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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235			used during resume from hibernation.
236			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239			of _PTS is used by default).
240			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244			but some broken systems don't work without it).
245			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256	agp=		[AGP]
257			{ off | try_unsupported }
258			off: disable AGP support
259			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
263			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278			32: only for 32-bit processes
279			64: only for 64-bit processes
280			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
291			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
292			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
293			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
294			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
295			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
296			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
297
298			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
299			information.
300
301	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
303			Possible values are:
304			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
305			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
306				    the system
307			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
308					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
309					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
310					  requirements as needed. This option
311					  does not override iommu=pt
312			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
313				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
314				       option with care.
315
316	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
317			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
318			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
319			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
320			IOMMU initialization.
321
322	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
323			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
324			remapping modes:
325			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
326			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
327			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
328			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
329			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
330
331	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
332			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
333			Format: <a>,<b>
334			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
335
336	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
337			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
338			connected to one of 16 gameports
339			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
340
341	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
342			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
343			Format: noidle
344			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
345			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
346			APC and your system crashes randomly.
347
348	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
349			Change the output verbosity while booting
350			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
351			Change the amount of debugging information output
352			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
353			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
354			driver name.
355			Format: apic=driver_name
356			Examples: apic=bigsmp
357
358	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
359			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
360			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
361			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
362			      backup of CPU 0
363			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
364			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
365			      shot down by NMI
366
367	autoconf=	[IPV6]
368			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
369
370	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
371			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
372			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
373			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
374			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
375			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
376			apic=verbose is specified.
377			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
378
379	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
380			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
381
382	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
383			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
384
385	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
386			Identification support
387
388	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
389			support
390
391	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
392			support
393
394	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
395
396	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
397
398	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
399			EzKey and similar keyboards
400
401	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
402
403	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
404			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
405
406	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
407			keyboards
408
409	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
410			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
411
412	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
413			Use software keyboard repeat
414
415	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
416			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
417			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
418			    enabled until the next reboot
419			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
420			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
421			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
422			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
423			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
424			    userspace auditd.
425			Default: unset
426
427	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
428			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
429			Default: 64
430
431	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
432			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
433			Format: { "0" | "1" }
434			0 - Disable the BAU.
435			1 - Enable the BAU.
436			unset - Disable the BAU.
437
438	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
439			Format: <io>,<mode>
440
441	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
442			Format: <io>,<mode>
443			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
444
445	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
446			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
447			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
448			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
449
450	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
451			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
452			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
453			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
454
455	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
456			embedded devices based on command line input.
457			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
458
459	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
460			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
461			no delay (0).
462			Format: integer
463
464	bootconfig	[KNL]
465			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
466			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
467
468			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
477	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
478			kernel args too.
479	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
480	bttv.tuner=
481
482	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
483			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
484			at a time.
485
486	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
487
488	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
489			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
490			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
491			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
492			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
493			This option provides an override for these situations.
494
495	carrier_timeout=
496			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
497			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
498			it waits 120 seconds.
499
500	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
501			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
502			trust validation.
503			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
504
505	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
506			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
507			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
508			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
509			others).
510
511	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
512			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
513
514	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
515			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
516			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
517			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
518			  a single hierarchy
519			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
520			  subsystem
521			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
522			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
523			  created
524			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
525			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
526			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
527			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
528			stall information accounting feature
529
530	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
531			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
532			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
533			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
534			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
535			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
536			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
537			all v1 hierarchies.
538
539	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
540			Format: <string>
541			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
542			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
543
544	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
545			Format: { "0" | "1" }
546			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
547			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
548				any implied execute protection).
549			1 -- check protection requested by application.
550			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
551			Value can be changed at runtime via
552				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
553			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
554
555	cio_ignore=	[S390]
556			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557	clk_ignore_unused
558			[CLK]
559			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
560			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
561			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
562			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
563			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
564			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
565			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
566			platform with proper driver support.  For more
567			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
568
569	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
570			[Deprecated]
571			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
572			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
573			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
574			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
575
576	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
577			Format: <string>
578			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
579			with the name specified.
580			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
581			the platform:
582			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
583			[ACPI] acpi_pm
584			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
585				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
586			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
587				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
588			[MIPS] MIPS
589			[PARISC] cr16
590			[S390] tod
591			[SH] SuperH
592			[SPARC64] tick
593			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
594
595	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
596			[ARM,ARM64]
597			Format: <bool>
598			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
599			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
600			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
601			systems.
602
603	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
604			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
605			external delays before the clock will be marked
606			unstable.  Defaults to three retries, that is,
607			four attempts to read the clock under test.
608
609	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
610			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
611			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
612			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
613			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
614			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
615			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
616			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
617			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
618
619	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
620			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
621			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
622			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
623			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
624
625	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
626			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
627			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
628			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
629			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
630			ones should be.
631			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
632			or using the feature without checking anything
633			will still see it. This just prevents it from
634			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
635			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
636			some critical bits.
637
638	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
639			[KNL,CMA]
640			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
641			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
642			placement constraint by the physical address range of
643			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
644			altogether. For more information, see
645			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
646
647	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
648			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
649			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
650			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
651			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
652			specificed, the default value is 0.
653			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
654			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
655			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
656			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
657
658	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
659			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
660			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
661			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
662			a hypervisor.
663			Default: yes
664
665	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
666			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
667			allocations, by default set to 256K.
668
669	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
670			Format:
671			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
672
673	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
674			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
675
676	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
677			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
678			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
679
680	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
681	conmode=
682
683	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
684
685		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
686
687		ttyS<n>[,options]
688		ttyUSB0[,options]
689			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
690			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
691			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
692			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
693			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
694
695			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
696			information.  See
697			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
698			alternative.
699
700		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
701		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
702		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
703		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
704		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
705			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
706			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
707			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
708			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
709			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
710			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
711			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
712			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
713			the h/w is not re-initialized.
714
715		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
716			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
717
718		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
719		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
720			console=brl,ttyS0
721		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
722
723	console_msg_format=
724			[KNL] Change console messages format
725		default
726			By default we print messages on consoles in
727			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
728			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
729			`printk_time' param).
730		syslog
731			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
732			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
733			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
734			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
735			from /proc/kmsg.
736
737	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
738			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
739			Defaults to 0.
740
741	coredump_filter=
742			[KNL] Change the default value for
743			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
744			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
745
746	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
747			[ARM,ARM64]
748			Format: <bool>
749			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
750			0: default value, disable debugging
751			1: enable debugging at boot time
752
753	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
754			disable the cpuidle sub-system
755
756	cpuidle.governor=
757			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
758
759	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
760			disable the cpufreq sub-system
761
762	cpufreq.default_governor=
763			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
764			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
765			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
766
767	cpu_init_udelay=N
768			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
769			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
770			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
771			Default: 10000
772
773	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
774			Format:
775			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
776
777	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
778			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
779			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
780			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
781			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
782			is selected automatically.
783			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
784			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
785			hasn't been specified.
786			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
787
788	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
789			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
790			in the running system. The syntax of range is
791			start-[end] where start and end are both
792			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
793			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
794
795	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
796			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
797			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
798			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
799			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
800			available.
801			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
802	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
803			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
804			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
805			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
806			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
807			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
808			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
809			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
810			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
811			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
812			for second kernel instead.
813			0: to disable low allocation.
814			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
815			or memory reserved is below 4G.
816
817	cryptomgr.notests
818			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
819
820	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
821			Format: <dma>
822
823	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
824			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
825
826	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
827			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
828			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
829			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
830			to resolve the hang situation.
831			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
832			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
833			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
834			     but more data)
835
836	dasd=		[HW,NET]
837			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
838
839	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
840			(one device per port)
841			Format: <port#>,<type>
842			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
843
844	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
845
846	debug_boot_weak_hash
847			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
848			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
849			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
850			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
851			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
852			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
853
854	debug_locks_verbose=
855			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
856			Format: <int>
857			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
858			self-tests.
859			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
860			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
861			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
862			useful to lockdep developers.
863
864	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
865
866	no_debug_objects
867			[KNL] Disable object debugging
868
869	debug_guardpage_minorder=
870			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
871			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
872			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
873			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
874			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
875			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
876			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
877			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
878			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
879			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
880			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
881			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
882			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
883			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
884			bypassed) which are not detectable by
885			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
886			tracking down these problems.
887
888	debug_pagealloc=
889			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
890			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
891			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
892			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
893			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
894			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
895			on: enable the feature
896
897	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
898			and debugfs internal clients.
899			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
900			on: 	All functions are enabled.
901			no-mount:
902				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
903			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
904				its content. There is nothing to mount.
905			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
906			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
907				or directories within debugfs.
908				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
909				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
910			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
911
912	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
913
914	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
915			Format: <area>[,<node>]
916			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
917
918	default_hugepagesz=
919			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
920			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
921			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
922			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
923			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
924			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
925			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
926			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
927			Format: size[KMG]
928
929	deferred_probe_timeout=
930			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
931			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
932			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
933			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
934			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
935			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
936			retrying.
937
938	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
939			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
940			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
941			          level 1 and decompression (default)
942			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
943			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
944			          only (compression on level 1)
945			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
946			          only (decompression)
947			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
948			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
949
950	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
951			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
952
953	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
954			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
955			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
956			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
957			miss to occur.
958
959	stress_slb	[PPC]
960			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
961			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
962			on kernel addresses.
963
964	disable=	[IPV6]
965			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
966
967	hardened_usercopy=
968                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
969                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
970                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
971                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
972                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
973                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
974                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
975                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
976                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
977
978	disable_radix	[PPC]
979			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
980
981	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
982			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
983			invalidate.
984
985	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
986			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
987			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
988
989	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
990			Format: <int>
991			The number of initial APIC ID for the
992			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
993			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
994			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
995			causing system reset or hang due to sending
996			INIT from AP to BSP.
997
998	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
999			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1000			to workaround buggy firmware.
1001
1002	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1003			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1004
1005	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1006			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1007			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1008			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1009
1010	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1011			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1012			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1013			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1014			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1015
1016	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1017			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1018			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1019
1020	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1021
1022	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1023			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1024
1025	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1026			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1027			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1028			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1029			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1030			architectural default is too low.
