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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466			trust validation.
467			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473			others).
474
475	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
476			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
479			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482			  a single hierarchy
483			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484			  subsystem
485			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495			Format: <string>
496			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500			Format: { "0" | "1" }
501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503				any implied execute protection).
504			1 -- check protection requested by application.
505			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506			Value can be changed at runtime via
507				/selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509	cio_ignore=	[S390]
510			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511	clk_ignore_unused
512			[CLK]
513			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520			platform with proper driver support.  For more
521			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
522
523	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524			[Deprecated]
525			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
531			Format: <string>
532			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533			with the name specified.
534			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535			the platform:
536			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537			[ACPI] acpi_pm
538			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542			[MIPS] MIPS
543			[PARISC] cr16
544			[S390] tod
545			[SH] SuperH
546			[SPARC64] tick
547			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550			[ARM,ARM64]
551			Format: <bool>
552			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555			systems.
556
557	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562			ones should be.
563			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564			or using the feature without checking anything
565			will still see it. This just prevents it from
566			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568			some critical bits.
569
570	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571			[ARM,X86,KNL]
572			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574			placement constraint by the physical address range of
575			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576			altogether. For more information, see
577			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
582			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583			a hypervisor.
584			Default: yes
585
586	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
587			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588			allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
591			Format:
592			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
593
594	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
597	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
598			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
599			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
602	conmode=
603
604	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608		ttyS<n>[,options]
609		ttyUSB0[,options]
610			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
611			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
615
616			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
617			information.  See
618			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619			alternative.
620
621		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
626			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
628			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
630			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
634			the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
636		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
638
639		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
641			console=brl,ttyS0
642		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
644	console_msg_format=
645			[KNL] Change console messages format
646		default
647			By default we print messages on consoles in
648			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650			`printk_time' param).
651		syslog
652			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656			from /proc/kmsg.
657
658	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
659			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
660			Defaults to 0.
661
662	coredump_filter=
663			[KNL] Change the default value for
664			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
667	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668			[ARM,ARM64]
669			Format: <bool>
670			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671			0: default value, disable debugging
672			1: enable debugging at boot time
673
674	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
675			disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
677	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
678			disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
680	cpu_init_udelay=N
681			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
683			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684			Default: 10000
685
686	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
687			Format:
688			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
689
690	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695			is selected automatically. Check
696			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
697
698	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700			in the running system. The syntax of range is
701			start-[end] where start and end are both
702			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
703			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
704
705	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
706			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710			available.
711			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
712	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
715			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
717			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
721			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722			for second kernel instead.
723			0: to disable low allocation.
724			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
725			or memory reserved is below 4G.
726
727	cryptomgr.notests
728			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
729
730	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
731			Format: <dma>
732
733	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
734			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
735
736	dasd=		[HW,NET]
737			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740			(one device per port)
741			Format: <port#>,<type>
742			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
743
744	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
745			time. See
746			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
747			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
748
749	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
751	debug_locks_verbose=
752			[KNL] verbose self-tests
753			Format=<0|1>
754			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
755			self-tests.
756			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
757			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
758			only useful to kernel developers.
759
760	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
761
762	no_debug_objects
763			[KNL] Disable object debugging
764
765	debug_guardpage_minorder=
766			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
767			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
768			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
769			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
770			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
771			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
772			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
773			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
774			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
775			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
776			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
777			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
778			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
779			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
780			bypassed) which are not detectable by
781			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
782			tracking down these problems.
783
784	debug_pagealloc=
785			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
786			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
787			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
788			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
789			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
790			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
791			on: enable the feature
792
793	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
794
795	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
796			Format: <area>[,<node>]
797			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
798
799	default_hugepagesz=
800			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
801			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
802			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
803			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
804			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
805			if not specified.
806
807	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
808			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
809
810	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
811			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
812			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
813			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
814			miss to occur.
