
874
875		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
876		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
877			console=brl,ttyS0
878		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
879
880	console_msg_format=
881			[KNL] Change console messages format
882		default
883			By default we print messages on consoles in
884			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
885			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
886			`printk_time' param).
887		syslog
888			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
889			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
890			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
891			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
892			from /proc/kmsg.
893
894	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
895			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
896			Defaults to 0.
897
898	coredump_filter=
899			[KNL] Change the default value for
900			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
901			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
902
903	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
904			[ARM,ARM64]
905			Format: <bool>
906			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
907			0: default value, disable debugging
908			1: enable debugging at boot time
909
910	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
911			Format:
912			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
913
914	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
915			disable the cpuidle sub-system
916
917	cpuidle.governor=
918			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
919
920	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
921			disable the cpufreq sub-system
922
923	cpufreq.default_governor=
924			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
925			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
926			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
927
928	cpu_init_udelay=N
929			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
930			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
931			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
932			Default: 10000
933
934	cpuhp.parallel=
935			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
936			Format: <bool>
937			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
938			the parameter has no effect.
939
940	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
941			Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
942			notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
943			the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
944			notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
945			In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
946			running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
947			more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
948			or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
949			configurations enable this option unconditionally,
950			like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
951
952	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
953			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
954			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
955			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
956			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
957			is selected automatically.
958			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
959			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
960			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
961			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
962
963	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
964			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
965			in the running system. The syntax of range is
966			start-[end] where start and end are both
967			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
968			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
969
970	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
971			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
972			above 4G.
973			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
974			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
975			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
976			below 4G, if available.
977			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
978	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
979			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
980			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
981			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
982			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
983			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
984			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
985			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
986			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
987			size is	platform dependent.
988			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
989			  --> arm64: 128MiB
990			  --> riscv: 128MiB
991			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
992			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
993			for second kernel instead.
994			0: to disable low allocation.
995			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
996			or memory reserved is below 4G.
997
998	cryptomgr.notests
999			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1000
1001	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
1002			Format: <dma>
1003
1004	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
1005			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1006
1007	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1008			function call handling. When switched on,
1009			additional debug data is printed to the console
1010			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1011			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1012			the hang situation.  The default value of this
1013			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1014			Kconfig option.
1015
1016	dasd=		[HW,NET]
1017			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1018
1019	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1020			(one device per port)
1021			Format: <port#>,<type>
1022			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1023
1024	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1025
1026	debug_boot_weak_hash
1027			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1028			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1029			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1030			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1031			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1032			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1033
1034	debug_locks_verbose=
1035			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1036			Format: <int>
1037			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1038			self-tests.
1039			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1040			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1041			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1042			useful to lockdep developers.
1043
1044	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1045
1046	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1047			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1048			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1049			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1050			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1051			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1052			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1053			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1054			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1055			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1056			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1057			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1058			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1059			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1060			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1061			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1062			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1063			help tracking down these problems.
1064
1065	debug_pagealloc=
1066			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1067			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1068			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1069			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1070			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1071			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1072			on: enable the feature
1073
1074	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1075			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1076			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1077			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1078			no-mount:
1079				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1080			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1081				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1082			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1083			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1084				or directories within debugfs.
1085				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1086				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1087			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1088
1089	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1090
1091	default_hugepagesz=
1092			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1093			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1094			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1095			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1096			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1097			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1098			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1099			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1100			Format: size[KMG]
1101
1102	deferred_probe_timeout=
1103			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1104			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1105			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1106			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1107			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1108			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1109			successful driver registration. This option will also
1110			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1111			retrying.
1112
1113	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1114
1115	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1116			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1117			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1118			hardware.
1119
1120	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1121			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1122			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1123			blacklisted features.
1124
1125	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1126			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1127			(disabled by default).
1128
1129	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1130			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1131			capability is set.
1132
1133	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1134			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1135
1136	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1137			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1138
1139	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1140			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1141			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1142			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1143			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1144			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1145			          only (compression on level 1)
1146			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1147			          only (decompression)
1148			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1149			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1150
1151	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1152			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1153
1154	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1155			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1156			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1157			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1158			miss to occur.
1159
1160	disable=	[IPV6]
1161			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1162
1163	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1164			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1165
1166	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1167			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1168			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1169
1170	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1171			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1172			to workaround buggy firmware.
1173
1174	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1175			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1176
1177	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1178			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1179			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1180			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1181
1182	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1183			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1184			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1185			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1186			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1187
1188	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1189			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1190			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1191
1192	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1193
1194	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1195			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1196
1197	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1198			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1199			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1200			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1201			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1202			architectural default is too low.
1203
1204	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1205			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1206			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1207			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1208			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1209			driver later using sysfs.
1210
1211	reg_file_data_sampling=
1212			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1213			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1214			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1215			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1216			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1217			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1218
1219			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1220			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1221
1222			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1223			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1224			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1225			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1226			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1227
1228			For details see:
1229			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1230
1231	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1232			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1233			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1234			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1235			match the *.
1236			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1237
1238	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1239			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1240			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1241			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1242			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1243			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1244			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1245			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1246			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1247			data set with no connector name will be used for
1248			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1249
1250	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1251
1252	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1253			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1254			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1255			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1256			exists).
1257			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1258			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1259			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1260
1261	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1262			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1263			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1264			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1265
1266	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1267	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1268			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1269			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1270			for details.
1271
1272	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1273			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1274			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1275			which are not unmapped.
1276
1277	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1278
1279			When used with no options, the early console is
1280			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1281			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1282			the platform.
1283
1284		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1285			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1286			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1287			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1288			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1289			configured.
1290
1291		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1292		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1293		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1294		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1295		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1296			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1297			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1298			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1299			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1300			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1301			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1302			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1303			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1304			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1305			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1306
1307		pl011,<addr>
1308		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1309			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1310			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1311			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1312			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1313			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1314			the device registers.
1315
1316		liteuart,<addr>
1317			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1318			specified address. The serial port must already be
1319			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1320
1321		meson,<addr>
1322			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1323			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1324			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1325			supported.
1326
1327		msm_serial,<addr>
1328			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1329			port at the specified address. The serial port
1330			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1331			yet supported.
1332
1333		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1334			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1335			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1336			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1337			yet supported.
1338
1339		owl,<addr>
1340			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1341			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1342			specified address. The serial port must already be
1343			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1344
1345		rda,<addr>
1346			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1347			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1348			specified address. The serial port must already be
1349			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1350
1351		sbi
1352			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1353			console.
1354
1355		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1356
1357		s3c2410,<addr>
1358		s3c2412,<addr>
1359		s3c2440,<addr>
1360		s3c6400,<addr>
1361		s5pv210,<addr>
1362		exynos4210,<addr>
1363			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1364			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1365			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1366			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1367			Options are not yet supported.
1368
1369		lantiq,<addr>
1370			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1371			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1372			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1373			yet supported.
1374
1375		lpuart,<addr>
1376		lpuart32,<addr>
1377			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1378			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1379			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1380			port must already be setup and configured.
1381
1382		ec_imx21,<addr>
1383		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1384			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1385			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1386			must already be setup and configured.
1387
1388		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1389			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1390			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1391			address. The serial port must already be setup
1392			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1393
1394		qcom_geni,<addr>
1395			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1396			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1397			specified address. The serial port must already be
1398			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1399
1400		efifb,[options]
1401			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1402			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1403			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1404			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1405			mapped with the correct attributes.
1406
1407		linflex,<addr>
1408			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1409			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1410			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1411			already be setup and configured.
1412
1413	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1414			earlyprintk=vga
1415			earlyprintk=sclp
1416			earlyprintk=xen
1417			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1418			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1419			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1420			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1421			earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1422			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1423			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1424			earlyprintk=bios
1425
1426			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1427			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1428			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1429
1430			Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1431			BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1432
1433			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1434			takes over.
1435
1436			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1437			be used at a time.
1438
1439			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1440			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1441			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1442			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1443				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1444			You can find the port for a given device in
1445			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1446				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1447
1448			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1449			very good.
1450
1451			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1452			the real console.
1453
1454			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1455
1456			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1457
1458			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1459
1460			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1461			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1462			UART class.
1463
1464	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1465			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1466			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1467			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1468			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1469			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1470			default: on.
1471
1472	edd=		[EDD]
1473			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1474
1475	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1476			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1477				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1478				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1479			debug: enable misc debug output.
1480			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1481			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1482			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1483			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1484			firmware implementations.
1485			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1486			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1487			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1488			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1489			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1490			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1491			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1492			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1493			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1494			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1495
1496	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1497			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1498			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1499			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1500			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1501
1502	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1503			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1504			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1505			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1506			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1507
1508
1509	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1510			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1511
1512	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1513			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1514
1515			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1516			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1517
1518			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1519			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1520			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1521			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1522
1523	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1524			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1525			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1526
1527	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1528			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1529			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1530			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1531			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1532
1533	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1534			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1535			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1536			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1537
1538	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1539			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1540			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1541			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1542			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1543
1544	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1545			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1546			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1547			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1548			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1549			Default value is 0.
1550			Value can be changed at runtime via
1551			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1552
1553	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1554			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1555			support.
1556
1557	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1558			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1559			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1560
1561	evm=		[EVM]
1562			Format: { "fix" }
1563			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1564			current integrity status.
1565
1566	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1567			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1568			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1569			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1570			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1571			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1572			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1573
1574	failslab=
1575	fail_usercopy=
1576	fail_page_alloc=
1577	fail_skb_realloc=
1578	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1579			General fault injection mechanism.
1580			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1581			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1582
1583	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1584			Format: { initns | none }
1585			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1586			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1587
1588	floppy=		[HW]
1589			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1590
1591	forcepae	[X86-32]
1592			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1593			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1594			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1595			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1596			and may cause unknown problems.
1597
1598	fred=		[X86-64]
1599			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1600			Format: { on | off }
1601			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1602			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1603
1604	ftrace=[tracer]
1605			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1606			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1607			boot debugging.
1608
1609	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1610			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1611			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1612			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1613			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1614			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1615			start up functionality.
1616
1617			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1618			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1619			line parameter.
1620
1621			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1622
1623			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1624			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1625
1626	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1627			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1628			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1629			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1630			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1631			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1632			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1633			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1634			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1635			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1636			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1637
1638			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1639
1640			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1641			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1642
1643			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1644
1645			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1646			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1647			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1648
1649	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1650			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1651			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1652			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1653			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1654			tracing directory.
1655
1656	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1657			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1658			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1659			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1660			tracing directory.
1661
1662	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1663			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1664			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1665			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1666			that can be changed at run time by the
1667			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1668
1669	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1670			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1671			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1672			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1673			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1674
1675	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1676			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1677			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1678			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1679			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1680
1681	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1682			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1683			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1684			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1685			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1686			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1687			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1688			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1689			suppliers).
1690			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1691			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1692			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1693				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1694				up (sync_state() calls).
1695			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1696				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1697			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1698
1699	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1700			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1701			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1702			Format: <bool>
1703
1704	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1705			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1706			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1707			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1708			calls.
1709			Format: { strict | timeout }
1710			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1711				probe successfully.
1712			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1713				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1714				received their sync_state() calls after
1715				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1716				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1717
1718	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1719			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1720			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1721			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1722			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1723
1724	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1725
1726	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1727			Format: off | on
1728			default: on
1729
1730	gather_data_sampling=
1731			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1732			mitigation.
1733
1734			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1735			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1736			previously stored in vector registers.
1737
1738			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1739			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1740			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1741			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1742
1743			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1744				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1745				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1746				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1747
1748			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1749
1750	gbpages		[X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1751
1752	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1753			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1754			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1755			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1756			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1757
1758	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1759			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1760			android emulator
1761
1762	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1763			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1764			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1765	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1766			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1767
1768	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1769			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1770			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1771			GPT to be used instead.
1772
1773	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1774			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1775			Format: 0 | 1
1776			Default: 0
1777	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1778			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1779			Format: 0 | 1
1780			Default: 0
1781	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1782			Format: 0 | 1
1783			Default: 0
1784	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1785			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1786			Default: 1024
1787	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1788			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1789			Default: 1024
1790
1791	hardened_usercopy=
1792			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1793			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1794			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1795			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1796			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1797			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1798			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1799			The default is determined by
1800			CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1801		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1802		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1803
1804	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1805			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1806			backtraces on all cpus.
1807			Format: 0 | 1
1808
1809	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1810			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1811			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1812			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1813
1814	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1815			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1816
1817	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1818			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1819			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1820			logic will be disabled.
1821
1822	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1823		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1824				present during boot.
1825		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1826		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1827		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1828				(that will set all pages holding image data
1829				during restoration read-only).
1830
1831	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1832				used with hibernation.
