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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity while booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	carrier_timeout=
465			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467			it waits 120 seconds.
468
469	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471			trust validation.
472			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
473
474	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478			others).
479
480	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
481			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
482
483	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
484			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
485			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487			  a single hierarchy
488			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489			  subsystem
490			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
493
494	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
497			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
499			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501			all v1 hierarchies.
502
503	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504			Format: <string>
505			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
506			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
507
508	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509			Format: { "0" | "1" }
510			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
511			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512				any implied execute protection).
513			1 -- check protection requested by application.
514			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
515			Value can be changed at runtime via
516				/selinux/checkreqprot.
517
518	cio_ignore=	[S390]
519			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
520	clk_ignore_unused
521			[CLK]
522			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529			platform with proper driver support.  For more
530			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
531
532	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
533			[Deprecated]
534			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
535			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
536			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
537			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
539	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
540			Format: <string>
541			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542			with the name specified.
543			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544			the platform:
545			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546			[ACPI] acpi_pm
547			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
549			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
550				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551			[MIPS] MIPS
552			[PARISC] cr16
553			[S390] tod
554			[SH] SuperH
555			[SPARC64] tick
556			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
558	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559			[ARM,ARM64]
560			Format: <bool>
561			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564			systems.
565
566	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
568			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
569			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
570			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571			ones should be.
572			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573			or using the feature without checking anything
574			will still see it. This just prevents it from
575			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577			some critical bits.
578
579	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580			[ARM,X86,KNL]
581			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583			placement constraint by the physical address range of
584			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585			altogether. For more information, see
586			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
588	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
591			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592			a hypervisor.
593			Default: yes
594
595	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
596			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
597			allocations, by default set to 256K.
598
599	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
600			Format:
601			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
602
603	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
606	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
607			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
608			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
611	conmode=
612
613	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617		ttyS<n>[,options]
618		ttyUSB0[,options]
619			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
620			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
624
625			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
626			information.  See
627			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628			alternative.
629
630		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
632		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
633		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
635			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
637			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
639			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
643			the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
645		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
647
648		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
650			console=brl,ttyS0
651		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
653	console_msg_format=
654			[KNL] Change console messages format
655		default
656			By default we print messages on consoles in
657			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659			`printk_time' param).
660		syslog
661			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665			from /proc/kmsg.
666
667	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
668			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
669			Defaults to 0.
670
671	coredump_filter=
672			[KNL] Change the default value for
673			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
676	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677			[ARM,ARM64]
678			Format: <bool>
679			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680			0: default value, disable debugging
681			1: enable debugging at boot time
682
683	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
684			disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
686	cpuidle.governor=
687			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
689	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
690			disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
692	cpu_init_udelay=N
693			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
695			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696			Default: 10000
697
698	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
699			Format:
700			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
701
702	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
707			is selected automatically.
708			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710			hasn't been specified.
711			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
712
713	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715			in the running system. The syntax of range is
716			start-[end] where start and end are both
717			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
718			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
719
720	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
721			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725			available.
726			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
727	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
730			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
732			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
736			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737			for second kernel instead.
738			0: to disable low allocation.
739			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
740			or memory reserved is below 4G.
741
742	cryptomgr.notests
743			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
744
745	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
746			Format: <dma>
747
748	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
749			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
750
751	dasd=		[HW,NET]
752			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755			(one device per port)
756			Format: <port#>,<type>
757			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
758
759	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
760			time. See
761			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
762			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
763
764	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
766	debug_boot_weak_hash
767			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
770			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
774	debug_locks_verbose=
775			[KNL] verbose self-tests
776			Format=<0|1>
777			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778			self-tests.
779			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781			only useful to kernel developers.
782
783	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
784
785	no_debug_objects
786			[KNL] Disable object debugging
787
788	debug_guardpage_minorder=
789			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
796			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803			bypassed) which are not detectable by
804			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805			tracking down these problems.
806
807	debug_pagealloc=
808			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
809			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
810			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
811			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
812			on: enable the feature
813
814	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
816	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
817			Format: <area>[,<node>]
818			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
820	default_hugepagesz=
821			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826			if not specified.
827
828	deferred_probe_timeout=
829			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835			retrying.
836
837	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
838			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
839
840	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
841			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
842			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
843			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
844			miss to occur.
845
846	disable=	[IPV6]
847			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
848
849	hardened_usercopy=
850                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
851                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
852                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
853                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
854                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
855                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
856                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
857                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
858                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
859
860	disable_radix	[PPC]
861			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
862
863	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
864			Format: <int>
865			The number of initial APIC ID for the
866			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
867			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
868			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
869			causing system reset or hang due to sending
870			INIT from AP to BSP.
871
872	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
873			Format: <bool>
874			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
875			The feature only exists starting from
876			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
877
878	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
879			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
880			to workaround buggy firmware.
881
882	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
883			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
884
885	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
886			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
887			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
888			entry later. This parameter disables that.
889
890	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
891			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
892			memory out of your available memory pool based on
893			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
894			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
895
896	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
897			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
898			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
899
900	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
901
902	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
903			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
904
905	dma_debug_entries=<number>
906			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
907			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
908			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
909			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
910			architectural default is too low.
911
912	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
913			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
914			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
915			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
916			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
917			driver later using sysfs.
918
919	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
920			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
921			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
922
923	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
924			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
925			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
926			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
927			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
928			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
929			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
930			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
931			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
932			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
933			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
934			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
935			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
936			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
937			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
938			data set with no connector name will be used for
939			any connectors not explicitly specified.
940
941	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
942
943	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
944			Format: {"off" | "known"}
945			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
946			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
947			exists).
948			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
949			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
950			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
951
952	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
953			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
954			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
955			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
956
957	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
958	module.dyndbg[="val"]
959			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
960			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
961			for details.
962
963	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
964			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
965			information about the feature.
966
967	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
968			in some Intel CPUs.
969
970	module.async_probe [KNL]
971			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
972
973	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
974			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
975			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
976			which are not unmapped.
977
978	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
979
980			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
981			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
982			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
983
984			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
985			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
986
987		cdns,<addr>[,options]
988			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
989			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
990			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
991			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
992			configured.
993
994		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
995		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
996		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
997		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
998		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
999			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1000			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1001			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1002			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1003			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1004			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1005			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1006			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1007
1008		pl011,<addr>
1009		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1010			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1011			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1012			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1014			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1015			the device registers.
1016
1017		meson,<addr>
1018			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1019			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1020			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1021			supported.
1022
1023		msm_serial,<addr>
1024			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1025			port at the specified address. The serial port
1026			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027			yet supported.
1028
1029		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1030			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1031			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1032			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1033			yet supported.
1034
1035		owl,<addr>
1036			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1037			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1038			specified address. The serial port must already be
1039			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1040
1041		rda,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1043			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1044			specified address. The serial port must already be
1045			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1046
1047		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1048
1049		s3c2410,<addr>
1050		s3c2412,<addr>
1051		s3c2440,<addr>
1052		s3c6400,<addr>
1053		s5pv210,<addr>
1054		exynos4210,<addr>
1055			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1056			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1057			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1058			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1059			Options are not yet supported.
1060
1061		lantiq,<addr>
1062			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1063			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1064			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1065			yet supported.
1066
1067		lpuart,<addr>
1068		lpuart32,<addr>
1069			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1070			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1071			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1072			port must already be setup and configured.
1073
1074		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1075			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1076			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1077			address. The serial port must already be setup
1078			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1079
1080		qcom_geni,<addr>
1081			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1082			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1083			specified address. The serial port must already be
1084			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1085
1086		efifb,[options]
1087			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1088			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1089			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1090			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1091			mapped with the correct attributes.
1092
1093	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1094			earlyprintk=vga
1095			earlyprintk=sclp
1096			earlyprintk=xen
1097			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1098			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1099			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1100			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1101			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1102			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1103
1104			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1105			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1106			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1107
1108			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1109			takes over.
1110
1111			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1112			be used at a time.
