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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
25			errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
26			source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
27			may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
28			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
29				default _serial_ console on ARM64
30			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
31			"acpi=nospcr" are available
32			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
33			are available
34
35			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
36
37	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
38			Format: <int>
39			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
40			1,0: use 1st APIC table
41			default: 0
42
43	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
44			{ vendor | video | native | none }
45			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
46			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
47			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
48			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
49			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
50			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
51
52	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
53			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
54			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
55			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
56			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
57
58	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
59			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
60			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
61			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
62			This option is useful for developers to identify the
63			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
64			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
65
66	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
67	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
68			Format: <int>
69			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
70			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
71			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
72			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
73			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
74			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
75			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
76			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
77			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
78			debug layers and levels.
79
80			Enable processor driver info messages:
81			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
82			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
83			object while interpreting AML:
84			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
85			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
86			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
87
88			Some values produce so much output that the system is
89			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
90			if you need to capture more output.
91
92	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
93			{ strict | lax | no }
94			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
95			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
96			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
97			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
98			can interfere with legacy drivers.
99			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
100			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
101			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
102			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
103			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
104			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
105			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
106			no further checks are performed.
107
108	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
109			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
110			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
111			size limitation.
112
113	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will balance active IRQs
115			default in APIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
118			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
119			default in PIC mode
120
121	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
125			use by PCI
126			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
127
128	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
129			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
130			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
131			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
132			the GPE dispatcher.
133			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
134			GPE floodings.
135			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
136
137	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
138			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
139			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
140			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
141			auto-serialization feature.
142			This feature is enabled by default.
143			This option allows to turn off the feature.
144
145	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
146			   kernels.
147
148	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
149			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
150			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
151			installed automatically and they will appear under
152			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
153			This option turns off this feature.
154			Note that specifying this option does not affect
155			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
156			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
157
158	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
159			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
160			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
161
162	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
163			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
164			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
165			second kernel for kdump.
166
167	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
168			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
169
170	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
171			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
172			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
173			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
174			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
175
176	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
177			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
178			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
179			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
180			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
181						  strings
182			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
183						  strings
184			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
185
186			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
187			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
188			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
189			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
190			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
191			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
192			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
193			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
194			care about the state of the feature group strings which
195			should be controlled by the OSPM.
196			Examples:
197			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
198			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
199			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
200
201			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
202			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
203			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
204			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
205			multiple times through kernel command line is also
206			meaningless.
207			Examples:
208			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
209			     FALSE.
210
211			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
212			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
213			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
214			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
215			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
216			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
217			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
218			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
219			is useful when one want to control the state of the
220			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
221			the OSPM features.
222			Examples:
223			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
224			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
225			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
226			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
227			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
228			     equivalent to
229			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
230			     and
231			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
232			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
233
234	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
235			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
236			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
237			and always returns good values.
238
239	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
240			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
241
242	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
243			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
244			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
245
246	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
247			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
248				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
249				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
250			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
251			s3_bios and s3_mode.
252			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
253			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
254			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
255			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
256			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
257			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
258			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
259			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
260			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
261			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
262			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
263			used (or even warned about) during resume.
264			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
265			control method, with respect to putting devices into
266			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
267			of _PTS is used by default).
268			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
269			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
270			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
271			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
272			but some broken systems don't work without it).
273			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
274			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
275			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
276
277	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
278			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
279			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
280
281	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
282			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
283
284	agp=		[AGP]
285			{ off | try_unsupported }
286			off: disable AGP support
287			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
288				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
289
290	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
291			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
292
293	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
294			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
295			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
296			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
297
298	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
299			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
300			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
301			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
302			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
303			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
304			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
305
306			32: only for 32-bit processes
307			64: only for 64-bit processes
308			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
309			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
310
311	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
312			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
313			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
314			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
315			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
316			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
317
318	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
319			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
320			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
321			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
322			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
323			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
324			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
325
326			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
327			information.
328
329	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
330			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
331			Possible values are:
332			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
333			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
334				    the system
335			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
336					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
337					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
338					  requirements as needed. This option
339					  does not override iommu=pt
340			force_enable    - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
341				          to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
342				          option with care.
343			pgtbl_v1        - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
344			pgtbl_v2        - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
345			irtcachedis     - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
346			nohugepages     - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
347				          to 4 KiB.
348			v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
349				          to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
350
351
352	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
353			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
354			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
355			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
356			IOMMU initialization.
357
358	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
359			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
360			remapping modes:
361			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
362			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
363			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
364			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
365			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
366
367	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
368			disable
369			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
370			  scaling driver for the supported processors
371			passive
372			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
373			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
374			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
375			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
376			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
377			active
378			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
379			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
380			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
381			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
382			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
383			  frequency.
384			guided
385			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
386			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
387			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
388			  to the current workload.
389
390	amd_prefcore=
391			[X86]
392			disable
393			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
394
395	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
396			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
397			Format: <a>,<b>
398			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
399
400	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
401			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
402			connected to one of 16 gameports
403			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
404
405	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
406			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
407			Format: noidle
408			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
409			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
410			APC and your system crashes randomly.
411
412	apic		[APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
413
414	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
415			Change the output verbosity while booting
416			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
417			Change the amount of debugging information output
418			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
419
420	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
421			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
422			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
423			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
424			      backup of CPU 0
425			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
426			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
427			      shot down by NMI
428
429	apicpmtimer	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
430			apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
431			broken.
432
433	autoconf=	[IPV6]
434			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
435
436	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
437			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
438
439	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
440			Format: { "0" | "1" }
441			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
442			0 -- disable.
443			1 -- enable.
444			Default value is set via kernel config option.
445
446	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
447			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
448
449	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
450			32 bit applications.
451
452	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
453			Identification support
454
455	arm64.nogcs	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
456			support
457
458	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
459			Set instructions support
460
461	arm64.nompam	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
462			Monitoring support
463
464	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
465			support
466
467	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
468			support
469
470	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
471			Extension support
472
473	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
474			Extension support
475
476	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
477
478	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
479
480	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
481			EzKey and similar keyboards
482
483	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
484
485	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
486			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
487
488	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
489			keyboards
490
491	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
492			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
493
494	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
495			Use software keyboard repeat
496
497	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
498			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
499			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
500			    enabled until the next reboot
501			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
502			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
503			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
504			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
505			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
506			    userspace auditd.
507			Default: unset
508
509	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
510			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
511			Default: 64
512
513	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
514			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
515			Format: { "0" | "1" }
516			0 - Disable the BAU.
517			1 - Enable the BAU.
518			unset - Disable the BAU.
519
520	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
521			Format: <io>,<mode>
522
523	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
524			Format: <io>,<mode>
525			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
526
527	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
528			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
529			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
530			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
531
532	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
533			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
534			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
535			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
536
537	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
538			Format: <bool>
539			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
540			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
541			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
542			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
543			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
544			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
545			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
546			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
547			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
548
549	bert_disable	[ACPI]
550			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
551
552	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
553			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
554
555	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
556			embedded devices based on command line input.
557			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
558
559	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
560			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
562			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
563			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
564			erroneous and ignored.
565			Format: integer
566
567	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
568			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
569			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
570
571			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
572
573	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
574	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
575			kernel args too.
576	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
577	bttv.tuner=
578
579	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
580			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
581			at a time.
582
583	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
584
585	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
586			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
587			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
588			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
589			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
590			This option provides an override for these situations.
591
592	carrier_timeout=
593			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
594			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
595			it waits 120 seconds.
596
597	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
598			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
599			trust validation.
600			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
601
602	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
603			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
604			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
605			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
606			others).
607
608	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
609			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
610
611	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
612			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
613			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
614			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
615			  a single hierarchy
616			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
617			  subsystem
618			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
619			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
620			  created
621			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
622			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
623			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
624			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
625			stall information accounting feature
626
627	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
628			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
629			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
630			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
631			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
632			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
633			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
634			all v1 hierarchies.
635
636	cgroup_v1_proc=	[KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
637			Format: { "true" | "false" }
638			/proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
639			This compatibility option enables listing also v2
640			controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
641			semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
642			about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
643
644	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
645			Format: { "true" | "false" }
646			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
647
648	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
649			Format: <string>
650			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
651			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
652			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
653
654	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
655			Format: { "0" | "1" }
656			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
657			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
658				any implied execute protection).
659			1 -- check protection requested by application.
660			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
661			Value can be changed at runtime via
662				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
663			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
664
665	cio_ignore=	[S390]
666			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
667
668	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
669			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
670			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
671			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
672			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
673			ones should be.
674			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
675			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
676			instability issue. However, not all features have names
677			in /proc/cpuinfo.
678			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
679			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
680			or using the feature without checking anything
681			will still see it. This just prevents it from
682			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
683			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
684			some critical bits.
685
686	clk_ignore_unused
687			[CLK]
688			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
689			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
690			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
691			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
692			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
693			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
694			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
695			platform with proper driver support.  For more
696			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
697
698	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
699			[Deprecated]
700			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
701			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
702			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
703			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
704
705	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
706			Format: <string>
707			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
708			with the name specified.
709			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
710			the platform:
711			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
712			[ACPI] acpi_pm
713			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
714				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
715			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
716				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
717			[MIPS] MIPS
718			[PARISC] cr16
719			[S390] tod
720			[SH] SuperH
721			[SPARC64] tick
722			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
723
724	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
725			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
726			Format: <bool>
727			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
728			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
729			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
730			systems.
731
732	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
733			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
734			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
735			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
736			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
737			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
738			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
739			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
740			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
741
742	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
743			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
744			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
745			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
746			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
747
748	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
749			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
751			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
752			placement constraint by the physical address range of
753			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
754			altogether. For more information, see
755			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
756
757	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
758			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
759			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
760			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
761			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
762			specified, the default value is 0.
763			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
764			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
765			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
766			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
767
768	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
769			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
770			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
771			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
772			area for the specified node.
773
774			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
775			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
776			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
777			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
778
779	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
780			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
781			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
782			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
783			a hypervisor.
784			Default: yes
785
786	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
787			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
788			allocations, by default set to 256K.
789
790	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
791			Format:
792			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
793
794	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
795			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
796
797	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
798			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
799			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
800
801	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
802	conmode=
803
804	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
805			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
806			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
807			the console buffer is full. In this case the
808			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
809			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
810			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
811			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
812			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
813			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
814
815	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
816
817		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
818
819		ttyS<n>[,options]
820		ttyUSB0[,options]
821			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
822			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
823			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
824			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
825			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
826
827			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
828			information.  See
829			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
830			alternative.
831
832		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
833			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
834			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
835			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
836			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
837			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
838
839			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
840			can be viewed with:
841
842			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
843			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
844
845			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
846			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
847			way will only get added when the related device driver
848			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
849			the console may be desired for console output early on.
850
851		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
852		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
853		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
854		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
855		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
856			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
857			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
858			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
859			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
860			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
861			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
862			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
863			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
864			the h/w is not re-initialized.
865
866		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
867			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
868
869		{ null | "" }
870			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
871			console messages discarded.
872			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
873			kernel command line.
874
875		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
876		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
877			console=brl,ttyS0
878		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
879
880	console_msg_format=
881			[KNL] Change console messages format
882		default
883			By default we print messages on consoles in
884			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
885			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
886			`printk_time' param).
887		syslog
888			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
889			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
890			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
891			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
892			from /proc/kmsg.
893
894	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
895			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
896			Defaults to 0.
897
898	coredump_filter=
899			[KNL] Change the default value for
900			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
901			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
902
903	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
904			[ARM,ARM64]
905			Format: <bool>
906			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
907			0: default value, disable debugging
908			1: enable debugging at boot time
909
910	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
911			Format:
912			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
913
914	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
915			disable the cpuidle sub-system
916
917	cpuidle.governor=
918			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
919
920	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
921			disable the cpufreq sub-system
922
923	cpufreq.default_governor=
924			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
925			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
926			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
927
928	cpu_init_udelay=N
929			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
930			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
931			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
932			Default: 10000
933
934	cpuhp.parallel=
935			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
936			Format: <bool>
937			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
938			the parameter has no effect.
939
940	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
941			Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
942			notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
943			the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
944			notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
945			In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
946			running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
947			more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
948			or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
949			configurations enable this option unconditionally,
950			like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
951
952	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
953			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
954			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
955			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
956			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
957			is selected automatically.
958			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
959			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
960			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
961			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
962
963	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
964			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
965			in the running system. The syntax of range is
966			start-[end] where start and end are both
967			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
968			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
969
970	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
971			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
972			above 4G.
973			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
974			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
975			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
976			below 4G, if available.
977			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
978	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
979			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
980			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
981			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
982			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
983			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
984			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
985			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
986			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
987			size is	platform dependent.
988			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
989			  --> arm64: 128MiB
990			  --> riscv: 128MiB
991			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
992			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
993			for second kernel instead.
994			0: to disable low allocation.
995			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
996			or memory reserved is below 4G.
997	crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
998			[KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
999			CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
1000			userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
1001			balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
1002			will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
1003			be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
1004			it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
1005			may be missing from the dump.
1006
1007			A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1008			is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1009
1010			This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1011			transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1012			corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1013
1014			This reservation method is intended for systems that
1015			can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1016			crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1017			possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1018			all.
1019
1020	cryptomgr.notests
1021			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1022
1023	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
1024			Format: <dma>
1025
1026	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
1027			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1028
1029	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1030			function call handling. When switched on,
1031			additional debug data is printed to the console
1032			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1033			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1034			the hang situation.  The default value of this
1035			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1036			Kconfig option.
1037
1038	dasd=		[HW,NET]
1039			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1040
1041	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1042			(one device per port)
1043			Format: <port#>,<type>
1044			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1045
1046	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1047
1048	debug_boot_weak_hash
1049			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1050			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1051			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1052			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1053			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1054			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1055
1056	debug_locks_verbose=
1057			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1058			Format: <int>
1059			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1060			self-tests.
1061			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1062			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1063			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1064			useful to lockdep developers.
1065
1066	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1067
1068	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1069			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1070			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1071			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1072			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1073			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1074			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1075			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1076			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1077			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1078			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1079			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1080			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1081			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1082			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1083			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1084			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1085			help tracking down these problems.
