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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			nohugepages     - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
343				          to 4 KiB.
344			v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
345				          to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
346
347
348	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
349			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
350			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
351			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
352			IOMMU initialization.
353
354	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
355			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
356			remapping modes:
357			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
358			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
359			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
360			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
361			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
362
363	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
364			disable
365			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
366			  scaling driver for the supported processors
367			passive
368			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
369			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
370			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
371			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
372			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
373			active
374			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
375			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
376			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
377			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
378			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
379			  frequency.
380			guided
381			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
382			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
383			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
384			  to the current workload.
385
386	amd_prefcore=
387			[X86]
388			disable
389			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
390
391	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
392			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
393			Format: <a>,<b>
394			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
395
396	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
397			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
398			connected to one of 16 gameports
399			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
400
401	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
402			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
403			Format: noidle
404			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
405			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
406			APC and your system crashes randomly.
407
408	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
409			Change the output verbosity while booting
410			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
411			Change the amount of debugging information output
412			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
413			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
414			driver name.
415			Format: apic=driver_name
416			Examples: apic=bigsmp
417
418	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
419			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
420			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
421			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
422			      backup of CPU 0
423			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
424			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
425			      shot down by NMI
426
427	autoconf=	[IPV6]
428			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
429
430	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
431			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
432
433	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
434			Format: { "0" | "1" }
435			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
436			0 -- disable.
437			1 -- enable.
438			Default value is set via kernel config option.
439
440	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
441			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
442
443	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
444			32 bit applications.
445
446	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
447			Identification support
448
449	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
450			Set instructions support
451
452	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
453			support
454
455	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
456			support
457
458	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
459			Extension support
460
461	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
462			Extension support
463
464	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
465
466	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
467
468	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
469			EzKey and similar keyboards
470
471	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
472
473	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
474			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
475
476	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
477			keyboards
478
479	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
480			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
481
482	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
483			Use software keyboard repeat
484
485	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
486			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
487			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
488			    enabled until the next reboot
489			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
490			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
491			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
492			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
493			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
494			    userspace auditd.
495			Default: unset
496
497	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
498			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
499			Default: 64
500
501	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
502			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
503			Format: { "0" | "1" }
504			0 - Disable the BAU.
505			1 - Enable the BAU.
506			unset - Disable the BAU.
507
508	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
509			Format: <io>,<mode>
510
511	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
512			Format: <io>,<mode>
513			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
514
515	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
516			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
517			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
518			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
519
520	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
521			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
522			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
523			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
524
525	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
526			Format: <bool>
527			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
528			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
529			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
530			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
531			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
532			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
533			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
534			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
535			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
536
537	bert_disable	[ACPI]
538			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
539
540	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
541			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
542
543	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
544			embedded devices based on command line input.
545			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
546
547	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
548			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
549			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
550			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
551			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
552			erroneous and ignored.
553			Format: integer
554
555	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
556			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
557			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
558
559			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
560
561	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
562	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
563			kernel args too.
564	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
565	bttv.tuner=
566
567	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
568			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
569			at a time.
570
571	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
572
573	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
574			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
575			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
576			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
577			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
578			This option provides an override for these situations.
579
580	carrier_timeout=
581			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
582			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
583			it waits 120 seconds.
584
585	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
586			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
587			trust validation.
588			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
589
590	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
591			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
592			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
593			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
594			others).
595
596	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
597			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
598
599	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
600			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
601			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
602			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
603			  a single hierarchy
604			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
605			  subsystem
606			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
607			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
608			  created
609			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
610			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
611			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
612			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
613			stall information accounting feature
614
615	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
616			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
617			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
618			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
619			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
620			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
621			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
622			all v1 hierarchies.
623
624	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
625			Format: { "true" | "false" }
626			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
627
628	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
629			Format: <string>
630			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
631			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
632			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
633
634	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
635			Format: { "0" | "1" }
636			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
637			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
638				any implied execute protection).
639			1 -- check protection requested by application.
640			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
641			Value can be changed at runtime via
642				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
643			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
644
645	cio_ignore=	[S390]
646			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
647
648	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
649			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
650			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
651			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
652			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
653			ones should be.
654			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
655			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
656			instability issue. However, not all features have names
657			in /proc/cpuinfo.
658			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
659			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
660			or using the feature without checking anything
661			will still see it. This just prevents it from
662			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
663			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
664			some critical bits.
665
666	clk_ignore_unused
667			[CLK]
668			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
669			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
670			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
671			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
672			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
673			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
674			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
675			platform with proper driver support.  For more
676			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
677
678	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
679			[Deprecated]
680			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
681			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
682			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
683			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
684
685	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
686			Format: <string>
687			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
688			with the name specified.
689			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
690			the platform:
691			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
692			[ACPI] acpi_pm
693			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
694				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
695			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
696				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
697			[MIPS] MIPS
698			[PARISC] cr16
699			[S390] tod
700			[SH] SuperH
701			[SPARC64] tick
702			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
703
704	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
705			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
706			Format: <bool>
707			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
708			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
709			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
710			systems.
711
712	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
713			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
714			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
715			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
716			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
717			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
718			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
719			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
720			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
721
722	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
723			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
724			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
725			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
726			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
727
728	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
729			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
730			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
731			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
732			placement constraint by the physical address range of
733			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
734			altogether. For more information, see
735			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
736
737	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
738			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
739			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
740			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
741			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
742			specified, the default value is 0.
743			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
744			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
745			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
746			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
747
748	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
749			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
751			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
752			area for the specified node.
753
754			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
755			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
756			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
757			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
758
759	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
760			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
761			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
762			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
763			a hypervisor.
764			Default: yes
765
766	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
767			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
768			allocations, by default set to 256K.
769
770	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
771			Format:
772			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
773
774	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
775			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
776
777	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
778			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
779			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
780
781	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
782	conmode=
783
784	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
785			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
786			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
787			the console buffer is full. In this case the
788			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
789			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
790			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
791			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
792			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
793			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
794
795	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
796
797		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
798
799		ttyS<n>[,options]
800		ttyUSB0[,options]
801			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
802			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
803			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
804			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
805			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
806
807			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
808			information.  See
809			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
810			alternative.
811
812		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
813			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
814			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
815			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
816			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
817			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
818
819			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
820			can be viewed with:
821
822			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
823			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
824
825			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
826			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
827			way will only get added when the related device driver
828			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
829			the console may be desired for console output early on.
830
831		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
832		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
833		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
834		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
835		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
836			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
837			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
838			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
839			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
840			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
841			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
842			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
843			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
844			the h/w is not re-initialized.
845
846		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
847			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
848
849		{ null | "" }
850			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
851			console messages discarded.
852			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
853			kernel command line.
854
855		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
856		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
857			console=brl,ttyS0
858		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
859
860	console_msg_format=
861			[KNL] Change console messages format
862		default
863			By default we print messages on consoles in
864			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
865			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
866			`printk_time' param).
867		syslog
868			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
869			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
870			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
871			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
872			from /proc/kmsg.
873
874	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
875			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
876			Defaults to 0.
877
878	coredump_filter=
879			[KNL] Change the default value for
880			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
881			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
882
883	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
884			[ARM,ARM64]
885			Format: <bool>
886			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
887			0: default value, disable debugging
888			1: enable debugging at boot time
889
890	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
891			Format:
892			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
893
894	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
895			disable the cpuidle sub-system
896
897	cpuidle.governor=
898			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
899
900	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
901			disable the cpufreq sub-system
902
903	cpufreq.default_governor=
904			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
905			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
906			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
907
908	cpu_init_udelay=N
909			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
910			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
911			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
912			Default: 10000
913
914	cpuhp.parallel=
915			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
916			Format: <bool>
917			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
918			the parameter has no effect.
919
920	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
921			Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
922			notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
923			the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
924			notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
925			In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
926			running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
927			more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
928			or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
929			configurations enable this option unconditionally,
930			like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
931
932	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
933			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
934			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
935			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
936			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
937			is selected automatically.
938			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
939			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
940			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
941			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
942
943	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
944			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
945			in the running system. The syntax of range is
946			start-[end] where start and end are both
947			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
948			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
949
950	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
951			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
952			above 4G.
953			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
954			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
955			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
956			below 4G, if available.
957			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
958	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
959			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
960			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
961			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
962			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
963			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
964			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
965			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
966			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
967			size is	platform dependent.
968			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
969			  --> arm64: 128MiB
970			  --> riscv: 128MiB
971			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
972			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
973			for second kernel instead.
974			0: to disable low allocation.
975			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
976			or memory reserved is below 4G.
977
978	cryptomgr.notests
979			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
980
981	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
982			Format: <dma>
983
984	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
985			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
986
987	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
988			function call handling. When switched on,
989			additional debug data is printed to the console
990			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
991			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
992			the hang situation.  The default value of this
993			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
994			Kconfig option.
995
996	dasd=		[HW,NET]
997			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
998
999	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1000			(one device per port)
1001			Format: <port#>,<type>
1002			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1003
1004	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1005
1006	debug_boot_weak_hash
1007			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1008			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1009			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1010			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1011			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1012			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1013
1014	debug_locks_verbose=
1015			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1016			Format: <int>
1017			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1018			self-tests.
1019			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1020			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1021			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1022			useful to lockdep developers.
1023
1024	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1025
1026	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1027			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1028			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1029			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1030			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1031			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1032			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1033			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1034			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1035			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1036			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1037			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1038			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1039			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1040			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1041			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1042			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1043			help tracking down these problems.
1044
1045	debug_pagealloc=
1046			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1047			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1048			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1049			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1050			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1051			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1052			on: enable the feature
1053
1054	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1055			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1056			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1057			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1058			no-mount:
1059				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1060			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1061				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1062			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1063			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1064				or directories within debugfs.
1065				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1066				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1067			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1068
1069	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1070
1071	default_hugepagesz=
1072			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1073			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1074			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1075			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1076			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1077			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1078			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1079			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1080			Format: size[KMG]
1081
1082	deferred_probe_timeout=
1083			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1084			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1085			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1086			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1087			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1088			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1089			successful driver registration. This option will also
1090			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1091			retrying.
1092
1093	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1094
1095	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1096			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1097			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1098			hardware.
1099
1100	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1101			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1102			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1103			blacklisted features.
1104
1105	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1106			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1107			(disabled by default).
1108
1109	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1110			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1111			capability is set.
1112
1113	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1114			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1115
1116	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1117			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1118
1119	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1120			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1121			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1122			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1123			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1124			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1125			          only (compression on level 1)
1126			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1127			          only (decompression)
1128			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1129			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1130
1131	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1132			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1133
1134	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1135			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1136			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1137			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1138			miss to occur.
1139
1140	disable=	[IPV6]
1141			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1142
1143	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1144			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1145
1146	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1147			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1148			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1149
1150	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1151			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1152			to workaround buggy firmware.
1153
1154	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1155			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1156
1157	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1158			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1159			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1160			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1161
1162	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1163			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1164			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1165			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1166			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1167
1168	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1169			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1170			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1171
1172	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1173
1174	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1175			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1176
1177	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1178			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1179			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1180			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1181			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1182			architectural default is too low.
1183
1184	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1185			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1186			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1187			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1188			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1189			driver later using sysfs.
1190
1191	reg_file_data_sampling=
1192			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1193			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1194			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1195			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1196			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1197			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1198
1199			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1200			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1201
1202			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1203			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1204			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1205			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1206			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1207
1208			For details see:
1209			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1210
1211	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1212			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1213			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1214			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1215			match the *.
1216			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1217
1218	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1219			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1220			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1221			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1222			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1223			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1224			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1225			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1226			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1227			data set with no connector name will be used for
1228			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1229
1230	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1231
1232	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1233			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1234			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1235			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1236			exists).
1237			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1238			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1239			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1240
1241	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1242			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1243			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1244			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1245
1246	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1247	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1248			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1249			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1250			for details.
1251
1252	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1253			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1254			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1255			which are not unmapped.
1256
1257	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1258
1259			When used with no options, the early console is
1260			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1261			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1262			the platform.
