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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235			used during resume from hibernation.
236			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239			of _PTS is used by default).
240			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244			but some broken systems don't work without it).
245			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256	agp=		[AGP]
257			{ off | try_unsupported }
258			off: disable AGP support
259			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
263			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278			32: only for 32-bit processes
279			64: only for 64-bit processes
280			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
291			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292			Possible values are:
293			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295				    flushed before they will be reused, which
296				    is a lot of faster
297			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298				    the system
299			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
302					  requirements as needed. This option
303					  does not override iommu=pt
304
305	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309			IOMMU initialization.
310
311	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
312			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313			remapping modes:
314			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322			Format: <a>,<b>
323			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327			connected to one of 16 gameports
328			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
331			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332			Format: noidle
333			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335			APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338			Change the output verbosity while booting
339			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340			Change the amount of debugging information output
341			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343			driver name.
344			Format: apic=driver_name
345			Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351			      backup of CPU 0
352			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354			      shot down by NMI
355
356	autoconf=	[IPV6]
357			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
358
359	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365			apic=verbose is specified.
366			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
369			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
375			Identification support
376
377	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
378			support
379
380	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
381
382	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
383
384	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
385			EzKey and similar keyboards
386
387	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
388
389	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
390			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
391
392	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
393			keyboards
394
395	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
396			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
397
398	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
399			Use software keyboard repeat
400
401	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
402			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
403			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
404			    enabled until the next reboot
405			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
406			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
407			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
408			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
409			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
410			    userspace auditd.
411			Default: unset
412
413	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
414			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
415			Default: 64
416
417	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
418			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
419			Format: { "0" | "1" }
420			0 - Disable the BAU.
421			1 - Enable the BAU.
422			unset - Disable the BAU.
423
424	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
425			Format: <io>,<mode>
426
427	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
428			Format: <io>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
430
431	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
432			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
433			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
434			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
435
436	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
437			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
438			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
439			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
440
441	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
442			embedded devices based on command line input.
443			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
444
445	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
446			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
447			no delay (0).
448			Format: integer
449
450	bootconfig	[KNL]
451			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
452			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
453
454			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
455
456	bert_disable	[ACPI]
457			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
458
459	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
460			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
461
462	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
463	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
464			kernel args too.
465	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
466	bttv.tuner=
467
468	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
469			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
470			at a time.
471
472	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
473
474	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
475			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
476			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
477			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
478			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
479			This option provides an override for these situations.
480
481	carrier_timeout=
482			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
483			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
484			it waits 120 seconds.
485
486	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
487			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
488			trust validation.
489			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
490
491	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
492			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
493			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
494			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
495			others).
496
497	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
498			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
499
500	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
501			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
502			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
503			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
504			  a single hierarchy
505			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
506			  subsystem
507			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
508			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
509			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
510
511	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
512			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
513			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
514			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
515			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
516			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
517			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
518			all v1 hierarchies.
519
520	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
521			Format: <string>
522			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
523			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
524
525	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
526			Format: { "0" | "1" }
527			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
528			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
529				any implied execute protection).
530			1 -- check protection requested by application.
531			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
532			Value can be changed at runtime via
533				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
534			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
535
536	cio_ignore=	[S390]
537			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
538	clk_ignore_unused
539			[CLK]
540			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
541			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
542			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
543			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
544			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
545			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
546			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
547			platform with proper driver support.  For more
548			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
549
550	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
551			[Deprecated]
552			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
553			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
554			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
555			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
556
557	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
558			Format: <string>
559			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
560			with the name specified.
561			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
562			the platform:
563			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
564			[ACPI] acpi_pm
565			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
566				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
567			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
568				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
569			[MIPS] MIPS
570			[PARISC] cr16
571			[S390] tod
572			[SH] SuperH
573			[SPARC64] tick
574			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
575
576	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
577			[ARM,ARM64]
578			Format: <bool>
579			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
580			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
581			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
582			systems.
583
584	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
585			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
586			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
587			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
588			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
589			ones should be.
590			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
591			or using the feature without checking anything
592			will still see it. This just prevents it from
593			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
594			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
595			some critical bits.
596
597	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
598			[KNL,CMA]
599			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
600			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
601			placement constraint by the physical address range of
602			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
603			altogether. For more information, see
604			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
605
606	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
607			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
608			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
609			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
610			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
611			specificed, the default value is 0.
612			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
613			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
614			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
615			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
616
617	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
618			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
619			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
620			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
621			a hypervisor.
622			Default: yes
623
624	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
625			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
626			allocations, by default set to 256K.
627
628	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
629			Format:
630			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
631
632	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
633			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
634
635	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
636			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
637			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
638
639	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
640	conmode=
641
642	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
643
644		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
645
646		ttyS<n>[,options]
647		ttyUSB0[,options]
648			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
649			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
650			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
651			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
652			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
653
654			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
655			information.  See
656			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
657			alternative.
658
659		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
660		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
661		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
662		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
663		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
664			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
665			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
666			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
667			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
668			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
669			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
670			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
671			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
672			the h/w is not re-initialized.
673
674		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
675			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
676
677		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
678		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
679			console=brl,ttyS0
680		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
681
682	console_msg_format=
683			[KNL] Change console messages format
684		default
685			By default we print messages on consoles in
686			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
687			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
688			`printk_time' param).
689		syslog
690			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
691			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
692			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
693			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
694			from /proc/kmsg.
695
696	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
697			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
698			Defaults to 0.
699
700	coredump_filter=
701			[KNL] Change the default value for
702			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
703			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
704
705	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
706			[ARM,ARM64]
707			Format: <bool>
708			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
709			0: default value, disable debugging
710			1: enable debugging at boot time
711
712	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
713			disable the cpuidle sub-system
714
715	cpuidle.governor=
716			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
717
718	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
719			disable the cpufreq sub-system
720
721	cpufreq.default_governor=
722			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
723			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
724			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
725
726	cpu_init_udelay=N
727			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
728			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
729			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
730			Default: 10000
731
732	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
733			Format:
734			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
735
736	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
737			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
738			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
739			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
740			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
741			is selected automatically.
742			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
743			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
744			hasn't been specified.
745			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
746
747	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
748			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
749			in the running system. The syntax of range is
750			start-[end] where start and end are both
751			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
752			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
753
754	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
755			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
756			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
757			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
758			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
759			available.
760			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
761	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
762			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
763			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
764			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
765			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
766			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
767			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
768			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
769			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
770			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
771			for second kernel instead.
772			0: to disable low allocation.
773			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
774			or memory reserved is below 4G.
775
776	cryptomgr.notests
777			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
778
779	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
780			Format: <dma>
781
782	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
783			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
784
785	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
786			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
787			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
788			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
789			to resolve the hang situation.
790			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
791			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
792			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
793			     but more data)
794
795	dasd=		[HW,NET]
796			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
797
798	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
799			(one device per port)
800			Format: <port#>,<type>
801			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
802
803	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
804			time. See
805			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
806			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
807
808	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
809
810	debug_boot_weak_hash
811			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
812			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
813			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
814			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
815			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
816			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
817
818	debug_locks_verbose=
819			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
820			Format: <int>
821			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
822			self-tests.
823			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
824			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
825			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
826			useful to lockdep developers.
827
828	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
829
830	no_debug_objects
831			[KNL] Disable object debugging
832
833	debug_guardpage_minorder=
834			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
835			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
836			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
837			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
838			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
839			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
840			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
841			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
842			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
843			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
844			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
845			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
846			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
847			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
848			bypassed) which are not detectable by
849			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
850			tracking down these problems.
851
852	debug_pagealloc=
853			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
854			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
855			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
856			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
857			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
858			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
859			on: enable the feature
860
861	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
862			and debugfs internal clients.
863			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
864			on: 	All functions are enabled.
865			no-mount:
866				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
867			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
868				its content. There is nothing to mount.
869			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
870			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
871				or directories within debugfs.
872				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
873				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
874			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
875
876	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
877
878	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
879			Format: <area>[,<node>]
880			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
881
882	default_hugepagesz=
883			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
884			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
885			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
886			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
887			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
888			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
889			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
890			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
891			Format: size[KMG]
892
893	deferred_probe_timeout=
894			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
895			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
896			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
897			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
898			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
899			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
900			retrying.
901
902	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
903			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
904			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
905			          level 1 and decompression (default)
906			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
907			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
908			          only (compression on level 1)
909			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
910			          only (decompression)
911			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
912			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
913
914	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
915			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
916
917	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
918			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
919			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
920			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
921			miss to occur.
922
923	stress_slb	[PPC]
924			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
925			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
926			on kernel addresses.
927
928	disable=	[IPV6]
929			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
930
931	hardened_usercopy=
932                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
933                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
934                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
935                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
936                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
937                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
938                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
939                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
940                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
941
942	disable_radix	[PPC]
943			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
944
945	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
946			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
947			invalidate.
948
949	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
950			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
951			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
952
953	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
954			Format: <int>
955			The number of initial APIC ID for the
956			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
957			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
958			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
959			causing system reset or hang due to sending
960			INIT from AP to BSP.
961
962	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
963			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
964			to workaround buggy firmware.
965
966	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
967			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
968
969	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
970			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
971			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
972			entry later. This parameter disables that.
973
974	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
975			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
976			memory out of your available memory pool based on
977			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
978			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
979
980	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
981			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
982			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
983
984	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
985
986	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
987			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
988
989	dma_debug_entries=<number>
990			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
991			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
992			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
993			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
994			architectural default is too low.
995
996	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
997			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
998			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
999			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1000			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1001			driver later using sysfs.
1002
1003	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1004			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1005			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1006
1007	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1008			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1009			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1010			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1011			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1012			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1013			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1014			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1015			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1016			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1017			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1018			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1019			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1020			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1021			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1022			data set with no connector name will be used for
1023			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1024
1025	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1026
1027	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1028			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1029			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1030			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1031			exists).