1031
1032	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1033			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1034			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1035			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1036			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1037			driver later using sysfs.
1038
1039	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1040			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1041			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1042
1043	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1044			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1045			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1046			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1047			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1048			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1049			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1050			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1051			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1052			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1053			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1054			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1055			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1056			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1057			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1058			data set with no connector name will be used for
1059			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1060
1061	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1062
1063	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1064			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1065			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1066			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1067			exists).
1068			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1069			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1070			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1071
1072	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1073			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1074			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1075			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1076
1077	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1078	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1079			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1080			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1081			for details.
1082
1083	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1084			in some Intel CPUs.
1085
1086	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1087			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1088
1089	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1090			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1091			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1092			which are not unmapped.
1093
1094	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1095
1096			When used with no options, the early console is
1097			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1098			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1099			the platform.
1100
1101		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1102			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1103			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1104			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1105			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1106			configured.
1107
1108		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1109		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1110		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1111		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1112		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1113			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1114			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1115			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1116			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1117			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1118			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1119			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1120			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1121
1122		pl011,<addr>
1123		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1124			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1125			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1126			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1127			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1128			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1129			the device registers.
1130
1131		liteuart,<addr>
1132			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1133			specified address. The serial port must already be
1134			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1135
1136		meson,<addr>
1137			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1138			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1139			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1140			supported.
1141
1142		msm_serial,<addr>
1143			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1144			port at the specified address. The serial port
1145			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1146			yet supported.
1147
1148		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1149			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1150			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1151			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1152			yet supported.
1153
1154		owl,<addr>
1155			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1156			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1157			specified address. The serial port must already be
1158			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1159
1160		rda,<addr>
1161			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1162			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1163			specified address. The serial port must already be
1164			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1165
1166		sbi
1167			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1168			console.
1169
1170		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1171
1172		s3c2410,<addr>
1173		s3c2412,<addr>
1174		s3c2440,<addr>
1175		s3c6400,<addr>
1176		s5pv210,<addr>
1177		exynos4210,<addr>
1178			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1179			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1180			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1181			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1182			Options are not yet supported.
1183
1184		lantiq,<addr>
1185			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1186			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1187			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1188			yet supported.
1189
1190		lpuart,<addr>
1191		lpuart32,<addr>
1192			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1193			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1194			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1195			port must already be setup and configured.
1196
1197		ec_imx21,<addr>
1198		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1199			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1200			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1201			must already be setup and configured.
1202
1203		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1204			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1205			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1206			address. The serial port must already be setup
1207			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1208
1209		qcom_geni,<addr>
1210			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1211			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1212			specified address. The serial port must already be
1213			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1214
1215		efifb,[options]
1216			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1217			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1218			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1219			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1220			mapped with the correct attributes.
1221
1222		linflex,<addr>
1223			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1224			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1225			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1226			already be setup and configured.
1227
1228	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1229			earlyprintk=vga
1230			earlyprintk=sclp
1231			earlyprintk=xen
1232			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1233			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1234			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1235			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1236			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1237			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1238
1239			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1240			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1241			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1242
1243			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1244			takes over.
1245
1246			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1247			be used at a time.
1248
1249			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1250			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1251			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1252			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1253				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1254			You can find the port for a given device in
1255			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1256				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1257
1258			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1259			very good.
1260
1261			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1262			the real console.
1263
1264			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1265
1266			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1267
1268			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1269			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1270			UART class.
1271
1272	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1273			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1274			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1275			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1276			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1277			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1278			default: on.
1279
1280	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1281			ekgdboc=kbd
1282
1283			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1284			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1285
1286			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1287			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1288			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1289			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1290
1291	edd=		[EDD]
1292			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1293
1294	efi=		[EFI]
1295			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1296				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1297				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1298			debug: enable misc debug output.
1299			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1300			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1301			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1302			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1303			firmware implementations.
1304			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1305			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1306			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1307			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1308			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1309			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1310			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1311			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1312			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1313			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1314
1315	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1316			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1317			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1318			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1319			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1320
1321	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1322			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1323			updating original EFI memory map.
1324			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1325			from ss to ss+nn.
1326
1327			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1328			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1329			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1330			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1331
1332			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1333			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1334			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1335
1336			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1337			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1338			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1339			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1340			"soft reserved".
1341
1342	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1343			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1344			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1345			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1346			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1347
1348
1349	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1350			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1351
1352	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1353			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1354			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1355
1356	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1357			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1358			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1359			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1360			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1361
1362	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1363			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1364			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1365			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1366
1367	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1368			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1369			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1370			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1371			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1372
1373	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1374			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1375			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1376			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1377			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1378			Default value is 0.
1379			Value can be changed at runtime via
1380			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1381
1382	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1383			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1384			support.
1385
1386	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1387			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1388			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1389
1390	evm=		[EVM]
1391			Format: { "fix" }
1392			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1393			current integrity status.
1394
1395	failslab=
1396	fail_usercopy=
1397	fail_page_alloc=
1398	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1399			General fault injection mechanism.
1400			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1401			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1402
1403	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1404			Format: { initns | none }
1405			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1406			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1407
1408	floppy=		[HW]
1409			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1410
1411	force_pal_cache_flush
1412			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1413			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1414			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1415			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1416
1417	forcepae	[X86-32]
1418			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1419			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1420			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1421			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1422			and may cause unknown problems.
1423
1424	ftrace=[tracer]
1425			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1426			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1427			boot debugging.
1428
1429	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1430			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1431			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1432			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1433			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1434			oops.
1435
1436	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1437			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1438			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1439			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1440			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1441			tracing directory.
1442
1443	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1444			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1445			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1446			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1447			tracing directory.
1448
1449	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1450			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1451			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1452			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1453			that can be changed at run time by the
1454			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1455
1456	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1457			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1458			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1459			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1460			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1461
1462	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1463			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1464			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1465			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1466			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1467
1468	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1469			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1470			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1471			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1472			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1473			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1474			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1475			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1476			suppliers).
1477			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1478			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1479			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1480				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1481				up (sync_state() calls).
1482			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1483				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1484			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1485
1486	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1487			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1488			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1489			Format: <bool>
1490
1491	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1492			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1493			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1494			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1495			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1496
1497	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1498
1499	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1500			Format: off | on
1501			default: on
1502
1503	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1504			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1505			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1506			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1507			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1508
1509	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1510			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1511			android emulator
1512
1513	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1514			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1515			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1516	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1517			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1518
1519	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1520			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1521			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1522			GPT to be used instead.
1523
1524	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1525			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1526			Format: 0 | 1
1527			Default: 0
1528	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1529			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1530			Format: 0 | 1
1531			Default: 0
1532	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1533			Format: 0 | 1
1534			Default: 0
1535	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1536			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1537			Default: 1024
1538	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1539			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1540			Default: 1024
1541
1542	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1543			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1544			backtraces on all cpus.
1545			Format: 0 | 1
1546
1547	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1548			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1549			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1550			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1551
1552	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1553
1554	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1555			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1556
1557	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1558			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1559			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1560			logic will be disabled.
1561
1562	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1563			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1564			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1565			size on bigger boxes.
1566
1567	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1568			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1569			Default: "on"
1570
1571	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1572
1573	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1574			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1575				verbose }
1576			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1577			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1578				VIA, nVidia)
1579			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1580
1581	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1582			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1583
1584	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1585			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1586			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1587			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1588				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1589
1590			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1591			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1592			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1593
1594	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1595			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1596			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1597			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1598			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1599			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1600			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1601			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1602			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1603				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1604
1605	hugepagesz=
1606			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1607			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1608			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1609			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1610			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1611			architecture dependent.  See also
1612			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1613			Format: size[KMG]
1614
1615	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1616			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1617			enabled.
1618			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1619			memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1620			Format: { on | off (default) }
1621
1622			on:  enable the feature
1623			off: disable the feature
1624
1625			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1626			the default is on.
1627
1628			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1629			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1630			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1631
1632	hung_task_panic=
1633			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1634			Format: 0 | 1
1635
1636			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1637			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1638			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1639			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1640			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1641
1642	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1643				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1644	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1645				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1646				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1647
1648	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1649				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1650				      guest on lock contention.
1651
1652	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1653			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1654			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1655			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1656			the real console.
1657
1658	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1659				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1660				registered from board initialization code.
1661				Format:
1662				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1663
1664	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1665	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1666			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1667			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1668			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1669	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1670	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1671			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1672			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1673	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1674	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1675	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1676			     for the AUX port
1677	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1678			     controller
1679	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1680			     controllers
1681	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1682	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1683			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1684			     transitions, or never reset
1685			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1686			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1687			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1688			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1689			architectures force reset to be always executed
1690	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1691	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1692
1693	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1694
1695	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1696			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1697			hardware.
1698	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1699			does not match list of supported models.
1700	i8k.power_status
1701			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1702			(disabled by default)
1703	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1704			capability is set.
1705
1706	i915.invert_brightness=
1707			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1708			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1709			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1710			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1711			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1712			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1713			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1714			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1715			value switches the backlight off.
1716			-1 -- never invert brightness
1717			 0 -- machine default
1718			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1719
1720	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1721			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1722
1723	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1724			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1725			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1726			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1727			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1728
1729	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1730			Format: <int>
1731			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1732			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1733			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1734			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1735			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1736			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1737			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1738			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1739			was 0x3.
1740
1741	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1742			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1743
1744	idle=		[X86]
1745			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1746			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1747			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1748			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1749			Not recommended.
1750			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1751			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1752			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1753
1754	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1755			Format: <bool>
1756			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1757			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1758			true (1).
1759
1760	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1761			Format: <bool>
1762			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1763			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1764
1765	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1766			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1767			Default: strict
1768
1769			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1770			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1771			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1772			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1773			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1774			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1775			encoding mode.
1776
1777			Available settings are as follows:
1778			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1779				supported by the FPU
1780			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1781				by the FPU
1782			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1783				by the FPU
1784			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1785				supported by the FPU
1786
1787			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1788			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1789			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1790			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1791			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1792			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1793			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1794			MIPS64 CPUs.
1795
1796			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1797			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1798			except where unsupported by hardware.