1263
1264		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1265			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1266			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1267			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1268			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1269			configured.
1270
1271		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1272		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1273		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1274		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1275		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1276			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1277			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1278			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1279			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1280			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1281			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1282			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1283			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1284			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1285			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1286
1287		pl011,<addr>
1288		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1289			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1290			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1291			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1292			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1293			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1294			the device registers.
1295
1296		liteuart,<addr>
1297			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1298			specified address. The serial port must already be
1299			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1300
1301		meson,<addr>
1302			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1303			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1304			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1305			supported.
1306
1307		msm_serial,<addr>
1308			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1309			port at the specified address. The serial port
1310			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1311			yet supported.
1312
1313		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1314			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1315			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1316			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1317			yet supported.
1318
1319		owl,<addr>
1320			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1321			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1322			specified address. The serial port must already be
1323			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1324
1325		rda,<addr>
1326			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1327			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1328			specified address. The serial port must already be
1329			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1330
1331		sbi
1332			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1333			console.
1334
1335		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1336
1337		s3c2410,<addr>
1338		s3c2412,<addr>
1339		s3c2440,<addr>
1340		s3c6400,<addr>
1341		s5pv210,<addr>
1342		exynos4210,<addr>
1343			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1344			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1345			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1346			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1347			Options are not yet supported.
1348
1349		lantiq,<addr>
1350			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1351			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1352			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1353			yet supported.
1354
1355		lpuart,<addr>
1356		lpuart32,<addr>
1357			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1358			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1359			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1360			port must already be setup and configured.
1361
1362		ec_imx21,<addr>
1363		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1364			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1365			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1366			must already be setup and configured.
1367
1368		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1369			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1370			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1371			address. The serial port must already be setup
1372			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1373
1374		qcom_geni,<addr>
1375			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1376			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1377			specified address. The serial port must already be
1378			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1379
1380		efifb,[options]
1381			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1382			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1383			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1384			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1385			mapped with the correct attributes.
1386
1387		linflex,<addr>
1388			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1389			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1390			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1391			already be setup and configured.
1392
1393	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1394			earlyprintk=vga
1395			earlyprintk=sclp
1396			earlyprintk=xen
1397			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1398			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1399			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1400			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1401			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1402			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1403			earlyprintk=bios
1404
1405			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1406			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1407			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1408
1409			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1410			takes over.
1411
1412			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1413			be used at a time.
1414
1415			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1416			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1417			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1418			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1419				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1420			You can find the port for a given device in
1421			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1422				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1423
1424			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1425			very good.
1426
1427			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1428			the real console.
1429
1430			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1431
1432			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1433
1434			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1435
1436			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1437			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1438			UART class.
1439
1440	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1441			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1442			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1443			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1444			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1445			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1446			default: on.
1447
1448	edd=		[EDD]
1449			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1450
1451	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1452			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1453				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1454				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1455			debug: enable misc debug output.
1456			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1457			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1458			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1459			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1460			firmware implementations.
1461			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1462			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1463			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1464			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1465			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1466			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1467			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1468			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1469			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1470			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1471
1472	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1473			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1474			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1475			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1476			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1477
1478	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1479			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1480			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1481			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1482			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1483
1484
1485	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1486			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1487
1488	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1489			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1490
1491			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1492			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1493
1494			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1495			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1496			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1497			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1498
1499	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1500			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1501			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1502
1503	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1504			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1505			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1506			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1507			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1508
1509	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1510			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1511			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1512			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1513
1514	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1515			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1516			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1517			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1518			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1519
1520	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1521			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1522			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1523			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1524			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1525			Default value is 0.
1526			Value can be changed at runtime via
1527			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1528
1529	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1530			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1531			support.
1532
1533	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1534			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1535			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1536
1537	evm=		[EVM]
1538			Format: { "fix" }
1539			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1540			current integrity status.
1541
1542	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1543			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1544			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1545			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1546			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1547			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1548			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1549
1550	failslab=
1551	fail_usercopy=
1552	fail_page_alloc=
1553	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1554			General fault injection mechanism.
1555			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1556			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1557
1558	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1559			Format: { initns | none }
1560			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1561			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1562
1563	floppy=		[HW]
1564			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1565
1566	forcepae	[X86-32]
1567			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1568			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1569			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1570			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1571			and may cause unknown problems.
1572
1573	fred=		[X86-64]
1574			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1575			Format: { on | off }
1576			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1577			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1578
1579	ftrace=[tracer]
1580			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1581			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1582			boot debugging.
1583
1584	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1585			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1586			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1587			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1588			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1589			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1590			start up functionality.
1591
1592			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1593			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1594			line parameter.
1595
1596			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1597
1598			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1599			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1600
1601	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1602			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1603			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1604			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1605			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1606			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1607			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1608			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1609			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1610			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1611			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1612
1613			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1614
1615			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1616			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1617
1618			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1619
1620			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1621			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1622			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1623
1624	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1625			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1626			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1627			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1628			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1629			tracing directory.
1630
1631	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1632			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1633			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1634			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1635			tracing directory.
1636
1637	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1638			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1639			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1640			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1641			that can be changed at run time by the
1642			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1643
1644	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1645			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1646			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1647			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1648			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1649
1650	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1651			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1652			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1653			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1654			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1655
1656	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1657			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1658			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1659			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1660			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1661			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1662			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1663			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1664			suppliers).
1665			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1666			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1667			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1668				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1669				up (sync_state() calls).
1670			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1671				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1672			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1673
1674	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1675			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1676			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1677			Format: <bool>
1678
1679	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1680			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1681			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1682			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1683			calls.
1684			Format: { strict | timeout }
1685			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1686				probe successfully.
1687			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1688				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1689				received their sync_state() calls after
1690				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1691				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1692
1693	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1694			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1695			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1696			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1697			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1698
1699	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1700
1701	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1702			Format: off | on
1703			default: on
1704
1705	gather_data_sampling=
1706			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1707			mitigation.
1708
1709			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1710			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1711			previously stored in vector registers.
1712
1713			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1714			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1715			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1716			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1717
1718			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1719				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1720				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1721				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1722
1723			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1724
1725	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1726			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1727			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1728			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1729			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1730
1731	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1732			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1733			android emulator
1734
1735	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1736			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1737			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1738	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1739			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1740
1741	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1742			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1743			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1744			GPT to be used instead.
1745
1746	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1747			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1748			Format: 0 | 1
1749			Default: 0
1750	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1751			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1752			Format: 0 | 1
1753			Default: 0
1754	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1755			Format: 0 | 1
1756			Default: 0
1757	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1758			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1759			Default: 1024
1760	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1761			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1762			Default: 1024
1763
1764	hardened_usercopy=
1765			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1766			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1767			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1768			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1769			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1770			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1771			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1772		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1773		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1774
1775	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1776			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1777			backtraces on all cpus.
1778			Format: 0 | 1
1779
1780	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1781			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1782			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1783			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1784
1785	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1786			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1787
1788	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1789			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1790			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1791			logic will be disabled.
1792
1793	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1794		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1795				present during boot.
1796		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1797		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1798		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1799				(that will set all pages holding image data
1800				during restoration read-only).
1801
1802	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1803				used with hibernation.
1804				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1805				Default: lzo
1806
1807				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1808				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1809
1810				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1811				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1812
1813	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1814			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1815			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1816			size on bigger boxes.
1817
1818	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1819			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1820			Default: "on"
1821
1822	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1823
1824	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1825			Format: <string>
1826			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1827			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1828			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1829			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1830			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1831			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1832			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1833			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1834			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1835			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1836
1837	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1838			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1839				verbose }
1840			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1841			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1842				VIA, nVidia)
1843			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1844
1845	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1846			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1847
1848	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1849			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1850			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1851			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1852			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1853			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1854			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1855			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1856			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1857				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1858
1859	hugepagesz=
1860			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1861			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1862			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1863			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1864			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1865			architecture dependent.  See also
1866			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1867			Format: size[KMG]
1868
1869	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1870			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1871			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1872			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1873				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1874
1875			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1876			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1877			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1878
1879	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1880			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1881			enabled.
1882			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1883			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1884			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1885			Format: { on | off (default) }
1886
1887			on: enable HVO
1888			off: disable HVO
1889
1890			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1891			the default is on.
1892
1893			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1894			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1895			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1896			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1897			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1898
1899	hung_task_panic=
1900			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1901			Format: 0 | 1
1902
1903			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1904			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1905			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1906			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1907			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1908
1909	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1910				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1911	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1912				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1913				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1914
1915	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1916			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1917			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1918			on lock contention.
1919
1920	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1921				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1922				registered from board initialization code.
1923				Format:
1924				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1925
1926	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1927			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1928			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1929			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
1930			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
1931			adding a DMI quirk for this.
1932
1933			Format:
1934			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
1935			Where <val> is one of:
1936			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
1937			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
1938			Anything else		Set a string device-property
1939
1940			Examples (split over multiple lines):
1941			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
1942			touchscreen-inverted-y
1943
1944			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
1945			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
1946			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
1947
1948	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1949	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1950			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1951			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1952			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1953	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1954	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1955			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1956			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1957	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1958	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1959	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1960			     for the AUX port
1961	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1962			     controller
1963	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1964			     controllers
1965	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1966	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1967			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1968			     transitions, or never reset
1969			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1970			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1971			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1972			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1973			architectures force reset to be always executed
1974	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1975	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1976	i8042.probe_defer
1977			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1978
1979	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1980
1981	i915.invert_brightness=
1982			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1983			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1984			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1985			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1986			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1987			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1988			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1989			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1990			value switches the backlight off.
1991			-1 -- never invert brightness
1992			 0 -- machine default
1993			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1994
1995	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1996			Format: <bool>
1997			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1998			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1999			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2000
2001	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
2002			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2003
2004
2005	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
2006			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2007			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
2008			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
2009			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
2010			Not recommended.
2011			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2012			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2013			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2014
2015	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2016			Format: <bool>
2017			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2018			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2019			true (1).
2020
2021	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2022			Format: <bool>
2023			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2024			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2025
2026	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2027			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2028			Default: strict
2029
2030			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2031			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2032			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2033			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2034			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2035			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2036			encoding mode.
2037
2038			Available settings are as follows:
2039			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2040				supported by the FPU
2041			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2042				by the FPU
2043			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2044				by the FPU
2045			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2046				supported by the FPU
2047			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2048				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2049
2050			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2051			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2052			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2053			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2054			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2055			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2056			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2057			MIPS64 CPUs.
2058
2059			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2060			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2061			except where unsupported by hardware.
2062
2063	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2064			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2065			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2066			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2067			could change it dynamically, usually by
2068			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2069
2070	ignore_rlimit_data
2071			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2072			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2073			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2074
2075	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2076			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2077
2078	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2079			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2080			default: "enforce"
2081
2082	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2083			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2084			owned by uid=0.
2085
2086	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2087			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2088			measurements, instead of host native format.
2089
2090	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2091			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2092				   | sha512 | ... }
2093			default: "sha1"
2094
2095			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2096			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2097
2098	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2099			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2100			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2101				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2102
2103			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2104			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2105			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2106			uid=0.
2107
2108			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2109			all files owned by root.
2110
2111			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2112			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2113			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2114
2115			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2116			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2117			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2118			flag.
2119
2120			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2121			critical data.
2122
2123	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2124			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2125			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2126			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2127			opened for read by uid=0.
2128
2129	ima_template=	[IMA]
2130			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2131			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2132				   "ima-sigv2" }
2133			Default: "ima-ng"
2134
2135	ima_template_fmt=
2136			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2137			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2138
2139	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2140			Format: <min_file_size>
2141			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2142			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2143
2144			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2145			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2146			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2147
2148	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2149			Format: <bufsize>
2150			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2151
2152			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2153			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2154			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2155
2156	init=		[KNL]
2157			Format: <full_path>
2158			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2159			process.
2160
2161	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2162			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2163			startup.
2164
2165	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2166			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2167			modules and initcalls.