1113
1114			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1115			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1116			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1117			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1118				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1119			You can find the port for a given device in
1120			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1121				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1122
1123			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1124			very good.
1125
1126			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1127			the real console.
1128
1129			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1130
1131			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1132
1133			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1134			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1135			UART class.
1136
1137	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1138			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1139			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1140			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1141			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1142			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1143			default: on.
1144
1145	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1146			ekgdboc=kbd
1147
1148			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1149			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1150
1151	edd=		[EDD]
1152			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1153
1154	efi=		[EFI]
1155			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1156			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1157			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1158			default.
1159			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1160			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1161			firmware implementations.
1162			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1163			debug: enable misc debug output
1164
1165	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1166			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1167			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1168			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1169			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1170
1171	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1172			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1173			updating original EFI memory map.
1174			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1175			from ss to ss+nn.
1176			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1177			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1178			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1179			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1180
1181			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1182			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1183			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1184			doesn't support it.
1185
1186	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1187			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1188			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1189			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1190			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1191
1192
1193	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1194			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1195
1196	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1197			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1198			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1199
1200	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1201			Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1202			See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst,
1203			Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and
1204			Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details.
1205
1206	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1207			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1208			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1209			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1210			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1211
1212	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1213			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1214			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1215			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1216
1217	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1218			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1219			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1220			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1221			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1222
1223	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1224			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1225			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1226			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1227			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1228			Default value is 0.
1229			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1230
1231	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1232			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1233			support.
1234
1235	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1236			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1237			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1238
1239	evm=		[EVM]
1240			Format: { "fix" }
1241			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1242			current integrity status.
1243
1244	failslab=
1245	fail_page_alloc=
1246	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1247			General fault injection mechanism.
1248			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1249			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1250
1251	floppy=		[HW]
1252			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1253
1254	force_pal_cache_flush
1255			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1256			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1257			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1258			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1259
1260	forcepae	[X86-32]
1261			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1262			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1263			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1264			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1265			and may cause unknown problems.
1266
1267	ftrace=[tracer]
1268			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1269			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1270			boot debugging.
1271
1272	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1273			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1274			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1275			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1276			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1277			oops.
1278
1279	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1280			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1281			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1282			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1283			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1284			tracing directory.
1285
1286	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1287			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1288			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1289			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1290			tracing directory.
1291
1292	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1293			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1294			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1295			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1296			that can be changed at run time by the
1297			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1298
1299	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1300			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1301			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1302			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1303			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1304
1305	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1306			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1307			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1308			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1309			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1310
1311	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1312			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1313			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1314			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1315			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1316
1317	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1318
1319	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1320			Format: off | on
1321			default: on
1322
1323	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1324			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1325			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1326			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1327			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1328
1329	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1330			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1331			android emulator
1332
1333	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1334			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1335			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1336			GPT to be used instead.
1337
1338	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1339			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1340			Format: 0 | 1
1341			Default: 0
1342	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1343			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344			Format: 0 | 1
1345			Default: 0
1346	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1347			Format: 0 | 1
1348			Default: 0
1349	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1350			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1351			Default: 1024
1352	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1353			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1354			Default: 1024
1355
1356	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1357			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1358			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1359
1360	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1361			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1362			backtraces on all cpus.
1363			Format: <integer>
1364
1365	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1366			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1367			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1368			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1369
1370	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1371
1372	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1373			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1374
1375	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1376			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1377			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1378			logic will be disabled.
1379
1380	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1381			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1382			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1383			size on bigger boxes.
1384
1385	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1386			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1387			Default: "on"
1388
1389	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1390
1391	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1392			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1393				verbose }
1394			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1395			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1396				VIA, nVidia)
1397			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1398
1399	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1400			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1401
1402	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1403	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1404			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1405			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1406			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1407			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1408			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1409
1410	hung_task_panic=
1411			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1412			Format: <integer>
1413
1414			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1415			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1416			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1417			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1418			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1419
1420	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1421				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1422	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1423				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1424				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1425
1426	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1427				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1428				      guest on lock contention.
1429
1430	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1431			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1432			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1433			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1434			the real console.
1435
1436	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1437				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1438				registered from board initialization code.
1439				Format:
1440				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1441
1442	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1443	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1444			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1445			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1446			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1447	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1448	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1449			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1450			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1451	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1452	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1453	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1454			     for the AUX port
1455	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1456			     controller
1457	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1458			     controllers
1459	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1460	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1461			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1462			     transitions, or never reset
1463			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1464			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1465			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1466			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1467			architectures force reset to be always executed
1468	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1469	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1470
1471	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1472
1473	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1474			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1475			hardware.
1476	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1477			does not match list of supported models.
1478	i8k.power_status
1479			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1480			(disabled by default)
1481	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1482			capability is set.
1483
1484	i915.invert_brightness=
1485			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1486			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1487			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1488			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1489			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1490			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1491			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1492			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1493			value switches the backlight off.
1494			-1 -- never invert brightness
1495			 0 -- machine default
1496			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1497
1498	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1499			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1500
1501	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1502			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1503			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1504			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1505			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1506
1507	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1508			Format: <int>
1509			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1510			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1511			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1512			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1513			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1514			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1515			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1516			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1517			was 0x3.
1518
1519	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1520			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1521
1522	idle=		[X86]
1523			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1524			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1525			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1526			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1527			Not recommended.
1528			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1529			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1530			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1531
1532	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1533			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1534			Default: strict
1535
1536			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1537			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1538			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1539			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1540			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1541			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1542			encoding mode.
1543
1544			Available settings are as follows:
1545			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1546				supported by the FPU
1547			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1548				by the FPU
1549			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1550				by the FPU
1551			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1552				supported by the FPU
1553
1554			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1555			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1556			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1557			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1558			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1559			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1560			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1561			MIPS64 CPUs.
1562
1563			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1564			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1565			except where unsupported by hardware.
1566
1567	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1568			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1569			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1570			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1571			could change it dynamically, usually by
1572			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1573
1574	ignore_rlimit_data
1575			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1576			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1577			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1578
1579	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1580			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1581
1582	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1583			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1584			default: "enforce"
1585
1586	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1587			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1588			owned by uid=0.
1589
1590	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1591			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1592			measurements, instead of host native format.
1593
1594	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1595			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1596				   | sha512 | ... }
1597			default: "sha1"
1598
1599			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1600			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1601
1602	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1603			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1604			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1605				 fail_securely"
1606
1607			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1608			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1609			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1610			uid=0.
1611
1612			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1613			all files owned by root.
1614
1615			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1616			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1617			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1618
1619			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1620			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1621			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1622			flag.
1623
1624	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1625			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1626			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1627			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1628			opened for read by uid=0.
1629
1630	ima_template=	[IMA]
1631			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1632			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1633			Default: "ima-ng"
1634
1635	ima_template_fmt=
1636			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1637			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1638
1639	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1640			Format: <min_file_size>
1641			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1642			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1643
1644			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1645			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1646			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1647
1648	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1649			Format: <bufsize>
1650			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1651
1652			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1653			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1654			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1655
1656	init=		[KNL]
1657			Format: <full_path>
1658			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1659			process.
1660
1661	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1662			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1663			startup.
1664
1665	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1666			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1667			modules and initcalls.
1668
1669	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1670
1671	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1672			zeroes.
1673			Format: 0 | 1
1674			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1675
1676	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1677			Format: 0 | 1
1678			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1679
1680	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1681			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1682			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1683			override in debugfs after boot.
1684
1685	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1686			Format: <irq>
1687
1688	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1689
1690	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1691			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1693			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1694
1695	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1696		on
1697			Enable intel iommu driver.
1698		off
1699			Disable intel iommu driver.
1700		igfx_off [Default Off]
1701			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1702			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1703			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1704			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1705			DMA.
1706		forcedac [x86_64]
1707			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1708			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1709			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1710			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1711			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1712			then look in the higher range.
1713		strict [Default Off]
1714			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1715			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1716			to batching them for performance.
