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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.txt, 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/acpi/debug.txt 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			Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
120			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123			auto-serialization feature.
124			This feature is enabled by default.
125			This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
128			   kernels.
129
130	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
131			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133			installed automatically and they will appear under
134			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135			This option turns off this feature.
136			Note that specifying this option does not affect
137			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143			second kernel for kdump.
144
145	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
148	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
154	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
155			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
156			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
157			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
158			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
159						  strings
160			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
161						  strings
162			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
163
164			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
167			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
171			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
172			care about the state of the feature group strings which
173			should be controlled by the OSPM.
174			Examples:
175			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
182			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183			multiple times through kernel command line is also
184			meaningless.
185			Examples:
186			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187			     FALSE.
188
189			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
192			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
195			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
197			is useful when one want to control the state of the
198			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199			the OSPM features.
200			Examples:
201			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206			     equivalent to
207			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208			     and
209			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
212	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
213			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215			and always returns good values.
216
217	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
220	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
226				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
227			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228			s3_bios and s3_mode.
229			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232			used during resume from hibernation.
233			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234			control method, with respect to putting devices into
235			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236			of _PTS is used by default).
237			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
239			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241			but some broken systems don't work without it).
242
243	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
247	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
250	agp=		[AGP]
251			{ off | try_unsupported }
252			off: disable AGP support
253			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
256	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
257			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
259	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
260			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
262			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
264	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
265			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
272			32: only for 32-bit processes
273			64: only for 64-bit processes
274			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
277	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
278			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
284	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
285			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286			Possible values are:
287			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289				    flushed before they will be reused, which
290				    is a lot of faster
291			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292				    the system
293			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
296					  requirements as needed. This option
297					  does not override iommu=pt
298
299	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
300			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303			IOMMU initialization.
304
305	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307			remapping modes:
308			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
314	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316			Format: <a>,<b>
317			See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
318
319	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321			connected to one of 16 gameports
322			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
324	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
325			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
326			Format: noidle
327			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329			APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
331	apic=		[APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
332			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
333			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334			Change the amount of debugging information output
335			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
336
337	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341			      backup of CPU 0
342			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344			      shot down by NMI
345
346	autoconf=	[IPV6]
347			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
349	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355			apic=verbose is specified.
356			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
358	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
359			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
360
361	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
365
366	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
368	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369			EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
373	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
374			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
375
376	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377			keyboards
378
379	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
381
382	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383			Use software keyboard repeat
384
385	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
387			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388			    until the next reboot
389			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394			    auditd.
395			Default: unset
396
397	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399			Default: 64
400
401	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
402			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403			Format: { "0" | "1" }
404			0 - Disable the BAU.
405			1 - Enable the BAU.
406			unset - Disable the BAU.
407
408	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
409			Format: <io>,<mode>
410
411	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412			Format: <io>,<mode>
413			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
415	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
416			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
417			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
420	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
421			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
422			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
425	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426			embedded devices based on command line input.
427			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
429	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431			no delay (0).
432			Format: integer
433
434	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
436	bert_disable	[ACPI]
437			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
439	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
440	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
441			kernel args too.
442	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
443	bttv.tuner=
444
445	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447			at a time.
448
449	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
451	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
452			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456			This option provides an override for these situations.
457
458	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460			trust validation.
461			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
462
463	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467			others).
468
469	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
471
472	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
474			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476			  a single hierarchy
477			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478			  subsystem
479			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
482
483	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
488	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489			Format: <string>
490			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
491			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
492
493	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494			Format: { "0" | "1" }
495			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
496			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497				any implied execute protection).
498			1 -- check protection requested by application.
499			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
500			Value can be changed at runtime via
501				/selinux/checkreqprot.
502
503	cio_ignore=	[S390]
504			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
505	clk_ignore_unused
506			[CLK]
507			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514			platform with proper driver support.  For more
515			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
516
517	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
518			[Deprecated]
519			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
520			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
521			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
522			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
524	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
525			Format: <string>
526			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527			with the name specified.
528			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529			the platform:
530			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531			[ACPI] acpi_pm
532			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
534			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
535				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536			[MIPS] MIPS
537			[PARISC] cr16
538			[S390] tod
539			[SH] SuperH
540			[SPARC64] tick
541			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
543	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544			[ARM,ARM64]
545			Format: <bool>
546			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549			systems.
550
551	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
553			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
554			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
555			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556			ones should be.
557			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558			or using the feature without checking anything
559			will still see it. This just prevents it from
560			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562			some critical bits.
563
564	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565			[ARM,X86,KNL]
566			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568			placement constraint by the physical address range of
569			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570			altogether. For more information, see
571			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
573	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
576			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577			a hypervisor.
578			Default: yes
579
580	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
581			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
582			allocations, by default set to 256K.
583
584	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
585			in an oops report.
586			Range: 0 - 8192
587			Default: 64
588
589	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
590			Format:
591			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
592
593	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
596	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
597			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
601	conmode=
602
603	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607		ttyS<n>[,options]
608		ttyUSB0[,options]
609			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
610			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
614
615			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
616			information.  See
617			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618			alternative.
619
620		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
625			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
627			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
629			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
633			the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
635		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
637
638                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640			console=brl,ttyS0
641		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
643	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644			seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645			disables the blank timer.
646
647	coredump_filter=
648			[KNL] Change the default value for
649			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
652	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
653			disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
655	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
656			disable the cpufreq sub-system
657
658	cpu_init_udelay=N
659			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
660			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
661			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
662			Default: 10000
663
664	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
665			Format:
666			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
667
668	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
669			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
670			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
671			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
672			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
673			is selected automatically. Check
674			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
675
676	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
677			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
678			in the running system. The syntax of range is
679			start-[end] where start and end are both
680			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
681			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
682
683	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
684			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
685			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
686			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
687			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
688			available.
689			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
690	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
691			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
692			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
693			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
694			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
695			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
696			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
697			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
698			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
699			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
700			for second kernel instead.
701			0: to disable low allocation.
702			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
703			or memory reserved is below 4G.
704
705	cryptomgr.notests
706                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
707
708	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
709			Format: <dma>
710
711	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
712			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
713
714	dasd=		[HW,NET]
715			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
716
717	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
718			(one device per port)
719			Format: <port#>,<type>
720			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
721
722	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
723			time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
724			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
725
726	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
727
728	debug_locks_verbose=
729			[KNL] verbose self-tests
730			Format=<0|1>
731			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
732			self-tests.
733			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
734			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
735			only useful to kernel developers.
736
737	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
738
739	no_debug_objects
740			[KNL] Disable object debugging
741
742	debug_guardpage_minorder=
743			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
744			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
745			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
746			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
747			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
748			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
749			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
750			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
751			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
752			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
753			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
754			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
755			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
756			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
757			bypassed) which are not detectable by
758			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
759			tracking down these problems.
760
761	debug_pagealloc=
762			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
763			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
764			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
765			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
766			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
767			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
768			on: enable the feature
769
770	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
771
772	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
773			Format: <area>[,<node>]
774			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
775
776	default_hugepagesz=
777			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
778			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
779			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
780			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
781			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
782			if not specified.
