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