2168
2169	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2170			Format: <bool>
2171			Default: 1
2172			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2173			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2174			with devices being probed and
2175			initialized. This should normally just work,
2176			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2177			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2178			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2179			late_ initcalls.
2180
2181	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2182
2183	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2184			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2185			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2186			setting.
2187			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2188			Default is 0, 0
2189
2190	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2191			zeroes.
2192			Format: 0 | 1
2193			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2194
2195	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2196			Format: 0 | 1
2197			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2198
2199	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2200			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2201			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2202			override in debugfs after boot.
2203
2204	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2205			Format: <irq>
2206
2207	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2208
2209	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2210			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2211			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2212			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2213
2214	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2215		on
2216			Enable intel iommu driver.
2217		off
2218			Disable intel iommu driver.
2219		igfx_off [Default Off]
2220			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2221			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2222			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2223			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2224			DMA.
2225		strict [Default Off]
2226			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2227		sp_off [Default Off]
2228			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2229			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2230			not be supported.
2231		sm_on
2232			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2233			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2234			translation.
2235		sm_off
2236			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2237		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2238			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2239			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2240			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2241			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2242			mapping is enabled.
2243			Note that using this option lowers the security
2244			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2245			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2246
2247	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2248			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2249			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2250
2251	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2252			disable
2253			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2254			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2255                        active
2256                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2257                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2258                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2259                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2260                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2261                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2262                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2263                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2264                          and possibly on the processor model.
2265			passive
2266			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2267			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2268			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2269			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2270			  feature.
2271			force
2272			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2273			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2274			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2275			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2276			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2277			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2278			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2279			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2280			no_hwp
2281			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2282			  if available.
2283			hwp_only
2284			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2285			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2286			support_acpi_ppc
2287			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2288			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2289			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2290			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2291			per_cpu_perf_limits
2292			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2293			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2294
2295	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2296			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2297			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2298			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2299			no_x2apic_optout
2300				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2301			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2302			posted_msi
2303				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2304
2305	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2306		strict	regions from userspace.
2307		relaxed
2308
2309	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2310		off
2311		force
2312		noforce
2313		biomerge
2314		panic
2315		nopanic
2316		merge
2317		nomerge
2318		soft
2319		pt		[X86]
2320		nopt		[X86]
2321		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2322			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2323
2324	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2325			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2326			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2327			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2328			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2329			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2330			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2331
2332	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2333			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2334			0 - Lazy mode.
2335			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2336			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2337			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2338			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2339			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2340			1 - Strict mode.
2341			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2342			  synchronously.
2343			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2344			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2345			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2346
2347	iommu.passthrough=
2348			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2349			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2350			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2351			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2352			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2353
2354	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2355			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2356			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2357
2358	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2359		0x80
2360			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2361		0xed
2362			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2363		udelay
2364			Simple two microseconds delay
2365		none
2366			No delay
2367
2368	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2369			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2370
2371	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2372			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2373
2374	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2375			Format: <bool>
2376			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2377			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2378
2379	ipe.success_audit=
2380			[IPE]
2381			Format: <bool>
2382			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2383			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2384			is 0.
2385
2386	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2387			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2388
2389	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2390			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2391			Format: <bool>
2392			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2393			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2394			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2395
2396	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2397			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2398			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2399			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2400			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2401			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2402			LPIs.
2403
2404	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2405			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2406			requires the kernel to be built with
2407			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2408
2409	irqfixup	[HW]
2410			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2411			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2412			firmware running.
2413
2414	irqpoll		[HW]
2415			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2416			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2417			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2418			firmware running.
2419
2420	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2421			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2422
2423	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2424			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2425			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2426
2427			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2428			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2429
2430			nohz
2431			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2432
2433			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2434			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2435			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2436			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2437			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2438
2439			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2440			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2441			  be configured manually after bootup.
2442
2443			domain
2444			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2445			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2446			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2447			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2448			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2449			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2450			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2451			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2452
2453			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2454			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2455			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2456			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2457
2458			managed_irq
2459
2460			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2461			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2462			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2463			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2464			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2465
2466			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2467			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2468			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2469			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2470			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2471			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2472			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2473
2474			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2475			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2476			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2477			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2478			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2479			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2480			  queues.
2481
2482			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2483
2484	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2485
2486	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2487			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2488			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2489			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2490
2491			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2492			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2493			write the parameter as:
2494				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2495
2496			Deprecated formats:
2497			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2498			  write the parameter as:
2499				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2500			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2501			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2502				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2503
2504	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2505			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2506			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2507			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2508
2509			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2510			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2511			write the parameter as:
2512				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2513
2514			Deprecated formats:
2515			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2516			  write the parameter as:
2517				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2518			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2519			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2520				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2521
2522	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2523			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2524			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2525			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2526
2527			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2528			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2529			write the parameter as:
2530				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2531
2532			Deprecated formats:
2533			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2534			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2535				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2536			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2537			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2538				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2539
2540	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2541			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2542
2543	kasan_multi_shot
2544			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2545			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2546			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2547			invalid access.
2548
2549	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2550			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2551			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2552			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2553			the real console.
2554
2555	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2556
2557	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2558			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2559			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2560			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2561			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2562			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2563			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2564			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2565			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2566			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2567
2568			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2569			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2570			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2571			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2572			zone if it does not.
2573
2574			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2575			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2576			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2577			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2578			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2579			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2580			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2581
2582	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2583			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2584			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2585			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2586			optional and is the number seconds in between
2587			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2588			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2589			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2590			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2591			the kernel debugger.
2592
2593	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2594			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2595			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2596			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2597			 keyboard only format: kbd
2598			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2599			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2600			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2601			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2602
2603	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2604			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2605			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2606			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2607			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2608			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2609			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2610
2611			The name of the early console should be specified
2612			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2613			the early console might be different than the tty
2614			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2615			blank and the first boot console that implements
2616			read() will be picked.
2617
2618	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2619			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2620
2621	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2622			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2623			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2624
2625	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2626			Valid arguments: on, off
2627			Default: on
2628			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2629			the default is off.
2630
2631	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2632			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2633			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2634			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2635			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2636			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2637			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2638
2639			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2640
2641			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2642			Boot Parameter" section.
2643
2644	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2645			user and kernel address spaces.
2646			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2647			0: force disabled
2648			1: force enabled
2649
2650	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2651			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2652			default value can be overridden via
2653			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2654			Default is 1 (enabled)
2655
2656	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2657			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2658
2659	kvm.eager_page_split=
2660			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2661			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2662			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2663			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2664			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2665			required to split huge pages lazily.
2666
2667			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2668			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2669			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2670			still be used for reads.
2671
2672			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2673			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2674			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2675			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2676			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2677			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2678			cleared.
2679
2680			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2681
2682			Default is Y (on).
2683
2684	kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
2685			If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
2686			when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
2687			is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
2688
2689			If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
2690			virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2691			VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
2692			number of VMs.
2693
2694			Enabling virtualization at module lode avoids potential
2695			latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
2696			virtualization enabling across all online CPUs.  The
2697			"cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
2698			is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2699			hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
2700
2701	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2702				   Default is false (don't support).
2703
2704	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2705			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2706			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2707			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2708			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2709			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2710				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2711
2712			Default is 'auto'.
2713
2714			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2715			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2716
2717	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2718			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2719			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2720			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2721			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2722
2723	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2724			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2725			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2726			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2727			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2728			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2729
2730	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2731			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2732
2733	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2734			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2735			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2736			for NPT.
2737
2738	kvm-arm.mode=
2739			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2740			operation.
2741
2742			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2743
2744			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2745			      protected guests.
2746
2747			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2748				   state is kept private from the host.
2749
2750			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2751				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2752				hardware.
2753
2754			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2755			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2756			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2757			used with extreme caution.
2758
2759	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2760			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2761			system registers
2762
2763	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2764			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2765			system registers
2766
2767	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2768			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2769			system registers
2770
2771	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2772			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2773			injection of LPIs.
2774
2775	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2776			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2777			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2778			CPU architecture.
2779
2780			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2781
2782			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2783
2784	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2785			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2786			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2787			CPU architecture.
2788
2789			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2790
2791			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2792
2793	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2794			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2795			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2796			allocation.
2797			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2798			Format: <integer>
2799			Default: 5
2800
2801	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2802			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2803			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2804			for EPT.
2805
2806	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2807			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2808			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2809			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2810			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2811			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2812			Default is 1 (enabled).
2813
2814	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2815			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2816			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2817			hardware lacks support for it.
2818
2819	kvm-intel.nested=
2820			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2821			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2822
2823	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2824			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2825			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2826			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2827			hardware lacks support for it.
2828
2829	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2830			CVE-2018-3620.
2831
2832			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2833
2834			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2835			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2836				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2837			never:	Disables the mitigation
2838
2839			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2840
2841	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2842			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2843			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2844			for it.
2845
2846	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
2847			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2848
2849			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2850			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2851			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2852
2853			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2854			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2855			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2856			not have direct access.
2857
2858			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2859			options are:
2860
2861			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2862
2863	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2864			      affected CPUs
2865
2866			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2867			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2868
2869			full
2870				Provides all available mitigations for the
2871				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2872				enables all mitigations in the
2873				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2874
2875				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2876				sysfs interface is still possible after
2877				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2878				when the first VM is started in a
2879				potentially insecure configuration,
2880				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2881
2882			full,force
2883				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2884				flush runtime control. Implies the
2885				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2886				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2887
2888			flush
2889				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2890				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2891				L1D flush.
2892
2893				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2894				sysfs interface is still possible after
2895				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2896				when the first VM is started in a
2897				potentially insecure configuration,
2898				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2899
2900			flush,nosmt
2901
2902				Disables SMT and enables the default
2903				hypervisor mitigation.
2904
2905				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2906				sysfs interface is still possible after
2907				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2908				when the first VM is started in a
2909				potentially insecure configuration,
2910				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2911
2912			flush,nowarn
2913				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2914				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2915				insecure configuration.
2916
2917			off
2918				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2919				emit any warnings.
2920				It also drops the swap size and available
2921				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2922				bare metal.
2923
2924			Default is 'flush'.
2925
2926			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2927
2928	l2cr=		[PPC]
2929
2930	l3cr=		[PPC]
2931
2932	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2933			disabled it.
2934
2935	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2936			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2937			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2938			Format: notscdeadline
2939
2940	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
2941			in C2 power state.
2942
2943	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2944			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2945			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2946			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2947			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2948			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2949			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2950
2951	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2952			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2953			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2954
2955	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2956			when set.
2957			Format: <int>
2958
2959	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2960			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2961			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2962			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2963			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2964			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2965			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2966			to all ports, links and devices.
2967
2968			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2969			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2970			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2971			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2972			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2973			host link and device attached to it.
2974
2975			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2976			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2977			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2978			The following configurations can be forced.
2979
2980			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2981			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2982
2983			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2984
2985			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2986			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2987			  allowed.
2988
2989			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2990			  resets.
2991
2992			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2993			  link recovery.
2994
2995			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2996			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2997			  detection.
2998
2999			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3000
3001			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3002
3003			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3004
3005			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3006
3007			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3008
3009			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3010
3011			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3012
3013			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3014
3015			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3016			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3017
3018			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3019			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3020
3021			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3022			  identify device data log.
3023
3024			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3025			  purpose log directory.
3026
3027			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3028
3029			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3030			  1024 sectors.
3031
3032			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3033			  65535 sectors.
3034
3035			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3036
3037			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3038			  should be skipped.
3039
3040			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3041			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3042
3043			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3044
3045			* disable: Disable this device.
3046
3047			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3048			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3049
3050	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3051
3052	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3053			Format: <integer>
3054
3055	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3056			Format: <integer>
3057
3058	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3059			Format: <integer>
3060
3061	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3062			Format: <integer>
3063
3064	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3065			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3066			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3067			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3068			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3069			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3070			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3071			are also disabled.
3072
3073	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3074			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3075			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3076			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3077
3078	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3079			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3080			to be bound.
3081
3082	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3083			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3084			to be bound.
