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