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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			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity while booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	carrier_timeout=
465			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467			it waits 120 seconds.
468
469	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471			trust validation.
472			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
473
474	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478			others).
479
480	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
481			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
482
483	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
484			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
485			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487			  a single hierarchy
488			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489			  subsystem
490			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
493
494	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
497			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
499			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501			all v1 hierarchies.
502
503	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504			Format: <string>
505			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
506			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
507
508	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509			Format: { "0" | "1" }
510			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
511			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512				any implied execute protection).
513			1 -- check protection requested by application.
514			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
515			Value can be changed at runtime via
516				/selinux/checkreqprot.
517
518	cio_ignore=	[S390]
519			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
520	clk_ignore_unused
521			[CLK]
522			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529			platform with proper driver support.  For more
530			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
531
532	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
533			[Deprecated]
534			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
535			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
536			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
537			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
539	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
540			Format: <string>
541			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542			with the name specified.
543			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544			the platform:
545			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546			[ACPI] acpi_pm
547			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
549			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
550				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551			[MIPS] MIPS
552			[PARISC] cr16
553			[S390] tod
554			[SH] SuperH
555			[SPARC64] tick
556			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
558	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559			[ARM,ARM64]
560			Format: <bool>
561			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564			systems.
565
566	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
568			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
569			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
570			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571			ones should be.
572			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573			or using the feature without checking anything
574			will still see it. This just prevents it from
575			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577			some critical bits.
578
579	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580			[ARM,X86,KNL]
581			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583			placement constraint by the physical address range of
584			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585			altogether. For more information, see
586			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
588	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
591			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592			a hypervisor.
593			Default: yes
594
595	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
596			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
597			allocations, by default set to 256K.
598
599	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
600			Format:
601			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
602
603	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
606	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
607			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
608			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
611	conmode=
612
613	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617		ttyS<n>[,options]
618		ttyUSB0[,options]
619			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
620			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
624
625			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
626			information.  See
627			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628			alternative.
629
630		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
632		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
633		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
635			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
637			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
639			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
643			the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
645		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
647
648		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
650			console=brl,ttyS0
651		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
653	console_msg_format=
654			[KNL] Change console messages format
655		default
656			By default we print messages on consoles in
657			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659			`printk_time' param).
660		syslog
661			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665			from /proc/kmsg.
666
667	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
668			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
669			Defaults to 0.
670
671	coredump_filter=
672			[KNL] Change the default value for
673			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
676	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677			[ARM,ARM64]
678			Format: <bool>
679			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680			0: default value, disable debugging
681			1: enable debugging at boot time
682
683	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
684			disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
686	cpuidle.governor=
687			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
689	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
690			disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
692	cpu_init_udelay=N
693			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
695			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696			Default: 10000
697
698	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
699			Format:
700			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
701
702	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
707			is selected automatically.
708			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710			hasn't been specified.
711			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
712
713	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715			in the running system. The syntax of range is
716			start-[end] where start and end are both
717			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
718			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
719
720	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
721			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725			available.
726			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
727	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
730			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
732			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
736			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737			for second kernel instead.
738			0: to disable low allocation.
739			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
740			or memory reserved is below 4G.
741
742	cryptomgr.notests
743			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
744
745	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
746			Format: <dma>
747
748	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
749			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
750
751	dasd=		[HW,NET]
752			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755			(one device per port)
756			Format: <port#>,<type>
757			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
758
759	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
760			time. See
761			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
762			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
763
764	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
766	debug_boot_weak_hash
767			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
770			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
774	debug_locks_verbose=
775			[KNL] verbose self-tests
776			Format=<0|1>
777			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778			self-tests.
779			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781			only useful to kernel developers.
782
783	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
784
785	no_debug_objects
786			[KNL] Disable object debugging
787
788	debug_guardpage_minorder=
789			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
796			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803			bypassed) which are not detectable by
804			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805			tracking down these problems.
806
807	debug_pagealloc=
808			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
809			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
810			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
811			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
812			on: enable the feature
813
814	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
816	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
817			Format: <area>[,<node>]
818			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
820	default_hugepagesz=
821			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826			if not specified.
827
828	deferred_probe_timeout=
829			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835			retrying.
836
837	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
838			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
839
840	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
841			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
842			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
843			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
844			miss to occur.
845
846	disable=	[IPV6]
847			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
848
849	hardened_usercopy=
850                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
851                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
852                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
853                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
854                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
855                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
856                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
857                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
858                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
859
860	disable_radix	[PPC]
861			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
862
863	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
864			Format: <int>
865			The number of initial APIC ID for the
866			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
867			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
868			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
869			causing system reset or hang due to sending
870			INIT from AP to BSP.
871
872	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
873			Format: <bool>
874			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
875			The feature only exists starting from
876			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
877
878	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
879			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
880			to workaround buggy firmware.
881
882	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
883			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
884
885	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
886			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
887			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
888			entry later. This parameter disables that.
889
890	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
891			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
892			memory out of your available memory pool based on
893			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
894			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
895
896	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
897			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
898			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
899
900	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
901
902	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
903			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
904
905	dma_debug_entries=<number>
906			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
907			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
908			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
909			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
910			architectural default is too low.
911
912	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
913			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
914			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
915			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
916			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
917			driver later using sysfs.
918
919	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
920			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
921			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
922
923	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
924			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
925			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
926			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
927			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
928			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
929			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
930			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
931			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
932			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
933			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
934			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
935			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
936			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
937			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
938			data set with no connector name will be used for
939			any connectors not explicitly specified.
940
941	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
942
943	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
944			Format: {"off" | "known"}
945			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
946			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
947			exists).
948			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
949			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
950			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
951
952	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
953			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
954			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
955			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
956
957	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
958	module.dyndbg[="val"]
959			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
960			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
961			for details.
962
963	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
964			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
965			information about the feature.
966
967	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
968			in some Intel CPUs.
969
970	module.async_probe [KNL]
971			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
972
973	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
974			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
975			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
976			which are not unmapped.
977
978	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
979
980			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
981			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
982			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
983
984			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
985			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
986
987		cdns,<addr>[,options]
988			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
989			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
990			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
991			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
992			configured.
993
994		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
995		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
996		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
997		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
998		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
999			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1000			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1001			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1002			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1003			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1004			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1005			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1006			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1007
1008		pl011,<addr>
1009		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1010			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1011			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1012			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1014			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1015			the device registers.
1016
1017		meson,<addr>
1018			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1019			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1020			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1021			supported.
1022
1023		msm_serial,<addr>
1024			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1025			port at the specified address. The serial port
1026			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027			yet supported.
1028
1029		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1030			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1031			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1032			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1033			yet supported.
1034
1035		owl,<addr>
1036			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1037			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1038			specified address. The serial port must already be
1039			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1040
1041		rda,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1043			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1044			specified address. The serial port must already be
1045			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1046
1047		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1048
1049		s3c2410,<addr>
1050		s3c2412,<addr>
1051		s3c2440,<addr>
1052		s3c6400,<addr>
1053		s5pv210,<addr>
1054		exynos4210,<addr>
1055			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1056			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1057			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1058			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1059			Options are not yet supported.
1060
1061		lantiq,<addr>
1062			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1063			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1064			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1065			yet supported.
1066
1067		lpuart,<addr>
1068		lpuart32,<addr>
1069			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1070			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1071			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1072			port must already be setup and configured.
1073
1074		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1075			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1076			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1077			address. The serial port must already be setup
1078			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1079
1080		qcom_geni,<addr>
1081			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1082			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1083			specified address. The serial port must already be
1084			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1085
1086		efifb,[options]
1087			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1088			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1089			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1090			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1091			mapped with the correct attributes.
1092
1093	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1094			earlyprintk=vga
1095			earlyprintk=sclp
1096			earlyprintk=xen
1097			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1098			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1099			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1100			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1101			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1102			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1103
1104			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1105			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1106			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1107
1108			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1109			takes over.
1110
1111			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1112			be used at a time.