3085
3086	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3087			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3088			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3089			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3090			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3091			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3092
3093	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3094			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3095			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3096			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3097
3098	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3099			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3100			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3101			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3102			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3103			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3104
3105	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3106			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3107			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3108			number of online CPUs.
3109
3110	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3111			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3112
3113	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3114			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3115
3116	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3117			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3118			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3119
3120	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3121			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3122			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3123			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3124			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3125			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3126			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3127			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3128			disable boosting.
3129
3130	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3131			Number that determines how often and for how
3132			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3133			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3134			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3135			constant as the number of writers increases.
3136			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3137			increases with the number of writers.
3138
3139	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3140			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3141			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3142			mode during the locktorture test.
3143
3144	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3145			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3146			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3147
3148	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3149			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3150
3151	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3152			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3153			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3154			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3155			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3156			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3157
3158	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3159			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3160
3161	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3162			Enable additional printk() statements.
3163
3164	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3165			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3166			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3167
3168	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3169			Format: <irq>
3170
3171	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3172			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3173			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3174			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3175			loglevels are defined as follows:
3176
3177			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3178			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3179			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3180			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3181			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3182			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3183			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3184			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3185
3186	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3187			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3188			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3189			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3190			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3191			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3192			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3193			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3194			for more details.
3195
3196	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3197			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3198			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3199			kernel boot problems.
3200
3201	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3202	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3203	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3204	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3205				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3206				attached printers to be reset. Using
3207				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3208				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3209				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3210				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3211				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3212				port specification list means that device IDs
3213				from each port should be examined, to see if
3214				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3215				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3216				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3217
3218	lpj=n		[KNL]
3219			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3220			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3221			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3222			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3223			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3224			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3225			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3226			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3227			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3228			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3229			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3230			hardware.
3231
3232	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3233
3234	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3235			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3236			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3237
3238	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3239			different yeeloong laptops.
3240			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3241
3242	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3243			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3244			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3245			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3246			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3247			only takes effect during system bootup.
3248			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3249			which also disables the IO APIC.
3250
3251	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3252	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3253			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3254			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3255			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3256			/dev/loop-control interface.
3257
3258	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3259
3260	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3261
3262	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3263			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3264
3265	mdacon=		[MDA]
3266			Format: <first>,<last>
3267			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3268
3269	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3270			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3271			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3272
3273			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3274			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3275			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3276
3277			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3278			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3279			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3280			not have direct access.
3281
3282			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3283			options are:
3284
3285			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3286			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3287				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3288			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3289
3290			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3291			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3292			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3293			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3294			too.
3295
3296			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3297			mds=full.
3298
3299			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3300
3301	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3302			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3303
3304	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3305			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3306			as follows:
3307
3308			1 for test;
3309			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3310			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3311			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3312			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3313
3314			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3315			high memory is not affected.
3316
3317			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3318			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3319
3320			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3321			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3322			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3323			belonging to unused RAM.
3324
3325			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3326			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3327			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3328
3329	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3330			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3331			reported by firmware.
3332			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3333			ss[KMG].
3334			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3335			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3336
3337	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3338			memory.
3339
3340	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3341
3342	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3343			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3344			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3345
3346	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3347			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3348			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3349			set according to the
3350			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3351			option.
3352			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3353
3354	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3355			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3356			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3357			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3358			option description.
3359
3360	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3361			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3362			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3363			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3364			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3365			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3366			comma delimited.
3367			Example:
3368				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3369
3370	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3371			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3372			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3373
3374	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3375			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3376			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3377			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3378			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3379			         or
3380			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3381			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3382			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3383			will be eaten.
3384
3385	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3386			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3387			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3388			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3389			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3390
3391	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3392			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3393			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3394			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3395			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3396			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3397			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3398			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3399
3400	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3401			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3402			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3403			Setting this option will scan the memory
3404			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3405			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3406			from using the memory being corrupted.
3407			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3408			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3409			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3410			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3411
3412	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3413			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3414			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3415			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3416			corruption in more or less memory.
3417
3418	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3419			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3420			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3421			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3422
3423	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3424			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3425			Format: {on | off (default)}
3426			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3427			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3428			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3429			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3430			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3431			lot of memory without requiring additional
3432			memory to do so.
3433			This feature is disabled by default because it
3434			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3435			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3436			memory blocks).
3437			The state of the flag can be read in
3438			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3439			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3440			the feature is not effective.
3441
3442	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3443			Format: <integer>
3444			default : 0 <disable>
3445			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3446			performed. Each pass selects another test
3447			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3448			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3449			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3450			regions that are detected.
3451
3452	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3453			Valid arguments: on, off
3454			Default: off
3455			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3456			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3457
3458			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3459			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3460
3461	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3462			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3463			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3464			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3465			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3466
3467	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3468			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3469			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3470			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3471
3472	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3473
3474	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3475			Format: <bool>
3476			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3477			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3478
3479	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3480			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3481			Default: "0tb"
3482			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3483			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3484			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3485			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3486			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3487			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3488			unconfigured.
3489			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3490			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3491			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3492			VGA shield.
3493			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3494			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3495			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3496			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3497			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3498			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3499
3500	mitigations=
3501			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3502			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3503			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3504			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3505
3506			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3507			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3508
3509			off
3510				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3511				improves system performance, but it may also
3512				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3513				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3514					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3515					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3516					       l1tf=off [X86]
3517					       mds=off [X86]
3518					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3519					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3520					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3521					       nobp=0 [S390]
3522					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3523					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3524					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3525					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3526					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3527					       retbleed=off [X86]
3528					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3529					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3530					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3531					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3532					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3533					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3534					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3535
3536				Exceptions:
3537					       This does not have any effect on
3538					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3539					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3540
3541			auto (default)
3542				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3543				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3544				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3545				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3546				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3547				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3548
3549			auto,nosmt
3550				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3551				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3552				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3553				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3554					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3555					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3556					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3557					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3558
3559	mminit_loglevel=
3560			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3561			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3562			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3563			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3564			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3565			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3566
3567	mmio_stale_data=
3568			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3569			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3570
3571			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3572			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3573			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3574			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3575			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3576			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3577
3578			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3579			options are:
3580
3581			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3582
3583			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3584				     vulnerable CPUs.
3585
3586			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3587
3588			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3589			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3590			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3591			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3592			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3593			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3594
3595			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3596			mmio_stale_data=full.
3597
3598			For details see:
3599			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3600
3601	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3602			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3603			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3604			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3605			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3606			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3607
3608	module.async_probe=<bool>
3609			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3610			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3611			specific module, use the module specific control that
3612			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3613			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3614			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3615			the specific module.
3616
3617	module.enable_dups_trace
3618			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3619			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3620			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3621			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3622			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3623	module.sig_enforce
3624			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3625			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3626			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3627			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3628
3629	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3630			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3631
3632	mousedev.tap_time=
3633			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3634			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3635			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3636			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3637			Format: <msecs>
3638	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3639			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3640	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3641			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3642
3643	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3644			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3645			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3646			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3647			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3648			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3649			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3650			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3651			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3652			is not too small.
3653
3654	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3655			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3656			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3657			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3658			allocations. Use with caution!
3659
3660	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3661			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3662
3663	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3664			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3665
3666	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3667			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3668
3669	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3670			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3671			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3672
3673	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3674			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3675			registers at boot time.
3676
3677	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3678			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3679			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3680
3681	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3682			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3683			Default is 1.
3684			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3685			using up MTRRs.
3686
3687	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3688			Format: <integer>
3689			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3690			Default : 1
3691			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3692			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3693
3694	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3695			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3696			at a time.
3697
3698	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3699
3700	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3701			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3702			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3703			something different and driver-specific.
3704			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3705			file if at all.
3706
3707	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3708			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3709			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3710			waits 4 seconds.
3711
3712	nf_conntrack.acct=
3713			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3714			0 to disable accounting
3715			1 to enable accounting
3716			Default value is 0.
3717
3718	nfs.cache_getent=
3719			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3720			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3721
3722	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3723			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3724			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3725
3726	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3727			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3728			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3729			requests.
3730
3731	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3732			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3733			channel should listen.
3734
3735	nfs.delay_retrans=
3736			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3737			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3738			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3739			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3740			and the specified value is >= 0.
3741
3742	nfs.enable_ino64=
3743			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3744			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3745			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3746			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3747			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3748
3749	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3750			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3751			entries.
3752
3753	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3754			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3755			slots the client will assign to the callback
3756			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3757			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3758			a particular server.
3759
3760	nfs.max_session_slots=
3761			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3762			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3763			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3764			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3765			Note that there is little point in setting this
3766			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3767
3768	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3769			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3770			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3771			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3772			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3773			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3774			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3775			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3776			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3777			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3778			back to using the idmapper.
3779			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3780
3781	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3782			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3783			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3784			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3785			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3786
3787	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3788			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3789			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3790			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3791			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3792			after the locks are lost.
3793			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3794			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3795			parameter to '1'.
3796			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3797			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3798
3799	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3800			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3801			information in exchange_id requests.
3802			If zero, no implementation identification information
3803			will be sent.
3804			The default is to send the implementation identification
3805			information.
3806
3807	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3808			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3809			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3810
3811			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3812			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3813			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3814			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3815
3816	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3817			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3818			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3819			the destination of the copy.
3820
3821	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3822			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3823			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3824			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3825			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3826			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3827
3828	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3829			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3830			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3831			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3832			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3833			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3834			this parameter.
3835
3836	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3837			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3838
3839	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3840			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3841
3842	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3843			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3844
3845	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3846			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3847			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3848
3849	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3850			when a NMI is triggered.
3851			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3852
3853	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3854			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
3855			Valid num: 0 or 1
3856			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3857			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3858			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
3859
3860			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3861			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3862			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3863			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3864			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3865			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3866			need the box quickly up again.
3867
3868			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3869			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3870
3871	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3872			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3873			is present.
3874
3875	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3876			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3877
3878	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3879			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3880
3881	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3882
3883	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3884			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3885
3886	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3887
3888	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
3889
3890	no_console_suspend
3891			[HW] Never suspend the console
3892			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3893			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3894			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3895			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3896			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3897			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3898			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3899			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3900			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3901			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3902			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3903			turn on/off it dynamically.
3904
3905	no_debug_objects
3906			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
3907
3908	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3909
3910	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
3911
3912	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3913
3914	noexec32	[X86-64]
3915			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3916			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3917				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3918			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3919				read implies executable mappings
3920
3921	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3922			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3923			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3924
3925	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3926
3927	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3928
3929	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3930			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3931			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3932
3933	no_hash_pointers
3934			[KNL,EARLY]
3935			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3936			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3937			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3938			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3939			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3940			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3941			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3942			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3943			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3944			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3945			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3946			kernels.
3947
3948	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3949
3950	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
3951			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3952			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3953			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3954			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3955			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3956			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3957			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3958
3959	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3960
3961	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3962
3963	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3964			Valid arguments: on, off
3965			Default: on
3966
3967	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3968			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3969			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3970			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3971			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3972			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3973			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3974			just as if they had also been called out in the
3975			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3976
3977			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3978			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3979
3980	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3981			initial RAM disk.
3982
3983	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
3984			remapping.
3985			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3986
3987	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3988
3989	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3990
3991	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3992			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3993
3994	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3995
3996	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
3997			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3998			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3999			Layout Randomization).
4000
4001	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4002			fault handling.
4003
4004	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4005
4006	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4007
4008	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4009
4010	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4011
4012	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4013			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4014
4015	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4016			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4017			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4018			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4019			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4020			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4021			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4022
4023			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4024
4025	nomodule	Disable module load
4026
4027	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4028			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4029			irq.
4030
4031	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4032			pagetables) support.
4033
4034	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4035
4036	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4037			in some Intel CPUs.
4038
4039	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4040			Equivalent to pti=off
4041
4042	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4043			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4044			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4045			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4046
4047	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4048			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4049			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4050			contention.
4051
4052	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4053			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4054
4055	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4056			with UP alternatives
4057
4058	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4059			space.