1717		sp_off [Default Off]
1718			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1719			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1720			not be supported.
1721		sm_on [Default Off]
1722			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1723			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1724			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1725			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1726		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1727			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1728			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1729			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1730			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1731			mapping is enabled.
1732			Note that using this option lowers the security
1733			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1734			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1735
1736	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1737			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1738			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1739
1740	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1741			disable
1742			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1743			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1744			passive
1745			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1746			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1747			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1748			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1749			  feature.
1750			force
1751			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1752			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1753			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1754			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1755			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1756			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1757			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1758			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1759			no_hwp
1760			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1761			  if available.
1762			hwp_only
1763			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1764			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1765			support_acpi_ppc
1766			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1767			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1768			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1769			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1770			per_cpu_perf_limits
1771			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1772			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1773
1774	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1775			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1776			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1777			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1778			no_x2apic_optout
1779				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1780			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1781
1782	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1783		strict	regions from userspace.
1784		relaxed
1785
1786	iommu=		[x86]
1787		off
1788		force
1789		noforce
1790		biomerge
1791		panic
1792		nopanic
1793		merge
1794		nomerge
1795		soft
1796		pt		[x86]
1797		nopt		[x86]
1798		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1799			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1800
1801	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1802			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1803			0 - Lazy mode.
1804			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1805			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1806			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1807			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1808			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1809			1 - Strict mode (default).
1810			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1811			  synchronously.
1812
1813	iommu.passthrough=
1814			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1815			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1816			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1817			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1818			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1819
1820	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1821			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1822			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1823
1824	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1825		0x80
1826			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1827		0xed
1828			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1829		udelay
1830			Simple two microseconds delay
1831		none
1832			No delay
1833
1834	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1835			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1836
1837	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1838			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1839
1840	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1841			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1842
1843	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1844			[ARM, ARM64]
1845			Format: <bool>
1846			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1847			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1848			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1849
1850	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1851			[ARM, ARM64]
1852			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1853			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1854			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1855			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1856			LPIs.
1857
1858	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1859			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1860			requires the kernel to be built with
1861			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1862
1863	irqfixup	[HW]
1864			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1865			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1866			firmware running.
1867
1868	irqpoll		[HW]
1869			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1870			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1871			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1872			firmware running.
1873
1874	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1875			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1876
1877	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1878			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1879			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1880
1881			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1882			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1883
1884			nohz
1885			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1886
1887			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1888			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1889			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1890			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1891			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1892
1893			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1894			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1895			  be configured manually after bootup.
1896
1897			domain
1898			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1899			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1900			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1901			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1902			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1903			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1904			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1905			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1906
1907			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1908			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1909			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1910			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1911
1912			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1913
1914
1915
1916	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1917
1918	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1919			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1920			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1921			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1922			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1923				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1924
1925	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1926			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1927			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1928			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1929			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1930				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1931
1932	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1933			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1934			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1935			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1936			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1937				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1938
1939	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1940			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1941
1942	nokaslr		[KNL]
1943			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1944			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1945			Layout Randomization).
1946
1947	kasan_multi_shot
1948			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1949			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1950			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1951			invalid access.
1952
1953	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1954
1955	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1956			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1957			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1958			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1959			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1960			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1961			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1962			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1963			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1964			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1965
1966			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1967			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1968			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1969			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1970			zone if it does not.
1971
1972			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1973			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1974			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1975			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1976			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1977			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1978			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1979
1980	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1981			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1982			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1983			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1984			optional and is the number seconds in between
1985			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1986			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1987			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1988			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1989			the kernel debugger.
1990
1991	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1992			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1993			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1994			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1995			 keyboard only format: kbd
1996			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1997			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1998			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1999			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2000
2001	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2002			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2003
2004	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2005			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2006			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2007
2008	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2009			Valid arguments: on, off
2010			Default: on
2011			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2012			the default is off.
2013
2014	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2015			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2016			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2017			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2018			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2019			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2020			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2021
2022			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2023
2024			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2025			Boot Parameter" section.
2026
2027	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2028			and kernel address spaces.
2029			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2030			0: force disabled
2031			1: force enabled
2032
2033	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2034			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2035
2036	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2037				   Default is false (don't support).
2038
2039	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2040			KVM MMU at runtime.
2041			Default is 0 (off)
2042
2043	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2044			Default is 1 (enabled)
2045
2046	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2047			for all guests.
2048			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2049
2050	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2051			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2052			system registers
2053
2054	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2055			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2056			system registers
2057
2058	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2059			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2060			system registers
2061
2062	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2063			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2064			LPIs.
2065
2066	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2067			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2068			Default is 1 (enabled)
2069
2070	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2071			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2072			Default is 0 (disabled)
2073
2074	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2075			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2076			Default is 1 (enabled)
2077
2078	kvm-intel.nested=
2079			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2080			Default is 0 (disabled)
2081
2082	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2083			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2084			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2085			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2086
2087	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2088			CVE-2018-3620.
2089
2090			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2091
2092			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2093			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2094				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2095			never:	Disables the mitigation
2096
2097			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2098
2099	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2100			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2101			Default is 1 (enabled)
2102
2103	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2104			      affected CPUs
2105
2106			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2107			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2108
2109			full
2110				Provides all available mitigations for the
2111				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2112				enables all mitigations in the
2113				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2114
2115				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2116				sysfs interface is still possible after
2117				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2118				when the first VM is started in a
2119				potentially insecure configuration,
2120				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2121
2122			full,force
2123				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2124				flush runtime control. Implies the
2125				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2126				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2127
2128			flush
2129				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2130				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2131				L1D flush.
2132
2133				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2134				sysfs interface is still possible after
2135				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2136				when the first VM is started in a
2137				potentially insecure configuration,
2138				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2139
2140			flush,nosmt
2141
2142				Disables SMT and enables the default
2143				hypervisor mitigation.
2144
2145				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2146				sysfs interface is still possible after
2147				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2148				when the first VM is started in a
2149				potentially insecure configuration,
2150				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2151
2152			flush,nowarn
2153				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2154				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2155				insecure configuration.
2156
2157			off
2158				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2159				emit any warnings.
2160				It also drops the swap size and available
2161				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2162				bare metal.
2163
2164			Default is 'flush'.
2165
2166			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2167
2168	l2cr=		[PPC]
2169
2170	l3cr=		[PPC]
2171
2172	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2173			disabled it.
2174
2175	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2176			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2177			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2178
2179	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2180			in C2 power state.
2181
2182	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2183			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2184			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2185			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2186			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2187			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2188			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2189
2190	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2191			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2192			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2193
2194	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2195			when set.
2196			Format: <int>
2197
2198	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2199			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2200			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2201			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2202			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2203			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2204			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2205			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2206
2207			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2208			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2209			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2210			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2211			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2212			host link and device attached to it.
2213
2214			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2215			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2216			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2217			The following configurations can be forced.
2218
2219			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2220			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2221
2222			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2223
2224			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2225			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2226			  allowed.
2227
2228			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2229
2230			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2231
2232			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2233			  and both resets.
2234
2235			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2236			  hot-unplug link recovery
2237
2238			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2239
2240			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2241
2242			* disable: Disable this device.
2243
2244			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2245			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2246
2247	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2248
2249	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2250			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2251
2252	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2253			Format: <integer>
2254
2255	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2256			Format: <integer>
2257
2258	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2259			Format: <integer>
2260
2261	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2262			Format: <integer>
2263
2264	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2265			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2266			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2267			number of online CPUs.
2268
2269	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2270			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2271
2272	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2273			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2274
2275	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2276			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2277			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2278
2279	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2280			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2281			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2282			mode during the locktorture test.
2283
2284	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2285			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2286			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2287
2288	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2289			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2290
2291	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2292			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2293			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2294			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2295			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2296			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2297
2298	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2299			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2300
2301	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2302			Enable additional printk() statements.