1833				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1834				Default: lzo
1835
1836				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1837				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1838
1839				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1840				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1841
1842	hibernate.pm_test_delay=
1843			[HIBERNATION]
1844			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
1845			mode before resuming the system (see
1846			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
1847			is set. Default value is 5.
1848
1849	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1850			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1851			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1852			size on bigger boxes.
1853
1854	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1855			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1856			Default: "on"
1857
1858	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1859
1860	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1861			Format: <string>
1862			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1863			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1864			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1865			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1866			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1867			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1868			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1869			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1870			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1871			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1872
1873	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1874			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1875				verbose }
1876			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1877			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1878				VIA, nVidia)
1879			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1880
1881	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1882			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1883
1884	hugepages=	[HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1885			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1886			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1887			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1888			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1889			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1890			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1891			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1892			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1893				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1894
1895	hugepagesz=
1896			[HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is
1897			used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
1898			allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
1899			pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
1900			for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
1901			are architecture dependent. See also
1902			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1903			Format: size[KMG]
1904
1905	hugepage_alloc_threads=
1906			[HW] The number of threads that should be used to
1907			allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
1908			used to improve system bootup time when allocating
1909			a large amount of huge pages.
1910			The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
1911
1912			Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
1913
1914	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1915			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1916			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1917			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1918				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1919
1920			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1921			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1922			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1923
1924	hugetlb_cma_only=
1925			[HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
1926			try to allocate from the CMA areas.
1927
1928			This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
1929			specified.
1930
1931	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1932			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1933			enabled.
1934			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1935			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1936			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1937			Format: { on | off (default) }
1938
1939			on: enable HVO
1940			off: disable HVO
1941
1942			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1943			the default is on.
1944
1945			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1946			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1947			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1948			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1949			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1950
1951	hung_task_panic=
1952			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1953			Format: 0 | 1
1954
1955			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1956			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1957			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1958			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1959			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1960
1961	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1962				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1963	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1964				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1965				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1966
1967	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1968			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1969			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1970			on lock contention.
1971
1972	hw_protection=	[HW]
1973			Format: reboot | shutdown
1974
1975			Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
1976			overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
1977
1978	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1979				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1980				registered from board initialization code.
1981				Format:
1982				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1983
1984	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1985			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1986			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1987			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
1988			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
1989			adding a DMI quirk for this.
1990
1991			Format:
1992			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
1993			Where <val> is one of:
1994			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
1995			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
1996			Anything else		Set a string device-property
1997
1998			Examples (split over multiple lines):
1999			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2000			touchscreen-inverted-y
2001
2002			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2003			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2004			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2005
2006	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2007	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2008			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2009			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2010			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2011	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2012	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2013			     keyboard and cannot control its state
2014			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2015	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2016	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2017	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2018			     for the AUX port
2019	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2020			     controller
2021	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2022			     controllers
2023	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2024	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2025			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2026			     transitions, or never reset
2027			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2028			1, Y, y: always reset controller
2029			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2030			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2031			architectures force reset to be always executed
2032	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2033	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2034	i8042.probe_defer
2035			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2036
2037	i810=		[HW,DRM]
2038
2039	i915.invert_brightness=
2040			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2041			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2042			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2043			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2044			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2045			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2046			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2047			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2048			value switches the backlight off.
2049			-1 -- never invert brightness
2050			 0 -- machine default
2051			 1 -- force brightness inversion
2052
2053	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
2054			Format: <bool>
2055			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2056			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2057			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2058
2059	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
2060			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2061
2062
2063	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
2064			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2065
2066			idle=poll:  Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2067			using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2068			make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2069			to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2070			benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2071			performance counters more accurate.  Please note that
2072			on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2073			EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2074			over the normal idle loop.  It may also interact badly
2075			with hyperthreading.
2076
2077			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2078			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2079
2080			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2081
2082	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2083			Format: <bool>
2084			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2085			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2086			true (1).
2087
2088	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2089			Format: <bool>
2090			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2091			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2092
2093	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2094			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2095			Default: strict
2096
2097			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2098			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2099			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2100			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2101			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2102			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2103			encoding mode.
2104
2105			Available settings are as follows:
2106			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2107				supported by the FPU
2108			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2109				by the FPU
2110			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2111				by the FPU
2112			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2113				supported by the FPU
2114			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2115				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2116
2117			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2118			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2119			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2120			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2121			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2122			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2123			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2124			MIPS64 CPUs.
2125
2126			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2127			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2128			except where unsupported by hardware.
2129
2130	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2131			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2132			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2133			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2134			could change it dynamically, usually by
2135			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2136
2137	ignore_rlimit_data
2138			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2139			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2140			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2141
2142	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2143			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2144
2145	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2146			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2147			default: "enforce"
2148
2149	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2150			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2151			owned by uid=0.
2152
2153	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2154			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2155			measurements, instead of host native format.
2156
2157	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2158			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2159				   | sha512 | ... }
2160			default: "sha1"
2161
2162			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2163			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2164
2165	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2166			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2167			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2168				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2169
2170			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2171			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2172			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2173			uid=0.
2174
2175			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2176			all files owned by root.
2177
2178			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2179			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2180			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2181
2182			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2183			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2184			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2185			flag.
2186
2187			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2188			critical data.
2189
2190	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2191			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2192			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2193			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2194			opened for read by uid=0.
2195
2196	ima_template=	[IMA]
2197			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2198			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2199				   "ima-sigv2" }
2200			Default: "ima-ng"
2201
2202	ima_template_fmt=
2203			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2204			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2205
2206	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2207			Format: <min_file_size>
2208			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2209			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2210
2211			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2212			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2213			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2214
2215	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2216			Format: <bufsize>
2217			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2218
2219			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2220			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2221			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2222
2223	ima=		[IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2224			Format: { "off" | "on" }
2225			Default: "on"
2226			Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2227
2228	indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2229			Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2230			microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2231
2232			on:     Enable mitigation (default).
2233			off:    Disable mitigation.
2234			force:	Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2235				mitigation.
2236			vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2237				guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2238			stuff:	Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2239				also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2240				mitigation.
2241
2242			For details see:
2243			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2244
2245	init=		[KNL]
2246			Format: <full_path>
2247			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2248			process.
2249
2250	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2251			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2252			startup.
2253
2254	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2255			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2256			modules and initcalls.
2257
2258	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2259			Format: <bool>
2260			Default: 1
2261			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2262			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2263			with devices being probed and
2264			initialized. This should normally just work,
2265			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2266			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2267			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2268			late_ initcalls.
2269
2270	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2271
2272	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2273			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2274			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2275			setting.
2276			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2277			Default is 0, 0
2278
2279	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2280			zeroes.
2281			Format: 0 | 1
2282			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2283
2284	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2285			Format: 0 | 1
2286			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2287
2288	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2289			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2290			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2291			override in debugfs after boot.
2292
2293	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2294			Format: <irq>
2295
2296	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2297
2298	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2299			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2300			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2301			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2302
2303	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2304		on
2305			Enable intel iommu driver.
2306		off
2307			Disable intel iommu driver.
2308		igfx_off [Default Off]
2309			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2310			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2311			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2312			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2313			DMA.
2314		strict [Default Off]
2315			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2316		sp_off [Default Off]
2317			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2318			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2319			not be supported.
2320		sm_on
2321			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2322			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2323			translation.
2324		sm_off
2325			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2326		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2327			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2328			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2329			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2330			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2331			mapping is enabled.
2332			Note that using this option lowers the security
2333			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2334			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2335
2336	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2337			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2338			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2339
2340	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2341			disable
2342			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2343			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2344                        active
2345                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2346                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2347                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2348                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2349                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2350                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2351                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2352                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2353                          and possibly on the processor model.
2354			passive
2355			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2356			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2357			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2358			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2359			  feature.
2360			force
2361			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2362			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2363			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2364			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2365			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2366			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2367			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2368			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2369			no_hwp
2370			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2371			  if available.
2372			hwp_only
2373			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2374			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2375			support_acpi_ppc
2376			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2377			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2378			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2379			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2380			per_cpu_perf_limits
2381			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2382			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2383			no_cas
2384			  Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2385			  hybrid systems
2386
2387	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2388			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2389			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2390			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2391			no_x2apic_optout
2392				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2393			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2394			posted_msi
2395				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2396
2397	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2398		strict	regions from userspace.
2399		relaxed
2400
2401	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2402
2403		off
2404			Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2405
2406		force
2407			Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2408			it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2409			memory).
2410
2411		noforce
2412			Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2413			needed. (default).
2414
2415		biomerge
2416		panic
2417		nopanic
2418		merge
2419		nomerge
2420
2421		soft
2422			Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2423			Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2424			of an available hardware IOMMU.
2425
2426			[X86]
2427		pt
2428			[X86]
2429		nopt
2430			[PPC/POWERNV]
2431		nobypass
2432			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2433
2434		[X86]
2435		AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2436
2437		<size>
2438			Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2439
2440		allowed
2441			Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2442
2443		fullflush
2444			Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2445
2446		nofullflush
2447			Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2448
2449		memaper[=<order>]
2450			Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2451			32MB<<order.  (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2452
2453		merge
2454			Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2455			(experimental).
2456
2457		nomerge
2458			Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2459
2460		noaperture
2461			Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2462
2463		noagp
2464			Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2465
2466		panic
2467			Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2468
2469	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2470			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2471			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2472			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2473			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2474			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2475			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2476
2477	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2478			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2479			0 - Lazy mode.
2480			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2481			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2482			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2483			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2484			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2485			1 - Strict mode.
2486			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2487			  synchronously.
2488			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2489			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2490			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2491
2492	iommu.passthrough=
2493			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2494			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2495			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2496			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2497			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2498
2499	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2500			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2501			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2502
2503	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2504		0x80
2505			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2506		0xed
2507			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2508		udelay
2509			Simple two microseconds delay
2510		none
2511			No delay
2512
2513	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2514			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2515
2516	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2517			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2518
2519	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2520			Format: <bool>
2521			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2522			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2523
2524	ipe.success_audit=
2525			[IPE]
2526			Format: <bool>
2527			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2528			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2529			is 0.
2530
2531	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2532			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2533
2534	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2535			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2536			Format: <bool>
2537			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2538			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2539			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2540
2541	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2542			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2543			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2544			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2545			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2546			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2547			LPIs.
2548
2549	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2550			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2551			requires the kernel to be built with
2552			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2553
2554	irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2555			[RISC-V,EARLY]
2556			Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2557			as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2558			and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2559			to multiple harts.
2560
2561	irqfixup	[HW]
2562			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2563			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2564			firmware running.
2565
2566	irqpoll		[HW]
2567			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2568			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2569			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2570			firmware running.
2571
2572	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2573			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2574
2575	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2576			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2577			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2578
2579			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2580			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2581
2582			nohz
2583			  Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2584			  disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2585			  offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2586
2587			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2588			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2589			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2590			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2591			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2592
2593			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2594			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2595			  be configured manually after bootup.
2596
2597			domain
2598			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2599			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2600			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2601			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2602			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2603			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2604			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2605			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2606
2607			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2608			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2609			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2610			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2611
2612			managed_irq
2613
2614			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2615			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2616			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2617			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2618			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2619
2620			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2621			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2622			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2623			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2624			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2625			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2626			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2627
2628			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2629			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2630			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2631			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2632			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2633			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2634			  queues.
2635
2636			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2637
2638	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2639
2640	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2641			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2642			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2643			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2644
2645			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2646			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2647			write the parameter as:
2648				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2649
2650			Deprecated formats:
2651			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2652			  write the parameter as:
2653				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2654			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2655			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2656				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2657
2658	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2659			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2660			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2661			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2662
2663			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2664			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2665			write the parameter as:
2666				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2667
2668			Deprecated formats:
2669			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2670			  write the parameter as:
2671				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2672			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2673			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2674				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2675
2676	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2677			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2678			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2679			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2680
2681			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2682			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2683			write the parameter as:
2684				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2685
2686			Deprecated formats:
2687			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2688			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2689				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2690			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2691			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2692				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2693
2694	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2695			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2696
2697	kasan_multi_shot
2698			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2699			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2700			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2701			invalid access.
2702
2703	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2704			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2705			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2706			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2707			the real console.
2708
2709	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2710
2711	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2712			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2713			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2714			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2715			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2716			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2717			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2718			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2719			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2720			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2721
2722			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2723			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2724			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2725			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2726			zone if it does not.
2727
2728			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2729			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2730			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2731			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2732			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2733			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2734			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2735
2736	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2737			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2738			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2739			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2740			optional and is the number seconds in between
2741			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2742			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2743			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2744			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2745			the kernel debugger.