1032			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1033			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1034			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1035
1036	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1037			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1038			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1039			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1040
1041	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1042	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1043			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1044			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1045			for details.
1046
1047	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1048			in some Intel CPUs.
1049
1050	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1051			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1052
1053	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1054			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1055			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1056			which are not unmapped.
1057
1058	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1059
1060			When used with no options, the early console is
1061			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1062			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1063			the platform.
1064
1065		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1066			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1067			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1068			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1069			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1070			configured.
1071
1072		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1073		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1074		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1075		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1076		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1077			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1078			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1079			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1080			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1081			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1082			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1083			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1084			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1085
1086		pl011,<addr>
1087		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1088			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1089			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1090			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1091			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1092			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1093			the device registers.
1094
1095		meson,<addr>
1096			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1097			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1098			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1099			supported.
1100
1101		msm_serial,<addr>
1102			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1103			port at the specified address. The serial port
1104			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1105			yet supported.
1106
1107		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1108			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1109			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1110			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1111			yet supported.
1112
1113		owl,<addr>
1114			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1115			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1116			specified address. The serial port must already be
1117			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1118
1119		rda,<addr>
1120			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1121			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1122			specified address. The serial port must already be
1123			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1124
1125		sbi
1126			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1127			console.
1128
1129		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1130
1131		s3c2410,<addr>
1132		s3c2412,<addr>
1133		s3c2440,<addr>
1134		s3c6400,<addr>
1135		s5pv210,<addr>
1136		exynos4210,<addr>
1137			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1138			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1139			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1140			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1141			Options are not yet supported.
1142
1143		lantiq,<addr>
1144			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1145			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1146			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1147			yet supported.
1148
1149		lpuart,<addr>
1150		lpuart32,<addr>
1151			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1152			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1153			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1154			port must already be setup and configured.
1155
1156		ec_imx21,<addr>
1157		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1158			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1159			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1160			must already be setup and configured.
1161
1162		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1163			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1164			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1165			address. The serial port must already be setup
1166			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1167
1168		qcom_geni,<addr>
1169			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1170			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1171			specified address. The serial port must already be
1172			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1173
1174		efifb,[options]
1175			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1176			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1177			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1178			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1179			mapped with the correct attributes.
1180
1181		linflex,<addr>
1182			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1183			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1184			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1185			already be setup and configured.
1186
1187	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1188			earlyprintk=vga
1189			earlyprintk=sclp
1190			earlyprintk=xen
1191			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1192			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1193			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1194			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1195			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1196			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1197
1198			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1199			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1200			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1201
1202			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1203			takes over.
1204
1205			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1206			be used at a time.
1207
1208			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1209			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1210			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1211			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1212				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1213			You can find the port for a given device in
1214			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1215				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1216
1217			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1218			very good.
1219
1220			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1221			the real console.
1222
1223			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1224
1225			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1226
1227			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1228			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1229			UART class.
1230
1231	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1232			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1233			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1234			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1235			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1236			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1237			default: on.
1238
1239	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1240			ekgdboc=kbd
1241
1242			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1243			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1244
1245			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1246			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1247			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1248			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1249
1250	edd=		[EDD]
1251			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1252
1253	efi=		[EFI]
1254			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1255				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1256				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1257			debug: enable misc debug output.
1258			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1259			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1260			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1261			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1262			firmware implementations.
1263			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1264			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1265			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1266			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1267			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1268			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1269			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1270			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1271			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1272			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1273
1274	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1275			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1276			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1277			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1278			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1279
1280	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1281			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1282			updating original EFI memory map.
1283			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1284			from ss to ss+nn.
1285
1286			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1287			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1288			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1289			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1290
1291			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1292			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1293			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1294
1295			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1296			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1297			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1298			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1299			"soft reserved".
1300
1301	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1302			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1303			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1304			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1305			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1306
1307
1308	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1309			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1310
1311	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1312			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1313			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1314
1315	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1316			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1317			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1318			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1319			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1320
1321	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1322			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1323			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1324			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1325
1326	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1327			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1328			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1329			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1330			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1331
1332	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1333			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1334			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1335			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1336			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1337			Default value is 0.
1338			Value can be changed at runtime via
1339			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1340
1341	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1342			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1343			support.
1344
1345	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1346			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1347			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1348
1349	evm=		[EVM]
1350			Format: { "fix" }
1351			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1352			current integrity status.
1353
1354	failslab=
1355	fail_usercopy=
1356	fail_page_alloc=
1357	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1358			General fault injection mechanism.
1359			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1360			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1361
1362	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1363			Format: { initns | none }
1364			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1365			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1366
1367	floppy=		[HW]
1368			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1369
1370	force_pal_cache_flush
1371			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1372			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1373			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1374			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1375
1376	forcepae	[X86-32]
1377			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1378			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1379			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1380			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1381			and may cause unknown problems.
1382
1383	ftrace=[tracer]
1384			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1385			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1386			boot debugging.
1387
1388	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1389			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1390			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1391			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1392			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1393			oops.
1394
1395	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1396			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1397			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1398			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1399			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1400			tracing directory.
1401
1402	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1403			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1404			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1405			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1406			tracing directory.
1407
1408	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1409			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1410			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1411			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1412			that can be changed at run time by the
1413			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1414
1415	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1416			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1417			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1418			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1419			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1420
1421	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1422			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1423			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1424			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1425			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1426
1427	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1428			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1429			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1430			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1431			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1432			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1433			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1434			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1435			suppliers).
1436			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1437			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1438			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1439				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1440				up (sync_state() calls).
1441			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1442				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1443			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1444
1445	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1446			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1447			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1448			Format: <bool>
1449
1450	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1451			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1452			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1453			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1454			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1455
1456	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1457
1458	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1459			Format: off | on
1460			default: on
1461
1462	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1463			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1464			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1465			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1466			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1467
1468	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1469			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1470			android emulator
1471
1472	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1473			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1474			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1475			GPT to be used instead.
1476
1477	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1478			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1479			Format: 0 | 1
1480			Default: 0
1481	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1482			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1483			Format: 0 | 1
1484			Default: 0
1485	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1486			Format: 0 | 1
1487			Default: 0
1488	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1489			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1490			Default: 1024
1491	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1492			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1493			Default: 1024
1494
1495	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1496			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1497			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1498
1499	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1500			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1501			backtraces on all cpus.
1502			Format: 0 | 1
1503
1504	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1505			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1506			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1507			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1508
1509	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1510
1511	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1512			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1513
1514	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1515			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1516			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1517			logic will be disabled.
1518
1519	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1520			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1521			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1522			size on bigger boxes.
1523
1524	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1525			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1526			Default: "on"
1527
1528	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1529
1530	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1531			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1532				verbose }
1533			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1534			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1535				VIA, nVidia)
1536			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1537
1538	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1539			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1540
1541	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1542			of gigantic hugepages.
1543			Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1544
1545			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1546			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1547			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1548
1549	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1550			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1551			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1552			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1553			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1554			the default huge page size.  See also
1555			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1556			Format: <integer>
1557
1558	hugepagesz=
1559			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1560			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1561			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1562			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1563			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1564			architecture dependent.  See also
1565			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1566			Format: size[KMG]
1567
1568	hung_task_panic=
1569			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1570			Format: 0 | 1
1571
1572			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1573			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1574			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1575			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1576			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1577
1578	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1579				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1580	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1581				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1582				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1583
1584	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1585				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1586				      guest on lock contention.
1587
1588	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1589			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1590			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1591			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1592			the real console.
1593
1594	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1595				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1596				registered from board initialization code.
1597				Format:
1598				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1599
1600	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1601	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1602			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1603			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1604			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1605	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1606	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1607			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1608			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1609	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1610	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1611	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1612			     for the AUX port
1613	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1614			     controller
1615	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1616			     controllers
1617	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1618	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1619			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1620			     transitions, or never reset
1621			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1622			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1623			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1624			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1625			architectures force reset to be always executed
1626	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1627	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1628
1629	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1630
1631	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1632			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1633			hardware.
1634	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1635			does not match list of supported models.
1636	i8k.power_status
1637			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1638			(disabled by default)
1639	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1640			capability is set.
1641
1642	i915.invert_brightness=
1643			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1644			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1645			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1646			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1647			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1648			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1649			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1650			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1651			value switches the backlight off.
1652			-1 -- never invert brightness
1653			 0 -- machine default
1654			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1655
1656	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1657			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1658
1659	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1660			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1661			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1662			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1663			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1664
1665	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1666			Format: <int>
1667			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1668			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1669			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1670			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1671			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1672			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1673			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1674			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1675			was 0x3.
1676
1677	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1678			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1679
1680	idle=		[X86]
1681			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1682			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1683			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1684			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1685			Not recommended.
1686			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1687			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1688			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1689
1690	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1691			Format: <bool>
1692			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1693			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1694			true (1).
1695
1696	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1697			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1698			Default: strict
1699
1700			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1701			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1702			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1703			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1704			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1705			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1706			encoding mode.
1707
1708			Available settings are as follows:
1709			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1710				supported by the FPU
1711			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1712				by the FPU
1713			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1714				by the FPU
1715			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1716				supported by the FPU
1717
1718			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1719			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1720			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1721			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1722			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1723			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1724			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1725			MIPS64 CPUs.
1726
1727			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1728			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1729			except where unsupported by hardware.
1730
1731	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1732			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1733			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1734			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1735			could change it dynamically, usually by
1736			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1737
1738	ignore_rlimit_data
1739			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1740			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1741			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1742
1743	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1744			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1745
1746	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1747			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1748			default: "enforce"
1749
1750	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1751			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1752			owned by uid=0.
1753
1754	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1755			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1756			measurements, instead of host native format.
1757
1758	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1759			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1760				   | sha512 | ... }
1761			default: "sha1"
1762
1763			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1764			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1765
1766	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1767			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1768			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1769				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1770
1771			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1772			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1773			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1774			uid=0.