2303
2304	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2305			Format: <irq>
2306
2307	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2308			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2309			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2310			loglevels are defined as follows:
2311
2312			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2313			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2314			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2315			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2316			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2317			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2318			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2319			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2320
2321	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2322			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2323			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2324			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2325			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2326			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2327			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2328
2329	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2330			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2331			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2332			kernel boot problems.
2333
2334	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2335	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2336	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2337	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2338				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2339				attached printers to be reset. Using
2340				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2341				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2342				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2343				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2344				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2345				port specification list means that device IDs
2346				from each port should be examined, to see if
2347				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2348				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2349				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2350
2351	lpj=n		[KNL]
2352			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2353			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2354			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2355			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2356			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2357			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2358			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2359			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2360			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2361			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2362			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2363			hardware.
2364
2365	ltpc=		[NET]
2366			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2367
2368	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2369
2370	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2371			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2372			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2373
2374	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2375			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2376			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2377
2378	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2379			 yeeloong laptop.
2380			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2381
2382	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2383			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2384
2385	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2386			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2387			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2388			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2389			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2390			only takes effect during system bootup.
2391			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2392			which also disables the IO APIC.
2393
2394	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2395	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2396			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2397			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2398			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2399			/dev/loop-control interface.
2400
2401	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2402
2403	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2404
2405	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2406			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2407
2408	mdacon=		[MDA]
2409			Format: <first>,<last>
2410			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2411
2412	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2413			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2414			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2415
2416			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2417			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2418			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2419
2420			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2421			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2422			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2423			not have direct access.
2424
2425			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2426			options are:
2427
2428			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2429			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2430				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2431			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2432
2433			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2434			mds=full.
2435
2436			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2437
2438	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2439			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2440			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2441			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2442			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2443			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2444			belonging to unused RAM.
2445
2446	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2447			memory.
2448
2449	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2450			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2451			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2452
2453	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2454			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2455			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2456			set according to the
2457			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2458			option.
2459			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2460
2461	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2462			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2463			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2464			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2465			option description.
2466
2467	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2468			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2469			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2470			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2471			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2472			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2473			comma delimited.
2474			Example:
2475				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2476
2477	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2478			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2479			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2480
2481	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2482			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2483			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2484			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2485			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2486			         or
2487			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2488			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2489			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2490			will be eaten.
2491
2492	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2493			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2494			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2495			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2496			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2497
2498	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2499			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2500			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2501			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2502			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2503			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2504			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2505			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2506
2507	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2508			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2509			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2510			Setting this option will scan the memory
2511			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2512			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2513			from using the memory being corrupted.
2514			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2515			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2516			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2517			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2518
2519	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2520			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2521			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2522			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2523			corruption in more or less memory.
2524
2525	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2526			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2527			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2528			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2529
2530	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2531			Format: <integer>
2532			default : 0 <disable>
2533			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2534			performed. Each pass selects another test
2535			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2536			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2537			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2538			regions that are detected.
2539
2540	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2541			Valid arguments: on, off
2542			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2543			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2544			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2545			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2546			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2547
2548			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2549			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2550
2551	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2552			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2553			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2554			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2555			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2556
2557	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2558			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2559
2560	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2561			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2562			platforms.
2563
2564	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2565			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2566			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2567			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2568
2569	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2570
2571	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2572			physical address is ignored.
2573
2574	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2575			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2576			Default: "0tb"
2577			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2578			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2579			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2580			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2581			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2582			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2583			unconfigured.
2584			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2585			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2586			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2587			VGA shield.
2588			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2589			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2590			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2591			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2592			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2593			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2594
2595	mitigations=
2596			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2597			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2598			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2599			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2600
2601			off
2602				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2603				improves system performance, but it may also
2604				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2605				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2606					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2607					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2608					       nobp=0 [S390]
2609					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2610					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2611					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2612					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2613					       l1tf=off [X86]
2614					       mds=off [X86]
2615
2616			auto (default)
2617				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2618				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2619				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2620				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2621				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2622				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2623
2624			auto,nosmt
2625				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2626				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2627				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2628				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2629					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2630
2631	mminit_loglevel=
2632			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2633			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2634			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2635			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2636			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2637			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2638
2639	module.sig_enforce
2640			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2641			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2642			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2643			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2644
2645	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2646			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2647
2648	mousedev.tap_time=
2649			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2650			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2651			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2652			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2653			Format: <msecs>
2654	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2655			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2656	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2657			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2658
2659	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2660			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2661			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2662			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2663			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2664			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2665			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2666			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2667			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2668			is not too small.
2669
2670	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2671			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2672			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2673			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2674			allocations. Use with caution!
2675
2676	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2677			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2678
2679	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2680			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2681
2682	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2683			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2684
2685	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2686			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2687			at a time.
2688
2689	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2690
2691			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2692
2693			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2694				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2695			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2696				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2697				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2698
2699	mtdset=		[ARM]
2700			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2701
2702			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2703
2704	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2705			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2706			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2707
2708	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2709			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2710			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2711
2712	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2713			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2714			Default is 1.
2715			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2716			using up MTRRs.
2717
2718	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2719			Format: <integer>
2720			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2721			Default : 1
2722			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2723			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2724
2725	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2726
2727	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2728			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2729			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2730			something different and driver-specific.
2731			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2732			file if at all.
2733
2734	nf_conntrack.acct=
2735			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2736			0 to disable accounting
2737			1 to enable accounting
2738			Default value is 0.
2739
2740	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2741			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2742
2743	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2744			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2745
2746	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2747			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2748
2749	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2750			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2751			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2752			requests.
2753
2754	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2755			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2756			channel should listen.
2757
2758	nfs.cache_getent=
2759			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2760			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2761
2762	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2763			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2764			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2765
2766	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2767			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2768			entries.
2769
2770	nfs.enable_ino64=
2771			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2772			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2773			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2774			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2775			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2776
2777	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2778			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2779			slots the client will assign to the callback
2780			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2781			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2782			a particular server.
2783
2784	nfs.max_session_slots=
2785			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2786			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2787			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2788			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2789			Note that there is little point in setting this
2790			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2791
2792	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2793			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2794			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2795			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2796			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2797			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2798			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2799			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2800			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2801			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2802			back to using the idmapper.
2803			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2804	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2805			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2806			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2807			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2808			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2809
2810	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2811			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2812			information in exchange_id requests.
2813			If zero, no implementation identification information
2814			will be sent.
2815			The default is to send the implementation identification
2816			information.
2817
2818	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2819			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2820			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2821			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2822			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2823			after the locks are lost.
2824			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2825			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2826			parameter to '1'.
2827			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2828			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2829
2830	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2831			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2832			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2833
2834			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2835			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2836			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2837			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2838
2839	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2840			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2841			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2842			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2843			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2844			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2845
2846	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2847			when a NMI is triggered.
2848			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2849
2850	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2851			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2852			Valid num: 0 or 1
2853			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2854			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2855			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2856			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2857			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2858			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2859			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2860			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2861			need the box quickly up again.
2862
2863			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2864			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2865
2866	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2867			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2868			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2869			waits 4 seconds.
2870
2871	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2872			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2873			is present.
2874
2875	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2876			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2877
2878	no_console_suspend
2879			[HW] Never suspend the console
2880			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2881			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2882			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2883			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2884			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2885			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2886			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2887			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2888			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2889			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2890			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2891			turn on/off it dynamically.
2892
2893	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
2894			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2895			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2896			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
2897			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2898			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
2899			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2900			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
2901			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2902			is set.
2903
2904	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2905			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2906			but will impact performance.
2907
2908	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2909
2910	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2911			(CPU alternatives feature).
2912
2913	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2914			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2915
2916	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2917
2918	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2919			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2920
2921	nocache		[ARM]
2922
2923	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2924
2925	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2926
2927	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2928
2929	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2930
2931	noexec		[IA-64]
2932
2933	noexec		[X86]
2934			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2935			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2936			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2937
2938	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
2939			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2940			even if it is supported by processor.
2941
2942	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
2943			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2944			even if it is supported by processor.