2746
2747	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2748			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2749			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2750			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2751			 keyboard only format: kbd
2752			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2753			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2754			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2755			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2756
2757	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2758			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2759			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2760			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2761			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2762			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2763			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2764
2765			The name of the early console should be specified
2766			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2767			the early console might be different than the tty
2768			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2769			blank and the first boot console that implements
2770			read() will be picked.
2771
2772	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2773			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2774
2775	kho=		[KEXEC,EARLY]
2776			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2777			Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2778			"0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2779			"1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2780
2781	kho_scratch=	[KEXEC,EARLY]
2782			Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
2783			Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
2784			scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
2785			ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
2786			allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
2787			fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
2788			kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
2789			bootstrap itself.
2790
2791			It is possible to specify the exact amount of
2792			memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
2793			where the first parameter defines the size of a low
2794			memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
2795			the size of a global scratch area and the third
2796			parameter defines the size of additional per-node
2797			scratch areas.  The form "nn%" defines scale factor
2798			(in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
2799
2800	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2801			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2802			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2803
2804	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2805			Valid arguments: on, off
2806			Default: on
2807			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2808			the default is off.
2809
2810	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2811			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2812			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2813			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2814			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2815			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2816			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2817
2818			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2819
2820			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2821			Boot Parameter" section.
2822
2823	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2824			user and kernel address spaces.
2825			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2826			0: force disabled
2827			1: force enabled
2828
2829	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2830			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2831			default value can be overridden via
2832			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2833			Default is 1 (enabled)
2834
2835	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2836			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2837
2838	kvm.eager_page_split=
2839			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2840			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2841			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2842			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2843			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2844			required to split huge pages lazily.
2845
2846			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2847			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2848			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2849			still be used for reads.
2850
2851			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2852			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2853			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2854			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2855			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2856			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2857			cleared.
2858
2859			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2860
2861			Default is Y (on).
2862
2863	kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
2864			If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
2865			when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
2866			is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
2867
2868			If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
2869			virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2870			VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
2871			number of VMs.
2872
2873			Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
2874			latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
2875			virtualization enabling across all online CPUs.  The
2876			"cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
2877			is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2878			hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
2879
2880	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2881				   Default is false (don't support).
2882
2883	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2884			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2885			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2886			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2887			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2888			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2889				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2890
2891			Default is 'auto'.
2892
2893			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2894			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2895
2896	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2897			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2898			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2899			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2900			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2901
2902	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2903			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2904			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2905			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2906			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2907			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2908
2909	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2910			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2911
2912	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2913			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2914			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2915			for NPT.
2916
2917	kvm-arm.mode=
2918			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2919			operation.
2920
2921			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2922
2923			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2924			      protected guests.
2925
2926			protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
2927				   kept private from the host, using VHE or
2928				   nVHE depending on HW support.
2929
2930			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2931				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
2932				hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
2933
2934			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2935			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2936			for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
2937			"arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
2938			command-line.
2939			"nested" is experimental and should be used with
2940			extreme caution.
2941
2942	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2943			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2944			system registers
2945
2946	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2947			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2948			system registers
2949
2950	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2951			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2952			system registers
2953
2954	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2955			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2956			injection of LPIs.
2957
2958	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2959			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2960			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2961			CPU architecture.
2962
2963			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2964
2965			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2966
2967	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2968			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2969			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2970			CPU architecture.
2971
2972			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2973
2974			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2975
2976	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2977			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2978			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2979			allocation.
2980			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2981			Format: <integer>
2982			Default: 5
2983
2984	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2985			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2986			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2987			for EPT.
2988
2989	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2990			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2991			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2992			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2993			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2994			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2995			Default is 1 (enabled).
2996
2997	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2998			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2999			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3000			hardware lacks support for it.
3001
3002	kvm-intel.nested=
3003			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3004			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3005
3006	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3007			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3008			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3009			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3010			hardware lacks support for it.
3011
3012	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3013			CVE-2018-3620.
3014
3015			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3016
3017			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3018			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3019				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3020			never:	Disables the mitigation
3021
3022			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3023
3024	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3025			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3026			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3027			for it.
3028
3029	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3030			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3031
3032			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3033			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3034			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3035
3036			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3037			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3038			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3039			not have direct access.
3040
3041			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3042			options are:
3043
3044			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
3045
3046	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3047			      affected CPUs
3048
3049			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3050			enabled and cannot be disabled.
3051
3052			full
3053				Provides all available mitigations for the
3054				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3055				enables all mitigations in the
3056				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3057
3058				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3059				sysfs interface is still possible after
3060				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3061				when the first VM is started in a
3062				potentially insecure configuration,
3063				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3064
3065			full,force
3066				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3067				flush runtime control. Implies the
3068				'nosmt=force' command line option.
3069				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3070
3071			flush
3072				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3073				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3074				L1D flush.
3075
3076				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3077				sysfs interface is still possible after
3078				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3079				when the first VM is started in a
3080				potentially insecure configuration,
3081				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3082
3083			flush,nosmt
3084
3085				Disables SMT and enables the default
3086				hypervisor mitigation.
3087
3088				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3089				sysfs interface is still possible after
3090				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3091				when the first VM is started in a
3092				potentially insecure configuration,
3093				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3094
3095			flush,nowarn
3096				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3097				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3098				insecure configuration.
3099
3100			off
3101				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3102				emit any warnings.
3103				It also drops the swap size and available
3104				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3105				bare metal.
3106
3107			Default is 'flush'.
3108
3109			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3110
3111	l2cr=		[PPC]
3112
3113	l3cr=		[PPC]
3114
3115	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3116			disabled it.
3117
3118	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3119			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3120			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3121			Format: notscdeadline
3122
3123	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3124			in C2 power state.
3125
3126	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
3127			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3128			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3129			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3130			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
3131			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3132			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3133
3134	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3135			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
3136			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
3137
3138	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3139			when set.
3140			Format: <int>
3141
3142	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
3143			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3144			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3145			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3146			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
3147			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
3148			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3149			to all ports, links and devices.
3150
3151			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3152			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
3153			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3154			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
3155			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3156			host link and device attached to it.
3157
3158			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
3159			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3160			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3161			The following configurations can be forced.
3162
3163			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3164			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3165
3166			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3167
3168			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3169			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3170			  allowed.
3171
3172			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3173			  resets.
3174
3175			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3176			  link recovery.
3177
3178			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3179			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3180			  detection.
3181
3182			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3183
3184			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3185
3186			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3187
3188			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3189
3190			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3191
3192			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3193
3194			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3195
3196			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3197
3198			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3199			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3200
3201			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3202			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3203
3204			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3205			  identify device data log.
3206
3207			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3208			  purpose log directory.
3209
3210			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3211
3212			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3213			  1024 sectors.
3214
3215			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3216			  65535 sectors.
3217
3218			* external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3219
3220			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3221
3222			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3223			  should be skipped.
3224
3225			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3226			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3227
3228			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3229
3230			* disable: Disable this device.
3231
3232			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3233			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3234
3235	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3236
3237	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3238			Format: <integer>
3239
3240	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3241			Format: <integer>
3242
3243	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3244			Format: <integer>
3245
3246	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3247			Format: <integer>
3248
3249	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3250			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3251			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3252			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3253			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3254			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3255			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3256			are also disabled.
3257
3258	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3259			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3260			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3261			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3262
3263	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3264			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3265			to be bound.
3266
3267	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3268			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3269			to be bound.
3270
3271	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3272			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3273			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3274			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3275			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3276			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3277
3278	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3279			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3280			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3281			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3282
3283	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3284			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3285			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3286			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3287			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3288			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3289
3290	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3291			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3292			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3293			number of online CPUs.
3294
3295	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3296			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3297
3298	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3299			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3300
3301	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3302			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3303			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3304
3305	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3306			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3307			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3308			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3309			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3310			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3311			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3312			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3313			disable boosting.
3314
3315	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3316			Number that determines how often and for how
3317			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3318			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3319			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3320			constant as the number of writers increases.
3321			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3322			increases with the number of writers.
3323
3324	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3325			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3326			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3327			mode during the locktorture test.
3328
3329	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3330			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3331			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3332
3333	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3334			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3335
3336	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3337			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3338			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3339			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3340			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3341			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3342
3343	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3344			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3345
3346	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3347			Enable additional printk() statements.
3348
3349	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3350			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3351			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3352
3353	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3354			Format: <irq>
3355
3356	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3357			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3358			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3359			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3360			loglevels are defined as follows:
3361
3362			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3363			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3364			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3365			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3366			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3367			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3368			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3369			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3370
3371	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3372			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3373			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3374			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3375			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3376			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3377			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3378			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3379			for more details.
3380
3381	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3382			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3383			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3384			kernel boot problems.
3385
3386	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3387	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3388	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3389	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3390				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3391				attached printers to be reset. Using
3392				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3393				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3394				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3395				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3396				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3397				port specification list means that device IDs
3398				from each port should be examined, to see if
3399				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3400				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3401				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3402
3403	lpj=n		[KNL]
3404			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3405			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3406			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3407			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3408			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3409			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3410			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3411			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3412			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3413			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3414			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3415			hardware.
3416
3417	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3418
3419	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3420			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3421			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3422
3423	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3424			different yeeloong laptops.
3425			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3426
3427	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3428			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3429			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3430			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3431			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3432			only takes effect during system bootup.
3433			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3434			which also disables the IO APIC.
3435
3436	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3437	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3438			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3439			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3440			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3441			/dev/loop-control interface.
3442
3443	mce=		[X86-{32,64}]
3444
3445			Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3446
3447		off
3448			disable machine check
3449
3450		no_cmci
3451			disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3452			Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
3453			not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3454			hardware is misbehaving.
3455
3456			Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3457			with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3458			duplicated error logs.
3459
3460		dont_log_ce
3461			don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events
3462			reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3463			option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3464			of corrected errors.
3465
3466		ignore_ce
3467			disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3468			polling timer and CMCI.  All events reported as
3469			corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3470			error banks.
3471
3472			Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3473			if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3474			errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3475			applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3476			and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3477			will be a help.
3478
3479		no_lmce
3480			do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3481			to broadcast MCEs.
3482
3483		bootlog
3484			enable logging of machine checks left over from
3485			booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3486			because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3487
3488			If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3489			enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3490			events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3491			enabled by default.
3492
3493		nobootlog
3494			disable boot machine check logging.
3495
3496		monarchtimeout (number)
3497			sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3498			checks. 0 to disable.
3499
3500		bios_cmci_threshold
3501			don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3502			option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3503			threshold set by the bios.  Without this option, Linux
3504			always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3505			make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3506			if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3507			will not see details for all errors.
3508
3509		recovery
3510			force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3511
3512			Everything else is in sysfs now.
3513
3514
3515	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3516			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3517
3518	mdacon=		[MDA]
3519			Format: <first>,<last>
3520			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3521
3522	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3523			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3524			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3525
3526			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3527			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3528			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3529
3530			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3531			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3532			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3533			not have direct access.
3534
3535			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3536			options are:
3537
3538			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3539			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3540				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3541			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3542
3543			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3544			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3545			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3546			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3547			too.
3548
3549			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3550			mds=full.
3551
3552			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3553
3554	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3555			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3556
3557	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3558			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3559			as follows:
3560
3561			1 for test;
3562			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3563			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3564			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3565			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3566
3567			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3568			high memory is not affected.
3569
3570			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3571			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3572
3573			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3574			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3575			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3576			belonging to unused RAM.
3577
3578			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3579			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3580			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3581
3582	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3583			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3584			reported by firmware.
3585			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3586			ss[KMG].
3587			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3588			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3589
3590	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3591			memory.
3592
3593	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3594
3595	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3596			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3597			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3598
3599	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3600			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3601			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3602			set according to the
3603			CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3604			options.
3605			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3606
3607	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3608			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3609			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3610			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3611			option description.
3612
3613	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3614			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3615			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3616			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3617			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3618			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3619			comma delimited.
3620			Example:
3621				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3622
3623	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3624			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3625			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3626
3627	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3628			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3629			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3630			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3631			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3632			         or
3633			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3634			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3635			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3636			will be eaten.
3637
3638	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3639			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3640			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3641			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3642			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3643
3644	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3645			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3646			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3647			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3648			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3649			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3650			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3651			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3652
3653	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3654			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3655			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3656			Setting this option will scan the memory
3657			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3658			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3659			from using the memory being corrupted.
3660			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3661			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3662			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3663			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3664
3665	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3666			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3667			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3668			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3669			corruption in more or less memory.
3670
3671	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3672			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3673			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3674			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3675
3676	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3677			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3678			Format: {on | off (default)}
3679			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3680			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3681			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3682			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3683			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3684			lot of memory without requiring additional
3685			memory to do so.
3686			This feature is disabled by default because it
3687			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3688			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3689			memory blocks).
3690			The state of the flag can be read in
3691			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3692			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3693			the feature is not effective.
