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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326
327	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
328			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
329			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
330			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
331			IOMMU initialization.
332
333	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
334			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
335			remapping modes:
336			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
337			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
338			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
339			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
340			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
341
342	amd_pstate=	[X86]
343			disable
344			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
345			  scaling driver for the supported processors
346			passive
347			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
348			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
349			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
350			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
351			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
352			active
353			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
354			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
355			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
356			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
357			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
358			  frequency.
359			guided
360			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
361			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
362			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
363			  to the current workload.
364
365	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
366			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
367			Format: <a>,<b>
368			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
369
370	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
371			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
372			connected to one of 16 gameports
373			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
374
375	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
376			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
377			Format: noidle
378			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
379			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
380			APC and your system crashes randomly.
381
382	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
383			Change the output verbosity while booting
384			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
385			Change the amount of debugging information output
386			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
387			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
388			driver name.
389			Format: apic=driver_name
390			Examples: apic=bigsmp
391
392	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
393			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
394			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
395			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
396			      backup of CPU 0
397			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
398			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
399			      shot down by NMI
400
401	autoconf=	[IPV6]
402			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
403
404	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
405			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
406
407	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
408			Format: { "0" | "1" }
409			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
410			0 -- disable.
411			1 -- enable.
412			Default value is set via kernel config option.
413
414	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
415			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
416
417	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
418			Identification support
419
420	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
421			support
422
423	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
424			support
425
426	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
427			Extension support
428
429	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
430			Extension support
431
432	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
433			Set instructions support
434
435	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
436
437	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
438
439	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
440			EzKey and similar keyboards
441
442	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
443
444	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
445			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
446
447	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
448			keyboards
449
450	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
451			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
452
453	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
454			Use software keyboard repeat
455
456	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
457			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
458			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
459			    enabled until the next reboot
460			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
461			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
462			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
463			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
464			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
465			    userspace auditd.
466			Default: unset
467
468	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
469			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
470			Default: 64
471
472	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
473			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
474			Format: { "0" | "1" }
475			0 - Disable the BAU.
476			1 - Enable the BAU.
477			unset - Disable the BAU.
478
479	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
480			Format: <io>,<mode>
481
482	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
483			Format: <io>,<mode>
484			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
485
486	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
487			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
488			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
489			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
490
491	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
492			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
493			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
494			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
495
496	bert_disable	[ACPI]
497			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
498
499	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
500			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
501
502	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
503			embedded devices based on command line input.
504			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
505
506	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
507			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
508			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
509			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
510			erroneous and ignored.
511			Format: integer
512
513	bootconfig	[KNL]
514			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
515			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
516
517			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
518
519	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
520	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
521			kernel args too.
522	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
523	bttv.tuner=
524
525	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
526			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
527			at a time.
528
529	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
530
531	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
532			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
533			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
534			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
535			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
536			This option provides an override for these situations.
537
538	carrier_timeout=
539			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
540			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
541			it waits 120 seconds.
542
543	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
544			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
545			trust validation.
546			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
547
548	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
549			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
550			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
551			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
552			others).
553
554	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
555			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
556
557	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
558			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
559			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
560			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
561			  a single hierarchy
562			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
563			  subsystem
564			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
565			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
566			  created
567			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
568			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
569			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
570			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
571			stall information accounting feature
572
573	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
574			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
575			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
576			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
577			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
578			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
579			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
580			all v1 hierarchies.
581
582	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
583			Format: <string>
584			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
585			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
586			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
587
588	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
589			Format: { "0" | "1" }
590			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
591			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
592				any implied execute protection).
593			1 -- check protection requested by application.
594			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
595			Value can be changed at runtime via
596				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
597			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
598
599	cio_ignore=	[S390]
600			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
601
602	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
603			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
604			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
605			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
606			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
607			ones should be.
608			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
609			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
610			instability issue. However, not all features have names
611			in /proc/cpuinfo.
612			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
613			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
614			or using the feature without checking anything
615			will still see it. This just prevents it from
616			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
617			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
618			some critical bits.
619
620	clk_ignore_unused
621			[CLK]
622			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
623			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
624			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
625			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
626			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
627			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
628			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
629			platform with proper driver support.  For more
630			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
631
632	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
633			[Deprecated]
634			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
635			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
636			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
637			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
638
639	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
640			Format: <string>
641			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
642			with the name specified.
643			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
644			the platform:
645			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
646			[ACPI] acpi_pm
647			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
648				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
649			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
650				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
651			[MIPS] MIPS
652			[PARISC] cr16
653			[S390] tod
654			[SH] SuperH
655			[SPARC64] tick
656			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
657
658	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
659			[ARM,ARM64]
660			Format: <bool>
661			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
662			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
663			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
664			systems.
665
666	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
667			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
668			external delays before the clock will be marked
669			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
670			three attempts to read the clock under test.
671
672	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
673			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
674			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
675			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
676			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
677			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
678			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
679			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
680			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
681
682	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
683			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
684			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
685			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
686			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
687
688	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
689			[KNL,CMA]
690			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
691			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
692			placement constraint by the physical address range of
693			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
694			altogether. For more information, see
695			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
696
697	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
698			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
699			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
700			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
701			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
702			specified, the default value is 0.
703			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
704			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
705			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
706			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
707
708	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
709			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
710			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
711			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
712			a hypervisor.
713			Default: yes
714
715	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
716			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
717			allocations, by default set to 256K.
718
719	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
720			Format:
721			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
722
723	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
724			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
725
726	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
727			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
728			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
729
730	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
731	conmode=
732
733	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
734			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
735			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
736			the console buffer is full. In this case the
737			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
738			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
739			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
740			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
741			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
742			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
743
744	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
745
746		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
747
748		ttyS<n>[,options]
749		ttyUSB0[,options]
750			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
751			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
752			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
753			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
754			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
755
756			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
757			information.  See
758			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
759			alternative.
760
761		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
762		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
763		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
764		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
765		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
766			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
767			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
768			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
769			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
770			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
771			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
772			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
773			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
774			the h/w is not re-initialized.
775
776		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
777			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
778
779		{ null | "" }
780			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
781			console messages discarded.
782			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
783			kernel command line.
784
785		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
786		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
787			console=brl,ttyS0
788		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
789
790	console_msg_format=
791			[KNL] Change console messages format
792		default
793			By default we print messages on consoles in
794			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
795			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
796			`printk_time' param).
797		syslog
798			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
799			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
800			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
801			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
802			from /proc/kmsg.
803
804	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
805			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
806			Defaults to 0.
807
808	coredump_filter=
809			[KNL] Change the default value for
810			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
811			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
812
813	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
814			[ARM,ARM64]
815			Format: <bool>
816			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
817			0: default value, disable debugging
818			1: enable debugging at boot time
819
820	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
821			Format:
822			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
823
824	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
825			disable the cpuidle sub-system
826
827	cpuidle.governor=
828			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
829
830	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
831			disable the cpufreq sub-system
832
833	cpufreq.default_governor=
834			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
835			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
836			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
837
838	cpu_init_udelay=N
839			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
840			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
841			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
842			Default: 10000
843
844	cpuhp.parallel=
845			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
846			Format: <bool>
847			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
848			the parameter has no effect.
849
850	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
851			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
852			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
853			succeeds in any situation.
854			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
855			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
856			kernel more unstable.
857
858	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
859			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
860			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
861			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
862			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
863			is selected automatically.
864			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and
865			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
866			hasn't been specified.
867			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
868
869	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
870			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
871			in the running system. The syntax of range is
872			start-[end] where start and end are both
873			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
874			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
875
876	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
877			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
878			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
879			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
880			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
881			available.
882			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
883	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
884			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
885			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
886			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
887			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
888			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
889			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
890			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
891			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
892			size is	platform dependent.
893			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
894			  --> arm64: 128MiB
895			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
896			for second kernel instead.
897			0: to disable low allocation.
898			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
899			or memory reserved is below 4G.
900
901	cryptomgr.notests
902			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
903
904	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
905			Format: <dma>
906
907	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
908			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
909
910	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
911			function call handling. When switched on,
912			additional debug data is printed to the console
913			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
914			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
915			the hang situation.  The default value of this
916			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
917			Kconfig option.
918
919	dasd=		[HW,NET]
920			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
921
922	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
923			(one device per port)
924			Format: <port#>,<type>
925			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
926
927	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
928
929	debug_boot_weak_hash
930			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
931			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
932			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
933			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
934			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
935			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
936
937	debug_locks_verbose=
938			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
939			Format: <int>
940			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
941			self-tests.
942			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
943			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
944			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
945			useful to lockdep developers.
946
947	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
948
949	debug_guardpage_minorder=
950			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
951			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
952			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
953			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
954			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
955			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
956			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
957			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
958			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
959			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
960			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
961			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
962			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
963			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
964			bypassed) which are not detectable by
965			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
966			tracking down these problems.
967
968	debug_pagealloc=
969			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
970			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
971			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
972			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
973			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
974			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
975			on: enable the feature
976
977	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
978			and debugfs internal clients.
979			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
980			on: 	All functions are enabled.
981			no-mount:
982				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
983			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
984				its content. There is nothing to mount.
985			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
986			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
987				or directories within debugfs.
988				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
989				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
990			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
991
992	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
993
994	default_hugepagesz=
995			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
996			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
997			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
998			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
999			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1000			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1001			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1002			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1003			Format: size[KMG]
1004
1005	deferred_probe_timeout=
1006			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1007			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1008			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1009			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1010			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1011			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1012			successful driver registration. This option will also
1013			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1014			retrying.
1015
1016	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1017
1018	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1019			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1020			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1021			hardware.
1022
1023	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1024			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1025			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1026			blacklisted features.
1027
1028	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1029			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1030			(disabled by default).
1031
1032	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1033			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1034			capability is set.
1035
1036	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1037			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1038
1039	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1040			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1041
1042	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1043			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1044			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1045			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1046			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1047			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1048			          only (compression on level 1)
1049			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1050			          only (decompression)
1051			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1052			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1053
1054	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1055			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1056
1057	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1058			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1059			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1060			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1061			miss to occur.
1062
1063	disable=	[IPV6]
1064			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1065
1066	disable_radix	[PPC]
1067			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1068
1069	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1070			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1071			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1072
1073	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1074			Format: <int>
1075			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1076			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1077			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1078			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1079			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1080			INIT from AP to BSP.
1081
1082	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1083			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1084			to workaround buggy firmware.
1085
1086	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1087			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1088
1089	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1090			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1091			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1092			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1093
1094	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1095			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1096			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1097			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1098			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1099
1100	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1101			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1102			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1103
1104	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1105
1106	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1107			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1108
1109	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1110			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1111			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1112			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1113			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1114			architectural default is too low.
1115
1116	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1117			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1118			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1119			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1120			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1121			driver later using sysfs.
1122
1123	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1124			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1125			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1126			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1127			match the *.
1128			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1129
1130	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1131			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1132			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1133			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1134			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1135			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1136			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1137			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1138			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1139			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1140			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1141			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1142			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1143			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1144			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1145			data set with no connector name will be used for
1146			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1147
1148	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1149
1150	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1151			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1152			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1153			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1154			exists).