815
816	disable=	[IPV6]
817			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
818
819	disable_radix	[PPC]
820			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
821
822	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
823			Format: <int>
824			The number of initial APIC ID for the
825			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
826			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
827			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
828			causing system reset or hang due to sending
829			INIT from AP to BSP.
830
831	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
832			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
833			to workaround buggy firmware.
834
835	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
836			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
837
838	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
839			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
840			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
841			entry later. This parameter disables that.
842
843	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
844			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
845			memory out of your available memory pool based on
846			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
847			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
848
849	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
850			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
851			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
852
853	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
854
855	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
856			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
857
858	dma_debug_entries=<number>
859			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
860			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
861			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
862			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
863			architectural default is too low.
864
865	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
866			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
867			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
868			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
869			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
870			driver later using sysfs.
871
872	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
873			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
874			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
875			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
876			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
877			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
878			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
879			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
880			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
881			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
882			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
883			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
884			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
885			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
886			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
887			data set with no connector name will be used for
888			any connectors not explicitly specified.
889
890	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
891
892	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
893			Format: {"off" | "known"}
894			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
895			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
896			exists).
897			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
898			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
899			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
900
901	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
902			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
903			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
904			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
905
906	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
907	module.dyndbg[="val"]
908			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
909			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
910			for details.
911
912	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
913			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
914			information about the feature.
915
916	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
917			in some Intel CPUs.
918
919	module.async_probe [KNL]
920			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
921
922	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
923			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
924			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
925			which are not unmapped.
926
927	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
928
929			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
930			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
931			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
932
933			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
934			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
935
936		cdns,<addr>[,options]
937			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
938			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
939			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
940			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
941			configured.
942
943		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
944		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
945		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
946		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
947		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
948			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
949			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
950			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
951			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
952			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
953			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
954			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
955			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
956
957		pl011,<addr>
958		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
959			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
960			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
961			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
962			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
963			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
964			the device registers.
965
966		meson,<addr>
967			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
968			port at the specified address. The serial port must
969			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
970			supported.
971
972		msm_serial,<addr>
973			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
974			port at the specified address. The serial port
975			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
976			yet supported.
977
978		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
979			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
980			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
981			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
982			yet supported.
983
984		owl,<addr>
985			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
986			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
987			specified address. The serial port must already be
988			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
989
990		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
991
992		s3c2410,<addr>
993		s3c2412,<addr>
994		s3c2440,<addr>
995		s3c6400,<addr>
996		s5pv210,<addr>
997		exynos4210,<addr>
998			Use early console provided by serial driver available
999			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1000			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1001			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1002			Options are not yet supported.
1003
1004		lantiq,<addr>
1005			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1006			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1007			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1008			yet supported.
1009
1010		lpuart,<addr>
1011		lpuart32,<addr>
1012			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1013			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1014			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1015			port must already be setup and configured.
1016
1017		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1018			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1019			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1020			address. The serial port must already be setup
1021			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1022
1023		qcom_geni,<addr>
1024			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1025			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1026			specified address. The serial port must already be
1027			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1028
1029	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1030			earlyprintk=vga
1031			earlyprintk=efi
1032			earlyprintk=sclp
1033			earlyprintk=xen
1034			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1035			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1036			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1037			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1038			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1039			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1040
1041			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1042			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1043			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1044
1045			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1046			takes over.
1047
1048			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1049			be used at a time.
1050
1051			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1052			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1053			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1054			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1055				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1056			You can find the port for a given device in
1057			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1058				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1059
1060			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1061			very good.
1062
1063			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1064			the real console.
1065
1066			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1067
1068			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1069
1070	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1071			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1072			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1073			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1074			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1075			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1076			default: on.
1077
1078	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1079			ekgdboc=kbd
1080
1081			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1082			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1083
1084	edd=		[EDD]
1085			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1086
1087	efi=		[EFI]
1088			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1089			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1090			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1091			default.
1092			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1093			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1094			firmware implementations.