783
784	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
785			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
786
787	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
788			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
789			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
790			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
791			miss to occur.
792
793	disable=	[IPV6]
794			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
795
796	disable_radix	[PPC]
797			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
798
799	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
800			Format: <int>
801			The number of initial APIC ID for the
802			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
803			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
804			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
805			causing system reset or hang due to sending
806			INIT from AP to BSP.
807
808	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
809			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
810			to workaround buggy firmware.
811
812	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
813			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
814
815	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
816			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
817			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
818			entry later. This parameter disables that.
819
820	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
821			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
822			memory out of your available memory pool based on
823			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
824			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
825
826	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
827			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
828			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
829
830	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
831
832	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
833			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
834
835	dma_debug_entries=<number>
836			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
837			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
838			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
839			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
840			architectural default is too low.
841
842	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
843			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
844			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
845			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
846			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
847			driver later using sysfs.
848
849	drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
850			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
851			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
852			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
853			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
854			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
855			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
856			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
857			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
858			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
859			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
860			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
861			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
862			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
863			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
864			data set with no connector name will be used for
865			any connectors not explicitly specified.
866
867	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
868
869	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
870			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
871			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
872			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
873
874	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
875	module.dyndbg[="val"]
876			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
877			Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
878
879	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
880			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
881			information about the feature.
882
883	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
884			in some Intel CPUs.
885
886	module.async_probe [KNL]
887			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
888
889	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
890			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
891			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
892			which are not unmapped.
893
894	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
895
896			When used with no options, the early console is
897			determined by the stdout-path property in device
898			tree's chosen node.
899
900		cdns,<addr>[,options]
901			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
902			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
903			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
904			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
905			configured.
906
907		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
908		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
909		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
910		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
911		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
912			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
913			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
914			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
915			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
916			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
917			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
918			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
919			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
920
921		pl011,<addr>
922		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
923			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
924			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
925			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
926			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
927			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
928			the device registers.
929
930		meson,<addr>
931			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
932			port at the specified address. The serial port must
933			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
934			supported.
935
936		msm_serial,<addr>
937			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
938			port at the specified address. The serial port
939			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
940			yet supported.
941
942		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
943			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
944			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
945			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
946			yet supported.
947
948		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
949
950		s3c2410,<addr>
951		s3c2412,<addr>
952		s3c2440,<addr>
953		s3c6400,<addr>
954		s5pv210,<addr>
955		exynos4210,<addr>
956			Use early console provided by serial driver available
957			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
958			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
959			serial port must already be setup and configured.
960			Options are not yet supported.
961
962		lantiq,<addr>
963			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
964			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
965			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
966			yet supported.
967
968		lpuart,<addr>
969		lpuart32,<addr>
970			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
971			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
972			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
973			port must already be setup and configured.
974
975		ar3700_uart,<addr>
976			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
977			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
978			address. The serial port must already be setup
979			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
980
981	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
982			earlyprintk=vga
983			earlyprintk=efi
984			earlyprintk=sclp
985			earlyprintk=xen
986			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
987			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
988			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
989			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
990			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
991			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
992
993			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
994			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
995			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
996
997			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
998			takes over.
999
1000			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1001			be used at a time.
1002
1003			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1004			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1005			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1006			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1007				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1008			You can find the port for a given device in
1009			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1010				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1011
1012			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1013			very good.
1014
1015			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1016			the real console.
1017
1018			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1019
1020			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1021
1022	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1023			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1024			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1025			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1026			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1027			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1028			default: on.
1029
1030	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1031			ekgdboc=kbd
1032
1033			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1034			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1035
1036	edd=		[EDD]
1037			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1038
1039	efi=		[EFI]
1040			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1041			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1042			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1043			default.
1044			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1045			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1046			firmware implementations.
1047			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1048			debug: enable misc debug output
1049
1050	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1051			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1052			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1053			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1054			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1055
1056	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1057			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1058			updating original EFI memory map.
1059			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1060			from ss to ss+nn.
1061			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1062			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1063			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1064			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1065
1066			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1067			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1068			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1069			doesn't support it.
1070
1071	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1072			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1073			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1074			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1075			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1076
1077
1078	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1079			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1080
1081	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1082			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1083			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1084
1085	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1086			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1087			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1088			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1089
1090	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1091			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1092			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1093			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1094			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1095
1096	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1097			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1098			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1099			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1100
1101	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1102			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1103			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1104			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1105			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1106
1107	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1108			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1109			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1110			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1111			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1112			Default value is 0.
1113			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1114
1115	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1116			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1117			support.
1118
1119	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1120			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1121			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1122
1123	evm=		[EVM]
1124			Format: { "fix" }
1125			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1126			current integrity status.
1127
1128	failslab=
1129	fail_page_alloc=
1130	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1131			General fault injection mechanism.
1132			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1133			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1134
1135	floppy=		[HW]
1136			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1137
1138	force_pal_cache_flush
1139			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1140			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1141			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1142			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1143
1144	forcepae [X86-32]
1145			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1146			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1147			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1148			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1149			and may cause unknown problems.
1150
1151	ftrace=[tracer]
1152			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1153			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1154			boot debugging.
1155
1156	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1157			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1158			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1159			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1160			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1161			oops.
1162
1163	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1164			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1165			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1166			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1167			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1168			tracing directory.
1169
1170	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1171			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1172			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1173			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1174			tracing directory.
1175
1176	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1177			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1178			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1179			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1180			that can be changed at run time by the
1181			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1182
1183	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1184			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1185			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1186			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1187			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1188
1189	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1190			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1191			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1192			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1193			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1194
1195	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1196			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1197			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1198			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1199			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1200
1201	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1202
1203	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1204			Format: off | on
1205			default: on
1206
1207	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1208			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1209			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1210			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1211			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1212
1213	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1214			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1215			android emulator
1216
1217	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1218			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1219			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1220			GPT to be used instead.
1221
1222	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1223			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1224			Format: 0 | 1
1225			Default: 0
1226	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1227			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1228			Format: 0 | 1
1229			Default: 0
1230	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1231			Format: 0 | 1
1232			Default: 0
1233	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1234			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1235			Default: 1024
1236	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1237			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1238			Default: 1024
1239
1240	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1241			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1242			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1243
1244	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1245			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1246			backtraces on all cpus.
1247			Format: <integer>
1248
1249	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1250			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1251			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1252			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1253
1254	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1255
1256	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1257			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1258
1259	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1260			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1261			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1262			logic will be disabled.
1263
1264	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1265			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1266			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1267			size on bigger boxes.
1268
1269	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1270			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1271			Default: "on"
1272
1273	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1274			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1275
1276	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1277
1278	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1279			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1280				verbose }
1281			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1282			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1283				VIA, nVidia)
1284			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1285
1286	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1287			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1288
1289	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1290	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1291			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1292			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1293			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1294			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1295			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1296
1297	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1298			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1299	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1300			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1301			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1302
1303	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1304			        hardware thread id mappings.