1155			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1156			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1157			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1158
1159	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1160			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1161			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1162			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1163
1164	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1165	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1166			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1167			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1168			for details.
1169
1170	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1171			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1172			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1173			which are not unmapped.
1174
1175	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1176
1177			When used with no options, the early console is
1178			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1179			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1180			the platform.
1181
1182		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1183			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1184			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1185			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1186			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1187			configured.
1188
1189		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1190		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1191		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1192		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1193		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1194			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1195			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1196			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1197			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1198			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1199			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1200			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1201			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1202			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1203			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1204
1205		pl011,<addr>
1206		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1207			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1208			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1209			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1210			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1211			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1212			the device registers.
1213
1214		liteuart,<addr>
1215			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1216			specified address. The serial port must already be
1217			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1218
1219		meson,<addr>
1220			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1221			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1222			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1223			supported.
1224
1225		msm_serial,<addr>
1226			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1227			port at the specified address. The serial port
1228			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1229			yet supported.
1230
1231		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1232			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1233			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1234			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1235			yet supported.
1236
1237		owl,<addr>
1238			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1239			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1240			specified address. The serial port must already be
1241			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1242
1243		rda,<addr>
1244			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1245			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1246			specified address. The serial port must already be
1247			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1248
1249		sbi
1250			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1251			console.
1252
1253		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1254
1255		s3c2410,<addr>
1256		s3c2412,<addr>
1257		s3c2440,<addr>
1258		s3c6400,<addr>
1259		s5pv210,<addr>
1260		exynos4210,<addr>
1261			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1262			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1263			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1264			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1265			Options are not yet supported.
1266
1267		lantiq,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1269			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1270			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1271			yet supported.
1272
1273		lpuart,<addr>
1274		lpuart32,<addr>
1275			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1276			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1277			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1278			port must already be setup and configured.
1279
1280		ec_imx21,<addr>
1281		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1282			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1283			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1284			must already be setup and configured.
1285
1286		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1287			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1288			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1289			address. The serial port must already be setup
1290			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1291
1292		qcom_geni,<addr>
1293			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1294			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1295			specified address. The serial port must already be
1296			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1297
1298		efifb,[options]
1299			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1300			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1301			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1302			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1303			mapped with the correct attributes.
1304
1305		linflex,<addr>
1306			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1307			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1308			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1309			already be setup and configured.
1310
1311	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1312			earlyprintk=vga
1313			earlyprintk=sclp
1314			earlyprintk=xen
1315			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1316			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1317			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1318			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1319			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1320			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1321
1322			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1323			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1324			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1325
1326			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1327			takes over.
1328
1329			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1330			be used at a time.
1331
1332			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1333			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1334			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1335			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1336				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1337			You can find the port for a given device in
1338			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1339				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1340
1341			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1342			very good.
1343
1344			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1345			the real console.
1346
1347			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1348
1349			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1350
1351			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1352			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1353			UART class.
1354
1355	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1356			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1357			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1358			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1359			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1360			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1361			default: on.
1362
1363	edd=		[EDD]
1364			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1365
1366	efi=		[EFI]
1367			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1368				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1369				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1370			debug: enable misc debug output.
1371			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1372			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1373			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1374			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1375			firmware implementations.
1376			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1377			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1378			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1379			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1380			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1381			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1382			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1383			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1384			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1385			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1386
1387	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1388			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1389			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1390			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1391			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1392
1393	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1394			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1395			updating original EFI memory map.
1396			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1397			from ss to ss+nn.
1398
1399			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1400			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1401			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1402			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1403
1404			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1405			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1406			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1407
1408			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1409			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1410			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1411			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1412			"soft reserved".
1413
1414	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1415			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1416			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1417			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1418			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1419
1420
1421	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1422			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1423
1424	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1425			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1426
1427			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1428			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1429
1430			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1431			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1432			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1433			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1434
1435	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1436			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1437			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1438
1439	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1440			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1441			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1442			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1443			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1444
1445	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1446			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1447			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1448			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1449
1450	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1451			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1452			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1453			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1454			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1455
1456	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1457			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1458			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1459			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1460			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1461			Default value is 0.
1462			Value can be changed at runtime via
1463			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1464
1465	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1466			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1467			support.
1468
1469	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1470			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1471			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1472
1473	evm=		[EVM]
1474			Format: { "fix" }
1475			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1476			current integrity status.
1477
1478	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1479			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1480			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1481			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1482			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1483			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1484			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1485
1486	failslab=
1487	fail_usercopy=
1488	fail_page_alloc=
1489	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1490			General fault injection mechanism.
1491			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1492			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1493
1494	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1495			Format: { initns | none }
1496			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1497			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1498
1499	floppy=		[HW]
1500			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1501
1502	force_pal_cache_flush
1503			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1504			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1505			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1506			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1507
1508	forcepae	[X86-32]
1509			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1510			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1511			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1512			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1513			and may cause unknown problems.
1514
1515	ftrace=[tracer]
1516			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1517			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1518			boot debugging.
1519
1520	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1521			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1522			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1523			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1524			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1525			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1526			start up functionality.
1527
1528			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1529			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1530			line parameter.
1531
1532			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1533
1534			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1535			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1536
1537	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1538			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1539			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1540			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1541			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1542			oops.
1543
1544	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1545			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1546			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1547			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1548			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1549			tracing directory.
1550
1551	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1552			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1553			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1554			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1555			tracing directory.
1556
1557	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1558			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1559			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1560			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1561			that can be changed at run time by the
1562			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1563
1564	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1565			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1566			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1567			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1568			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1569
1570	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1571			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1572			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1573			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1574			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1575
1576	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1577			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1578			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1579			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1580			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1581			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1582			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1583			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1584			suppliers).
1585			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1586			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1587			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1588				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1589				up (sync_state() calls).
1590			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1591				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1592			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1593
1594	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1595			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1596			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1597			Format: <bool>
1598
1599	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1600			[KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished
1601			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1602			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1603			calls.
1604			Format: { strict | timeout }
1605			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1606				probe successfully.
1607			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1608				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1609				received their sync_state() calls after
1610				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1611				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1612
1613	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1614			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1615			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1616			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1617			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1618
1619	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1620
1621	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1622			Format: off | on
1623			default: on
1624
1625	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1626			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1627			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1628			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1629			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1630
1631	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1632			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1633			android emulator
1634
1635	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1636			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1637			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1638	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1639			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1640
1641	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1642			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1643			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1644			GPT to be used instead.
1645
1646	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1647			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1648			Format: 0 | 1
1649			Default: 0
1650	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1651			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1652			Format: 0 | 1
1653			Default: 0
1654	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1655			Format: 0 | 1
1656			Default: 0
1657	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1658			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1659			Default: 1024
1660	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1661			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1662			Default: 1024
1663
1664	hardened_usercopy=
1665			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1666			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1667			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1668			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1669			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1670			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1671			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1672		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1673		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1674
1675	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1676			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1677			backtraces on all cpus.
1678			Format: 0 | 1
1679
1680	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1681			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1682			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1683			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1684
1685	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1686
1687	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1688			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1689
1690	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1691			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1692			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1693			logic will be disabled.
1694
1695	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1696		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1697				present during boot.
1698		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1699		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1700		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1701				(that will set all pages holding image data
1702				during restoration read-only).
1703
1704	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1705			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1706			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1707			size on bigger boxes.
1708
1709	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1710			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1711			Default: "on"
1712
1713	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1714
1715	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1716			Format: <string>
1717			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1718			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1719			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1720			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1721			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1722			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1723			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1724			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1725			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1726			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1727
1728	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1729			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1730				verbose }
1731			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1732			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1733				VIA, nVidia)
1734			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1735
1736	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1737			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1738
1739	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1740			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1741			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1742			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1743			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1744			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1745			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1746			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1747			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1748				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1749
1750	hugepagesz=
1751			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1752			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1753			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1754			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1755			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1756			architecture dependent.  See also
1757			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1758			Format: size[KMG]
1759
1760	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1761			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1762			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1763			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1764				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1765
1766			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1767			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1768			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1769
1770	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1771			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1772			enabled.
1773			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1774			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1775			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1776			Format: { on | off (default) }
1777
1778			on: enable HVO
1779			off: disable HVO
1780
1781			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1782			the default is on.
1783
1784			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1785			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1786			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1787			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1788			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1789
1790	hung_task_panic=
1791			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1792			Format: 0 | 1
1793
1794			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1795			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1796			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1797			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1798			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1799
1800	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1801				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1802	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1803				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1804				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1805
1806	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1807				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1808				      guest on lock contention.
1809
1810	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1811				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1812				registered from board initialization code.
1813				Format:
1814				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1815
1816	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1817	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1818			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1819			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1820			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1821	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1822	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1823			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1824			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1825	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1826	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1827	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1828			     for the AUX port
1829	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1830			     controller
1831	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1832			     controllers
1833	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1834	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1835			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1836			     transitions, or never reset
1837			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1838			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1839			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1840			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1841			architectures force reset to be always executed
1842	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1843	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1844	i8042.probe_defer
1845			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1846
1847	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1848
1849	i915.invert_brightness=
1850			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1851			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1852			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1853			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1854			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1855			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1856			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1857			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1858			value switches the backlight off.
1859			-1 -- never invert brightness
1860			 0 -- machine default
1861			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1862
1863	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1864			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1865
1866
1867	idle=		[X86]
1868			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1869			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1870			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1871			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1872			Not recommended.
1873			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1874			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1875			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1876
1877	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1878			Format: <bool>
1879			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1880			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1881			true (1).
1882
1883	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1884			Format: <bool>
1885			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1886			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1887
1888	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1889			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1890			Default: strict
1891
1892			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1893			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1894			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1895			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1896			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1897			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1898			encoding mode.
1899
1900			Available settings are as follows:
1901			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1902				supported by the FPU
1903			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1904				by the FPU
1905			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1906				by the FPU
1907			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1908				supported by the FPU
1909
1910			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1911			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1912			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1913			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1914			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1915			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1916			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1917			MIPS64 CPUs.
1918
1919			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1920			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1921			except where unsupported by hardware.
1922
1923	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1924			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1925			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1926			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1927			could change it dynamically, usually by
1928			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1929
1930	ignore_rlimit_data
1931			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1932			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1933			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1934
1935	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1936			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1937
1938	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1939			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1940			default: "enforce"
1941
1942	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1943			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1944			owned by uid=0.
1945
1946	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1947			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1948			measurements, instead of host native format.
1949
1950	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1951			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1952				   | sha512 | ... }
1953			default: "sha1"
1954
1955			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1956			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1957
1958	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1959			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1960			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1961				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1962
1963			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1964			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1965			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1966			uid=0.
1967
1968			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1969			all files owned by root.
1970
1971			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1972			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1973			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1974
1975			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1976			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1977			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1978			flag.
1979
1980			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1981			critical data.
1982
1983	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1984			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1985			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1986			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1987			opened for read by uid=0.