1113
1114			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1115			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1116			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1117			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1118				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1119			You can find the port for a given device in
1120			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1121				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1122
1123			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1124			very good.
1125
1126			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1127			the real console.
1128
1129			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1130
1131			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1132
1133			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1134			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1135			UART class.
1136
1137	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1138			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1139			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1140			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1141			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1142			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1143			default: on.
1144
1145	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1146			ekgdboc=kbd
1147
1148			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1149			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1150
1151	edd=		[EDD]
1152			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1153
1154	efi=		[EFI]
1155			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1156			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1157			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1158			default.
1159			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1160			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1161			firmware implementations.
1162			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1163			debug: enable misc debug output
1164
1165	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1166			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1167			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1168			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1169			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1170
1171	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1172			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1173			updating original EFI memory map.
1174			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1175			from ss to ss+nn.
1176			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1177			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1178			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1179			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1180
1181			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1182			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1183			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1184			doesn't support it.
1185
1186	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1187			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1188			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1189			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1190			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1191
1192
1193	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1194			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1195
1196	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1197			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1198			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1199
1200	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1201			Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1202			See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst,
1203			Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and
1204			Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details.
1205
1206	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1207			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1208			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1209			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1210			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1211
1212	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1213			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1214			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1215			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1216
1217	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1218			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1219			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1220			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1221			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1222
1223	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1224			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1225			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1226			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1227			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1228			Default value is 0.
1229			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1230
1231	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1232			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1233			support.
1234
1235	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1236			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1237			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1238
1239	evm=		[EVM]
1240			Format: { "fix" }
1241			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1242			current integrity status.
1243
1244	failslab=
1245	fail_page_alloc=
1246	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1247			General fault injection mechanism.
1248			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1249			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1250
1251	floppy=		[HW]
1252			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1253
1254	force_pal_cache_flush
1255			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1256			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1257			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1258			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1259
1260	forcepae	[X86-32]
1261			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1262			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1263			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1264			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1265			and may cause unknown problems.
1266
1267	ftrace=[tracer]
1268			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1269			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1270			boot debugging.
1271
1272	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1273			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1274			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1275			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1276			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1277			oops.
1278
1279	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1280			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1281			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1282			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1283			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1284			tracing directory.
1285
1286	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1287			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1288			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1289			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1290			tracing directory.
1291
1292	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1293			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1294			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1295			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1296			that can be changed at run time by the
1297			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1298
1299	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1300			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1301			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1302			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1303			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1304
1305	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1306			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1307			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1308			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1309			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1310
1311	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1312			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1313			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1314			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1315			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1316
1317	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1318
1319	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1320			Format: off | on
1321			default: on
1322
1323	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1324			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1325			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1326			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1327			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1328
1329	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1330			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1331			android emulator
1332
1333	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1334			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1335			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1336			GPT to be used instead.
1337
1338	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1339			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1340			Format: 0 | 1
1341			Default: 0
1342	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1343			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344			Format: 0 | 1
1345			Default: 0
1346	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1347			Format: 0 | 1
1348			Default: 0
1349	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1350			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1351			Default: 1024
1352	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1353			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1354			Default: 1024
1355
1356	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1357			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1358			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1359
1360	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1361			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1362			backtraces on all cpus.
1363			Format: <integer>
1364
1365	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1366			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1367			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1368			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1369
1370	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1371
1372	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1373			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1374
1375	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1376			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1377			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1378			logic will be disabled.
1379
1380	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1381			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1382			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1383			size on bigger boxes.
1384
1385	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1386			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1387			Default: "on"
1388
1389	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1390
1391	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1392			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1393				verbose }
1394			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1395			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1396				VIA, nVidia)
1397			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1398
1399	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1400			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1401
1402	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1403	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1404			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1405			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1406			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1407			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1408			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1409
1410	hung_task_panic=
1411			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1412			Format: <integer>
1413
1414			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1415			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1416			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1417			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1418			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1419
1420	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1421				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1422	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1423				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1424				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1425
1426	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1427				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1428				      guest on lock contention.
1429
1430	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1431			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1432			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1433			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1434			the real console.
1435
1436	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1437				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1438				registered from board initialization code.
1439				Format:
1440				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1441
1442	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1443	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1444			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1445			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1446			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1447	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1448	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1449			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1450			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1451	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1452	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1453	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1454			     for the AUX port
1455	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1456			     controller
1457	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1458			     controllers
1459	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1460	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1461			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1462			     transitions, or never reset
1463			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1464			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1465			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1466			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1467			architectures force reset to be always executed
1468	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1469	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1470
1471	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1472
1473	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1474			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1475			hardware.
1476	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1477			does not match list of supported models.
1478	i8k.power_status
1479			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1480			(disabled by default)
1481	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1482			capability is set.
1483
1484	i915.invert_brightness=
1485			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1486			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1487			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1488			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1489			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1490			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1491			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1492			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1493			value switches the backlight off.
1494			-1 -- never invert brightness
1495			 0 -- machine default
1496			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1497
1498	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1499			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1500
1501	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1502			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1503			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1504			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1505			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1506
1507	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1508			Format: <int>
1509			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1510			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1511			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1512			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1513			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1514			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1515			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1516			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1517			was 0x3.
1518
1519	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1520			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1521
1522	idle=		[X86]
1523			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1524			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1525			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1526			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1527			Not recommended.
1528			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1529			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1530			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1531
1532	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1533			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1534			Default: strict
1535
1536			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1537			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1538			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1539			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1540			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1541			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1542			encoding mode.
1543
1544			Available settings are as follows:
1545			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1546				supported by the FPU
1547			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1548				by the FPU
1549			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1550				by the FPU
1551			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1552				supported by the FPU
1553
1554			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1555			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1556			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1557			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1558			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1559			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1560			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1561			MIPS64 CPUs.
1562
1563			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1564			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1565			except where unsupported by hardware.
1566
1567	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1568			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1569			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1570			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1571			could change it dynamically, usually by
1572			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1573
1574	ignore_rlimit_data
1575			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1576			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1577			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1578
1579	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1580			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1581
1582	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1583			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1584			default: "enforce"
1585
1586	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1587			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1588			owned by uid=0.
1589
1590	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1591			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1592			measurements, instead of host native format.
1593
1594	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1595			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1596				   | sha512 | ... }
1597			default: "sha1"
1598
1599			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1600			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1601
1602	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1603			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1604			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1605				 fail_securely"
1606
1607			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1608			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1609			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1610			uid=0.
1611
1612			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1613			all files owned by root.
1614
1615			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1616			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1617			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1618
1619			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1620			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1621			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1622			flag.
1623
1624	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1625			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1626			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1627			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1628			opened for read by uid=0.
1629
1630	ima_template=	[IMA]
1631			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1632			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1633			Default: "ima-ng"
1634
1635	ima_template_fmt=
1636			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1637			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1638
1639	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1640			Format: <min_file_size>
1641			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1642			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1643
1644			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1645			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1646			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1647
1648	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1649			Format: <bufsize>
1650			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1651
1652			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1653			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1654			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1655
1656	init=		[KNL]
1657			Format: <full_path>
1658			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1659			process.
1660
1661	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1662			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1663			startup.
1664
1665	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1666			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1667			modules and initcalls.
1668
1669	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1670
1671	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1672			zeroes.
1673			Format: 0 | 1
1674			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1675
1676	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1677			Format: 0 | 1
1678			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1679
1680	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1681			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1682			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1683			override in debugfs after boot.
1684
1685	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1686			Format: <irq>
1687
1688	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1689
1690	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1691			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1693			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1694
1695	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1696		on
1697			Enable intel iommu driver.
1698		off
1699			Disable intel iommu driver.
1700		igfx_off [Default Off]
1701			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1702			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1703			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1704			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1705			DMA.
1706		forcedac [x86_64]
1707			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1708			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1709			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1710			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1711			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1712			then look in the higher range.
1713		strict [Default Off]
1714			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1715			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1716			to batching them for performance.
1717		sp_off [Default Off]
1718			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1719			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1720			not be supported.