1775
1776			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1777			all files owned by root.
1778
1779			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1780			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1781			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1782
1783			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1784			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1785			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1786			flag.
1787
1788			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1789			critical data.
1790
1791	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1792			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1793			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1794			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1795			opened for read by uid=0.
1796
1797	ima_template=	[IMA]
1798			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1799			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1800			Default: "ima-ng"
1801
1802	ima_template_fmt=
1803			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1804			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1805
1806	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1807			Format: <min_file_size>
1808			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1809			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1810
1811			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1812			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1813			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1814
1815	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1816			Format: <bufsize>
1817			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1818
1819			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1820			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1821			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1822
1823	init=		[KNL]
1824			Format: <full_path>
1825			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1826			process.
1827
1828	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1829			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1830			startup.
1831
1832	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1833			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1834			modules and initcalls.
1835
1836	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1837
1838	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1839			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1840			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1841			setting.
1842			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1843			Default is 0, 0
1844
1845	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1846			zeroes.
1847			Format: 0 | 1
1848			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1849
1850	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1851			Format: 0 | 1
1852			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1853
1854	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1855			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1856			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1857			override in debugfs after boot.
1858
1859	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1860			Format: <irq>
1861
1862	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1863
1864	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1865			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1866			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1867			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1868
1869	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1870		on
1871			Enable intel iommu driver.
1872		off
1873			Disable intel iommu driver.
1874		igfx_off [Default Off]
1875			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1876			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1877			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1878			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1879			DMA.
1880		strict [Default Off]
1881			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1882			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1883			to batching them for performance.
1884		sp_off [Default Off]
1885			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1886			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1887			not be supported.
1888		sm_on [Default Off]
1889			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1890			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1891			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1892			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1893		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1894			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1895			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1896			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1897			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1898			mapping is enabled.
1899			Note that using this option lowers the security
1900			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1901			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1902
1903	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1904			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1905			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1906
1907	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1908			disable
1909			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1910			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1911			passive
1912			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1913			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1914			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1915			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1916			  feature.
1917			force
1918			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1919			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1920			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1921			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1922			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1923			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1924			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1925			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1926			no_hwp
1927			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1928			  if available.
1929			hwp_only
1930			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1931			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1932			support_acpi_ppc
1933			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1934			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1935			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1936			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1937			per_cpu_perf_limits
1938			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1939			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1940
1941	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1942			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1943			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1944			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1945			no_x2apic_optout
1946				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1947			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1948
1949	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1950		strict	regions from userspace.
1951		relaxed
1952
1953	iommu=		[X86]
1954		off
1955		force
1956		noforce
1957		biomerge
1958		panic
1959		nopanic
1960		merge
1961		nomerge
1962		soft
1963		pt		[X86]
1964		nopt		[X86]
1965		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1966			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1967
1968	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
1969			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1970			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
1971			  falling back to the full range if needed.
1972			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
1973			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
1974			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
1975
1976	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1977			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1978			0 - Lazy mode.
1979			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1980			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1981			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1982			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1983			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1984			1 - Strict mode (default).
1985			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1986			  synchronously.
1987
1988	iommu.passthrough=
1989			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1990			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1991			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1992			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1993			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1994
1995	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
1996			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1997			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1998
1999	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2000		0x80
2001			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2002		0xed
2003			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2004		udelay
2005			Simple two microseconds delay
2006		none
2007			No delay
2008
2009	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2010			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2011
2012	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2013			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2014
2015	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2016			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2017
2018	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2019			[ARM, ARM64]
2020			Format: <bool>
2021			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2022			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2023			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2024
2025	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2026			[ARM, ARM64]
2027			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2028			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2029			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2030			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2031			LPIs.
2032
2033	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2034			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2035			requires the kernel to be built with
2036			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2037
2038	irqfixup	[HW]
2039			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2040			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2041			firmware running.
2042
2043	irqpoll		[HW]
2044			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2045			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2046			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2047			firmware running.
2048
2049	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2050			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2051
2052	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2053			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2054			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2055
2056			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2057			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2058
2059			nohz
2060			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2061
2062			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2063			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2064			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2065			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2066			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2067
2068			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2069			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2070			  be configured manually after bootup.
2071
2072			domain
2073			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2074			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2075			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2076			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2077			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2078			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2079			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2080			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2081
2082			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2083			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2084			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2085			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2086
2087			managed_irq
2088
2089			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2090			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2091			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2092			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2093			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2094
2095			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2096			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2097			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2098			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2099			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2100			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2101			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2102
2103			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2104			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2105			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2106			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2107			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2108			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2109			  queues.
2110
2111			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2112
2113	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2114
2115	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2116			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2117			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2118			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2119			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2120				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2121
2122	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2123			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2124			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2125			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2126			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2127				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2128
2129	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2130			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2131			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2132			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2133			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2134				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2135
2136	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2137			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2138
2139	nokaslr		[KNL]
2140			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2141			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2142			Layout Randomization).
2143
2144	kasan_multi_shot
2145			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2146			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2147			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2148			invalid access.
2149
2150	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2151
2152	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2153			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2154			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2155			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2156			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2157			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2158			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2159			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2160			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2161			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2162
2163			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2164			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2165			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2166			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2167			zone if it does not.
2168
2169			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2170			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2171			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2172			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2173			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2174			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2175			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2176
2177	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2178			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2179			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2180			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2181			optional and is the number seconds in between
2182			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2183			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2184			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2185			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2186			the kernel debugger.
2187
2188	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2189			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2190			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2191			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2192			 keyboard only format: kbd
2193			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2194			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2195			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2196			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2197
2198	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2199			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2200			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2201			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2202			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2203			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2204			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2205
2206			The name of the early console should be specified
2207			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2208			the early console might be different than the tty
2209			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2210			blank and the first boot console that implements
2211			read() will be picked.
2212
2213	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2214			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2215
2216	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2217			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2218			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2219
2220	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2221			Valid arguments: on, off
2222			Default: on
2223			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2224			the default is off.
2225
2226	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2227			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2228			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2229			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2230			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2231			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2232			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2233
2234			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2235
2236			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2237			Boot Parameter" section.
2238
2239	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2240			and kernel address spaces.
2241			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2242			0: force disabled
2243			1: force enabled
2244
2245	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2246			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2247
2248	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2249				   Default is false (don't support).
2250
2251	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2252			KVM MMU at runtime.
2253			Default is 0 (off)
2254
2255	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2256			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2257			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2258			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2259			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2260			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2261				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2262
2263			Default is 'auto'.
2264
2265			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2266			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2267
2268	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2269			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2270			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2271			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2272			minute.  The default is 60.
2273
2274	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2275			Default is 1 (enabled)
2276
2277	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2278			for all guests.
2279			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2280
2281	kvm-arm.mode=
2282			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2283
2284			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2285			      protected guests.
2286
2287			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2288				   state is kept private from the host.
2289				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2290
2291			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support.
2292
2293	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2294			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2295			system registers
2296
2297	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2298			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2299			system registers
2300
2301	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2302			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2303			system registers
2304
2305	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2306			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2307			LPIs.
2308
2309	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2310			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2311			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2312			allocation.
2313			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2314			Format: <integer>
2315			Default: 5
2316
2317	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2318			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2319			Default is 1 (enabled)
2320
2321	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2322			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2323			Default is 0 (disabled)
2324
2325	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2326			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2327			Default is 1 (enabled)
2328
2329	kvm-intel.nested=
2330			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2331			Default is 0 (disabled)
2332
2333	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2334			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2335			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2336			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2337
2338	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2339			CVE-2018-3620.
2340
2341			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2342
2343			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2344			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2345				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2346			never:	Disables the mitigation
2347
2348			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2349
2350	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2351			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2352			Default is 1 (enabled)
2353
2354	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2355			      affected CPUs
2356
2357			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2358			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2359
2360			full
2361				Provides all available mitigations for the
2362				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2363				enables all mitigations in the
2364				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2365
2366				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2367				sysfs interface is still possible after
2368				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2369				when the first VM is started in a
2370				potentially insecure configuration,
2371				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2372
2373			full,force
2374				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2375				flush runtime control. Implies the
2376				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2377				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2378
2379			flush
2380				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2381				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2382				L1D flush.
2383
2384				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2385				sysfs interface is still possible after
2386				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2387				when the first VM is started in a
2388				potentially insecure configuration,
2389				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2390
2391			flush,nosmt
2392
2393				Disables SMT and enables the default
2394				hypervisor mitigation.
2395
2396				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2397				sysfs interface is still possible after
2398				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2399				when the first VM is started in a
2400				potentially insecure configuration,
2401				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2402
2403			flush,nowarn
2404				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2405				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2406				insecure configuration.
2407
2408			off
2409				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2410				emit any warnings.
2411				It also drops the swap size and available
2412				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2413				bare metal.
2414
2415			Default is 'flush'.
2416
2417			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2418
2419	l2cr=		[PPC]
2420
2421	l3cr=		[PPC]
2422
2423	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2424			disabled it.
2425
2426	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2427			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2428			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2429			Format: notscdeadline
2430
2431	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2432			in C2 power state.
2433
2434	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2435			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2436			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2437			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2438			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2439			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2440			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2441
2442	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2443			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2444			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2445
2446	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2447			when set.
2448			Format: <int>
2449
2450	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2451			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2452			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2453			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2454			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2455			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2456			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2457			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2458
2459			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2460			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2461			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2462			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2463			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2464			host link and device attached to it.
2465
2466			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2467			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2468			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2469			The following configurations can be forced.
2470
2471			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2472			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2473
2474			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2475
2476			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2477			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2478			  allowed.
2479
2480			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2481
2482			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2483
2484			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2485			  and both resets.
2486
2487			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2488			  hot-unplug link recovery
2489
2490			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2491
2492			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2493
2494			* disable: Disable this device.