1988
1989	ima_template=	[IMA]
1990			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1991			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1992				   "ima-sigv2" }
1993			Default: "ima-ng"
1994
1995	ima_template_fmt=
1996			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1997			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1998
1999	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2000			Format: <min_file_size>
2001			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2002			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2003
2004			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2005			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2006			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2007
2008	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2009			Format: <bufsize>
2010			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2011
2012			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2013			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2014			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2015
2016	init=		[KNL]
2017			Format: <full_path>
2018			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2019			process.
2020
2021	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2022			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2023			startup.
2024
2025	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2026			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2027			modules and initcalls.
2028
2029	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2030			Format: <bool>
2031			Default: 1
2032			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2033			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2034			with devices being probed and
2035			initialized. This should normally just work,
2036			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2037			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2038			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2039			late_ initcalls.
2040
2041	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2042
2043	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2044			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2045			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2046			setting.
2047			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2048			Default is 0, 0
2049
2050	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2051			zeroes.
2052			Format: 0 | 1
2053			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2054
2055	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2056			Format: 0 | 1
2057			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2058
2059	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2060			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2061			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2062			override in debugfs after boot.
2063
2064	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2065			Format: <irq>
2066
2067	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2068
2069	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2070			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2071			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2072			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2073
2074	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2075		on
2076			Enable intel iommu driver.
2077		off
2078			Disable intel iommu driver.
2079		igfx_off [Default Off]
2080			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2081			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2082			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2083			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2084			DMA.
2085		strict [Default Off]
2086			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2087		sp_off [Default Off]
2088			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2089			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2090			not be supported.
2091		sm_on
2092			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2093			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2094			translation.
2095		sm_off
2096			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2097		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2098			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2099			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2100			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2101			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2102			mapping is enabled.
2103			Note that using this option lowers the security
2104			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2105			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2106
2107	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2108			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2109			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2110
2111	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2112			disable
2113			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2114			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2115			passive
2116			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2117			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2118			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2119			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2120			  feature.
2121			force
2122			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2123			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2124			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2125			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2126			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2127			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2128			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2129			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2130			no_hwp
2131			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2132			  if available.
2133			hwp_only
2134			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2135			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2136			support_acpi_ppc
2137			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2138			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2139			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2140			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2141			per_cpu_perf_limits
2142			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2143			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2144
2145	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2146			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2147			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2148			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2149			no_x2apic_optout
2150				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2151			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2152
2153	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2154		strict	regions from userspace.
2155		relaxed
2156
2157	iommu=		[X86]
2158		off
2159		force
2160		noforce
2161		biomerge
2162		panic
2163		nopanic
2164		merge
2165		nomerge
2166		soft
2167		pt		[X86]
2168		nopt		[X86]
2169		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2170			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2171
2172	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2173			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2174			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2175			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2176			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2177			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2178			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2179
2180	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2181			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2182			0 - Lazy mode.
2183			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2184			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2185			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2186			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2187			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2188			1 - Strict mode.
2189			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2190			  synchronously.
2191			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2192			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2193			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2194
2195	iommu.passthrough=
2196			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2197			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2198			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2199			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2200			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2201
2202	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2203			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2204			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2205
2206	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2207		0x80
2208			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2209		0xed
2210			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2211		udelay
2212			Simple two microseconds delay
2213		none
2214			No delay
2215
2216	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2217			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2218
2219	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2220			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2221
2222	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2223			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2224
2225	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2226			[ARM, ARM64]
2227			Format: <bool>
2228			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2229			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2230			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2231
2232	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2233			[ARM, ARM64]
2234			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2235			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2236			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2237			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2238			LPIs.
2239
2240	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2241			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2242			requires the kernel to be built with
2243			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2244
2245	irqfixup	[HW]
2246			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2247			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2248			firmware running.
2249
2250	irqpoll		[HW]
2251			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2252			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2253			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2254			firmware running.
2255
2256	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2257			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2258
2259	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2260			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2261			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2262
2263			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2264			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2265
2266			nohz
2267			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2268
2269			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2270			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2271			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2272			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2273			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2274
2275			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2276			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2277			  be configured manually after bootup.
2278
2279			domain
2280			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2281			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2282			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2283			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2284			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2285			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2286			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2287			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2288
2289			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2290			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2291			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2292			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2293
2294			managed_irq
2295
2296			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2297			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2298			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2299			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2300			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2301
2302			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2303			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2304			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2305			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2306			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2307			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2308			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2309
2310			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2311			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2312			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2313			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2314			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2315			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2316			  queues.
2317
2318			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2319
2320	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2321
2322	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2323			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2324			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2325			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2326
2327			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2328			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2329			write the parameter as:
2330				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2331
2332			Deprecated formats:
2333			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2334			  write the parameter as:
2335				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2336			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2337			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2338				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2339
2340	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2341			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2342			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2343			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2344
2345			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2346			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2347			write the parameter as:
2348				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2349
2350			Deprecated formats:
2351			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2352			  write the parameter as:
2353				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2354			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2355			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2356				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2357
2358	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2359			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2360			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2361			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2362
2363			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2364			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2365			write the parameter as:
2366				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2367
2368			Deprecated formats:
2369			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2370			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2371				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2372			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2373			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2374				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2375
2376	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2377			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2378
2379	kasan_multi_shot
2380			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2381			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2382			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2383			invalid access.
2384
2385	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2386			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2387			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2388			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2389			the real console.
2390
2391	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2392
2393	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2394			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2395			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2396			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2397			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2398			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2399			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2400			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2401			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2402			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2403
2404			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2405			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2406			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2407			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2408			zone if it does not.
2409
2410			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2411			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2412			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2413			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2414			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2415			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2416			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2417
2418	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2419			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2420			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2421			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2422			optional and is the number seconds in between
2423			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2424			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2425			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2426			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2427			the kernel debugger.
2428
2429	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2430			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2431			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2432			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2433			 keyboard only format: kbd
2434			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2435			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2436			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2437			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2438
2439	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2440			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2441			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2442			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2443			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2444			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2445			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2446
2447			The name of the early console should be specified
2448			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2449			the early console might be different than the tty
2450			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2451			blank and the first boot console that implements
2452			read() will be picked.
2453
2454	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2455			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2456
2457	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2458			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2459			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2460
2461	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2462			Valid arguments: on, off
2463			Default: on
2464			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2465			the default is off.
2466
2467	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2468			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2469			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2470			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2471			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2472			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2473			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2474
2475			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2476
2477			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2478			Boot Parameter" section.
2479
2480	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2481			and kernel address spaces.
2482			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2483			0: force disabled
2484			1: force enabled
2485
2486	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2487			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2488			default value can be overridden via
2489			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2490			Default is 1 (enabled)
2491
2492	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2493			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2494
2495	kvm.eager_page_split=
2496			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2497			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2498			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2499			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2500			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2501			required to split huge pages lazily.
2502
2503			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2504			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2505			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2506			still be used for reads.
2507
2508			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2509			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2510			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2511			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2512			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2513			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2514			cleared.
2515
2516			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2517
2518			Default is Y (on).
2519
2520	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2521				   Default is false (don't support).
2522
2523	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2524			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2525			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2526			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2527			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2528			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2529				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2530
2531			Default is 'auto'.
2532
2533			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2534			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2535
2536	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2537			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2538			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2539			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2540			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2541
2542	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2543			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2544			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2545			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2546			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2547			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2548
2549	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2550			Default is 1 (enabled)
2551
2552	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2553			for all guests.
2554			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2555
2556	kvm-arm.mode=
2557			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2558
2559			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2560
2561			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2562			      protected guests.
2563
2564			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2565				   state is kept private from the host.
2566
2567			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2568				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2569				hardware.
2570
2571			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2572			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2573			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2574			used with extreme caution.
2575
2576	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2577			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2578			system registers
2579
2580	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2581			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2582			system registers
2583
2584	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2585			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2586			system registers
2587
2588	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2589			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2590			LPIs.
2591
2592	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2593			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2594			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2595			allocation.
2596			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2597			Format: <integer>
2598			Default: 5
2599
2600	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2601			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2602			Default is 1 (enabled)
2603
2604	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2605			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2606			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2607			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2608			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2609			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2610			Default is 1 (enabled)
2611
2612	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2613			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2614			Default is 1 (enabled)
2615
2616	kvm-intel.nested=
2617			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2618			Default is 0 (disabled)
2619
2620	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2621			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2622			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2623			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2624
2625	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2626			CVE-2018-3620.
2627
2628			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2629
2630			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2631			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2632				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2633			never:	Disables the mitigation
2634
2635			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2636
2637	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2638			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2639			Default is 1 (enabled)
2640
2641	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2642			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2643
2644			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2645			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2646			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2647
2648			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2649			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2650			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2651			not have direct access.
2652
2653			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2654			options are:
2655
2656			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2657
2658	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2659			      affected CPUs
2660
2661			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2662			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2663
2664			full
2665				Provides all available mitigations for the
2666				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2667				enables all mitigations in the
2668				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2669
2670				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2671				sysfs interface is still possible after
2672				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2673				when the first VM is started in a
2674				potentially insecure configuration,
2675				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2676
2677			full,force
2678				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2679				flush runtime control. Implies the
2680				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2681				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2682
2683			flush
2684				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2685				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2686				L1D flush.
2687
2688				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2689				sysfs interface is still possible after
2690				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2691				when the first VM is started in a
2692				potentially insecure configuration,
2693				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2694
2695			flush,nosmt
2696
2697				Disables SMT and enables the default
2698				hypervisor mitigation.
2699
2700				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2701				sysfs interface is still possible after
2702				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2703				when the first VM is started in a
2704				potentially insecure configuration,
2705				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2706
2707			flush,nowarn
2708				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2709				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2710				insecure configuration.
2711
2712			off
2713				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2714				emit any warnings.
2715				It also drops the swap size and available
2716				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2717				bare metal.
2718
2719			Default is 'flush'.
2720
2721			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2722
2723	l2cr=		[PPC]
2724
2725	l3cr=		[PPC]
2726
2727	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2728			disabled it.
2729
2730	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2731			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2732			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2733			Format: notscdeadline
2734
2735	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2736			in C2 power state.
2737
2738	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2739			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2740			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2741			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2742			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2743			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2744			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2745
2746	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2747			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2748			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2749
2750	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2751			when set.
2752			Format: <int>
2753
2754	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2755			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2756			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2757			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2758			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2759			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2760			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2761			to all ports, links and devices.
2762
2763			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2764			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2765			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2766			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2767			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2768			host link and device attached to it.
2769
2770			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2771			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2772			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2773			The following configurations can be forced.
2774
2775			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2776			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2777
2778			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2779
2780			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2781			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2782			  allowed.
2783
2784			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2785			  resets.
2786
2787			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2788			  link recovery.
2789
2790			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2791			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2792			  detection.
2793
2794			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2795
2796			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2797
2798			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2799
2800			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2801
2802			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2803
2804			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2805
2806			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2807
2808			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2809
2810			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2811			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2812
2813			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2814			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2815
2816			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2817			  identify device data log.
2818
2819			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2820			  purpose log directory.
2821
2822			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2823
2824			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2825			  1024 sectors.
2826
2827			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2828			  65535 sectors.