1305				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1306
1307	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1308			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1309			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1310			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1311			the real console.
1312
1313	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1314			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1315			     registered from board initialization code.
1316			     Format:
1317			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1318
1319	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1320	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1321			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1322			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1323			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1324	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1325	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1326			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1327			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1328	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1329	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1330	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1331			     for the AUX port
1332	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1333			     controller
1334	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1335			     controllers
1336	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1337	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1338			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1339			     transitions, or never reset
1340			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1341			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1342			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1343			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1344			architectures force reset to be always executed
1345	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1346	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1347
1348	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1349
1350	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1351			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1352			hardware.
1353	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1354			does not match list of supported models.
1355	i8k.power_status
1356			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1357			(disabled by default)
1358	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1359			capability is set.
1360
1361	i915.invert_brightness=
1362			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1363			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1364			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1365			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1366			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1367			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1368			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1369			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1370			value switches the backlight off.
1371			-1 -- never invert brightness
1372			 0 -- machine default
1373			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1374
1375	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1376			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1377
1378	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1379			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1380			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1381			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1382			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1383
1384	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1385			Format: <int>
1386			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1387			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1388			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1389			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1390			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1391			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1392			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1393			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1394			was 0x3.
1395
1396	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1397			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1398
1399	idle=		[X86]
1400			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1401			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1402			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1403			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1404			Not recommended.
1405			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1406			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1407			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1408
1409	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1410			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1411			Default: strict
1412
1413			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1414			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1415			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1416			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1417			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1418			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1419			encoding mode.
1420
1421			Available settings are as follows:
1422			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1423				supported by the FPU
1424			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1425				by the FPU
1426			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1427				by the FPU
1428			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1429				supported by the FPU
1430
1431			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1432			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1433			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1434			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1435			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1436			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1437			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1438			MIPS64 CPUs.
1439
1440			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1441			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1442			except where unsupported by hardware.
1443
1444	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1445			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1446			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1447			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1448			could change it dynamically, usually by
1449			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1450
1451	ignore_rlimit_data
1452			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1453			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1454			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1455
1456	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1457			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1458
1459	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1460			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1461			default: "enforce"
1462
1463	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1464			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1465			owned by uid=0.
1466
1467	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1468			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1469			measurements, instead of host native format.
1470
1471	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1472			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1473				   | sha512 | ... }
1474			default: "sha1"
1475
1476			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1477			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1478
1479	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1480			The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1481			setup.  Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1482			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1483			opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1484			effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1485			Format: "tcb"
1486
1487	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1488			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1489			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1490			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1491			opened for read by uid=0.
1492
1493	ima_template=   [IMA]
1494			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1495			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1496			Default: "ima-ng"
1497
1498	ima_template_fmt=
1499	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1500			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1501
1502	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1503			Format: <min_file_size>
1504			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1505			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1506
1507			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1508			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1509			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1510
1511	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1512			Format: <bufsize>
1513			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1514
1515			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1516			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1517			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1518
1519	init=		[KNL]
1520			Format: <full_path>
1521			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1522			process.
1523
1524	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1525			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1526			startup.
1527
1528	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1529			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1530			modules and initcalls.
1531
1532	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1533
1534	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1535			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1536			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1537			override in debugfs after boot.
1538
1539	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1540			Format: <irq>
1541
1542	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1543
1544	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1545			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1546			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1547			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1548
1549	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1550		on
1551			Enable intel iommu driver.
1552		off
1553			Disable intel iommu driver.
1554		igfx_off [Default Off]
1555			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1556			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1557			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1558			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1559			DMA.
1560		forcedac [x86_64]
1561			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1562			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1563			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1564			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1565			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1566			then look in the higher range.
1567		strict [Default Off]
1568			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1569			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1570			to batching them for performance.
1571		sp_off [Default Off]
1572			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1573			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1574			not be supported.
1575		ecs_off [Default Off]
1576			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1577			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1578			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1579			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1580			on hardware which claims to support them.
1581		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1582			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1583			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1584			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1585			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1586			mapping is enabled.
1587			Note that using this option lowers the security
1588			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1589			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1590
1591	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1592			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1593			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1594
1595	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1596		       disable
1597		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1598		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1599		       passive
1600			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1601			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1602			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1603			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1604			 feature.
1605		       force
1606			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1607			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1608			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1609			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1610			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1611			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1612			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1613			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1614		       no_hwp
1615		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1616			 if available.
1617		hwp_only
1618			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1619			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1620		support_acpi_ppc
1621			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1622			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1623			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1624			then this feature is turned on by default.
1625		per_cpu_perf_limits
1626			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1627			cpufreq sysfs interface
1628
1629	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1630			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1631			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1632			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1633			no_x2apic_optout
1634				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1635			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1636
1637	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1638		strict	regions from userspace.
1639		relaxed
1640
1641	iommu=		[x86]
1642		off
1643		force
1644		noforce
1645		biomerge
1646		panic
1647		nopanic
1648		merge
1649		nomerge
1650		forcesac
1651		soft
1652		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1653		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1654			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1655
1656	iommu.passthrough=
1657			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1658			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1659			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1660			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1661			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1662
1663	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1664			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1665			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1666
1667	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1668		0x80
1669			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1670		0xed
1671			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1672		udelay
1673			Simple two microseconds delay
1674		none
1675			No delay
1676
1677	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1678			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1679
1680	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1681			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1682
1683	irqfixup	[HW]
1684			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1685			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1686			firmware running.
1687
1688	irqpoll		[HW]
1689			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1690			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1691			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1692			firmware running.
1693
1694	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1695			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1696
1697	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1698			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1699
1700			This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1701			to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1702			algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1703			"isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1704			<cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1705			"number of CPUs in system - 1".
1706
1707			This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1708			alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1709			tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1710			suboptimal load balancer performance.
1711
1712	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1713
1714	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1715			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1716			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1717			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1718			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1719				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1720
1721	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1722			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1723			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1724			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1725			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1726				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1727
1728	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1729			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1730			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1731			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1732			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1733				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1734
1735	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1736			See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1737
1738	nokaslr		[KNL]
1739			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1740			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1741			Layout Randomization).
1742
1743	kasan_multi_shot
1744			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1745			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1746			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1747			invalid access.
1748
1749	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1750
1751	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1752			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1753			This parameter
1754			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1755			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1756			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1757			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1758			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1759			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1760			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1761			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1762			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1763			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1764			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1765			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1766			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1767			zone if it does not.
1768
1769			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1770			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1771			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1772			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1773			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1774			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1775			time.
1776
1777	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1778			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1779			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1780			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1781			optional and is the number seconds in between
1782			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1783			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1784			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1785			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1786			the kernel debugger.
1787
1788	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1789			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1790			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1791			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1792			 keyboard only format: kbd
1793			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1794			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1795			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1796			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1797
1798	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1799			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1800
1801	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1802			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1803			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1804
1805	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1806			Valid arguments: on, off
1807			Default: on
1808			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1809			the default is off.
1810
1811	kmemcheck=	[X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1812			Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1813			kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1814			kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1815			kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1816			Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1817
1818	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1819			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1820
1821	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1822			KVM MMU at runtime.