1721		sm_on [Default Off]
1722			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1723			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1724			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1725			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1726		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1727			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1728			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1729			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1730			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1731			mapping is enabled.
1732			Note that using this option lowers the security
1733			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1734			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1735		nobounce [Default off]
1736			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1737			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1738			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1739			risks of DMA attacks.
1740
1741	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1742			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1743			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1744
1745	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1746			disable
1747			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1748			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1749			passive
1750			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1751			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1752			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1753			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1754			  feature.
1755			force
1756			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1757			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1758			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1759			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1760			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1761			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1762			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1763			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1764			no_hwp
1765			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1766			  if available.
1767			hwp_only
1768			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1769			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1770			support_acpi_ppc
1771			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1772			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1773			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1774			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1775			per_cpu_perf_limits
1776			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1777			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1778
1779	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1780			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1781			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1782			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1783			no_x2apic_optout
1784				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1785			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1786
1787	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1788		strict	regions from userspace.
1789		relaxed
1790
1791	iommu=		[x86]
1792		off
1793		force
1794		noforce
1795		biomerge
1796		panic
1797		nopanic
1798		merge
1799		nomerge
1800		soft
1801		pt		[x86]
1802		nopt		[x86]
1803		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1804			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1805
1806	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1807			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1808			0 - Lazy mode.
1809			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1810			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1811			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1812			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1813			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1814			1 - Strict mode (default).
1815			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1816			  synchronously.
1817
1818	iommu.passthrough=
1819			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1820			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1821			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1822			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1823			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1824
1825	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1826			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1827			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1828
1829	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1830		0x80
1831			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1832		0xed
1833			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1834		udelay
1835			Simple two microseconds delay
1836		none
1837			No delay
1838
1839	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1840			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1841
1842	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1843			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1844
1845	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1846			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1847
1848	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1849			[ARM, ARM64]
1850			Format: <bool>
1851			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1852			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1853			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1854
1855	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1856			[ARM, ARM64]
1857			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1858			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1859			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1860			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1861			LPIs.
1862
1863	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1864			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1865			requires the kernel to be built with
1866			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1867
1868	irqfixup	[HW]
1869			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1870			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1871			firmware running.
1872
1873	irqpoll		[HW]
1874			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1875			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1876			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1877			firmware running.
1878
1879	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1880			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1881
1882	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1883			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1884			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1885
1886			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1887			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1888
1889			nohz
1890			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1891
1892			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1893			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1894			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1895			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1896			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1897
1898			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1899			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1900			  be configured manually after bootup.
1901
1902			domain
1903			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1904			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1905			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1906			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1907			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1908			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1909			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1910			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1911
1912			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1913			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1914			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1915			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1916
1917			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1918
1919
1920
1921	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1922
1923	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1924			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1925			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1926			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1927			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1928				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1929
1930	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1931			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1932			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1933			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1934			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1935				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1936
1937	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1938			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1939			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1940			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1941			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1942				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1943
1944	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1945			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1946
1947	nokaslr		[KNL]
1948			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1949			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1950			Layout Randomization).
1951
1952	kasan_multi_shot
1953			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1954			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1955			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1956			invalid access.
1957
1958	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1959
1960	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1961			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1962			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1963			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1964			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1965			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1966			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1967			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1968			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1969			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1970
1971			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1972			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1973			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1974			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1975			zone if it does not.
1976
1977			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1978			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1979			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1980			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1981			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1982			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1983			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1984
1985	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1986			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1987			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1988			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1989			optional and is the number seconds in between
1990			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1991			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1992			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1993			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1994			the kernel debugger.
1995
1996	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1997			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1998			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1999			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2000			 keyboard only format: kbd
2001			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2002			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2003			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2004			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2005
2006	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2007			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2008
2009	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2010			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2011			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2012
2013	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2014			Valid arguments: on, off
2015			Default: on
2016			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2017			the default is off.
2018
2019	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2020			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2021			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2022			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2023			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2024			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2025			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2026
2027			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2028
2029			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2030			Boot Parameter" section.
2031
2032	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2033			and kernel address spaces.
2034			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2035			0: force disabled
2036			1: force enabled
2037
2038	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2039			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2040
2041	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2042				   Default is false (don't support).
2043
2044	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2045			KVM MMU at runtime.
2046			Default is 0 (off)
2047
2048	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2049			Default is 1 (enabled)
2050
2051	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2052			for all guests.
2053			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2054
2055	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2056			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2057			system registers
2058
2059	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2060			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2061			system registers
2062
2063	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2064			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2065			system registers
2066
2067	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2068			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2069			LPIs.
2070
2071	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2072			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2073			Default is 1 (enabled)
2074
2075	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2076			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2077			Default is 0 (disabled)
2078
2079	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2080			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2081			Default is 1 (enabled)
2082
2083	kvm-intel.nested=
2084			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2085			Default is 0 (disabled)
2086
2087	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2088			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2089			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2090			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2091
2092	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2093			CVE-2018-3620.
2094
2095			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2096
2097			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2098			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2099				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2100			never:	Disables the mitigation
2101
2102			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2103
2104	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2105			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2106			Default is 1 (enabled)
2107
2108	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2109			      affected CPUs
2110
2111			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2112			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2113
2114			full
2115				Provides all available mitigations for the
2116				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2117				enables all mitigations in the
2118				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2119
2120				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2121				sysfs interface is still possible after
2122				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2123				when the first VM is started in a
2124				potentially insecure configuration,
2125				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2126
2127			full,force
2128				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2129				flush runtime control. Implies the
2130				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2131				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2132
2133			flush
2134				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2135				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2136				L1D flush.
2137
2138				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2139				sysfs interface is still possible after
2140				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2141				when the first VM is started in a
2142				potentially insecure configuration,
2143				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2144
2145			flush,nosmt
2146
2147				Disables SMT and enables the default
2148				hypervisor mitigation.
2149
2150				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2151				sysfs interface is still possible after
2152				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2153				when the first VM is started in a
2154				potentially insecure configuration,
2155				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2156
2157			flush,nowarn
2158				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2159				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2160				insecure configuration.
2161
2162			off
2163				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2164				emit any warnings.
2165				It also drops the swap size and available
2166				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2167				bare metal.
2168
2169			Default is 'flush'.
2170
2171			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2172
2173	l2cr=		[PPC]
2174
2175	l3cr=		[PPC]
2176
2177	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2178			disabled it.
2179
2180	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2181			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2182			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2183
2184	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2185			in C2 power state.
2186
2187	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2188			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2189			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2190			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2191			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2192			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2193			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2194
2195	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2196			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2197			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2198
2199	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2200			when set.
2201			Format: <int>
2202
2203	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2204			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2205			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2206			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2207			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2208			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2209			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2210			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2211
2212			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2213			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2214			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2215			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2216			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2217			host link and device attached to it.
2218
2219			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2220			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2221			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2222			The following configurations can be forced.
2223
2224			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2225			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2226
2227			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2228
2229			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2230			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2231			  allowed.
2232
2233			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2234
2235			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2236
2237			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2238			  and both resets.
2239
2240			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2241			  hot-unplug link recovery
2242
2243			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2244
2245			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2246
2247			* disable: Disable this device.
2248
2249			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2250			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2251
2252	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2253
2254	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2255			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2256
2257	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2258			Format: <integer>
2259
2260	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2261			Format: <integer>
2262
2263	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2264			Format: <integer>
2265
2266	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2267			Format: <integer>
2268
2269	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2270			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2271			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2272			number of online CPUs.
2273
2274	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2275			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2276
2277	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2278			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2279
2280	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2281			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2282			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2283
2284	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2285			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2286			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2287			mode during the locktorture test.
2288
2289	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2290			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2291			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2292
2293	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2294			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2295
2296	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2297			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2298			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2299			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2300			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2301			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2302
2303	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2304			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2305
2306	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2307			Enable additional printk() statements.