1799
1800	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1801			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1802			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1803			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1804			could change it dynamically, usually by
1805			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1806
1807	ignore_rlimit_data
1808			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1809			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1810			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1811
1812	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1813			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1814
1815	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1816			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1817			default: "enforce"
1818
1819	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1820			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1821			owned by uid=0.
1822
1823	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1824			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1825			measurements, instead of host native format.
1826
1827	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1828			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1829				   | sha512 | ... }
1830			default: "sha1"
1831
1832			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1833			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1834
1835	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1836			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1837			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1838				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1839
1840			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1841			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1842			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1843			uid=0.
1844
1845			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1846			all files owned by root.
1847
1848			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1849			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1850			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1851
1852			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1853			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1854			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1855			flag.
1856
1857			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1858			critical data.
1859
1860	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1861			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1862			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1863			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1864			opened for read by uid=0.
1865
1866	ima_template=	[IMA]
1867			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1868			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1869			Default: "ima-ng"
1870
1871	ima_template_fmt=
1872			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1873			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1874
1875	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1876			Format: <min_file_size>
1877			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1878			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1879
1880			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1881			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1882			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1883
1884	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1885			Format: <bufsize>
1886			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1887
1888			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1889			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1890			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1891
1892	init=		[KNL]
1893			Format: <full_path>
1894			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1895			process.
1896
1897	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1898			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1899			startup.
1900
1901	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1902			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1903			modules and initcalls.
1904
1905	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1906			Format: <bool>
1907			Default: 1
1908			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1909			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1910			with devices being probed and
1911			initialized. This should normally just work,
1912			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1913			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1914			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1915			late_ initcalls.
1916
1917	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1918
1919	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1920			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1921			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1922			setting.
1923			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1924			Default is 0, 0
1925
1926	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1927			zeroes.
1928			Format: 0 | 1
1929			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1930
1931	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1932			Format: 0 | 1
1933			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1934
1935	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1936			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1937			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1938			override in debugfs after boot.
1939
1940	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1941			Format: <irq>
1942
1943	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1944
1945	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1946			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1947			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1948			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1949
1950	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1951		on
1952			Enable intel iommu driver.
1953		off
1954			Disable intel iommu driver.
1955		igfx_off [Default Off]
1956			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1957			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1958			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1959			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1960			DMA.
1961		strict [Default Off]
1962			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
1963		sp_off [Default Off]
1964			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1965			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1966			not be supported.
1967		sm_on
1968			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
1969			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
1970			translation.
1971		sm_off
1972			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
1973		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1974			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1975			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1976			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1977			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1978			mapping is enabled.
1979			Note that using this option lowers the security
1980			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1981			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1982
1983	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1984			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1985			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1986
1987	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1988			disable
1989			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1990			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1991			passive
1992			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1993			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1994			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1995			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1996			  feature.
1997			force
1998			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1999			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2000			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2001			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2002			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2003			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2004			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2005			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2006			no_hwp
2007			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2008			  if available.
2009			hwp_only
2010			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2011			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2012			support_acpi_ppc
2013			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2014			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2015			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2016			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2017			per_cpu_perf_limits
2018			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2019			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2020
2021	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2022			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2023			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2024			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2025			no_x2apic_optout
2026				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2027			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2028
2029	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2030		strict	regions from userspace.
2031		relaxed
2032
2033	iommu=		[X86]
2034		off
2035		force
2036		noforce
2037		biomerge
2038		panic
2039		nopanic
2040		merge
2041		nomerge
2042		soft
2043		pt		[X86]
2044		nopt		[X86]
2045		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2046			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2047
2048	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2049			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2050			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2051			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2052			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2053			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2054			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2055
2056	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2057			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2058			0 - Lazy mode.
2059			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2060			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2061			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2062			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2063			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2064			1 - Strict mode.
2065			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2066			  synchronously.
2067			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2068			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2069			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2070
2071	iommu.passthrough=
2072			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2073			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2074			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2075			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2076			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2077
2078	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2079			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2080			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2081
2082	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2083		0x80
2084			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2085		0xed
2086			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2087		udelay
2088			Simple two microseconds delay
2089		none
2090			No delay
2091
2092	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2093			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2094
2095	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2096			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2097
2098	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2099			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2100
2101	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2102			[ARM, ARM64]
2103			Format: <bool>
2104			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2105			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2106			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2107
2108	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2109			[ARM, ARM64]
2110			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2111			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2112			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2113			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2114			LPIs.
2115
2116	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2117			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2118			requires the kernel to be built with
2119			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2120
2121	irqfixup	[HW]
2122			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2123			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2124			firmware running.
2125
2126	irqpoll		[HW]
2127			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2128			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2129			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2130			firmware running.
2131
2132	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2133			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2134
2135	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2136			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2137			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2138
2139			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2140			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2141
2142			nohz
2143			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2144
2145			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2146			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2147			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2148			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2149			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2150
2151			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2152			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2153			  be configured manually after bootup.
2154
2155			domain
2156			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2157			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2158			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2159			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2160			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2161			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2162			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2163			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2164
2165			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2166			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2167			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2168			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2169
2170			managed_irq
2171
2172			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2173			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2174			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2175			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2176			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2177
2178			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2179			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2180			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2181			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2182			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2183			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2184			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2185
2186			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2187			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2188			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2189			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2190			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2191			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2192			  queues.
2193
2194			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2195
2196	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2197
2198	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2199			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2200			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2201			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2202			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2203				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2204
2205	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2206			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2207			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2208			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2209			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2210				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2211
2212	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2213			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2214			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2215			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2216			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2217				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2218
2219	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2220			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2221
2222	nokaslr		[KNL]
2223			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2224			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2225			Layout Randomization).
2226
2227	kasan_multi_shot
2228			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2229			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2230			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2231			invalid access.
2232
2233	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2234
2235	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2236			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2237			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2238			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2239			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2240			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2241			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2242			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2243			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2244			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2245
2246			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2247			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2248			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2249			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2250			zone if it does not.
2251
2252			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2253			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2254			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2255			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2256			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2257			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2258			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2259
2260	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2261			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2262			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2263			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2264			optional and is the number seconds in between
2265			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2266			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2267			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2268			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2269			the kernel debugger.
2270
2271	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2272			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2273			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2274			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2275			 keyboard only format: kbd
2276			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2277			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2278			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2279			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2280
2281	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2282			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2283			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2284			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2285			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2286			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2287			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2288
2289			The name of the early console should be specified
2290			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2291			the early console might be different than the tty
2292			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2293			blank and the first boot console that implements
2294			read() will be picked.
2295
2296	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2297			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2298
2299	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2300			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2301			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2302
2303	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2304			Valid arguments: on, off
2305			Default: on
2306			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2307			the default is off.
2308
2309	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2310			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2311			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2312			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2313			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2314			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2315			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2316
2317			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2318
2319			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2320			Boot Parameter" section.
2321
2322	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2323			and kernel address spaces.
2324			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2325			0: force disabled
2326			1: force enabled
2327
2328	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2329			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2330
2331	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2332				   Default is false (don't support).
2333
2334	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2335			KVM MMU at runtime.
2336			Default is 0 (off)
2337
2338	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2339			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2340			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2341			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2342			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2343			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2344				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2345
2346			Default is 'auto'.
2347
2348			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2349			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2350
2351	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2352			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2353			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2354			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2355			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2356
2357	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2358			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2359			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2360			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2361			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2362			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2363
2364	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2365			Default is 1 (enabled)
2366
2367	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2368			for all guests.
2369			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2370
2371	kvm-arm.mode=
2372			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2373
2374			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2375
2376			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2377			      protected guests.
2378
2379			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2380				   state is kept private from the host.
2381				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2382
2383			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2384			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2385			for the host.
2386
2387	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2388			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2389			system registers
2390
2391	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2392			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2393			system registers
2394
2395	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2396			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2397			system registers
2398
2399	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2400			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2401			LPIs.
2402
2403	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2404			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2405			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2406			allocation.
2407			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2408			Format: <integer>
2409			Default: 5
2410
2411	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2412			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2413			Default is 1 (enabled)
2414
2415	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2416			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2417			Default is 0 (disabled)
2418
2419	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2420			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2421			Default is 1 (enabled)
2422
2423	kvm-intel.nested=
2424			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2425			Default is 0 (disabled)
2426
2427	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2428			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2429			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2430			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2431
2432	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2433			CVE-2018-3620.
2434
2435			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2436
2437			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2438			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2439				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2440			never:	Disables the mitigation
2441
2442			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2443
2444	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2445			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2446			Default is 1 (enabled)
2447
2448	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2449			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2450
2451			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2452			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2453			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2454
2455			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2456			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2457			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2458			not have direct access.
2459
2460			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2461			options are:
2462
2463			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2464
2465	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2466			      affected CPUs
2467
2468			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2469			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2470
2471			full
2472				Provides all available mitigations for the
2473				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2474				enables all mitigations in the
2475				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2476
2477				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2478				sysfs interface is still possible after
2479				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2480				when the first VM is started in a
2481				potentially insecure configuration,
2482				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2483
2484			full,force
2485				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2486				flush runtime control. Implies the
2487				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2488				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2489
2490			flush
2491				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2492				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2493				L1D flush.
2494
2495				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2496				sysfs interface is still possible after
2497				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2498				when the first VM is started in a
2499				potentially insecure configuration,
2500				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2501
2502			flush,nosmt
2503
2504				Disables SMT and enables the default
2505				hypervisor mitigation.
2506
2507				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2508				sysfs interface is still possible after
2509				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2510				when the first VM is started in a
2511				potentially insecure configuration,
2512				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2513
2514			flush,nowarn
2515				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2516				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2517				insecure configuration.
2518
2519			off
2520				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2521				emit any warnings.
2522				It also drops the swap size and available
2523				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2524				bare metal.
2525
2526			Default is 'flush'.
2527
2528			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2529
2530	l2cr=		[PPC]
2531
2532	l3cr=		[PPC]
2533
2534	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2535			disabled it.
2536
2537	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2538			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2539			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2540			Format: notscdeadline
2541
2542	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2543			in C2 power state.
2544
2545	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2546			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2547			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2548			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2549			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2550			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2551			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2552
2553	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2554			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2555			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2556
2557	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2558			when set.