1823			Default is 0 (off)
1824
1825	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1826			Default is 1 (enabled)
1827
1828	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1829			for all guests.
1830			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1831
1832	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1833			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1834			Default is 1 (enabled)
1835
1836	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1837			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1838			Default is 0 (disabled)
1839
1840	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1841			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1842			Default is 1 (enabled)
1843
1844	kvm-intel.nested=
1845			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1846			Default is 0 (disabled)
1847
1848	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1849			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1850			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1851			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1852
1853	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1854			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1855			Default is 1 (enabled)
1856
1857	l2cr=		[PPC]
1858
1859	l3cr=		[PPC]
1860
1861	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1862			disabled it.
1863
1864	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1865			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1866			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1867
1868	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1869			in C2 power state.
1870
1871	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1872			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1873			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1874			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1875			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1876			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1877			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1878
1879	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1880			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1881			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1882
1883	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1884			when set.
1885			Format: <int>
1886
1887	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1888			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1889			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1890			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1891			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1892			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1893			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1894			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1895
1896			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1897			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1898			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1899			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1900			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1901			host link and device attached to it.
1902
1903			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1904			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1905			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1906			The following configurations can be forced.
1907
1908			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1909			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1910
1911			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1912
1913			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1914			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1915			  allowed.
1916
1917			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1918
1919			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1920
1921			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1922                          and both resets.
1923
1924			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1925			  hot-unplug link recovery
1926
1927			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1928
1929			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1930
1931			* disable: Disable this device.
1932
1933			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1934			the same attribute, the last one is used.
1935
1936	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1937
1938	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1939			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1940
1941	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
1942			Format: <integer>
1943
1944	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
1945			Format: <integer>
1946
1947	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
1948			Format: <integer>
1949
1950	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
1951			Format: <integer>
1952
1953	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1954			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1955			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1956			number of online CPUs.
1957
1958	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1959			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1960
1961	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1962			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1963
1964	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1965			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1966			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1967
1968	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1969			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
1970			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1971			mode during the locktorture test.
1972
1973	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1974			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
1975			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1976
1977	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1978			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1979
1980	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1981			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1982			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1983			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1984			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1985			transition abruptly to and from idle.
1986
1987	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1988			Start locktorture running at boot time.
1989
1990	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1991			Specify the locking implementation to test.
1992
1993	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1994			Enable additional printk() statements.
1995
1996	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1997			Format: <irq>
1998
1999	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2000			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2001			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2002			loglevels are defined as follows:
2003
2004			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2005			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2006			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2007			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2008			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2009			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2010			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2011			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2012
2013	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2014			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2015			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2016			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2017			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2018			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2019			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2020
2021	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2022			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2023			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2024			kernel boot problems.
2025
2026	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2027	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2028	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2029	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2030				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2031				attached printers to be reset. Using
2032				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2033				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2034				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2035				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2036				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2037				port specification list means that device IDs
2038				from each port should be examined, to see if
2039				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2040				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2041				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2042
2043	lpj=n		[KNL]
2044			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2045			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2046			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2047			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2048			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2049			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2050			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2051			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2052			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2053			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2054			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2055			hardware.
2056
2057	ltpc=		[NET]
2058			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2059
2060	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2061			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2062			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2063
2064	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2065			 yeeloong laptop.
2066			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2067
2068	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2069			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2070
2071	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2072			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2073			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2074			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2075			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2076			only takes effect during system bootup.
2077			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2078			which also disables the IO APIC.
2079
2080	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2081	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2082			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2083			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2084			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2085			/dev/loop-control interface.
2086
2087	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2088
2089	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2090
2091	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2092			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2093
2094	mdacon=		[MDA]
2095			Format: <first>,<last>
2096			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2097
2098	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2099			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2100			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2101			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2102			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2103			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2104			belonging to unused RAM.
2105
2106	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2107			memory.
2108
2109	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2110			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2111			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2112
2113        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2114			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2115			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2116			set according to the
2117			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2118			option.
2119			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2120
2121	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2122			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2123			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2124			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2125			option description.
2126
2127	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2128			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2129			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2130
2131	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2132			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2133			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2134
2135	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2136			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2137			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2138			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2139			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2140			         or
2141			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2142
2143	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2144			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2145			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2146			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2147			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2148
2149	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2150			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2151			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2152			Setting this option will scan the memory
2153			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2154			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2155			from using the memory being corrupted.
2156			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2157			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2158			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2159			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2160
2161	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2162			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2163			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2164			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2165			corruption in more or less memory.
2166
2167	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2168			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2169			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2170			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2171
2172	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2173			Format: <integer>
2174			default : 0 <disable>
2175			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2176			performed. Each pass selects another test
2177			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2178			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2179			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2180			regions that are detected.
2181
2182	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2183			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2184			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2185			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2186			See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2187
2188	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2189			See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2190
2191	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2192			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2193			platforms.
2194
2195	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2196			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2197			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2198			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2199
2200	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2201
2202	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2203			physical address is ignored.
2204
2205	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2206			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2207			Default: "0tb"
2208			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2209			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2210			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2211			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2212			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2213			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2214			unconfigured.
2215			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2216			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2217			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2218			VGA shield.
2219			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2220			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2221			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2222			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2223			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2224			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2225
2226	mminit_loglevel=
2227			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2228			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2229			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2230			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2231			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2232			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2233
2234	module.sig_enforce
2235			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2236			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2237			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2238			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2239
2240	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2241			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2242
2243	mousedev.tap_time=
2244			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2245			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2246			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2247			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2248			Format: <msecs>
2249	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2250			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2251	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2252			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2253
2254	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2255			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2256			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2257			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2258			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2259			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2260			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2261			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2262			is not too small.
2263
2264	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2265			of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2266
2267	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2268			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2269
2270	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2271			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2272
2273	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2274			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2275
2276	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2277			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2278			at a time.
2279
2280	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2281
2282			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2283
2284			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2285				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2286			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2287				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2288				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2289
2290	mtdset=		[ARM]
2291			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2292
2293			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2294
2295	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2296			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2297			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2298
2299	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2300			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2301			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2302
2303	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2304			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2305			Default is 1.
2306			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2307			using up MTRRs.
2308
2309	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2310			Format: <integer>
2311			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2312			Default : 1
2313			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2314			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2315
2316	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2317
2318	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2319			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2320			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2321			something different and driver-specific.
2322			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2323			file if at all.
2324
2325	nf_conntrack.acct=
2326			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2327			0 to disable accounting
2328			1 to enable accounting
2329			Default value is 0.
2330
2331	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2332			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2333
2334	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2335			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2336
2337	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2338			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2339
2340	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2341			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2342			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2343			requests.
2344
2345	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2346			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2347			channel should listen.
2348
2349	nfs.cache_getent=
2350			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2351			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2352
2353	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2354			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2355			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2356
2357	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2358			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2359			entries.
2360
2361	nfs.enable_ino64=
2362			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2363			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2364			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2365			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2366			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2367
2368	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2369			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2370			slots the client will assign to the callback
2371			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2372			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2373			a particular server.