1086
1087	debug_pagealloc=
1088			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1089			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1090			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1091			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1092			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1093			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1094			on: enable the feature
1095
1096	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1097			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1098			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1099			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1100			no-mount:
1101				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1102			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1103				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1104			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1105			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1106				or directories within debugfs.
1107				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1108				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1109			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1110
1111	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1112
1113	default_hugepagesz=
1114			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1115			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1116			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1117			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1118			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1119			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1120			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1121			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1122			Format: size[KMG]
1123
1124	deferred_probe_timeout=
1125			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1126			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1127			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1128			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1129			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1130			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1131			successful driver registration. This option will also
1132			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1133			retrying.
1134
1135	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1136
1137	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1138			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1139			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1140			hardware.
1141
1142	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1143			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1144			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1145			blacklisted features.
1146
1147	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1148			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1149			(disabled by default).
1150
1151	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1152			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1153			capability is set.
1154
1155	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1156			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1157
1158	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1159			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1160
1161	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1162			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1163			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1164			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1165			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1166			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1167			          only (compression on level 1)
1168			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1169			          only (decompression)
1170			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1171			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1172
1173	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1174			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1175
1176	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1177			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1178			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1179			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1180			miss to occur.
1181
1182	disable=	[IPV6]
1183			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1184
1185	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1186			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1187
1188	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1189			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1190			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1191
1192	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1193			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1194			to workaround buggy firmware.
1195
1196	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1197			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1198
1199	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1200			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1201			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1202			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1203
1204	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1205			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1206			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1207			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1208			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1209
1210	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1211			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1212			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1213
1214	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1215
1216	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1217			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1218
1219	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1220			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1221			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1222			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1223			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1224			architectural default is too low.
1225
1226	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1227			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1228			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1229			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1230			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1231			driver later using sysfs.
1232
1233	reg_file_data_sampling=
1234			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1235			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1236			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1237			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1238			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1239			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1240
1241			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1242			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1243
1244			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1245			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1246			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1247			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1248			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1249
1250			For details see:
1251			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1252
1253	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1254			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1255			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1256			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1257			match the *.
1258			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1259
1260	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1261			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1262			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1263			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1264			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1265			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1266			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1267			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1268			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1269			data set with no connector name will be used for
1270			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1271
1272	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1273
1274	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1275			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1276			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1277			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1278			exists).
1279			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1280			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1281			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1282
1283	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1284			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1285			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1286			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1287
1288	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1289	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1290			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1291			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1292			for details.
1293
1294	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1295			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1296			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1297			which are not unmapped.
1298
1299	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1300
1301			When used with no options, the early console is
1302			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1303			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1304			the platform.
1305
1306		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1307			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1308			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1309			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1310			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1311			configured.
1312
1313		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1314		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1315		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1316		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1317		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1318			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1319			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1320			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1321			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1322			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1323			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1324			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1325			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1326			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1327			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1328
1329		pl011,<addr>
1330		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1331			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1332			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1333			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1334			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1335			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1336			the device registers.
1337
1338		liteuart,<addr>
1339			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1340			specified address. The serial port must already be
1341			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1342
1343		meson,<addr>
1344			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1345			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1346			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1347			supported.
1348
1349		msm_serial,<addr>
1350			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1351			port at the specified address. The serial port
1352			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1353			yet supported.
1354
1355		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1356			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1357			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1358			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1359			yet supported.
1360
1361		owl,<addr>
1362			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1363			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1364			specified address. The serial port must already be
1365			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1366
1367		rda,<addr>
1368			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1369			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1370			specified address. The serial port must already be
1371			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1372
1373		sbi
1374			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1375			console.
1376
1377		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1378
1379		s3c2410,<addr>
1380		s3c2412,<addr>
1381		s3c2440,<addr>
1382		s3c6400,<addr>
1383		s5pv210,<addr>
1384		exynos4210,<addr>
1385			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1386			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1387			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1388			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1389			Options are not yet supported.
1390
1391		lantiq,<addr>
1392			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1393			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1394			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1395			yet supported.
1396
1397		lpuart,<addr>
1398		lpuart32,<addr>
1399			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1400			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1401			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1402			port must already be setup and configured.
1403
1404		ec_imx21,<addr>
1405		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1406			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1407			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1408			must already be setup and configured.
1409
1410		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1411			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1412			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1413			address. The serial port must already be setup
1414			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1415
1416		qcom_geni,<addr>
1417			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1418			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1419			specified address. The serial port must already be
1420			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1421
1422		efifb,[options]
1423			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1424			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1425			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1426			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1427			mapped with the correct attributes.
1428
1429		linflex,<addr>
1430			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1431			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1432			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1433			already be setup and configured.
1434
1435	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1436			earlyprintk=vga
1437			earlyprintk=sclp
1438			earlyprintk=xen
1439			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1440			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1441			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1442			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1443			earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1444			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1445			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1446			earlyprintk=bios
1447
1448			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1449			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1450			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1451
1452			Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1453			BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1454
1455			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1456			takes over.
1457
1458			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1459			be used at a time.
1460
1461			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1462			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1463			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1464			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1465				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1466			You can find the port for a given device in
1467			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1468				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1469
1470			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1471			very good.
1472
1473			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1474			the real console.
1475
1476			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1477
1478			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1479
1480			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1481
1482			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1483			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1484			UART class.
1485
1486	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1487			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1488			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1489			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1490			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1491			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1492			default: on.
1493
1494	edd=		[EDD]
1495			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1496
1497	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1498			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1499				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1500				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1501			debug: enable misc debug output.
1502			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1503			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1504			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1505			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1506			firmware implementations.
1507			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1508			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1509			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1510			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1511			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1512			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1513			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1514			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1515			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1516			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1517
1518	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1519			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1520			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1521			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1522			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1523
1524	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1525			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1526			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1527			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1528			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1529
1530
1531	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1532			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1533
1534	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1535			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1536
1537			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1538			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1539
1540			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1541			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1542			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1543			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1544
1545	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1546			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1547			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1548
1549	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1550			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1551			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1552			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1553			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1554
1555	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1556			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1557			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1558			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1559
1560	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1561			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1562			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1563			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1564			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1565
1566	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1567			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1568			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1569			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1570			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1571			Default value is 0.
1572			Value can be changed at runtime via
1573			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1574
1575	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1576			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1577			support.
1578
1579	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1580			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1581			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1582
1583	evm=		[EVM]
1584			Format: { "fix" }
1585			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1586			current integrity status.
1587
1588	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1589			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1590			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1591			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1592			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1593			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1594			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1595
1596	failslab=
1597	fail_usercopy=
1598	fail_page_alloc=
1599	fail_skb_realloc=
1600	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1601			General fault injection mechanism.
1602			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1603			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1604
1605	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1606			Format: { initns | none }
1607			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1608			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1609
1610	floppy=		[HW]
1611			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1612
1613	forcepae	[X86-32]
1614			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1615			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1616			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1617			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1618			and may cause unknown problems.
1619
1620	fred=		[X86-64]
1621			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1622			Format: { on | off }
1623			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1624			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1625
1626	ftrace=[tracer]
1627			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1628			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1629			boot debugging.
1630
1631	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1632			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1633			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1634			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1635			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1636			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1637			start up functionality.
1638
1639			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1640			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1641			line parameter.
1642
1643			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1644
1645			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1646			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1647
1648	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1649			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1650			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1651			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1652			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1653			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1654			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1655			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1656			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1657			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1658			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1659
1660			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1661
1662			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1663			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1664
1665			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1666
1667			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1668			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1669			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1670
1671	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1672			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1673			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1674			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1675			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1676			tracing directory.
1677
1678	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1679			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1680			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1681			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1682			tracing directory.
1683
1684	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1685			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1686			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1687			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1688			that can be changed at run time by the
1689			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1690
1691	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1692			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1693			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1694			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1695			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1696
1697	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1698			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1699			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1700			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1701			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1702
1703	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1704			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1705			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1706			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1707			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1708			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1709			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1710			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1711			suppliers).
1712			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1713			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1714			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1715				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1716				up (sync_state() calls).
1717			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1718				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1719			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1720
1721	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1722			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1723			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1724			Format: <bool>
1725
1726	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1727			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1728			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1729			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1730			calls.
1731			Format: { strict | timeout }
1732			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1733				probe successfully.
1734			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1735				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1736				received their sync_state() calls after
1737				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1738				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1739
1740	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1741			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1742			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1743			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1744			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1745
1746	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1747
1748	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1749			Format: off | on
1750			default: on
1751
1752	gather_data_sampling=
1753			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1754			mitigation.
1755
1756			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1757			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1758			previously stored in vector registers.
1759
1760			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1761			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1762			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1763			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1764
1765			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1766				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1767				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1768				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1769
1770			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1771
1772	gbpages		[X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1773
1774	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1775			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1776			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1777			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1778			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1779
1780	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1781			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1782			android emulator
1783
1784	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1785			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1786			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1787	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1788			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1789
1790	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1791			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1792			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1793			GPT to be used instead.
1794
1795	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1796			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1797			Format: 0 | 1
1798			Default: 0
1799	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1800			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1801			Format: 0 | 1
1802			Default: 0
1803	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1804			Format: 0 | 1
1805			Default: 0
1806	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1807			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1808			Default: 1024
1809	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1810			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1811			Default: 1024
1812
1813	hardened_usercopy=
1814			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1815			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1816			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1817			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1818			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1819			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1820			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1821			The default is determined by
1822			CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1823		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1824		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1825
1826	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1827			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1828			backtraces on all cpus.
1829			Format: 0 | 1
1830
1831	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1832			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1833			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1834			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1835
1836	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1837			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1838
1839	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1840			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1841			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1842			logic will be disabled.
1843
1844	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1845		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1846				present during boot.
1847		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1848		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1849		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1850				(that will set all pages holding image data
1851				during restoration read-only).
1852
1853	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1854				used with hibernation.
1855				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1856				Default: lzo
1857
1858				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1859				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1860
1861				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1862				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1863
1864	hibernate.pm_test_delay=
1865			[HIBERNATION]
1866			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
1867			mode before resuming the system (see
1868			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
1869			is set. Default value is 5.
1870
1871	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1872			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1873			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1874			size on bigger boxes.
1875
1876	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1877			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1878			Default: "on"
1879
1880	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1881
1882	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1883			Format: <string>
1884			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1885			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1886			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1887			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1888			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1889			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1890			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1891			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1892			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1893			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1894
1895	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1896			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1897				verbose }
1898			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1899			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1900				VIA, nVidia)
1901			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1902
1903	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1904			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1905
1906	hugepages=	[HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1907			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1908			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1909			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1910			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1911			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1912			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1913			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1914			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1915				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1916
1917	hugepagesz=
1918			[HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is
1919			used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
1920			allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
1921			pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
1922			for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
1923			are architecture dependent. See also
1924			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1925			Format: size[KMG]
1926
1927	hugepage_alloc_threads=
1928			[HW] The number of threads that should be used to
1929			allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
1930			used to improve system bootup time when allocating
1931			a large amount of huge pages.
1932			The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
1933
1934			Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
1935
1936	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1937			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1938			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1939			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1940				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1941
1942			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1943			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1944			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1945
1946	hugetlb_cma_only=
1947			[HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
1948			try to allocate from the CMA areas.
1949
1950			This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
1951			specified.
1952
1953	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1954			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1955			enabled.
1956			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1957			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1958			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1959			Format: { on | off (default) }
1960
1961			on: enable HVO
1962			off: disable HVO
1963
1964			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1965			the default is on.
1966
1967			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1968			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1969			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1970			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1971			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1972
1973	hung_task_panic=
1974			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1975			Format: 0 | 1
1976
1977			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1978			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1979			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1980			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1981			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1982
1983	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1984				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1985	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1986				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1987				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1988
1989	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1990			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1991			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1992			on lock contention.
1993
1994	hw_protection=	[HW]
1995			Format: reboot | shutdown
1996
1997			Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
1998			overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
1999
2000	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
2001				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
2002				registered from board initialization code.
2003				Format:
2004				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
2005
2006	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
2007			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2008			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2009			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2010			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2011			adding a DMI quirk for this.
2012
2013			Format:
2014			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2015			Where <val> is one of:
2016			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
2017			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
2018			Anything else		Set a string device-property
2019
2020			Examples (split over multiple lines):
2021			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2022			touchscreen-inverted-y
2023
2024			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2025			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2026			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2027
2028	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2029	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2030			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2031			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2032			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2033	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2034	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2035			     keyboard and cannot control its state
2036			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2037	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2038	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2039	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2040			     for the AUX port
2041	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2042			     controller
2043	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2044			     controllers
2045	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2046	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2047			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2048			     transitions, or never reset
2049			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2050			1, Y, y: always reset controller
2051			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2052			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2053			architectures force reset to be always executed
2054	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2055	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2056	i8042.probe_defer
2057			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2058
2059	i810=		[HW,DRM]
2060
2061	i915.invert_brightness=
2062			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2063			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2064			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2065			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2066			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2067			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2068			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2069			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2070			value switches the backlight off.
2071			-1 -- never invert brightness
2072			 0 -- machine default
2073			 1 -- force brightness inversion
2074
2075	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
2076			Format: <bool>
2077			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2078			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2079			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2080
2081	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
2082			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2083
2084
2085	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
2086			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2087
2088			idle=poll:  Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2089			using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2090			make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2091			to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2092			benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2093			performance counters more accurate.  Please note that
2094			on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2095			EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2096			over the normal idle loop.  It may also interact badly
2097			with hyperthreading.
2098
2099			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2100			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2101
2102			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2103
2104	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2105			Format: <bool>
2106			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2107			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2108			true (1).
2109
2110	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2111			Format: <bool>
2112			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2113			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2114
2115	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2116			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2117			Default: strict
2118
2119			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2120			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2121			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2122			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2123			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2124			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2125			encoding mode.
2126
2127			Available settings are as follows:
2128			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2129				supported by the FPU
2130			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2131				by the FPU
2132			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2133				by the FPU
2134			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2135				supported by the FPU
2136			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2137				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2138
2139			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2140			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2141			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2142			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2143			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2144			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2145			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2146			MIPS64 CPUs.
2147
2148			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2149			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2150			except where unsupported by hardware.