2829
2830			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2831
2832			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2833			  should be skipped.
2834
2835			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2836			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2837
2838			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2839
2840			* disable: Disable this device.
2841
2842			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2843			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2844
2845	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2846
2847	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2848			Format: <integer>
2849
2850	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2851			Format: <integer>
2852
2853	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2854			Format: <integer>
2855
2856	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2857			Format: <integer>
2858
2859	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2860			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2861			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2862			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2863			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2864			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2865			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2866			are also disabled.
2867
2868	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2869			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2870			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2871			number of online CPUs.
2872
2873	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2874			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2875
2876	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2877			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2878
2879	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2880			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2881			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2882
2883	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2884			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2885			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2886			mode during the locktorture test.
2887
2888	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2889			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2890			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2891
2892	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2893			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2894
2895	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2896			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2897			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2898			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2899			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2900			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2901
2902	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2903			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2904
2905	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2906			Enable additional printk() statements.
2907
2908	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2909			Format: <irq>
2910
2911	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2912			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2913			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2914			loglevels are defined as follows:
2915
2916			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2917			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2918			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2919			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2920			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2921			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2922			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2923			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2924
2925	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2926			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2927			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2928			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2929			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2930			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2931			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2932
2933	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2934			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2935			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2936			kernel boot problems.
2937
2938	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2939	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2940	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2941	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2942				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2943				attached printers to be reset. Using
2944				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2945				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2946				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2947				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2948				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2949				port specification list means that device IDs
2950				from each port should be examined, to see if
2951				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2952				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2953				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2954
2955	lpj=n		[KNL]
2956			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2957			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2958			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2959			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2960			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2961			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2962			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2963			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2964			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2965			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2966			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2967			hardware.
2968
2969	ltpc=		[NET]
2970			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2971
2972	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2973
2974	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2975			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2976			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2977
2978	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2979			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2980			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2981
2982	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2983			different yeeloong laptops.
2984			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2985
2986	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2987			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2988
2989	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2990			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2991			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2992			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2993			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2994			only takes effect during system bootup.
2995			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2996			which also disables the IO APIC.
2997
2998	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2999	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3000			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3001			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3002			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3003			/dev/loop-control interface.
3004
3005	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3006
3007	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3008
3009	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3010			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3011
3012	mdacon=		[MDA]
3013			Format: <first>,<last>
3014			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3015
3016	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
3017			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3018			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3019
3020			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3021			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3022			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3023
3024			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3025			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3026			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3027			not have direct access.
3028
3029			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3030			options are:
3031
3032			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3033			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3034				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3035			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3036
3037			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3038			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3039			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3040			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3041			too.
3042
3043			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3044			mds=full.
3045
3046			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3047
3048	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3049			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3050
3051	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3052			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3053
3054			1 for test;
3055			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3056			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3057			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3058			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3059
3060			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3061			high memory is not affected.
3062
3063			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3064			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3065
3066			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3067			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3068			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3069			belonging to unused RAM.
3070
3071			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3072			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3073			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3074
3075	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3076			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3077			firmware.
3078			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3079			ss[KMG].
3080			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3081			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3082
3083	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3084			memory.
3085
3086	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3087
3088	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3089			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3090			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3091
3092	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3093			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3094			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3095			set according to the
3096			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3097			option.
3098			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3099
3100	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3101			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3102			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3103			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3104			option description.
3105
3106	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3107			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3108			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3109			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3110			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3111			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3112			comma delimited.
3113			Example:
3114				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3115
3116	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3117			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3118			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3119
3120	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3121			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3122			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3123			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3124			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3125			         or
3126			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3127			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3128			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3129			will be eaten.
3130
3131	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3132			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3133			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3134			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3135			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3136
3137	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3138			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3139			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3140			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3141			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3142			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3143			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3144			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3145
3146	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3147			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3148			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3149			Setting this option will scan the memory
3150			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3151			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3152			from using the memory being corrupted.
3153			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3154			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3155			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3156			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3157
3158	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3159			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3160			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3161			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3162			corruption in more or less memory.
3163
3164	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3165			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3166			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3167			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3168
3169	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3170			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3171			Format: {on | off (default)}
3172			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3173			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3174			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3175			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3176			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3177			lot of memory without requiring additional
3178			memory to do so.
3179			This feature is disabled by default because it
3180			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3181			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3182			memory blocks).
3183			The state of the flag can be read in
3184			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3185			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3186			the feature is not effective.
3187
3188	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3189			Format: <integer>
3190			default : 0 <disable>
3191			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3192			performed. Each pass selects another test
3193			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3194			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3195			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3196			regions that are detected.
3197
3198	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3199			Valid arguments: on, off
3200			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3201			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3202			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3203			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3204			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3205
3206			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3207			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3208
3209	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3210			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3211			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3212			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3213			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3214
3215	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3216			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3217			platforms.
3218
3219	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3220			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3221			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3222			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3223
3224	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3225
3226	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3227			physical address is ignored.
3228
3229	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3230			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3231			Default: "0tb"
3232			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3233			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3234			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3235			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3236			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3237			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3238			unconfigured.
3239			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3240			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3241			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3242			VGA shield.
3243			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3244			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3245			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3246			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3247			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3248			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3249
3250	mitigations=
3251			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3252			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3253			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3254			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3255
3256			off
3257				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3258				improves system performance, but it may also
3259				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3260				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3261					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3262					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3263					       nobp=0 [S390]
3264					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3265					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3266					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3267					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3268					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3269					       l1tf=off [X86]
3270					       mds=off [X86]
3271					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3272					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3273					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3274					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3275					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3276					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3277					       retbleed=off [X86]
3278
3279				Exceptions:
3280					       This does not have any effect on
3281					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3282					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3283
3284			auto (default)
3285				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3286				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3287				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3288				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3289				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3290				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3291
3292			auto,nosmt
3293				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3294				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3295				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3296				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3297					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3298					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3299					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3300					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3301
3302	mminit_loglevel=
3303			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3304			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3305			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3306			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3307			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3308			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3309
3310	mmio_stale_data=
3311			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3312			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3313
3314			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3315			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3316			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3317			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3318			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3319			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3320
3321			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3322			options are:
3323
3324			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3325
3326			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3327				     vulnerable CPUs.
3328
3329			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3330
3331			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3332			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3333			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3334			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3335			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3336			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3337
3338			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3339			mmio_stale_data=full.
3340
3341			For details see:
3342			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3343
3344	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3345			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3346			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3347			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3348			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3349			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3350
3351	module.async_probe=<bool>
3352			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3353			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3354			specific module, use the module specific control that
3355			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3356			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3357			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3358			the specific module.
3359
3360	module.enable_dups_trace
3361			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3362			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3363			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3364			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3365			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3366	module.sig_enforce
3367			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3368			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3369			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3370			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3371
3372	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3373			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3374
3375	mousedev.tap_time=
3376			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3377			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3378			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3379			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3380			Format: <msecs>
3381	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3382			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3383	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3384			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3385
3386	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3387			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3388			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3389			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3390			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3391			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3392			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3393			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3394			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3395			is not too small.
3396
3397	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3398			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3399			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3400			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3401			allocations. Use with caution!
3402
3403	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3404			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3405
3406	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3407			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3408
3409	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3410			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3411
3412	mtdset=		[ARM]
3413			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3414
3415			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3416
3417	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3418			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3419			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3420
3421	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3422			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3423			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3424
3425	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3426			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3427			Default is 1.
3428			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3429			using up MTRRs.
3430
3431	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3432			Format: <integer>
3433			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3434			Default : 1
3435			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3436			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3437
3438	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3439			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3440			at a time.
3441
3442	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3443
3444	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3445			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3446			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3447			something different and driver-specific.
3448			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3449			file if at all.
3450
3451	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3452			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3453			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3454			waits 4 seconds.
3455
3456	nf_conntrack.acct=
3457			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3458			0 to disable accounting
3459			1 to enable accounting
3460			Default value is 0.
3461
3462	nfs.cache_getent=
3463			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3464			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3465
3466	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3467			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3468			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3469
3470	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3471			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3472			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3473			requests.
3474
3475	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3476			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3477			channel should listen.
3478
3479	nfs.enable_ino64=
3480			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3481			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3482			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3483			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3484			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3485
3486	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3487			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3488			entries.
3489
3490	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3491			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3492			slots the client will assign to the callback
3493			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3494			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3495			a particular server.
3496
3497	nfs.max_session_slots=
3498			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3499			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3500			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3501			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3502			Note that there is little point in setting this
3503			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3504
3505	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3506			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3507			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3508			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3509			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3510			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3511			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3512			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3513			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3514			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3515			back to using the idmapper.
3516			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3517
3518	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3519			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3520			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3521			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3522			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3523
3524	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3525			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3526			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3527			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3528			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3529			after the locks are lost.
3530			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3531			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3532			parameter to '1'.
3533			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3534			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3535
3536	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3537			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3538			information in exchange_id requests.
3539			If zero, no implementation identification information
3540			will be sent.
3541			The default is to send the implementation identification
3542			information.
3543
3544	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3545			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3546			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3547
3548			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3549			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3550			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3551			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3552
3553	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3554			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3555			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3556			the destination of the copy.
3557
3558	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3559			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3560			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3561			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3562			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3563			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3564
3565	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3566			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3567			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3568			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3569			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3570			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3571			this parameter.
3572
3573	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3574			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3575
3576	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3577			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3578
3579	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3580			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3581
3582	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3583			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3584			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3585
3586	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3587			when a NMI is triggered.
3588			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3589
3590	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3591			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3592			Valid num: 0 or 1
3593			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3594			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3595			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3596			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3597			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3598			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3599			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3600			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3601			need the box quickly up again.
3602
3603			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3604			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3605
3606	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3607			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3608			is present.
3609
3610	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3611			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3612
3613	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3614			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3615
3616	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3617			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3618			but will impact performance.
3619
3620	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3621
3622	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3623			(CPU alternatives feature).
3624
3625	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3626			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3627
3628	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3629
3630	nocache		[ARM]
3631
3632	no_console_suspend
3633			[HW] Never suspend the console
3634			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3635			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3636			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3637			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3638			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3639			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3640			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3641			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3642			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3643			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3644			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3645			turn on/off it dynamically.
3646
3647	no_debug_objects
3648			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3649
3650	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3651
3652	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3653
3654	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3655
3656	noexec		[IA-64]
3657
3658	noexec32	[X86-64]
3659			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3660			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3661				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3662			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3663				read implies executable mappings
3664
3665	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3666			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3667			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3668
3669	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3670
3671	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3672
3673	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3674			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3675			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3676
3677	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3678			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3679			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3680			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3681			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3682			real-time systems.
3683
3684	no_hash_pointers
3685			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3686			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3687			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3688			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3689			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3690			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3691			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3692			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3693			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3694			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3695			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3696			kernels.
3697
3698	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3699
3700	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3701			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3702			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3703			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3704			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3705			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3706			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3707			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3708
3709	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3710
3711	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3712
3713	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3714			Valid arguments: on, off
3715			Default: on
3716
3717	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3718			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3719			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3720			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3721			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3722			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3723			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3724			just as if they had also been called out in the
3725			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3726
3727			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3728			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3729
3730	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3731			initial RAM disk.