2374
2375	nfs.max_session_slots=
2376			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2377			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2378			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2379			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2380			Note that there is little point in setting this
2381			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2382
2383	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2384			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2385			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2386			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2387			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2388			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2389			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2390			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2391			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2392			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2393			back to using the idmapper.
2394			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2395	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2396			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2397			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2398			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2399			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2400
2401	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2402			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2403			information in exchange_id requests.
2404			If zero, no implementation identification information
2405			will be sent.
2406			The default is to send the implementation identification
2407			information.
2408
2409	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2410			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2411			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2412			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2413			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2414			after the locks are lost.
2415			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2416			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2417			parameter to '1'.
2418			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2419			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2420
2421	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2422			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2423			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2424
2425			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2426			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2427			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2428			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2429
2430	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2431			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2432			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2433			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2434			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2435			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2436
2437	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2438			when a NMI is triggered.
2439			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2440
2441	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2442			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2443			Valid num: 0 or 1
2444			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2445			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2446			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2447			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2448			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2449			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2450			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2451			need the box quickly up again.
2452
2453	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2454			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2455			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2456			waits 4 seconds.
2457
2458	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2459			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2460			is present.
2461
2462	no_console_suspend
2463			[HW] Never suspend the console
2464			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2465			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2466			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2467			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2468			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2469			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2470			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2471			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2472			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2473			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2474			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2475			turn on/off it dynamically.
2476
2477	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2478			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2479			but will impact performance.
2480
2481	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2482
2483	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2484			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2485
2486	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2487
2488	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2489			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2490
2491	nocache		[ARM]
2492
2493	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2494
2495	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2496
2497	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2498
2499	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2500
2501	noexec		[IA-64]
2502
2503	noexec		[X86]
2504			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2505			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2506			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2507
2508	nosmap		[X86]
2509			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2510			even if it is supported by processor.
2511
2512	nosmep		[X86]
2513			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2514			even if it is supported by processor.
2515
2516	noexec32	[X86-64]
2517			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2518			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2519				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2520			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2521				read implies executable mappings
2522
2523	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2524
2525	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2526			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2527			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2528
2529	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2530
2531	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2532			Equivalent to smt=1.
2533
2534	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2535			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2536			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2537
2538	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2539			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2540			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2541			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2542			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2543			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2544
2545	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2546			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2547			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2548			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2549			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2550			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2551			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2552
2553	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2554			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2555			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2556
2557	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2558			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2559			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2560
2561	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2562			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2563			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2564			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2565			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2566			real-time systems.
2567
2568	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2569
2570	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2571			Valid arguments: on, off
2572			Default: on
2573
2574	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
2575			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2576			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2577			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2578			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2579			the range to maintain the timekeeping.
2580			The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2581			rcu_nocbs= set.
2582
2583	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2584
2585	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2586			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2587
2588	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2589			broken timer IRQ sources.
2590
2591	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2592
2593	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2594			initial RAM disk.
2595
2596	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2597			remapping.
2598			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2599
2600	nointroute	[IA-64]
2601
2602	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2603
2604	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2605
2606	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2607
2608	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2609			fault handling.
2610
2611	no-vmw-sched-clock
2612			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2613			clock and use the default one.
2614
2615	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2616			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2617			behaviour
2618
2619	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2620
2621	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2622
2623	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2624			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2625
2626	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2627
2628	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2629
2630	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2631			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2632
2633	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2634			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2635			irq.
2636
2637	nomodule	Disable module load
2638
2639	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2640			pagetables) support.
2641
2642	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2643			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2644
2645	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2646
2647	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2648			with UP alternatives
2649
2650	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2651			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2652			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2653			available to user space applications.
2654
2655	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2656			space.
2657
2658	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2659			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2660			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2661
2662	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2663
2664	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2665
2666	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2667			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2668
2669	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2670
2671	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2672
2673	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2674
2675	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2676                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2677
2678	nowb		[ARM]
2679
2680	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2681
2682	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2683			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2684			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2685			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2686			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2687			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2688			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2689			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2690			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2691			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2692			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2693			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2694			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2695
2696	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2697			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2698			SAL PALO.
2699
2700	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2701			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2702			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2703			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2704			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2705			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2706			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2707			hot plugging.
2708
2709	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2710
2711	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2712			Allowed values are enable and disable
2713
2714	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2715			one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2716			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2717			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2718
2719	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2720			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2721			info.
2722
2723	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2724			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2725			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2726			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2727			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2728			interrupts *may* be lost!
2729
2730	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2731			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2732			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2733			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2734
2735	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2736			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2737
2738	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2739			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2740			userland or if you want common events.
2741			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2742			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2743				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2744				CPU specific event set.
2745			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2746				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2747				for generic hr timer mode)
2748
2749	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2750			process, but there is a small probability of
2751			deadlocking the machine.
2752			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2753			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2754
2755	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2756			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2757
2758	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2759			Storage of the information about who allocated
2760			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2761			we can turn it on.
2762			on: enable the feature
2763
2764	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2765			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2766			off: turn off poisoning
2767			on: turn on poisoning
2768
2769	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2770			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2771			timeout = 0: wait forever
2772			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2773			Format: <timeout>
2774
2775	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2776			on a WARN().
2777
2778	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2779			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2780			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2781			succeeds in any situation.
2782			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2783			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2784			kernel more unstable.
2785
2786	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2787			connected to, default is 0.
2788			Format: <parport#>
2789	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2790			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2791			Format: <mode>
2792
2793	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2794			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2795			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2796			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2797			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2798			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2799			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2800			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2801			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2802			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2803			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2804			are specified on the command line, starting
2805			with parport0.
2806
2807	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2808			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2809			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2810			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2811			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2812			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2813			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2814
2815	pause_on_oops=
2816			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2817			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2818			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2819
2820	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2821
2822	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2823			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2824			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2825
2826	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2827		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2828			        changes anything
2829		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2830		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2831				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2832				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2833		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2834				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2835				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2836				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2837		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2838				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2839				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2840		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2841				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2842				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2843				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2844				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2845				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2846				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2847		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2848				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2849				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2850		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2851				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2852		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2853				Configuration
2854		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2855				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2856				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2857		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2858				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2859				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2860		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2861				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2862				should never be necessary.
2863		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2864				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2865				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2866				when the system masks IRQs.
2867		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2868				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2869				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2870				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2871		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2872				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2873				on several machines and they hang the machine
2874				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2875				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2876				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2877				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2878				motherboard.
2879		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2880				Use with caution as certain devices share
2881				address decoders between ROMs and other
2882				resources.
2883		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2884				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2885				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2886		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2887				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2888		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2889				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2890				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2891				this way.
2892		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
2893				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2894				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2895				F0000h-100000h range.
2896		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2897				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2898				secondary buses and you want to tell it
2899				explicitly which ones they are.
2900		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2901				numbers ourselves, overriding
2902				whatever the firmware may have done.
2903		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2904				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2905				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2906				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2907				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2908				IRQ routing is enabled.
2909		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2910				or for PCI scanning.