2308
2309	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2310			Format: <irq>
2311
2312	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2313			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2314			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2315			loglevels are defined as follows:
2316
2317			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2318			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2319			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2320			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2321			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2322			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2323			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2324			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2325
2326	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2327			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2328			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2329			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2330			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2331			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2332			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2333
2334	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2335			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2336			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2337			kernel boot problems.
2338
2339	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2340	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2341	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2342	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2343				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2344				attached printers to be reset. Using
2345				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2346				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2347				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2348				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2349				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2350				port specification list means that device IDs
2351				from each port should be examined, to see if
2352				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2353				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2354				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2355
2356	lpj=n		[KNL]
2357			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2358			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2359			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2360			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2361			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2362			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2363			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2364			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2365			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2366			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2367			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2368			hardware.
2369
2370	ltpc=		[NET]
2371			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2372
2373	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2374
2375	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2376			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2377			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2378
2379	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2380			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2381			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2382
2383	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2384			 yeeloong laptop.
2385			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2386
2387	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2388			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2389
2390	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2391			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2392			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2393			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2394			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2395			only takes effect during system bootup.
2396			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2397			which also disables the IO APIC.
2398
2399	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2400	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2401			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2402			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2403			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2404			/dev/loop-control interface.
2405
2406	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2407
2408	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2409
2410	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2411			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2412
2413	mdacon=		[MDA]
2414			Format: <first>,<last>
2415			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2416
2417	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2418			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2419			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2420
2421			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2422			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2423			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2424
2425			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2426			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2427			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2428			not have direct access.
2429
2430			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2431			options are:
2432
2433			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2434			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2435				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2436			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2437
2438			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2439			mds=full.
2440
2441			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2442
2443	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2444			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2445			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2446			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2447			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2448			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2449			belonging to unused RAM.
2450
2451	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2452			memory.
2453
2454	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2455			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2456			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2457
2458	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2459			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2460			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2461			set according to the
2462			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2463			option.
2464			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2465
2466	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2467			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2468			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2469			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2470			option description.
2471
2472	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2473			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2474			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2475			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2476			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2477			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2478			comma delimited.
2479			Example:
2480				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2481
2482	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2483			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2484			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2485
2486	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2487			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2488			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2489			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2490			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2491			         or
2492			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2493			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2494			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2495			will be eaten.
2496
2497	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2498			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2499			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2500			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2501			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2502
2503	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2504			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2505			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2506			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2507			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2508			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2509			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2510			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2511
2512	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2513			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2514			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2515			Setting this option will scan the memory
2516			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2517			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2518			from using the memory being corrupted.
2519			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2520			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2521			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2522			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2523
2524	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2525			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2526			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2527			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2528			corruption in more or less memory.
2529
2530	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2531			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2532			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2533			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2534
2535	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2536			Format: <integer>
2537			default : 0 <disable>
2538			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2539			performed. Each pass selects another test
2540			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2541			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2542			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2543			regions that are detected.
2544
2545	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2546			Valid arguments: on, off
2547			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2548			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2549			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2550			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2551			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2552
2553			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2554			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2555
2556	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2557			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2558			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2559			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2560			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2561
2562	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2563			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2564
2565	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2566			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2567			platforms.
2568
2569	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2570			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2571			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2572			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2573
2574	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2575
2576	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2577			physical address is ignored.
2578
2579	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2580			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2581			Default: "0tb"
2582			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2583			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2584			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2585			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2586			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2587			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2588			unconfigured.
2589			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2590			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2591			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2592			VGA shield.
2593			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2594			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2595			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2596			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2597			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2598			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2599
2600	mitigations=
2601			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2602			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2603			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2604			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2605
2606			off
2607				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2608				improves system performance, but it may also
2609				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2610				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2611					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2612					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2613					       nobp=0 [S390]
2614					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2615					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2616					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2617					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2618					       l1tf=off [X86]
2619					       mds=off [X86]
2620
2621			auto (default)
2622				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2623				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2624				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2625				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2626				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2627				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2628
2629			auto,nosmt
2630				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2631				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2632				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2633				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2634					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2635
2636	mminit_loglevel=
2637			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2638			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2639			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2640			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2641			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2642			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2643
2644	module.sig_enforce
2645			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2646			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2647			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2648			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2649
2650	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2651			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2652
2653	mousedev.tap_time=
2654			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2655			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2656			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2657			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2658			Format: <msecs>
2659	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2660			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2661	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2662			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2663
2664	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2665			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2666			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2667			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2668			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2669			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2670			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2671			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2672			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2673			is not too small.
2674
2675	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2676			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2677			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2678			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2679			allocations. Use with caution!
2680
2681	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2682			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2683
2684	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2685			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2686
2687	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2688			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2689
2690	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2691			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2692			at a time.
2693
2694	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2695
2696			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2697
2698			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2699				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2700			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2701				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2702				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2703
2704	mtdset=		[ARM]
2705			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2706
2707			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2708
2709	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2710			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2711			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2712
2713	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2714			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2715			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2716
2717	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2718			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2719			Default is 1.
2720			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2721			using up MTRRs.
2722
2723	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2724			Format: <integer>
2725			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2726			Default : 1
2727			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2728			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2729
2730	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2731
2732	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2733			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2734			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2735			something different and driver-specific.
2736			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2737			file if at all.
2738
2739	nf_conntrack.acct=
2740			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2741			0 to disable accounting
2742			1 to enable accounting
2743			Default value is 0.
2744
2745	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2746			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2747
2748	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2749			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2750
2751	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2752			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2753
2754	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2755			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2756			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2757			requests.
2758
2759	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2760			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2761			channel should listen.
2762
2763	nfs.cache_getent=
2764			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2765			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2766
2767	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2768			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2769			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2770
2771	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2772			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2773			entries.
2774
2775	nfs.enable_ino64=
2776			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2777			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2778			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2779			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2780			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2781
2782	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2783			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2784			slots the client will assign to the callback
2785			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2786			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2787			a particular server.
2788
2789	nfs.max_session_slots=
2790			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2791			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2792			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2793			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2794			Note that there is little point in setting this
2795			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2796
2797	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2798			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2799			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2800			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2801			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2802			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2803			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2804			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2805			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2806			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2807			back to using the idmapper.
2808			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2809	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2810			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2811			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2812			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2813			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2814
2815	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2816			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2817			information in exchange_id requests.
2818			If zero, no implementation identification information
2819			will be sent.
2820			The default is to send the implementation identification
2821			information.
2822
2823	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2824			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2825			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2826			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2827			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2828			after the locks are lost.
2829			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2830			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2831			parameter to '1'.
2832			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2833			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2834
2835	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2836			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2837			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2838
2839			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2840			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2841			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2842			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2843
2844	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2845			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2846			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2847			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2848			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2849			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2850
2851	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2852			when a NMI is triggered.
2853			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2854
2855	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2856			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2857			Valid num: 0 or 1
2858			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2859			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2860			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2861			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2862			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2863			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2864			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2865			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2866			need the box quickly up again.
2867
2868			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2869			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2870
2871	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2872			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2873			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2874			waits 4 seconds.
2875
2876	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2877			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2878			is present.
2879
2880	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2881			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2882
2883	no_console_suspend
2884			[HW] Never suspend the console
2885			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2886			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2887			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2888			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2889			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2890			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2891			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2892			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2893			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2894			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2895			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2896			turn on/off it dynamically.
2897
2898	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
2899			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2900			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2901			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
2902			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2903			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
2904			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2905			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
2906			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2907			is set.
2908
2909	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2910			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2911			but will impact performance.
2912
2913	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2914
2915	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2916			(CPU alternatives feature).
2917
2918	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2919			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2920
2921	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2922
2923	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2924			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2925
2926	nocache		[ARM]
2927
2928	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2929
2930	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2931
2932	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2933
2934	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2935
2936	noexec		[IA-64]
2937
2938	noexec		[X86]
2939			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2940			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2941			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2942
2943	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
2944			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2945			even if it is supported by processor.
2946
2947	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
2948			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2949			even if it is supported by processor.