2945
2946	noexec32	[X86-64]
2947			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2948			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2949				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2950			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2951				read implies executable mappings
2952
2953	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2954
2955	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2956			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2957			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2958
2959	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2960
2961	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2962			Equivalent to smt=1.
2963
2964			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2965			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2966				     via the sysfs control file.
2967
2968	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2969			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2970			possible in the system.
2971
2972	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2973			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2974			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2975			option.
2976
2977	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2978			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2979
2980	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2981			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2982			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2983
2984	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2985			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2986			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2987			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2988			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2989			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2990
2991	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2992			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2993			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2994			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2995			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2996			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2997			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2998
2999	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3000			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3001			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3002
3003	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3004			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3005			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3006
3007	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3008			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3009			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3010			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3011			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3012			real-time systems.
3013
3014	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3015
3016	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3017			Valid arguments: on, off
3018			Default: on
3019
3020	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3021			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3022			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3023			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3024			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3025			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3026			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3027			just as if they had also been called out in the
3028			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3029
3030	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3031
3032	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3033			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3034
3035	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3036			broken timer IRQ sources.
3037
3038	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3039
3040	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3041			initial RAM disk.
3042
3043	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3044			remapping.
3045			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3046
3047	nointroute	[IA-64]
3048
3049	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3050
3051	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3052
3053	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3054
3055	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3056			fault handling.
3057
3058	no-vmw-sched-clock
3059			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3060			clock and use the default one.
3061
3062	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3063			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3064			behaviour
3065
3066	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3067
3068	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3069
3070	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3071			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3072
3073	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3074
3075	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3076
3077	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3078			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3079
3080	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3081			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3082			irq.
3083
3084	nomodule	Disable module load
3085
3086	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3087			pagetables) support.
3088
3089	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3090
3091	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3092			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3093
3094	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3095			with UP alternatives
3096
3097	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3098			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3099			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3100			available to user space applications.
3101
3102	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3103			space.
3104
3105	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3106			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3107			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3108
3109	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3110
3111	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3112
3113	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3114			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3115
3116	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3117
3118	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3119
3120	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3121			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3122
3123	nowb		[ARM]
3124
3125	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3126
3127	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3128			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3129			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3130			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3131			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3132			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3133			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3134			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3135			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3136			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3137			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3138			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3139			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3140
3141	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3142			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3143			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3144			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3145			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3146			parameter's value.
3147			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3148			Default: 255
3149
3150	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3151			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3152			SAL PALO.
3153
3154	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3155			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3156			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3157			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3158			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3159			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3160			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3161			hot plugging.
3162
3163	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3164
3165	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3166			Allowed values are enable and disable
3167
3168	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3169			'node', 'default' can be specified
3170			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3171			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3172
3173	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3174			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3175			info.
3176
3177	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3178			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3179			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3180			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3181			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3182			interrupts *may* be lost!
3183
3184	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3185			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3186			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3187			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3188
3189	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3190			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3191
3192	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3193			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3194			userland or if you want common events.
3195			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3196			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3197				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3198				CPU specific event set.
3199			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3200				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3201				for generic hr timer mode)
3202
3203	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3204			process, but there is a small probability of
3205			deadlocking the machine.
3206			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3207			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3208
3209	page_alloc.shuffle=
3210			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3211			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3212			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3213			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3214			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3215			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3216			can be read from sysfs at:
3217			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3218
3219	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3220			Storage of the information about who allocated
3221			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3222			we can turn it on.
3223			on: enable the feature
3224
3225	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3226			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3227			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3228			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3229			on: turn on poisoning
3230
3231	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3232			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3233			timeout = 0: wait forever
3234			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3235			Format: <timeout>
3236
3237	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3238			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3239			bit 0: print all tasks info
3240			bit 1: print system memory info
3241			bit 2: print timer info
3242			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3243			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3244			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3245
3246	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3247			on a WARN().
3248
3249	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3250			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3251			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3252			succeeds in any situation.
3253			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3254			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3255			kernel more unstable.
3256
3257	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3258			connected to, default is 0.
3259			Format: <parport#>
3260	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3261			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3262			Format: <mode>
3263
3264	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3265			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3266			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3267			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3268			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3269			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3270			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3271			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3272			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3273			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3274			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3275			are specified on the command line, starting
3276			with parport0.
3277
3278	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3279			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3280			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3281			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3282			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3283			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3284			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3285
3286	pause_on_oops=
3287			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3288			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3289			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3290
3291	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3292
3293	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3294			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3295			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3296
3297	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3298
3299				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3300				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3301				specified in one of the following formats:
3302
3303				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3304				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3305
3306				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3307				bus/device/function address which may change
3308				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3309				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3310				by other kernel parameters. If the
3311				domain is left unspecified, it is
3312				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3313				to a device through multiple device/function
3314				addresses can be specified after the base
3315				address (this is more robust against
3316				renumbering issues).  The second format
3317				selects devices using IDs from the
3318				configuration space which may match multiple
3319				devices in the system.
3320
3321		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3322				changes anything
3323		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3324		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3325				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3326				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3327		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3328				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3329				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3330				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3331		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3332				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3333				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3334		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3335				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3336				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3337				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3338				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3339				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3340				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3341		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3342				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3343				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3344		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3345				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3346		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3347				Configuration
3348		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3349				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3350				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3351		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3352				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3353				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3354		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3355				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3356				should never be necessary.
3357		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3358				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3359				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3360				when the system masks IRQs.
3361		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3362				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3363				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3364				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3365		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3366				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3367				on several machines and they hang the machine
3368				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3369				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3370				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3371				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3372				motherboard.
3373		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3374				Use with caution as certain devices share
3375				address decoders between ROMs and other
3376				resources.
3377		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3378				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3379				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3380		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3381				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3382		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3383				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3384				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3385				this way.
3386		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3387				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3388				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3389				F0000h-100000h range.
3390		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3391				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3392				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3393				explicitly which ones they are.
3394		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3395				numbers ourselves, overriding
3396				whatever the firmware may have done.
3397		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3398				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3399				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3400				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3401				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3402				IRQ routing is enabled.
3403		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3404				or for PCI scanning.
3405		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3406				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3407				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3408				please report a bug.
3409		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3410				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3411		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3412				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3413				so this option is a temporary workaround
3414				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3415		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3416				handle more pci cards
3417		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3418				This might help on some broken boards which
3419				machine check when some devices' config space
3420				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3421				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3422		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3423				This sorting is done to get a device
3424				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3425		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3426		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3427				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3428		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3429				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3430		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3431				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3432				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3433				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3434				or bus can support) for best performance.
3435		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3436				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3437				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3438				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3439				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3440				that hot-added devices will work.
3441		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3442				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3443				The default value is 256 bytes.
3444		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3445				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3446				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3447		resource_alignment=
3448				Format:
3449				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3450				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3451				aligned memory resources. How to
3452				specify the device is described above.
3453				If <order of align> is not specified,
3454				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3455				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3456				windows need to be expanded.
3457				To specify the alignment for several
3458				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3459				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3460				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3461		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3462				end-to-end CRC checking).
3463				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3464				the default.
3465				off: Turn ECRC off
3466				on: Turn ECRC on.
3467		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3468				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3469				Default size is 256 bytes.
3470		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3471				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3472				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3473		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3474				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3475				Default is 1.
3476		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3477				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3478				accommodate resources required by all child
3479				devices.
3480				off: Turn realloc off
3481				on: Turn realloc on
3482		realloc		same as realloc=on
3483		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3484		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3485				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3486		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3487				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3488				port.
3489		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3490				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3491				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3492				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3493				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3494				taints the kernel.
3495		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3496				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3497				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3498				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3499				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3500				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3501				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3502				this removes isolation between devices and
3503				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3504		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3505		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3506
3507	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3508			Management.
3509		off	Disable ASPM.
3510		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3511			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3512
3513	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3514		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3515			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3516			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3517			also tries to use these services.
3518		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3519			hotplug).