2911		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2912				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2913				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
2914				please report a bug.
2915		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2916			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2917		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2918				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2919				so this option is a temporary workaround
2920				for broken drivers that don't call it.
2921		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2922				handle more pci cards
2923		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2924				This might help on some broken boards which
2925				machine check when some devices' config space
2926				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2927				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2928		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2929				This sorting is done to get a device
2930				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2931		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2932		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2933				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2934		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2935				supported by all devices below the root complex.
2936		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2937				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2938				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2939				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2940				or bus can support) for best performance.
2941		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2942				every device is guaranteed to support. This
2943				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2944				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2945				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
2946				that hot-added devices will work.
2947		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2948				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2949				The default value is 256 bytes.
2950		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2951				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2952				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
2953		resource_alignment=
2954				Format:
2955				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2956				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2957						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
2958				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2959				aligned memory resources.
2960				If <order of align> is not specified,
2961				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2962				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2963				windows need to be expanded.
2964				To specify the alignment for several
2965				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2966				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2967				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
2968		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2969				end-to-end CRC checking).
2970				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2971				the default.
2972				off: Turn ECRC off
2973				on: Turn ECRC on.
2974		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2975				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2976				Default size is 256 bytes.
2977		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2978				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2979				Default size is 2 megabytes.
2980		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2981				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2982				Default is 1.
2983		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2984				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2985				accommodate resources required by all child
2986				devices.
2987				off: Turn realloc off
2988				on: Turn realloc on
2989		realloc		same as realloc=on
2990		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
2991		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
2992				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2993				port.
2994
2995	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2996			Management.
2997		off	Disable ASPM.
2998		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2999			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3000
3001	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3002		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3003			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3004
3005	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3006		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3007			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3008			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3009		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3010			unconditionally.
3011		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3012			ports driver.
3013
3014	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3015		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3016		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3017
3018	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3019		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3020			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3021
3022	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3023
3024	pd_ignore_unused
3025			[PM]
3026			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3027			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3028			for debug and development, but should not be
3029			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3030
3031	pd.		[PARIDE]
3032			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3033
3034	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3035			boot time.
3036			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3037			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3038
3039	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3040			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3041			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3042			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3043			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3044			and performance comparison.
3045
3046	pf.		[PARIDE]
3047			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3048
3049	pg.		[PARIDE]
3050			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3051
3052	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3053			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3054
3055	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3056			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3057			See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3058
3059	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3060			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3061			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3062
3063	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3064			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3065			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3066			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3067			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3068			possible settings and some assignment information.
3069
3070	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3071			{ off }
3072
3073	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3074			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3075
3076	pnp_reserve_irq=
3077			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3078
3079	pnp_reserve_dma=
3080			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3081
3082	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3083			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3084
3085	pnp_reserve_mem=
3086			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3087			autoconfiguration.
3088			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3089
3090	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3091			Default is 21.
3092			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3093			may be specified.
3094			Format: <port>,<port>....
3095
3096	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3097			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3098			platform machine description specific power_save
3099			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3100			execution priority.
3101
3102	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3103			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3104			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3105			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3106			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3107
3108	print-fatal-signals=
3109			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3110
3111			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3112			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3113			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3114			coredump - etc.
3115
3116			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3117			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3118
3119			default: off.
3120
3121	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3122			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3123			panics
3124			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3125			default: disabled
3126
3127	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3128			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3129			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3130			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3131			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3132			Default: ratelimit
3133
3134	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3135			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3136
3137	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3138			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3139			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3140
3141	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3142			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3143			instead using the legacy FADT method
3144
3145	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3146			Format: [schedule,]<number>
3147			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3148			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3149				statistical time based profiling.
3150			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3151				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3152			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3153
3154	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3155			before loading.
3156			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3157
3158	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3159			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3160	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3161			per second.
3162	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3163			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3164			(0 = never).
3165	psmouse.resolution=
3166			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3167	psmouse.smartscroll=
3168			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3169			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3170
3171	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3172
3173	pt.		[PARIDE]
3174			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3175
3176	pty.legacy_count=
3177			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3178			default number.
3179
3180	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3181
3182	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3183
3184	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3185			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3186
3187	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3188			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3189
3190	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3191
3192		cec_disable	[X86]
3193				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3194				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3195
3196	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3197			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3198
3199			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3200			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3201			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3202			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3203			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3204			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3205			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3206			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3207			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3208			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3209
3210	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3211			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3212			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3213			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3214			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3215			This improves the real-time response for the
3216			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3217			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3218			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3219			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3220
3221	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3222			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3223			process in one batch.
3224
3225	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3226			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3227			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3228			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3229
3230	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3231			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3232			RCU grace-period cleanup.  This only has effect
3233			when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3234
3235	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3236			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3237			RCU grace-period initialization.  This only has
3238			effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3239			is set.
3240
3241	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3242			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3243			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3244			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3245			the rcu_node combining tree.  This only has effect
3246			when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
3247
3248	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3249			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3250			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3251			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3252			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3253
3254	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3255			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3256			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3257			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3258			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3259			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3260			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3261
3262	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3263			Set required age in jiffies for a
3264			given grace period before RCU starts
3265			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3266			rcu_note_context_switch().
3267
3268	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3269			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3270			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3271			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3272			and maximum value is HZ.
3273
3274	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3275			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3276			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3277			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3278
3279	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3280			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3281			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3282			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3283			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3284			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3285			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3286			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3287			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3288			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3289
3290	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3291			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3292			defaults to the square root of the number of
3293			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3294			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3295			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3296
3297	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3298			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3299			batch limiting is disabled.
3300
3301	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3302			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3303			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3304
3305	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3306			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3307			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3308
3309	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3310			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3311			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3312			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3313			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3314
3315	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3316			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3317			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3318			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3319			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3320			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3321
3322	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3323			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3324			grace-period primitives.
3325
3326	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3327			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3328			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3329			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3330			interference.
3331
3332	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3333			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3334			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3335			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3336			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3337			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3338			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3339			a single reader.
3340
3341	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3342			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3343			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3344			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3345
3346	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3347			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3348
3349	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3350			Shut the system down after performance tests
3351			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3352			testing.
3353
3354	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3355			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3356
3357	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3358			Enable additional printk() statements.
3359
3360	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3361			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3362			callback-flood tests.
3363
3364	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3365			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3366			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3367			test.
3368
3369	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3370			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3371			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3372			disable callback-flood testing.
3373
3374	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3375			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3376			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3377
3378	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3379			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3380			in microseconds.
3381
3382	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3383			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3384			in microseconds.
3385
3386	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3387			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3388			in seconds.
3389
3390	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3391			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3392			primitives, if available.
3393
3394	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3395			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3396
3397	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3398			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3399			update-side primitives, if available.
3400
3401	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3402			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3403			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3404			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3405			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3406			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3407			they are all non-zero.
3408
3409	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3410			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3411
3412	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3413			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3414			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3415			test, hence the "fake".