2559			Format: <int>
2560
2561	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2562			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2563			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2564			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2565			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2566			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2567			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2568			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2569
2570			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2571			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2572			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2573			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2574			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2575			host link and device attached to it.
2576
2577			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2578			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2579			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2580			The following configurations can be forced.
2581
2582			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2583			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2584
2585			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2586
2587			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2588			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2589			  allowed.
2590
2591			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2592
2593			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2594
2595			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2596			  and both resets.
2597
2598			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2599			  hot-unplug link recovery
2600
2601			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2602
2603			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2604
2605			* disable: Disable this device.
2606
2607			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2608			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2609
2610	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2611
2612	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2613
2614	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2615			Format: <integer>
2616
2617	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2618			Format: <integer>
2619
2620	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2621			Format: <integer>
2622
2623	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2624			Format: <integer>
2625
2626	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2627			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2628			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2629			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2630			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2631			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2632			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2633			are also disabled.
2634
2635	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2636			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2637			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2638			number of online CPUs.
2639
2640	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2641			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2642
2643	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2644			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2645
2646	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2647			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2648			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2649
2650	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2651			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2652			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2653			mode during the locktorture test.
2654
2655	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2656			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2657			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2658
2659	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2660			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2661
2662	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2663			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2664			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2665			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2666			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2667			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2668
2669	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2670			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2671
2672	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2673			Enable additional printk() statements.
2674
2675	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2676			Format: <irq>
2677
2678	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2679			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2680			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2681			loglevels are defined as follows:
2682
2683			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2684			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2685			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2686			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2687			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2688			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2689			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2690			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2691
2692	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2693			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2694			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2695			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2696			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2697			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2698			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2699
2700	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2701			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2702			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2703			kernel boot problems.
2704
2705	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2706	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2707	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2708	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2709				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2710				attached printers to be reset. Using
2711				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2712				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2713				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2714				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2715				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2716				port specification list means that device IDs
2717				from each port should be examined, to see if
2718				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2719				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2720				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2721
2722	lpj=n		[KNL]
2723			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2724			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2725			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2726			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2727			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2728			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2729			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2730			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2731			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2732			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2733			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2734			hardware.
2735
2736	ltpc=		[NET]
2737			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2738
2739	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2740
2741	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2742			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2743			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2744
2745	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2746			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2747			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2748
2749	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2750			different yeeloong laptops.
2751			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2752
2753	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2754			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2755
2756	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2757			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2758			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2759			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2760			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2761			only takes effect during system bootup.
2762			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2763			which also disables the IO APIC.
2764
2765	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2766	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2767			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2768			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2769			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2770			/dev/loop-control interface.
2771
2772	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2773
2774	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2775
2776	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2777			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2778
2779	mdacon=		[MDA]
2780			Format: <first>,<last>
2781			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2782
2783	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2784			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2785			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2786
2787			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2788			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2789			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2790
2791			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2792			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2793			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2794			not have direct access.
2795
2796			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2797			options are:
2798
2799			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2800			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2801				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2802			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2803
2804			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2805			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2806			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2807			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2808			too.
2809
2810			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2811			mds=full.
2812
2813			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2814
2815	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2816			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2817
2818			1 for test;
2819			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2820			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2821			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2822
2823			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2824			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2825			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2826			belonging to unused RAM.
2827
2828			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2829			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2830			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2831
2832	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2833			memory.
2834
2835	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2836			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2837			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2838
2839	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2840			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2841			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2842			set according to the
2843			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2844			option.
2845			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2846
2847	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2848			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2849			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2850			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2851			option description.
2852
2853	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2854			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2855			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2856			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2857			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2858			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2859			comma delimited.
2860			Example:
2861				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2862
2863	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2864			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2865			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2866
2867	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2868			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2869			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2870			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2871			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2872			         or
2873			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2874			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2875			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2876			will be eaten.
2877
2878	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2879			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2880			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2881			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2882			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2883
2884	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2885			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2886			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2887			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2888			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2889			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2890			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2891			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2892
2893	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2894			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2895			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2896			Setting this option will scan the memory
2897			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2898			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2899			from using the memory being corrupted.
2900			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2901			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2902			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2903			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2904
2905	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2906			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2907			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2908			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2909			corruption in more or less memory.
2910
2911	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2912			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2913			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2914			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2915
2916	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2917			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
2918			Format: {on | off (default)}
2919			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
2920			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
2921			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
2922			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
2923			additional memory to do so.
2924			This feature is disabled by default because it
2925			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
2926			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
2927			memory blocks).
2928			The state of the flag can be read in
2929			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
2930			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
2931			the feature is not effective.
2932
2933			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
2934			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
2935			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
2936
2937	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
2938			Format: <integer>
2939			default : 0 <disable>
2940			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2941			performed. Each pass selects another test
2942			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2943			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2944			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2945			regions that are detected.
2946
2947	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2948			Valid arguments: on, off
2949			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2950			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2951			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2952			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2953			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2954
2955			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2956			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2957
2958	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2959			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2960			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2961			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2962			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2963
2964	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2965			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2966
2967	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2968			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2969			platforms.
2970
2971	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2972			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2973			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2974			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2975
2976	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2977
2978	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2979			physical address is ignored.
2980
2981	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2982			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2983			Default: "0tb"
2984			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2985			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2986			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2987			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2988			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2989			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2990			unconfigured.
2991			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2992			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2993			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2994			VGA shield.
2995			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2996			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2997			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2998			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2999			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3000			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3001
3002	mitigations=
3003			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3004			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3005			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3006			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3007
3008			off
3009				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3010				improves system performance, but it may also
3011				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3012				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3013					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3014					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3015					       nobp=0 [S390]
3016					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3017					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3018					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3019					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3020					       l1tf=off [X86]
3021					       mds=off [X86]
3022					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3023					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3024					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3025					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3026
3027				Exceptions:
3028					       This does not have any effect on
3029					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3030					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3031
3032			auto (default)
3033				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3034				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3035				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3036				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3037				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3038				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3039
3040			auto,nosmt
3041				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3042				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3043				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3044				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3045					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3046					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3047
3048	mminit_loglevel=
3049			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3050			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3051			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3052			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3053			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3054			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3055
3056	module.sig_enforce
3057			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3058			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3059			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3060			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3061
3062	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3063			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3064
3065	mousedev.tap_time=
3066			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3067			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3068			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3069			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3070			Format: <msecs>
3071	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3072			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3073	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3074			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3075
3076	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3077			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3078			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3079			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3080			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3081			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3082			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3083			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3084			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3085			is not too small.
3086
3087	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3088			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3089			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3090			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3091			allocations. Use with caution!
3092
3093	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3094			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3095
3096	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3097			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3098
3099	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3100			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3101
3102	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3103			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3104			at a time.
3105
3106	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3107
3108			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3109
3110			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3111				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3112			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3113				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3114				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3115
3116	mtdset=		[ARM]
3117			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3118
3119			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3120
3121	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3122			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3123			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3124
3125	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3126			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3127			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3128
3129	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3130			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3131			Default is 1.
3132			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3133			using up MTRRs.
3134
3135	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3136			Format: <integer>
3137			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3138			Default : 1
3139			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3140			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3141
3142	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3143
3144	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3145			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3146			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3147			something different and driver-specific.
3148			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3149			file if at all.
3150
3151	nf_conntrack.acct=
3152			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3153			0 to disable accounting
3154			1 to enable accounting
3155			Default value is 0.
3156
3157	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3158			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3159
3160	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3161			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3162
3163	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3164			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3165
3166	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3167			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3168			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3169			requests.
3170
3171	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3172			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3173			channel should listen.
3174
3175	nfs.cache_getent=
3176			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3177			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3178
3179	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3180			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3181			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3182
3183	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3184			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3185			entries.
3186
3187	nfs.enable_ino64=
3188			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3189			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3190			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3191			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3192			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3193
3194	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3195			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3196			slots the client will assign to the callback
3197			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3198			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3199			a particular server.
3200
3201	nfs.max_session_slots=
3202			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3203			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3204			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3205			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3206			Note that there is little point in setting this
3207			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3208
3209	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3210			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3211			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3212			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3213			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3214			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3215			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3216			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3217			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3218			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3219			back to using the idmapper.
3220			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3221	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3222			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3223			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3224			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3225			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3226
3227	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3228			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3229			information in exchange_id requests.
3230			If zero, no implementation identification information
3231			will be sent.
3232			The default is to send the implementation identification
3233			information.
3234
3235	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3236			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3237			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3238			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3239			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3240			after the locks are lost.
3241			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3242			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3243			parameter to '1'.
3244			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3245			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3246
3247	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3248			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3249			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3250
3251			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3252			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3253			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3254			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3255
3256	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3257			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3258			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3259			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3260			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3261			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3262
3263	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3264			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3265			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3266
3267	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3268			when a NMI is triggered.
3269			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3270
3271	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3272			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3273			Valid num: 0 or 1
3274			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3275			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3276			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3277			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3278			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3279			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3280			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3281			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3282			need the box quickly up again.
3283
3284			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3285			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3286
3287	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3288			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3289			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3290			waits 4 seconds.
3291
3292	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3293			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3294			is present.
3295
3296	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3297			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3298
3299	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3300
3301	no_console_suspend
3302			[HW] Never suspend the console
3303			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3304			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3305			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3306			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3307			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3308			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3309			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3310			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3311			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3312			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3313			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3314			turn on/off it dynamically.
3315
3316	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3317			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3318			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3319			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3320			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3321			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3322			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3323			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3324			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3325			is set.
3326
3327	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3328			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3329			but will impact performance.
3330
3331	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3332
3333	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3334			(CPU alternatives feature).
3335
3336	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3337			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3338
3339	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3340
3341	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3342			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3343
3344	nocache		[ARM]
3345
3346	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3347
3348	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3349
3350	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3351
3352	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3353
3354	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3355
3356	noexec		[IA-64]
3357
3358	noexec		[X86]
3359			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3360			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3361			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3362
3363	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3364			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3365			even if it is supported by processor.
3366
3367	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3368			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3369			even if it is supported by processor.
3370
3371	noexec32	[X86-64]
3372			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3373			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3374				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3375			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3376				read implies executable mappings
3377
3378	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3379
3380	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3381			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3382			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3383
3384	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3385
3386	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3387
3388	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3389			Equivalent to smt=1.