2151
2152	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2153			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2154			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2155			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2156			could change it dynamically, usually by
2157			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2158
2159	ignore_rlimit_data
2160			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2161			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2162			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2163
2164	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2165			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2166
2167	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2168			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2169			default: "enforce"
2170
2171	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2172			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2173			owned by uid=0.
2174
2175	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2176			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2177			measurements, instead of host native format.
2178
2179	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2180			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2181				   | sha512 | ... }
2182			default: "sha1"
2183
2184			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2185			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2186
2187	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2188			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2189			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2190				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2191
2192			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2193			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2194			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2195			uid=0.
2196
2197			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2198			all files owned by root.
2199
2200			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2201			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2202			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2203
2204			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2205			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2206			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2207			flag.
2208
2209			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2210			critical data.
2211
2212	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2213			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2214			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2215			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2216			opened for read by uid=0.
2217
2218	ima_template=	[IMA]
2219			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2220			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2221				   "ima-sigv2" }
2222			Default: "ima-ng"
2223
2224	ima_template_fmt=
2225			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2226			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2227
2228	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2229			Format: <min_file_size>
2230			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2231			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2232
2233			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2234			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2235			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2236
2237	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2238			Format: <bufsize>
2239			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2240
2241			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2242			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2243			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2244
2245	ima=		[IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2246			Format: { "off" | "on" }
2247			Default: "on"
2248			Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2249
2250	indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2251			Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2252			microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2253
2254			on:     Enable mitigation (default).
2255			off:    Disable mitigation.
2256			force:	Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2257				mitigation.
2258			vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2259				guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2260			stuff:	Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2261				also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2262				mitigation.
2263
2264			For details see:
2265			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2266
2267	init=		[KNL]
2268			Format: <full_path>
2269			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2270			process.
2271
2272	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2273			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2274			startup.
2275
2276	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2277			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2278			modules and initcalls.
2279
2280	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2281			Format: <bool>
2282			Default: 1
2283			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2284			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2285			with devices being probed and
2286			initialized. This should normally just work,
2287			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2288			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2289			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2290			late_ initcalls.
2291
2292	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2293
2294	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2295			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2296			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2297			setting.
2298			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2299			Default is 0, 0
2300
2301	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2302			zeroes.
2303			Format: 0 | 1
2304			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2305
2306	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2307			Format: 0 | 1
2308			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2309
2310	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2311			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2312			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2313			override in debugfs after boot.
2314
2315	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2316			Format: <irq>
2317
2318	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2319
2320	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2321			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2322			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2323			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2324
2325	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2326		on
2327			Enable intel iommu driver.
2328		off
2329			Disable intel iommu driver.
2330		igfx_off [Default Off]
2331			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2332			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2333			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2334			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2335			DMA.
2336		strict [Default Off]
2337			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2338		sp_off [Default Off]
2339			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2340			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2341			not be supported.
2342		sm_on
2343			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2344			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2345			translation.
2346		sm_off
2347			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2348		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2349			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2350			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2351			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2352			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2353			mapping is enabled.
2354			Note that using this option lowers the security
2355			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2356			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2357
2358	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2359			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2360			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2361
2362	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2363			disable
2364			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2365			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2366                        active
2367                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2368                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2369                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2370                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2371                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2372                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2373                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2374                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2375                          and possibly on the processor model.
2376			passive
2377			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2378			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2379			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2380			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2381			  feature.
2382			force
2383			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2384			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2385			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2386			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2387			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2388			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2389			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2390			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2391			no_hwp
2392			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2393			  if available.
2394			hwp_only
2395			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2396			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2397			support_acpi_ppc
2398			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2399			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2400			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2401			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2402			per_cpu_perf_limits
2403			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2404			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2405			no_cas
2406			  Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2407			  hybrid systems
2408
2409	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2410			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2411			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2412			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2413			no_x2apic_optout
2414				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2415			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2416			posted_msi
2417				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2418
2419	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2420		strict	regions from userspace.
2421		relaxed
2422
2423	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2424
2425		off
2426			Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2427
2428		force
2429			Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2430			it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2431			memory).
2432
2433		noforce
2434			Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2435			needed. (default).
2436
2437		biomerge
2438		panic
2439		nopanic
2440		merge
2441		nomerge
2442
2443		soft
2444			Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2445			Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2446			of an available hardware IOMMU.
2447
2448			[X86]
2449		pt
2450			[X86]
2451		nopt
2452			[PPC/POWERNV]
2453		nobypass
2454			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2455
2456		[X86]
2457		AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2458
2459		<size>
2460			Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2461
2462		allowed
2463			Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2464
2465		fullflush
2466			Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2467
2468		nofullflush
2469			Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2470
2471		memaper[=<order>]
2472			Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2473			32MB<<order.  (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2474
2475		merge
2476			Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2477			(experimental).
2478
2479		nomerge
2480			Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2481
2482		noaperture
2483			Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2484
2485		noagp
2486			Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2487
2488		panic
2489			Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2490
2491	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2492			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2493			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2494			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2495			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2496			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2497			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2498
2499	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2500			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2501			0 - Lazy mode.
2502			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2503			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2504			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2505			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2506			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2507			1 - Strict mode.
2508			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2509			  synchronously.
2510			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2511			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2512			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2513
2514	iommu.passthrough=
2515			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2516			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2517			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2518			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2519			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2520
2521	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2522			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2523			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2524
2525	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2526		0x80
2527			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2528		0xed
2529			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2530		udelay
2531			Simple two microseconds delay
2532		none
2533			No delay
2534
2535	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2536			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2537
2538	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2539			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2540
2541	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2542			Format: <bool>
2543			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2544			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2545
2546	ipe.success_audit=
2547			[IPE]
2548			Format: <bool>
2549			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2550			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2551			is 0.
2552
2553	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2554			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2555
2556	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2557			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2558			Format: <bool>
2559			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2560			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2561			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2562
2563	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2564			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2565			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2566			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2567			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2568			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2569			LPIs.
2570
2571	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2572			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2573			requires the kernel to be built with
2574			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2575
2576	irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2577			[RISC-V,EARLY]
2578			Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2579			as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2580			and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2581			to multiple harts.
2582
2583	irqfixup	[HW]
2584			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2585			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2586			firmware running.
2587
2588	irqpoll		[HW]
2589			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2590			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2591			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2592			firmware running.
2593
2594	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2595			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2596
2597	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2598			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2599			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2600
2601			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2602			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2603
2604			nohz
2605			  Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2606			  disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2607			  offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2608
2609			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2610			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2611			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2612			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2613			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2614
2615			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2616			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2617			  be configured manually after bootup.
2618
2619			domain
2620			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2621			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2622			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2623			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2624			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2625			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2626			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2627			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2628
2629			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2630			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2631			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2632			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2633
2634			managed_irq
2635
2636			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2637			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2638			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2639			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2640			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2641
2642			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2643			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2644			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2645			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2646			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2647			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2648			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2649
2650			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2651			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2652			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2653			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2654			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2655			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2656			  queues.
2657
2658			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2659
2660	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2661
2662	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2663			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2664			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2665			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2666
2667			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2668			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2669			write the parameter as:
2670				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2671
2672			Deprecated formats:
2673			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2674			  write the parameter as:
2675				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2676			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2677			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2678				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2679
2680	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2681			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2682			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2683			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2684
2685			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2686			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2687			write the parameter as:
2688				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2689
2690			Deprecated formats:
2691			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2692			  write the parameter as:
2693				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2694			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2695			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2696				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2697
2698	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2699			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2700			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2701			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2702
2703			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2704			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2705			write the parameter as:
2706				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2707
2708			Deprecated formats:
2709			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2710			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2711				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2712			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2713			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2714				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2715
2716	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2717			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2718
2719	kasan_multi_shot
2720			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2721			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2722			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2723			invalid access.
2724
2725	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2726			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2727			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2728			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2729			the real console.
2730
2731	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2732
2733	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2734			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2735			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2736			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2737			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2738			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2739			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2740			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2741			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2742			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2743
2744			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2745			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2746			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2747			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2748			zone if it does not.
2749
2750			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2751			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2752			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2753			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2754			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2755			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2756			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2757
2758	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2759			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2760			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2761			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2762			optional and is the number seconds in between
2763			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2764			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2765			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2766			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2767			the kernel debugger.
2768
2769	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2770			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2771			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2772			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2773			 keyboard only format: kbd
2774			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2775			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2776			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2777			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2778
2779	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2780			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2781			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2782			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2783			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2784			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2785			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2786
2787			The name of the early console should be specified
2788			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2789			the early console might be different than the tty
2790			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2791			blank and the first boot console that implements
2792			read() will be picked.
2793
2794	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2795			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2796
2797	kho=		[KEXEC,EARLY]
2798			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2799			Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2800			"0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2801			"1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2802
2803	kho_scratch=	[KEXEC,EARLY]
2804			Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
2805			Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
2806			scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
2807			ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
2808			allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
2809			fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
2810			kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
2811			bootstrap itself.
2812
2813			It is possible to specify the exact amount of
2814			memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
2815			where the first parameter defines the size of a low
2816			memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
2817			the size of a global scratch area and the third
2818			parameter defines the size of additional per-node
2819			scratch areas.  The form "nn%" defines scale factor
2820			(in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
2821
2822	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2823			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2824			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2825
2826	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2827			Valid arguments: on, off
2828			Default: on
2829			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2830			the default is off.
2831
2832	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2833			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2834			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2835			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2836			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2837			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2838			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2839
2840			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2841
2842			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2843			Boot Parameter" section.
2844
2845	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2846			user and kernel address spaces.
2847			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2848			0: force disabled
2849			1: force enabled
2850
2851	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2852			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2853			default value can be overridden via
2854			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2855			Default is 1 (enabled)
2856
2857	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2858			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2859
2860	kvm.eager_page_split=
2861			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2862			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2863			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2864			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2865			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2866			required to split huge pages lazily.
2867
2868			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2869			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2870			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2871			still be used for reads.
2872
2873			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2874			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2875			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2876			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2877			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2878			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2879			cleared.
2880
2881			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2882
2883			Default is Y (on).
2884
2885	kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
2886			If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
2887			when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
2888			is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
2889
2890			If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
2891			virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2892			VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
2893			number of VMs.
2894
2895			Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
2896			latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
2897			virtualization enabling across all online CPUs.  The
2898			"cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
2899			is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2900			hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
2901
2902	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2903				   Default is false (don't support).
2904
2905	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2906			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2907			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2908			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2909			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2910			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2911				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2912
2913			Default is 'auto'.
2914
2915			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2916			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2917
2918	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2919			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2920			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2921			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2922			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2923
2924	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2925			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2926			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2927			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2928			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2929			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2930
2931	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2932			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2933
2934	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2935			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2936			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2937			for NPT.
2938
2939	kvm-arm.mode=
2940			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2941			operation.
2942
2943			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2944
2945			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2946			      protected guests.
2947
2948			protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
2949				   kept private from the host, using VHE or
2950				   nVHE depending on HW support.
2951
2952			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2953				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
2954				hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
2955
2956			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2957			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2958			for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
2959			"arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
2960			command-line.
2961			"nested" is experimental and should be used with
2962			extreme caution.
2963
2964	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2965			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2966			system registers
2967
2968	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2969			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2970			system registers
2971
2972	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2973			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2974			system registers
2975
2976	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2977			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2978			injection of LPIs.
2979
2980	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2981			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2982			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2983			CPU architecture.
2984
2985			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2986
2987			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2988
2989	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2990			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2991			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2992			CPU architecture.
2993
2994			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2995
2996			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2997
2998	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2999			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
3000			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
3001			allocation.
3002			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
3003			Format: <integer>
3004			Default: 5
3005
3006	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3007			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
3008			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3009			for EPT.
3010
3011	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3012			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3013			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3014			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
3015			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3016			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
3017			Default is 1 (enabled).
3018
3019	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3020			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3021			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3022			hardware lacks support for it.
3023
3024	kvm-intel.nested=
3025			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3026			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3027
3028	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3029			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3030			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3031			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3032			hardware lacks support for it.
3033
3034	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3035			CVE-2018-3620.
3036
3037			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3038
3039			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3040			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3041				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3042			never:	Disables the mitigation
3043
3044			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3045
3046	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3047			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3048			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3049			for it.
3050
3051	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3052			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3053
3054			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3055			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3056			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3057
3058			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3059			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3060			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3061			not have direct access.
3062
3063			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3064			options are:
3065
3066			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
3067
3068	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3069			      affected CPUs
3070
3071			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3072			enabled and cannot be disabled.
3073
3074			full
3075				Provides all available mitigations for the
3076				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3077				enables all mitigations in the
3078				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3079
3080				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3081				sysfs interface is still possible after
3082				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3083				when the first VM is started in a
3084				potentially insecure configuration,
3085				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3086
3087			full,force
3088				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3089				flush runtime control. Implies the
3090				'nosmt=force' command line option.
3091				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3092
3093			flush
3094				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3095				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3096				L1D flush.
3097
3098				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3099				sysfs interface is still possible after
3100				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3101				when the first VM is started in a
3102				potentially insecure configuration,
3103				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3104
3105			flush,nosmt
3106
3107				Disables SMT and enables the default
3108				hypervisor mitigation.
3109
3110				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3111				sysfs interface is still possible after
3112				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3113				when the first VM is started in a
3114				potentially insecure configuration,
3115				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3116
3117			flush,nowarn
3118				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3119				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3120				insecure configuration.
3121
3122			off
3123				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3124				emit any warnings.
3125				It also drops the swap size and available
3126				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3127				bare metal.
3128
3129			Default is 'flush'.
3130
3131			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3132
3133	l2cr=		[PPC]
3134
3135	l3cr=		[PPC]
3136
3137	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3138			disabled it.
3139
3140	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3141			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3142			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3143			Format: notscdeadline
3144
3145	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3146			in C2 power state.
3147
3148	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
3149			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3150			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3151			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3152			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
3153			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3154			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3155
3156	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3157			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
3158			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
3159
3160	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3161			when set.
3162			Format: <int>
3163
3164	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
3165			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3166			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3167			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3168			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
3169			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
3170			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3171			to all ports, links and devices.
3172
3173			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3174			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
3175			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3176			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
3177			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3178			host link and device attached to it.
3179
3180			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
3181			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3182			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3183			The following configurations can be forced.