3416
3417	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3418			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3419			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3420			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3421			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3422			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3423
3424	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3425			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3426
3427	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3428			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3429
3430	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3431			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3432			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3433
3434	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3435			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3436			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3437			during the rcutorture test.
3438
3439	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3440			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3441			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3442
3443	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3444			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3445			warnings, zero to disable.
3446
3447	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3448			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3449
3450	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3451			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3452
3453	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3454			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3455			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3456			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3457			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3458
3459	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3460			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3461			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3462			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3463
3464	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3465			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3466
3467	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3468			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3469
3470	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3471			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3472			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3473
3474	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3475			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3476
3477	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3478			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3479
3480	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3481			Enable additional printk() statements.
3482
3483	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3484			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3485
3486	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3487			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3488
3489	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3490			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3491			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3492			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3493			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3494			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3495			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3496
3497	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3498			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3499			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3500			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3501			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3502			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3503			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3504			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3505			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3506
3507	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3508			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3509			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3510			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3511			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3512
3513	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3514			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3515			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3516			to zero.
3517
3518	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3519			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3520
3521	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3522			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3523
3524	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3525			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3526
3527	rdinit=		[KNL]
3528			Format: <full_path>
3529			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3530			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3531
3532	reboot=		[KNL]
3533			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3534				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3535				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3536				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3537				[[,]f[orce]
3538			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3539			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3540			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3541			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3542					to be used for rebooting.
3543
3544	relax_domain_level=
3545			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3546			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3547
3548	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3549
3550	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3551			Format: nn[KMG]
3552			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3553			address space.
3554
3555	reservelow=	[X86]
3556			Format: nn[K]
3557			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3558			the bottom of the address space.
3559
3560	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3561			during initialization.
3562
3563	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3564			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3565			Format:
3566			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3567
3568	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3569			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3570			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3571			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3572			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3573
3574	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3575			read the resume files
3576
3577	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3578			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3579			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3580
3581	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3582		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3583				present during boot.
3584		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3585		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3586		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3587				(that will set all pages holding image data
3588				during restoration read-only).
3589
3590	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3591
3592	rfkill.default_state=
3593		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3594			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3595		1	Unblocked.
3596
3597	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3598		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3599		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3600			blocked and the previous configuration.
3601		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3602			blocked and everything unblocked.
3603
3604	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3605			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3606
3607	ring3mwait=disable
3608			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3609			CPUs.
3610
3611	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3612
3613	rodata=		[KNL]
3614		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3615		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3616
3617	rockchip.usb_uart
3618			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3619			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3620			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3621			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3622
3623	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3624			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3625
3626	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3627			mount the root filesystem
3628
3629	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3630
3631	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3632
3633	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3634			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3635			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3636
3637	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3638			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3639			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3640			managed by CMA.
3641
3642	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3643
3644	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3645
3646	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3647			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3648		strict
3649			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3650			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3651			which is faster.
3652
3653	sa1100ir	[NET]
3654			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3655
3656	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3657
3658	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3659
3660	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3661			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3662			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3663			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3664
3665	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3666			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3667			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3668			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3669			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3670			1 -- enable.
3671			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3672			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3673
3674	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3675			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3676			security module asking for security registration will be
3677			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3678			as if no module has been chosen.
3679
3680	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3681			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3682			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3683			0 -- disable.
3684			1 -- enable.
3685			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3686			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3687			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3688
3689	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3690			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3691			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3692			0 -- disable.
3693			1 -- enable.
3694			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3695
3696	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3697
3698	shapers=	[NET]
3699			Maximal number of shapers.
3700
3701	simeth=		[IA-64]
3702	simscsi=
3703
3704	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3705
3706	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3707			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3708			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3709			allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3710			merging on their own.
3711			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3712
3713	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3714			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3715			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3716			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3717			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3718
3719	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3720			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3721			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3722			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3723			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3724			last alloc / free. For more information see
3725			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3726
3727	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3728			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3729			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3730			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3731			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3732			directories and files being created under
3733			/sys/kernel/slub.
3734
3735	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3736			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3737			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3738			fragmentation. For more information see
3739			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3740
3741	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3742			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3743			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3744			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3745			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3746			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3747			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3748			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3749
3750	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3751			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3752			lower than slub_max_order.
3753			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3754
3755	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3756			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3757			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3758
3759	smart2=		[HW]
3760			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3761
3762	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3763	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3764	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3765	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3766	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3767	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3768	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3769				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3770				1: Fast pin select (default)
3771				2: ATC IRMode
3772
3773	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3774			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3775			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3776			actual hardware limit.
3777			Format: <integer>
3778			Default: -1 (no limit)
3779
3780	softlockup_panic=
3781			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3782			Format: <integer>
3783
3784	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3785			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3786			backtraces on all cpus.
3787			Format: <integer>
3788
3789	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3790			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3791
3792	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3793	spia_fio_base=
3794	spia_pedr=
3795	spia_peddr=
3796
3797	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3798			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3799			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3800			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3801			grace period will be considered for automatic
3802			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
3803			expediting.
3804
3805	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
3806			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3807
3808	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3809			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3810			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3811			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3812			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3813			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3814			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3815
3816	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
3817			Format: <num>
3818			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3819			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3820			as the initial boot-console.
3821			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3822
3823	sti_font=	[HW]
3824			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3825
3826	stifb=		[HW]
3827			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3828
3829	sunrpc.min_resvport=
3830	sunrpc.max_resvport=
3831			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3832			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3833			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3834			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3835			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3836			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3837			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3838			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3839			maximum port values.
3840
3841	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3842			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3843			Limit the number of requests that the server will
3844			process in parallel from a single connection.
3845			The default value is 0 (no limit).
3846
3847	sunrpc.pool_mode=
3848			[NFS]
3849			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3850			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
3851			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3852			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3853			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3854			NFS server is running.
3855
3856			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
3857				    automatically using heuristics
3858			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
3859			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
3860			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3861				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
3862
3863	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3864	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3865			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3866			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3867			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3868			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3869			improve throughput, but will also increase the
3870			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3871
3872	suspend.pm_test_delay=
3873			[SUSPEND]
3874			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3875			mode before resuming the system (see
3876			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3877			is set. Default value is 5.
3878
3879	swapaccount=[0|1]
3880			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3881			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3882			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
3883
3884	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3885			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
3886			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3887			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3888			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
3889			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
3890
3891	switches=	[HW,M68k]
3892
3893	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3894			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3895			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3896			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3897			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3898			in older udev will not work anymore.
3899			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3900			the kernel configuration.
3901
3902	sysrq_always_enabled
3903			[KNL]
3904			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3905			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3906			Useful for debugging.
3907
3908	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3909			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3910			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3911			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3912			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3913			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3914
3915	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
3916
3917	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
3918			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
3919			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3920			as the system sleep state during system startup with
3921			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3922			The system is woken from this state using a
3923			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
3924
3925	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3926			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3927
3928	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
3929			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3930			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3931
3932	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
3933			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
3934			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
3935
3936	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
3937			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3938			critical and hot trip points.