2495
2496			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2497			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2498
2499	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2500
2501	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2502
2503	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2504			Format: <integer>
2505
2506	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2507			Format: <integer>
2508
2509	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2510			Format: <integer>
2511
2512	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2513			Format: <integer>
2514
2515	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2516			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2517			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2518			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2519			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2520			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2521			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2522			are also disabled.
2523
2524	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2525			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2526			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2527			number of online CPUs.
2528
2529	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2530			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2531
2532	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2533			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2534
2535	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2536			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2537			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2538
2539	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2540			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2541			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2542			mode during the locktorture test.
2543
2544	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2545			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2546			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2547
2548	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2549			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2550
2551	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2552			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2553			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2554			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2555			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2556			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2557
2558	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2559			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2560
2561	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2562			Enable additional printk() statements.
2563
2564	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2565			Format: <irq>
2566
2567	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2568			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2569			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2570			loglevels are defined as follows:
2571
2572			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2573			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2574			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2575			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2576			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2577			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2578			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2579			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2580
2581	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2582			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2583			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2584			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2585			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2586			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2587			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2588
2589	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2590			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2591			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2592			kernel boot problems.
2593
2594	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2595	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2596	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2597	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2598				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2599				attached printers to be reset. Using
2600				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2601				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2602				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2603				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2604				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2605				port specification list means that device IDs
2606				from each port should be examined, to see if
2607				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2608				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2609				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2610
2611	lpj=n		[KNL]
2612			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2613			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2614			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2615			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2616			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2617			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2618			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2619			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2620			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2621			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2622			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2623			hardware.
2624
2625	ltpc=		[NET]
2626			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2627
2628	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2629
2630	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2631			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2632			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2633
2634	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2635			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2636			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2637
2638	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2639			different yeeloong laptops.
2640			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2641
2642	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2643			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2644
2645	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2646			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2647			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2648			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2649			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2650			only takes effect during system bootup.
2651			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2652			which also disables the IO APIC.
2653
2654	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2655	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2656			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2657			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2658			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2659			/dev/loop-control interface.
2660
2661	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2662
2663	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2664
2665	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2666			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2667
2668	mdacon=		[MDA]
2669			Format: <first>,<last>
2670			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2671
2672	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2673			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2674			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2675
2676			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2677			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2678			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2679
2680			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2681			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2682			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2683			not have direct access.
2684
2685			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2686			options are:
2687
2688			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2689			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2690				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2691			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2692
2693			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2694			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2695			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2696			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2697			too.
2698
2699			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2700			mds=full.
2701
2702			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2703
2704	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2705			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2706
2707			1 for test;
2708			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2709			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2710			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2711
2712			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2713			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2714			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2715			belonging to unused RAM.
2716
2717			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2718			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2719			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2720
2721	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2722			memory.
2723
2724	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2725			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2726			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2727
2728	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2729			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2730			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2731			set according to the
2732			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2733			option.
2734			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2735
2736	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2737			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2738			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2739			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2740			option description.
2741
2742	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2743			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2744			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2745			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2746			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2747			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2748			comma delimited.
2749			Example:
2750				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2751
2752	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2753			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2754			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2755
2756	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2757			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2758			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2759			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2760			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2761			         or
2762			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2763			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2764			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2765			will be eaten.
2766
2767	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2768			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2769			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2770			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2771			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2772
2773	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2774			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2775			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2776			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2777			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2778			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2779			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2780			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2781
2782	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2783			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2784			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2785			Setting this option will scan the memory
2786			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2787			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2788			from using the memory being corrupted.
2789			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2790			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2791			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2792			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2793
2794	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2795			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2796			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2797			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2798			corruption in more or less memory.
2799
2800	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2801			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2802			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2803			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2804
2805	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2806			Format: <integer>
2807			default : 0 <disable>
2808			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2809			performed. Each pass selects another test
2810			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2811			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2812			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2813			regions that are detected.
2814
2815	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2816			Valid arguments: on, off
2817			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2818			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2819			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2820			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2821			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2822
2823			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2824			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2825
2826	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2827			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2828			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2829			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2830			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2831
2832	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2833			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2834
2835	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2836			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2837			platforms.
2838
2839	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2840			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2841			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2842			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2843
2844	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2845
2846	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2847			physical address is ignored.
2848
2849	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2850			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2851			Default: "0tb"
2852			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2853			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2854			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2855			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2856			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2857			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2858			unconfigured.
2859			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2860			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2861			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2862			VGA shield.
2863			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2864			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2865			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2866			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2867			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2868			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2869
2870	mitigations=
2871			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2872			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2873			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2874			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2875
2876			off
2877				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2878				improves system performance, but it may also
2879				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2880				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2881					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2882					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2883					       nobp=0 [S390]
2884					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2885					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2886					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2887					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2888					       l1tf=off [X86]
2889					       mds=off [X86]
2890					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2891					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2892					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
2893					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
2894
2895				Exceptions:
2896					       This does not have any effect on
2897					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2898					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2899
2900			auto (default)
2901				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2902				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2903				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2904				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2905				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2906				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2907
2908			auto,nosmt
2909				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2910				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2911				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2912				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2913					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2914					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2915
2916	mminit_loglevel=
2917			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2918			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2919			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2920			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2921			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2922			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2923
2924	module.sig_enforce
2925			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2926			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2927			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2928			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2929
2930	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2931			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2932
2933	mousedev.tap_time=
2934			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2935			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2936			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2937			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2938			Format: <msecs>
2939	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2940			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2941	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2942			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2943
2944	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2945			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2946			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2947			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2948			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2949			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2950			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2951			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2952			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2953			is not too small.
2954
2955	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2956			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2957			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2958			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2959			allocations. Use with caution!
2960
2961	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2962			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2963
2964	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2965			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2966
2967	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2968			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2969
2970	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2971			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2972			at a time.
2973
2974	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2975
2976			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2977
2978			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2979				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2980			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2981				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2982				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2983
2984	mtdset=		[ARM]
2985			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2986
2987			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
2988
2989	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2990			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2991			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2992
2993	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2994			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2995			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2996
2997	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2998			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2999			Default is 1.
3000			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3001			using up MTRRs.
3002
3003	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3004			Format: <integer>
3005			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3006			Default : 1
3007			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3008			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3009
3010	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3011
3012	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3013			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3014			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3015			something different and driver-specific.
3016			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3017			file if at all.
3018
3019	nf_conntrack.acct=
3020			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3021			0 to disable accounting
3022			1 to enable accounting
3023			Default value is 0.
3024
3025	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3026			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3027
3028	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3029			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3030
3031	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3032			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3033
3034	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3035			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3036			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3037			requests.
3038
3039	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3040			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3041			channel should listen.
3042
3043	nfs.cache_getent=
3044			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3045			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3046
3047	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3048			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3049			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3050
3051	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3052			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3053			entries.
3054
3055	nfs.enable_ino64=
3056			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3057			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3058			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3059			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3060			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3061
3062	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3063			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3064			slots the client will assign to the callback
3065			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3066			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3067			a particular server.
3068
3069	nfs.max_session_slots=
3070			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3071			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3072			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3073			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3074			Note that there is little point in setting this
3075			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3076
3077	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3078			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3079			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3080			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3081			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3082			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3083			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3084			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3085			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3086			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3087			back to using the idmapper.
3088			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3089	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3090			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3091			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3092			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3093			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3094
3095	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3096			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3097			information in exchange_id requests.
3098			If zero, no implementation identification information
3099			will be sent.
3100			The default is to send the implementation identification
3101			information.
3102
3103	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3104			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3105			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3106			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3107			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3108			after the locks are lost.
3109			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3110			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3111			parameter to '1'.
3112			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3113			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3114
3115	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3116			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3117			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3118
3119			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3120			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3121			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3122			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3123
3124	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3125			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3126			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3127			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3128			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3129			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3130
3131	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3132			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3133			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3134
3135	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3136			when a NMI is triggered.
3137			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3138
3139	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3140			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3141			Valid num: 0 or 1
3142			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3143			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3144			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3145			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3146			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3147			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3148			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3149			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3150			need the box quickly up again.
3151
3152			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3153			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3154
3155	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3156			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3157			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3158			waits 4 seconds.
3159
3160	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3161			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3162			is present.
3163
3164	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3165			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3166
3167	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3168
3169	no_console_suspend
3170			[HW] Never suspend the console
3171			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3172			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3173			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3174			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3175			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3176			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3177			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3178			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3179			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3180			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3181			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3182			turn on/off it dynamically.
3183
3184	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3185			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3186			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3187			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3188			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3189			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3190			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3191			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3192			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3193			is set.
3194
3195	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3196			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3197			but will impact performance.
3198
3199	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3200
3201	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3202			(CPU alternatives feature).
3203
3204	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3205			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3206
3207	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3208
3209	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3210			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3211
3212	nocache		[ARM]
3213
3214	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3215
3216	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3217
3218	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3219
3220	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3221
3222	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3223
3224	noexec		[IA-64]
3225
3226	noexec		[X86]
3227			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3228			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3229			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3230
3231	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3232			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3233			even if it is supported by processor.
3234
3235	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3236			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3237			even if it is supported by processor.
3238
3239	noexec32	[X86-64]
3240			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3241			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3242				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3243			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3244				read implies executable mappings
3245
3246	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3247
3248	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3249			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3250			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3251
3252	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3253
3254	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3255			Equivalent to smt=1.
3256
3257			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3258			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3259				     via the sysfs control file.
3260
3261	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3262			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3263			possible in the system.
3264
3265	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3266			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3267			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3268			option.
3269
3270	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3271			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3272
3273	no_uaccess_flush
3274	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3275
3276	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3277			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3278			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3279
3280	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3281			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3282			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3283			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3284			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3285			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3286
3287	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3288			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3289			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3290			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3291			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3292			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3293			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3294
3295	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3296			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3297			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3298			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3299			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3300			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3301			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3302			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3303
3304	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3305			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3306			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3307
3308	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3309			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3310			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3311			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3312			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3313			real-time systems.