3184
3185			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3186			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3187
3188			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3189
3190			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3191			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3192			  allowed.
3193
3194			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3195			  resets.
3196
3197			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3198			  link recovery.
3199
3200			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3201			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3202			  detection.
3203
3204			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3205
3206			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3207
3208			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3209
3210			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3211
3212			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3213
3214			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3215
3216			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3217
3218			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3219
3220			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3221			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3222
3223			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3224			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3225
3226			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3227			  identify device data log.
3228
3229			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3230			  purpose log directory.
3231
3232			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3233
3234			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3235			  1024 sectors.
3236
3237			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3238			  65535 sectors.
3239
3240			* external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3241
3242			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3243
3244			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3245			  should be skipped.
3246
3247			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3248			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3249
3250			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3251
3252			* disable: Disable this device.
3253
3254			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3255			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3256
3257	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3258
3259	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3260			Format: <integer>
3261
3262	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3263			Format: <integer>
3264
3265	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3266			Format: <integer>
3267
3268	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3269			Format: <integer>
3270
3271	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3272			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3273			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3274			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3275			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3276			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3277			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3278			are also disabled.
3279
3280	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3281			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3282			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3283			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3284
3285	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3286			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3287			to be bound.
3288
3289	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3290			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3291			to be bound.
3292
3293	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3294			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3295			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3296			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3297			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3298			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3299
3300	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3301			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3302			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3303			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3304
3305	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3306			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3307			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3308			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3309			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3310			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3311
3312	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3313			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3314			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3315			number of online CPUs.
3316
3317	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3318			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3319
3320	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3321			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3322
3323	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3324			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3325			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3326
3327	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3328			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3329			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3330			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3331			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3332			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3333			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3334			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3335			disable boosting.
3336
3337	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3338			Number that determines how often and for how
3339			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3340			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3341			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3342			constant as the number of writers increases.
3343			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3344			increases with the number of writers.
3345
3346	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3347			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3348			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3349			mode during the locktorture test.
3350
3351	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3352			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3353			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3354
3355	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3356			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3357
3358	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3359			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3360			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3361			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3362			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3363			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3364
3365	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3366			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3367
3368	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3369			Enable additional printk() statements.
3370
3371	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3372			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3373			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3374
3375	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3376			Format: <irq>
3377
3378	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3379			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3380			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3381			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3382			loglevels are defined as follows:
3383
3384			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3385			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3386			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3387			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3388			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3389			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3390			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3391			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3392
3393	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3394			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3395			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3396			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3397			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3398			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3399			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3400			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3401			for more details.
3402
3403	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3404			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3405			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3406			kernel boot problems.
3407
3408	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3409	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3410	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3411	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3412				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3413				attached printers to be reset. Using
3414				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3415				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3416				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3417				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3418				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3419				port specification list means that device IDs
3420				from each port should be examined, to see if
3421				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3422				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3423				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3424
3425	lpj=n		[KNL]
3426			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3427			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3428			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3429			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3430			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3431			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3432			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3433			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3434			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3435			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3436			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3437			hardware.
3438
3439	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3440
3441	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3442			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3443			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3444
3445	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3446			different yeeloong laptops.
3447			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3448
3449	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3450			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3451			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3452			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3453			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3454			only takes effect during system bootup.
3455			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3456			which also disables the IO APIC.
3457
3458	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3459	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3460			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3461			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3462			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3463			/dev/loop-control interface.
3464
3465	mce=		[X86-{32,64}]
3466
3467			Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3468
3469		off
3470			disable machine check
3471
3472		no_cmci
3473			disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3474			Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
3475			not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3476			hardware is misbehaving.
3477
3478			Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3479			with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3480			duplicated error logs.
3481
3482		dont_log_ce
3483			don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events
3484			reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3485			option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3486			of corrected errors.
3487
3488		ignore_ce
3489			disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3490			polling timer and CMCI.  All events reported as
3491			corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3492			error banks.
3493
3494			Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3495			if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3496			errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3497			applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3498			and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3499			will be a help.
3500
3501		no_lmce
3502			do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3503			to broadcast MCEs.
3504
3505		bootlog
3506			enable logging of machine checks left over from
3507			booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3508			because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3509
3510			If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3511			enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3512			events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3513			enabled by default.
3514
3515		nobootlog
3516			disable boot machine check logging.
3517
3518		monarchtimeout (number)
3519			sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3520			checks. 0 to disable.
3521
3522		bios_cmci_threshold
3523			don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3524			option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3525			threshold set by the bios.  Without this option, Linux
3526			always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3527			make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3528			if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3529			will not see details for all errors.
3530
3531		recovery
3532			force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3533
3534			Everything else is in sysfs now.
3535
3536
3537	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3538			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3539
3540	mdacon=		[MDA]
3541			Format: <first>,<last>
3542			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3543
3544	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3545			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3546			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3547
3548			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3549			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3550			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3551
3552			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3553			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3554			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3555			not have direct access.
3556
3557			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3558			options are:
3559
3560			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3561			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3562				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3563			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3564
3565			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3566			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3567			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3568			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3569			too.
3570
3571			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3572			mds=full.
3573
3574			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3575
3576	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3577			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3578
3579	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3580			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3581			as follows:
3582
3583			1 for test;
3584			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3585			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3586			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3587			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3588
3589			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3590			high memory is not affected.
3591
3592			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3593			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3594
3595			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3596			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3597			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3598			belonging to unused RAM.
3599
3600			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3601			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3602			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3603
3604	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3605			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3606			reported by firmware.
3607			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3608			ss[KMG].
3609			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3610			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3611
3612	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3613			memory.
3614
3615	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3616
3617	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3618			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3619			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3620
3621	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3622			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3623			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3624			set according to the
3625			CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3626			options.
3627			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3628
3629	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3630			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3631			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3632			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3633			option description.
3634
3635	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3636			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3637			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3638			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3639			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3640			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3641			comma delimited.
3642			Example:
3643				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3644
3645	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3646			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3647			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3648
3649	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3650			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3651			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3652			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3653			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3654			         or
3655			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3656			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3657			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3658			will be eaten.
3659
3660	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3661			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3662			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3663			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3664			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3665
3666	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3667			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3668			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3669			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3670			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3671			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3672			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3673			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3674
3675	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3676			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3677			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3678			Setting this option will scan the memory
3679			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3680			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3681			from using the memory being corrupted.
3682			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3683			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3684			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3685			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3686
3687	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3688			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3689			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3690			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3691			corruption in more or less memory.
3692
3693	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3694			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3695			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3696			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3697
3698	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3699			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3700			Format: {on | off (default)}
3701			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3702			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3703			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3704			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3705			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3706			lot of memory without requiring additional
3707			memory to do so.
3708			This feature is disabled by default because it
3709			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3710			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3711			memory blocks).
3712			The state of the flag can be read in
3713			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3714			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3715			the feature is not effective.
3716
3717	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3718			Format: <integer>
3719			default : 0 <disable>
3720			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3721			performed. Each pass selects another test
3722			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3723			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3724			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3725			regions that are detected.
3726
3727	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3728			Valid arguments: on, off
3729			Default: off
3730			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3731			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3732
3733			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3734			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3735
3736	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3737			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3738			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3739			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3740			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3741
3742	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3743			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3744			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3745			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3746
3747	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3748
3749	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3750			Format: <bool>
3751			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3752			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3753
3754	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3755			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3756			Default: "0tb"
3757			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3758			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3759			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3760			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3761			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3762			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3763			unconfigured.
3764			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3765			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3766			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3767			VGA shield.
3768			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3769			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3770			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3771			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3772			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3773			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3774
3775	mitigations=
3776			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3777			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3778			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3779			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3780
3781			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3782			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3783
3784			off
3785				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3786				improves system performance, but it may also
3787				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3788				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3789					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3790					       indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
3791					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3792					       l1tf=off [X86]
3793					       mds=off [X86]
3794					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3795					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3796					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3797					       nobp=0 [S390]
3798					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3799					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3800					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3801					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3802					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3803					       retbleed=off [X86]
3804					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3805					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3806					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3807					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3808					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3809					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3810					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3811
3812				Exceptions:
3813					       This does not have any effect on
3814					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3815					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3816
3817			auto (default)
3818				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3819				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3820				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3821				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3822				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3823				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3824
3825			auto,nosmt
3826				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3827				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3828				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3829				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3830					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3831					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3832					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3833					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3834
3835			[X86] After one of the above options, additionally
3836			supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
3837			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
3838
3839	mminit_loglevel=
3840			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3841			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3842			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3843			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3844			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3845			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3846
3847	mmio_stale_data=
3848			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3849			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3850
3851			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3852			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3853			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3854			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3855			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3856			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3857
3858			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3859			options are:
3860
3861			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3862
3863			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3864				     vulnerable CPUs.
3865
3866			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3867
3868			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3869			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3870			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3871			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3872			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3873			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3874
3875			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3876			mmio_stale_data=full.
3877
3878			For details see:
3879			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3880
3881	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3882			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3883			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3884			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3885			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3886			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3887
3888	module.async_probe=<bool>
3889			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3890			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3891			specific module, use the module specific control that
3892			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3893			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3894			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3895			the specific module.
3896
3897	module.enable_dups_trace
3898			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3899			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3900			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3901			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3902			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3903	module.sig_enforce
3904			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3905			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3906			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3907			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3908
3909	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3910			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3911
3912	mousedev.tap_time=
3913			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3914			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3915			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3916			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3917			Format: <msecs>
3918	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3919			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3920	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3921			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3922
3923	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3924			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3925			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3926			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3927			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3928			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3929			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3930			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3931			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3932			is not too small.
3933
3934	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3935			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3936			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3937			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3938			allocations. Use with caution!
3939
3940	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3941			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3942
3943	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3944			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3945
3946	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3947			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3948
3949	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3950			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3951			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3952
3953	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3954			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3955			registers at boot time.
3956
3957	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3958			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3959			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3960
3961	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3962			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3963			Default is 1.
3964			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3965			using up MTRRs.
3966
3967	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3968			Format: <integer>
3969			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3970			Default : 1
3971			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3972			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3973
3974	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3975			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3976			at a time.
3977
3978	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3979
3980	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3981			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3982			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3983			something different and driver-specific.
3984			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3985			file if at all.
3986
3987	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3988			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3989			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3990			waits 4 seconds.
3991
3992	nf_conntrack.acct=
3993			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3994			0 to disable accounting
3995			1 to enable accounting
3996			Default value is 0.
3997
3998	nfs.cache_getent=
3999			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4000			to update the NFS client cache entries.
4001
4002	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4003			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4004			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4005
4006	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4007			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4008			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4009			requests.
4010
4011	nfs.callback_tcpport=
4012			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4013			channel should listen.
4014
4015	nfs.delay_retrans=
4016			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4017			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4018			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4019			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4020			and the specified value is >= 0.
4021
4022	nfs.enable_ino64=
4023			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4024			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4025			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4026			of returning the full 64-bit number.
4027			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4028
4029	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4030			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4031			entries.
4032
4033	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4034			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4035			slots the client will assign to the callback
4036			channel. This determines the maximum number of
4037			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4038			a particular server.
4039
4040	nfs.max_session_slots=
4041			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4042			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4043			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4044			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4045			Note that there is little point in setting this
4046			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4047
4048	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4049			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4050			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4051			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4052			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4053			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4054			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4055			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4056			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4057			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4058			back to using the idmapper.
4059			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4060
4061	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4062			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4063			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4064			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
4065			UUID that is generated at system install time.
4066
4067	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4068			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4069			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4070			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4071			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4072			after the locks are lost.
4073			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4074			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4075			parameter to '1'.
4076			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4077			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4078
4079	nfs.send_implementation_id=
4080			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4081			information in exchange_id requests.
4082			If zero, no implementation identification information
4083			will be sent.
4084			The default is to send the implementation identification
4085			information.
4086
4087	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4088			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4089			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4090
4091			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4092			whatever value is the default set by the layout
4093			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4094			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4095
4096	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4097			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4098			server-to-server copies for which this server is
4099			the destination of the copy.
4100
4101	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4102			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4103			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4104			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4105			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
4106			migration from NFSv2/v3.
4107
4108	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4109			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4110			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4111			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
4112			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4113			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4114			this parameter.
4115
4116	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
4117			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4118
4119	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4120			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4121
4122	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4123			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4124
4125	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4126			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4127			NMI stack-backtrace request.
4128
4129	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4130			when a NMI is triggered.
4131			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4132
4133	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4134			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4135			Valid num: 0 or 1
4136			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4137			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4138			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4139
4140			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4141			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4142			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4143			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4144			please see 'nowatchdog'.
4145			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4146			need the box quickly up again.
4147
4148			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4149			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4150
4151	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4152			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4153			is present.
4154
4155	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4156			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4157
4158	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4159			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4160
4161	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
4162
4163	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4164			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4165
4166	noapictimer	[APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4167
4168	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4169
4170	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
4171
4172	no_console_suspend
4173			[HW] Never suspend the console
4174			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4175			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
4176			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4177			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4178			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
4179			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4180			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4181			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4182			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4183			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4184			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4185			turn on/off it dynamically.
4186
4187	no_debug_objects
4188			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4189
4190	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4191
4192	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4193
4194	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4195
4196	noexec32	[X86-64]
4197			This affects only 32-bit executables.
4198			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4199				read doesn't imply executable mappings
4200			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4201				read implies executable mappings
4202
4203	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
4204			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4205			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4206
4207	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4208
4209	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4210
4211	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4212			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4213			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4214
4215	nogbpages	[X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4216
4217	no_hash_pointers
4218			[KNL,EARLY]
4219			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
4220			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
4221			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
4222			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
4223			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
4224			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
4225			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
4226			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
4227			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
4228			value printed. This option should only be specified when
4229			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
4230			kernels.
4231
4232	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4233
4234	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4235			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4236			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4237			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4238			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4239			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4240			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4241			useful when using JTAG debugger.
4242
4243	nohpet		[X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4244
4245	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4246
4247	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4248
4249	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4250			Valid arguments: on, off
4251			Default: on
4252
4253	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4254			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4255			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4256			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4257			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4258			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
4259			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4260			just as if they had also been called out in the
4261			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4262
4263			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4264			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4265
4266	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4267			initial RAM disk.