3732
3733	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3734			remapping.
3735			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3736
3737	nointroute	[IA-64]
3738
3739	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3740
3741	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3742
3743	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3744			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3745
3746	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3747
3748	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3749
3750	nokaslr		[KNL]
3751			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3752			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3753			Layout Randomization).
3754
3755	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3756			fault handling.
3757
3758	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3759
3760	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3761
3762	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3763
3764	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3765
3766	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3767
3768	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3769			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3770
3771	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3772			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3773			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3774			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3775			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3776			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3777			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3778
3779			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3780
3781	nomodule	Disable module load
3782
3783	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3784			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3785			irq.
3786
3787	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3788			pagetables) support.
3789
3790	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3791
3792	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3793			in some Intel CPUs.
3794
3795	nopti		[X86-64]
3796			Equivalent to pti=off
3797
3798	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3799			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3800			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3801			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3802
3803	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3804			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3805			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3806			contention.
3807
3808	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3809			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3810
3811	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3812			with UP alternatives
3813
3814	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3815			space.
3816
3817	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3818
3819	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3820			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3821			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3822
3823	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3824
3825	nosmap		[PPC]
3826			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3827			even if it is supported by processor.
3828
3829	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3830			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3831			even if it is supported by processor.
3832
3833	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3834			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3835
3836	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3837			Equivalent to smt=1.
3838
3839			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3840			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3841				     via the sysfs control file.
3842
3843	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3844
3845	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3846			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3847
3848	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3849			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3850			with this option.
3851
3852	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3853			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3854			possible in the system.
3855
3856	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3857			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3858			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3859			option.
3860
3861	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3862			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3863			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3864
3865	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3866
3867	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3868			broken timer IRQ sources.
3869
3870	no_uaccess_flush
3871	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3872
3873	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3874			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3875			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3876			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3877			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3878			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3879			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3880			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3881			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3882			is set.
3883
3884	no-vmw-sched-clock
3885			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3886			clock and use the default one.
3887
3888	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3889			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3890
3891	nowb		[ARM]
3892
3893	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3894
3895			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3896			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3897			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3898
3899	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3900			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3901			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3902
3903	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3904			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3905			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3906			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3907			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3908			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3909
3910	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3911			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3912			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3913			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3914			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3915			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3916			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3917
3918	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3919			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3920			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3921			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3922			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3923			parameter's value.
3924			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3925			Default: 255
3926
3927	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3928			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3929			SAL PALO.
3930
3931	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3932			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3933			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3934			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3935			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3936			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3937			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3938			hot plugging.
3939
3940	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3941
3942	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3943			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3944
3945	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3946			NUMA balancing.
3947			Allowed values are enable and disable
3948
3949	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3950			'node', 'default' can be specified
3951			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3952			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3953
3954	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3955			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3956			info.
3957
3958	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3959			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3960			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3961			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3962			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3963			interrupts *may* be lost!
3964
3965	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3966			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3967			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3968			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3969
3970	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3971
3972			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3973
3974			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3975				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3976			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3977				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3978				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3979
3980	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3981			process, but there is a small probability of
3982			deadlocking the machine.
3983			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3984			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3985
3986	page_alloc.shuffle=
3987			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3988			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3989			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3990			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3991			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3992			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3993			can be read from sysfs at:
3994			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3995
3996	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3997			Storage of the information about who allocated
3998			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3999			we can turn it on.
4000			on: enable the feature
4001
4002	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4003			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4004			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4005			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4006			on: turn on poisoning
4007
4008	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4009			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4010			Format: <integer>
4011			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4012			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER.
4013
4014	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4015			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4016			timeout = 0: wait forever
4017			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4018			Format: <timeout>
4019
4020	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4021			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4022			bit 0: print all tasks info
4023			bit 1: print system memory info
4024			bit 2: print timer info
4025			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4026			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4027			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4028			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4029			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4030			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4031			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4032			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4033
4034	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4035			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4036			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4037			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4038			called with any of the flags in this set.
4039			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4040			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4041			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4042			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4043			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4044			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4045			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4046
4047	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4048			on a WARN().
4049
4050	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4051			connected to, default is 0.
4052			Format: <parport#>
4053	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4054			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4055			Format: <mode>
4056
4057	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4058			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4059			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4060			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4061			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4062			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4063			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4064			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4065			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4066			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4067			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4068			are specified on the command line, starting
4069			with parport0.
4070
4071	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4072			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4073			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4074			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4075			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4076			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4077			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4078
4079	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4080			Format: <int>
4081			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4082			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4083			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4084
4085	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4086			Format: <int>
4087			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4088			changes.  Disabled by default.
4089
4090	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4091			Format: <int>
4092			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4093			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4094			Disabled by default.
4095
4096	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4097			Format: <int>
4098			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4099			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4100			Disabled by default.
4101
4102	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4103			Format: <int>
4104			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4105			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4106			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4107			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4108			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4109			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4110			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4111			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4112			all channels.
4113
4114	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4115			Format: <int>
4116			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4117			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4118			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4119
4120	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4121			Format: <int>
4122			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4123			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4124			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4125
4126	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4127			Format: <int>
4128			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4129			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4130			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4131			All modes allowed by default.
4132
4133	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4134			Format: <int>
4135			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4136			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4137
4138	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4139			Format: <int>
4140			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4141			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4142			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4143			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4144			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4145			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4146			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4147			By default all supported ports are probed.
4148
4149	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4150			Format: <int>
4151			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4152			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4153
4154	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4155			Format: <int>
4156			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4157			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4158			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4159			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4160			0 otherwise.
4161
4162	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4163			Format: <int>
4164			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4165			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4166			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4167			allowed by default.
4168
4169	pause_on_oops=
4170			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4171			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4172			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4173
4174	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4175
4176	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4177
4178				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4179				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4180				specified in one of the following formats:
4181
4182				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4183				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4184
4185				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4186				bus/device/function address which may change
4187				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4188				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4189				by other kernel parameters. If the
4190				domain is left unspecified, it is
4191				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4192				to a device through multiple device/function
4193				addresses can be specified after the base
4194				address (this is more robust against
4195				renumbering issues).  The second format
4196				selects devices using IDs from the
4197				configuration space which may match multiple
4198				devices in the system.
4199
4200		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4201				changes anything
4202		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4203		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4204				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4205				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4206		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4207				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4208				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4209				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4210		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4211				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4212				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4213		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4214				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4215				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4216				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4217				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4218				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4219				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4220		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4221				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4222				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4223		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4224				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4225		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4226				Configuration
4227		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4228				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4229				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4230		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4231				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4232				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4233		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4234				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4235				should never be necessary.
4236		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4237				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4238				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4239				when the system masks IRQs.
4240		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4241				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4242				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4243				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4244		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4245				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4246				on several machines and they hang the machine
4247				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4248				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4249				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4250				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4251				motherboard.
4252		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4253				Use with caution as certain devices share
4254				address decoders between ROMs and other
4255				resources.
4256		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4257				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4258				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4259		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4260				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4261		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4262				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4263				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4264				this way.
4265		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4266				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4267				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4268				F0000h-100000h range.
4269		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4270				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4271				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4272				explicitly which ones they are.
4273		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4274				numbers ourselves, overriding
4275				whatever the firmware may have done.
4276		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4277				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4278				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4279				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4280				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4281				IRQ routing is enabled.
4282		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4283				or for PCI scanning.
4284		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4285				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4286				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4287				please report a bug.
4288		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4289				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4290		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4291				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4292				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4293				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4294				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4295		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4296				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4297				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4298				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4299		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4300				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4301				so this option is a temporary workaround
4302				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4303		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4304				handle more pci cards
4305		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4306				This might help on some broken boards which
4307				machine check when some devices' config space
4308				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4309				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4310		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4311				This sorting is done to get a device
4312				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4313		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4314		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4315				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4316		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4317				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4318		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4319				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4320				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4321				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4322				or bus can support) for best performance.
4323		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4324				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4325				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4326				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4327				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4328				that hot-added devices will work.
4329		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4330				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4331				The default value is 256 bytes.
4332		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4333				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4334				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4335		resource_alignment=
4336				Format:
4337				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4338				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4339				aligned memory resources. How to
4340				specify the device is described above.
4341				If <order of align> is not specified,
4342				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4343				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4344				windows need to be expanded.
4345				To specify the alignment for several
4346				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4347				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4348				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4349				for 4096-byte alignment.
4350		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4351				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4352				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4353				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4354				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4355				the default.
4356				off: Turn ECRC off
4357				on: Turn ECRC on.
4358		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4359				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4360				Default size is 256 bytes.
4361		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4362				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4363				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4364		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4365				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4366				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4367		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4368				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4369				MMIO_PREF window.
4370				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4371		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4372				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4373				Default is 1.
4374		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4375				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4376				accommodate resources required by all child
4377				devices.
4378				off: Turn realloc off
4379				on: Turn realloc on
4380		realloc		same as realloc=on
4381		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4382		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4383				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4384		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4385				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4386				port.
4387		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4388				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4389				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4390				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4391				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4392				taints the kernel.
4393		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4394				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4395				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4396				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4397				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4398				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4399				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4400				this removes isolation between devices and
4401				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4402		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4403		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4404		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4405				one PCI domain per PCI function
4406
4407	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4408			Management.
4409		off	Disable ASPM.
4410		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4411			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4412
4413	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4414		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4415			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4416			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4417			also tries to use these services.
4418		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4419				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4420		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4421			hotplug).
4422
4423	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4424		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4425		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4426
4427	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4428		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4429			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4430
4431	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4432
4433	pd_ignore_unused
4434			[PM]
4435			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4436			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4437			for debug and development, but should not be
4438			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4439
4440	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4441			boot time.
4442			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4443			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4444
4445	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4446			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4447			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4448			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4449			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4450			and performance comparison.
4451
4452	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4453			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4454
4455	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4456			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4457			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4458
4459	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4460			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4461			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4462
4463	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4464			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4465			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4466			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4467			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4468			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4469			remains 0.
4470
4471	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4472			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4473
4474	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4475			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4476			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4477			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4478			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4479			possible settings and some assignment information.
4480
4481	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4482			{ off }
4483
4484	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4485			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4486
4487	pnp_reserve_irq=
4488			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4489
4490	pnp_reserve_dma=
4491			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4492
4493	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4494			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4495
4496	pnp_reserve_mem=
4497			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4498			autoconfiguration.
4499			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4500
4501	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4502			Default is 21.
4503			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4504			may be specified.
4505			Format: <port>,<port>....
4506
4507	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4508			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4509			platform machine description specific power_save
4510			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4511			execution priority.
4512
4513	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4514			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4515			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4516			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4517			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4518
4519	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4520			Format: {"off"}
4521			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4522
4523	preempt=	[KNL]
4524			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4525			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4526			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4527			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4528			       can be preempted anytime.
4529
4530	print-fatal-signals=
4531			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4532
4533			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4534			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4535			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4536			coredump - etc.