3694
3695	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3696			Format: <integer>
3697			default : 0 <disable>
3698			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3699			performed. Each pass selects another test
3700			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3701			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3702			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3703			regions that are detected.
3704
3705	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3706			Valid arguments: on, off
3707			Default: off
3708			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3709			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3710
3711			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3712			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3713
3714	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3715			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3716			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3717			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3718			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3719
3720	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3721			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3722			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3723			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3724
3725	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3726
3727	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3728			Format: <bool>
3729			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3730			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3731
3732	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3733			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3734			Default: "0tb"
3735			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3736			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3737			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3738			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3739			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3740			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3741			unconfigured.
3742			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3743			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3744			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3745			VGA shield.
3746			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3747			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3748			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3749			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3750			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3751			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3752
3753	mitigations=
3754			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3755			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3756			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3757			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3758
3759			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3760			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3761
3762			off
3763				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3764				improves system performance, but it may also
3765				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3766				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3767					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3768					       indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
3769					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3770					       l1tf=off [X86]
3771					       mds=off [X86]
3772					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3773					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3774					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3775					       nobp=0 [S390]
3776					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3777					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3778					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3779					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3780					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3781					       retbleed=off [X86]
3782					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3783					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3784					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3785					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3786					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3787					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3788					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3789
3790				Exceptions:
3791					       This does not have any effect on
3792					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3793					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3794
3795			auto (default)
3796				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3797				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3798				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3799				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3800				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3801				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3802
3803			auto,nosmt
3804				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3805				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3806				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3807				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3808					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3809					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3810					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3811					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3812
3813			[X86] After one of the above options, additionally
3814			supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
3815			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
3816
3817	mminit_loglevel=
3818			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3819			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3820			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3821			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3822			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3823			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3824
3825	mmio_stale_data=
3826			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3827			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3828
3829			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3830			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3831			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3832			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3833			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3834			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3835
3836			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3837			options are:
3838
3839			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3840
3841			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3842				     vulnerable CPUs.
3843
3844			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3845
3846			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3847			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3848			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3849			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3850			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3851			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3852
3853			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3854			mmio_stale_data=full.
3855
3856			For details see:
3857			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3858
3859	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3860			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3861			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3862			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3863			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3864			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3865
3866	module.async_probe=<bool>
3867			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3868			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3869			specific module, use the module specific control that
3870			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3871			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3872			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3873			the specific module.
3874
3875	module.enable_dups_trace
3876			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3877			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3878			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3879			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3880			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3881	module.sig_enforce
3882			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3883			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3884			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3885			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3886
3887	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3888			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3889
3890	mousedev.tap_time=
3891			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3892			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3893			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3894			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3895			Format: <msecs>
3896	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3897			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3898	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3899			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3900
3901	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3902			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3903			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3904			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3905			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3906			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3907			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3908			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3909			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3910			is not too small.
3911
3912	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3913			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3914			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3915			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3916			allocations. Use with caution!
3917
3918	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3919			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3920
3921	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3922			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3923
3924	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3925			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3926
3927	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3928			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3929			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3930
3931	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3932			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3933			registers at boot time.
3934
3935	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3936			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3937			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3938
3939	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3940			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3941			Default is 1.
3942			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3943			using up MTRRs.
3944
3945	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3946			Format: <integer>
3947			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3948			Default : 1
3949			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3950			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3951
3952	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3953			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3954			at a time.
3955
3956	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3957
3958	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3959			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3960			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3961			something different and driver-specific.
3962			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3963			file if at all.
3964
3965	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3966			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3967			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3968			waits 4 seconds.
3969
3970	nf_conntrack.acct=
3971			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3972			0 to disable accounting
3973			1 to enable accounting
3974			Default value is 0.
3975
3976	nfs.cache_getent=
3977			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3978			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3979
3980	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3981			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3982			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3983
3984	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3985			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3986			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3987			requests.
3988
3989	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3990			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3991			channel should listen.
3992
3993	nfs.delay_retrans=
3994			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3995			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3996			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3997			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3998			and the specified value is >= 0.
3999
4000	nfs.enable_ino64=
4001			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4002			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4003			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4004			of returning the full 64-bit number.
4005			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4006
4007	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4008			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4009			entries.
4010
4011	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4012			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4013			slots the client will assign to the callback
4014			channel. This determines the maximum number of
4015			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4016			a particular server.
4017
4018	nfs.max_session_slots=
4019			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4020			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4021			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4022			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4023			Note that there is little point in setting this
4024			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4025
4026	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4027			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4028			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4029			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4030			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4031			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4032			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4033			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4034			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4035			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4036			back to using the idmapper.
4037			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4038
4039	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4040			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4041			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4042			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
4043			UUID that is generated at system install time.
4044
4045	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4046			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4047			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4048			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4049			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4050			after the locks are lost.
4051			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4052			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4053			parameter to '1'.
4054			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4055			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4056
4057	nfs.send_implementation_id=
4058			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4059			information in exchange_id requests.
4060			If zero, no implementation identification information
4061			will be sent.
4062			The default is to send the implementation identification
4063			information.
4064
4065	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4066			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4067			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4068
4069			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4070			whatever value is the default set by the layout
4071			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4072			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4073
4074	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4075			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4076			server-to-server copies for which this server is
4077			the destination of the copy.
4078
4079	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4080			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4081			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4082			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4083			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
4084			migration from NFSv2/v3.
4085
4086	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4087			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4088			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4089			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
4090			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4091			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4092			this parameter.
4093
4094	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
4095			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4096
4097	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4098			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4099
4100	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4101			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4102
4103	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4104			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4105			NMI stack-backtrace request.
4106
4107	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4108			when a NMI is triggered.
4109			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4110
4111	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4112			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4113			Valid num: 0 or 1
4114			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4115			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4116			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4117
4118			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4119			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4120			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4121			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4122			please see 'nowatchdog'.
4123			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4124			need the box quickly up again.
4125
4126			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4127			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4128
4129	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4130			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4131			is present.
4132
4133	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4134			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4135
4136	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4137			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4138
4139	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
4140
4141	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4142			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4143
4144	noapictimer	[APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4145
4146	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4147
4148	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
4149
4150	no_console_suspend
4151			[HW] Never suspend the console
4152			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4153			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
4154			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4155			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4156			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
4157			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4158			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4159			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4160			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4161			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4162			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4163			turn on/off it dynamically.
4164
4165	no_debug_objects
4166			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4167
4168	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4169
4170	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4171
4172	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4173
4174	noexec32	[X86-64]
4175			This affects only 32-bit executables.
4176			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4177				read doesn't imply executable mappings
4178			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4179				read implies executable mappings
4180
4181	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
4182			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4183			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4184
4185	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4186
4187	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4188
4189	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4190			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4191			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4192
4193	nogbpages	[X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4194
4195	no_hash_pointers
4196			[KNL,EARLY]
4197			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
4198			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
4199			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
4200			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
4201			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
4202			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
4203			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
4204			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
4205			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
4206			value printed. This option should only be specified when
4207			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
4208			kernels.
4209
4210	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4211
4212	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4213			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4214			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4215			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4216			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4217			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4218			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4219			useful when using JTAG debugger.
4220
4221	nohpet		[X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4222
4223	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4224
4225	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4226
4227	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4228			Valid arguments: on, off
4229			Default: on
4230
4231	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4232			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4233			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4234			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4235			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4236			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
4237			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4238			just as if they had also been called out in the
4239			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4240
4241			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4242			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4243
4244	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4245			initial RAM disk.
4246
4247	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4248			remapping.
4249			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4250
4251	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4252
4253	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4254
4255	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4256			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4257
4258	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4259
4260	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
4261			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4262			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4263			Layout Randomization).
4264
4265	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4266			fault handling.
4267
4268	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4269
4270	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4271
4272	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4273
4274	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4275
4276	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4277			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4278
4279	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4280			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4281			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4282			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4283			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4284			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4285			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4286
4287			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4288
4289	nomodule	Disable module load
4290
4291	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4292			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4293			irq.
4294
4295	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4296			pagetables) support.
4297
4298	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4299
4300	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4301			in some Intel CPUs.
4302
4303	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4304			Equivalent to pti=off
4305
4306	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4307			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4308			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4309			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4310
4311	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4312			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4313			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4314			contention.
4315
4316	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4317			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4318
4319	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4320			with UP alternatives
4321
4322	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4323			space.
4324
4325	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4326			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4327			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4328
4329	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4330
4331	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4332			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4333			even if it is supported by processor.
4334
4335	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4336			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4337			even if it is supported by processor.
4338
4339	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4340			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4341
4342	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4343			Equivalent to smt=1.
4344
4345			[KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4346			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4347				     via the sysfs control file.
4348
4349	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4350
4351	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4352			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4353			Store Bypass vulnerability
4354
4355	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4356			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4357			with this option.
4358
4359	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4360			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4361			possible in the system.
4362
4363	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4364			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4365			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4366			leaks with this option.
4367
4368	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4369			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4370			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4371
4372	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4373
4374	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4375			timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4376			work around problems with incorrect timer
4377			initialization on some boards.
4378
4379	no_uaccess_flush
4380	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4381
4382	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4383			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4384			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4385			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4386			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4387			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4388			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4389			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4390			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4391			is set.
4392
4393	no-vmw-sched-clock
4394			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4395			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4396
4397	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4398			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4399
4400	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4401
4402	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4403
4404			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4405			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4406			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4407
4408	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4409			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4410			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4411
4412	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4413			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4414			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4415			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4416			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4417			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4418
4419	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4420			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4421			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4422			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4423			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4424			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4425			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4426
4427	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4428			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4429			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4430			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4431			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4432			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4433			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4434			hot plugging.
4435
4436	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4437
4438	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4439			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4440			spanning all memory.
4441
4442	numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4443			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4444			If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4445			nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4446
4447	numa=fake=<N>
4448			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4449			If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4450			fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4451
4452	numa=fake=<N>U
4453			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4454			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4455			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4456
4457	numa=noacpi	[X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4458
4459	numa=nohmat	[X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4460			soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4461
4462	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4463			NUMA balancing.
4464			Allowed values are enable and disable
4465
4466	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4467			'node', 'default' can be specified
4468			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4469			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4470
4471	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4472			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4473			info.
4474
4475	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4476			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4477			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4478			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4479			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4480			interrupts *may* be lost!
4481
4482	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4483			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4484			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4485			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4486
4487	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4488
4489			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4490
4491			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4492				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4493			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4494				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4495				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4496
4497	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4498			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4499			process, but there is a small probability of
4500			deadlocking the machine.
4501			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4502			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4503
4504	page_alloc.shuffle=
4505			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4506			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4507			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4508			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4509			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4510			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4511
4512	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4513			Storage of the information about who allocated
4514			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4515			we can turn it on.
4516			on: enable the feature
4517
4518	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4519			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4520			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4521			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4522			on: turn on poisoning
4523
4524	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4525			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4526			Format: <integer>
4527			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4528			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4529
4530	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4531			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4532			timeout = 0: wait forever
4533			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4534			Format: <timeout>
4535
4536	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4537			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4538			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4539			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4540			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4541			called with any of the flags in this set.
4542			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4543			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4544			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4545			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4546			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4547			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4548			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4549
4550	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4551			on a WARN().
4552
4553	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4554			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4555			bit 0: print all tasks info
4556			bit 1: print system memory info
4557			bit 2: print timer info
4558			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4559			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4560			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4561			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4562			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4563			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4564			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4565			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4566			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4567
4568	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4569			connected to, default is 0.
4570			Format: <parport#>
4571	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4572			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4573			Format: <mode>
4574
4575	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4576			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4577			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4578			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4579			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4580			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4581			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4582			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4583			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4584			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4585			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4586			are specified on the command line, starting
4587			with parport0.
4588
4589	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4590			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4591			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4592			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4593			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4594			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4595			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4596
4597	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4598			Format: <int>
4599			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4600			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4601			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4602
4603	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4604			Format: <int>
4605			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4606			changes.  Disabled by default.
4607
4608	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4609			Format: <int>
4610			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4611			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4612			Disabled by default.
4613
4614	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4615			Format: <int>
4616			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4617			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4618			Disabled by default.
4619
4620	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4621			Format: <int>
4622			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4623			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4624			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4625			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4626			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4627			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4628			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4629			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4630			all channels.
4631
4632	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4633			Format: <int>
4634			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4635			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4636			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4637
4638	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4639			Format: <int>
4640			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4641			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4642			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4643
4644	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4645			Format: <int>
4646			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4647			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4648			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4649			All modes allowed by default.
4650
4651	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4652			Format: <int>
4653			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4654			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4655
4656	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4657			Format: <int>
4658			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4659			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4660			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4661			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4662			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4663			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4664			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4665			By default all supported ports are probed.