4060
4061	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4062			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4063			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4064
4065	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4066
4067	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4068			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4069			even if it is supported by processor.
4070
4071	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4072			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4073			even if it is supported by processor.
4074
4075	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4076			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4077
4078	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4079			Equivalent to smt=1.
4080
4081			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4082			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4083				     via the sysfs control file.
4084
4085	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4086
4087	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4088			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4089			Store Bypass vulnerability
4090
4091	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4092			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4093			with this option.
4094
4095	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4096			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4097			possible in the system.
4098
4099	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4100			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4101			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4102			leaks with this option.
4103
4104	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4105			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4106			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4107
4108	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4109
4110	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4111			broken timer IRQ sources.
4112
4113	no_uaccess_flush
4114	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4115
4116	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4117			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4118			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4119			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4120			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4121			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4122			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4123			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4124			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4125			is set.
4126
4127	no-vmw-sched-clock
4128			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4129			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4130
4131	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4132			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4133
4134	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4135
4136	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4137
4138			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4139			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4140			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4141
4142	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4143			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4144			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4145
4146	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4147			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4148			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4149			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4150			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4151			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4152
4153	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4154			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4155			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4156			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4157			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4158			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4159			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4160
4161	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4162			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4163			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4164			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4165			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4166			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4167			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4168			hot plugging.
4169
4170	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4171
4172	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4173			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4174			spanning all memory.
4175
4176	numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4177			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4178			If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4179			nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4180
4181	numa=fake=<N>
4182			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4183			If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4184			fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4185
4186	numa=fake=<N>U
4187			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4188			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4189			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4190
4191	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4192			NUMA balancing.
4193			Allowed values are enable and disable
4194
4195	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4196			'node', 'default' can be specified
4197			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4198			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4199
4200	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4201			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4202			info.
4203
4204	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4205			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4206			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4207			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4208			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4209			interrupts *may* be lost!
4210
4211	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4212			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4213			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4214			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4215
4216	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4217
4218			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4219
4220			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4221				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4222			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4223				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4224				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4225
4226	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4227			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4228			process, but there is a small probability of
4229			deadlocking the machine.
4230			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4231			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4232
4233	page_alloc.shuffle=
4234			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4235			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4236			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4237			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4238			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4239			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4240
4241	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4242			Storage of the information about who allocated
4243			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4244			we can turn it on.
4245			on: enable the feature
4246
4247	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4248			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4249			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4250			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4251			on: turn on poisoning
4252
4253	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4254			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4255			Format: <integer>
4256			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4257			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4258
4259	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4260			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4261			timeout = 0: wait forever
4262			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4263			Format: <timeout>
4264
4265	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4266			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4267			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4268			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4269			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4270			called with any of the flags in this set.
4271			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4272			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4273			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4274			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4275			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4276			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4277			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4278
4279	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4280			on a WARN().
4281
4282	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4283			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4284			bit 0: print all tasks info
4285			bit 1: print system memory info
4286			bit 2: print timer info
4287			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4288			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4289			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4290			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4291			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4292			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4293			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4294			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4295			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4296
4297	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4298			connected to, default is 0.
4299			Format: <parport#>
4300	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4301			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4302			Format: <mode>
4303
4304	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4305			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4306			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4307			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4308			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4309			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4310			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4311			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4312			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4313			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4314			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4315			are specified on the command line, starting
4316			with parport0.
4317
4318	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4319			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4320			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4321			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4322			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4323			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4324			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4325
4326	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4327			Format: <int>
4328			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4329			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4330			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4331
4332	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4333			Format: <int>
4334			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4335			changes.  Disabled by default.
4336
4337	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4338			Format: <int>
4339			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4340			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4341			Disabled by default.
4342
4343	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4344			Format: <int>
4345			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4346			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4347			Disabled by default.
4348
4349	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4350			Format: <int>
4351			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4352			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4353			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4354			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4355			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4356			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4357			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4358			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4359			all channels.
4360
4361	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4362			Format: <int>
4363			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4364			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4365			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4366
4367	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4368			Format: <int>
4369			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4370			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4371			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4372
4373	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4374			Format: <int>
4375			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4376			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4377			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4378			All modes allowed by default.
4379
4380	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4381			Format: <int>
4382			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4383			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4384
4385	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4386			Format: <int>
4387			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4388			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4389			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4390			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4391			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4392			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4393			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4394			By default all supported ports are probed.
4395
4396	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4397			Format: <int>
4398			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4399			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4400
4401	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4402			Format: <int>
4403			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4404			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4405			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4406			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4407			0 otherwise.
4408
4409	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4410			Format: <int>
4411			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4412			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4413			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4414			allowed by default.
4415
4416	pause_on_oops=<int>
4417			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4418			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4419			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4420
4421	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4422
4423	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4424
4425				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4426				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4427				specified in one of the following formats:
4428
4429				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4430				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4431
4432				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4433				bus/device/function address which may change
4434				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4435				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4436				by other kernel parameters. If the
4437				domain is left unspecified, it is
4438				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4439				to a device through multiple device/function
4440				addresses can be specified after the base
4441				address (this is more robust against
4442				renumbering issues).  The second format
4443				selects devices using IDs from the
4444				configuration space which may match multiple
4445				devices in the system.
4446
4447		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4448				changes anything
4449		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4450		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4451				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4452				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4453		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4454				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4455				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4456				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4457		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4458				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4459				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4460		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4461				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4462				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4463				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4464				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4465				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4466				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4467		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4468				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4469				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4470		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4471				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4472		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4473				Configuration
4474		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4475				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4476				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4477		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4478				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4479				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4480		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4481				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4482				should never be necessary.
4483		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4484				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4485				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4486				when the system masks IRQs.
4487		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4488				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4489				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4490				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4491		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4492				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4493				on several machines and they hang the machine
4494				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4495				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4496				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4497				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4498				motherboard.
4499		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4500				Use with caution as certain devices share
4501				address decoders between ROMs and other
4502				resources.
4503		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4504				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4505				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4506		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4507				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4508		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4509				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4510				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4511				this way.
4512		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4513				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4514				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4515				F0000h-100000h range.
4516		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4517				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4518				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4519				explicitly which ones they are.
4520		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4521				numbers ourselves, overriding
4522				whatever the firmware may have done.
4523		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4524				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4525				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4526				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4527				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4528				IRQ routing is enabled.
4529		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4530				or for PCI scanning.
4531		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4532				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4533				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4534				please report a bug.
4535		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4536				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4537		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4538				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4539				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4540				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4541				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4542		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4543				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4544				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4545				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4546		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4547				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4548				so this option is a temporary workaround
4549				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4550		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4551				handle more pci cards
4552		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4553				This might help on some broken boards which
4554				machine check when some devices' config space
4555				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4556				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4557		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4558				This sorting is done to get a device
4559				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4560		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4561		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4562				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4563		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4564				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4565		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4566				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4567				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4568				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4569				or bus can support) for best performance.
4570		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4571				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4572				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4573				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4574				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4575				that hot-added devices will work.
4576		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4577				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4578				The default value is 256 bytes.
4579		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4580				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4581				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4582		resource_alignment=
4583				Format:
4584				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4585				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4586				aligned memory resources. How to
4587				specify the device is described above.
4588				If <order of align> is not specified,
4589				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4590				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4591				windows need to be expanded.
4592				To specify the alignment for several
4593				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4594				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4595				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4596				for 4096-byte alignment.
4597		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4598				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4599				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4600				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4601				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4602				the default.
4603				off: Turn ECRC off
4604				on: Turn ECRC on.
4605		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4606				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4607				Default size is 256 bytes.
4608		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4609				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4610				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4611		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4612				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4613				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4614		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4615				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4616				MMIO_PREF window.
4617				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4618		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4619				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4620				Default is 1.
4621		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4622				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4623				accommodate resources required by all child
4624				devices.
4625				off: Turn realloc off
4626				on: Turn realloc on
4627		realloc		same as realloc=on
4628		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4629		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4630				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4631		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4632				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4633				port.
4634		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4635				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4636				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4637				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4638				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4639				taints the kernel.
4640		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4641				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4642				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4643				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4644				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4645				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4646				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4647				this removes isolation between devices and
4648				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4649		config_acs=
4650				Format:
4651				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4652				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4653				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4654				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4655				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4656				unchanged based on what is specified in
4657				flags.
4658
4659				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4660				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4661				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4662				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4663				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4664				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4665				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4666				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4667				Each bit can be marked as:
4668				  '0' – force disabled
4669				  '1' – force enabled
4670				  'x' – unchanged
4671				For example,
4672				  pci=config_acs=10x
4673				would configure all devices that support
4674				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4675				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4676				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4677				or firmware set it to.
4678
4679				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4680				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4681		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4682		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4683		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4684				one PCI domain per PCI function
4685
4686	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4687			Management.
4688		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4689			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4690		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4691			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4692
4693	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4694		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4695			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4696			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4697			also tries to use these services.
4698		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4699				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4700		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4701			hotplug).
4702
4703	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4704		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4705		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4706
4707	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4708		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4709			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4710
4711	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4712
4713	pd_ignore_unused
4714			[PM]
4715			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4716			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4717			for debug and development, but should not be
4718			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4719
4720	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4721			boot time.
4722			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4723			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4724
4725	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
4726			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4727			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4728			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4729			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4730			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4731			and performance comparison.
4732
4733	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4734			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4735
4736	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4737			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4738			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4739
4740	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4741			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4742			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4743
4744	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4745			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4746			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4747			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4748			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4749			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4750			remains 0.
4751
4752	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4753			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4754
4755	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4756			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4757			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4758			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4759			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4760			possible settings and some assignment information.
4761
4762	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4763			{ off }
4764
4765	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4766			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4767
4768	pnp_reserve_irq=
4769			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4770
4771	pnp_reserve_dma=
4772			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4773
4774	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4775			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4776
4777	pnp_reserve_mem=
4778			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4779			autoconfiguration.
4780			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4781
4782	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4783			Default is 21.
4784			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4785			may be specified.
4786			Format: <port>,<port>....
4787
4788	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
4789			Format: <unsigned int>
4790			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
4791			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
4792
4793	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4794			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4795			platform machine description specific power_save
4796			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4797			execution priority.
4798
4799	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4800			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4801			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4802			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4803			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4804
4805	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
4806			Format: {"off"}
4807			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4808
4809	preempt=	[KNL]
4810			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4811			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4812			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4813			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4814			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
4815			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
4816			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
4817
4818	print-fatal-signals=
4819			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4820
4821			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4822			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4823			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4824			coredump - etc.
4825
4826			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4827			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4828
4829			default: off.
4830
4831	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4832			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4833			panics
4834			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4835			default: disabled
4836
4837	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4838			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4839			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4840			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4841			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4842			in order to provide more debug information.
4843			Format: <bool>
4844			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4845
4846	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4847			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4848			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4849			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4850			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4851			Default: ratelimit
4852
4853	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4854			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4855
4856	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
4857			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
4858			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
4859			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
4860			restrict that. Can be one of:
4861			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
4862			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
4863			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
4864			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
4865
4866	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4867			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4868			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4869
4870	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4871			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4872			instead using the legacy FADT method
4873
4874	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4875			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4876			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
4877				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4878			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4879			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4880			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4881				statistical time based profiling.
4882
4883	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4884
4885	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4886			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4887			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
4888			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
4889			Layout Randomization is disabled.
4890			Format: <bool>
4891
4892	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4893			tracking.
4894			Format: <bool>
4895
4896	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4897			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4898	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4899			per second.
4900	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4901			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4902			(0 = never).
4903	psmouse.resolution=
4904			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4905	psmouse.smartscroll=
4906			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4907			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4908
4909	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4910
4911	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4912			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4913			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4914			system calls and interrupts.
4915
4916			on   - unconditionally enable
4917			off  - unconditionally disable
4918			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4919			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4920
4921			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4922
4923	pty.legacy_count=
4924			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4925			default number.
4926
4927	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
4928
4929	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4930
4931	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4932			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4933			invalidate.