2950
2951	noexec32	[X86-64]
2952			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2953			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2954				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2955			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2956				read implies executable mappings
2957
2958	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2959
2960	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2961			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2962			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2963
2964	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2965
2966	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2967			Equivalent to smt=1.
2968
2969			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2970			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2971				     via the sysfs control file.
2972
2973	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2974			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2975			possible in the system.
2976
2977	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2978			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2979			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2980			option.
2981
2982	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2983			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2984
2985	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2986			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2987			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2988
2989	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2990			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2991			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2992			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2993			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2994			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2995
2996	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2997			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2998			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2999			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3000			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3001			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3002			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3003
3004	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3005			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3006			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3007
3008	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3009			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3010			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3011
3012	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3013			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3014			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3015			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3016			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3017			real-time systems.
3018
3019	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3020
3021	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3022			Valid arguments: on, off
3023			Default: on
3024
3025	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3026			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3027			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3028			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3029			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3030			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3031			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3032			just as if they had also been called out in the
3033			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3034
3035	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3036
3037	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3038			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3039
3040	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3041			broken timer IRQ sources.
3042
3043	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3044
3045	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3046			initial RAM disk.
3047
3048	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3049			remapping.
3050			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3051
3052	nointroute	[IA-64]
3053
3054	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3055
3056	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3057
3058	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3059
3060	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3061			fault handling.
3062
3063	no-vmw-sched-clock
3064			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3065			clock and use the default one.
3066
3067	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3068			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3069			behaviour
3070
3071	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3072
3073	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3074
3075	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3076			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3077
3078	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3079
3080	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3081
3082	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3083			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3084
3085	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3086			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3087			irq.
3088
3089	nomodule	Disable module load
3090
3091	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3092			pagetables) support.
3093
3094	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3095
3096	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3097			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3098
3099	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3100			with UP alternatives
3101
3102	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3103			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3104			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3105			available to user space applications.
3106
3107	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3108			space.
3109
3110	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3111			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3112			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3113
3114	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3115
3116	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3117
3118	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3119			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3120
3121	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3122
3123	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3124
3125	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3126			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3127
3128	nowb		[ARM]
3129
3130	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3131
3132	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3133			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3134			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3135			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3136			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3137			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3138			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3139			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3140			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3141			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3142			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3143			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3144			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3145
3146	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3147			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3148			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3149			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3150			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3151			parameter's value.
3152			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3153			Default: 255
3154
3155	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3156			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3157			SAL PALO.
3158
3159	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3160			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3161			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3162			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3163			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3164			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3165			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3166			hot plugging.
3167
3168	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3169
3170	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3171			Allowed values are enable and disable
3172
3173	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3174			'node', 'default' can be specified
3175			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3176			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3177
3178	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3179			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3180			info.
3181
3182	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3183			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3184			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3185			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3186			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3187			interrupts *may* be lost!
3188
3189	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3190			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3191			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3192			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3193
3194	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3195			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3196
3197	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3198			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3199			userland or if you want common events.
3200			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3201			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3202				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3203				CPU specific event set.
3204			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3205				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3206				for generic hr timer mode)
3207
3208	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3209			process, but there is a small probability of
3210			deadlocking the machine.
3211			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3212			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3213
3214	page_alloc.shuffle=
3215			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3216			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3217			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3218			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3219			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3220			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3221			can be read from sysfs at:
3222			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3223
3224	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3225			Storage of the information about who allocated
3226			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3227			we can turn it on.
3228			on: enable the feature
3229
3230	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3231			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3232			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3233			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3234			on: turn on poisoning
3235
3236	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3237			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3238			timeout = 0: wait forever
3239			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3240			Format: <timeout>
3241
3242	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3243			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3244			bit 0: print all tasks info
3245			bit 1: print system memory info
3246			bit 2: print timer info
3247			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3248			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3249			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3250
3251	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3252			on a WARN().
3253
3254	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3255			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3256			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3257			succeeds in any situation.
3258			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3259			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3260			kernel more unstable.
3261
3262	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3263			connected to, default is 0.
3264			Format: <parport#>
3265	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3266			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3267			Format: <mode>
3268
3269	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3270			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3271			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3272			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3273			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3274			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3275			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3276			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3277			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3278			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3279			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3280			are specified on the command line, starting
3281			with parport0.
3282
3283	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3284			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3285			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3286			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3287			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3288			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3289			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3290
3291	pause_on_oops=
3292			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3293			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3294			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3295
3296	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3297
3298	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3299			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3300			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3301
3302	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3303
3304				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3305				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3306				specified in one of the following formats:
3307
3308				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3309				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3310
3311				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3312				bus/device/function address which may change
3313				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3314				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3315				by other kernel parameters. If the
3316				domain is left unspecified, it is
3317				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3318				to a device through multiple device/function
3319				addresses can be specified after the base
3320				address (this is more robust against
3321				renumbering issues).  The second format
3322				selects devices using IDs from the
3323				configuration space which may match multiple
3324				devices in the system.
3325
3326		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3327				changes anything
3328		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3329		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3330				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3331				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3332		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3333				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3334				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3335				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3336		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3337				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3338				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3339		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3340				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3341				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3342				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3343				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3344				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3345				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3346		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3347				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3348				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3349		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3350				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3351		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3352				Configuration
3353		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3354				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3355				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3356		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3357				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3358				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3359		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3360				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3361				should never be necessary.
3362		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3363				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3364				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3365				when the system masks IRQs.
3366		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3367				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3368				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3369				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3370		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3371				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3372				on several machines and they hang the machine
3373				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3374				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3375				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3376				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3377				motherboard.
3378		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3379				Use with caution as certain devices share
3380				address decoders between ROMs and other
3381				resources.
3382		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3383				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3384				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3385		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3386				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3387		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3388				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3389				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3390				this way.
3391		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3392				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3393				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3394				F0000h-100000h range.
3395		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3396				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3397				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3398				explicitly which ones they are.
3399		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3400				numbers ourselves, overriding
3401				whatever the firmware may have done.
3402		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3403				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3404				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3405				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3406				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3407				IRQ routing is enabled.
3408		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3409				or for PCI scanning.
3410		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3411				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3412				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3413				please report a bug.
3414		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3415				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3416		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3417				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3418				so this option is a temporary workaround
3419				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3420		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3421				handle more pci cards
3422		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3423				This might help on some broken boards which
3424				machine check when some devices' config space
3425				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3426				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3427		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3428				This sorting is done to get a device
3429				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3430		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3431		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3432				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3433		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3434				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3435		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3436				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3437				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3438				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3439				or bus can support) for best performance.
3440		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3441				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3442				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3443				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3444				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3445				that hot-added devices will work.
3446		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3447				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3448				The default value is 256 bytes.
3449		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3450				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3451				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3452		resource_alignment=
3453				Format:
3454				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3455				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3456				aligned memory resources. How to
3457				specify the device is described above.
3458				If <order of align> is not specified,
3459				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3460				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3461				windows need to be expanded.
3462				To specify the alignment for several
3463				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3464				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3465				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3466		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3467				end-to-end CRC checking).
3468				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3469				the default.
3470				off: Turn ECRC off
3471				on: Turn ECRC on.
3472		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3473				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3474				Default size is 256 bytes.
3475		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3476				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3477				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3478		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3479				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3480				Default is 1.
3481		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3482				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3483				accommodate resources required by all child
3484				devices.
3485				off: Turn realloc off
3486				on: Turn realloc on
3487		realloc		same as realloc=on
3488		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3489		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3490				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3491		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3492				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3493				port.
3494		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3495				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3496				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3497				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3498				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3499				taints the kernel.
3500		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3501				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3502				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3503				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3504				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3505				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3506				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3507				this removes isolation between devices and
3508				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3509		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3510		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3511
3512	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3513			Management.
3514		off	Disable ASPM.
3515		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3516			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3517
3518	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3519		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3520			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3521			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3522			also tries to use these services.
3523		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3524			hotplug).