4268
4269	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4270			remapping.
4271			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4272
4273	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4274
4275	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4276
4277	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4278			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4279
4280	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4281
4282	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
4283			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4284			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4285			Layout Randomization).
4286
4287	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4288			fault handling.
4289
4290	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4291
4292	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4293
4294	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4295
4296	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4297
4298	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4299			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4300
4301	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4302			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4303			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4304			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4305			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4306			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4307			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4308
4309			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4310
4311	nomodule	Disable module load
4312
4313	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4314			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4315			irq.
4316
4317	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4318			pagetables) support.
4319
4320	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4321
4322	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4323			in some Intel CPUs.
4324
4325	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4326			Equivalent to pti=off
4327
4328	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4329			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4330			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4331			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4332
4333	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4334			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4335			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4336			contention.
4337
4338	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4339			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4340
4341	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4342			with UP alternatives
4343
4344	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4345			space.
4346
4347	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4348			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4349			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4350
4351	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4352
4353	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4354			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4355			even if it is supported by processor.
4356
4357	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4358			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4359			even if it is supported by processor.
4360
4361	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4362			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4363
4364	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4365			Equivalent to smt=1.
4366
4367			[KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4368			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4369				     via the sysfs control file.
4370
4371	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4372
4373	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4374			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4375			Store Bypass vulnerability
4376
4377	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4378			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4379			with this option.
4380
4381	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4382			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4383			possible in the system.
4384
4385	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4386			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4387			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4388			leaks with this option.
4389
4390	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4391			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4392			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4393
4394	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4395
4396	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4397			timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4398			work around problems with incorrect timer
4399			initialization on some boards.
4400
4401	no_uaccess_flush
4402	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4403
4404	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4405			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4406			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4407			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4408			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4409			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4410			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4411			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4412			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4413			is set.
4414
4415	no-vmw-sched-clock
4416			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4417			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4418
4419	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4420			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4421
4422	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4423
4424	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4425
4426			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4427			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4428			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4429
4430	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4431			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4432			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4433
4434	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4435			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4436			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4437			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4438			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4439			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4440
4441	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4442			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4443			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4444			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4445			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4446			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4447			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4448
4449	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4450			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4451			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4452			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4453			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4454			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4455			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4456			hot plugging.
4457
4458	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4459
4460	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4461			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4462			spanning all memory.
4463
4464	numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4465			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4466			If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4467			nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4468
4469	numa=fake=<N>
4470			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4471			If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4472			fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4473
4474	numa=fake=<N>U
4475			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4476			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4477			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4478
4479	numa=noacpi	[X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4480
4481	numa=nohmat	[X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4482			soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4483
4484	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4485			NUMA balancing.
4486			Allowed values are enable and disable
4487
4488	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4489			'node', 'default' can be specified
4490			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4491			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4492
4493	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4494			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4495			info.
4496
4497	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4498			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4499			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4500			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4501			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4502			interrupts *may* be lost!
4503
4504	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4505			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4506			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4507			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4508
4509	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4510
4511			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4512
4513			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4514				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4515			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4516				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4517				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4518
4519	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4520			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4521			process, but there is a small probability of
4522			deadlocking the machine.
4523			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4524			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4525
4526	page_alloc.shuffle=
4527			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4528			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4529			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4530			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4531			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4532			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4533
4534	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4535			Storage of the information about who allocated
4536			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4537			we can turn it on.
4538			on: enable the feature
4539
4540	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4541			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4542			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4543			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4544			on: turn on poisoning
4545
4546	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4547			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4548			Format: <integer>
4549			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4550			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4551
4552	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4553			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4554			timeout = 0: wait forever
4555			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4556			Format: <timeout>
4557
4558	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4559			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4560			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4561			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4562			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4563			called with any of the flags in this set.
4564			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4565			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4566			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4567			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4568			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4569			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4570			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4571
4572	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4573			on a WARN().
4574
4575	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4576			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4577			bit 0: print all tasks info
4578			bit 1: print system memory info
4579			bit 2: print timer info
4580			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4581			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4582			bit 5: replay all messages on consoles at the end of panic
4583			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4584			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4585			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4586			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4587			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4588			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4589
4590	panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4591                        on panic.
4592                        Format: val[,val...]
4593                        Where @val can be any of the following:
4594
4595                        tasks:          print all tasks info
4596                        mem:            print system memory info
4597			timers:         print timers info
4598                        locks:          print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4599                        ftrace:         print ftrace buffer
4600                        all_bt:         print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4601                        blocked_tasks:  print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4602
4603                        This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4604
4605	panic_console_replay
4606			When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4607			consoles at the end of panic.
4608
4609	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4610			connected to, default is 0.
4611			Format: <parport#>
4612	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4613			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4614			Format: <mode>
4615
4616	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4617			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4618			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4619			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4620			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4621			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4622			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4623			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4624			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4625			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4626			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4627			are specified on the command line, starting
4628			with parport0.
4629
4630	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4631			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4632			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4633			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4634			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4635			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4636			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4637
4638	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4639			Format: <int>
4640			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4641			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4642			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4643
4644	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4645			Format: <int>
4646			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4647			changes.  Disabled by default.
4648
4649	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4650			Format: <int>
4651			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4652			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4653			Disabled by default.
4654
4655	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4656			Format: <int>
4657			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4658			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4659			Disabled by default.
4660
4661	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4662			Format: <int>
4663			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4664			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4665			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4666			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4667			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4668			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4669			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4670			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4671			all channels.
4672
4673	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4674			Format: <int>
4675			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4676			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4677			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4678
4679	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4680			Format: <int>
4681			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4682			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4683			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4684
4685	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4686			Format: <int>
4687			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4688			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4689			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4690			All modes allowed by default.
4691
4692	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4693			Format: <int>
4694			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4695			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4696
4697	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4698			Format: <int>
4699			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4700			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4701			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4702			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4703			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4704			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4705			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4706			By default all supported ports are probed.
4707
4708	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4709			Format: <int>
4710			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4711			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4712
4713	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4714			Format: <int>
4715			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4716			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4717			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4718			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4719			0 otherwise.
4720
4721	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4722			Format: <int>
4723			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4724			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4725			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4726			allowed by default.
4727
4728	pause_on_oops=<int>
4729			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4730			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4731			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4732
4733	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4734
4735	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4736
4737				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4738				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4739				specified in one of the following formats:
4740
4741				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4742				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4743
4744				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4745				bus/device/function address which may change
4746				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4747				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4748				by other kernel parameters. If the
4749				domain is left unspecified, it is
4750				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4751				to a device through multiple device/function
4752				addresses can be specified after the base
4753				address (this is more robust against
4754				renumbering issues).  The second format
4755				selects devices using IDs from the
4756				configuration space which may match multiple
4757				devices in the system.
4758
4759		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4760				changes anything
4761		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4762		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4763				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4764				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4765		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4766				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4767				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4768				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4769		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4770				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4771				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4772		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4773				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4774				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4775				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4776				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4777				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4778				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4779		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4780				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4781				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4782		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4783				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4784		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4785				Configuration
4786		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4787				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4788				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4789		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4790				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4791				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4792		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4793				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4794				should never be necessary.
4795		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4796				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4797				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4798				when the system masks IRQs.
4799		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4800				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4801				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4802				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4803		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4804				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4805				on several machines and they hang the machine
4806				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4807				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4808				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4809				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4810				motherboard.
4811		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4812				Use with caution as certain devices share
4813				address decoders between ROMs and other
4814				resources.
4815		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4816				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4817				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4818		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4819				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4820		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4821				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4822				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4823				this way.
4824		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4825				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4826				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4827				F0000h-100000h range.
4828		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4829				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4830				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4831				explicitly which ones they are.
4832		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4833				numbers ourselves, overriding
4834				whatever the firmware may have done.
4835		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4836				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4837				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4838				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4839				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4840				IRQ routing is enabled.
4841		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4842				or for PCI scanning.
4843		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4844				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4845				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4846				please report a bug.
4847		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4848				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4849		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4850				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4851				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4852				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4853				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4854		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4855				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4856				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4857				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4858		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4859				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4860				so this option is a temporary workaround
4861				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4862		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4863				handle more pci cards
4864		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4865				This might help on some broken boards which
4866				machine check when some devices' config space
4867				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4868				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4869		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4870				This sorting is done to get a device
4871				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4872		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4873		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4874				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4875		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4876				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4877		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4878				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4879				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4880				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4881				or bus can support) for best performance.
4882		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4883				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4884				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4885				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4886				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4887				that hot-added devices will work.
4888		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4889				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4890				The default value is 256 bytes.
4891		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4892				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4893				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4894		resource_alignment=
4895				Format:
4896				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4897				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4898				aligned memory resources. How to
4899				specify the device is described above.
4900				If <order of align> is not specified,
4901				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4902				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4903				windows need to be expanded.
4904				To specify the alignment for several
4905				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4906				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4907				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4908				for 4096-byte alignment.
4909		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4910				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4911				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4912				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4913				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4914				the default.
4915				off: Turn ECRC off
4916				on: Turn ECRC on.
4917		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4918				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4919				Default size is 256 bytes.
4920		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4921				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4922				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4923		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4924				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4925				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4926		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4927				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4928				MMIO_PREF window.
4929				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4930		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4931				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4932				Default is 1.
4933		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4934				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4935				accommodate resources required by all child
4936				devices.
4937				off: Turn realloc off
4938				on: Turn realloc on
4939		realloc		same as realloc=on
4940		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4941		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4942				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4943		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4944				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4945				port.
4946		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4947				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4948				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4949				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4950				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4951				taints the kernel.
4952		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4953				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4954				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4955				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4956				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4957				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4958				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4959				this removes isolation between devices and
4960				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4961		config_acs=
4962				Format:
4963				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4964				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4965				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4966				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4967				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4968				unchanged based on what is specified in
4969				flags.
4970
4971				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4972				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4973				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4974				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4975				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4976				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4977				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4978				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4979				Each bit can be marked as:
4980				  '0' – force disabled
4981				  '1' – force enabled
4982				  'x' – unchanged
4983				For example,
4984				  pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
4985				would configure all devices that support
4986				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4987				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4988				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4989				or firmware set it to.
4990
4991				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4992				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4993		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4994		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4995		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4996				one PCI domain per PCI function
4997		notph		[PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
4998				is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
4999				to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5000				system-wide.
5001
5002	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5003			Management.
5004		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
5005			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5006		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5007			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5008
5009	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5010		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5011			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5012			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
5013			also tries to use these services.
5014		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
5015				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5016		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5017			hotplug).
5018
5019	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5020		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5021		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5022
5023	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5024		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5025			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5026
5027	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5028
5029	pd_ignore_unused
5030			[PM]
5031			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5032			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5033			for debug and development, but should not be
5034			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5035
5036	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5037			boot time.
5038			Format: { 0 | 1 }
5039			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5040
5041	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
5042			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5043			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5044			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
5045			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5046			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
5047			and performance comparison.
5048
5049	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5050			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5051
5052	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5053			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5054			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5055
5056	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5057			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5058			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5059
5060	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
5061			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5062			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5063			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5064			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5065			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5066			remains 0.
5067
5068	pm_async=	[PM]
5069			Format: off
5070			This parameter sets the initial value of the
5071			/sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5072			If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5073			resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5074			This can be useful on platforms where device
5075			dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5076			power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5077			enabled by default.
5078
5079
5080	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
5081			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5082
5083	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
5084			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5085			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
5086			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
5087			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5088			possible settings and some assignment information.
5089
5090	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
5091			{ off }
5092
5093	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
5094			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5095
5096	pnp_reserve_irq=
5097			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5098
5099	pnp_reserve_dma=
5100			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5101
5102	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5103			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5104
5105	pnp_reserve_mem=
5106			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5107			autoconfiguration.
5108			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5109
5110	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5111			Default is 21.
5112			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5113			may be specified.
5114			Format: <port>,<port>....
5115
5116	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
5117			Format: <unsigned int>
5118			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5119			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5120
5121	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5122			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5123			platform machine description specific power_save
5124			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5125			execution priority.
5126
5127	ppc_strict_facility_enable
5128			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5129			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5130			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5131			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5132
5133	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
5134			Format: {"off"}
5135			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5136
5137	preempt=	[KNL]
5138			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5139			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5140			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5141			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5142			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
5143			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5144			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5145			lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5146			       of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5147			       one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5148			       preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5149			       task returns to user space.
5150
5151	print-fatal-signals=
5152			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5153
5154			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5155			related application anomalies: too many signals,
5156			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5157			coredump - etc.
5158
5159			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5160			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5161
5162			default: off.
5163
5164	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5165			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5166			panics
5167			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5168			default: disabled
5169
5170	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5171			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5172			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5173			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5174			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5175			in order to provide more debug information.
5176			Format: <bool>
5177			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5178
5179	printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5180			Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5181			the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5182			flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5183			a best-effort basis.
5184			Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5185			Default: disabled
5186
5187	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5188			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5189			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5190			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5191			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5192			Default: ratelimit
5193
5194	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5195			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5196
5197	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5198			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5199			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5200			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5201			restrict that. Can be one of:
5202			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5203			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5204			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
5205			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5206
5207	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
5208			Limit processor to maximum C-state
5209			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5210
5211	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
5212			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5213			instead using the legacy FADT method
5214
5215	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5216			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5217			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5218				[defaults to kernel profiling]
5219			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5220			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5221			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5222				statistical time based profiling.
5223
5224	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
5225
5226	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5227			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5228			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5229			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5230			Layout Randomization is disabled.
5231			Format: <bool>
5232
5233	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5234			tracking.
5235			Format: <bool>
5236
5237	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5238			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5239	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5240			per second.
5241	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
5242			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5243			(0 = never).
5244	psmouse.resolution=
5245			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5246	psmouse.smartscroll=
5247			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5248			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5249
5250	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5251
5252	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5253			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
5254			removes hardening, but improves performance of
5255			system calls and interrupts.
5256
5257			on   - unconditionally enable
5258			off  - unconditionally disable
5259			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5260			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5261
5262			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5263
5264	pty.legacy_count=
5265			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5266			default number.
5267
5268	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5269
5270	r128=		[HW,DRM]
5271
5272	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
5273			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5274			invalidate.