4934
4935	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4936			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4937
4938	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4939			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4940
4941	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4942
4943	random.trust_cpu=off
4944			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4945			random number generator (if available) to
4946			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4947
4948	random.trust_bootloader=off
4949			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4950			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4951			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4952
4953	randomize_kstack_offset=
4954			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4955			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4956			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4957			that depend on stack address determinism or
4958			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4959			available on architectures that have defined
4960			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4961			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4962			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4963
4964	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4965
4966		cec_disable	[X86]
4967				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4968				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4969
4970	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4971			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4972			as described above.
4973
4974			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4975			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4976			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4977			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4978			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4979			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4980			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4981			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4982			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4983			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4984			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4985			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4986
4987			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4988			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4989
4990			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4991			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4992			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4993			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4994
4995			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4996			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4997
4998	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4999			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5000			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5001			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5002			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5003			This improves the real-time response for the
5004			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5005			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5006			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5007			periodically wake up to do the polling.
5008
5009	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
5010			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5011			process in one batch.
5012
5013	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
5014			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5015			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5016
5017	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
5018			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
5019			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5020			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5021			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5022			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5023
5024	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
5025			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5026			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
5027			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5028
5029	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
5030			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5031			RCU grace-period cleanup.
5032
5033	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
5034			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5035			RCU grace-period initialization.
5036
5037	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
5038			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5039			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5040			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5041			the rcu_node combining tree.
5042
5043	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5044			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5045			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5046			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5047			and maximum value is HZ.
5048
5049	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5050			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5051			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5052			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5053
5054	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5055			Set required age in jiffies for a
5056			given grace period before RCU starts
5057			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5058			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5059			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5060			a value based on the most recent settings
5061			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5062			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5063			This calculated value may be viewed in
5064			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5065			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5066			overwritten.
5067
5068	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5069			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5070			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5071			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5072			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5073			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5074			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5075			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5076			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5077			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5078			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5079			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5080
5081	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5082			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5083			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5084			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5085			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5086			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5087			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5088			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5089			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5090			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5091			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5092			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5093
5094	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5095			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5096			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5097			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5098			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5099			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5100			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5101
5102	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5103			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5104			batch limiting is disabled.
5105
5106	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5107			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5108			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5109
5110	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5111			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5112			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5113			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5114			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5115			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5116			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5117			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5118
5119	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5120			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5121			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5122			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5123
5124	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5125			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5126			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5127			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5128			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5129			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5130			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5131			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5132
5133			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5134			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5135			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5136			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5137			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5138
5139	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5140			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5141			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5142			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5143			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5144
5145	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5146			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5147			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5148			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5149			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5150			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5151			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5152
5153	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5154			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5155			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5156			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5157			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5158			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5159			condition.
5160
5161	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5162			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5163			each group, which defaults to the square root
5164			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5165			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5166			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5167			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5168
5169	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5170			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5171			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5172			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5173			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5174			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5175
5176	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5177			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5178			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5179			By default, this limit is checked only once
5180			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5181			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5182
5183	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5184			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5185			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5186			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5187			Larger delays increase the probability of
5188			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5189			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5190			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5191
5192	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5193			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5194			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5195			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5196
5197	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5198			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5199			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5200			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5201			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5202
5203			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5204			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5205			to zero.
5206
5207	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5208			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5209			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5210			big.
5211
5212	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5213			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5214			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5215			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5216			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5217			normal grace period.
5218
5219			How to enable it:
5220
5221			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5222			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5223
5224			Default is 0.
5225
5226	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5227			Measure performance of asynchronous
5228			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5229
5230	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5231			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5232			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5233			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5234			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5235			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5236
5237	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5238			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5239			grace-period primitives.
5240
5241	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5242			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5243			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5244			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5245			interference.
5246
5247	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5248			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5249			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5250
5251	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5252			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5253			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5254			Defaults to 1.
5255
5256	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5257			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5258
5259	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5260			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5261			If this parameter has the same value as
5262			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5263			and double-argument variants are tested.
5264
5265	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5266			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5267			If this parameter has the same value as
5268			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5269			and double-argument variants are tested.
5270
5271	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5272			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5273
5274	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5275			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5276
5277	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5278			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5279			of allocations and frees.
5280
5281	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5282			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5283			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5284			but instead allows better measurement of things
5285			like CPU consumption.
5286
5287	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5288			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5289			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5290			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5291			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5292			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5293			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5294			a single reader.
5295
5296	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5297			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5298			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5299			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5300
5301	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5302			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5303
5304	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5305			Shut the system down after performance tests
5306			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5307			testing.
5308
5309	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5310			Enable additional printk() statements.
5311
5312	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5313			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5314			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5315			no holdoff.
5316
5317	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5318			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5319			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5320			says no holdoff.
5321
5322	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5323			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5324			in microseconds.
5325
5326	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5327			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5328			in microseconds.
5329
5330	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5331			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5332			in seconds.
5333
5334	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5335			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5336			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5337			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5338			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5339			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5340			of CPUs to be used.
5341
5342	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5343			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5344			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5345
5346	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5347			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5348			forward-progress tests.
5349
5350	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5351			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5352			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5353			testing.
5354
5355	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5356			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5357			primitives, if available.
5358
5359	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5360			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5361
5362	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5363			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5364			update-side primitives, if available.
5365
5366	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5367			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5368			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5369			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5370			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5371			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5372			they are all non-zero.
5373
5374	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5375			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5376			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5377			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5378
5379	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5380			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5381			This can of course result in splats, and is
5382			intended to test the ability of things like
5383			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5384			such leaks.
5385
5386	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5387			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5388
5389	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5390			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5391			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5392			test, hence the "fake".
5393
5394	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5395			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5396			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5397
5398	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5399			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5400			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5401
5402	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5403			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5404			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5405			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5406			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5407			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5408
5409	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5410			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5411
5412	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5413			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5414
5415	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5416			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5417			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5418
5419	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5420			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5421			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5422			task-exit processing.
5423
5424	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5425			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5426			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5427			is spawned.
5428
5429	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5430			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5431			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5432
5433	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5434			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5435			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5436			during the rcutorture test.
5437
5438	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5439			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5440			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5441
5442	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5443			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5444			warnings, zero to disable.
5445
5446	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5447			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5448			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5449			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5450			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5451			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5452			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5453			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5454			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5455			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5456
5457			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5458
5459
5460	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5461			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5462
5463	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5464			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
5465			on the first stall in the set.
5466
5467	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
5468			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5469			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
5470			in four stall sequences.
5471
5472	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5473			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5474			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5475			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5476			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5477			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5478
5479	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5480			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5481
5482	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5483			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5484			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5485			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5486			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5487
5488	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5489			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5490			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5491			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5492
5493	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5494			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5495
5496	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5497			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5498
5499	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5500			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5501			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5502
5503	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5504			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5505
5506	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5507			Enable additional printk() statements.
5508
5509	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5510			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5511			stall warning.
5512
5513	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5514			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5515			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5516			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5517			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5518
5519	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5520			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5521
5522	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5523			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5524			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5525			during early boot, that is, during the time
5526			before the init task is spawned.
5527
5528	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5529			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5530			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5531			value is 300 seconds.
5532
5533	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5534			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5535			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5536			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5537			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5538			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5539			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5540			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5541			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5542
5543	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5544			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5545			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5546			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5547			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5548
5549	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5550			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5551			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5552			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5553
5554	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5555			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5556			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5557			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5558			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5559			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5560			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5561
5562	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5563			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5564			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5565			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5566			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5567			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5568			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5569			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5570			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5571
5572	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5573			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5574			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5575			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5576			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5577
5578			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5579			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5580			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5581			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5582			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5583			grace-period processing.
5584
5585	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5586			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5587			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5588			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5589			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5590			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5591			set to the default value of -1.
5592
5593	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5594			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5595			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5596			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5597			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5598			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5599			the default value of -1.
5600
5601	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5602			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5603			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5604			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5605			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5606			for use in testing.
5607
5608	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5609			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5610			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5611			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5612			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5613			but lengthens grace periods.
5614
5615	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5616			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5617			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5618			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5619			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5620			callback flooding.
5621
5622	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5623			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5624			informational messages, which give some indication
5625			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5626			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5627			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5628			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5629			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5630			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5631			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5632
5633	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5634			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5635			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5636			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5637			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5638			the value three, so that the first informational
5639			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5640			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5641			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5642			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5643
5644	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5645			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5646			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5647			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5648			A change in value does not take effect until
5649			the beginning of the next grace period.
5650
5651	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5652			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5653			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5654			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5655			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5656			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5657
5658	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5659			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5660			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5661			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5662			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5663			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5664			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5665
5666	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5667			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5668
5669	rdinit=		[KNL]
5670			Format: <full_path>
5671			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5672			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5673
5674	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
5675			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5676				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5677				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5678				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5679				path).
5680
5681	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5682			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5683			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5684			mba, smba, bmec.
5685			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5686				rdt=cmt,!mba
5687
5688	reboot=		[KNL]
5689			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5690				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5691				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5692				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5693				[[,]f[orce]
5694			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5695					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5696					reboot only),
5697			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5698			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5699			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5700					to be used for rebooting.
5701
5702	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5703			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5704			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5705			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5706			interference.
5707
5708	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5709			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5710			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5711			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5712			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5713
5714	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5715			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5716			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5717			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5718			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5719			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5720			x86 laptops.
5721
5722	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5723			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5724			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5725			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5726
5727	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5728			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5729			the console log.
5730
5731	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5732			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5733			measured in microseconds.
5734
5735	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5736			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5737
5738	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5739			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5740			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5741			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5742			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5743
5744	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5745			Enable additional printk() statements.
5746
5747	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5748			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5749			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5750			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5751			specified.
5752
5753	regulator_ignore_unused
5754			[REGULATOR]
5755			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5756			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5757			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5758			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5759
5760	relax_domain_level=
5761			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5762			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5763
5764	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5765			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5766			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5767			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5768			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5769
5770	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
5771			Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label>
5772			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
5773			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
5774			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
5775			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
5776			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
5777			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
5778			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
5779			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
5780			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
5781			different location.
5782			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
5783			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
5784			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
5785			located at the same location.
5786
5787			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
5788			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
5789
5790			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
5791
5792	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
5793			Format: nn[KMG]
5794			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5795			address space.
5796
5797	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5798			during initialization.
5799
5800	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5801			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5802			Format:
5803			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5804
5805	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5806			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5807			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5808			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5809			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5810
5811	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5812			read the resume files
5813
5814	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5815			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5816			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5817
5818	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
5819			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
5820
5821	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5822			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5823			vulnerability.
5824
5825			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5826			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5827			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5828			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5829			that don't.
5830
5831			off          - no mitigation
5832			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5833			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5834				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5835				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5836				       and older without STIBP).
5837			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5838				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5839				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5840				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5841				       on Intel.
5842			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5843				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5844				       the alternative for systems which do not
5845				       have STIBP.
5846			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5847				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5848				       systems.
5849			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5850				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5851				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5852
5853			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5854			time according to the CPU.
5855
5856			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5857
5858	rfkill.default_state=
5859		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5860			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5861		1	Unblocked.
5862
5863	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5864		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5865		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5866			blocked and the previous configuration.
5867		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5868			blocked and everything unblocked.
5869
5870	ring3mwait=disable
5871			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5872			CPUs.
5873
5874	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
5875			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5876			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5877			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5878			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5879			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5880
5881	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5882
5883	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
5884		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5885		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5886		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5887		        [arm64]
5888
5889	rockchip.usb_uart
5890			[EARLY]
5891			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5892			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5893			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5894			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5895
5896	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5897			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5898			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5899			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5900			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5901			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5902			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5903
5904	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5905			mount the root filesystem
5906
5907	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5908
5909	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5910
5911	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5912			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5913			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5914
5915	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5916			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5917			filesystem.
5918
5919	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5920			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5921			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5922			managed by CMA.
5923
5924	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5925
5926	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5927
5928	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5929			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5930		strict
5931			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5932			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5933			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5934			iommu.strict=1.