4537
4538			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4539			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4540
4541			default: off.
4542
4543	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4544			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4545			panics
4546			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4547			default: disabled
4548
4549	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4550			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4551			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4552			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4553			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4554			in order to provide more debug information.
4555			Format: <bool>
4556			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4557
4558	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4559			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4560			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4561			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4562			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4563			Default: ratelimit
4564
4565	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4566			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4567
4568	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4569			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4570			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4571
4572	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4573			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4574			instead using the legacy FADT method
4575
4576	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4577			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4578			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4579				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4580			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4581			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4582				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4583			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4584			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4585				statistical time based profiling.
4586
4587	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4588
4589	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4590			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4591			that).
4592			Format: <bool>
4593
4594	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4595			tracking.
4596			Format: <bool>
4597
4598	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4599			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4600	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4601			per second.
4602	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4603			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4604			(0 = never).
4605	psmouse.resolution=
4606			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4607	psmouse.smartscroll=
4608			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4609			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4610
4611	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4612
4613	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4614			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4615			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4616			system calls and interrupts.
4617
4618			on   - unconditionally enable
4619			off  - unconditionally disable
4620			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4621			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4622
4623			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4624
4625	pty.legacy_count=
4626			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4627			default number.
4628
4629	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4630
4631	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4632
4633	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4634			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4635			invalidate.
4636
4637	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4638			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4639
4640	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4641			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4642
4643	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4644
4645	random.trust_cpu=off
4646			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4647			random number generator (if available) to
4648			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4649
4650	random.trust_bootloader=off
4651			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4652			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4653			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4654
4655	randomize_kstack_offset=
4656			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4657			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4658			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4659			that depend on stack address determinism or
4660			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4661			available on architectures that have defined
4662			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4663			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4664			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4665
4666	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4667
4668		cec_disable	[X86]
4669				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4670				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4671
4672	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4673			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4674			as described above.
4675
4676			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4677			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4678			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4679			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4680			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4681			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4682			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4683			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4684			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4685			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4686			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4687			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4688
4689			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4690			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4691
4692			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4693			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4694			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4695			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4696
4697			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4698			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4699
4700	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4701			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4702			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4703			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4704			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4705			This improves the real-time response for the
4706			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4707			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4708			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4709			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4710
4711	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4712			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4713			process in one batch.
4714
4715	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4716			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4717			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4718			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4719
4720	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4721			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4722			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4723
4724	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4725			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4726			RCU grace-period initialization.
4727
4728	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4729			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4730			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4731			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4732			the rcu_node combining tree.
4733
4734	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4735			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4736			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4737			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4738			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4739
4740			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4741			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4742			to zero.
4743
4744	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4745			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4746			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4747			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4748			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4749
4750	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4751			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4752			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4753			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4754			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4755			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4756			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4757
4758	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4759			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4760			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4761			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4762			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4763			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4764			condition.
4765
4766	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4767			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4768			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4769			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4770
4771	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4772			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4773			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4774			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4775			and maximum value is HZ.
4776
4777	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4778			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4779			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4780			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4781
4782	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4783			Set required age in jiffies for a
4784			given grace period before RCU starts
4785			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4786			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4787			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4788			a value based on the most recent settings
4789			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4790			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4791			This calculated value may be viewed in
4792			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4793			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4794			overwritten.
4795
4796	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4797			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4798			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4799			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4800			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4801			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4802			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4803			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4804			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4805			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4806			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4807			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4808
4809	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4810			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4811			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4812			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4813			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4814			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4815			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4816			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4817
4818			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4819			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4820			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4821			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4822			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4823
4824	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4825			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4826			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4827			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4828			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4829			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4830			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4831			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4832			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4833			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4834			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4835			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4836
4837	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4838			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4839			each group, which defaults to the square root
4840			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4841			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4842			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4843			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4844
4845	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4846			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4847			batch limiting is disabled.
4848
4849	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4850			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4851			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4852
4853	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4854			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4855			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4856			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4857			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4858			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4859			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4860			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4861
4862	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4863			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4864			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4865			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4866			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4867			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4868
4869	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4870			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4871			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4872			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4873			Larger delays increase the probability of
4874			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4875			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4876			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4877
4878	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4879			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4880			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4881			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4882
4883	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4884			Measure performance of asynchronous
4885			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4886
4887	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4888			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4889			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4890			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4891			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4892			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4893
4894	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4895			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4896			grace-period primitives.
4897
4898	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4899			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4900			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4901			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4902			interference.
4903
4904	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4905			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4906
4907	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4908			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4909			If this parameter has the same value as
4910			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4911			and double-argument variants are tested.
4912
4913	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4914			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4915			If this parameter has the same value as
4916			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4917			and double-argument variants are tested.
4918
4919	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4920			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4921
4922	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4923			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4924
4925	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4926			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4927			of allocations and frees.
4928
4929	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4930			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4931			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4932			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4933			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4934			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4935			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4936			a single reader.
4937
4938	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4939			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4940			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4941			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4942
4943	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4944			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4945
4946	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4947			Shut the system down after performance tests
4948			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4949			testing.
4950
4951	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4952			Enable additional printk() statements.
4953
4954	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4955			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4956			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4957			no holdoff.
4958
4959	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4960			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4961			in microseconds.
4962
4963	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4964			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4965			in microseconds.
4966
4967	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4968			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4969			in seconds.
4970
4971	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4972			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4973			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4974			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4975			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4976			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4977			of CPUs to be used.
4978
4979	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4980			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4981			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4982
4983	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4984			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4985			forward-progress tests.
4986
4987	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4988			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4989			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4990			testing.
4991
4992	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4993			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4994			primitives, if available.
4995
4996	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4997			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4998
4999	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5000			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5001			update-side primitives, if available.
5002
5003	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5004			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5005			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5006			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5007			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5008			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5009			they are all non-zero.
5010
5011	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5012			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5013			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5014			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5015
5016	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5017			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5018			This can of course result in splats, and is
5019			intended to test the ability of things like
5020			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5021			such leaks.
5022
5023	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5024			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5025
5026	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5027			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5028			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5029			test, hence the "fake".
5030
5031	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5032			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5033			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5034
5035	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5036			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5037			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5038
5039	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5040			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5041			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5042			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5043			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5044			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5045
5046	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5047			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5048
5049	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5050			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5051
5052	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5053			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5054			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5055
5056	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5057			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5058			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5059			task-exit processing.
5060
5061	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5062			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5063			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5064			is spawned.
5065
5066	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5067			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5068			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5069
5070	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5071			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5072			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5073			during the rcutorture test.
5074
5075	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5076			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5077			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5078
5079	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5080			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5081			warnings, zero to disable.
5082
5083	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5084			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5085			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
5086			to any other stall-related activity.
5087
5088	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5089			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5090
5091	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5092			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5093
5094	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5095			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5096			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5097			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5098			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5099			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5100
5101	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5102			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5103
5104	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5105			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5106			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5107			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5108			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5109
5110	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5111			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5112			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5113			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5114
5115	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5116			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5117
5118	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5119			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5120
5121	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5122			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5123			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5124
5125	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5126			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5127
5128	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5129			Enable additional printk() statements.
5130
5131	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5132			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5133			stall warning.
5134
5135	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5136			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5137
5138	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5139			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5140			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5141			during early boot, that is, during the time
5142			before the init task is spawned.
5143
5144	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5145			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5146			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5147			value is 300 seconds.
5148
5149	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5150			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5151			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5152			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5153			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5154			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5155			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5156			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5157			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5158
5159	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5160			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5161			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5162			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5163			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5164
5165	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5166			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5167			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5168			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5169
5170	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5171			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5172			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5173			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5174			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5175			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5176			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5177
5178	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5179			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5180			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5181			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5182			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5183			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5184			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5185			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5186			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5187
5188	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5189			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5190			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5191			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5192			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5193
5194			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5195			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5196			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5197			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5198			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5199			grace-period processing.
5200
5201	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5202			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5203			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5204			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5205			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5206			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5207			set to the default value of -1.
5208
5209	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5210			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5211			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5212			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5213			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5214			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5215			the default value of -1.
5216
5217	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5218			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5219			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5220			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5221			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5222			for use in testing.
5223
5224	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5225			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5226			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5227			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5228			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5229			but lengthens grace periods.
5230
5231	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5232			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5233			informational messages, which give some indication
5234			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5235			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5236			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5237			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5238			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5239			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5240			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5241
5242	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5243			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5244			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5245			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5246			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5247			the value three, so that the first informational
5248			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5249			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5250			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5251			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5252
5253	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5254			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5255			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5256			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5257			A change in value does not take effect until
5258			the beginning of the next grace period.
5259
5260	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5261			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5262
5263	rdinit=		[KNL]
5264			Format: <full_path>
5265			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5266			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5267
5268	rdrand=		[X86]
5269			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5270				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5271				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5272				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5273				path).
5274
5275	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5276			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5277			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5278			mba, smba, bmec.
5279			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5280				rdt=cmt,!mba
5281
5282	reboot=		[KNL]
5283			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5284				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5285				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5286				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5287				[[,]f[orce]
5288			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5289					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5290					reboot only),
5291			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5292			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5293			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5294					to be used for rebooting.
5295
5296	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5297			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5298			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5299			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5300			interference.
5301
5302	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5303			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5304			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5305			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5306			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5307			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5308			x86 laptops.
5309
5310	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5311			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5312			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5313			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5314
5315	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5316			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5317			the console log.
5318
5319	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5320			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5321			measured in microseconds.
5322
5323	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5324			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5325
5326	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5327			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5328			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5329			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5330			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5331
5332	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5333			Enable additional printk() statements.
5334
5335	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5336			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5337			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5338			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5339			specified.
5340
5341	relax_domain_level=
5342			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5343			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5344
5345	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5346			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5347			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5348			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5349			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5350
5351	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5352			Format: nn[KMG]
5353			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5354			address space.
5355
5356	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5357			during initialization.
5358
5359	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5360			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5361			Format:
5362			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5363
5364	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5365			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5366			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5367			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5368			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5369
5370	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5371			read the resume files
5372
5373	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5374			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5375			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5376
5377	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5378
5379	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5380			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5381			vulnerability.
5382
5383			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5384			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5385			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5386			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5387			that don't.
5388
5389			off          - no mitigation
5390			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5391			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5392				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5393				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5394				       and older without STIBP).
5395			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5396				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5397				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5398				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5399				       on Intel.
5400			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5401				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5402				       the alternative for systems which do not
5403				       have STIBP.
5404			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5405				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5406				       systems.
5407			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5408				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5409				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5410
5411			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5412			time according to the CPU.
5413
5414			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5415
5416	rfkill.default_state=
5417		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5418			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5419		1	Unblocked.
5420
5421	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5422		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5423		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5424			blocked and the previous configuration.
5425		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5426			blocked and everything unblocked.
5427
5428	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5429			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5430
5431	ring3mwait=disable
5432			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5433			CPUs.