3390
3391			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3392			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3393				     via the sysfs control file.
3394
3395	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3396			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3397			possible in the system.
3398
3399	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3400			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3401			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3402			option.
3403
3404	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3405			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3406
3407	no_uaccess_flush
3408	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3409
3410	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3411			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3412			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3413
3414	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3415			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3416			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3417			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3418			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3419			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3420
3421	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3422			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3423			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3424			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3425			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3426			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3427			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3428
3429	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3430			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3431			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3432			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3433			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3434			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3435			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3436			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3437
3438	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3439			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3440			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3441
3442	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3443			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3444			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3445			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3446			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3447			real-time systems.
3448
3449	no_hash_pointers
3450			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3451			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3452			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3453			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3454			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3455			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3456			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3457			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3458			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3459			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3460			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
3461			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3462			kernels.
3463
3464	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3465
3466	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3467			Valid arguments: on, off
3468			Default: on
3469
3470	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3471			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3472			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3473			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3474			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3475			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3476			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3477			just as if they had also been called out in the
3478			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3479
3480	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3481
3482	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3483			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3484
3485	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3486			broken timer IRQ sources.
3487
3488	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3489
3490	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3491			initial RAM disk.
3492
3493	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3494			remapping.
3495			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3496
3497	nointroute	[IA-64]
3498
3499	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3500
3501	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3502
3503	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3504
3505	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3506			fault handling.
3507
3508	no-vmw-sched-clock
3509			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3510			clock and use the default one.
3511
3512	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3513			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3514			influence scheduler behaviour
3515
3516	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3517
3518	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3519
3520	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3521			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3522
3523	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3524
3525	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3526
3527	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3528			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3529
3530	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3531			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3532			irq.
3533
3534	nomodule	Disable module load
3535
3536	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3537			pagetables) support.
3538
3539	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3540
3541	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3542			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3543
3544	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3545			with UP alternatives
3546
3547	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3548			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3549			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3550			available to user space applications.
3551
3552	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3553			space.
3554
3555	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3556			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3557			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3558
3559	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3560
3561	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3562
3563	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3564
3565	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3566			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3567
3568	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3569
3570	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3571
3572	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3573			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3574
3575	nowb		[ARM]
3576
3577	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3578
3579	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3580			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3581			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3582			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3583			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3584			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3585			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3586			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3587			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3588			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3589			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3590			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3591			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3592
3593	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3594			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3595			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3596			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3597			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3598			parameter's value.
3599			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3600			Default: 255
3601
3602	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3603			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3604			SAL PALO.
3605
3606	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3607			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3608			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3609			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3610			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3611			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3612			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3613			hot plugging.
3614
3615	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3616
3617	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3618			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3619
3620	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3621			NUMA balancing.
3622			Allowed values are enable and disable
3623
3624	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3625			'node', 'default' can be specified
3626			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3627			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3628
3629	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3630			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3631			info.
3632
3633	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3634			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3635			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3636			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3637			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3638			interrupts *may* be lost!
3639
3640	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3641			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3642			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3643			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3644
3645	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3646			process, but there is a small probability of
3647			deadlocking the machine.
3648			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3649			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3650
3651	page_alloc.shuffle=
3652			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3653			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3654			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3655			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3656			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3657			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3658			can be read from sysfs at:
3659			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3660
3661	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3662			Storage of the information about who allocated
3663			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3664			we can turn it on.
3665			on: enable the feature
3666
3667	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3668			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3669			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3670			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3671			on: turn on poisoning
3672
3673	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3674			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3675			Format: <integer>
3676			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3677			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3678
3679	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3680			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3681			timeout = 0: wait forever
3682			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3683			Format: <timeout>
3684
3685	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3686			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3687			bit 0: print all tasks info
3688			bit 1: print system memory info
3689			bit 2: print timer info
3690			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3691			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3692			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3693
3694	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3695			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3696			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3697			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3698			called with any of the flags in this set.
3699			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3700			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3701			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3702			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3703			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3704			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3705			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3706
3707	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3708			on a WARN().
3709
3710	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3711			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3712			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3713			succeeds in any situation.
3714			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3715			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3716			kernel more unstable.
3717
3718	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3719			connected to, default is 0.
3720			Format: <parport#>
3721	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3722			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3723			Format: <mode>
3724
3725	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3726			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3727			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3728			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3729			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3730			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3731			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3732			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3733			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3734			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3735			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3736			are specified on the command line, starting
3737			with parport0.
3738
3739	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3740			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3741			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3742			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3743			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3744			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3745			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3746
3747	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3748			Format: <int>
3749			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3750			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3751			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3752
3753	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3754			Format: <int>
3755			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3756			changes.  Disabled by default.
3757
3758	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3759			Format: <int>
3760			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3761			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3762			Disabled by default.
3763
3764	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3765			Format: <int>
3766			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3767			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3768			Disabled by default.
3769
3770	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3771			Format: <int>
3772			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3773			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3774			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3775			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3776			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3777			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3778			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3779			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3780			all channels.
3781
3782	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3783			Format: <int>
3784			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3785			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3786			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3787
3788	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3789			Format: <int>
3790			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3791			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3792			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3793
3794	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3795			Format: <int>
3796			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3797			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3798			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3799			All modes allowed by default.
3800
3801	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3802			Format: <int>
3803			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3804			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3805
3806	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3807			Format: <int>
3808			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3809			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3810			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3811			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3812			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3813			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3814			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3815			By default all supported ports are probed.
3816
3817	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3818			Format: <int>
3819			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3820			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3821
3822	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3823			Format: <int>
3824			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3825			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3826			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3827			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3828			0 otherwise.
3829
3830	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3831			Format: <int>
3832			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3833			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3834			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3835			allowed by default.
3836
3837	pause_on_oops=
3838			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3839			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3840			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3841
3842	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3843
3844	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3845			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3846			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3847
3848	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3849
3850				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3851				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3852				specified in one of the following formats:
3853
3854				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3855				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3856
3857				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3858				bus/device/function address which may change
3859				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3860				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3861				by other kernel parameters. If the
3862				domain is left unspecified, it is
3863				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3864				to a device through multiple device/function
3865				addresses can be specified after the base
3866				address (this is more robust against
3867				renumbering issues).  The second format
3868				selects devices using IDs from the
3869				configuration space which may match multiple
3870				devices in the system.
3871
3872		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3873				changes anything
3874		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3875		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3876				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3877				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3878		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3879				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3880				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3881				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3882		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3883				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3884				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3885		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3886				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3887				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3888				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3889				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3890				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3891				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3892		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3893				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3894				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3895		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3896				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3897		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3898				Configuration
3899		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3900				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3901				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3902		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3903				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3904				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3905		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3906				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3907				should never be necessary.
3908		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3909				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3910				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3911				when the system masks IRQs.
3912		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3913				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3914				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3915				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3916		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3917				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3918				on several machines and they hang the machine
3919				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3920				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3921				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3922				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3923				motherboard.
3924		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3925				Use with caution as certain devices share
3926				address decoders between ROMs and other
3927				resources.
3928		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3929				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3930				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3931		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3932				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3933		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3934				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3935				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3936				this way.
3937		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3938				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3939				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3940				F0000h-100000h range.
3941		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3942				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3943				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3944				explicitly which ones they are.
3945		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3946				numbers ourselves, overriding
3947				whatever the firmware may have done.
3948		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3949				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3950				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3951				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3952				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3953				IRQ routing is enabled.
3954		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3955				or for PCI scanning.
3956		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3957				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3958				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3959				please report a bug.
3960		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3961				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3962		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3963				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3964				so this option is a temporary workaround
3965				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3966		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3967				handle more pci cards
3968		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3969				This might help on some broken boards which
3970				machine check when some devices' config space
3971				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3972				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3973		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3974				This sorting is done to get a device
3975				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3976		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3977		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3978				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3979		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3980				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3981		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3982				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3983				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3984				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3985				or bus can support) for best performance.
3986		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3987				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3988				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3989				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3990				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3991				that hot-added devices will work.
3992		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3993				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3994				The default value is 256 bytes.
3995		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3996				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3997				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3998		resource_alignment=
3999				Format:
4000				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4001				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4002				aligned memory resources. How to
4003				specify the device is described above.
4004				If <order of align> is not specified,
4005				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4006				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4007				windows need to be expanded.
4008				To specify the alignment for several
4009				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4010				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4011				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4012				for 4096-byte alignment.
4013		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4014				end-to-end CRC checking).
4015				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4016				the default.
4017				off: Turn ECRC off
4018				on: Turn ECRC on.
4019		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4020				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4021				Default size is 256 bytes.
4022		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4023				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4024				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4025		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4026				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4027				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4028		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4029				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4030				MMIO_PREF window.
4031				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4032		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4033				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4034				Default is 1.
4035		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4036				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4037				accommodate resources required by all child
4038				devices.
4039				off: Turn realloc off
4040				on: Turn realloc on
4041		realloc		same as realloc=on
4042		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4043		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4044				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4045		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4046				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4047				port.
4048		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4049				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4050				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4051				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4052				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4053				taints the kernel.
4054		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4055				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4056				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4057				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4058				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4059				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4060				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4061				this removes isolation between devices and
4062				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4063		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4064		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4065		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4066				one PCI domain per PCI function
4067
4068	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4069			Management.
4070		off	Disable ASPM.
4071		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4072			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4073
4074	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4075		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4076			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4077			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4078			also tries to use these services.
4079		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4080				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4081		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4082			hotplug).
4083
4084	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4085		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4086		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4087
4088	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4089		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4090			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4091
4092	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4093
4094	pd_ignore_unused
4095			[PM]
4096			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4097			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4098			for debug and development, but should not be
4099			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4100
4101	pd.		[PARIDE]
4102			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4103
4104	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4105			boot time.
4106			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4107			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4108
4109	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4110			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4111			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4112			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4113			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4114			and performance comparison.
4115
4116	pf.		[PARIDE]
4117			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4118
4119	pg.		[PARIDE]
4120			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4121
4122	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4123			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4124
4125	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4126			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4127			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4128
4129	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4130			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4131			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4132
4133	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4134			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4135
4136	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4137			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4138			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4139			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4140			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4141			possible settings and some assignment information.