5935
5936	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5937			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5938			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5939			factor of the size of main memory.
5940			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5941			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5942			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5943			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5944			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5945			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5946			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5947
5948	sa1100ir	[NET]
5949			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5950
5951	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5952
5953	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5954			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5955			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5956			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5957
5958	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5959			[Deprecated]
5960			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5961			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5962			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5963			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5964			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5965			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5966			value.
5967			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5968			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5969				1			64 ms
5970				2			128 ms
5971			and so on.
5972			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5973			Default is 0.
5974
5975	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5976			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5977			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5978			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5979			tests.
5980
5981	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5982			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5983			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5984			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5985			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5986			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5987			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5988
5989	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5990			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5991			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5992			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5993			equal to the number of CPUs.
5994
5995	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5996			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5997			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5998
5999	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6000			Number seconds to wait between successive
6001			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
6002			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6003
6004	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6005			The number of seconds following the start of the
6006			test after which to shut down the system.  The
6007			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6008			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6009
6010	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6011			The number of seconds between outputting the
6012			current test statistics to the console.  A value
6013			of zero disables statistics output.
6014
6015	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6016			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6017			to the set of CPUs under test.
6018
6019	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6020			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6021			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6022			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6023			functions.
6024
6025	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6026			Enable additional printk() statements.
6027
6028	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6029			The probability weighting to use for the
6030			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6031			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
6032			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
6033			if at least one weight has some other value, a
6034			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6035
6036	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6037			The probability weighting to use for the
6038			smp_call_function_single() function with a
6039			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6040
6041	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6042			The probability weighting to use for the
6043			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6044			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6045			Note well that setting a high probability for
6046			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6047			on the system.
6048
6049	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6050			The probability weighting to use for the
6051			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6052			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6053			and weight_many.
6054
6055	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6056			The probability weighting to use for the
6057			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6058			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6059			weight_many.
6060
6061	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6062			The probability weighting to use for the
6063			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6064			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6065			and weight_many.
6066
6067	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6068			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6069			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6070			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6071			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6072			1 -- enable.
6073			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6074			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6075
6076	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6077			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6078			"lsm=" parameter.
6079
6080	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6081			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6082			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6083			0 -- disable.
6084			1 -- enable.
6085			Default value is 1.
6086
6087	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6088
6089	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
6090
6091	shapers=	[NET]
6092			Maximal number of shapers.
6093
6094	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6095			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6096			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6097			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6098			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6099			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6100			apic=verbose is specified.
6101			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6102
6103	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6104			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6105			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6106			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6107			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6108			last alloc / free. For more information see
6109			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6110			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6111
6112	slab_max_order= [MM]
6113			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6114			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6115			fragmentation. For more information see
6116			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6117			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6118
6119	slab_merge	[MM]
6120			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6121			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6122			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6123
6124	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6125			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6126			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6127			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6128			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6129			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6130			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6131			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6132			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6133
6134	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6135			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6136			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6137			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6138			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6139
6140	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6141			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6142			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6143			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6144			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6145			layout control by attackers can usually be
6146			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6147			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6148			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6149			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6150			own.
6151			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6152			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6153
6154	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6155
6156	smart2=		[HW]
6157			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6158
6159	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6160			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6161			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6162			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6163			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6164			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6165			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6166			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6167			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6168			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6169
6170	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6171			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6172			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6173			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6174			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6175			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6176
6177	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6178	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6179	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6180	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6181	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6182	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6183	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6184				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6185				1: Fast pin select (default)
6186				2: ATC IRMode
6187
6188	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6189			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6190			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6191			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6192			Format: <integer>
6193			Default: -1 (no limit)
6194
6195	softlockup_panic=
6196			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6197			Format: 0 | 1
6198
6199			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6200			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6201			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6202			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6203			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6204
6205	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6206			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6207			backtraces on all cpus.
6208			Format: 0 | 1
6209
6210	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6211			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6212
6213	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6214			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6215			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6216			clearing sequence.
6217
6218			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6219				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6220				 both syscalls and VMs.
6221			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6222				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6223				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6224				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6225				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6226			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6227
6228	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6229			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6230			The default operation protects the kernel from
6231			user space attacks.
6232
6233			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6234			       spectre_v2_user=on
6235			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6236			       spectre_v2_user=off
6237			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6238			       vulnerable
6239
6240			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6241			mitigation method at run time according to the
6242			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6243			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6244			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6245
6246			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6247			against user space to user space task attacks.
6248
6249			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6250			the user space protections.
6251
6252			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6253
6254			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6255			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6256			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6257			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6258			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6259			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6260			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6261			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6262
6263			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6264			spectre_v2=auto.
6265
6266	spectre_v2_user=
6267			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6268		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6269		        user space tasks
6270
6271			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6272				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6273
6274			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6275				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6276
6277			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6278				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6279				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6280				  is inherited on fork.
6281
6282			prctl,ibpb
6283				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6284				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6285				  always when switching between different user
6286				  space processes.
6287
6288			seccomp
6289				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6290				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6291				  they explicitly opt out.
6292
6293			seccomp,ibpb
6294				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6295				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6296				  always when switching between different
6297				  user space processes.
6298
6299			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6300				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6301
6302			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6303
6304			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6305			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6306
6307	spec_rstack_overflow=
6308			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6309
6310			off		- Disable mitigation
6311			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6312			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6313			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6314					  kernel entry
6315			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6316					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6317
6318	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6319			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6320			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6321
6322			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6323			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6324			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6325			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6326			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6327			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6328			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6329			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6330
6331			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6332			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6333			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6334			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6335
6336			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6337			Bypass optimization is used.
6338
6339			On x86 the options are:
6340
6341			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6342			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6343			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6344				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6345				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6346				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6347				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6348				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6349			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6350				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6351				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6352				  is inherited on fork.
6353			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6354				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6355
6356			Default mitigations:
6357			X86:	"prctl"
6358
6359			On powerpc the options are:
6360
6361			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6362				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6363				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6364				  exit.
6365			off	- No action.
6366
6367			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6368			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6369
6370	split_lock_detect=
6371			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6372
6373			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6374			instructions that access data across cache line
6375			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6376			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6377			bus lock detection.
6378
6379			off	- not enabled
6380
6381			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6382				  about applications triggering the #AC
6383				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6384				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6385				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6386				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6387				  enabled in hardware.
6388
6389			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6390				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6391				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6392				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6393
6394			ratelimit:N -
6395				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6396				  per second for bus lock detection.
6397				  0 < N <= 1000.
6398
6399				  N/A for split lock detection.
6400
6401
6402			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6403			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6404			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6405			mode.
6406
6407			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6408			CPL > 0.
6409
6410	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6411			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6412			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6413
6414			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6415			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6416			number generator.
6417
6418			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6419			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6420			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6421			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6422			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6423
6424			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6425			the following option:
6426
6427			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6428				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6429
6430	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6431			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6432			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6433			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6434			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6435			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6436			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6437			(decide at boot).
6438
6439	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6440			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6441			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6442			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6443
6444				   0:  Never.
6445				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6446				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6447				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6448				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6449
6450			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6451			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6452			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6453
6454	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6455			Specifies how frequently to check for
6456			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6457			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6458			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6459			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6460			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6461			are ignored.
6462
6463	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6464			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6465			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6466			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6467			grace period will be considered for automatic
6468			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6469			expediting.
6470
6471	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6472			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6473			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6474			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6475			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6476			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6477
6478	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6479			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6480			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6481			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6482			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6483			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6484
6485	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6486			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6487			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6488
6489	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6490			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6491			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6492			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6493			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6494			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6495			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6496
6497	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
6498			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6499
6500			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6501			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6502			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6503			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6504
6505			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6506				   for both kernel and userspace
6507			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6508				   for both kernel and userspace
6509			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6510				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6511				   to allow userspace to register its
6512				   interest in being mitigated too.
6513
6514	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6515			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6516			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6517			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6518			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6519			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6520
6521	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
6522			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6523			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6524			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6525			to false.
6526
6527	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6528			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6529
6530	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6531			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6532			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6533			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6534			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6535			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6536			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6537
6538	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6539			Format: <num>
6540			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6541			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6542			as the initial boot-console.
6543			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6544
6545	sti_font=	[HW]
6546			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6547
6548	stifb=		[HW]
6549			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6550
6551        strict_sas_size=
6552			[X86]
6553			Format: <bool>
6554			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6555			against the required signal frame size which
6556			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6557			be used to filter out binaries which have
6558			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6559
6560	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
6561			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6562			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6563			faults on kernel addresses.
6564
6565	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
6566			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6567			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6568			on kernel addresses.
6569
6570	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6571	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6572			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6573			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6574			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6575			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6576			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6577			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6578			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6579			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6580			maximum port values.
6581
6582	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6583			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6584			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6585			process in parallel from a single connection.
6586			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6587
6588	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6589			[NFS]
6590			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6591			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6592			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6593			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6594			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6595			NFS server is running.
6596
6597			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6598				    automatically using heuristics
6599			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6600			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6601			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6602				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6603
6604	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6605	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6606			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6607			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6608			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6609			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6610			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6611			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6612
6613	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6614			[SUSPEND]
6615			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6616			mode before resuming the system (see
6617			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6618			is set. Default value is 5.
6619
6620	svm=		[PPC]
6621			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6622			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6623			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6624
6625	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
6626			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6627			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6628			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6629				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6630				 to a power of 2.
6631			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6632			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6633			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6634
6635	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
6636
6637	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6638			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6639			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6640			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6641			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6642			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6643			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6644			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6645
6646	sysrq_always_enabled
6647			[KNL]
6648			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6649			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6650			Useful for debugging.
6651
6652	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6653			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6654			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6655			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6656			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6657			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6658
6659	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6660
6661	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6662			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6663			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6664			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6665			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6666			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6667			The system is woken from this state using a
6668			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6669
6670	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6671			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6672
6673	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6674			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6675			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6676
6677	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6678			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6679			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6680
6681	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6682			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6683
6684	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6685			-1: disable all passive trip points
6686			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6687			value
6688
6689	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6690			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6691			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6692			0: no polling (default)
6693
6694	thp_anon=	[KNL]
6695			Format: <size>,<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>-<size>[KMG]:<state>
6696			state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
6697			Control the default behavior of the system with respect
6698			to anonymous transparent hugepages.
6699			Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
6700			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
6701			details.
6702
6703	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
6704			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6705			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6706
6707	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
6708			Format: {off | on}
6709			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6710			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6711			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6712			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6713			Default is on.
6714
6715	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6716			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6717			until after init has spawned.
6718
6719	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6720			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6721			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6722			very costly operation when many torture tests
6723			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6724			with rotating-rust storage.
6725
6726	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6727			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6728			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6729			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6730
6731	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6732			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6733
6734	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6735			Format: integer pcr id
6736			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6737			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6738			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6739			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6740			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6741			are saved.
6742
6743	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6744			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6745			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6746			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6747			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6748			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6749
6750	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6751			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6752			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6753			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6754			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6755			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6756
6757			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6758			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6759			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6760			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6761
6762			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6763			to stop the printing of events to console at
6764			late_initcall_sync.
6765
6766			** CAUTION **
6767
6768			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6769			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6770			the system to live lock.
6771
6772	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6773			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6774			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6775			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6776			make the system inoperable.
6777
6778			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6779			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6780
6781	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6782			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6783
6784	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6785			at boot up.
6786			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6787				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6788				depending on the architecture, may not be
6789				in sync between CPUs.
6790			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6791				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6792				but better for some race conditions.
6793			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6794				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6795				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6796				once per event.
6797			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6798			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6799			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6800			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6801				stamps.
6802			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6803			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6804			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6805
6806	trace_event=[event-list]
6807			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6808			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6809			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6810			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6811
6812	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6813			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6814			This will be listed in:
6815
6816				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6817
6818			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6819			via:
6820
6821				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6822
6823			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6824			unique.
6825
6826				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6827
6828			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6829			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6830			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6831
6832			Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
6833			created. The flags are separated by '^'.