3520
3521	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3522		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3523		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3524
3525	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3526		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3527			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3528
3529	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3530
3531	pd_ignore_unused
3532			[PM]
3533			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3534			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3535			for debug and development, but should not be
3536			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3537
3538	pd.		[PARIDE]
3539			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3540
3541	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3542			boot time.
3543			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3544			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3545
3546	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3547			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3548			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3549			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3550			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3551			and performance comparison.
3552
3553	pf.		[PARIDE]
3554			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3555
3556	pg.		[PARIDE]
3557			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3558
3559	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3560			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3561
3562	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3563			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3564			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3565
3566	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3567			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3568			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3569
3570	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3571			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3572			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3573			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3574			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3575			possible settings and some assignment information.
3576
3577	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3578			{ off }
3579
3580	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3581			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3582
3583	pnp_reserve_irq=
3584			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3585
3586	pnp_reserve_dma=
3587			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3588
3589	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3590			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3591
3592	pnp_reserve_mem=
3593			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3594			autoconfiguration.
3595			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3596
3597	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3598			Default is 21.
3599			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3600			may be specified.
3601			Format: <port>,<port>....
3602
3603	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3604			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3605			platform machine description specific power_save
3606			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3607			execution priority.
3608
3609	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3610			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3611			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3612			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3613			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3614
3615	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3616			Format: {"off"}
3617			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3618
3619	print-fatal-signals=
3620			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3621
3622			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3623			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3624			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3625			coredump - etc.
3626
3627			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3628			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3629
3630			default: off.
3631
3632	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3633			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3634			panics
3635			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3636			default: disabled
3637
3638	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3639			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3640			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3641			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3642			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3643			Default: ratelimit
3644
3645	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3646			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3647
3648	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3649			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3650			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3651
3652	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3653			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3654			instead using the legacy FADT method
3655
3656	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3657			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3658			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3659				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3660			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3661			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3662				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3663			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3664			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3665				statistical time based profiling.
3666
3667	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3668			before loading.
3669			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3670
3671	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3672			tracking.
3673			Format: <bool>
3674
3675	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3676			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3677	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3678			per second.
3679	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3680			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3681			(0 = never).
3682	psmouse.resolution=
3683			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3684	psmouse.smartscroll=
3685			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3686			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3687
3688	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3689
3690	pt.		[PARIDE]
3691			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3692
3693	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3694			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3695			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3696			system calls and interrupts.
3697
3698			on   - unconditionally enable
3699			off  - unconditionally disable
3700			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3701			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3702
3703			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3704
3705	nopti		[X86_64]
3706			Equivalent to pti=off
3707
3708	pty.legacy_count=
3709			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3710			default number.
3711
3712	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3713
3714	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3715
3716	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3717			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3718
3719	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3720			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3721
3722	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3723			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3724			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3725			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3726			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3727
3728	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3729
3730		cec_disable	[X86]
3731				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3732				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3733
3734	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3735			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3736			except that the string "all" can be used to
3737			specify every CPU on the system.
3738
3739			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3740			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3741			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3742			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3743			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3744			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3745			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3746			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3747			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3748			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3749
3750	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3751			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3752			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3753			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3754			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3755			This improves the real-time response for the
3756			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3757			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3758			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3759			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3760
3761	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3762			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3763			process in one batch.
3764
3765	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3766			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3767			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3768			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3769
3770	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3771			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3772			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3773
3774	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3775			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3776			RCU grace-period initialization.
3777
3778	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3779			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3780			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3781			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3782			the rcu_node combining tree.
3783
3784	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3785			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3786			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3787			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3788			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3789
3790	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3791			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3792			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3793			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3794			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3795
3796	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3797			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3798			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3799			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3800			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3801			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3802			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3803
3804	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3805			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3806			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3807			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3808			and maximum value is HZ.
3809
3810	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3811			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3812			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3813			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3814
3815	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3816			Set required age in jiffies for a
3817			given grace period before RCU starts
3818			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3819			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3820			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3821			a value based on the most recent settings
3822			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3823			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3824			This calculated value may be viewed in
3825			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3826			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3827			overwritten.
3828
3829	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3830			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3831			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3832			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3833			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3834			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3835			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3836			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3837			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3838			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3839
3840	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3841			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3842			defaults to the square root of the number of
3843			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3844			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3845			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3846
3847	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3848			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3849			batch limiting is disabled.
3850
3851	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3852			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3853			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3854
3855	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3856			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3857			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3858
3859	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3860			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3861			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3862			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3863			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3864
3865	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3866			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3867			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3868			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3869			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3870			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3871
3872	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3873			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3874			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3875			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3876
3877	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3878			Measure performance of asynchronous
3879			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3880
3881	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3882			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3883			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3884			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3885			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3886			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3887
3888	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3889			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3890			grace-period primitives.
3891
3892	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3893			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3894			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3895			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3896			interference.
3897
3898	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3899			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3900			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3901			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3902			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3903			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3904			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3905			a single reader.
3906
3907	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3908			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3909			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3910			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3911
3912	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3913			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3914
3915	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3916			Shut the system down after performance tests
3917			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3918			testing.
3919
3920	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3921			Enable additional printk() statements.
3922
3923	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3924			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3925			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3926			no holdoff.
3927
3928	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3929			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3930			in microseconds.
3931
3932	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3933			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3934			in microseconds.
3935
3936	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3937			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3938			in seconds.
3939
3940	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3941			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3942			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3943
3944	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3945			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3946			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3947
3948	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3949			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3950			forward-progress tests.
3951
3952	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3953			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3954			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3955			testing.
3956
3957	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3958			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3959			primitives, if available.
3960
3961	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3962			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3963
3964	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3965			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3966			update-side primitives, if available.
3967
3968	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3969			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3970			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3971			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3972			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3973			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3974			they are all non-zero.
3975
3976	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3977			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3978
3979	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3980			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3981			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3982			test, hence the "fake".
3983
3984	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3985			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3986			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3987			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3988			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3989			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3990
3991	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3992			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3993
3994	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3995			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3996
3997	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3998			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3999			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4000
4001	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4002			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4003			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4004			during the rcutorture test.
4005
4006	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4007			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4008			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4009
4010	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4011			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4012			warnings, zero to disable.
4013
4014	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4015			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4016
4017	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4018			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4019
4020	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4021			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4022
4023	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4024			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4025			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4026			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4027			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4028
4029	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4030			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4031			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4032			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4033
4034	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4035			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4036
4037	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4038			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4039
4040	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4041			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4042			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4043
4044	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4045			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4046
4047	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4048			Enable additional printk() statements.
4049
4050	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4051			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4052
4053	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4054			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4055
4056	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4057			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4058			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4059			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4060			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4061			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4062			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4063
4064	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4065			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4066			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4067			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4068			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4069			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4070			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4071			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4072			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4073
4074	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4075			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4076			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4077			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4078			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4079
4080	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4081			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4082			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4083			to zero.
4084
4085	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4086			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4087
4088	rdinit=		[KNL]
4089			Format: <full_path>
4090			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4091			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4092
4093	rdrand=		[X86]
4094			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4095				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4096				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4097				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4098				path).
4099
4100	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4101			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4102			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4103			mba.
4104			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4105				rdt=cmt,!mba
4106
4107	reboot=		[KNL]
4108			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4109				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4110				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4111				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4112				[[,]f[orce]
4113			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4114					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4115					reboot only),
4116			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4117			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4118			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4119					to be used for rebooting.
4120
4121	relax_domain_level=
4122			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4123			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4124
4125	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4126			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4127			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4128			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4129			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4130
4131	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4132			Format: nn[KMG]
4133			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4134			address space.
4135
4136	reservelow=	[X86]
4137			Format: nn[K]
4138			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4139			the bottom of the address space.
4140
4141	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4142			during initialization.
4143
4144	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4145			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4146			Format:
4147			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4148
4149	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4150			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4151			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4152			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4153			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4154
4155	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4156			read the resume files
4157
4158	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4159			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4160			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4161
4162	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4163		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4164				present during boot.