3525
3526	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3527		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3528		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3529
3530	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3531		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3532			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3533
3534	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3535
3536	pd_ignore_unused
3537			[PM]
3538			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3539			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3540			for debug and development, but should not be
3541			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3542
3543	pd.		[PARIDE]
3544			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3545
3546	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3547			boot time.
3548			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3549			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3550
3551	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3552			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3553			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3554			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3555			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3556			and performance comparison.
3557
3558	pf.		[PARIDE]
3559			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3560
3561	pg.		[PARIDE]
3562			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3563
3564	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3565			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3566
3567	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3568			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3569			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3570
3571	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3572			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3573			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3574
3575	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3576			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3577			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3578			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3579			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3580			possible settings and some assignment information.
3581
3582	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3583			{ off }
3584
3585	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3586			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3587
3588	pnp_reserve_irq=
3589			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3590
3591	pnp_reserve_dma=
3592			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3593
3594	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3595			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3596
3597	pnp_reserve_mem=
3598			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3599			autoconfiguration.
3600			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3601
3602	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3603			Default is 21.
3604			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3605			may be specified.
3606			Format: <port>,<port>....
3607
3608	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3609			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3610			platform machine description specific power_save
3611			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3612			execution priority.
3613
3614	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3615			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3616			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3617			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3618			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3619
3620	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3621			Format: {"off"}
3622			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3623
3624	print-fatal-signals=
3625			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3626
3627			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3628			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3629			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3630			coredump - etc.
3631
3632			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3633			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3634
3635			default: off.
3636
3637	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3638			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3639			panics
3640			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3641			default: disabled
3642
3643	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3644			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3645			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3646			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3647			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3648			Default: ratelimit
3649
3650	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3651			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3652
3653	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3654			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3655			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3656
3657	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3658			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3659			instead using the legacy FADT method
3660
3661	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3662			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3663			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3664				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3665			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3666			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3667				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3668			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3669			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3670				statistical time based profiling.
3671
3672	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3673			before loading.
3674			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3675
3676	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3677			tracking.
3678			Format: <bool>
3679
3680	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3681			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3682	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3683			per second.
3684	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3685			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3686			(0 = never).
3687	psmouse.resolution=
3688			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3689	psmouse.smartscroll=
3690			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3691			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3692
3693	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3694
3695	pt.		[PARIDE]
3696			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3697
3698	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3699			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3700			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3701			system calls and interrupts.
3702
3703			on   - unconditionally enable
3704			off  - unconditionally disable
3705			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3706			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3707
3708			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3709
3710	nopti		[X86_64]
3711			Equivalent to pti=off
3712
3713	pty.legacy_count=
3714			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3715			default number.
3716
3717	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3718
3719	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3720
3721	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3722			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3723
3724	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3725			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3726
3727	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3728			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3729			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3730			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3731			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3732
3733	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3734
3735		cec_disable	[X86]
3736				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3737				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3738
3739	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3740			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3741			except that the string "all" can be used to
3742			specify every CPU on the system.
3743
3744			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3745			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3746			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3747			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3748			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3749			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3750			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3751			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3752			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3753			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3754
3755	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3756			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3757			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3758			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3759			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3760			This improves the real-time response for the
3761			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3762			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3763			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3764			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3765
3766	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3767			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3768			process in one batch.
3769
3770	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3771			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3772			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3773			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3774
3775	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3776			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3777			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3778
3779	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3780			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3781			RCU grace-period initialization.
3782
3783	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3784			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3785			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3786			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3787			the rcu_node combining tree.
3788
3789	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3790			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3791			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3792			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3793			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3794
3795	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3796			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3797			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3798			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3799			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3800
3801	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3802			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3803			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3804			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3805			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3806			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3807			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3808
3809	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3810			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3811			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3812			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3813			and maximum value is HZ.
3814
3815	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3816			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3817			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3818			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3819
3820	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3821			Set required age in jiffies for a
3822			given grace period before RCU starts
3823			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3824			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3825			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3826			a value based on the most recent settings
3827			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3828			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3829			This calculated value may be viewed in
3830			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3831			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3832			overwritten.
3833
3834	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3835			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3836			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3837			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3838			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3839			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3840			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3841			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3842			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3843			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3844
3845	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3846			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3847			each group, which defaults to the square root
3848			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3849			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3850			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3851			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3852
3853	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3854			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3855			batch limiting is disabled.
3856
3857	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3858			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3859			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3860
3861	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3862			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3863			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3864
3865	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3866			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3867			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3868			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3869			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3870
3871	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3872			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3873			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3874			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3875			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3876			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3877
3878	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3879			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3880			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3881			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3882
3883	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3884			Measure performance of asynchronous
3885			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3886
3887	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3888			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3889			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3890			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3891			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3892			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3893
3894	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3895			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3896			grace-period primitives.
3897
3898	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3899			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3900			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3901			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3902			interference.
3903
3904	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3905			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3906			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3907			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3908			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3909			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3910			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3911			a single reader.
3912
3913	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3914			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3915			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3916			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3917
3918	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3919			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3920
3921	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3922			Shut the system down after performance tests
3923			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3924			testing.
3925
3926	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3927			Enable additional printk() statements.
3928
3929	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3930			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3931			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3932			no holdoff.
3933
3934	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3935			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3936			in microseconds.
3937
3938	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3939			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3940			in microseconds.
3941
3942	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3943			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3944			in seconds.
3945
3946	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3947			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3948			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3949
3950	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3951			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3952			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3953
3954	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3955			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3956			forward-progress tests.
3957
3958	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3959			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3960			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3961			testing.
3962
3963	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3964			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3965			primitives, if available.
3966
3967	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3968			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3969
3970	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3971			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3972			update-side primitives, if available.
3973
3974	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3975			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3976			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3977			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3978			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3979			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3980			they are all non-zero.
3981
3982	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3983			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3984
3985	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3986			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3987			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3988			test, hence the "fake".
3989
3990	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3991			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3992			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3993			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3994			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3995			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3996
3997	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3998			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3999
4000	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4001			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4002
4003	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4004			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4005			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4006
4007	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4008			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4009			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4010			during the rcutorture test.
4011
4012	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4013			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4014			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4015
4016	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4017			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4018			warnings, zero to disable.
4019
4020	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4021			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4022
4023	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4024			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4025
4026	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4027			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4028
4029	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4030			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4031			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4032			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4033			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4034
4035	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4036			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4037			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4038			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4039
4040	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4041			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4042
4043	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4044			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4045
4046	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4047			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4048			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4049
4050	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4051			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4052
4053	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4054			Enable additional printk() statements.
4055
4056	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4057			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4058			stall warning.
4059
4060	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4061			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4062
4063	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4064			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4065
4066	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4067			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4068			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4069			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4070			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4071			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4072			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4073
4074	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4075			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4076			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4077			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4078			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4079			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4080			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4081			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4082			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4083
4084	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4085			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4086			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4087			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4088			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4089
4090	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4091			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4092			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4093			to zero.
4094
4095	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4096			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4097
4098	rdinit=		[KNL]
4099			Format: <full_path>
4100			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4101			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4102
4103	rdrand=		[X86]
4104			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4105				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4106				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4107				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4108				path).
4109
4110	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4111			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4112			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4113			mba.
4114			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4115				rdt=cmt,!mba
4116
4117	reboot=		[KNL]
4118			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4119				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4120				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4121				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4122				[[,]f[orce]
4123			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4124					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4125					reboot only),
4126			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4127			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4128			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4129					to be used for rebooting.
4130
4131	relax_domain_level=
4132			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4133			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4134
4135	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4136			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4137			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4138			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4139			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4140
4141	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4142			Format: nn[KMG]
4143			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4144			address space.
4145
4146	reservelow=	[X86]
4147			Format: nn[K]
4148			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4149			the bottom of the address space.
4150
4151	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4152			during initialization.
4153
4154	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4155			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4156			Format:
4157			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4158
4159	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4160			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4161			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4162			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4163			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4164
4165	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4166			read the resume files
4167
4168	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4169			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4170			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4171
4172	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4173		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4174				present during boot.