5434
5435	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5436
5437	rodata=		[KNL]
5438		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5439		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5440		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5441		        [arm64]
5442
5443	rockchip.usb_uart
5444			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5445			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5446			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5447			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5448
5449	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5450			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5451			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5452			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5453			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5454			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5455			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5456
5457	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5458			mount the root filesystem
5459
5460	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5461
5462	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5463
5464	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5465			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5466			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5467
5468	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5469			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5470			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5471			managed by CMA.
5472
5473	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5474
5475	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5476
5477	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5478			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5479		strict
5480			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5481			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5482			which is faster.
5483
5484	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5485			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5486			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5487			factor of the size of main memory.
5488			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5489			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5490			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5491			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5492			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5493			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5494			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5495
5496	sa1100ir	[NET]
5497			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5498
5499	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5500
5501	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5502			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5503			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5504			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5505
5506	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5507			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5508			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5509			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5510			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5511			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5512			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5513			value.
5514			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5515			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5516				1			64 ms
5517				2			128 ms
5518			and so on.
5519			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5520			Default is 0.
5521
5522	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5523			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5524			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5525			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5526			tests.
5527
5528	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5529			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5530			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5531			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5532			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5533			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5534			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5535
5536	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5537			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5538			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5539			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5540			equal to the number of CPUs.
5541
5542	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5543			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5544			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5545
5546	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5547			Number seconds to wait between successive
5548			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5549			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5550
5551	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5552			The number of seconds following the start of the
5553			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5554			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5555			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5556
5557	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5558			The number of seconds between outputting the
5559			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5560			of zero disables statistics output.
5561
5562	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5563			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5564			to the set of CPUs under test.
5565
5566	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5567			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5568			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5569			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5570			functions.
5571
5572	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5573			Enable additional printk() statements.
5574
5575	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5576			The probability weighting to use for the
5577			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5578			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5579			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5580			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5581			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5582
5583	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5584			The probability weighting to use for the
5585			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5586			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5587
5588	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5589			The probability weighting to use for the
5590			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5591			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5592			Note well that setting a high probability for
5593			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5594			on the system.
5595
5596	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5597			The probability weighting to use for the
5598			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5599			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5600			and weight_many.
5601
5602	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5603			The probability weighting to use for the
5604			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5605			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5606			weight_many.
5607
5608	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5609			The probability weighting to use for the
5610			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5611			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5612			and weight_many.
5613
5614	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5615			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5616			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5617			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5618			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5619			1 -- enable.
5620			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5621			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5622
5623	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5624			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5625			"lsm=" parameter.
5626
5627	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5628			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5629			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5630			0 -- disable.
5631			1 -- enable.
5632			Default value is 1.
5633
5634	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5635
5636	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5637
5638	shapers=	[NET]
5639			Maximal number of shapers.
5640
5641	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5642			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5643			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5644			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5645			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5646			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5647			apic=verbose is specified.
5648			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5649
5650	simeth=		[IA-64]
5651	simscsi=
5652
5653	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5654
5655	slab_merge	[MM]
5656			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5657			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5658
5659	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5660			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5661			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5662			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5663			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5664			layout control by attackers can usually be
5665			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5666			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5667			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5668			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5669			own.
5670			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5671
5672	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5673			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5674			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5675			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5676			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5677
5678	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5679			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5680			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5681			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5682			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5683			last alloc / free. For more information see
5684			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5685
5686	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5687			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5688			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5689			fragmentation. For more information see
5690			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5691
5692	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5693			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5694			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5695			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5696			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5697			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5698			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5699			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5700
5701	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5702			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5703			lower than slub_max_order.
5704			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5705
5706	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5707			Same with slab_merge.
5708
5709	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5710			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5711			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5712
5713	smart2=		[HW]
5714			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5715
5716	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5717			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5718			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5719			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5720			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5721			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5722			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5723			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5724			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5725			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5726
5727	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5728	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5729	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5730	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5731	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5732	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5733	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5734				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5735				1: Fast pin select (default)
5736				2: ATC IRMode
5737
5738	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5739			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5740			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5741			actual hardware limit.
5742			Format: <integer>
5743			Default: -1 (no limit)
5744
5745	softlockup_panic=
5746			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5747			Format: 0 | 1
5748
5749			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5750			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5751			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5752			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5753			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5754
5755	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5756			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5757			backtraces on all cpus.
5758			Format: 0 | 1
5759
5760	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5761			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5762
5763	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5764			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5765			The default operation protects the kernel from
5766			user space attacks.
5767
5768			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5769			       spectre_v2_user=on
5770			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5771			       spectre_v2_user=off
5772			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5773			       vulnerable
5774
5775			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5776			mitigation method at run time according to the
5777			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5778			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5779			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5780
5781			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5782			against user space to user space task attacks.
5783
5784			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5785			the user space protections.
5786
5787			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5788
5789			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5790			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5791			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5792			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5793			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5794			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5795			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5796			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5797
5798			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5799			spectre_v2=auto.
5800
5801	spectre_v2_user=
5802			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5803		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5804		        user space tasks
5805
5806			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5807				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5808
5809			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5810				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5811
5812			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5813				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5814				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5815				  is inherited on fork.
5816
5817			prctl,ibpb
5818				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5819				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5820				  always when switching between different user
5821				  space processes.
5822
5823			seccomp
5824				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5825				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5826				  they explicitly opt out.
5827
5828			seccomp,ibpb
5829				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5830				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5831				  always when switching between different
5832				  user space processes.
5833
5834			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5835				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5836
5837			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5838
5839			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5840			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5841
5842	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5843			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5844			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5845
5846			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5847			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5848			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5849			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5850			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5851			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5852			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5853			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5854
5855			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5856			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5857			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5858			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5859
5860			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5861			Bypass optimization is used.
5862
5863			On x86 the options are:
5864
5865			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5866			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5867			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5868				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5869				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5870				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5871				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5872				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5873			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5874				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5875				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5876				  is inherited on fork.
5877			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5878				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5879
5880			Default mitigations:
5881			X86:	"prctl"
5882
5883			On powerpc the options are:
5884
5885			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5886				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5887				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5888				  exit.
5889			off	- No action.
5890
5891			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5892			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5893
5894	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5895	spia_fio_base=
5896	spia_pedr=
5897	spia_peddr=
5898
5899	split_lock_detect=
5900			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5901
5902			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5903			instructions that access data across cache line
5904			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5905			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5906			bus lock detection.
5907
5908			off	- not enabled
5909
5910			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5911				  about applications triggering the #AC
5912				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5913				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5914				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5915				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5916				  enabled in hardware.
5917
5918			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5919				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5920				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5921				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5922
5923			ratelimit:N -
5924				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5925				  per second for bus lock detection.
5926				  0 < N <= 1000.
5927
5928				  N/A for split lock detection.
5929
5930
5931			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5932			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5933			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5934			mode.
5935
5936			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5937			CPL > 0.
5938
5939	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5940			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5941			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5942
5943			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5944			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5945			number generator.
5946
5947			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5948			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5949			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5950			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5951			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5952
5953			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5954			the following option:
5955
5956			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5957				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5958
5959	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5960			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5961			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5962			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5963			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5964			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5965			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5966			(decide at boot).
5967
5968	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5969			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5970			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5971			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5972
5973				   0:  Never.
5974				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5975				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5976				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5977				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5978
5979			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5980			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5981			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5982
5983	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5984			Specifies how frequently to check for
5985			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5986			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5987			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5988			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5989			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5990			are ignored.
5991
5992	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5993			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5994			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5995			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5996			grace period will be considered for automatic
5997			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5998			expediting.
5999
6000	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6001			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6002			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6003			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6004			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6005			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6006
6007	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6008			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6009			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6010			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6011			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6012			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6013
6014	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6015			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6016			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6017
6018	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6019			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6020			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6021			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6022			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6023			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6024			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6025
6026	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
6027			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6028
6029			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6030			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6031			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6032			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6033
6034			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6035				   for both kernel and userspace
6036			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6037				   for both kernel and userspace
6038			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6039				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6040				   to allow userspace to register its
6041				   interest in being mitigated too.
6042
6043	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6044			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6045			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6046			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6047			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6048			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6049
6050	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6051			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6052			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6053			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6054			to false.
6055
6056	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6057			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6058
6059	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6060			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6061			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6062			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6063			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6064			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6065			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6066
6067	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6068			Format: <num>
6069			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6070			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6071			as the initial boot-console.
6072			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6073
6074	sti_font=	[HW]
6075			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6076
6077	stifb=		[HW]
6078			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6079
6080        strict_sas_size=
6081			[X86]
6082			Format: <bool>
6083			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6084			against the required signal frame size which
6085			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6086			be used to filter out binaries which have
6087			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6088
6089	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6090			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6091			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6092			faults on kernel addresses.
6093
6094	stress_slb	[PPC]
6095			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6096			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6097			on kernel addresses.
6098
6099	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6100	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6101			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6102			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6103			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6104			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6105			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6106			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6107			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6108			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6109			maximum port values.
6110
6111	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6112			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6113			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6114			process in parallel from a single connection.
6115			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6116
6117	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6118			[NFS]
6119			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6120			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6121			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6122			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6123			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6124			NFS server is running.
6125
6126			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6127				    automatically using heuristics
6128			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6129			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6130			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6131				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6132
6133	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6134	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6135			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6136			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6137			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6138			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6139			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6140			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6141
6142	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6143			[SUSPEND]
6144			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6145			mode before resuming the system (see
6146			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6147			is set. Default value is 5.
6148
6149	svm=		[PPC]
6150			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6151			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6152			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6153
6154	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6155			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6156			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6157			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6158				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6159				 to a power of 2.
6160			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6161			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6162			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6163
6164	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6165
6166	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6167			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6168			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6169			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6170			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6171			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6172			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6173			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6174
6175	sysrq_always_enabled
6176			[KNL]
6177			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6178			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6179			Useful for debugging.
6180
6181	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6182			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6183			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6184			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6185			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6186			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6187
6188	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6189
6190	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6191			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6192			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6193			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6194			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6195			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6196			The system is woken from this state using a
6197			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6198
6199	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6200			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6201
6202	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6203			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6204			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6205
6206	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6207			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6208			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6209
6210	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6211			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6212			critical and hot trip points.
6213
6214	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6215			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6216
6217	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6218			-1: disable all passive trip points
6219			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6220			value
6221
6222	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6223			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6224			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6225			0: no polling (default)
6226
6227	threadirqs	[KNL]
6228			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6229			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6230
6231	topology=	[S390]
6232			Format: {off | on}
6233			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6234			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6235			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6236			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6237			Default is on.
6238
6239	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6240			Format: {off}
6241			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6242			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6243			LPAR.
6244
6245	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6246			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6247			until after init has spawned.
6248
6249	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6250			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6251			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6252			very costly operation when many torture tests
6253			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6254			with rotating-rust storage.
6255
6256	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6257			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6258			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6259			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6260
6261	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6262			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6263
6264	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6265
6266	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6267			Format: integer pcr id
6268			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6269			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6270			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6271			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6272			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6273			are saved.
6274
6275	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6276			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6277			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6278			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6279			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6280			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6281
6282			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6283			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6284			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6285			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6286
6287			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6288			to stop the printing of events to console at
6289			late_initcall_sync.