5275
5276	raid=		[HW,RAID]
5277			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5278
5279	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5280			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5281
5282	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
5283
5284	random.trust_cpu=off
5285			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5286			random number generator (if available) to
5287			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5288
5289	random.trust_bootloader=off
5290			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5291			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5292			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5293
5294	randomize_kstack_offset=
5295			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5296			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5297			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5298			that depend on stack address determinism or
5299			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5300			available on architectures that have defined
5301			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5302			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5303			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5304
5305	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
5306
5307		cec_disable	[X86]
5308				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5309				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5310
5311	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5312			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5313			as described above.
5314
5315			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5316			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5317			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5318			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5319			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5320			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5321			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5322			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5323			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5324			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5325			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
5326			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5327
5328			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5329			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5330
5331			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5332			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5333			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5334			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5335
5336			Note that this argument takes precedence over
5337			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5338
5339	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
5340			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5341			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5342			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5343			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5344			This improves the real-time response for the
5345			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5346			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5347			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5348			periodically wake up to do the polling.
5349
5350	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
5351			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5352			process in one batch.
5353
5354	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
5355			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5356			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5357
5358	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
5359			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
5360			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5361			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5362			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5363			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5364
5365	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
5366			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5367			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
5368			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5369
5370	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
5371			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5372			RCU grace-period cleanup.
5373
5374	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
5375			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5376			RCU grace-period initialization.
5377
5378	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
5379			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5380			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5381			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5382			the rcu_node combining tree.
5383
5384	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5385			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5386			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5387			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5388			and maximum value is HZ.
5389
5390	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5391			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5392			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5393			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5394
5395	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5396			Set required age in jiffies for a
5397			given grace period before RCU starts
5398			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5399			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5400			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5401			a value based on the most recent settings
5402			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5403			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5404			This calculated value may be viewed in
5405			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5406			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5407			overwritten.
5408
5409	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5410			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5411			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5412			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5413			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5414			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5415			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5416			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5417			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5418			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5419			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5420			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5421
5422	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5423			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5424			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5425			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5426			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5427			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5428			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5429			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5430			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5431			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5432			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5433			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5434
5435	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5436			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5437			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5438			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5439			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5440			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5441			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5442
5443	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5444			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5445			batch limiting is disabled.
5446
5447	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5448			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5449			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5450
5451	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5452			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5453			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5454			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5455			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5456			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5457			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5458			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5459
5460	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5461			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5462			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5463			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5464
5465	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5466			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5467			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5468			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5469			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5470			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5471			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5472			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5473
5474			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5475			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5476			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5477			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5478			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5479
5480	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5481			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5482			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5483			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5484			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5485
5486	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5487			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5488			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5489			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5490			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5491			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5492			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5493
5494	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5495			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5496			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5497			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5498			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5499			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5500			condition.
5501
5502	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5503			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5504			each group, which defaults to the square root
5505			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5506			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5507			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5508			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5509
5510	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5511			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5512			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5513			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5514			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5515			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5516
5517	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5518			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5519			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5520			By default, this limit is checked only once
5521			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5522			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5523
5524	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5525			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5526			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5527			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5528			Larger delays increase the probability of
5529			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5530			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5531			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5532
5533	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5534			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5535			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5536			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5537
5538	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5539			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5540			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5541			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5542			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5543
5544			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5545			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5546			to zero.
5547
5548	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5549			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5550			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5551			big.
5552
5553	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5554			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5555			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5556			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5557			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5558			normal grace period.
5559
5560			How to enable it:
5561
5562			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5563			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5564
5565			Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5566			disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5567
5568	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5569			Measure performance of asynchronous
5570			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5571
5572	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5573			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5574			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5575			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5576			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5577			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5578
5579	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5580			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5581			grace-period primitives.
5582
5583	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5584			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5585			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5586			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5587			interference.
5588
5589	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5590			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5591			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5592
5593	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5594			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5595			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5596			Defaults to 1.
5597
5598	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5599			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5600
5601	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5602			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5603			If this parameter has the same value as
5604			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5605			and double-argument variants are tested.
5606
5607	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5608			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5609			If this parameter has the same value as
5610			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5611			and double-argument variants are tested.
5612
5613	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5614			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5615
5616	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5617			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5618
5619	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5620			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5621			of allocations and frees.
5622
5623	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5624			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5625			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5626			but instead allows better measurement of things
5627			like CPU consumption.
5628
5629	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5630			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5631			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5632			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5633			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5634			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5635			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5636			a single reader.
5637
5638	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5639			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5640			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5641			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5642
5643	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5644			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5645
5646	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5647			Shut the system down after performance tests
5648			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5649			testing.
5650
5651	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5652			Enable additional printk() statements.
5653
5654	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5655			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5656			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5657			no holdoff.
5658
5659	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5660			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5661			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5662			says no holdoff.
5663
5664	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5665			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5666			in microseconds.
5667
5668	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5669			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5670			in microseconds.
5671
5672	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5673			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5674			in seconds.
5675
5676	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5677			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5678			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5679			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5680			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5681			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5682			of CPUs to be used.
5683
5684	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5685			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5686			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5687
5688	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5689			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5690			forward-progress tests.
5691
5692	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5693			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5694			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5695			testing.
5696
5697	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5698			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5699			normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5700
5701	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5702			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5703			expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5704
5705	rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5706			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5707			normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5708			concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5709			if available.
5710
5711	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5712			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5713			expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5714			concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5715			if available.
5716
5717	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5718			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5719			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5720			gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5721			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5722			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5723			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5724			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5725			with HZ=1000.
5726
5727	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5728			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5729			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5730			gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5731			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5732			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5733			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5734			128 microseconds.
5735
5736	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5737			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5738
5739	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5740			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5741			update-side primitives, if available.
5742
5743	rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5744			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5745			primitives, if available.
5746
5747	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5748			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5749			primitives, if available.
5750
5751	rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5752			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5753			primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5754			grace periods into account, if available.
5755
5756	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5757			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5758			primitives that also take concurrent normal
5759			grace periods into account, if available.
5760
5761	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5762			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5763			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5764			gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5765			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5766			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5767			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5768			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5769			with HZ=1000.
5770
5771	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5772			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5773			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5774			gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5775			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5776			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5777			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5778			128 microseconds.
5779
5780	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5781			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5782			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5783			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5784			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5785			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5786			they are all non-zero.
5787
5788	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
5789			Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
5790			to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
5791			running. Default is true.
5792
5793	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
5794			Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
5795			active lag testing periods. This controls how many
5796			grace periods differences we tolerate between
5797			rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
5798			The default is always set to 8.
5799
5800	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
5801			Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
5802			testing in minutes. This is the total time for
5803			one complete cycle of active and inactive
5804			testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
5805
5806	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
5807			Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
5808			within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
5809			the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
5810			value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
5811			5 minutes.
5812
5813	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5814			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5815			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5816			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5817
5818	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5819			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5820			This can of course result in splats, and is
5821			intended to test the ability of things like
5822			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5823			such leaks.
5824
5825	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5826			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5827
5828	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5829			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5830			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5831			test, hence the "fake".
5832
5833	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5834			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5835			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5836
5837	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5838			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5839			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5840
5841	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5842			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5843			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5844			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5845			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5846			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5847
5848	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5849			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5850
5851	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5852			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5853
5854	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5855			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5856			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5857
5858	rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
5859			Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
5860			by a high-priority FIFO real-time task.  Set to
5861			zero (the default) to disable.	The CPUs to
5862			preempt are selected randomly from the set that
5863			are online at a given point in time.  Races with
5864			CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
5865			at preemption skipped.
5866
5867	rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
5868			Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
5869			second) between preemptions by a high-priority
5870			FIFO real-time task.  This delay is mediated
5871			by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
5872			inadvertent synchronizations.
5873
5874	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5875			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5876			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5877			is spawned.
5878
5879	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5880			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5881			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5882
5883	rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
5884			A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
5885			If there is more than one bit set, the readers
5886			are entered from low-order bit up, and are
5887			exited in the opposite order.  For SRCU, the
5888			0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
5889			and 0x4 light-weight readers.
5890
5891	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5892			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5893			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5894			during the rcutorture test.
5895
5896	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5897			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5898			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5899
5900	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5901			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5902			warnings, zero to disable.
5903
5904	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5905			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5906			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5907			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5908			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5909			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5910			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5911			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5912			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5913			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5914
5915			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5916
5917
5918	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5919			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5920
5921	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5922			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
5923			on the first stall in the set.
5924
5925	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
5926			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5927			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
5928			in four stall sequences.
5929
5930	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5931			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5932			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5933			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5934			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5935			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5936
5937	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5938			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5939
5940	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5941			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5942			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5943			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5944			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5945
5946	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5947			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5948			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5949			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5950
5951	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5952			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5953
5954	rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
5955			Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
5956			of RCU priority-boost testing.	Defaults to zero,
5957			that is, no holdoff.
5958
5959	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5960			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5961
5962	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5963			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5964			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5965
5966	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5967			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5968
5969	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5970			Enable additional printk() statements.
5971
5972	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5973			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5974			stall warning.
5975
5976	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5977			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5978			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5979			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5980			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5981
5982	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5983			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5984
5985	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5986			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5987			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5988			during early boot, that is, during the time
5989			before the init task is spawned.
5990
5991	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5992			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5993			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5994			value is 300 seconds.
5995
5996	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5997			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5998			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5999			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6000			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6001			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6002			Setting this to zero causes the value from
6003			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6004			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6005
6006	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6007			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6008			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6009			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6010			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6011
6012	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6013			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6014			current expedited RCU grace period during an
6015			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6016
6017	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6018			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6019			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6020			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
6021			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6022			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6023			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6024
6025	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6026			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6027			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6028			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
6029			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6030			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6031			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
6032			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
6033			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6034
6035	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6036			Once boot has completed (that is, after
6037			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6038			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
6039			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6040
6041			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6042			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6043			it to the value one, that is, converting any
6044			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6045			period to instead use normal non-expedited
6046			grace-period processing.
6047
6048	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6049			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6050			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6051			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6052			a single callback queue.  This switching only
6053			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6054			set to the default value of -1.
6055
6056	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6057			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6058			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6059			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6060			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
6061			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6062			the default value of -1.
6063
6064	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6065			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6066			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
6067			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6068			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
6069			for use in testing.
6070
6071	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6072			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6073			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6074			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
6075			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6076			but lengthens grace periods.
6077
6078	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6079			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6080			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
6081			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6082			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6083			callback flooding.
6084
6085	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6086			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6087			informational messages, which give some indication
6088			of the problem for those not patient enough to
6089			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
6090			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6091			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6092			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
6093			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
6094			until the beginning of the next grace period.
6095
6096	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6097			Multiplier for time interval between successive
6098			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6099			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
6100			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
6101			the value three, so that the first informational
6102			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6103			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6104			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6105			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6106
6107	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6108			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6109			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
6110			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
6111			A change in value does not take effect until
6112			the beginning of the next grace period.
6113
6114	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6115			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6116			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6117			A negative value will take the default.  A value
6118			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
6119			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6120
6121	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6122			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6123			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6124			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
6125			will take the default.	A value of zero will
6126			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
6127			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6128
6129	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6130			Run the RCU early boot self tests
6131
6132	rdinit=		[KNL]
6133			Format: <full_path>
6134			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6135			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6136
6137	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
6138			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6139				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6140				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6141				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6142				path).
6143
6144	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
6145			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6146			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6147			mba, smba, bmec.
6148			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6149				rdt=cmt,!mba
6150
6151	reboot=		[KNL]
6152			Format (x86 or x86_64):
6153				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6154				[[,]s[mp]#### \
6155				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6156				[[,]f[orce]
6157			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6158					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6159					reboot only),
6160			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6161			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6162			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6163					to be used for rebooting.
6164
6165		acpi
6166			Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6167			configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6168			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6169
6170		bios
6171			Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6172
6173		cold
6174			Set the cold reboot flag
6175
6176		default
6177			There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6178			- you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6179			Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6180			think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6181			or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6182			built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6183			reboot actions.
6184
6185		efi
6186			Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6187			configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6188			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6189
6190		force
6191			Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6192			more reliable in some cases.
6193
6194		kbd
6195			Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6196
6197		pci
6198			Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6199			trigger reboot.
6200
6201		triple
6202			Force a triple fault (init)
6203
6204		warm
6205			Don't set the cold reboot flag
6206
6207			Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6208			memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6209			the memory check.  Disadvantage is that not all
6210			hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6211			there may be boot problems on some systems.
6212
6213
6214	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6215			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
6216			this parameter is to delay the start of the
6217			test until boot completes in order to avoid
6218			interference.
6219
6220	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6221			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6222			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
6223			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6224			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6225
6226	refscale.loops= [KNL]
6227			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6228			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
6229			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6230			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6231			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6232			x86 laptops.
6233
6234	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6235			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
6236			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6237			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6238
6239	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6240			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6241			the console log.
6242
6243	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6244			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6245			measured in microseconds.
6246
6247	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6248			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6249
6250	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6251			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6252			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6253			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6254			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6255
6256	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6257			Enable additional printk() statements.
6258
6259	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6260			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
6261			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
6262			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6263			specified.
6264
6265	regulator_ignore_unused
6266			[REGULATOR]
6267			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6268			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6269			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6270			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6271
6272	relax_domain_level=
6273			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6274			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6275
6276	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6277			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6278			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6279			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6280			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6281
6282	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
6283			Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6284			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6285			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6286			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6287			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6288			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6289			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6290			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6291			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6292			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6293			different location.
6294			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6295			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6296			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6297			located at the same location.
6298
6299			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6300			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6301
6302			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6303
6304	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
6305			Format: nn[KMG]
6306			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6307			address space.
6308
6309	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6310			during initialization.
6311
6312	resume=		[SWSUSP]
6313			Specify the partition device for software suspend
6314			Format:
6315			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6316
6317	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
6318			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6319			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6320			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6321			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6322
6323	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6324			read the resume files
6325
6326	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6327			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6328			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6329
6330	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6331			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6332
6333	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6334			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6335			vulnerability.
6336
6337			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6338			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6339			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6340			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6341			that don't.
6342
6343			off          - no mitigation
6344			auto         - automatically select a migitation
6345			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
6346				       disabling SMT if necessary for
6347				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6348				       and older without STIBP).