4165		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4166		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4167		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4168				(that will set all pages holding image data
4169				during restoration read-only).
4170
4171	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4172
4173	rfkill.default_state=
4174		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4175			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4176		1	Unblocked.
4177
4178	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4179		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4180		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4181			blocked and the previous configuration.
4182		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4183			blocked and everything unblocked.
4184
4185	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4186			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4187
4188	ring3mwait=disable
4189			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4190			CPUs.
4191
4192	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4193
4194	rodata=		[KNL]
4195		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4196		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4197
4198	rockchip.usb_uart
4199			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4200			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4201			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4202			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4203
4204	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4205			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4206
4207	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4208			mount the root filesystem
4209
4210	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4211
4212	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4213
4214	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4215			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4216			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4217
4218	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4219			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4220			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4221			managed by CMA.
4222
4223	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4224
4225	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4226
4227	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4228			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4229		strict
4230			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4231			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4232			which is faster.
4233
4234	sa1100ir	[NET]
4235			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4236
4237	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4238
4239	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4240
4241	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4242			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4243			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4244			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4245
4246	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4247			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4248			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4249			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4250			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4251			1 -- enable.
4252			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4253			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4254
4255	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4256			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4257			"lsm=" parameter.
4258
4259	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4260			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4261			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4262			0 -- disable.
4263			1 -- enable.
4264			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4265			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4266			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4267
4268	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4269			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4270			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4271			0 -- disable.
4272			1 -- enable.
4273			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4274
4275	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4276
4277	shapers=	[NET]
4278			Maximal number of shapers.
4279
4280	simeth=		[IA-64]
4281	simscsi=
4282
4283	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4284
4285	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4286			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4287			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4288			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4289			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4290			layout control by attackers can usually be
4291			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4292			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4293			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4294			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4295			own.
4296			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4297
4298	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4299			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4300			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4301			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4302			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4303
4304	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4305			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4306			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4307			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4308			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4309			last alloc / free. For more information see
4310			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4311
4312	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4313			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4314			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4315			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4316			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4317			directories and files being created under
4318			/sys/kernel/slub.
4319
4320	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4321			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4322			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4323			fragmentation. For more information see
4324			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4325
4326	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4327			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4328			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4329			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4330			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4331			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4332			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4333			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4334
4335	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4336			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4337			lower than slub_max_order.
4338			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4339
4340	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4341			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4342			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4343
4344	smart2=		[HW]
4345			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4346
4347	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4348	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4349	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4350	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4351	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4352	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4353	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4354				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4355				1: Fast pin select (default)
4356				2: ATC IRMode
4357
4358	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4359			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4360			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4361			actual hardware limit.
4362			Format: <integer>
4363			Default: -1 (no limit)
4364
4365	softlockup_panic=
4366			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4367			Format: <integer>
4368
4369			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4370			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4371			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4372			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4373			functionality.
4374
4375	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4376			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4377			backtraces on all cpus.
4378			Format: <integer>
4379
4380	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4381			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4382
4383	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4384			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4385			The default operation protects the kernel from
4386			user space attacks.
4387
4388			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4389			       spectre_v2_user=on
4390			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4391			       spectre_v2_user=off
4392			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4393			       vulnerable
4394
4395			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4396			mitigation method at run time according to the
4397			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4398			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4399			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4400
4401			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4402			against user space to user space task attacks.
4403
4404			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4405			the user space protections.
4406
4407			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4408
4409			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4410			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4411			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4412
4413			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4414			spectre_v2=auto.
4415
4416	spectre_v2_user=
4417			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4418		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4419		        user space tasks
4420
4421			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4422				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4423
4424			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4425				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4426
4427			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4428				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4429				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4430				  is inherited on fork.
4431
4432			prctl,ibpb
4433				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4434				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4435				  always when switching between different user
4436				  space processes.
4437
4438			seccomp
4439				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4440				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4441				  they explicitly opt out.
4442
4443			seccomp,ibpb
4444				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4445				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4446				  always when switching between different
4447				  user space processes.
4448
4449			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4450				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4451
4452			Default mitigation:
4453			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4454
4455			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4456			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4457
4458	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4459			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4460			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4461
4462			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4463			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4464			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4465			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4466			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4467			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4468			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4469			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4470
4471			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4472			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4473			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4474			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4475
4476			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4477			Bypass optimization is used.
4478
4479			On x86 the options are:
4480
4481			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4482			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4483			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4484				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4485				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4486				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4487				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4488				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4489			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4490				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4491				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4492				  is inherited on fork.
4493			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4494				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4495
4496			Default mitigations:
4497			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4498
4499			On powerpc the options are:
4500
4501			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4502				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4503				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4504				  exit.
4505			off	- No action.
4506
4507			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4508			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4509
4510	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4511	spia_fio_base=
4512	spia_pedr=
4513	spia_peddr=
4514
4515	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4516			Specifies how frequently to check for
4517			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4518			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4519			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4520			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4521			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4522			are ignored.
4523
4524	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4525			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4526			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4527			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4528			grace period will be considered for automatic
4529			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4530			expediting.
4531
4532	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4533			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4534
4535			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4536			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4537			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4538			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4539
4540			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4541				   for both kernel and userspace
4542			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4543				   for both kernel and userspace
4544			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4545				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4546				   to allow userspace to register its
4547				   interest in being mitigated too.
4548
4549	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4550			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4551			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4552			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4553			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4554			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4555
4556	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4557			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4558
4559	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4560			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4561			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4562			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4563			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4564			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4565			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4566
4567	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4568			Format: <num>
4569			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4570			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4571			as the initial boot-console.
4572			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4573
4574	sti_font=	[HW]
4575			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4576
4577	stifb=		[HW]
4578			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4579
4580	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4581	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4582			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4583			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4584			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4585			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4586			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4587			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4588			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4589			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4590			maximum port values.
4591
4592	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4593			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4594			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4595			process in parallel from a single connection.
4596			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4597
4598	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4599			[NFS]
4600			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4601			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4602			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4603			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4604			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4605			NFS server is running.
4606
4607			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4608				    automatically using heuristics
4609			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4610			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4611			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4612				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4613
4614	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4615	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4616			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4617			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4618			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4619			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4620			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4621			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4622
4623	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4624			[SUSPEND]
4625			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4626			mode before resuming the system (see
4627			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4628			is set. Default value is 5.
4629
4630	swapaccount=[0|1]
4631			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4632			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4633			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4634
4635	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4636			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4637			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4638			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4639			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4640			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4641
4642	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4643
4644	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4645			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4646			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4647			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4648			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4649			in older udev will not work anymore.
4650			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4651			the kernel configuration.
4652
4653	sysrq_always_enabled
4654			[KNL]
4655			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4656			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4657			Useful for debugging.
4658
4659	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4660			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4661			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4662			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4663			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4664			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4665
4666	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4667
4668	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4669			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4670			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4671			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4672			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4673			The system is woken from this state using a
4674			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4675
4676	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4677			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4678
4679	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4680			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4681			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4682
4683	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4684			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4685			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4686
4687	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4688			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4689			critical and hot trip points.
4690
4691	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4692			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4693
4694	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4695			-1: disable all passive trip points
4696			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4697			value
4698
4699	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4700			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4701			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4702			0: no polling (default)
4703
4704	threadirqs	[KNL]
4705			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4706			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4707
4708	topology=	[S390]
4709			Format: {off | on}
4710			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4711			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4712			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4713			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4714			Default is on.
4715
4716	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4717			Format: {off}
4718			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4719			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4720			LPAR.
4721
4722	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4723
4724	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4725			Format: integer pcr id
4726			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4727			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4728			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4729			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4730			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4731			are saved.
4732
4733	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4734			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4735
4736	trace_event=[event-list]
4737			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4738			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4739			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4740			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4741
4742	trace_options=[option-list]
4743			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4744			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4745			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4746			to echo the option name into
4747
4748			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4749
4750			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4751			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4752
4753			      trace_options=stacktrace
4754
4755			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4756			section.