3314
3315	no_hash_pointers
3316			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3317			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3318			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3319			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3320			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3321			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3322			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3323			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3324			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3325			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3326			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
3327			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3328			kernels.
3329
3330	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3331
3332	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3333			Valid arguments: on, off
3334			Default: on
3335
3336	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3337			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3338			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3339			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3340			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3341			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3342			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3343			just as if they had also been called out in the
3344			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3345
3346	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3347
3348	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3349			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3350
3351	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3352			broken timer IRQ sources.
3353
3354	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3355
3356	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3357			initial RAM disk.
3358
3359	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3360			remapping.
3361			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3362
3363	nointroute	[IA-64]
3364
3365	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3366
3367	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3368
3369	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3370
3371	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3372			fault handling.
3373
3374	no-vmw-sched-clock
3375			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3376			clock and use the default one.
3377
3378	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3379			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3380			influence scheduler behaviour
3381
3382	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3383
3384	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3385
3386	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3387			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3388
3389	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3390
3391	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3392
3393	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3394			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3395
3396	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3397			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3398			irq.
3399
3400	nomodule	Disable module load
3401
3402	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3403			pagetables) support.
3404
3405	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3406
3407	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3408			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3409
3410	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3411			with UP alternatives
3412
3413	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3414			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3415			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3416			available to user space applications.
3417
3418	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3419			space.
3420
3421	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3422			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3423			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3424
3425	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3426
3427	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3428
3429	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3430
3431	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3432			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3433
3434	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3435
3436	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3437
3438	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3439			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3440
3441	nowb		[ARM]
3442
3443	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3444
3445	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3446			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3447			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3448			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3449			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3450			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3451			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3452			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3453			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3454			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3455			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3456			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3457			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3458
3459	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3460			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3461			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3462			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3463			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3464			parameter's value.
3465			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3466			Default: 255
3467
3468	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3469			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3470			SAL PALO.
3471
3472	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3473			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3474			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3475			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3476			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3477			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3478			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3479			hot plugging.
3480
3481	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3482
3483	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3484			NUMA balancing.
3485			Allowed values are enable and disable
3486
3487	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3488			'node', 'default' can be specified
3489			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3490			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3491
3492	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3493			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3494			info.
3495
3496	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3497			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3498			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3499			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3500			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3501			interrupts *may* be lost!
3502
3503	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3504			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3505			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3506			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3507
3508	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3509			process, but there is a small probability of
3510			deadlocking the machine.
3511			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3512			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3513
3514	page_alloc.shuffle=
3515			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3516			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3517			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3518			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3519			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3520			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3521			can be read from sysfs at:
3522			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3523
3524	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3525			Storage of the information about who allocated
3526			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3527			we can turn it on.
3528			on: enable the feature
3529
3530	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3531			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3532			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3533			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3534			on: turn on poisoning
3535
3536	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3537			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3538			timeout = 0: wait forever
3539			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3540			Format: <timeout>
3541
3542	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3543			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3544			bit 0: print all tasks info
3545			bit 1: print system memory info
3546			bit 2: print timer info
3547			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3548			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3549			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3550
3551	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3552			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3553			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3554			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3555			called with any of the flags in this set.
3556			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3557			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3558			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3559			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3560			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3561			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3562			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3563
3564	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3565			on a WARN().
3566
3567	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3568			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3569			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3570			succeeds in any situation.
3571			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3572			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3573			kernel more unstable.
3574
3575	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3576			connected to, default is 0.
3577			Format: <parport#>
3578	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3579			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3580			Format: <mode>
3581
3582	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3583			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3584			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3585			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3586			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3587			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3588			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3589			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3590			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3591			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3592			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3593			are specified on the command line, starting
3594			with parport0.
3595
3596	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3597			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3598			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3599			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3600			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3601			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3602			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3603
3604	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3605			Format: <int>
3606			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3607			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3608			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3609
3610	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3611			Format: <int>
3612			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3613			changes.  Disabled by default.
3614
3615	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3616			Format: <int>
3617			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3618			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3619			Disabled by default.
3620
3621	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3622			Format: <int>
3623			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3624			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3625			Disabled by default.
3626
3627	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3628			Format: <int>
3629			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3630			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3631			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3632			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3633			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3634			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3635			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3636			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3637			all channels.
3638
3639	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3640			Format: <int>
3641			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3642			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3643			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3644
3645	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3646			Format: <int>
3647			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3648			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3649			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3650
3651	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3652			Format: <int>
3653			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3654			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3655			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3656			All modes allowed by default.
3657
3658	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3659			Format: <int>
3660			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3661			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3662
3663	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3664			Format: <int>
3665			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3666			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3667			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3668			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3669			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3670			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3671			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3672			By default all supported ports are probed.
3673
3674	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3675			Format: <int>
3676			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3677			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3678
3679	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3680			Format: <int>
3681			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3682			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3683			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3684			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3685			0 otherwise.
3686
3687	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3688			Format: <int>
3689			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3690			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3691			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3692			allowed by default.
3693
3694	pause_on_oops=
3695			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3696			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3697			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3698
3699	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3700
3701	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3702			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3703			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3704
3705	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3706
3707				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3708				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3709				specified in one of the following formats:
3710
3711				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3712				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3713
3714				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3715				bus/device/function address which may change
3716				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3717				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3718				by other kernel parameters. If the
3719				domain is left unspecified, it is
3720				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3721				to a device through multiple device/function
3722				addresses can be specified after the base
3723				address (this is more robust against
3724				renumbering issues).  The second format
3725				selects devices using IDs from the
3726				configuration space which may match multiple
3727				devices in the system.
3728
3729		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3730				changes anything
3731		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3732		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3733				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3734				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3735		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3736				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3737				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3738				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3739		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3740				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3741				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3742		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3743				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3744				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3745				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3746				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3747				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3748				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3749		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3750				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3751				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3752		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3753				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3754		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3755				Configuration
3756		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3757				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3758				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3759		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3760				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3761				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3762		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3763				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3764				should never be necessary.
3765		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3766				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3767				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3768				when the system masks IRQs.
3769		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3770				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3771				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3772				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3773		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3774				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3775				on several machines and they hang the machine
3776				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3777				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3778				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3779				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3780				motherboard.
3781		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3782				Use with caution as certain devices share
3783				address decoders between ROMs and other
3784				resources.
3785		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3786				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3787				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3788		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3789				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3790		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3791				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3792				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3793				this way.
3794		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3795				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3796				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3797				F0000h-100000h range.
3798		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3799				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3800				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3801				explicitly which ones they are.
3802		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3803				numbers ourselves, overriding
3804				whatever the firmware may have done.
3805		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3806				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3807				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3808				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3809				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3810				IRQ routing is enabled.
3811		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3812				or for PCI scanning.
3813		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3814				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3815				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3816				please report a bug.
3817		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3818				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3819		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3820				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3821				so this option is a temporary workaround
3822				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3823		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3824				handle more pci cards
3825		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3826				This might help on some broken boards which
3827				machine check when some devices' config space
3828				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3829				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3830		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3831				This sorting is done to get a device
3832				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3833		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3834		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3835				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3836		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3837				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3838		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3839				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3840				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3841				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3842				or bus can support) for best performance.
3843		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3844				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3845				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3846				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3847				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3848				that hot-added devices will work.
3849		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3850				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3851				The default value is 256 bytes.
3852		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3853				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3854				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3855		resource_alignment=
3856				Format:
3857				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3858				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3859				aligned memory resources. How to
3860				specify the device is described above.
3861				If <order of align> is not specified,
3862				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3863				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3864				windows need to be expanded.
3865				To specify the alignment for several
3866				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3867				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3868				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3869				for 4096-byte alignment.
3870		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3871				end-to-end CRC checking).
3872				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3873				the default.
3874				off: Turn ECRC off
3875				on: Turn ECRC on.
3876		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3877				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3878				Default size is 256 bytes.
3879		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3880				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3881				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3882		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3883				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3884				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3885		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3886				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3887				MMIO_PREF window.
3888				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3889		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3890				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3891				Default is 1.
3892		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3893				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3894				accommodate resources required by all child
3895				devices.
3896				off: Turn realloc off
3897				on: Turn realloc on
3898		realloc		same as realloc=on
3899		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3900		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3901				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3902		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3903				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3904				port.
3905		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3906				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3907				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3908				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3909				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3910				taints the kernel.
3911		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3912				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3913				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3914				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3915				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3916				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3917				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3918				this removes isolation between devices and
3919				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3920		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3921		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3922		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3923				one PCI domain per PCI function
3924
3925	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3926			Management.
3927		off	Disable ASPM.
3928		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3929			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3930
3931	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3932		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3933			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3934			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3935			also tries to use these services.
3936		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3937				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3938		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3939			hotplug).
3940
3941	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3942		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3943		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3944
3945	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3946		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3947			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3948
3949	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3950
3951	pd_ignore_unused
3952			[PM]
3953			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3954			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3955			for debug and development, but should not be
3956			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3957
3958	pd.		[PARIDE]
3959			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3960
3961	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3962			boot time.
3963			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3964			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3965
3966	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3967			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3968			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3969			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3970			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3971			and performance comparison.
3972
3973	pf.		[PARIDE]
3974			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3975
3976	pg.		[PARIDE]
3977			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3978
3979	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3980			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3981
3982	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3983			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3984			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3985
3986	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3987			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3988			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3989
3990	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
3991			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3992
3993	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3994			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3995			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3996			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3997			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3998			possible settings and some assignment information.
3999
4000	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4001			{ off }
4002
4003	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4004			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4005
4006	pnp_reserve_irq=
4007			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4008
4009	pnp_reserve_dma=
4010			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4011
4012	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4013			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4014
4015	pnp_reserve_mem=
4016			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4017			autoconfiguration.
4018			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4019
4020	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4021			Default is 21.
4022			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4023			may be specified.