4142
4143	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4144			{ off }
4145
4146	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4147			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4148
4149	pnp_reserve_irq=
4150			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4151
4152	pnp_reserve_dma=
4153			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4154
4155	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4156			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4157
4158	pnp_reserve_mem=
4159			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4160			autoconfiguration.
4161			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4162
4163	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4164			Default is 21.
4165			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4166			may be specified.
4167			Format: <port>,<port>....
4168
4169	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4170			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4171			platform machine description specific power_save
4172			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4173			execution priority.
4174
4175	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4176			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4177			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4178			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4179			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4180
4181	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4182			Format: {"off"}
4183			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4184
4185	preempt=	[KNL]
4186			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4187			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4188			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4189			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4190			       can be preempted anytime.
4191
4192	print-fatal-signals=
4193			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4194
4195			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4196			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4197			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4198			coredump - etc.
4199
4200			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4201			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4202
4203			default: off.
4204
4205	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4206			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4207			panics
4208			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4209			default: disabled
4210
4211	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4212			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4213			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4214			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4215			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4216			in order to provide more debug information.
4217			Format: <bool>
4218			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4219
4220	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4221			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4222			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4223			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4224			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4225			Default: ratelimit
4226
4227	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4228			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4229
4230	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4231			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4232			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4233
4234	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4235			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4236			instead using the legacy FADT method
4237
4238	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4239			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4240			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4241				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4242			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4243			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4244				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4245			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4246			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4247				statistical time based profiling.
4248
4249	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4250
4251	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4252			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4253			that).
4254			Format: <bool>
4255
4256	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4257			tracking.
4258			Format: <bool>
4259
4260	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4261			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4262	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4263			per second.
4264	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4265			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4266			(0 = never).
4267	psmouse.resolution=
4268			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4269	psmouse.smartscroll=
4270			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4271			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4272
4273	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4274
4275	pt.		[PARIDE]
4276			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4277
4278	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4279			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4280			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4281			system calls and interrupts.
4282
4283			on   - unconditionally enable
4284			off  - unconditionally disable
4285			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4286			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4287
4288			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4289
4290	nopti		[X86-64]
4291			Equivalent to pti=off
4292
4293	pty.legacy_count=
4294			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4295			default number.
4296
4297	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4298
4299	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4300
4301	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4302			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4303
4304	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4305			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4306
4307	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4308
4309	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4310			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4311			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4312			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4313			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4314
4315	randomize_kstack_offset=
4316			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4317			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4318			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4319			that depend on stack address determinism or
4320			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4321			available on architectures that have defined
4322			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4323			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4324			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4325
4326	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4327
4328		cec_disable	[X86]
4329				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4330				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4331
4332	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4333			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4334
4335			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4336			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4337			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4338			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4339			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4340			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4341			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4342			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4343			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
4344			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4345
4346	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4347			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4348			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4349			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4350			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4351			This improves the real-time response for the
4352			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4353			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4354			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4355			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4356
4357	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4358			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4359			process in one batch.
4360
4361	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4362			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4363			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4364			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4365
4366	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4367			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4368			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4369
4370	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4371			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4372			RCU grace-period initialization.
4373
4374	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4375			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4376			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4377			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4378			the rcu_node combining tree.
4379
4380	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4381			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4382			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4383			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4384			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4385
4386			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4387			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4388			to zero.
4389
4390	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4391			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4392			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4393			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4394			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4395
4396	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4397			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4398			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4399			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4400			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4401			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4402			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4403
4404	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4405			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4406			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4407			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4408			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4409			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4410			condition.
4411
4412	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4413			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4414			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4415			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4416
4417	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4418			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4419			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4420			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4421			and maximum value is HZ.
4422
4423	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4424			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4425			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4426			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4427
4428	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4429			Set required age in jiffies for a
4430			given grace period before RCU starts
4431			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4432			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4433			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4434			a value based on the most recent settings
4435			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4436			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4437			This calculated value may be viewed in
4438			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4439			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4440			overwritten.
4441
4442	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4443			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4444			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4445			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4446			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4447			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4448			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4449			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4450			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4451			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4452
4453	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4454			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4455			each group, which defaults to the square root
4456			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4457			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4458			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4459			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4460
4461	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4462			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4463			batch limiting is disabled.
4464
4465	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4466			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4467			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4468
4469	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4470			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4471			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4472			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4473			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4474			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4475			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4476			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4477
4478	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4479			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4480			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4481
4482	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4483			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4484			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4485			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4486			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4487			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4488
4489	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4490			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4491			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4492			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4493			Larger delays increase the probability of
4494			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4495			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4496			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4497
4498	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4499			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4500			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4501			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4502
4503	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4504			Measure performance of asynchronous
4505			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4506
4507	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4508			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4509			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4510			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4511			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4512			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4513
4514	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4515			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4516			grace-period primitives.
4517
4518	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4519			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4520			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4521			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4522			interference.
4523
4524	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4525			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4526
4527	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4528			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4529			If this parameter has the same value as
4530			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4531			and double-argument variants are tested.
4532
4533	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4534			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4535			If this parameter has the same value as
4536			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4537			and double-argument variants are tested.
4538
4539	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4540			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4541
4542	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4543			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4544
4545	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4546			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4547			of allocations and frees.
4548
4549	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4550			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4551			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4552			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4553			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4554			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4555			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4556			a single reader.
4557
4558	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4559			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4560			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4561			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4562
4563	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4564			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4565
4566	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4567			Shut the system down after performance tests
4568			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4569			testing.
4570
4571	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4572			Enable additional printk() statements.
4573
4574	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4575			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4576			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4577			no holdoff.
4578
4579	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4580			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4581			in microseconds.
4582
4583	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4584			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4585			in microseconds.
4586
4587	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4588			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4589			in seconds.
4590
4591	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4592			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4593			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4594
4595	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4596			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4597			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4598
4599	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4600			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4601			forward-progress tests.
4602
4603	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4604			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4605			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4606			testing.
4607
4608	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4609			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4610			primitives, if available.
4611
4612	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4613			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4614
4615	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4616			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4617			update-side primitives, if available.
4618
4619	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4620			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4621			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4622			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4623			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4624			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4625			they are all non-zero.
4626
4627	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4628			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4629			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4630			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4631
4632	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4633			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4634			This can of course result in splats, and is
4635			intended to test the ability of things like
4636			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4637			such leaks.
4638
4639	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4640			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4641
4642	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4643			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4644			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4645			test, hence the "fake".
4646
4647	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4648			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4649			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4650
4651	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4652			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4653			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4654
4655	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4656			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4657			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4658			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4659			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4660			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4661
4662	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4663			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4664
4665	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4666			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4667
4668	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4669			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4670			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4671
4672	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4673			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4674			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4675			task-exit processing.
4676
4677	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4678			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4679			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4680			is spawned.
4681
4682	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4683			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4684			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4685
4686	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4687			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4688			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4689			during the rcutorture test.
4690
4691	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4692			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4693			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4694
4695	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4696			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4697			warnings, zero to disable.
4698
4699	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4700			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4701			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4702			to any other stall-related activity.
4703
4704	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4705			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4706
4707	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4708			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4709
4710	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4711			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4712			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4713			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4714			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4715			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4716
4717	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4718			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4719
4720	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4721			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4722			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4723			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4724			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4725
4726	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4727			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4728			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4729			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4730
4731	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4732			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4733
4734	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4735			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4736
4737	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4738			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4739			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4740
4741	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4742			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4743
4744	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4745			Enable additional printk() statements.
4746
4747	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4748			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4749			stall warning.
4750
4751	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4752			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4753
4754	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4755			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4756			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4757			during early boot, that is, during the time
4758			before the init task is spawned.
4759
4760	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4761			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4762
4763	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4764			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4765			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4766			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4767			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4768			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4769			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4770
4771	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4772			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4773			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4774			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4775			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4776			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4777			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4778			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4779			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4780
4781	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4782			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4783			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4784			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4785			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4786
4787			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4788			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4789			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4790			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4791			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4792			grace-period processing.
4793
4794	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4795			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4796			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4797			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4798			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4799			but lengthens grace periods.
4800
4801	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4802			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4803			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4804			to zero.
4805
4806	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4807			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4808
4809	rdinit=		[KNL]
4810			Format: <full_path>
4811			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4812			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4813
4814	rdrand=		[X86]
4815			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4816				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4817				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4818				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4819				path).
4820
4821	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4822			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4823			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4824			mba.
4825			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4826				rdt=cmt,!mba
4827
4828	reboot=		[KNL]
4829			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4830				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
4831				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4832				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4833				[[,]f[orce]
4834			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4835					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4836					reboot only),
4837			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4838			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4839			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4840					to be used for rebooting.
4841
4842	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4843			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4844			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4845			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4846			interference.
4847
4848	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4849			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4850			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4851			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4852			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4853			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4854			x86 laptops.
4855
4856	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4857			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4858			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4859			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4860
4861	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4862			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4863			the console log.
4864
4865	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4866			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4867			measured in microseconds.
4868
4869	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4870			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4871
4872	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4873			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4874			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4875			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4876			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4877
4878	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4879			Enable additional printk() statements.
4880
4881	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4882			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4883			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4884			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4885			specified.
4886
4887	relax_domain_level=
4888			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4889			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4890
4891	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4892			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4893			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4894			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4895			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4896
4897	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4898			Format: nn[KMG]
4899			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4900			address space.
4901
4902	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4903			during initialization.
4904
4905	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4906			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4907			Format:
4908			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4909
4910	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4911			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4912			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4913			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4914			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4915
4916	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4917			read the resume files
4918
4919	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4920			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4921			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4922
4923	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4924		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4925				present during boot.
4926		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4927		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4928		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4929				(that will set all pages holding image data
4930				during restoration read-only).
4931
4932	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4933
4934	rfkill.default_state=
4935		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4936			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4937		1	Unblocked.
4938
4939	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4940		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4941		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4942			blocked and the previous configuration.
4943		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4944			blocked and everything unblocked.
4945
4946	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4947			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4948
4949	ring3mwait=disable
4950			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4951			CPUs.