4666
4667	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4668			Format: <int>
4669			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4670			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4671
4672	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4673			Format: <int>
4674			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4675			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4676			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4677			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4678			0 otherwise.
4679
4680	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4681			Format: <int>
4682			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4683			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4684			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4685			allowed by default.
4686
4687	pause_on_oops=<int>
4688			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4689			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4690			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4691
4692	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4693
4694	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4695
4696				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4697				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4698				specified in one of the following formats:
4699
4700				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4701				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4702
4703				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4704				bus/device/function address which may change
4705				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4706				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4707				by other kernel parameters. If the
4708				domain is left unspecified, it is
4709				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4710				to a device through multiple device/function
4711				addresses can be specified after the base
4712				address (this is more robust against
4713				renumbering issues).  The second format
4714				selects devices using IDs from the
4715				configuration space which may match multiple
4716				devices in the system.
4717
4718		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4719				changes anything
4720		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4721		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4722				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4723				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4724		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4725				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4726				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4727				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4728		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4729				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4730				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4731		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4732				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4733				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4734				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4735				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4736				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4737				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4738		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4739				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4740				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4741		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4742				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4743		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4744				Configuration
4745		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4746				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4747				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4748		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4749				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4750				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4751		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4752				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4753				should never be necessary.
4754		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4755				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4756				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4757				when the system masks IRQs.
4758		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4759				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4760				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4761				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4762		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4763				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4764				on several machines and they hang the machine
4765				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4766				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4767				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4768				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4769				motherboard.
4770		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4771				Use with caution as certain devices share
4772				address decoders between ROMs and other
4773				resources.
4774		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4775				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4776				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4777		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4778				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4779		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4780				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4781				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4782				this way.
4783		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4784				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4785				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4786				F0000h-100000h range.
4787		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4788				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4789				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4790				explicitly which ones they are.
4791		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4792				numbers ourselves, overriding
4793				whatever the firmware may have done.
4794		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4795				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4796				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4797				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4798				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4799				IRQ routing is enabled.
4800		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4801				or for PCI scanning.
4802		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4803				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4804				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4805				please report a bug.
4806		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4807				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4808		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4809				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4810				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4811				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4812				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4813		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4814				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4815				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4816				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4817		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4818				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4819				so this option is a temporary workaround
4820				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4821		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4822				handle more pci cards
4823		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4824				This might help on some broken boards which
4825				machine check when some devices' config space
4826				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4827				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4828		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4829				This sorting is done to get a device
4830				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4831		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4832		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4833				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4834		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4835				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4836		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4837				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4838				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4839				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4840				or bus can support) for best performance.
4841		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4842				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4843				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4844				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4845				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4846				that hot-added devices will work.
4847		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4848				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4849				The default value is 256 bytes.
4850		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4851				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4852				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4853		resource_alignment=
4854				Format:
4855				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4856				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4857				aligned memory resources. How to
4858				specify the device is described above.
4859				If <order of align> is not specified,
4860				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4861				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4862				windows need to be expanded.
4863				To specify the alignment for several
4864				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4865				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4866				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4867				for 4096-byte alignment.
4868		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4869				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4870				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4871				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4872				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4873				the default.
4874				off: Turn ECRC off
4875				on: Turn ECRC on.
4876		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4877				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4878				Default size is 256 bytes.
4879		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4880				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4881				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4882		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4883				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4884				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4885		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4886				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4887				MMIO_PREF window.
4888				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4889		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4890				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4891				Default is 1.
4892		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4893				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4894				accommodate resources required by all child
4895				devices.
4896				off: Turn realloc off
4897				on: Turn realloc on
4898		realloc		same as realloc=on
4899		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4900		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4901				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4902		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4903				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4904				port.
4905		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4906				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4907				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4908				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4909				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4910				taints the kernel.
4911		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4912				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4913				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4914				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4915				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4916				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4917				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4918				this removes isolation between devices and
4919				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4920		config_acs=
4921				Format:
4922				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4923				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4924				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4925				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4926				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4927				unchanged based on what is specified in
4928				flags.
4929
4930				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4931				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4932				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4933				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4934				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4935				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4936				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4937				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4938				Each bit can be marked as:
4939				  '0' – force disabled
4940				  '1' – force enabled
4941				  'x' – unchanged
4942				For example,
4943				  pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
4944				would configure all devices that support
4945				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4946				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4947				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4948				or firmware set it to.
4949
4950				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4951				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4952		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4953		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4954		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4955				one PCI domain per PCI function
4956		notph		[PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
4957				is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
4958				to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
4959				system-wide.
4960
4961	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4962			Management.
4963		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4964			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4965		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4966			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4967
4968	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4969		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4970			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4971			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4972			also tries to use these services.
4973		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4974				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4975		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4976			hotplug).
4977
4978	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4979		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4980		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4981
4982	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4983		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4984			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4985
4986	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4987
4988	pd_ignore_unused
4989			[PM]
4990			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4991			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4992			for debug and development, but should not be
4993			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4994
4995	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4996			boot time.
4997			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4998			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4999
5000	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
5001			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5002			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5003			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
5004			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5005			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
5006			and performance comparison.
5007
5008	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5009			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5010
5011	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5012			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5013			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5014
5015	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5016			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5017			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5018
5019	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
5020			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5021			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5022			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5023			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5024			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5025			remains 0.
5026
5027	pm_async=	[PM]
5028			Format: off
5029			This parameter sets the initial value of the
5030			/sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5031			If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5032			resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5033			This can be useful on platforms where device
5034			dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5035			power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5036			enabled by default.
5037
5038
5039	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
5040			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5041
5042	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
5043			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5044			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
5045			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
5046			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5047			possible settings and some assignment information.
5048
5049	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
5050			{ off }
5051
5052	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
5053			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5054
5055	pnp_reserve_irq=
5056			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5057
5058	pnp_reserve_dma=
5059			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5060
5061	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5062			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5063
5064	pnp_reserve_mem=
5065			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5066			autoconfiguration.
5067			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5068
5069	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5070			Default is 21.
5071			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5072			may be specified.
5073			Format: <port>,<port>....
5074
5075	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
5076			Format: <unsigned int>
5077			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5078			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5079
5080	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5081			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5082			platform machine description specific power_save
5083			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5084			execution priority.
5085
5086	ppc_strict_facility_enable
5087			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5088			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5089			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5090			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5091
5092	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
5093			Format: {"off"}
5094			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5095
5096	preempt=	[KNL]
5097			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5098			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5099			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5100			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5101			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
5102			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5103			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5104			lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5105			       of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5106			       one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5107			       preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5108			       task returns to user space.
5109
5110	print-fatal-signals=
5111			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5112
5113			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5114			related application anomalies: too many signals,
5115			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5116			coredump - etc.
5117
5118			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5119			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5120
5121			default: off.
5122
5123	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5124			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5125			panics
5126			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5127			default: disabled
5128
5129	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5130			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5131			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5132			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5133			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5134			in order to provide more debug information.
5135			Format: <bool>
5136			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5137
5138	printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5139			Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5140			the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5141			flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5142			a best-effort basis.
5143			Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5144			Default: disabled
5145
5146	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5147			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5148			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5149			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5150			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5151			Default: ratelimit
5152
5153	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5154			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5155
5156	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5157			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5158			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5159			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5160			restrict that. Can be one of:
5161			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5162			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5163			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
5164			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5165
5166	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
5167			Limit processor to maximum C-state
5168			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5169
5170	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
5171			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5172			instead using the legacy FADT method
5173
5174	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5175			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5176			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5177				[defaults to kernel profiling]
5178			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5179			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5180			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5181				statistical time based profiling.
5182
5183	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
5184
5185	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5186			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5187			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5188			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5189			Layout Randomization is disabled.
5190			Format: <bool>
5191
5192	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5193			tracking.
5194			Format: <bool>
5195
5196	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5197			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5198	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5199			per second.
5200	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
5201			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5202			(0 = never).
5203	psmouse.resolution=
5204			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5205	psmouse.smartscroll=
5206			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5207			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5208
5209	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5210
5211	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5212			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
5213			removes hardening, but improves performance of
5214			system calls and interrupts.
5215
5216			on   - unconditionally enable
5217			off  - unconditionally disable
5218			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5219			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5220
5221			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5222
5223	pty.legacy_count=
5224			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5225			default number.
5226
5227	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5228
5229	r128=		[HW,DRM]
5230
5231	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
5232			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5233			invalidate.
5234
5235	raid=		[HW,RAID]
5236			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5237
5238	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5239			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5240
5241	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
5242
5243	random.trust_cpu=off
5244			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5245			random number generator (if available) to
5246			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5247
5248	random.trust_bootloader=off
5249			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5250			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5251			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5252
5253	randomize_kstack_offset=
5254			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5255			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5256			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5257			that depend on stack address determinism or
5258			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5259			available on architectures that have defined
5260			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5261			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5262			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5263
5264	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
5265
5266		cec_disable	[X86]
5267				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5268				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5269
5270	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5271			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5272			as described above.
5273
5274			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5275			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5276			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5277			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5278			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5279			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5280			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5281			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5282			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5283			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5284			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
5285			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5286
5287			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5288			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5289
5290			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5291			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5292			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5293			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5294
5295			Note that this argument takes precedence over
5296			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5297
5298	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
5299			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5300			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5301			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5302			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5303			This improves the real-time response for the
5304			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5305			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5306			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5307			periodically wake up to do the polling.
5308
5309	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
5310			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5311			process in one batch.
5312
5313	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
5314			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5315			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5316
5317	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
5318			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
5319			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5320			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5321			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5322			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5323
5324	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
5325			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5326			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
5327			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5328
5329	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
5330			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5331			RCU grace-period cleanup.
5332
5333	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
5334			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5335			RCU grace-period initialization.
5336
5337	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
5338			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5339			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5340			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5341			the rcu_node combining tree.
5342
5343	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5344			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5345			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5346			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5347			and maximum value is HZ.
5348
5349	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5350			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5351			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5352			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5353
5354	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5355			Set required age in jiffies for a
5356			given grace period before RCU starts
5357			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5358			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5359			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5360			a value based on the most recent settings
5361			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5362			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5363			This calculated value may be viewed in
5364			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5365			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5366			overwritten.
5367
5368	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5369			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5370			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5371			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5372			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5373			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5374			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5375			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5376			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5377			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5378			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5379			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5380
5381	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5382			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5383			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5384			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5385			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5386			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5387			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5388			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5389			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5390			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5391			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5392			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5393
5394	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5395			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5396			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5397			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5398			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5399			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5400			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5401
5402	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5403			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5404			batch limiting is disabled.
5405
5406	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5407			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5408			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5409
5410	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5411			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5412			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5413			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5414			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5415			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5416			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5417			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5418
5419	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5420			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5421			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5422			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5423
5424	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5425			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5426			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5427			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5428			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5429			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5430			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5431			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5432
5433			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5434			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5435			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5436			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5437			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5438
5439	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5440			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5441			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5442			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5443			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5444
5445	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5446			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5447			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5448			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5449			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5450			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5451			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5452
5453	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5454			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5455			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5456			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5457			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5458			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5459			condition.
5460
5461	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5462			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5463			each group, which defaults to the square root
5464			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5465			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5466			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5467			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5468
5469	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5470			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5471			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5472			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5473			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5474			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5475
5476	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5477			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5478			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5479			By default, this limit is checked only once
5480			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5481			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5482
5483	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5484			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5485			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5486			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5487			Larger delays increase the probability of
5488			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5489			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5490			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5491
5492	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5493			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5494			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5495			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5496
5497	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5498			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5499			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5500			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5501			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5502
5503			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5504			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5505			to zero.
5506
5507	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5508			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5509			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5510			big.
5511
5512	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5513			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5514			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5515			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5516			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5517			normal grace period.
5518
5519			How to enable it:
5520
5521			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5522			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5523
5524			Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5525			disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5526
5527	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5528			Measure performance of asynchronous
5529			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5530
5531	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5532			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5533			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5534			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5535			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5536			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5537
5538	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5539			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5540			grace-period primitives.
5541
5542	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5543			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5544			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5545			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5546			interference.
5547
5548	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5549			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5550			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5551
5552	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5553			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5554			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5555			Defaults to 1.
5556
5557	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5558			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5559
5560	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5561			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5562			If this parameter has the same value as
5563			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5564			and double-argument variants are tested.
5565
5566	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5567			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5568			If this parameter has the same value as
5569			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5570			and double-argument variants are tested.
5571
5572	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5573			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5574
5575	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5576			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5577
5578	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5579			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5580			of allocations and frees.
5581
5582	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5583			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5584			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5585			but instead allows better measurement of things
5586			like CPU consumption.