4024			Format: <port>,<port>....
4025
4026	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4027			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4028			platform machine description specific power_save
4029			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4030			execution priority.
4031
4032	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4033			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4034			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4035			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4036			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4037
4038	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4039			Format: {"off"}
4040			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4041
4042	preempt=	[KNL]
4043			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4044			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4045			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4046			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4047			       can be preempted anytime.
4048
4049	print-fatal-signals=
4050			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4051
4052			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4053			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4054			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4055			coredump - etc.
4056
4057			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4058			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4059
4060			default: off.
4061
4062	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4063			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4064			panics
4065			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4066			default: disabled
4067
4068	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4069			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4070			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4071			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4072			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4073			Default: ratelimit
4074
4075	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4076			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4077
4078	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4079			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4080			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4081
4082	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4083			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4084			instead using the legacy FADT method
4085
4086	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4087			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4088			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4089				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4090			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4091			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4092				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4093			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4094			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4095				statistical time based profiling.
4096
4097	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4098
4099	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4100			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4101			that).
4102			Format: <bool>
4103
4104	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4105			tracking.
4106			Format: <bool>
4107
4108	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4109			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4110	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4111			per second.
4112	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4113			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4114			(0 = never).
4115	psmouse.resolution=
4116			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4117	psmouse.smartscroll=
4118			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4119			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4120
4121	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4122
4123	pt.		[PARIDE]
4124			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4125
4126	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4127			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4128			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4129			system calls and interrupts.
4130
4131			on   - unconditionally enable
4132			off  - unconditionally disable
4133			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4134			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4135
4136			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4137
4138	nopti		[X86-64]
4139			Equivalent to pti=off
4140
4141	pty.legacy_count=
4142			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4143			default number.
4144
4145	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4146
4147	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4148
4149	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4150			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4151
4152	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4153			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4154
4155	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4156
4157	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4158			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4159			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4160			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4161			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4162
4163	randomize_kstack_offset=
4164			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4165			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4166			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4167			that depend on stack address determinism or
4168			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4169			available on architectures that have defined
4170			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4171			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4172			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4173
4174	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4175
4176		cec_disable	[X86]
4177				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4178				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4179
4180	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4181			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4182
4183			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4184			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4185			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4186			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4187			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4188			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4189			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4190			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4191			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
4192			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4193
4194	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4195			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4196			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4197			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4198			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4199			This improves the real-time response for the
4200			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4201			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4202			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4203			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4204
4205	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4206			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4207			process in one batch.
4208
4209	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4210			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4211			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4212			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4213
4214	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4215			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4216			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4217
4218	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4219			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4220			RCU grace-period initialization.
4221
4222	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4223			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4224			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4225			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4226			the rcu_node combining tree.
4227
4228	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4229			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4230			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4231			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4232			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4233
4234			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4235			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4236			to zero.
4237
4238	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4239			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4240			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4241			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4242			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4243
4244	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4245			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4246			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4247			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4248			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4249			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4250			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4251
4252	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4253			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4254			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4255			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4256			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4257			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4258			condition.
4259
4260	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4261			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4262			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4263			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4264			and maximum value is HZ.
4265
4266	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4267			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4268			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4269			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4270
4271	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4272			Set required age in jiffies for a
4273			given grace period before RCU starts
4274			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4275			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4276			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4277			a value based on the most recent settings
4278			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4279			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4280			This calculated value may be viewed in
4281			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4282			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4283			overwritten.
4284
4285	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4286			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4287			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4288			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4289			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4290			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4291			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4292			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4293			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4294			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4295
4296	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4297			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4298			each group, which defaults to the square root
4299			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4300			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4301			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4302			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4303
4304	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4305			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4306			batch limiting is disabled.
4307
4308	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4309			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4310			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4311
4312	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4313			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4314			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4315			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4316			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4317			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4318			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4319			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4320
4321	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4322			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4323			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4324
4325	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4326			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4327			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4328			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4329			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4330			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4331
4332	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4333			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4334			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4335			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4336			Larger delays increase the probability of
4337			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4338			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4339			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4340
4341	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4342			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4343			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4344			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4345
4346	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4347			Measure performance of asynchronous
4348			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4349
4350	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4351			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4352			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4353			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4354			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4355			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4356
4357	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4358			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4359			grace-period primitives.
4360
4361	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4362			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4363			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4364			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4365			interference.
4366
4367	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4368			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4369
4370	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4371			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4372			If this parameter has the same value as
4373			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4374			and double-argument variants are tested.
4375
4376	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4377			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4378			If this parameter has the same value as
4379			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4380			and double-argument variants are tested.
4381
4382	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4383			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4384
4385	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4386			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4387
4388	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4389			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4390			of allocations and frees.
4391
4392	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4393			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4394			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4395			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4396			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4397			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4398			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4399			a single reader.
4400
4401	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4402			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4403			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4404			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4405
4406	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4407			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4408
4409	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4410			Shut the system down after performance tests
4411			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4412			testing.
4413
4414	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4415			Enable additional printk() statements.
4416
4417	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4418			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4419			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4420			no holdoff.
4421
4422	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4423			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4424			in microseconds.
4425
4426	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4427			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4428			in microseconds.
4429
4430	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4431			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4432			in seconds.
4433
4434	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4435			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4436			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4437
4438	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4439			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4440			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4441
4442	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4443			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4444			forward-progress tests.
4445
4446	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4447			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4448			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4449			testing.
4450
4451	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4452			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4453			primitives, if available.
4454
4455	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4456			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4457
4458	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4459			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4460			update-side primitives, if available.
4461
4462	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4463			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4464			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4465			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4466			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4467			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4468			they are all non-zero.
4469
4470	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4471			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4472			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4473			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4474
4475	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4476			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4477			This can of course result in splats, and is
4478			intended to test the ability of things like
4479			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4480			such leaks.
4481
4482	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4483			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4484
4485	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4486			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4487			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4488			test, hence the "fake".
4489
4490	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4491			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4492			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4493
4494	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4495			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4496			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4497
4498	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4499			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4500			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4501			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4502			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4503			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4504
4505	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4506			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4507
4508	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4509			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4510
4511	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4512			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4513			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4514
4515	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4516			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4517			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4518			task-exit processing.
4519
4520	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4521			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4522			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4523			is spawned.
4524
4525	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4526			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4527			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4528
4529	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4530			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4531			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4532			during the rcutorture test.
4533
4534	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4535			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4536			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4537
4538	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4539			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4540			warnings, zero to disable.
4541
4542	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4543			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4544			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4545			to any other stall-related activity.
4546
4547	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4548			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4549
4550	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4551			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4552
4553	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4554			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4555			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4556			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4557			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4558			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4559
4560	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4561			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4562
4563	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4564			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4565			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4566			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4567			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4568
4569	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4570			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4571			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4572			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4573
4574	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4575			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4576
4577	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4578			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4579
4580	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4581			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4582			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4583
4584	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4585			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4586
4587	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4588			Enable additional printk() statements.
4589
4590	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4591			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4592			stall warning.
4593
4594	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4595			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4596
4597	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4598			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4599			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4600			during early boot, that is, during the time
4601			before the init task is spawned.
4602
4603	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4604			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4605
4606	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4607			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4608			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4609			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4610			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4611			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4612			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4613
4614	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4615			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4616			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4617			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4618			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4619			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4620			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4621			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4622			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4623
4624	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4625			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4626			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4627			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4628			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4629
4630			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4631			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4632			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4633			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4634			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4635			grace-period processing.
4636
4637	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4638			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4639			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4640			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4641			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4642			but lengthens grace periods.
4643
4644	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4645			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4646			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4647			to zero.
4648
4649	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4650			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4651
4652	rdinit=		[KNL]
4653			Format: <full_path>
4654			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4655			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4656
4657	rdrand=		[X86]
4658			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4659				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4660				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4661				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4662				path).
4663
4664	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4665			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4666			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4667			mba.
4668			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4669				rdt=cmt,!mba
4670
4671	reboot=		[KNL]
4672			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4673				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4674				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4675				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4676				[[,]f[orce]
4677			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4678					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4679					reboot only),
4680			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4681			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4682			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4683					to be used for rebooting.
4684
4685	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4686			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4687			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4688			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4689			interference.
4690
4691	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4692			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4693			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4694			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4695			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4696			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4697			x86 laptops.
4698
4699	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4700			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4701			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4702			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4703
4704	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4705			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4706			the console log.
4707
4708	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4709			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4710			measured in microseconds.
4711
4712	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4713			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4714
4715	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4716			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4717			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4718			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4719			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4720
4721	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4722			Enable additional printk() statements.
4723
4724	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4725			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4726			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4727			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4728			specified.
4729
4730	relax_domain_level=
4731			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4732			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4733
4734	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4735			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4736			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4737			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4738			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4739
4740	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4741			Format: nn[KMG]
4742			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4743			address space.
4744
4745	reservelow=	[X86]
4746			Format: nn[K]
4747			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4748			the bottom of the address space.
4749
4750	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4751			during initialization.
4752
4753	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4754			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4755			Format:
4756			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4757
4758	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4759			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4760			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4761			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4762			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4763
4764	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4765			read the resume files
4766
4767	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4768			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4769			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4770
4771	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4772		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4773				present during boot.
4774		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4775		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4776		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4777				(that will set all pages holding image data
4778				during restoration read-only).
4779
4780	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4781
4782	rfkill.default_state=
4783		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4784			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4785		1	Unblocked.
4786
4787	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4788		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4789		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4790			blocked and the previous configuration.
4791		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4792			blocked and everything unblocked.
4793
4794	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4795			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4796
4797	ring3mwait=disable
4798			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4799			CPUs.
4800
4801	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4802
4803	rodata=		[KNL]
4804		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4805		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4806
4807	rockchip.usb_uart
4808			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4809			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4810			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4811			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4812
4813	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4814			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4815
4816	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4817			mount the root filesystem
4818
4819	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4820
4821	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4822
4823	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4824			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4825			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4826
4827	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4828			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4829			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4830			managed by CMA.