4175		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4176		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4177		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4178				(that will set all pages holding image data
4179				during restoration read-only).
4180
4181	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4182
4183	rfkill.default_state=
4184		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4185			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4186		1	Unblocked.
4187
4188	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4189		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4190		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4191			blocked and the previous configuration.
4192		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4193			blocked and everything unblocked.
4194
4195	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4196			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4197
4198	ring3mwait=disable
4199			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4200			CPUs.
4201
4202	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4203
4204	rodata=		[KNL]
4205		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4206		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4207
4208	rockchip.usb_uart
4209			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4210			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4211			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4212			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4213
4214	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4215			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4216
4217	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4218			mount the root filesystem
4219
4220	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4221
4222	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4223
4224	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4225			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4226			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4227
4228	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4229			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4230			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4231			managed by CMA.
4232
4233	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4234
4235	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4236
4237	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4238			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4239		strict
4240			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4241			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4242			which is faster.
4243
4244	sa1100ir	[NET]
4245			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4246
4247	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4248
4249	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4250
4251	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4252			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4253			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4254			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4255
4256	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4257			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4258			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4259			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4260			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4261			1 -- enable.
4262			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4263			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4264
4265	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4266			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4267			"lsm=" parameter.
4268
4269	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4270			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4271			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4272			0 -- disable.
4273			1 -- enable.
4274			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4275			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4276			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4277
4278	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4279			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4280			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4281			0 -- disable.
4282			1 -- enable.
4283			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4284
4285	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4286
4287	shapers=	[NET]
4288			Maximal number of shapers.
4289
4290	simeth=		[IA-64]
4291	simscsi=
4292
4293	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4294
4295	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4296			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4297			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4298			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4299			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4300			layout control by attackers can usually be
4301			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4302			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4303			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4304			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4305			own.
4306			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4307
4308	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4309			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4310			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4311			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4312			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4313
4314	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4315			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4316			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4317			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4318			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4319			last alloc / free. For more information see
4320			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4321
4322	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4323			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4324			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4325			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4326			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4327			directories and files being created under
4328			/sys/kernel/slub.
4329
4330	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4331			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4332			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4333			fragmentation. For more information see
4334			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4335
4336	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4337			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4338			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4339			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4340			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4341			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4342			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4343			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4344
4345	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4346			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4347			lower than slub_max_order.
4348			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4349
4350	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4351			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4352			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4353
4354	smart2=		[HW]
4355			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4356
4357	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4358	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4359	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4360	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4361	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4362	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4363	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4364				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4365				1: Fast pin select (default)
4366				2: ATC IRMode
4367
4368	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4369			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4370			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4371			actual hardware limit.
4372			Format: <integer>
4373			Default: -1 (no limit)
4374
4375	softlockup_panic=
4376			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4377			Format: <integer>
4378
4379			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4380			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4381			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4382			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4383			functionality.
4384
4385	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4386			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4387			backtraces on all cpus.
4388			Format: <integer>
4389
4390	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4391			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4392
4393	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4394			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4395			The default operation protects the kernel from
4396			user space attacks.
4397
4398			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4399			       spectre_v2_user=on
4400			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4401			       spectre_v2_user=off
4402			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4403			       vulnerable
4404
4405			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4406			mitigation method at run time according to the
4407			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4408			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4409			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4410
4411			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4412			against user space to user space task attacks.
4413
4414			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4415			the user space protections.
4416
4417			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4418
4419			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4420			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4421			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4422
4423			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4424			spectre_v2=auto.
4425
4426	spectre_v2_user=
4427			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4428		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4429		        user space tasks
4430
4431			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4432				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4433
4434			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4435				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4436
4437			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4438				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4439				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4440				  is inherited on fork.
4441
4442			prctl,ibpb
4443				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4444				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4445				  always when switching between different user
4446				  space processes.
4447
4448			seccomp
4449				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4450				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4451				  they explicitly opt out.
4452
4453			seccomp,ibpb
4454				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4455				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4456				  always when switching between different
4457				  user space processes.
4458
4459			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4460				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4461
4462			Default mitigation:
4463			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4464
4465			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4466			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4467
4468	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4469			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4470			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4471
4472			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4473			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4474			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4475			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4476			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4477			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4478			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4479			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4480
4481			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4482			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4483			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4484			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4485
4486			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4487			Bypass optimization is used.
4488
4489			On x86 the options are:
4490
4491			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4492			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4493			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4494				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4495				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4496				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4497				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4498				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4499			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4500				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4501				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4502				  is inherited on fork.
4503			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4504				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4505
4506			Default mitigations:
4507			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4508
4509			On powerpc the options are:
4510
4511			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4512				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4513				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4514				  exit.
4515			off	- No action.
4516
4517			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4518			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4519
4520	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4521	spia_fio_base=
4522	spia_pedr=
4523	spia_peddr=
4524
4525	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4526			Specifies how frequently to check for
4527			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4528			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4529			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4530			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4531			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4532			are ignored.
4533
4534	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4535			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4536			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4537			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4538			grace period will be considered for automatic
4539			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4540			expediting.
4541
4542	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4543			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4544
4545			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4546			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4547			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4548			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4549
4550			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4551				   for both kernel and userspace
4552			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4553				   for both kernel and userspace
4554			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4555				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4556				   to allow userspace to register its
4557				   interest in being mitigated too.
4558
4559	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4560			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4561			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4562			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4563			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4564			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4565
4566	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4567			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4568
4569	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4570			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4571			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4572			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4573			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4574			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4575			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4576
4577	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4578			Format: <num>
4579			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4580			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4581			as the initial boot-console.
4582			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4583
4584	sti_font=	[HW]
4585			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4586
4587	stifb=		[HW]
4588			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4589
4590	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4591	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4592			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4593			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4594			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4595			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4596			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4597			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4598			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4599			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4600			maximum port values.
4601
4602	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4603			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4604			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4605			process in parallel from a single connection.
4606			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4607
4608	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4609			[NFS]
4610			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4611			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4612			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4613			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4614			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4615			NFS server is running.
4616
4617			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4618				    automatically using heuristics
4619			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4620			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4621			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4622				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4623
4624	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4625	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4626			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4627			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4628			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4629			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4630			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4631			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4632
4633	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4634			[SUSPEND]
4635			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4636			mode before resuming the system (see
4637			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4638			is set. Default value is 5.
4639
4640	swapaccount=[0|1]
4641			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4642			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4643			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4644
4645	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4646			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4647			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4648			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4649			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4650			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4651
4652	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4653
4654	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4655			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4656			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4657			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4658			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4659			in older udev will not work anymore.
4660			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4661			the kernel configuration.
4662
4663	sysrq_always_enabled
4664			[KNL]
4665			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4666			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4667			Useful for debugging.
4668
4669	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4670			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4671			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4672			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4673			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4674			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4675
4676	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4677
4678	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4679			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4680			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4681			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4682			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4683			The system is woken from this state using a
4684			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4685
4686	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4687			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4688
4689	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4690			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4691			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4692
4693	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4694			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4695			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4696
4697	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4698			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4699			critical and hot trip points.
4700
4701	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4702			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4703
4704	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4705			-1: disable all passive trip points
4706			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4707			value
4708
4709	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4710			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4711			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4712			0: no polling (default)
4713
4714	threadirqs	[KNL]
4715			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4716			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4717
4718	topology=	[S390]
4719			Format: {off | on}
4720			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4721			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4722			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4723			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4724			Default is on.
4725
4726	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4727			Format: {off}
4728			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4729			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4730			LPAR.
4731
4732	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4733
4734	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4735			Format: integer pcr id
4736			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4737			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4738			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4739			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4740			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4741			are saved.
4742
4743	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4744			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4745
4746	trace_event=[event-list]
4747			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4748			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4749			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4750			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4751
4752	trace_options=[option-list]
4753			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4754			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4755			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4756			to echo the option name into
4757
4758			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4759
4760			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4761			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4762
4763			      trace_options=stacktrace
4764
4765			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4766			section.