5587
5588	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5589			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5590			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5591			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5592			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5593			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5594			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5595			a single reader.
5596
5597	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5598			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5599			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5600			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5601
5602	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5603			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5604
5605	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5606			Shut the system down after performance tests
5607			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5608			testing.
5609
5610	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5611			Enable additional printk() statements.
5612
5613	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5614			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5615			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5616			no holdoff.
5617
5618	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5619			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5620			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5621			says no holdoff.
5622
5623	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5624			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5625			in microseconds.
5626
5627	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5628			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5629			in microseconds.
5630
5631	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5632			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5633			in seconds.
5634
5635	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5636			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5637			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5638			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5639			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5640			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5641			of CPUs to be used.
5642
5643	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5644			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5645			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5646
5647	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5648			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5649			forward-progress tests.
5650
5651	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5652			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5653			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5654			testing.
5655
5656	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5657			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5658			normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5659
5660	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5661			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5662			expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5663
5664	rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5665			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5666			normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5667			concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5668			if available.
5669
5670	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5671			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5672			expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5673			concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5674			if available.
5675
5676	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5677			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5678			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5679			gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5680			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5681			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5682			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5683			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5684			with HZ=1000.
5685
5686	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5687			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5688			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5689			gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5690			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5691			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5692			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5693			128 microseconds.
5694
5695	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5696			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5697
5698	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5699			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5700			update-side primitives, if available.
5701
5702	rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5703			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5704			primitives, if available.
5705
5706	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5707			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5708			primitives, if available.
5709
5710	rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5711			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5712			primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5713			grace periods into account, if available.
5714
5715	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5716			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5717			primitives that also take concurrent normal
5718			grace periods into account, if available.
5719
5720	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5721			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5722			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5723			gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5724			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5725			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5726			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5727			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5728			with HZ=1000.
5729
5730	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5731			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5732			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5733			gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5734			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5735			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5736			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5737			128 microseconds.
5738
5739	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5740			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5741			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5742			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5743			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5744			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5745			they are all non-zero.
5746
5747	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
5748			Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
5749			to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
5750			running. Default is true.
5751
5752	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
5753			Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
5754			active lag testing periods. This controls how many
5755			grace periods differences we tolerate between
5756			rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
5757			The default is always set to 8.
5758
5759	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
5760			Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
5761			testing in minutes. This is the total time for
5762			one complete cycle of active and inactive
5763			testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
5764
5765	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
5766			Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
5767			within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
5768			the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
5769			value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
5770			5 minutes.
5771
5772	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5773			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5774			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5775			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5776
5777	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5778			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5779			This can of course result in splats, and is
5780			intended to test the ability of things like
5781			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5782			such leaks.
5783
5784	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5785			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5786
5787	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5788			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5789			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5790			test, hence the "fake".
5791
5792	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5793			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5794			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5795
5796	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5797			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5798			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5799
5800	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5801			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5802			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5803			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5804			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5805			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5806
5807	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5808			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5809
5810	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5811			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5812
5813	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5814			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5815			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5816
5817	rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
5818			Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
5819			by a high-priority FIFO real-time task.  Set to
5820			zero (the default) to disable.	The CPUs to
5821			preempt are selected randomly from the set that
5822			are online at a given point in time.  Races with
5823			CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
5824			at preemption skipped.
5825
5826	rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
5827			Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
5828			second) between preemptions by a high-priority
5829			FIFO real-time task.  This delay is mediated
5830			by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
5831			inadvertent synchronizations.
5832
5833	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5834			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5835			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5836			is spawned.
5837
5838	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5839			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5840			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5841
5842	rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
5843			A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
5844			If there is more than one bit set, the readers
5845			are entered from low-order bit up, and are
5846			exited in the opposite order.  For SRCU, the
5847			0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
5848			and 0x4 light-weight readers.
5849
5850	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5851			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5852			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5853			during the rcutorture test.
5854
5855	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5856			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5857			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5858
5859	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5860			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5861			warnings, zero to disable.
5862
5863	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5864			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5865			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5866			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5867			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5868			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5869			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5870			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5871			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5872			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5873
5874			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5875
5876
5877	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5878			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5879
5880	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5881			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
5882			on the first stall in the set.
5883
5884	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
5885			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5886			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
5887			in four stall sequences.
5888
5889	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5890			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5891			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5892			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5893			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5894			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5895
5896	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5897			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5898
5899	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5900			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5901			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5902			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5903			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5904
5905	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5906			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5907			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5908			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5909
5910	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5911			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5912
5913	rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
5914			Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
5915			of RCU priority-boost testing.	Defaults to zero,
5916			that is, no holdoff.
5917
5918	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5919			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5920
5921	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5922			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5923			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5924
5925	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5926			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5927
5928	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5929			Enable additional printk() statements.
5930
5931	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5932			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5933			stall warning.
5934
5935	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5936			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5937			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5938			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5939			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5940
5941	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5942			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5943
5944	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5945			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5946			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5947			during early boot, that is, during the time
5948			before the init task is spawned.
5949
5950	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5951			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5952			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5953			value is 300 seconds.
5954
5955	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5956			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5957			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5958			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5959			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5960			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5961			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5962			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5963			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5964
5965	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5966			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5967			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5968			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5969			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5970
5971	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5972			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5973			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5974			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5975
5976	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5977			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5978			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5979			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5980			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5981			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5982			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5983
5984	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5985			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5986			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5987			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5988			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5989			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5990			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5991			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5992			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5993
5994	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5995			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5996			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5997			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5998			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5999
6000			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6001			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6002			it to the value one, that is, converting any
6003			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6004			period to instead use normal non-expedited
6005			grace-period processing.
6006
6007	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6008			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6009			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6010			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6011			a single callback queue.  This switching only
6012			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6013			set to the default value of -1.
6014
6015	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6016			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6017			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6018			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6019			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
6020			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6021			the default value of -1.
6022
6023	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6024			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6025			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
6026			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6027			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
6028			for use in testing.
6029
6030	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6031			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6032			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6033			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
6034			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6035			but lengthens grace periods.
6036
6037	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6038			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6039			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
6040			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6041			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6042			callback flooding.
6043
6044	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6045			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6046			informational messages, which give some indication
6047			of the problem for those not patient enough to
6048			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
6049			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6050			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6051			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
6052			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
6053			until the beginning of the next grace period.
6054
6055	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6056			Multiplier for time interval between successive
6057			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6058			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
6059			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
6060			the value three, so that the first informational
6061			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6062			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6063			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6064			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6065
6066	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6067			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6068			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
6069			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
6070			A change in value does not take effect until
6071			the beginning of the next grace period.
6072
6073	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6074			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6075			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6076			A negative value will take the default.  A value
6077			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
6078			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6079
6080	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6081			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6082			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6083			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
6084			will take the default.	A value of zero will
6085			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
6086			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6087
6088	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6089			Run the RCU early boot self tests
6090
6091	rdinit=		[KNL]
6092			Format: <full_path>
6093			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6094			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6095
6096	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
6097			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6098				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6099				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6100				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6101				path).
6102
6103	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
6104			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6105			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6106			mba, smba, bmec.
6107			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6108				rdt=cmt,!mba
6109
6110	reboot=		[KNL]
6111			Format (x86 or x86_64):
6112				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6113				[[,]s[mp]#### \
6114				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6115				[[,]f[orce]
6116			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6117					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6118					reboot only),
6119			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6120			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6121			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6122					to be used for rebooting.
6123
6124		acpi
6125			Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6126			configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6127			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6128
6129		bios
6130			Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6131
6132		cold
6133			Set the cold reboot flag
6134
6135		default
6136			There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6137			- you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6138			Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6139			think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6140			or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6141			built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6142			reboot actions.
6143
6144		efi
6145			Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6146			configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6147			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6148
6149		force
6150			Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6151			more reliable in some cases.
6152
6153		kbd
6154			Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6155
6156		pci
6157			Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6158			trigger reboot.
6159
6160		triple
6161			Force a triple fault (init)
6162
6163		warm
6164			Don't set the cold reboot flag
6165
6166			Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6167			memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6168			the memory check.  Disadvantage is that not all
6169			hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6170			there may be boot problems on some systems.
6171
6172
6173	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6174			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
6175			this parameter is to delay the start of the
6176			test until boot completes in order to avoid
6177			interference.
6178
6179	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6180			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6181			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
6182			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6183			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6184
6185	refscale.loops= [KNL]
6186			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6187			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
6188			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6189			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6190			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6191			x86 laptops.
6192
6193	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6194			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
6195			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6196			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6197
6198	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6199			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6200			the console log.
6201
6202	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6203			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6204			measured in microseconds.
6205
6206	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6207			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6208
6209	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6210			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6211			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6212			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6213			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6214
6215	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6216			Enable additional printk() statements.
6217
6218	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6219			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
6220			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
6221			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6222			specified.
6223
6224	regulator_ignore_unused
6225			[REGULATOR]
6226			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6227			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6228			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6229			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6230
6231	relax_domain_level=
6232			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6233			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6234
6235	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6236			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6237			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6238			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6239			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6240
6241	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
6242			Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6243			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6244			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6245			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6246			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6247			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6248			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6249			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6250			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6251			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6252			different location.
6253			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6254			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6255			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6256			located at the same location.
6257
6258			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6259			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6260
6261			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6262
6263	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
6264			Format: nn[KMG]
6265			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6266			address space.
6267
6268	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6269			during initialization.
6270
6271	resume=		[SWSUSP]
6272			Specify the partition device for software suspend
6273			Format:
6274			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6275
6276	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
6277			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6278			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6279			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6280			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6281
6282	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6283			read the resume files
6284
6285	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6286			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6287			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6288
6289	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6290			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6291
6292	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6293			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6294			vulnerability.
6295
6296			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6297			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6298			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6299			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6300			that don't.
6301
6302			off          - no mitigation
6303			auto         - automatically select a migitation
6304			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
6305				       disabling SMT if necessary for
6306				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6307				       and older without STIBP).
6308			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6309				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
6310				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6311				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6312				       on Intel.
6313			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6314				       when STIBP is not available. This is
6315				       the alternative for systems which do not
6316				       have STIBP.
6317			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6318				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6319				       systems.
6320			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6321				       is not available. This is the alternative for
6322				       systems which do not have STIBP.
6323
6324			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6325			time according to the CPU.
6326
6327			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6328
6329	rfkill.default_state=
6330		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6331			etc. communication is blocked by default.
6332		1	Unblocked.
6333
6334	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6335		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6336		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6337			blocked and the previous configuration.
6338		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6339			blocked and everything unblocked.
6340
6341	ring3mwait=disable
6342			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6343			CPUs.
6344
6345	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6346			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6347			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6348			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6349			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6350			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6351
6352	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6353
6354	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
6355		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6356		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6357		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
6358		        [arm64]
6359
6360	rockchip.usb_uart
6361			[EARLY]
6362			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6363			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6364			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6365			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6366
6367	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
6368			Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6369			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6370			block/early-lookup.c for details.
6371			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6372			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6373			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6374
6375	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6376			mount the root filesystem
6377
6378	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6379
6380	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
6381
6382	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6383			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6384			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6385
6386	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6387			to show up before attempting to mount the root
6388			filesystem.
6389
6390	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6391			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6392			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6393			managed by CMA.
6394
6395	rt_group_sched=	[KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6396			when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6397			!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6398			Format: <bool>
6399
6400	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6401
6402	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
6403
6404	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
6405			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6406		strict
6407			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6408			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6409			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6410			iommu.strict=1.
6411
6412	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
6413			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6414			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6415			factor of the size of main memory.
6416			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6417			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6418			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6419			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6420			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6421			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6422			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6423
6424	sa1100ir	[NET]
6425			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6426
6427	sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6428			Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6429			solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6430			Format: <bool>
6431
6432	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6433
6434	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6435			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6436			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6437			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6438
6439	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6440			[Deprecated]
6441			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6442			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6443			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6444			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6445			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6446			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6447			value.
6448			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6449			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
6450				1			64 ms
6451				2			128 ms
6452			and so on.
6453			Format: integer between 0 and 10
6454			Default is 0.
6455
6456	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6457			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6458			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6459			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6460			tests.
6461
6462	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6463			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6464			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
6465			default) disables this feature.  Please note
6466			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6467			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6468			softlockup complaints, and so on.
6469
6470	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6471			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6472			smp_call_function() family of functions.
6473			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6474			equal to the number of CPUs.
6475
6476	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6477			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6478			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6479
6480	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6481			Number seconds to wait between successive
6482			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
6483			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6484
6485	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6486			The number of seconds following the start of the
6487			test after which to shut down the system.  The
6488			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6489			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6490
6491	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6492			The number of seconds between outputting the
6493			current test statistics to the console.  A value
6494			of zero disables statistics output.