4831
4832	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4833
4834	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4835
4836	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4837			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4838		strict
4839			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4840			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4841			which is faster.
4842
4843	sa1100ir	[NET]
4844			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4845
4846	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4847
4848	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4849
4850	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4851			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4852			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4853			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4854
4855	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4856			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4857			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4858			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4859			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4860			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4861			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4862			value.
4863			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4864			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
4865				1			64 ms
4866				2			128 ms
4867			and so on.
4868			Format: integer between 0 and 10
4869			Default is 0.
4870
4871	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4872			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4873			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4874			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4875			tests.
4876
4877	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4878			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4879			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
4880			default) disables this feature.  Please note
4881			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4882			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4883			softlockup complaints, and so on.
4884
4885	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4886			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4887			smp_call_function() family of functions.
4888			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4889			equal to the number of CPUs.
4890
4891	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4892			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4893			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4894
4895	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4896			Number seconds to wait between successive
4897			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
4898			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4899
4900	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4901			The number of seconds following the start of the
4902			test after which to shut down the system.  The
4903			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4904			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4905
4906	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4907			The number of seconds between outputting the
4908			current test statistics to the console.  A value
4909			of zero disables statistics output.
4910
4911	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4912			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4913			to the set of CPUs under test.
4914
4915	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4916			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4917			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4918			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4919			functions.
4920
4921	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4922			Enable additional printk() statements.
4923
4924	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4925			The probability weighting to use for the
4926			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4927			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
4928			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
4929			if at least one weight has some other value, a
4930			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4931
4932	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4933			The probability weighting to use for the
4934			smp_call_function_single() function with a
4935			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4936
4937	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4938			The probability weighting to use for the
4939			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4940			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4941			Note well that setting a high probability for
4942			this weighting can place serious IPI load
4943			on the system.
4944
4945	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4946			The probability weighting to use for the
4947			smp_call_function_many() function with a
4948			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4949			and weight_many.
4950
4951	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4952			The probability weighting to use for the
4953			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4954			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
4955			weight_many.
4956
4957	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4958			The probability weighting to use for the
4959			smp_call_function_all() function with a
4960			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4961			and weight_many.
4962
4963	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4964			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4965			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4966			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4967			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4968			1 -- enable.
4969			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4970			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4971
4972	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4973			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4974			"lsm=" parameter.
4975
4976	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4977			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4978			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4979			0 -- disable.
4980			1 -- enable.
4981			Default value is 1.
4982
4983	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4984			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4985			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4986			0 -- disable.
4987			1 -- enable.
4988			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4989
4990	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4991
4992	shapers=	[NET]
4993			Maximal number of shapers.
4994
4995	simeth=		[IA-64]
4996	simscsi=
4997
4998	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4999
5000	slab_merge	[MM]
5001			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5002			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5003
5004	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5005			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5006			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5007			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5008			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5009			layout control by attackers can usually be
5010			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5011			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5012			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5013			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5014			own.
5015			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5016
5017	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5018			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5019			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5020			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5021			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5022
5023	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5024			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5025			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5026			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5027			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5028			last alloc / free. For more information see
5029			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5030
5031	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5032			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5033			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5034			fragmentation. For more information see
5035			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5036
5037	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5038			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5039			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5040			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5041			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5042			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5043			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5044			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5045
5046	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5047			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5048			lower than slub_max_order.
5049			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5050
5051	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5052			Same with slab_merge.
5053
5054	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5055			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5056			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5057
5058	smart2=		[HW]
5059			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5060
5061	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5062	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5063	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5064	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5065	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5066	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5067	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5068				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5069				1: Fast pin select (default)
5070				2: ATC IRMode
5071
5072	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5073			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5074			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5075			actual hardware limit.
5076			Format: <integer>
5077			Default: -1 (no limit)
5078
5079	softlockup_panic=
5080			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5081			Format: 0 | 1
5082
5083			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5084			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5085			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5086			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5087			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5088
5089	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5090			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5091			backtraces on all cpus.
5092			Format: 0 | 1
5093
5094	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5095			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5096
5097	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5098			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5099			The default operation protects the kernel from
5100			user space attacks.
5101
5102			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5103			       spectre_v2_user=on
5104			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5105			       spectre_v2_user=off
5106			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5107			       vulnerable
5108
5109			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5110			mitigation method at run time according to the
5111			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5112			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5113			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5114
5115			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5116			against user space to user space task attacks.
5117
5118			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5119			the user space protections.
5120
5121			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5122
5123			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5124			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
5125			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
5126
5127			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5128			spectre_v2=auto.
5129
5130	spectre_v2_user=
5131			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5132		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5133		        user space tasks
5134
5135			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5136				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5137
5138			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5139				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5140
5141			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5142				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5143				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5144				  is inherited on fork.
5145
5146			prctl,ibpb
5147				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5148				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5149				  always when switching between different user
5150				  space processes.
5151
5152			seccomp
5153				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5154				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5155				  they explicitly opt out.
5156
5157			seccomp,ibpb
5158				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5159				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5160				  always when switching between different
5161				  user space processes.
5162
5163			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5164				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5165
5166			Default mitigation:
5167			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5168
5169			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5170			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5171
5172	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5173			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5174			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5175
5176			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5177			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5178			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5179			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5180			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5181			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5182			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5183			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5184
5185			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5186			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5187			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5188			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5189
5190			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5191			Bypass optimization is used.
5192
5193			On x86 the options are:
5194
5195			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5196			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5197			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5198				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5199				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5200				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5201				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5202				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5203			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5204				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5205				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5206				  is inherited on fork.
5207			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5208				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5209
5210			Default mitigations:
5211			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5212
5213			On powerpc the options are:
5214
5215			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5216				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5217				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5218				  exit.
5219			off	- No action.
5220
5221			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5222			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5223
5224	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5225	spia_fio_base=
5226	spia_pedr=
5227	spia_peddr=
5228
5229	split_lock_detect=
5230			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5231
5232			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5233			instructions that access data across cache line
5234			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5235			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5236			bus lock detection.
5237
5238			off	- not enabled
5239
5240			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5241				  about applications triggering the #AC
5242				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5243				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5244				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5245				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5246				  enabled in hardware.
5247
5248			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5249				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5250				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5251				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5252
5253			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5254			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5255			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5256			mode.
5257
5258			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5259			CPL > 0.
5260
5261	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5262			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5263			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5264
5265			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5266			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5267			number generator.
5268
5269			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5270			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5271			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5272			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5273			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5274
5275			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5276			the following option:
5277
5278			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5279				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5280
5281	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5282			Specifies how frequently to check for
5283			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5284			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5285			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5286			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5287			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5288			are ignored.
5289
5290	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5291			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5292			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5293			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5294			grace period will be considered for automatic
5295			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5296			expediting.
5297
5298	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5299			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5300
5301			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5302			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5303			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5304			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5305
5306			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5307				   for both kernel and userspace
5308			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5309				   for both kernel and userspace
5310			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5311				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5312				   to allow userspace to register its
5313				   interest in being mitigated too.
5314
5315	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5316			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5317			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5318			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5319			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5320			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5321
5322	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5323			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5324			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5325			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5326			to false.
5327
5328	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5329			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5330
5331	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5332			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5333			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5334			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5335			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5336			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5337			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5338
5339	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5340			Format: <num>
5341			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5342			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5343			as the initial boot-console.
5344			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5345
5346	sti_font=	[HW]
5347			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5348
5349	stifb=		[HW]
5350			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5351
5352	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5353	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5354			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5355			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5356			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5357			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5358			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5359			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5360			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5361			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5362			maximum port values.
5363
5364	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5365			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5366			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5367			process in parallel from a single connection.
5368			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5369
5370	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5371			[NFS]
5372			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5373			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5374			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5375			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5376			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5377			NFS server is running.
5378
5379			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5380				    automatically using heuristics
5381			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5382			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5383			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5384				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5385
5386	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5387	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5388			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5389			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5390			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5391			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5392			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5393			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5394
5395	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5396			[SUSPEND]
5397			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5398			mode before resuming the system (see
5399			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5400			is set. Default value is 5.
5401
5402	svm=		[PPC]
5403			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5404			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5405			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5406
5407	swapaccount=[0|1]
5408			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5409			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5410			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5411
5412	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5413			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5414			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5415			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5416			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5417			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5418
5419	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5420
5421	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5422			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5423			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5424			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5425			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5426			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5427			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5428			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5429
5430	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5431			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5432			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5433			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5434			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5435			in older udev will not work anymore.
5436			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5437			the kernel configuration.
5438
5439	sysrq_always_enabled
5440			[KNL]
5441			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5442			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5443			Useful for debugging.
5444
5445	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5446			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5447			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5448			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5449			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5450			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5451
5452	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5453
5454	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5455			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5456			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5457			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5458			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5459			The system is woken from this state using a
5460			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5461
5462	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5463			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5464
5465	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5466			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5467			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5468
5469	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5470			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5471			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5472
5473	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5474			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5475			critical and hot trip points.
5476
5477	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5478			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5479
5480	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5481			-1: disable all passive trip points
5482			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5483			value
5484
5485	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5486			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5487			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5488			0: no polling (default)
5489
5490	threadirqs	[KNL]
5491			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5492			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5493
5494	topology=	[S390]
5495			Format: {off | on}
5496			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5497			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5498			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5499			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5500			Default is on.
5501
5502	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5503			Format: {off}
5504			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5505			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5506			LPAR.
5507
5508	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5509			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5510			until after init has spawned.
5511
5512	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5513			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5514			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5515			very costly operation when many torture tests
5516			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5517			with rotating-rust storage.
5518
5519	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5520			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5521			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5522			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5523
5524	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5525			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5526
5527	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5528
5529	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5530			Format: integer pcr id
5531			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5532			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5533			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5534			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5535			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5536			are saved.