3939
3940	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
3941			1: disable ACPI thermal control
3942
3943	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
3944			-1: disable all passive trip points
3945			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3946			value
3947
3948	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
3949			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3950			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3951			0: no polling (default)
3952
3953	threadirqs	[KNL]
3954			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
3955			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
3956
3957	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
3958			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3959
3960	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3961			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3962			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3963
3964	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3965			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
3966			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3967			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
3968
3969	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3970			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3971			to the hypervisor.
3972
3973	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3974			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3975			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3976			kernel based on different criteria.
3977
3978	topology=	[S390]
3979			Format: {off | on}
3980			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
3981			topology information if the hardware supports this.
3982			The scheduler will make use of this information and
3983			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
3984			Default is on.
3985
3986	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3987			Format: {off}
3988			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3989			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3990			LPAR.
3991
3992	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
3993
3994	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3995			Format: integer pcr id
3996			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3997			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3998			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3999			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4000			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4001			are saved.
4002
4003	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4004			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4005
4006	trace_event=[event-list]
4007			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4008			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4009			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4010			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4011
4012	trace_options=[option-list]
4013			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4014			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4015			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4016			to echo the option name into
4017
4018			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4019
4020			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4021			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4022
4023			      trace_options=stacktrace
4024
4025			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4026			section.
4027
4028	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4029			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4030			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4031			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4032			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4033			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4034
4035			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4036			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4037			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4038			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4039
4040			** CAUTION **
4041
4042			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4043			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4044			the system to live lock.
4045
4046	traceoff_on_warning
4047			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4048			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4049			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4050			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4051
4052			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4053			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4054			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4055
4056			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4057			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4058
4059	transparent_hugepage=
4060			[KNL]
4061			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4062			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4063			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4064			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4065
4066	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4067			Format: <string>
4068			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4069			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4070			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4071			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4072			virtualized environment.
4073			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4074			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4075			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4076			can add overhead.
4077
4078	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4079			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4080			Format:
4081			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4082			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4083
4084	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4085			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4086			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4087			help "seeing" what's going on.
4088
4089	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4090			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4091
4092	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4093			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4094			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4095			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4096			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4097			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4098			reported either.
4099
4100	unknown_nmi_panic
4101			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4102
4103	usbcore.authorized_default=
4104			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4105			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4106			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4107
4108	usbcore.autosuspend=
4109			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4110			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4111			is the time required before an idle device will be
4112			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4113			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4114
4115	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4116			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4117
4118	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4119			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4120			(default = 65536).
4121
4122	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4123			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4124
4125	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4126			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4127			scheme (default 0 = off).
4128
4129	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4130			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4131			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4132
4133	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4134			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4135			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4136
4137	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4138			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4139                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4140			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4141
4142	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4143
4144	usbhid.mousepoll=
4145			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4146
4147	usbhid.jspoll=
4148			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4149
4150	usb-storage.delay_use=
4151			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4152			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4153
4154	usb-storage.quirks=
4155			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4156			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4157			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4158			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4159			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4160			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4161			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4162				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4163					of sense data);
4164				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4165					bytes of sense data);
4166				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4167					device capacity by one sector);
4168				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4169					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4170				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4171					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4172				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4173					command, uas only);
4174				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4175					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4176				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4177					reported device capacity by one
4178					sector if the number is odd);
4179				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4180					device);
4181				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4182					command, uas only);
4183				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4184					unlock ejectable media);
4185				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4186					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4187				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4188					initial READ(10) command);
4189				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4190					reported by the device);
4191				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4192					by default);
4193				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4194					bogus residue values);
4195				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4196					Logical Unit);
4197				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4198					commands, uas only);
4199				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4200				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4201					medium is write-protected).
4202				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4203					even if the device claims no cache)
4204			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4205
4206	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4207			Format: <int>
4208			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4209				 1 - undefined instruction events
4210				 2 - system calls
4211				 4 - invalid data aborts
4212				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4213				16 - SIGBUS faults
4214			Example: user_debug=31
4215
4216	userpte=
4217			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4218
4219				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4220					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4221					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4222
4223	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4224			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4225
4226			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4227			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4228
4229	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4230			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4231			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4232
4233			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4234			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4235			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4236
4237			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4238			alias for vdso32=0.
4239
4240			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4241			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4242
4243	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4244			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4245
4246	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4247			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4248
4249	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4250			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4251			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4252			level and then send out the event to user space through
4253			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4254			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4255			brightness level.
4256			default: 1
4257
4258	virtio_mmio.device=
4259			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4260
4261				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4262			where:
4263				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4264						like K, M and G)
4265				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4266				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4267						request_irq())
4268				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4269			example:
4270				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4271
4272			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4273
4274	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4275			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4276			Documentation/svga.txt.
4277			Use vga=ask for menu.
4278			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4279			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4280
4281	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4282			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4283			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4284			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4285			mapped kernel RAM.
4286
4287	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4288			Format: <command>
4289
4290	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4291			Format: <command>
4292
4293	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4294			Format: <command>
4295
4296	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4297			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4298			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4299			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4300			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4301			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4302			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4303
4304			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4305			            emulated reasonably safely.
4306
4307			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4308			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4309			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4310			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4311			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4312
4313			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4314			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4315			            might break your system.
4316
4317	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4318			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4319			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4320
4321	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4322			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4323			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4324			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4325
4326	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4327			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4328			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4329			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4330			ranging from 0-255.
4331
4332	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4333			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4334			Change the default green palette of the console.
4335			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4336			ranging from 0-255.
4337
4338	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4339			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4340			Change the default red palette of the console.
4341			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4342			ranging from 0-255.
4343
4344	vt.default_utf8=
4345			[VT]
4346			Format=<0|1>
4347			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4348			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4349			newly opened terminals.
4350
4351	vt.global_cursor_default=
4352			[VT]
4353			Format=<-1|0|1>
4354			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4355			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4356			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4357			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4358			cursors, 1 will display them.
4359
4360	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4361			Default: 2 = green.
4362
4363	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4364			Default: 3 = cyan.
4365
4366	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4367			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4368			or other driver-specific files in the
4369			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4370
4371	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4372			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4373			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4374			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4375			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4376			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4377			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4378			corresponding sysfs file.
4379
4380	workqueue.disable_numa
4381			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4382			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4383			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4384			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4385			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4386			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4387			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4388
4389	workqueue.power_efficient
4390			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4391			they show better performance thanks to cache
4392			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4393			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4394
4395			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4396			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4397			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4398			power usage at the cost of small performance
4399			overhead.
4400
4401			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4402			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4403
4404	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4405			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4406			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4407			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4408			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4409			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4410			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4411			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4412			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4413			impacted.
4414
4415	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4416			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4417			supporting x2apic.
4418
4419	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4420			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4421			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4422			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4423			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4424
4425	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4426			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4427			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4428			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4429			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4430			domains.
4431
4432	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4433			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4434			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4435			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4436			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4437			nics -- unplug network devices
4438			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4439			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4440				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4441				the unplug protocol
4442			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4443
4444	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4445			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4446			optimizations.
4447
4448	xen_nopv	[X86]
4449			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4450			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4451
4452	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4453			Format:
4454			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4455