6495
6496	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6497			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6498			to the set of CPUs under test.
6499
6500	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6501			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6502			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6503			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6504			functions.
6505
6506	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6507			Enable additional printk() statements.
6508
6509	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6510			The probability weighting to use for the
6511			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6512			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
6513			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
6514			if at least one weight has some other value, a
6515			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6516
6517	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6518			The probability weighting to use for the
6519			smp_call_function_single() function with a
6520			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6521
6522	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6523			The probability weighting to use for the
6524			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6525			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6526			Note well that setting a high probability for
6527			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6528			on the system.
6529
6530	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6531			The probability weighting to use for the
6532			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6533			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6534			and weight_many.
6535
6536	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6537			The probability weighting to use for the
6538			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6539			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6540			weight_many.
6541
6542	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6543			The probability weighting to use for the
6544			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6545			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6546			and weight_many.
6547
6548	sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6549			Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6550			case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6551
6552	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6553			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6554			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6555			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6556			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6557			1 -- enable.
6558			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6559			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6560
6561	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6562			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6563			"lsm=" parameter.
6564
6565	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6566			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6567			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6568			0 -- disable.
6569			1 -- enable.
6570			Default value is 1.
6571
6572	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6573
6574	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6575
6576		debug
6577			Enable debug messages.
6578
6579		nosnp
6580			Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6581			only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6582			in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6583			SEV-SNP guests.
6584
6585	shapers=	[NET]
6586			Maximal number of shapers.
6587
6588	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6589			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6590			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6591			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6592			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6593			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6594			apic=verbose is specified.
6595			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6596
6597	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6598			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6599			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6600			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6601			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6602			last alloc / free. For more information see
6603			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6604			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6605
6606	slab_max_order= [MM]
6607			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6608			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6609			fragmentation. For more information see
6610			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6611			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6612
6613	slab_merge	[MM]
6614			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6615			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6616			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6617
6618	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6619			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6620			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6621			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6622			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6623			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6624			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6625			For more information see
6626			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6627			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6628
6629	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6630			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6631			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6632			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6633			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6634
6635	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6636			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6637			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6638			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6639			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6640			layout control by attackers can usually be
6641			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6642			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6643			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6644			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6645			own.
6646			For more information see
6647			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6648			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6649
6650	slab_strict_numa	[MM]
6651			Support memory policies on a per object level
6652			in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6653			policies to be applied at the folio level when
6654			a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6655			retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6656			in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6657			NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6658			interconnects in NUMA systems.
6659
6660	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6661
6662	smart2=		[HW]
6663			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6664
6665	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6666			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6667			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6668			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6669			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6670			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6671			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6672			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6673			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6674			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6675
6676	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6677			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6678			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6679			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6680			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6681			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6682
6683	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6684	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6685	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6686	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6687	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6688	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6689	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6690				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6691				1: Fast pin select (default)
6692				2: ATC IRMode
6693
6694	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6695			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6696			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6697			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6698			Format: <integer>
6699			Default: -1 (no limit)
6700
6701	softlockup_panic=
6702			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6703			Format: 0 | 1
6704
6705			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6706			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6707			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6708			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6709			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6710
6711	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6712			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6713			backtraces on all cpus.
6714			Format: 0 | 1
6715
6716	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6717			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6718
6719	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6720			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6721			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6722			clearing sequence.
6723
6724			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6725				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6726				 both syscalls and VMs.
6727			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6728				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6729				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6730				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6731				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6732			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6733
6734	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6735			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6736			The default operation protects the kernel from
6737			user space attacks.
6738
6739			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6740			       spectre_v2_user=on
6741			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6742			       spectre_v2_user=off
6743			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6744			       vulnerable
6745
6746			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6747			mitigation method at run time according to the
6748			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6749			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6750			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6751
6752			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6753			against user space to user space task attacks.
6754			Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
6755			user mitigations.
6756
6757			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6758			the user space protections.
6759
6760			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6761
6762			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6763			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6764			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6765			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6766			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6767			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6768			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6769			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6770
6771			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6772			spectre_v2=auto.
6773
6774	spectre_v2_user=
6775			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6776		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6777		        user space tasks
6778
6779			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6780				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6781
6782			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6783				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6784
6785			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6786				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6787				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6788				  is inherited on fork.
6789
6790			prctl,ibpb
6791				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6792				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6793				  always when switching between different user
6794				  space processes.
6795
6796			seccomp
6797				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6798				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6799				  they explicitly opt out.
6800
6801			seccomp,ibpb
6802				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6803				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6804				  always when switching between different
6805				  user space processes.
6806
6807			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6808				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6809
6810			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6811
6812			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6813			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6814
6815	spec_rstack_overflow=
6816			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6817
6818			off		- Disable mitigation
6819			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6820			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6821			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6822					  kernel entry
6823			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6824					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6825
6826	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6827			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6828			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6829
6830			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6831			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6832			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6833			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6834			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6835			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6836			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6837			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6838
6839			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6840			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6841			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6842			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6843
6844			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6845			Bypass optimization is used.
6846
6847			On x86 the options are:
6848
6849			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6850			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6851			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6852				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6853				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6854				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6855				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6856				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6857			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6858				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6859				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6860				  is inherited on fork.
6861			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6862				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6863
6864			Default mitigations:
6865			X86:	"prctl"
6866
6867			On powerpc the options are:
6868
6869			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6870				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6871				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6872				  exit.
6873			off	- No action.
6874
6875			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6876			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6877
6878	split_lock_detect=
6879			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6880
6881			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6882			instructions that access data across cache line
6883			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6884			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6885			bus lock detection.
6886
6887			off	- not enabled
6888
6889			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6890				  about applications triggering the #AC
6891				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6892				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6893				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6894				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6895				  enabled in hardware.
6896
6897			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6898				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6899				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6900				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6901
6902			ratelimit:N -
6903				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6904				  per second for bus lock detection.
6905				  0 < N <= 1000.
6906
6907				  N/A for split lock detection.
6908
6909
6910			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6911			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6912			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6913			mode.
6914
6915			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6916			CPL > 0.
6917
6918	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6919			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6920			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6921
6922			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6923			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6924			number generator.
6925
6926			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6927			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6928			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6929			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6930			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6931
6932			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6933			the following option:
6934
6935			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6936				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6937
6938	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6939			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6940			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6941			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6942			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6943			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6944			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6945			(decide at boot).
6946
6947	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6948			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6949			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6950			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6951
6952				   0:  Never.
6953				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6954				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6955				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6956				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6957
6958			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6959			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6960			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6961
6962	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6963			Specifies how frequently to check for
6964			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6965			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6966			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6967			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6968			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6969			are ignored.
6970
6971	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6972			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6973			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6974			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6975			grace period will be considered for automatic
6976			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6977			expediting.
6978
6979	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6980			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6981			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6982			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6983			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6984			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6985
6986	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6987			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6988			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6989			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6990			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6991			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6992
6993	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6994			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6995			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6996
6997	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6998			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6999			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7000			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7001			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
7002			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7003			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7004
7005	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7006			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7007
7008			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7009			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7010			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7011			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7012
7013			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7014				   for both kernel and userspace
7015			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7016				   for both kernel and userspace
7017			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
7018				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7019				   to allow userspace to register its
7020				   interest in being mitigated too.
7021
7022	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
7023			override the default stack gap protection. The value
7024			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7025			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7026			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7027			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7028
7029	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7030			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7031			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7032			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7033			to false.
7034
7035	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
7036			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
7037
7038	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7039			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7040			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7041			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7042			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7043			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7044			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7045
7046	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
7047			Format: <num>
7048			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7049			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7050			as the initial boot-console.
7051			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7052
7053	sti_font=	[HW]
7054			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7055
7056	stifb=		[HW]
7057			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7058
7059        strict_sas_size=
7060			[X86]
7061			Format: <bool>
7062			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7063			against the required signal frame size which
7064			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7065			be used to filter out binaries which have
7066			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7067
7068	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
7069			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7070			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7071			faults on kernel addresses.
7072
7073	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
7074			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7075			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7076			on kernel addresses.
7077
7078	sunrpc.min_resvport=
7079	sunrpc.max_resvport=
7080			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7081			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7082			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7083			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7084			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7085			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7086			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7087			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7088			maximum port values.
7089
7090	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7091			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7092			Limit the number of requests that the server will
7093			process in parallel from a single connection.
7094			The default value is 0 (no limit).
7095
7096	sunrpc.pool_mode=
7097			[NFS]
7098			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7099			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
7100			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7101			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7102			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7103			NFS server is running.
7104
7105			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
7106				    automatically using heuristics
7107			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
7108			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
7109			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7110				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
7111
7112	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7113	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7114			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7115			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7116			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7117			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7118			improve throughput, but will also increase the
7119			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7120
7121	suspend.pm_test_delay=
7122			[SUSPEND]
7123			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7124			mode before resuming the system (see
7125			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7126			is set. Default value is 5.
7127
7128	svm=		[PPC]
7129			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7130			This parameter controls use of the Protected
7131			Execution Facility on pSeries.
7132
7133	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7134			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7135			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7136			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7137				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7138				 to a power of 2.
7139			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7140			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7141			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7142
7143	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
7144
7145	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
7146			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7147			process, as if the value was written to the respective
7148			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7149			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7150			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7151			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7152			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7153
7154	sysrq_always_enabled
7155			[KNL]
7156			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7157			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7158			Useful for debugging.
7159
7160	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7161			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7162			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7163			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7164			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7165			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7166
7167	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
7168
7169	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
7170			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7171			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7172			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7173			as the system sleep state during system startup with
7174			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7175			The system is woken from this state using a
7176			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7177
7178	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7179			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7180
7181	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
7182			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7183			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7184
7185	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
7186			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7187			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7188
7189	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
7190			1: disable ACPI thermal control
7191
7192	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
7193			-1: disable all passive trip points
7194			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7195			value
7196
7197	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
7198			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7199			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7200			0: no polling (default)
7201
7202	thp_anon=	[KNL]
7203			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7204			state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7205			Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7206			to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7207			Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7208			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7209			details.
7210
7211	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
7212			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7213			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7214
7215	thp_shmem=	[KNL]
7216			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7217			Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7218			internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7219			for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7220			and "advise").
7221			It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7222			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7223			details.
7224
7225	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
7226			Format: {off | on}
7227			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7228			topology information if the hardware supports this.
7229			The scheduler will make use of this information and
7230			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7231			Default is on.
7232
7233	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7234			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7235			until after init has spawned.
7236
7237	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7238			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7239			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
7240			very costly operation when many torture tests
7241			are running concurrently, especially on systems
7242			with rotating-rust storage.
7243
7244	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7245			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7246			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
7247			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7248
7249	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7250			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7251
7252	tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7253			Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7254			access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7255			having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7256			TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7257			where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7258			causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7259			machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7260
7261	tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7262			Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7263			to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7264			how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7265			service is busy.
7266			Format: <unsigned int>
7267			Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7268
7269	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7270			Format: integer pcr id
7271			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7272			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7273			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7274			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7275			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7276			are saved.
7277
7278	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7279			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7280			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7281			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7282			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7283			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7284
7285	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
7286			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7287			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7288			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7289			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7290			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7291
7292			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7293			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7294			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7295			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7296
7297			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7298			to stop the printing of events to console at
7299			late_initcall_sync.
7300
7301			** CAUTION **
7302
7303			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7304			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7305			the system to live lock.
7306
7307	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7308			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7309			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7310			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7311			make the system inoperable.
7312
7313			This command line option will stop the printing of events
7314			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7315
7316	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7317			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7318
7319	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7320			at boot up.
7321			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7322				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7323				depending on the architecture, may not be
7324				in sync between CPUs.
7325			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
7326				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7327				but better for some race conditions.
7328			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7329				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7330				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7331				once per event.
7332			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7333			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7334			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7335			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7336				stamps.
7337			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7338			Architectures may add more clocks. See
7339			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7340
7341	trace_event=[event-list]
7342			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7343			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7344			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7345			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7346
7347			To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7348
7349			trace_event=:mod:<module>
7350
7351			The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7352			that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7353			document for more information.
7354
7355	trace_instance=[instance-info]
7356			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7357			This will be listed in:
7358
7359				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7360
7361			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7362			via:
7363
7364				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7365
7366			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7367			unique.
7368
7369				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7370
7371			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7372			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7373			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7374
7375			Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7376			created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7377
7378			The available flags are:
7379
7380			    traceoff	- Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7381			    traceprintk	- Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7382					  (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7383
7384				trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7385
7386			The flags must come before the defined events.
7387
7388			If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7389			can use that memory:
7390
7391				memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7392
7393			The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7394			memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7395			instance will be split up accordingly.
7396
7397			Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7398
7399				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7400
7401			This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7402			and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7403			memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7404			the buffer content.