4952
4953	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4954
4955	rodata=		[KNL]
4956		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4957		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4958
4959	rockchip.usb_uart
4960			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4961			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4962			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4963			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4964
4965	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4966			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4967
4968	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4969			mount the root filesystem
4970
4971	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4972
4973	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4974
4975	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4976			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4977			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4978
4979	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4980			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4981			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4982			managed by CMA.
4983
4984	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4985
4986	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4987
4988	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4989			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4990		strict
4991			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4992			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4993			which is faster.
4994
4995	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
4996			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
4997			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
4998			factor of the size of main memory.
4999			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5000			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5001			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5002			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5003			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5004			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5005			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5006
5007	sa1100ir	[NET]
5008			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5009
5010	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5011
5012	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5013			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5014			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5015			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5016
5017	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5018			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5019			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5020			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5021			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5022			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5023			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5024			value.
5025			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5026			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5027				1			64 ms
5028				2			128 ms
5029			and so on.
5030			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5031			Default is 0.
5032
5033	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5034			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5035			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5036			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5037			tests.
5038
5039	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5040			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5041			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5042			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5043			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5044			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5045			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5046
5047	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5048			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5049			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5050			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5051			equal to the number of CPUs.
5052
5053	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5054			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5055			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5056
5057	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5058			Number seconds to wait between successive
5059			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5060			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5061
5062	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5063			The number of seconds following the start of the
5064			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5065			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5066			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5067
5068	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5069			The number of seconds between outputting the
5070			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5071			of zero disables statistics output.
5072
5073	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5074			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5075			to the set of CPUs under test.
5076
5077	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5078			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5079			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5080			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5081			functions.
5082
5083	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5084			Enable additional printk() statements.
5085
5086	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5087			The probability weighting to use for the
5088			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5089			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5090			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5091			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5092			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5093
5094	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5095			The probability weighting to use for the
5096			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5097			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5098
5099	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5100			The probability weighting to use for the
5101			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5102			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5103			Note well that setting a high probability for
5104			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5105			on the system.
5106
5107	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5108			The probability weighting to use for the
5109			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5110			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5111			and weight_many.
5112
5113	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5114			The probability weighting to use for the
5115			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5116			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5117			weight_many.
5118
5119	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5120			The probability weighting to use for the
5121			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5122			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5123			and weight_many.
5124
5125	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5126			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5127			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5128			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5129			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5130			1 -- enable.
5131			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5132			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5133
5134	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5135			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5136			"lsm=" parameter.
5137
5138	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5139			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5140			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5141			0 -- disable.
5142			1 -- enable.
5143			Default value is 1.
5144
5145	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5146			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5147			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5148			0 -- disable.
5149			1 -- enable.
5150			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5151
5152	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5153
5154	shapers=	[NET]
5155			Maximal number of shapers.
5156
5157	simeth=		[IA-64]
5158	simscsi=
5159
5160	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5161
5162	slab_merge	[MM]
5163			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5164			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5165
5166	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5167			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5168			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5169			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5170			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5171			layout control by attackers can usually be
5172			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5173			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5174			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5175			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5176			own.
5177			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5178
5179	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5180			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5181			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5182			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5183			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5184
5185	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5186			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5187			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5188			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5189			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5190			last alloc / free. For more information see
5191			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5192
5193	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5194			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5195			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5196			fragmentation. For more information see
5197			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5198
5199	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5200			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5201			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5202			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5203			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5204			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5205			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5206			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5207
5208	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5209			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5210			lower than slub_max_order.
5211			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5212
5213	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5214			Same with slab_merge.
5215
5216	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5217			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5218			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5219
5220	smart2=		[HW]
5221			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5222
5223	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5224	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5225	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5226	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5227	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5228	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5229	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5230				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5231				1: Fast pin select (default)
5232				2: ATC IRMode
5233
5234	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5235			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5236			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5237			actual hardware limit.
5238			Format: <integer>
5239			Default: -1 (no limit)
5240
5241	softlockup_panic=
5242			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5243			Format: 0 | 1
5244
5245			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5246			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5247			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5248			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5249			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5250
5251	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5252			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5253			backtraces on all cpus.
5254			Format: 0 | 1
5255
5256	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5257			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5258
5259	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5260			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5261			The default operation protects the kernel from
5262			user space attacks.
5263
5264			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5265			       spectre_v2_user=on
5266			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5267			       spectre_v2_user=off
5268			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5269			       vulnerable
5270
5271			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5272			mitigation method at run time according to the
5273			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5274			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5275			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5276
5277			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5278			against user space to user space task attacks.
5279
5280			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5281			the user space protections.
5282
5283			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5284
5285			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5286			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
5287			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
5288
5289			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5290			spectre_v2=auto.
5291
5292	spectre_v2_user=
5293			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5294		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5295		        user space tasks
5296
5297			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5298				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5299
5300			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5301				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5302
5303			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5304				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5305				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5306				  is inherited on fork.
5307
5308			prctl,ibpb
5309				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5310				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5311				  always when switching between different user
5312				  space processes.
5313
5314			seccomp
5315				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5316				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5317				  they explicitly opt out.
5318
5319			seccomp,ibpb
5320				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5321				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5322				  always when switching between different
5323				  user space processes.
5324
5325			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5326				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5327
5328			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5329
5330			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5331			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5332
5333	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5334			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5335			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5336
5337			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5338			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5339			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5340			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5341			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5342			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5343			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5344			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5345
5346			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5347			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5348			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5349			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5350
5351			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5352			Bypass optimization is used.
5353
5354			On x86 the options are:
5355
5356			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5357			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5358			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5359				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5360				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5361				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5362				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5363				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5364			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5365				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5366				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5367				  is inherited on fork.
5368			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5369				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5370
5371			Default mitigations:
5372			X86:	"prctl"
5373
5374			On powerpc the options are:
5375
5376			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5377				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5378				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5379				  exit.
5380			off	- No action.
5381
5382			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5383			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5384
5385	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5386	spia_fio_base=
5387	spia_pedr=
5388	spia_peddr=
5389
5390	split_lock_detect=
5391			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5392
5393			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5394			instructions that access data across cache line
5395			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5396			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5397			bus lock detection.
5398
5399			off	- not enabled
5400
5401			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5402				  about applications triggering the #AC
5403				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5404				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5405				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5406				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5407				  enabled in hardware.
5408
5409			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5410				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5411				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5412				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5413
5414			ratelimit:N -
5415				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5416				  per second for bus lock detection.
5417				  0 < N <= 1000.
5418
5419				  N/A for split lock detection.
5420
5421
5422			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5423			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5424			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5425			mode.
5426
5427			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5428			CPL > 0.
5429
5430	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5431			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5432			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5433
5434			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5435			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5436			number generator.
5437
5438			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5439			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5440			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5441			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5442			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5443
5444			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5445			the following option:
5446
5447			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5448				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5449
5450	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5451			Specifies how frequently to check for
5452			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5453			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5454			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5455			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5456			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5457			are ignored.
5458
5459	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5460			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5461			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5462			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5463			grace period will be considered for automatic
5464			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5465			expediting.
5466
5467	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5468			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5469
5470			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5471			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5472			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5473			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5474
5475			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5476				   for both kernel and userspace
5477			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5478				   for both kernel and userspace
5479			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5480				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5481				   to allow userspace to register its
5482				   interest in being mitigated too.
5483
5484	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5485			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5486			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5487			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5488			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5489			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5490
5491	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5492			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5493			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5494			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5495			to false.
5496
5497	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5498			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5499
5500	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5501			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5502			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5503			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5504			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5505			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5506			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5507
5508	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5509			Format: <num>
5510			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5511			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5512			as the initial boot-console.
5513			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5514
5515	sti_font=	[HW]
5516			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5517
5518	stifb=		[HW]
5519			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5520
5521        strict_sas_size=
5522			[X86]
5523			Format: <bool>
5524			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5525			against the required signal frame size which
5526			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5527			be used to filter out binaries which have
5528			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5529
5530	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5531	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5532			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5533			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5534			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5535			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5536			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5537			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5538			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5539			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5540			maximum port values.
5541
5542	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5543			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5544			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5545			process in parallel from a single connection.
5546			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5547
5548	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5549			[NFS]
5550			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5551			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5552			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5553			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5554			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5555			NFS server is running.
5556
5557			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5558				    automatically using heuristics
5559			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5560			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5561			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5562				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5563
5564	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5565	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5566			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5567			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5568			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5569			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5570			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5571			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5572
5573	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5574			[SUSPEND]
5575			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5576			mode before resuming the system (see
5577			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5578			is set. Default value is 5.
5579
5580	svm=		[PPC]
5581			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5582			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5583			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5584
5585	swapaccount=[0|1]
5586			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5587			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5588			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5589
5590	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5591			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5592			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5593			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5594			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5595			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5596
5597	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5598
5599	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5600			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5601			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5602			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5603			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5604			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5605			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5606			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5607
5608	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5609			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5610			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5611			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5612			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5613			in older udev will not work anymore.
5614			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5615			the kernel configuration.
5616
5617	sysrq_always_enabled
5618			[KNL]
5619			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5620			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5621			Useful for debugging.
5622
5623	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5624			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5625			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5626			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5627			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5628			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5629
5630	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5631
5632	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5633			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5634			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5635			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5636			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5637			The system is woken from this state using a
5638			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5639
5640	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5641			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5642
5643	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5644			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5645			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5646
5647	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5648			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5649			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5650
5651	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5652			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5653			critical and hot trip points.
5654
5655	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5656			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5657
5658	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5659			-1: disable all passive trip points
5660			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5661			value
5662
5663	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5664			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5665			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5666			0: no polling (default)
5667
5668	threadirqs	[KNL]
5669			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5670			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5671
5672	topology=	[S390]
5673			Format: {off | on}
5674			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5675			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5676			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5677			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5678			Default is on.
5679
5680	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5681			Format: {off}
5682			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5683			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5684			LPAR.
5685
5686	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5687			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5688			until after init has spawned.
5689
5690	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5691			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5692			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5693			very costly operation when many torture tests
5694			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5695			with rotating-rust storage.
5696
5697	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5698			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5699			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5700			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5701
5702	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5703			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5704
5705	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5706
5707	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5708			Format: integer pcr id
5709			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5710			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5711			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5712			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5713			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5714			are saved.