6349			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6350				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
6351				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6352				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6353				       on Intel.
6354			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6355				       when STIBP is not available. This is
6356				       the alternative for systems which do not
6357				       have STIBP.
6358			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6359				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6360				       systems.
6361			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6362				       is not available. This is the alternative for
6363				       systems which do not have STIBP.
6364
6365			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6366			time according to the CPU.
6367
6368			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6369
6370	rfkill.default_state=
6371		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6372			etc. communication is blocked by default.
6373		1	Unblocked.
6374
6375	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6376		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6377		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6378			blocked and the previous configuration.
6379		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6380			blocked and everything unblocked.
6381
6382	ring3mwait=disable
6383			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6384			CPUs.
6385
6386	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6387			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6388			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6389			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6390			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6391			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6392
6393	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6394
6395	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
6396		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6397		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6398		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
6399		        [arm64]
6400
6401	rockchip.usb_uart
6402			[EARLY]
6403			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6404			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6405			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6406			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6407
6408	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
6409			Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6410			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6411			block/early-lookup.c for details.
6412			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6413			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6414			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6415
6416	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6417			mount the root filesystem
6418
6419	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6420
6421	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
6422
6423	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6424			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6425			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6426
6427	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6428			to show up before attempting to mount the root
6429			filesystem.
6430
6431	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6432			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6433			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6434			managed by CMA.
6435
6436	rt_group_sched=	[KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6437			when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6438			!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6439			Format: <bool>
6440
6441	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6442
6443	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
6444
6445	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
6446			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6447		strict
6448			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6449			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6450			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6451			iommu.strict=1.
6452
6453	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
6454			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6455			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6456			factor of the size of main memory.
6457			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6458			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6459			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6460			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6461			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6462			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6463			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6464
6465	sa1100ir	[NET]
6466			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6467
6468	sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6469			Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6470			solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6471			Format: <bool>
6472
6473	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6474
6475	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6476			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6477			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6478			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6479
6480	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6481			[Deprecated]
6482			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6483			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6484			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6485			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6486			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6487			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6488			value.
6489			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6490			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
6491				1			64 ms
6492				2			128 ms
6493			and so on.
6494			Format: integer between 0 and 10
6495			Default is 0.
6496
6497	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6498			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6499			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6500			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6501			tests.
6502
6503	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6504			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6505			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
6506			default) disables this feature.  Please note
6507			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6508			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6509			softlockup complaints, and so on.
6510
6511	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6512			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6513			smp_call_function() family of functions.
6514			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6515			equal to the number of CPUs.
6516
6517	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6518			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6519			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6520
6521	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6522			Number seconds to wait between successive
6523			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
6524			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6525
6526	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6527			The number of seconds following the start of the
6528			test after which to shut down the system.  The
6529			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6530			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6531
6532	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6533			The number of seconds between outputting the
6534			current test statistics to the console.  A value
6535			of zero disables statistics output.
6536
6537	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6538			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6539			to the set of CPUs under test.
6540
6541	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6542			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6543			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6544			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6545			functions.
6546
6547	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6548			Enable additional printk() statements.
6549
6550	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6551			The probability weighting to use for the
6552			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6553			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
6554			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
6555			if at least one weight has some other value, a
6556			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6557
6558	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6559			The probability weighting to use for the
6560			smp_call_function_single() function with a
6561			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6562
6563	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6564			The probability weighting to use for the
6565			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6566			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6567			Note well that setting a high probability for
6568			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6569			on the system.
6570
6571	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6572			The probability weighting to use for the
6573			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6574			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6575			and weight_many.
6576
6577	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6578			The probability weighting to use for the
6579			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6580			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6581			weight_many.
6582
6583	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6584			The probability weighting to use for the
6585			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6586			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6587			and weight_many.
6588
6589	sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6590			Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6591			case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6592
6593	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6594			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6595			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6596			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6597			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6598			1 -- enable.
6599			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6600			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6601
6602	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6603			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6604			"lsm=" parameter.
6605
6606	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6607			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6608			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6609			0 -- disable.
6610			1 -- enable.
6611			Default value is 1.
6612
6613	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6614
6615	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6616
6617		debug
6618			Enable debug messages.
6619
6620		nosnp
6621			Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6622			only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6623			in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6624			SEV-SNP guests.
6625
6626	shapers=	[NET]
6627			Maximal number of shapers.
6628
6629	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6630			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6631			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6632			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6633			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6634			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6635			apic=verbose is specified.
6636			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6637
6638	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6639			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6640			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6641			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6642			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6643			last alloc / free. For more information see
6644			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6645			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6646
6647	slab_max_order= [MM]
6648			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6649			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6650			fragmentation. For more information see
6651			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6652			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6653
6654	slab_merge	[MM]
6655			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6656			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6657			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6658
6659	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6660			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6661			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6662			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6663			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6664			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6665			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6666			For more information see
6667			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6668			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6669
6670	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6671			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6672			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6673			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6674			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6675
6676	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6677			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6678			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6679			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6680			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6681			layout control by attackers can usually be
6682			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6683			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6684			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6685			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6686			own.
6687			For more information see
6688			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6689			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6690
6691	slab_strict_numa	[MM]
6692			Support memory policies on a per object level
6693			in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6694			policies to be applied at the folio level when
6695			a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6696			retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6697			in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6698			NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6699			interconnects in NUMA systems.
6700
6701	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6702
6703	smart2=		[HW]
6704			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6705
6706	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6707			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6708			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6709			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6710			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6711			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6712			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6713			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6714			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6715			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6716
6717	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6718			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6719			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6720			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6721			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6722			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6723
6724	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6725	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6726	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6727	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6728	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6729	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6730	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6731				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6732				1: Fast pin select (default)
6733				2: ATC IRMode
6734
6735	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6736			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6737			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6738			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6739			Format: <integer>
6740			Default: -1 (no limit)
6741
6742	softlockup_panic=
6743			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6744			Format: 0 | 1
6745
6746			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6747			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6748			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6749			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6750			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6751
6752	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6753			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6754			backtraces on all cpus.
6755			Format: 0 | 1
6756
6757	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6758			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6759
6760	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6761			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6762			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6763			clearing sequence.
6764
6765			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6766				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6767				 both syscalls and VMs.
6768			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6769				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6770				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6771				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6772				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6773			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6774
6775	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6776			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6777			The default operation protects the kernel from
6778			user space attacks.
6779
6780			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6781			       spectre_v2_user=on
6782			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6783			       spectre_v2_user=off
6784			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6785			       vulnerable
6786
6787			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6788			mitigation method at run time according to the
6789			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6790			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6791			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6792
6793			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6794			against user space to user space task attacks.
6795			Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
6796			user mitigations.
6797
6798			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6799			the user space protections.
6800
6801			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6802
6803			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6804			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6805			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6806			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6807			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6808			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6809			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6810			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6811
6812			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6813			spectre_v2=auto.
6814
6815	spectre_v2_user=
6816			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6817		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6818		        user space tasks
6819
6820			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6821				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6822
6823			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6824				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6825
6826			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6827				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6828				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6829				  is inherited on fork.
6830
6831			prctl,ibpb
6832				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6833				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6834				  always when switching between different user
6835				  space processes.
6836
6837			seccomp
6838				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6839				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6840				  they explicitly opt out.
6841
6842			seccomp,ibpb
6843				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6844				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6845				  always when switching between different
6846				  user space processes.
6847
6848			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6849				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6850
6851			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6852
6853			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6854			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6855
6856	spec_rstack_overflow=
6857			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6858
6859			off		- Disable mitigation
6860			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6861			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6862			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6863					  kernel entry
6864			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6865					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6866
6867	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6868			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6869			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6870
6871			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6872			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6873			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6874			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6875			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6876			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6877			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6878			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6879
6880			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6881			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6882			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6883			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6884
6885			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6886			Bypass optimization is used.
6887
6888			On x86 the options are:
6889
6890			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6891			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6892			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6893				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6894				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6895				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6896				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6897				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6898			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6899				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6900				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6901				  is inherited on fork.
6902			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6903				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6904
6905			Default mitigations:
6906			X86:	"prctl"
6907
6908			On powerpc the options are:
6909
6910			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6911				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6912				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6913				  exit.
6914			off	- No action.
6915
6916			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6917			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6918
6919	split_lock_detect=
6920			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6921
6922			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6923			instructions that access data across cache line
6924			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6925			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6926			bus lock detection.
6927
6928			off	- not enabled
6929
6930			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6931				  about applications triggering the #AC
6932				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6933				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6934				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6935				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6936				  enabled in hardware.
6937
6938			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6939				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6940				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6941				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6942
6943			ratelimit:N -
6944				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6945				  per second for bus lock detection.
6946				  0 < N <= 1000.
6947
6948				  N/A for split lock detection.
6949
6950
6951			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6952			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6953			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6954			mode.
6955
6956			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6957			CPL > 0.
6958
6959	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6960			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6961			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6962
6963			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6964			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6965			number generator.
6966
6967			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6968			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6969			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6970			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6971			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6972
6973			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6974			the following option:
6975
6976			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6977				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6978
6979	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6980			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6981			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6982			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6983			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6984			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6985			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6986			(decide at boot).
6987
6988	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6989			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6990			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6991			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6992
6993				   0:  Never.
6994				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6995				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6996				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6997				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6998
6999			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7000			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7001			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7002
7003	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7004			Specifies how frequently to check for
7005			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7006			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7007			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7008			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7009			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
7010			are ignored.
7011
7012	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7013			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7014			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7015			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7016			grace period will be considered for automatic
7017			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
7018			expediting.
7019
7020	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7021			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7022			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7023			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7024			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7025			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7026
7027	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7028			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7029			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7030			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7031			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7032			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7033
7034	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7035			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7036			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7037
7038	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7039			Specifies the number of update-side contention
7040			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7041			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7042			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
7043			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7044			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7045
7046	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7047			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7048
7049			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7050			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7051			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7052			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7053
7054			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7055				   for both kernel and userspace
7056			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7057				   for both kernel and userspace
7058			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
7059				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7060				   to allow userspace to register its
7061				   interest in being mitigated too.
7062
7063	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
7064			override the default stack gap protection. The value
7065			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7066			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7067			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7068			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7069
7070	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7071			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7072			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7073			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7074			to false.
7075
7076	stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7077			Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7078			stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7079			limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7080
7081	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
7082			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
7083
7084	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7085			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7086			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7087			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7088			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7089			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7090			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7091
7092	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
7093			Format: <num>
7094			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7095			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7096			as the initial boot-console.
7097			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7098
7099	sti_font=	[HW]
7100			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7101
7102	stifb=		[HW]
7103			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7104
7105        strict_sas_size=
7106			[X86]
7107			Format: <bool>
7108			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7109			against the required signal frame size which
7110			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7111			be used to filter out binaries which have
7112			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7113
7114	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
7115			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7116			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7117			faults on kernel addresses.
7118
7119	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
7120			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7121			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7122			on kernel addresses.
7123
7124	sunrpc.min_resvport=
7125	sunrpc.max_resvport=
7126			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7127			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7128			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7129			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7130			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7131			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7132			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7133			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7134			maximum port values.
7135
7136	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7137			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7138			Limit the number of requests that the server will
7139			process in parallel from a single connection.
7140			The default value is 0 (no limit).
7141
7142	sunrpc.pool_mode=
7143			[NFS]
7144			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7145			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
7146			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7147			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7148			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7149			NFS server is running.
7150
7151			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
7152				    automatically using heuristics
7153			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
7154			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
7155			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7156				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
7157
7158	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7159	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7160			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7161			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7162			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7163			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7164			improve throughput, but will also increase the
7165			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7166
7167	suspend.pm_test_delay=
7168			[SUSPEND]
7169			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7170			mode before resuming the system (see
7171			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7172			is set. Default value is 5.
7173
7174	svm=		[PPC]
7175			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7176			This parameter controls use of the Protected
7177			Execution Facility on pSeries.
7178
7179	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7180			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7181			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7182			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7183				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7184				 to a power of 2.
7185			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7186			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7187			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7188
7189	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
7190
7191	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
7192			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7193			process, as if the value was written to the respective
7194			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7195			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7196			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7197			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7198			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7199
7200	sysrq_always_enabled
7201			[KNL]
7202			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7203			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7204			Useful for debugging.
7205
7206	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7207			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7208			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7209			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7210			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7211			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7212
7213	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
7214
7215	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
7216			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7217			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7218			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7219			as the system sleep state during system startup with
7220			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7221			The system is woken from this state using a
7222			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7223
7224	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7225			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7226
7227	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
7228			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7229			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7230
7231	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
7232			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7233			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7234
7235	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
7236			1: disable ACPI thermal control
7237
7238	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
7239			-1: disable all passive trip points
7240			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7241			value
7242
7243	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
7244			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7245			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7246			0: no polling (default)
7247
7248	thp_anon=	[KNL]
7249			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7250			state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7251			Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7252			to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7253			Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7254			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7255			details.
7256
7257	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
7258			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7259			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7260
7261	thp_shmem=	[KNL]
7262			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7263			Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7264			internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7265			for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7266			and "advise").
7267			It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7268			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7269			details.
7270
7271	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
7272			Format: {off | on}
7273			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7274			topology information if the hardware supports this.
7275			The scheduler will make use of this information and
7276			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7277			Default is on.
7278
7279	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7280			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7281			until after init has spawned.
7282
7283	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7284			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7285			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
7286			very costly operation when many torture tests
7287			are running concurrently, especially on systems
7288			with rotating-rust storage.
7289
7290	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7291			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7292			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
7293			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7294
7295	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7296			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7297
7298	tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7299			Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7300			access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7301			having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7302			TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7303			where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7304			causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7305			machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7306
7307	tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7308			Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7309			to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7310			how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7311			service is busy.
7312			Format: <unsigned int>
7313			Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7314
7315	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7316			Format: integer pcr id
7317			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7318			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7319			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7320			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7321			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7322			are saved.
7323
7324	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7325			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7326			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7327			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7328			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7329			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7330
7331	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
7332			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7333			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7334			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7335			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7336			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7337
7338			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7339			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7340			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7341			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7342
7343			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7344			to stop the printing of events to console at
7345			late_initcall_sync.