6834
6835			The available flags are:
6836
6837			    traceoff	- Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
6838			    traceprintk	- Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
6839					  (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
6840
6841				trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
6842
6843			The flags must come before the defined events.
6844
6845			If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
6846			can use that memory:
6847
6848				memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
6849
6850			The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
6851			memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
6852			instance will be split up accordingly.
6853
6854			Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
6855
6856				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
6857
6858			This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
6859			and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
6860			memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
6861			the buffer content.
6862
6863			Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
6864			kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
6865			if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
6866
6867			If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
6868			it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
6869			mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
6870			at boot up).
6871
6872				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
6873
6874			Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
6875			is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
6876			can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
6877			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
6878			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
6879
6880			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
6881
6882
6883	trace_options=[option-list]
6884			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6885			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6886			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6887			to echo the option name into
6888
6889			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6890
6891			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6892			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6893
6894			      trace_options=stacktrace
6895
6896			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6897			section.
6898
6899	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6900			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6901			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6902			filter.
6903
6904			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6905			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6906
6907			For example:
6908
6909			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6910
6911			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6912			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6913			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6914
6915			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6916
6917
6918	traceoff_on_warning
6919			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6920			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6921			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6922			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6923
6924			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6925			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6926			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6927
6928			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6929			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6930
6931	transparent_hugepage=
6932			[KNL]
6933			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6934			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6935			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6936			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6937			for more details.
6938
6939	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6940			Format: <string>
6941			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6942			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6943			sources:
6944			- "tpm"
6945			- "tee"
6946			- "caam"
6947			- "dcp"
6948			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6949			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6950			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6951			successfully during iteration.
6952
6953	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6954			Format: <string>
6955			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6956			Can be one of:
6957			- "kernel"
6958			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6959			- "default"
6960			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6961			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6962
6963	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
6964			This is intended to be used in combination with
6965			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
6966			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
6967
6968	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
6969			This is intended to be used in combination with
6970			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
6971			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
6972			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
6973			scenarios.
6974
6975	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6976			Format: <string>
6977			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6978			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6979			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6980			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6981			virtualized environment.
6982			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6983			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6984			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6985			can add overhead.
6986			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6987			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6988			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6989			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6990			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6991			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6992			acceptable).
6993			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6994			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6995			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6996			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6997			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6998			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6999			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7000			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7001			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
7002			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7003
7004	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7005			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7006			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7007			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7008			Format: <unsigned int>
7009
7010	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7011			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7012			support TSX control.
7013
7014			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7015
7016			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7017				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7018				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7019				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7020				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
7021				with leaving it enabled.
7022
7023			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7024				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7025				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7026				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7027				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7028				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7029				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7030
7031			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7032				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7033
7034			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7035
7036			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7037			for more details.
7038
7039	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7040			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7041
7042			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7043			certain CPUs that support Transactional
7044			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7045			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7046			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7047			conditions.
7048
7049			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7050			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7051			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7052			access.
7053
7054			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
7055			options are:
7056
7057			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7058				     if TSX is enabled.
7059
7060			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7061				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7062				     is not disabled because CPU is not
7063				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7064			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7065
7066			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7067			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7068			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7069			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7070
7071			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7072			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
7073			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7074			required and doesn't provide any additional
7075			mitigation.
7076
7077			For details see:
7078			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7079
7080	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
7081			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7082			Format:
7083			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7084			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7085
7086	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7087			happen after console_init() and before a proper
7088			console driver takes over, this boot options might
7089			help "seeing" what's going on.
7090
7091	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7092			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7093
7094	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7095			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7096			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7097			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7098			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7099			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7100			reported either.
7101
7102	unknown_nmi_panic
7103			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7104
7105	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
7106			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
7107			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7108			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7109			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7110
7111	usbcore.authorized_default=
7112			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
7113			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7114			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7115			if device connected to internal port)
7116
7117	usbcore.autosuspend=
7118			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7119			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
7120			is the time required before an idle device will be
7121			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
7122			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7123
7124	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7125			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7126
7127	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7128			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7129			(default = 65536).
7130
7131	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7132			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7133
7134	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7135			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7136			scheme (default 0 = off).
7137
7138	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7139			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7140			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7141
7142	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7143			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7144			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7145
7146	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7147			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7148			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7149			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7150
7151	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7152
7153	usbcore.quirks=
7154			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7155			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7156			commas. Each entry has the form
7157			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7158			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7159			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7160			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7161			the following meanings:
7162				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7163					descriptors must not be fetched using
7164					a 255-byte read);
7165				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7166					correctly so reset it instead);
7167				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7168					Set-Interface requests);
7169				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7170					handle its Configuration or Interface
7171					strings);
7172				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7173					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7174				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7175					more interface descriptions than the
7176					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7177					talking to these interfaces);
7178				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7179					during initialization, after we read
7180					the device descriptor);
7181				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7182					high speed and super speed interrupt
7183					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7184					require the interval in microframes (1
7185					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7186					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7187					(bInterval-1).
7188					Devices with this quirk report their
7189					bInterval as the result of this
7190					calculation instead of the exponent
7191					variable used in the calculation);
7192				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7193					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7194					requests);
7195				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7196					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7197					remote wakeup capability);
7198				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7199					Power Management);
7200				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7201					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7202					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7203					calculation);
7204				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7205					to be disconnected before suspend to
7206					prevent spurious wakeup);
7207				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7208					pause after every control message);
7209				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7210					delay after resetting its port);
7211				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7212					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7213					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7214			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7215
7216	usbhid.mousepoll=
7217			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7218
7219	usbhid.jspoll=
7220			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7221
7222	usbhid.kbpoll=
7223			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7224
7225	usb-storage.delay_use=
7226			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7227			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7228			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7229			suffix with "ms".
7230			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7231
7232	usb-storage.quirks=
7233			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7234			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7235			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7236			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7237			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7238			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7239			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7240				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7241					of sense data, not on uas);
7242				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7243					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7244				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7245					device capacity by one sector);
7246				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7247					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7248				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7249					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7250				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7251					command, uas only);
7252				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7253					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7254				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7255					reported device capacity by one
7256					sector if the number is odd);
7257				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7258					device);
7259				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7260					command, uas only);
7261				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7262				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7263					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7264				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7265					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7266					not on uas);
7267				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7268					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7269				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7270					reported by the device, not on uas);
7271				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7272					by default, not on uas);
7273				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7274					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7275				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7276					Logical Unit);
7277				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7278					commands, uas only);
7279				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7280				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7281					medium is write-protected).
7282				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7283					even if the device claims no cache,
7284					not on uas)
7285			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7286
7287	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7288			Format: <int>
7289			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7290				 1 - undefined instruction events
7291				 2 - system calls
7292				 4 - invalid data aborts
7293				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7294				16 - SIGBUS faults
7295			Example: user_debug=31
7296
7297	userpte=
7298			[X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7299
7300				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7301					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7302					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7303
7304	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7305			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7306
7307			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7308			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7309
7310	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7311			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7312			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7313
7314			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7315			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7316			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7317
7318			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7319			alias for vdso32=0.
7320
7321			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7322			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7323
7324	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7325			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7326
7327	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7328			Format: [0|1]
7329			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7330			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7331			level and then send out the event to user space through
7332			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7333			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7334			brightness level.
7335			default: 1
7336
7337	virtio_mmio.device=
7338			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7339
7340				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7341			where:
7342				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7343						like K, M and G)
7344				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7345				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7346						request_irq())
7347				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7348			example:
7349				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7350
7351			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7352
7353	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7354			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7355			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7356			Use vga=ask for menu.
7357			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7358			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7359
7360	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7361			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7362			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7363			All options are enabled by default, and this
7364			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7365			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7366			debugging features.
7367
7368			Available options are:
7369			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7370			  -	Disable all of the above options
7371
7372	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7373			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7374			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
7375			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
7376			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7377			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
7378			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
7379			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
7380
7381	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7382			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7383			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7384
7385	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7386			Format: <command>
7387
7388	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7389			Format: <command>
7390
7391	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7392			Format: <command>
7393
7394	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7395			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7396			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7397			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7398			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7399			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7400			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7401
7402			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7403			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7404				    readable.
7405
7406			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7407			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7408				    page is not readable.
7409
7410			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7411			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7412			            might break your system.
7413
7414	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7415			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7416			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7417
7418	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7419			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7420			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7421			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7422
7423	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7424			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7425			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7426			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7427			ranging from 0-255.
7428
7429	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7430			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7431			Change the default green palette of the console.
7432			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7433			ranging from 0-255.
7434
7435	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7436			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7437			Change the default red palette of the console.
7438			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7439			ranging from 0-255.
7440
7441	vt.default_utf8=
7442			[VT]
7443			Format=<0|1>
7444			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7445			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7446			newly opened terminals.
7447
7448	vt.global_cursor_default=
7449			[VT]
7450			Format=<-1|0|1>
7451			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7452			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7453			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7454			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7455			cursors, 1 will display them.
7456
7457	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7458			Default: 2 = green.
7459
7460	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7461			Default: 3 = cyan.
7462
7463	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7464			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7465			or other driver-specific files in the
7466			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7467
7468	watchdog_thresh=
7469			[KNL]
7470			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7471			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7472			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7473			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7474			seconds.
7475
7476	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7477			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7478			to use in unbound workqueues.
7479			Format: <cpu-list>
7480			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7481			unbound workqueues.
7482
7483	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7484			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7485			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7486			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7487			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7488			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7489			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7490			corresponding sysfs file.
7491
7492	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
7493			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
7494			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
7495			stall to trigger panic.
7496
7497			The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
7498
7499	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7500			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7501			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7502			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7503			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7504			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7505
7506			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7507			will report the work functions which violate this
7508			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7509			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7510
7511	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
7512			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7513			will report the work functions which violate the
7514			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
7515			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
7516			function has violated this threshold number of times.
7517
7518			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
7519
7520	workqueue.power_efficient
7521			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7522			they show better performance thanks to cache
7523			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7524			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7525
7526			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7527			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7528			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7529			power usage at the cost of small performance
7530			overhead.
7531
7532			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7533			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7534
7535        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7536			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7537			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7538			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7539			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7540			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7541
7542			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7543			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7544			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7545			updated accordingly.
7546
7547	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7548			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7549			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7550			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7551			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7552			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7553			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7554			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7555			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7556			impacted.
7557
7558	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
7559			Type) of ioremap_wc().
7560
7561			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7562			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7563
7564	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7565			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7566			supporting x2apic.
7567
7568	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7569			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7570			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7571			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7572			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7573			domains.
7574
7575	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
7576			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7577			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7578			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7579			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7580			nics -- unplug network devices
7581			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7582			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7583				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7584				the unplug protocol
7585			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7586
7587	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7588			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7589			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7590
7591	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7592			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
7593			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
7594			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
7595			debug data in case of multicall errors.
7596
7597	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7598			Format: <bool>
7599			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7600			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7601			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7602
7603	xen_nopv	[X86]
7604			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7605			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7606			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7607			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7608
7609	xen_no_vector_callback
7610			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7611			event channel interrupts.
7612
7613	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7614			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7615			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7616			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7617			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7618
7619	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7620			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7621			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7622			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7623			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7624			more timer interrupts.
7625
7626	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7627			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7628			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7629			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7630			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7631			max. Default is 180.
7632
7633	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7634			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7635			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7636
7637	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7638			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7639			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7640
7641	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7642			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7643			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7644			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7645			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7646			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7647
7648	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7649			Format:
7650			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7651
7652	xive=		[PPC]
7653			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7654			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7655			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7656
7657			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7658				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7659				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7660
7661	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7662			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7663			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7664			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7665			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7666
7667	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7668			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7669			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7670			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7671
7672	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
7673			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7674			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7675			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7676			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7677				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7678			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7679				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7680				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7681				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7682			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7683				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7684				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7685				can be written using xmon commands.
7686			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7687				memory, and other data can't be written using
7688				xmon commands.
7689			off	xmon is disabled.
7690