5537
5538	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5539			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5540
5541	trace_event=[event-list]
5542			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5543			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5544			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5545			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5546
5547	trace_options=[option-list]
5548			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5549			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5550			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5551			to echo the option name into
5552
5553			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5554
5555			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5556			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5557
5558			      trace_options=stacktrace
5559
5560			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5561			section.
5562
5563	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5564			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5565			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5566			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5567			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5568			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5569
5570			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5571			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5572			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5573			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5574
5575			** CAUTION **
5576
5577			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5578			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5579			the system to live lock.
5580
5581	traceoff_on_warning
5582			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5583			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5584			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5585			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5586
5587			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5588			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5589			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5590
5591			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5592			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5593
5594	transparent_hugepage=
5595			[KNL]
5596			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5597			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5598			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5599			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5600			for more details.
5601
5602	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
5603			Format: <string>
5604			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5605			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5606			sources:
5607			- "tpm"
5608			- "tee"
5609			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5610			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5611			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5612			successfully during iteration.
5613
5614	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5615			Format: <string>
5616			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5617			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5618			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5619			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5620			virtualized environment.
5621			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5622			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5623			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5624			can add overhead.
5625			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5626			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5627			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5628			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5629			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5630			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5631			acceptable).
5632
5633	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5634			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5635			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5636			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5637			Format: <unsigned int>
5638
5639	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5640			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5641			support TSX control.
5642
5643			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5644
5645			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5646				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5647				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5648				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5649				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5650				with leaving it enabled.
5651
5652			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5653				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5654				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5655				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5656				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5657				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5658				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5659
5660			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5661				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5662
5663			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5664
5665			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5666			for more details.
5667
5668	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5669			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5670
5671			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5672			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5673			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5674			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5675			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5676			conditions.
5677
5678			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5679			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5680			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5681			access.
5682
5683			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5684			options are:
5685
5686			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5687				     if TSX is enabled.
5688
5689			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5690				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5691				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5692				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5693			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5694
5695			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5696			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5697			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5698			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5699
5700			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5701			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5702			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5703			required and doesn't provide any additional
5704			mitigation.
5705
5706			For details see:
5707			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5708
5709	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5710			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5711			Format:
5712			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5713			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5714
5715	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5716			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5717			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5718			help "seeing" what's going on.
5719
5720	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5721			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5722
5723	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5724			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5725			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5726			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5727			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5728			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5729			reported either.
5730
5731	unknown_nmi_panic
5732			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5733
5734	usbcore.authorized_default=
5735			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5736			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5737			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5738			if device connected to internal port)
5739
5740	usbcore.autosuspend=
5741			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5742			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5743			is the time required before an idle device will be
5744			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5745			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5746
5747	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5748			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5749
5750	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5751			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5752			(default = 65536).
5753
5754	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5755			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5756
5757	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5758			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5759			scheme (default 0 = off).
5760
5761	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5762			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5763			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5764
5765	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5766			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5767			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5768
5769	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5770			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5771			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5772			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5773
5774	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5775
5776	usbcore.quirks=
5777			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5778			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5779			commas. Each entry has the form
5780			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5781			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5782			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5783			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5784			the following meanings:
5785				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5786					descriptors must not be fetched using
5787					a 255-byte read);
5788				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5789					correctly so reset it instead);
5790				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5791					Set-Interface requests);
5792				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5793					handle its Configuration or Interface
5794					strings);
5795				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5796					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5797				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5798					more interface descriptions than the
5799					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5800					talking to these interfaces);
5801				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5802					during initialization, after we read
5803					the device descriptor);
5804				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5805					high speed and super speed interrupt
5806					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5807					require the interval in microframes (1
5808					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5809					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5810					(bInterval-1).
5811					Devices with this quirk report their
5812					bInterval as the result of this
5813					calculation instead of the exponent
5814					variable used in the calculation);
5815				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5816					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5817					requests);
5818				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5819					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5820					remote wakeup capability);
5821				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5822					Power Management);
5823				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5824					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5825					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5826					calculation);
5827				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5828					to be disconnected before suspend to
5829					prevent spurious wakeup);
5830				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5831					pause after every control message);
5832				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5833					delay after resetting its port);
5834			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5835
5836	usbhid.mousepoll=
5837			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5838
5839	usbhid.jspoll=
5840			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5841
5842	usbhid.kbpoll=
5843			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5844
5845	usb-storage.delay_use=
5846			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5847			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5848
5849	usb-storage.quirks=
5850			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5851			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5852			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5853			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5854			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5855			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5856			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5857				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5858					of sense data, not on uas);
5859				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5860					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5861				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5862					device capacity by one sector);
5863				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5864					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5865				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5866					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5867				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5868					command, uas only);
5869				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5870					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5871				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5872					reported device capacity by one
5873					sector if the number is odd);
5874				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5875					device);
5876				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5877					command, uas only);
5878				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
5879				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5880					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5881				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5882					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5883					not on uas);
5884				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5885					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5886				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5887					reported by the device, not on uas);
5888				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5889					by default, not on uas);
5890				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5891					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5892				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5893					Logical Unit);
5894				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5895					commands, uas only);
5896				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5897				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5898					medium is write-protected).
5899				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5900					even if the device claims no cache,
5901					not on uas)
5902			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5903
5904	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5905			Format: <int>
5906			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5907				 1 - undefined instruction events
5908				 2 - system calls
5909				 4 - invalid data aborts
5910				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5911				16 - SIGBUS faults
5912			Example: user_debug=31
5913
5914	userpte=
5915			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5916
5917				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5918					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5919					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5920
5921	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5922			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5923
5924			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5925			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5926
5927	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5928			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5929			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5930
5931			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5932			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5933			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5934
5935			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5936			alias for vdso32=0.
5937
5938			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5939			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5940
5941	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5942			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5943
5944	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5945			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5946
5947	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5948			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5949			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5950			level and then send out the event to user space through
5951			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5952			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5953			brightness level.
5954			default: 1
5955
5956	virtio_mmio.device=
5957			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5958
5959				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5960			where:
5961				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5962						like K, M and G)
5963				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5964				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5965						request_irq())
5966				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5967			example:
5968				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5969
5970			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5971
5972	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5973			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5974			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5975			Use vga=ask for menu.
5976			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5977			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5978
5979	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5980			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5981			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5982			All options are enabled by default, and this
5983			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5984			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5985			debugging features.
5986
5987			Available options are:
5988			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5989			  -	Disable all of the above options
5990
5991	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5992			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5993			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5994			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5995			mapped kernel RAM.
5996
5997	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5998			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5999			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6000
6001	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6002			Format: <command>
6003
6004	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6005			Format: <command>
6006
6007	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6008			Format: <command>
6009
6010	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6011			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6012			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6013			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6014			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6015			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6016			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6017
6018			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6019			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6020				    page is readable.
6021
6022			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6023			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6024				    page is not readable.
6025
6026			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6027			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6028			            might break your system.
6029
6030	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6031			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6032			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6033
6034	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6035			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6036			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6037			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6038
6039	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6040			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6041			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6042			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6043			ranging from 0-255.
6044
6045	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6046			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6047			Change the default green palette of the console.
6048			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6049			ranging from 0-255.
6050
6051	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6052			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6053			Change the default red palette of the console.
6054			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6055			ranging from 0-255.
6056
6057	vt.default_utf8=
6058			[VT]
6059			Format=<0|1>
6060			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6061			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6062			newly opened terminals.
6063
6064	vt.global_cursor_default=
6065			[VT]
6066			Format=<-1|0|1>
6067			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6068			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6069			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6070			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6071			cursors, 1 will display them.
6072
6073	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6074			Default: 2 = green.
6075
6076	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6077			Default: 3 = cyan.
6078
6079	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6080			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6081			or other driver-specific files in the
6082			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6083
6084	watchdog_thresh=
6085			[KNL]
6086			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6087			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6088			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6089			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6090			seconds.
6091
6092	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6093			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6094			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6095			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6096			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6097			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6098			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6099			corresponding sysfs file.
6100
6101	workqueue.disable_numa
6102			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6103			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6104			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6105			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6106			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6107			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6108			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6109
6110	workqueue.power_efficient
6111			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6112			they show better performance thanks to cache
6113			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6114			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6115
6116			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6117			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6118			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6119			power usage at the cost of small performance
6120			overhead.
6121
6122			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6123			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6124
6125	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6126			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6127			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6128			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6129			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6130			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6131			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6132			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6133			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6134			impacted.
6135
6136	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6137			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6138			supporting x2apic.
6139
6140	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6141			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6142			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6143			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6144			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6145			domains.
6146
6147	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6148			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6149			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6150			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6151			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6152			nics -- unplug network devices
6153			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6154			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6155				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6156				the unplug protocol
6157			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6158
6159	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6160			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6161			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6162
6163	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6164			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6165			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6166			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6167
6168	xen_nopv	[X86]
6169			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6170			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6171			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6172			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6173
6174	xen_no_vector_callback
6175			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6176			event channel interrupts.
6177
6178	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6179			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6180			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6181			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6182			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6183
6184	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6185			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6186			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6187			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6188			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6189			more timer interrupts.
6190
6191	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6192			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6193			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6194
6195	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6196			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6197			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6198
6199	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6200			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6201			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6202			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6203			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6204			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6205
6206	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6207			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6208			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6209			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6210
6211	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6212			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6213			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6214			contention.
6215
6216	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6217			Format:
6218			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6219
6220	xive=		[PPC]
6221			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6222			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6223			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6224
6225			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6226				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6227				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6228
6229	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6230			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6231			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6232			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6233
6234	xmon		[PPC]
6235			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6236			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6237			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6238			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6239				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6240			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6241				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6242				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6243				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6244			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6245				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6246				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6247				can be written using xmon commands.
6248			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6249				memory, and other data can't be written using
6250				xmon commands.
6251			off	xmon is disabled.
6252