6290
6291			** CAUTION **
6292
6293			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6294			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6295			the system to live lock.
6296
6297	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6298			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6299			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6300			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6301			make the system inoperable.
6302
6303			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6304			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6305
6306	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6307			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6308
6309	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6310			at boot up.
6311			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6312				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6313				depending on the architecture, may not be
6314				in sync between CPUs.
6315			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6316				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6317				but better for some race conditions.
6318			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6319				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6320				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6321				once per event.
6322			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6323			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6324			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6325			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6326				stamps.
6327			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6328			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6329			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6330
6331	trace_event=[event-list]
6332			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6333			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6334			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6335			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6336
6337	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6338			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6339			This will be listed in:
6340
6341				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6342
6343			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6344			via:
6345
6346				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6347
6348			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6349			unique.
6350
6351				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6352
6353			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6354			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6355			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6356
6357	trace_options=[option-list]
6358			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6359			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6360			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6361			to echo the option name into
6362
6363			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6364
6365			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6366			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6367
6368			      trace_options=stacktrace
6369
6370			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6371			section.
6372
6373	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6374			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6375			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6376			filter.
6377
6378			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6379			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6380
6381			For example:
6382
6383			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6384
6385			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6386			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6387			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6388
6389			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6390
6391
6392	traceoff_on_warning
6393			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6394			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6395			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6396			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6397
6398			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6399			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6400			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6401
6402			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6403			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6404
6405	transparent_hugepage=
6406			[KNL]
6407			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6408			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6409			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6410			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6411			for more details.
6412
6413	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6414			Format: <string>
6415			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6416			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6417			sources:
6418			- "tpm"
6419			- "tee"
6420			- "caam"
6421			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6422			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6423			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6424			successfully during iteration.
6425
6426	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6427			Format: <string>
6428			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6429			Can be one of:
6430			- "kernel"
6431			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6432			- "default"
6433			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6434			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6435
6436	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6437			Format: <string>
6438			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6439			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6440			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6441			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6442			virtualized environment.
6443			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6444			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6445			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6446			can add overhead.
6447			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6448			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6449			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6450			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6451			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6452			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6453			acceptable).
6454			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6455			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6456			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6457			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6458			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6459			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6460			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6461			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6462			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6463			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6464
6465	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6466			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6467			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6468			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6469			Format: <unsigned int>
6470
6471	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6472			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6473			support TSX control.
6474
6475			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6476
6477			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6478				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6479				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6480				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6481				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6482				with leaving it enabled.
6483
6484			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6485				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6486				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6487				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6488				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6489				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6490				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6491
6492			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6493				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6494
6495			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6496
6497			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6498			for more details.
6499
6500	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6501			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6502
6503			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6504			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6505			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6506			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6507			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6508			conditions.
6509
6510			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6511			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6512			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6513			access.
6514
6515			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6516			options are:
6517
6518			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6519				     if TSX is enabled.
6520
6521			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6522				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6523				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6524				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6525			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6526
6527			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6528			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6529			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6530			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6531
6532			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6533			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6534			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6535			required and doesn't provide any additional
6536			mitigation.
6537
6538			For details see:
6539			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6540
6541	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6542			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6543			Format:
6544			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6545			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6546
6547	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6548			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6549			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6550			help "seeing" what's going on.
6551
6552	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6553			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6554
6555	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6556			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6557			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6558			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6559			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6560			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6561			reported either.
6562
6563	unknown_nmi_panic
6564			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6565
6566	usbcore.authorized_default=
6567			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6568			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6569			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6570			if device connected to internal port)
6571
6572	usbcore.autosuspend=
6573			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6574			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6575			is the time required before an idle device will be
6576			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6577			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6578
6579	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6580			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6581
6582	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6583			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6584			(default = 65536).
6585
6586	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6587			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6588
6589	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6590			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6591			scheme (default 0 = off).
6592
6593	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6594			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6595			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6596
6597	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6598			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6599			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6600
6601	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6602			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6603			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6604			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6605
6606	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6607
6608	usbcore.quirks=
6609			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6610			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6611			commas. Each entry has the form
6612			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6613			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6614			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6615			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6616			the following meanings:
6617				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6618					descriptors must not be fetched using
6619					a 255-byte read);
6620				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6621					correctly so reset it instead);
6622				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6623					Set-Interface requests);
6624				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6625					handle its Configuration or Interface
6626					strings);
6627				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6628					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6629				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6630					more interface descriptions than the
6631					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6632					talking to these interfaces);
6633				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6634					during initialization, after we read
6635					the device descriptor);
6636				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6637					high speed and super speed interrupt
6638					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6639					require the interval in microframes (1
6640					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6641					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6642					(bInterval-1).
6643					Devices with this quirk report their
6644					bInterval as the result of this
6645					calculation instead of the exponent
6646					variable used in the calculation);
6647				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6648					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6649					requests);
6650				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6651					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6652					remote wakeup capability);
6653				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6654					Power Management);
6655				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6656					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6657					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6658					calculation);
6659				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6660					to be disconnected before suspend to
6661					prevent spurious wakeup);
6662				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6663					pause after every control message);
6664				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6665					delay after resetting its port);
6666			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6667
6668	usbhid.mousepoll=
6669			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6670
6671	usbhid.jspoll=
6672			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6673
6674	usbhid.kbpoll=
6675			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6676
6677	usb-storage.delay_use=
6678			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6679			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6680
6681	usb-storage.quirks=
6682			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6683			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6684			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6685			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6686			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6687			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6688			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6689				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6690					of sense data, not on uas);
6691				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6692					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6693				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6694					device capacity by one sector);
6695				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6696					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6697				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6698					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6699				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6700					command, uas only);
6701				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6702					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6703				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6704					reported device capacity by one
6705					sector if the number is odd);
6706				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6707					device);
6708				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6709					command, uas only);
6710				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6711				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6712					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6713				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6714					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6715					not on uas);
6716				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6717					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6718				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6719					reported by the device, not on uas);
6720				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6721					by default, not on uas);
6722				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6723					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6724				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6725					Logical Unit);
6726				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6727					commands, uas only);
6728				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6729				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6730					medium is write-protected).
6731				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6732					even if the device claims no cache,
6733					not on uas)
6734			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6735
6736	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6737			Format: <int>
6738			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6739				 1 - undefined instruction events
6740				 2 - system calls
6741				 4 - invalid data aborts
6742				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6743				16 - SIGBUS faults
6744			Example: user_debug=31
6745
6746	userpte=
6747			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6748
6749				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6750					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6751					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6752
6753	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6754			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6755
6756			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6757			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6758
6759	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6760			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6761			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6762
6763			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6764			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6765			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6766
6767			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6768			alias for vdso32=0.
6769
6770			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6771			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6772
6773	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6774			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6775
6776	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6777			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6778
6779	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6780			Format: [0|1]
6781			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6782			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6783			level and then send out the event to user space through
6784			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6785			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6786			brightness level.
6787			default: 1
6788
6789	virtio_mmio.device=
6790			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6791
6792				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6793			where:
6794				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6795						like K, M and G)
6796				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6797				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6798						request_irq())
6799				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6800			example:
6801				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6802
6803			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6804
6805	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6806			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
6807			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6808			Use vga=ask for menu.
6809			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6810			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6811
6812	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6813			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6814			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6815			All options are enabled by default, and this
6816			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6817			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6818			debugging features.
6819
6820			Available options are:
6821			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6822			  -	Disable all of the above options
6823
6824	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6825			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6826			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6827			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6828			mapped kernel RAM.
6829
6830	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6831			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6832			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6833
6834	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6835			Format: <command>
6836
6837	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6838			Format: <command>
6839
6840	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6841			Format: <command>
6842
6843	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6844			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6845			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6846			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6847			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6848			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6849			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6850
6851			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
6852			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
6853				    readable.
6854
6855			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6856			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6857				    page is not readable.
6858
6859			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6860			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6861			            might break your system.
6862
6863	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6864			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6865			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6866
6867	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6868			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6869			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6870			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6871
6872	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6873			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6874			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6875			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6876			ranging from 0-255.
6877
6878	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6879			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6880			Change the default green palette of the console.
6881			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6882			ranging from 0-255.
6883
6884	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6885			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6886			Change the default red palette of the console.
6887			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6888			ranging from 0-255.
6889
6890	vt.default_utf8=
6891			[VT]
6892			Format=<0|1>
6893			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6894			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6895			newly opened terminals.
6896
6897	vt.global_cursor_default=
6898			[VT]
6899			Format=<-1|0|1>
6900			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6901			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6902			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6903			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6904			cursors, 1 will display them.
6905
6906	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6907			Default: 2 = green.
6908
6909	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6910			Default: 3 = cyan.
6911
6912	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6913			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6914			or other driver-specific files in the
6915			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6916
6917	watchdog_thresh=
6918			[KNL]
6919			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6920			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6921			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6922			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6923			seconds.
6924
6925	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6926			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6927			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6928			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6929			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6930			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6931			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6932			corresponding sysfs file.
6933
6934	workqueue.disable_numa
6935			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6936			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6937			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6938			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6939			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6940			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6941			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6942
6943	workqueue.power_efficient
6944			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6945			they show better performance thanks to cache
6946			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6947			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6948
6949			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6950			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6951			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6952			power usage at the cost of small performance
6953			overhead.
6954
6955			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6956			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6957
6958	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6959			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6960			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6961			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6962			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6963			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6964			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6965			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6966			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6967			impacted.
6968
6969	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
6970			ioremap_wc().
6971
6972			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
6973			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
6974
6975	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6976			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6977			supporting x2apic.
6978
6979	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6980			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6981			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6982			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6983			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6984			domains.
6985
6986	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6987			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6988			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6989			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6990			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6991			nics -- unplug network devices
6992			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6993			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6994				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6995				the unplug protocol
6996			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6997
6998	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6999			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7000			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7001
7002	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
7003			Format: <bool>
7004			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7005			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7006			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7007
7008	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
7009			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7010			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7011			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7012
7013	xen_nopv	[X86]
7014			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7015			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7016			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7017			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7018
7019	xen_no_vector_callback
7020			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7021			event channel interrupts.
7022
7023	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7024			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7025			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7026			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7027			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7028
7029	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
7030			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7031			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7032			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7033			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7034			more timer interrupts.
7035
7036	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7037			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7038			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7039			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7040			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7041			max. Default is 180.
7042
7043	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7044			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7045			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7046
7047	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7048			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7049			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7050
7051	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7052			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7053			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7054			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7055			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7056			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7057
7058	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7059			Format:
7060			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7061
7062	xive=		[PPC]
7063			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7064			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7065			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7066
7067			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7068				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7069				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7070
7071	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7072			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7073			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7074			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7075			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7076
7077	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7078			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7079			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7080			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7081
7082	xmon		[PPC]
7083			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7084			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7085			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7086			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7087				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7088			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7089				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7090				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7091				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7092			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7093				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7094				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7095				can be written using xmon commands.
7096			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7097				memory, and other data can't be written using
7098				xmon commands.
7099			off	xmon is disabled.
7100
7101