5715
5716	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5717			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5718
5719	trace_event=[event-list]
5720			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5721			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5722			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5723			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5724
5725	trace_options=[option-list]
5726			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5727			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5728			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5729			to echo the option name into
5730
5731			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5732
5733			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5734			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5735
5736			      trace_options=stacktrace
5737
5738			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5739			section.
5740
5741	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5742			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5743			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5744			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5745			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5746			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5747
5748			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5749			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5750			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5751			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5752
5753			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5754			to stop the printing of events to console at
5755			late_initcall_sync.
5756
5757			** CAUTION **
5758
5759			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5760			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5761			the system to live lock.
5762
5763	tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5764			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5765			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5766			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5767			make the system inoperable.
5768
5769			This command line option will stop the printing of events
5770			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5771
5772	traceoff_on_warning
5773			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5774			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5775			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5776			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5777
5778			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5779			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5780			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5781
5782			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5783			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5784
5785	transparent_hugepage=
5786			[KNL]
5787			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5788			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5789			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5790			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5791			for more details.
5792
5793	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
5794			Format: <string>
5795			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5796			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5797			sources:
5798			- "tpm"
5799			- "tee"
5800			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5801			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5802			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5803			successfully during iteration.
5804
5805	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5806			Format: <string>
5807			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5808			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5809			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5810			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5811			virtualized environment.
5812			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5813			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5814			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5815			can add overhead.
5816			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5817			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5818			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5819			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5820			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5821			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5822			acceptable).
5823
5824	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5825			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5826			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5827			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5828			Format: <unsigned int>
5829
5830	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5831			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5832			support TSX control.
5833
5834			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5835
5836			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5837				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5838				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5839				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5840				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5841				with leaving it enabled.
5842
5843			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5844				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5845				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5846				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5847				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5848				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5849				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5850
5851			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5852				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5853
5854			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5855
5856			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5857			for more details.
5858
5859	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5860			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5861
5862			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5863			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5864			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5865			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5866			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5867			conditions.
5868
5869			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5870			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5871			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5872			access.
5873
5874			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5875			options are:
5876
5877			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5878				     if TSX is enabled.
5879
5880			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5881				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5882				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5883				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5884			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5885
5886			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5887			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5888			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5889			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5890
5891			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5892			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5893			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5894			required and doesn't provide any additional
5895			mitigation.
5896
5897			For details see:
5898			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5899
5900	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5901			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5902			Format:
5903			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5904			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5905
5906	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5907			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5908			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5909			help "seeing" what's going on.
5910
5911	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5912			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5913
5914	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5915			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5916			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5917			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5918			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5919			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5920			reported either.
5921
5922	unknown_nmi_panic
5923			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5924
5925	usbcore.authorized_default=
5926			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5927			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5928			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5929			if device connected to internal port)
5930
5931	usbcore.autosuspend=
5932			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5933			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5934			is the time required before an idle device will be
5935			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5936			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5937
5938	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5939			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5940
5941	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5942			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5943			(default = 65536).
5944
5945	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5946			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5947
5948	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5949			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5950			scheme (default 0 = off).
5951
5952	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5953			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5954			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5955
5956	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5957			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5958			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5959
5960	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5961			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5962			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5963			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5964
5965	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5966
5967	usbcore.quirks=
5968			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5969			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5970			commas. Each entry has the form
5971			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5972			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5973			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5974			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5975			the following meanings:
5976				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5977					descriptors must not be fetched using
5978					a 255-byte read);
5979				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5980					correctly so reset it instead);
5981				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5982					Set-Interface requests);
5983				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5984					handle its Configuration or Interface
5985					strings);
5986				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5987					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5988				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5989					more interface descriptions than the
5990					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5991					talking to these interfaces);
5992				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5993					during initialization, after we read
5994					the device descriptor);
5995				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5996					high speed and super speed interrupt
5997					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5998					require the interval in microframes (1
5999					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6000					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6001					(bInterval-1).
6002					Devices with this quirk report their
6003					bInterval as the result of this
6004					calculation instead of the exponent
6005					variable used in the calculation);
6006				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6007					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6008					requests);
6009				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6010					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6011					remote wakeup capability);
6012				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6013					Power Management);
6014				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6015					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6016					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6017					calculation);
6018				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6019					to be disconnected before suspend to
6020					prevent spurious wakeup);
6021				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6022					pause after every control message);
6023				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6024					delay after resetting its port);
6025			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6026
6027	usbhid.mousepoll=
6028			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6029
6030	usbhid.jspoll=
6031			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6032
6033	usbhid.kbpoll=
6034			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6035
6036	usb-storage.delay_use=
6037			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6038			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6039
6040	usb-storage.quirks=
6041			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6042			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6043			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6044			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6045			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6046			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6047			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6048				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6049					of sense data, not on uas);
6050				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6051					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6052				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6053					device capacity by one sector);
6054				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6055					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6056				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6057					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6058				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6059					command, uas only);
6060				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6061					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6062				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6063					reported device capacity by one
6064					sector if the number is odd);
6065				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6066					device);
6067				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6068					command, uas only);
6069				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6070				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6071					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6072				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6073					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6074					not on uas);
6075				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6076					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6077				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6078					reported by the device, not on uas);
6079				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6080					by default, not on uas);
6081				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6082					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6083				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6084					Logical Unit);
6085				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6086					commands, uas only);
6087				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6088				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6089					medium is write-protected).
6090				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6091					even if the device claims no cache,
6092					not on uas)
6093			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6094
6095	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6096			Format: <int>
6097			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6098				 1 - undefined instruction events
6099				 2 - system calls
6100				 4 - invalid data aborts
6101				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6102				16 - SIGBUS faults
6103			Example: user_debug=31
6104
6105	userpte=
6106			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6107
6108				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6109					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6110					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6111
6112	vdso=		[X86,SH]
6113			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6114
6115			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6116			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6117
6118	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6119			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6120			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6121
6122			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6123			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6124			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6125
6126			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6127			alias for vdso32=0.
6128
6129			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6130			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6131
6132	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6133			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6134
6135	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6136			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6137
6138	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6139			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6140			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6141			level and then send out the event to user space through
6142			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6143			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6144			brightness level.
6145			default: 1
6146
6147	virtio_mmio.device=
6148			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6149
6150				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6151			where:
6152				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6153						like K, M and G)
6154				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6155				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6156						request_irq())
6157				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6158			example:
6159				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6160
6161			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6162
6163	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6164			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6165			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6166			Use vga=ask for menu.
6167			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6168			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6169
6170	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6171			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6172			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6173			All options are enabled by default, and this
6174			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6175			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6176			debugging features.
6177
6178			Available options are:
6179			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6180			  -	Disable all of the above options
6181
6182	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6183			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6184			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6185			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6186			mapped kernel RAM.
6187
6188	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6189			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6190			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6191
6192	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6193			Format: <command>
6194
6195	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6196			Format: <command>
6197
6198	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6199			Format: <command>
6200
6201	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6202			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6203			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6204			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6205			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6206			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6207			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6208
6209			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6210			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6211				    page is readable.
6212
6213			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6214			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6215				    page is not readable.
6216
6217			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6218			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6219			            might break your system.
6220
6221	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6222			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6223			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6224
6225	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6226			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6227			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6228			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6229
6230	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6231			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6232			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6233			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6234			ranging from 0-255.
6235
6236	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6237			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6238			Change the default green palette of the console.
6239			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6240			ranging from 0-255.
6241
6242	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6243			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6244			Change the default red palette of the console.
6245			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6246			ranging from 0-255.
6247
6248	vt.default_utf8=
6249			[VT]
6250			Format=<0|1>
6251			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6252			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6253			newly opened terminals.
6254
6255	vt.global_cursor_default=
6256			[VT]
6257			Format=<-1|0|1>
6258			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6259			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6260			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6261			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6262			cursors, 1 will display them.
6263
6264	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6265			Default: 2 = green.
6266
6267	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6268			Default: 3 = cyan.
6269
6270	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6271			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6272			or other driver-specific files in the
6273			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6274
6275	watchdog_thresh=
6276			[KNL]
6277			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6278			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6279			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6280			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6281			seconds.
6282
6283	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6284			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6285			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6286			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6287			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6288			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6289			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6290			corresponding sysfs file.
6291
6292	workqueue.disable_numa
6293			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6294			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6295			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6296			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6297			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6298			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6299			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6300
6301	workqueue.power_efficient
6302			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6303			they show better performance thanks to cache
6304			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6305			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6306
6307			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6308			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6309			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6310			power usage at the cost of small performance
6311			overhead.
6312
6313			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6314			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6315
6316	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6317			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6318			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6319			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6320			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6321			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6322			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6323			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6324			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6325			impacted.
6326
6327	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6328			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6329			supporting x2apic.
6330
6331	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6332			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6333			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6334			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6335			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6336			domains.
6337
6338	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6339			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6340			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6341			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6342			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6343			nics -- unplug network devices
6344			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6345			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6346				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6347				the unplug protocol
6348			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6349
6350	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6351			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6352			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6353
6354	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6355			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6356			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6357			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6358
6359	xen_nopv	[X86]
6360			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6361			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6362			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6363			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6364
6365	xen_no_vector_callback
6366			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6367			event channel interrupts.
6368
6369	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6370			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6371			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6372			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6373			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6374
6375	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6376			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6377			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6378			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6379			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6380			more timer interrupts.
6381
6382	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6383			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6384			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6385
6386	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6387			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6388			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6389
6390	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6391			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6392			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6393			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6394			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6395			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6396
6397	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6398			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6399			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6400			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6401
6402	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6403			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6404			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6405			contention.
6406
6407	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6408			Format:
6409			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6410
6411	xive=		[PPC]
6412			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6413			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6414			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6415
6416			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6417				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6418				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6419
6420	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6421			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6422			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6423			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6424
6425	xmon		[PPC]
6426			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6427			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6428			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6429			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6430				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6431			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6432				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6433				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6434				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6435			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6436				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6437				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6438				can be written using xmon commands.
6439			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6440				memory, and other data can't be written using
6441				xmon commands.
6442			off	xmon is disabled.
6443