4767
4768	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4769			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4770			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4771			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4772			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4773			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4774
4775			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4776			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4777			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4778			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4779
4780			** CAUTION **
4781
4782			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4783			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4784			the system to live lock.
4785
4786	traceoff_on_warning
4787			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4788			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4789			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4790			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4791
4792			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4793			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4794			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4795
4796			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4797			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4798
4799	transparent_hugepage=
4800			[KNL]
4801			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4802			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4803			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4804			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4805			for more details.
4806
4807	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4808			Format: <string>
4809			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4810			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4811			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4812			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4813			virtualized environment.
4814			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4815			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4816			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4817			can add overhead.
4818			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4819			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4820			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4821			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4822			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4823			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4824			acceptable).
4825
4826	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4827			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4828			Format:
4829			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4830			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4831
4832	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4833			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4834			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4835			help "seeing" what's going on.
4836
4837	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4838			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4839
4840	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4841			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4842			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4843			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4844			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4845			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4846			reported either.
4847
4848	unknown_nmi_panic
4849			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4850
4851	usbcore.authorized_default=
4852			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4853			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4854			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4855			if device connected to internal port)
4856
4857	usbcore.autosuspend=
4858			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4859			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4860			is the time required before an idle device will be
4861			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4862			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4863
4864	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4865			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4866
4867	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4868			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4869			(default = 65536).
4870
4871	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4872			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4873
4874	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4875			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4876			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4877			 (default 0 = off).
4878
4879	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4880			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4881			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4882
4883	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4884			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4885			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4886
4887	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4888			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4889			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4890			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4891
4892	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4893
4894	usbcore.quirks=
4895			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4896			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4897			commas. Each entry has the form
4898			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4899			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4900			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4901			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4902			the following meanings:
4903				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4904					descriptors must not be fetched using
4905					a 255-byte read);
4906				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4907					correctly so reset it instead);
4908				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4909					Set-Interface requests);
4910				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4911					handle its Configuration or Interface
4912					strings);
4913				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4914					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4915				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4916					more interface descriptions than the
4917					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4918					talking to these interfaces);
4919				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4920					during initialization, after we read
4921					the device descriptor);
4922				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4923					high speed and super speed interrupt
4924					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4925					require the interval in microframes (1
4926					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4927					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4928					(bInterval-1).
4929					Devices with this quirk report their
4930					bInterval as the result of this
4931					calculation instead of the exponent
4932					variable used in the calculation);
4933				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4934					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4935					requests);
4936				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4937					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4938					remote wakeup capability);
4939				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4940					Power Management);
4941				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4942					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4943					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4944					calculation);
4945				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4946					to be disconnected before suspend to
4947					prevent spurious wakeup);
4948				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4949					pause after every control message);
4950				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4951					delay after resetting its port);
4952			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4953
4954	usbhid.mousepoll=
4955			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4956
4957	usbhid.jspoll=
4958			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4959
4960	usbhid.kbpoll=
4961			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4962
4963	usb-storage.delay_use=
4964			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4965			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4966
4967	usb-storage.quirks=
4968			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4969			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4970			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4971			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4972			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4973			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4974			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4975				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4976					of sense data);
4977				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4978					bytes of sense data);
4979				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4980					device capacity by one sector);
4981				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4982					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4983				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4984					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4985				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4986					command, uas only);
4987				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4988					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4989				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4990					reported device capacity by one
4991					sector if the number is odd);
4992				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4993					device);
4994				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4995					command, uas only);
4996				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4997					unlock ejectable media);
4998				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4999					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
5000				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5001					initial READ(10) command);
5002				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5003					reported by the device);
5004				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5005					by default);
5006				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5007					bogus residue values);
5008				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5009					Logical Unit);
5010				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5011					commands, uas only);
5012				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5013				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5014					medium is write-protected).
5015				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5016					even if the device claims no cache)
5017			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5018
5019	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5020			Format: <int>
5021			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5022				 1 - undefined instruction events
5023				 2 - system calls
5024				 4 - invalid data aborts
5025				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5026				16 - SIGBUS faults
5027			Example: user_debug=31
5028
5029	userpte=
5030			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5031
5032				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5033					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5034					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5035
5036	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5037			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5038
5039			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5040			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5041
5042	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5043			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5044			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5045
5046			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5047			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5048			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5049
5050			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5051			alias for vdso32=0.
5052
5053			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5054			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5055
5056	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5057			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5058
5059	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5060			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5061
5062	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5063			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5064			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5065			level and then send out the event to user space through
5066			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5067			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5068			brightness level.
5069			default: 1
5070
5071	virtio_mmio.device=
5072			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5073
5074				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5075			where:
5076				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5077						like K, M and G)
5078				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5079				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5080						request_irq())
5081				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5082			example:
5083				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5084
5085			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5086
5087	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5088			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5089			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5090			Use vga=ask for menu.
5091			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5092			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5093
5094	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5095			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5096			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5097			All options are enabled by default, and this
5098			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5099			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5100			debugging features.
5101
5102			Available options are:
5103			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5104			  -	Disable all of the above options
5105
5106	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5107			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5108			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5109			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5110			mapped kernel RAM.
5111
5112	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5113			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5114			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5115
5116	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5117			Format: <command>
5118
5119	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5120			Format: <command>
5121
5122	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5123			Format: <command>
5124
5125	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5126			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5127			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5128			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5129			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5130			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5131			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5132
5133			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5134			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5135				    page is readable.
5136
5137			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5138			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5139				    page is not readable.
5140
5141			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5142			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5143			            might break your system.
5144
5145	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5146			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5147			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5148
5149	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5150			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5151			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5152			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5153
5154	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5155			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5156			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5157			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5158			ranging from 0-255.
5159
5160	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5161			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5162			Change the default green palette of the console.
5163			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5164			ranging from 0-255.
5165
5166	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5167			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5168			Change the default red palette of the console.
5169			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5170			ranging from 0-255.
5171
5172	vt.default_utf8=
5173			[VT]
5174			Format=<0|1>
5175			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5176			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5177			newly opened terminals.
5178
5179	vt.global_cursor_default=
5180			[VT]
5181			Format=<-1|0|1>
5182			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5183			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5184			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5185			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5186			cursors, 1 will display them.
5187
5188	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5189			Default: 2 = green.
5190
5191	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5192			Default: 3 = cyan.
5193
5194	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5195			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5196			or other driver-specific files in the
5197			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5198
5199	watchdog_thresh=
5200			[KNL]
5201			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5202			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5203			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5204			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5205			seconds.
5206
5207	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5208			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5209			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5210			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5211			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5212			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5213			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5214			corresponding sysfs file.
5215
5216	workqueue.disable_numa
5217			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5218			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5219			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5220			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5221			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5222			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5223			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5224
5225	workqueue.power_efficient
5226			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5227			they show better performance thanks to cache
5228			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5229			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5230
5231			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5232			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5233			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5234			power usage at the cost of small performance
5235			overhead.
5236
5237			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5238			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5239
5240	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5241			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5242			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5243			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5244			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5245			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5246			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5247			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5248			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5249			impacted.
5250
5251	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5252			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5253			supporting x2apic.
5254
5255	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5256			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5257			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5258			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5259			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5260
5261	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5262			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5263			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5264			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5265			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5266			domains.
5267
5268	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5269			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5270			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5271			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5272			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5273			nics -- unplug network devices
5274			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5275			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5276				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5277				the unplug protocol
5278			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5279
5280	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5281			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5282			optimizations.
5283
5284	xen_nopv	[X86]
5285			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5286			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5287			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5288			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5289
5290	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5291			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5292			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5293			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5294			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5295
5296	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5297			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5298			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5299			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5300			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5301			more timer interrupts.
5302
5303	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5304			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5305			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5306			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5307
5308	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5309			Format:
5310			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5311
5312	xive=		[PPC]
5313			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5314			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5315			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5316
5317			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5318				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5319				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5320
5321	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5322			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5323			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5324			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5325