7405
7406			Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7407			kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7408			if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7409
7410			If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7411			it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7412			mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7413			at boot up).
7414
7415				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7416
7417			Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7418			is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7419			can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7420			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7421			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7422
7423			NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7424
7425			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7426
7427
7428	trace_options=[option-list]
7429			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7430			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7431			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7432			to echo the option name into
7433
7434			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7435
7436			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7437			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7438
7439			      trace_options=stacktrace
7440
7441			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7442			section.
7443
7444	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7445			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
7446			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7447			filter.
7448
7449			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7450			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
7451
7452			For example:
7453
7454			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7455
7456			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7457			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7458			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
7459
7460			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7461
7462
7463	traceoff_after_boot
7464			[FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7465			during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7466			limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7467			disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7468			the critical information may be overwritten.  With this
7469			option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7470			the end of the boot process.
7471
7472	traceoff_on_warning
7473			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7474			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7475			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7476			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7477
7478			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7479			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7480			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7481
7482			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7483			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7484
7485	transparent_hugepage=
7486			[KNL]
7487			Format: [always|madvise|never]
7488			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7489			with respect to transparent hugepages.
7490			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7491			for more details.
7492
7493	transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7494			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7495			Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7496			the internal shmem mount.
7497			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7498			for more details.
7499
7500	transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7501			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7502			Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7503			for the tmpfs mount.
7504			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7505			for more details.
7506
7507	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
7508			Format: <string>
7509			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7510			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7511			sources:
7512			- "tpm"
7513			- "tee"
7514			- "caam"
7515			- "dcp"
7516			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7517			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7518			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7519			successfully during iteration.
7520
7521	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
7522			Format: <string>
7523			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7524			Can be one of:
7525			- "kernel"
7526			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7527			- "default"
7528			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7529			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7530
7531	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7532			This is intended to be used in combination with
7533			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7534			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7535
7536	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7537			This is intended to be used in combination with
7538			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7539			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7540			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7541			scenarios.
7542
7543	tsa=		[X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7544			Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7545			favourite search engine for more details:
7546
7547			"Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7548			attacks".
7549
7550			off		- disable the mitigation
7551			on		- enable the mitigation (default)
7552			user		- mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7553			vm		- mitigate only guest/host transitions
7554
7555
7556	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7557			Format: <string>
7558			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7559			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7560			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
7561			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7562			virtualized environment.
7563			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7564			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7565			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7566			can add overhead.
7567			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7568			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7569			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7570			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7571			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7572			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7573			acceptable).
7574			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7575			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7576			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7577			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7578			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7579			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7580			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7581			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7582			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
7583			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7584
7585	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7586			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7587			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7588			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7589			Format: <unsigned int>
7590
7591	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7592			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7593			support TSX control.
7594
7595			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7596
7597			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7598				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7599				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7600				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7601				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
7602				with leaving it enabled.
7603
7604			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7605				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7606				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7607				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7608				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7609				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7610				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7611
7612			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7613				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7614
7615			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7616
7617			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7618			for more details.
7619
7620	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7621			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7622
7623			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7624			certain CPUs that support Transactional
7625			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7626			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7627			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7628			conditions.
7629
7630			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7631			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7632			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7633			access.
7634
7635			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
7636			options are:
7637
7638			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7639				     if TSX is enabled.
7640
7641			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7642				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7643				     is not disabled because CPU is not
7644				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7645			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7646
7647			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7648			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7649			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7650			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7651
7652			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7653			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
7654			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7655			required and doesn't provide any additional
7656			mitigation.
7657
7658			For details see:
7659			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7660
7661	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
7662			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7663			Format:
7664			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7665			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7666
7667	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7668			happen after console_init() and before a proper
7669			console driver takes over, this boot options might
7670			help "seeing" what's going on.
7671
7672	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7673			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7674
7675	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7676			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7677			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7678			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7679			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7680			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7681			reported either.
7682
7683	unaligned_scalar_speed=
7684			[RISCV]
7685			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7686			Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7687			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7688			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7689			CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7690
7691	unaligned_vector_speed=
7692			[RISCV]
7693			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7694			Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7695			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7696			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7697			CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7698
7699	unknown_nmi_panic
7700			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7701
7702	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
7703			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
7704			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7705			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7706			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7707
7708	usbcore.authorized_default=
7709			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
7710			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7711			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7712			if device connected to internal port)
7713
7714	usbcore.autosuspend=
7715			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7716			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
7717			is the time required before an idle device will be
7718			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
7719			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7720
7721	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7722			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7723
7724	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7725			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7726			(default = 65536).
7727
7728	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7729			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7730
7731	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7732			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7733			scheme (default 0 = off).
7734
7735	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7736			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7737			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7738
7739	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7740			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7741			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7742
7743	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7744			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7745			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7746			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7747
7748	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7749
7750	usbcore.quirks=
7751			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7752			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7753			commas. Each entry has the form
7754			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7755			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7756			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7757			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7758			the following meanings:
7759				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7760					descriptors must not be fetched using
7761					a 255-byte read);
7762				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7763					correctly so reset it instead);
7764				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7765					Set-Interface requests);
7766				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7767					handle its Configuration or Interface
7768					strings);
7769				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7770					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7771				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7772					more interface descriptions than the
7773					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7774					talking to these interfaces);
7775				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7776					during initialization, after we read
7777					the device descriptor);
7778				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7779					high speed and super speed interrupt
7780					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7781					require the interval in microframes (1
7782					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7783					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7784					(bInterval-1).
7785					Devices with this quirk report their
7786					bInterval as the result of this
7787					calculation instead of the exponent
7788					variable used in the calculation);
7789				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7790					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7791					requests);
7792				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7793					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7794					remote wakeup capability);
7795				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7796					Power Management);
7797				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7798					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7799					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7800					calculation);
7801				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7802					to be disconnected before suspend to
7803					prevent spurious wakeup);
7804				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7805					pause after every control message);
7806				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7807					delay after resetting its port);
7808				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7809					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7810					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7811			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7812
7813	usbhid.mousepoll=
7814			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7815
7816	usbhid.jspoll=
7817			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7818
7819	usbhid.kbpoll=
7820			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7821
7822	usb-storage.delay_use=
7823			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7824			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7825			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7826			suffix with "ms".
7827			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7828
7829	usb-storage.quirks=
7830			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7831			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7832			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7833			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7834			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7835			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7836			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7837				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7838					of sense data, not on uas);
7839				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7840					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7841				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7842					device capacity by one sector);
7843				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7844					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7845				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7846					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7847				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7848					command, uas only);
7849				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7850					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7851				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7852					reported device capacity by one
7853					sector if the number is odd);
7854				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7855					device);
7856				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7857					command, uas only);
7858				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7859				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7860					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7861				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7862					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7863					not on uas);
7864				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7865					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7866				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7867					reported by the device, not on uas);
7868				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7869					by default, not on uas);
7870				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7871					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7872				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7873					Logical Unit);
7874				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7875					commands, uas only);
7876				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7877				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7878					medium is write-protected).
7879				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7880					even if the device claims no cache,
7881					not on uas)
7882			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7883
7884	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7885			Format: <int>
7886			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7887				 1 - undefined instruction events
7888				 2 - system calls
7889				 4 - invalid data aborts
7890				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7891				16 - SIGBUS faults
7892			Example: user_debug=31
7893
7894	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7895			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7896
7897			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7898			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7899
7900	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7901			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7902			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7903
7904			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7905			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7906			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7907
7908			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7909			alias for vdso32=0.
7910
7911			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7912			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7913
7914	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7915			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7916
7917	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7918			Format: [0|1]
7919			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7920			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7921			level and then send out the event to user space through
7922			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7923			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7924			brightness level.
7925			default: 1
7926
7927	virtio_mmio.device=
7928			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7929
7930				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7931			where:
7932				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7933						like K, M and G)
7934				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7935				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7936						request_irq())
7937				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7938			example:
7939				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7940
7941			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7942
7943	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7944			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7945			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7946			Use vga=ask for menu.
7947			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7948			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7949
7950	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7951			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7952			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7953			All options are enabled by default, and this
7954			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7955			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7956			debugging features.
7957
7958			Available options are:
7959			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7960			  -	Disable all of the above options
7961
7962	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7963			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7964			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
7965			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
7966			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7967			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
7968			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
7969			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
7970
7971	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7972			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7973			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7974
7975	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7976			Format: <command>
7977
7978	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7979			Format: <command>
7980
7981	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7982			Format: <command>
7983
7984	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7985			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7986			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7987			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7988			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7989			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7990			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7991
7992			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7993			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7994				    readable.
7995
7996			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7997			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7998				    page is not readable.
7999
8000			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
8001			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
8002			            might break your system.
8003
8004	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
8005			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8006			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8007
8008	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
8009			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8010			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8011			see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8012
8013	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
8014			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8015			Change the default blue palette of the console.
8016			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8017			ranging from 0-255.
8018
8019	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
8020			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8021			Change the default green palette of the console.
8022			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8023			ranging from 0-255.
8024
8025	vt.default_red=	[VT]
8026			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8027			Change the default red palette of the console.
8028			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8029			ranging from 0-255.
8030
8031	vt.default_utf8=
8032			[VT]
8033			Format=<0|1>
8034			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8035			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8036			newly opened terminals.
8037
8038	vt.global_cursor_default=
8039			[VT]
8040			Format=<-1|0|1>
8041			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8042			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8043			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8044			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8045			cursors, 1 will display them.
8046
8047	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8048			Default: 2 = green.
8049
8050	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8051			Default: 3 = cyan.
8052
8053	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8054			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8055			or other driver-specific files in the
8056			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8057
8058	watchdog_thresh=
8059			[KNL]
8060			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8061			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8062			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8063			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8064			seconds.
8065
8066	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8067			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8068			to use in unbound workqueues.
8069			Format: <cpu-list>
8070			By default, all online CPUs are available for
8071			unbound workqueues.
8072
8073	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8074			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8075			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8076			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
8077			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8078			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
8079			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8080			corresponding sysfs file.
8081
8082	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8083			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8084			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8085			stall to trigger panic.
8086
8087			The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8088
8089	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8090			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8091			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8092			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8093			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8094			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8095
8096			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8097			will report the work functions which violate this
8098			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8099			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8100
8101	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8102			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8103			will report the work functions which violate the
8104			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8105			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8106			function has violated this threshold number of times.
8107
8108			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8109
8110	workqueue.power_efficient
8111			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8112			they show better performance thanks to cache
8113			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8114			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8115
8116			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8117			were observed to contribute significantly to power
8118			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8119			power usage at the cost of small performance
8120			overhead.
8121
8122			The default value of this parameter is determined by
8123			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8124
8125        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8126			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8127			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8128			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8129			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8130			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8131
8132			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8133			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8134			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8135			updated accordingly.
8136
8137	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8138			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8139			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8140			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
8141			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8142			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
8143			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8144			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8145			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8146			impacted.
8147
8148	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8149			Type) of ioremap_wc().
8150
8151			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8152			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8153
8154	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8155			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8156			supporting x2apic.
8157
8158	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8159			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8160			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8161			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8162			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8163			domains.
8164
8165	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8166			Unplug Xen emulated devices
8167			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8168			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8169			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8170			nics -- unplug network devices
8171			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8172			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8173				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8174				the unplug protocol
8175			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8176
8177	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8178			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8179			panic() code such as dumping handler.
8180
8181	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8182			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8183			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8184			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8185			debug data in case of multicall errors.
8186
8187	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8188			Format: <bool>
8189			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8190			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8191			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8192
8193	xen_nopv	[X86]
8194			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8195			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8196			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8197			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8198
8199	xen_no_vector_callback
8200			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8201			event channel interrupts.
8202
8203	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
8204			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8205			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8206			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8207			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8208
8209	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8210			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8211			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8212			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8213			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8214			more timer interrupts.
8215
8216	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8217			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8218			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8219			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8220			started with less memory configured than allowed at
8221			max. Default is 180.
8222
8223	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
8224			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8225			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8226
8227	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
8228			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8229			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8230
8231	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
8232			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8233			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8234			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8235			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8236			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8237
8238	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
8239			Format:
8240			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8241
8242	xive=		[PPC]
8243			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8244			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8245			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8246
8247			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8248				  controller on both pseries and powernv
8249				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8250
8251	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
8252			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8253			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8254			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8255			loads instead, as on POWER9.
8256
8257	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
8258			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8259			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8260			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8261
8262	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
8263			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8264			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8265			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8266			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8267				debugger is called from setup_arch().
8268			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8269				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8270				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8271				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8272			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8273				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8274				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8275				can be written using xmon commands.
8276			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8277				memory, and other data can't be written using
8278				xmon commands.
8279			off	xmon is disabled.
8280