4757
4758	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4759			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4760			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4761			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4762			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4763			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4764
4765			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4766			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4767			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4768			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4769
4770			** CAUTION **
4771
4772			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4773			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4774			the system to live lock.
4775
4776	traceoff_on_warning
4777			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4778			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4779			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4780			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4781
4782			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4783			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4784			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4785
4786			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4787			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4788
4789	transparent_hugepage=
4790			[KNL]
4791			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4792			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4793			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4794			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4795			for more details.
4796
4797	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4798			Format: <string>
4799			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4800			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4801			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4802			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4803			virtualized environment.
4804			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4805			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4806			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4807			can add overhead.
4808			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4809			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4810			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4811			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4812			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4813			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4814			acceptable).
4815
4816	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4817			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4818			Format:
4819			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4820			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4821
4822	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4823			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4824			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4825			help "seeing" what's going on.
4826
4827	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4828			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4829
4830	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4831			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4832			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4833			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4834			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4835			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4836			reported either.
4837
4838	unknown_nmi_panic
4839			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4840
4841	usbcore.authorized_default=
4842			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4843			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4844			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4845			if device connected to internal port)
4846
4847	usbcore.autosuspend=
4848			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4849			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4850			is the time required before an idle device will be
4851			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4852			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4853
4854	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4855			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4856
4857	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4858			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4859			(default = 65536).
4860
4861	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4862			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4863
4864	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4865			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4866			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4867			 (default 0 = off).
4868
4869	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4870			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4871			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4872
4873	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4874			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4875			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4876
4877	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4878			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4879			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4880			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4881
4882	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4883
4884	usbcore.quirks=
4885			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4886			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4887			commas. Each entry has the form
4888			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4889			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4890			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4891			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4892			the following meanings:
4893				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4894					descriptors must not be fetched using
4895					a 255-byte read);
4896				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4897					correctly so reset it instead);
4898				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4899					Set-Interface requests);
4900				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4901					handle its Configuration or Interface
4902					strings);
4903				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4904					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4905				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4906					more interface descriptions than the
4907					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4908					talking to these interfaces);
4909				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4910					during initialization, after we read
4911					the device descriptor);
4912				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4913					high speed and super speed interrupt
4914					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4915					require the interval in microframes (1
4916					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4917					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4918					(bInterval-1).
4919					Devices with this quirk report their
4920					bInterval as the result of this
4921					calculation instead of the exponent
4922					variable used in the calculation);
4923				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4924					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4925					requests);
4926				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4927					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4928					remote wakeup capability);
4929				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4930					Power Management);
4931				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4932					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4933					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4934					calculation);
4935				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4936					to be disconnected before suspend to
4937					prevent spurious wakeup);
4938				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4939					pause after every control message);
4940				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4941					delay after resetting its port);
4942			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4943
4944	usbhid.mousepoll=
4945			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4946
4947	usbhid.jspoll=
4948			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4949
4950	usbhid.kbpoll=
4951			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4952
4953	usb-storage.delay_use=
4954			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4955			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4956
4957	usb-storage.quirks=
4958			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4959			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4960			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4961			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4962			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4963			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4964			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4965				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4966					of sense data);
4967				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4968					bytes of sense data);
4969				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4970					device capacity by one sector);
4971				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4972					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4973				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4974					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4975				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4976					command, uas only);
4977				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4978					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4979				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4980					reported device capacity by one
4981					sector if the number is odd);
4982				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4983					device);
4984				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4985					command, uas only);
4986				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4987					unlock ejectable media);
4988				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4989					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4990				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4991					initial READ(10) command);
4992				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4993					reported by the device);
4994				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4995					by default);
4996				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4997					bogus residue values);
4998				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4999					Logical Unit);
5000				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5001					commands, uas only);
5002				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5003				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5004					medium is write-protected).
5005				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5006					even if the device claims no cache)
5007			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5008
5009	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5010			Format: <int>
5011			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5012				 1 - undefined instruction events
5013				 2 - system calls
5014				 4 - invalid data aborts
5015				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5016				16 - SIGBUS faults
5017			Example: user_debug=31
5018
5019	userpte=
5020			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5021
5022				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5023					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5024					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5025
5026	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5027			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5028
5029			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5030			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5031
5032	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5033			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5034			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5035
5036			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5037			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5038			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5039
5040			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5041			alias for vdso32=0.
5042
5043			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5044			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5045
5046	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5047			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5048
5049	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5050			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5051
5052	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5053			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5054			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5055			level and then send out the event to user space through
5056			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5057			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5058			brightness level.
5059			default: 1
5060
5061	virtio_mmio.device=
5062			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5063
5064				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5065			where:
5066				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5067						like K, M and G)
5068				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5069				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5070						request_irq())
5071				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5072			example:
5073				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5074
5075			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5076
5077	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5078			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5079			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5080			Use vga=ask for menu.
5081			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5082			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5083
5084	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5085			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5086			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5087			All options are enabled by default, and this
5088			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5089			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5090			debugging features.
5091
5092			Available options are:
5093			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5094			  -	Disable all of the above options
5095
5096	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5097			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5098			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5099			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5100			mapped kernel RAM.
5101
5102	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5103			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5104			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5105
5106	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5107			Format: <command>
5108
5109	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5110			Format: <command>
5111
5112	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5113			Format: <command>
5114
5115	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5116			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5117			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5118			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5119			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5120			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5121			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5122
5123			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5124			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5125				    page is readable.
5126
5127			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5128			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5129				    page is not readable.
5130
5131			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5132			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5133			            might break your system.
5134
5135	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5136			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5137			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5138
5139	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5140			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5141			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5142			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5143
5144	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5145			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5146			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5147			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5148			ranging from 0-255.
5149
5150	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5151			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5152			Change the default green palette of the console.
5153			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5154			ranging from 0-255.
5155
5156	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5157			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5158			Change the default red palette of the console.
5159			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5160			ranging from 0-255.
5161
5162	vt.default_utf8=
5163			[VT]
5164			Format=<0|1>
5165			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5166			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5167			newly opened terminals.
5168
5169	vt.global_cursor_default=
5170			[VT]
5171			Format=<-1|0|1>
5172			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5173			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5174			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5175			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5176			cursors, 1 will display them.
5177
5178	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5179			Default: 2 = green.
5180
5181	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5182			Default: 3 = cyan.
5183
5184	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5185			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5186			or other driver-specific files in the
5187			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5188
5189	watchdog_thresh=
5190			[KNL]
5191			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5192			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5193			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5194			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5195			seconds.
5196
5197	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5198			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5199			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5200			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5201			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5202			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5203			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5204			corresponding sysfs file.
5205
5206	workqueue.disable_numa
5207			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5208			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5209			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5210			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5211			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5212			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5213			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5214
5215	workqueue.power_efficient
5216			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5217			they show better performance thanks to cache
5218			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5219			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5220
5221			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5222			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5223			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5224			power usage at the cost of small performance
5225			overhead.
5226
5227			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5228			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5229
5230	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5231			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5232			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5233			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5234			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5235			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5236			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5237			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5238			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5239			impacted.
5240
5241	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5242			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5243			supporting x2apic.
5244
5245	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5246			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5247			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5248			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5249			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5250
5251	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5252			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5253			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5254			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5255			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5256			domains.
5257
5258	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5259			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5260			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5261			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5262			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5263			nics -- unplug network devices
5264			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5265			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5266				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5267				the unplug protocol
5268			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5269
5270	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5271			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5272			optimizations.
5273
5274	xen_nopv	[X86]
5275			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5276			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5277			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5278			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5279
5280	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5281			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5282			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5283			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5284			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5285
5286	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5287			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5288			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5289			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5290			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5291			more timer interrupts.
5292
5293	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5294			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5295			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5296			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5297
5298	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5299			Format:
5300			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5301
5302	xive=		[PPC]
5303			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5304			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5305			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5306
5307			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5308				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5309				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5310
5311	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5312			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5313			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5314			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5315