7346
7347			** CAUTION **
7348
7349			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7350			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7351			the system to live lock.
7352
7353	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7354			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7355			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7356			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7357			make the system inoperable.
7358
7359			This command line option will stop the printing of events
7360			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7361
7362	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7363			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7364
7365	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7366			at boot up.
7367			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7368				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7369				depending on the architecture, may not be
7370				in sync between CPUs.
7371			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
7372				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7373				but better for some race conditions.
7374			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7375				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7376				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7377				once per event.
7378			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7379			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7380			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7381			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7382				stamps.
7383			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7384			Architectures may add more clocks. See
7385			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7386
7387	trace_event=[event-list]
7388			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7389			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7390			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7391			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7392
7393			To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7394
7395			trace_event=:mod:<module>
7396
7397			The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7398			that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7399			document for more information.
7400
7401	trace_instance=[instance-info]
7402			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7403			This will be listed in:
7404
7405				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7406
7407			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7408			via:
7409
7410				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7411
7412			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7413			unique.
7414
7415				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7416
7417			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7418			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7419			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7420
7421			Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7422			created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7423
7424			The available flags are:
7425
7426			    traceoff	- Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7427			    traceprintk	- Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7428					  (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7429
7430				trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7431
7432			The flags must come before the defined events.
7433
7434			If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7435			can use that memory:
7436
7437				memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7438
7439			The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7440			memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7441			instance will be split up accordingly.
7442
7443			Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7444
7445				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7446
7447			This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7448			and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7449			memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7450			the buffer content.
7451
7452			Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7453			kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7454			if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7455
7456			If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7457			it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7458			mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7459			at boot up).
7460
7461				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7462
7463			Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7464			is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7465			can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7466			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7467			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7468
7469			NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7470
7471			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7472
7473
7474	trace_options=[option-list]
7475			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7476			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7477			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7478			to echo the option name into
7479
7480			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7481
7482			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7483			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7484
7485			      trace_options=stacktrace
7486
7487			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7488			section.
7489
7490	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7491			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
7492			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7493			filter.
7494
7495			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7496			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
7497
7498			For example:
7499
7500			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7501
7502			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7503			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7504			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
7505
7506			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7507
7508
7509	traceoff_after_boot
7510			[FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7511			during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7512			limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7513			disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7514			the critical information may be overwritten.  With this
7515			option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7516			the end of the boot process.
7517
7518	traceoff_on_warning
7519			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7520			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7521			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7522			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7523
7524			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7525			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7526			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7527
7528			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7529			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7530
7531	transparent_hugepage=
7532			[KNL]
7533			Format: [always|madvise|never]
7534			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7535			with respect to transparent hugepages.
7536			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7537			for more details.
7538
7539	transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7540			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7541			Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7542			the internal shmem mount.
7543			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7544			for more details.
7545
7546	transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7547			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7548			Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7549			for the tmpfs mount.
7550			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7551			for more details.
7552
7553	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
7554			Format: <string>
7555			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7556			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7557			sources:
7558			- "tpm"
7559			- "tee"
7560			- "caam"
7561			- "dcp"
7562			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7563			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7564			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7565			successfully during iteration.
7566
7567	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
7568			Format: <string>
7569			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7570			Can be one of:
7571			- "kernel"
7572			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7573			- "default"
7574			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7575			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7576
7577	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7578			This is intended to be used in combination with
7579			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7580			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7581
7582	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7583			This is intended to be used in combination with
7584			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7585			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7586			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7587			scenarios.
7588
7589	tsa=		[X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7590			Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7591			favourite search engine for more details:
7592
7593			"Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7594			attacks".
7595
7596			off		- disable the mitigation
7597			on		- enable the mitigation (default)
7598			user		- mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7599			vm		- mitigate only guest/host transitions
7600
7601
7602	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7603			Format: <string>
7604			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7605			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7606			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
7607			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7608			virtualized environment.
7609			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7610			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7611			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7612			can add overhead.
7613			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7614			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7615			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7616			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7617			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7618			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7619			acceptable).
7620			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7621			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7622			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7623			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7624			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7625			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7626			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7627			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7628			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
7629			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7630
7631	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7632			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7633			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7634			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7635			Format: <unsigned int>
7636
7637	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7638			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7639			support TSX control.
7640
7641			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7642
7643			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7644				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7645				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7646				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7647				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
7648				with leaving it enabled.
7649
7650			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7651				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7652				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7653				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7654				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7655				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7656				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7657
7658			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7659				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7660
7661			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7662
7663			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7664			for more details.
7665
7666	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7667			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7668
7669			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7670			certain CPUs that support Transactional
7671			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7672			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7673			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7674			conditions.
7675
7676			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7677			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7678			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7679			access.
7680
7681			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
7682			options are:
7683
7684			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7685				     if TSX is enabled.
7686
7687			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7688				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7689				     is not disabled because CPU is not
7690				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7691			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7692
7693			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7694			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7695			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7696			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7697
7698			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7699			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
7700			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7701			required and doesn't provide any additional
7702			mitigation.
7703
7704			For details see:
7705			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7706
7707	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
7708			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7709			Format:
7710			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7711			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7712
7713	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7714			happen after console_init() and before a proper
7715			console driver takes over, this boot options might
7716			help "seeing" what's going on.
7717
7718	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7719			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7720
7721	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7722			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7723			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7724			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7725			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7726			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7727			reported either.
7728
7729	unaligned_scalar_speed=
7730			[RISCV]
7731			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7732			Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7733			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7734			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7735			CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7736
7737	unaligned_vector_speed=
7738			[RISCV]
7739			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7740			Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7741			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7742			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7743			CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7744
7745	unknown_nmi_panic
7746			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7747
7748	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
7749			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
7750			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7751			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7752			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7753
7754	usbcore.authorized_default=
7755			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
7756			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7757			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7758			if device connected to internal port)
7759
7760	usbcore.autosuspend=
7761			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7762			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
7763			is the time required before an idle device will be
7764			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
7765			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7766
7767	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7768			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7769
7770	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7771			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7772			(default = 65536).
7773
7774	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7775			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7776
7777	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7778			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7779			scheme (default 0 = off).
7780
7781	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7782			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7783			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7784
7785	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7786			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7787			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7788
7789	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7790			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7791			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7792			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7793
7794	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7795
7796	usbcore.quirks=
7797			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7798			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7799			commas. Each entry has the form
7800			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7801			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7802			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7803			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7804			the following meanings:
7805				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7806					descriptors must not be fetched using
7807					a 255-byte read);
7808				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7809					correctly so reset it instead);
7810				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7811					Set-Interface requests);
7812				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7813					handle its Configuration or Interface
7814					strings);
7815				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7816					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7817				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7818					more interface descriptions than the
7819					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7820					talking to these interfaces);
7821				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7822					during initialization, after we read
7823					the device descriptor);
7824				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7825					high speed and super speed interrupt
7826					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7827					require the interval in microframes (1
7828					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7829					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7830					(bInterval-1).
7831					Devices with this quirk report their
7832					bInterval as the result of this
7833					calculation instead of the exponent
7834					variable used in the calculation);
7835				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7836					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7837					requests);
7838				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7839					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7840					remote wakeup capability);
7841				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7842					Power Management);
7843				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7844					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7845					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7846					calculation);
7847				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7848					to be disconnected before suspend to
7849					prevent spurious wakeup);
7850				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7851					pause after every control message);
7852				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7853					delay after resetting its port);
7854				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7855					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7856					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7857			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7858
7859	usbhid.mousepoll=
7860			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7861
7862	usbhid.jspoll=
7863			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7864
7865	usbhid.kbpoll=
7866			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7867
7868	usb-storage.delay_use=
7869			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7870			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7871			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7872			suffix with "ms".
7873			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7874
7875	usb-storage.quirks=
7876			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7877			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7878			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7879			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7880			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7881			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7882			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7883				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7884					of sense data, not on uas);
7885				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7886					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7887				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7888					device capacity by one sector);
7889				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7890					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7891				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7892					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7893				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7894					command, uas only);
7895				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7896					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7897				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7898					reported device capacity by one
7899					sector if the number is odd);
7900				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7901					device);
7902				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7903					command, uas only);
7904				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7905				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7906					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7907				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7908					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7909					not on uas);
7910				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7911					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7912				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7913					reported by the device, not on uas);
7914				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7915					by default, not on uas);
7916				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7917					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7918				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7919					Logical Unit);
7920				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7921					commands, uas only);
7922				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7923				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7924					medium is write-protected).
7925				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7926					even if the device claims no cache,
7927					not on uas)
7928			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7929
7930	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7931			Format: <int>
7932			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7933				 1 - undefined instruction events
7934				 2 - system calls
7935				 4 - invalid data aborts
7936				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7937				16 - SIGBUS faults
7938			Example: user_debug=31
7939
7940	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7941			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7942
7943			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7944			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7945
7946	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7947			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7948			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7949
7950			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7951			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7952			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7953
7954			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7955			alias for vdso32=0.
7956
7957			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7958			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7959
7960	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7961			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7962
7963	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7964			Format: [0|1]
7965			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7966			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7967			level and then send out the event to user space through
7968			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7969			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7970			brightness level.
7971			default: 1
7972
7973	virtio_mmio.device=
7974			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7975
7976				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7977			where:
7978				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7979						like K, M and G)
7980				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7981				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7982						request_irq())
7983				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7984			example:
7985				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7986
7987			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7988
7989	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7990			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7991			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7992			Use vga=ask for menu.
7993			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7994			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7995
7996	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7997			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7998			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7999			All options are enabled by default, and this
8000			interface is meant to allow for selectively
8001			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8002			debugging features.
8003
8004			Available options are:
8005			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
8006			  -	Disable all of the above options
8007
8008	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8009			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8010			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8011			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8012			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8013			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8014			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8015			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8016
8017	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
8018			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8019			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8020
8021	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8022			Format: <command>
8023
8024	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8025			Format: <command>
8026
8027	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8028			Format: <command>
8029
8030	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
8031			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8032			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8033			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
8034			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
8035			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8036			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8037
8038			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8039			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
8040				    readable.
8041
8042			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8043			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
8044				    page is not readable.
8045
8046			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
8047			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
8048			            might break your system.
8049
8050	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
8051			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8052			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8053
8054	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
8055			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8056			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8057			see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8058
8059	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
8060			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8061			Change the default blue palette of the console.
8062			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8063			ranging from 0-255.
8064
8065	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
8066			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8067			Change the default green palette of the console.
8068			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8069			ranging from 0-255.
8070
8071	vt.default_red=	[VT]
8072			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8073			Change the default red palette of the console.
8074			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8075			ranging from 0-255.
8076
8077	vt.default_utf8=
8078			[VT]
8079			Format=<0|1>
8080			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8081			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8082			newly opened terminals.
8083
8084	vt.global_cursor_default=
8085			[VT]
8086			Format=<-1|0|1>
8087			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8088			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8089			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8090			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8091			cursors, 1 will display them.
8092
8093	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8094			Default: 2 = green.
8095
8096	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8097			Default: 3 = cyan.
8098
8099	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8100			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8101			or other driver-specific files in the
8102			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8103
8104	watchdog_thresh=
8105			[KNL]
8106			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8107			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8108			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8109			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8110			seconds.
8111
8112	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8113			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8114			to use in unbound workqueues.
8115			Format: <cpu-list>
8116			By default, all online CPUs are available for
8117			unbound workqueues.
8118
8119	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8120			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8121			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8122			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
8123			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8124			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
8125			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8126			corresponding sysfs file.
8127
8128	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8129			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8130			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8131			stall to trigger panic.
8132
8133			The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8134
8135	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8136			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8137			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8138			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8139			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8140			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8141
8142			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8143			will report the work functions which violate this
8144			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8145			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8146
8147	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8148			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8149			will report the work functions which violate the
8150			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8151			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8152			function has violated this threshold number of times.
8153
8154			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8155
8156	workqueue.power_efficient
8157			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8158			they show better performance thanks to cache
8159			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8160			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8161
8162			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8163			were observed to contribute significantly to power
8164			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8165			power usage at the cost of small performance
8166			overhead.
8167
8168			The default value of this parameter is determined by
8169			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8170
8171        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8172			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8173			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8174			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8175			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8176			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8177
8178			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8179			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8180			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8181			updated accordingly.
8182
8183	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8184			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8185			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8186			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
8187			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8188			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
8189			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8190			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8191			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8192			impacted.
8193
8194	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8195			Type) of ioremap_wc().
8196
8197			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8198			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8199
8200	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8201			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8202			supporting x2apic.
8203
8204	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8205			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8206			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8207			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8208			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8209			domains.
8210
8211	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8212			Unplug Xen emulated devices
8213			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8214			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8215			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8216			nics -- unplug network devices
8217			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8218			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8219				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8220				the unplug protocol
8221			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8222
8223	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8224			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8225			panic() code such as dumping handler.
8226
8227	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8228			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8229			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8230			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8231			debug data in case of multicall errors.
8232
8233	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8234			Format: <bool>
8235			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8236			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8237			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8238
8239	xen_nopv	[X86]
8240			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8241			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8242			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8243			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8244
8245	xen_no_vector_callback
8246			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8247			event channel interrupts.
8248
8249	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
8250			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8251			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8252			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8253			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8254
8255	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8256			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8257			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8258			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8259			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8260			more timer interrupts.
8261
8262	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8263			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8264			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8265			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8266			started with less memory configured than allowed at
8267			max. Default is 180.
8268
8269	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
8270			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8271			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8272
8273	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
8274			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8275			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8276
8277	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
8278			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8279			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8280			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8281			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8282			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8283
8284	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
8285			Format:
8286			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8287
8288	xive=		[PPC]
8289			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8290			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8291			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8292
8293			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8294				  controller on both pseries and powernv
8295				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8296
8297	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
8298			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8299			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8300			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8301			loads instead, as on POWER9.
8302
8303	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
8304			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8305			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8306			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8307
8308	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
8309			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8310			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8311			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8312			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8313				debugger is called from setup_arch().
8314			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8315				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8316				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8317				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8318			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8319				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8320				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8321				can be written using xmon commands.
8322			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8323				memory, and other data can't be written using
8324				xmon commands.
8325			off	xmon is disabled.
8326