1095			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1096			debug: enable misc debug output
1097
1098	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1099			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1100			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1101			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1102			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1103
1104	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1105			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1106			updating original EFI memory map.
1107			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1108			from ss to ss+nn.
1109			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1110			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1111			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1112			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1113
1114			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1115			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1116			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1117			doesn't support it.
1118
1119	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1120			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1121			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1122			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1123			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1124
1125
1126	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1127			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1128
1129	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1130			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1131			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1132
1133	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1134			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1135			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1136			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1137
1138	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1139			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1140			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1141			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1142			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1143
1144	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1145			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1146			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1147			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1148
1149	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1150			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1151			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1152			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1153			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1154
1155	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1156			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1157			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1158			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1159			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1160			Default value is 0.
1161			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1162
1163	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1164			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1165			support.
1166
1167	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1168			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1169			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1170
1171	evm=		[EVM]
1172			Format: { "fix" }
1173			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1174			current integrity status.
1175
1176	failslab=
1177	fail_page_alloc=
1178	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1179			General fault injection mechanism.
1180			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1181			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1182
1183	floppy=		[HW]
1184			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1185
1186	force_pal_cache_flush
1187			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1188			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1189			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1190			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1191
1192	forcepae	[X86-32]
1193			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1194			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1195			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1196			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1197			and may cause unknown problems.
1198
1199	ftrace=[tracer]
1200			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1201			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1202			boot debugging.
1203
1204	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1205			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1206			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1207			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1208			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1209			oops.
1210
1211	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1212			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1213			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1214			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1215			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1216			tracing directory.
1217
1218	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1219			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1220			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1221			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1222			tracing directory.
1223
1224	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1225			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1226			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1227			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1228			that can be changed at run time by the
1229			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1230
1231	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1232			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1233			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1234			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1235			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1236
1237	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1238			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1239			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1240			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1241			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1242
1243	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1244			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1245			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1246			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1247			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1248
1249	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1250
1251	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1252			Format: off | on
1253			default: on
1254
1255	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1256			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1257			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1258			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1259			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1260
1261	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1262			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1263			android emulator
1264
1265	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1266			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1267			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1268			GPT to be used instead.
1269
1270	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1271			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1272			Format: 0 | 1
1273			Default: 0
1274	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1275			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1276			Format: 0 | 1
1277			Default: 0
1278	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1279			Format: 0 | 1
1280			Default: 0
1281	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1282			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1283			Default: 1024
1284	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1285			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1286			Default: 1024
1287
1288	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1289			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1290			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1291
1292	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1293			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1294			backtraces on all cpus.
1295			Format: <integer>
1296
1297	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1298			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1299			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1300			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1301
1302	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1303
1304	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1305			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1306
1307	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1308			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1309			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1310			logic will be disabled.
1311
1312	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1313			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1314			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1315			size on bigger boxes.
1316
1317	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1318			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1319			Default: "on"
1320
1321	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1322			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1323
1324	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1325
1326	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1327			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1328				verbose }
1329			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1330			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1331				VIA, nVidia)
1332			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1333
1334	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1335			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1336
1337	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1338	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1339			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1340			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1341			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1342			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1343			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1344
1345	hung_task_panic=
1346			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1347			Format: <integer>
1348
1349			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1350			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1351			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1352			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1353			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1354
1355	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1356				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1357	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1358				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1359				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1360	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1361			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1362			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1363			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1364			the real console.
1365
1366	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1367				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1368				registered from board initialization code.
1369				Format:
1370				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1371
1372	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1373	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1374			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1375			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1376			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1377	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1378	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1379			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1380			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1381	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1382	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1383	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1384			     for the AUX port
1385	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1386			     controller
1387	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1388			     controllers
1389	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1390	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1391			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1392			     transitions, or never reset
1393			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1394			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1395			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1396			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1397			architectures force reset to be always executed
1398	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1399	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1400
1401	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1402
1403	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1404			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1405			hardware.
1406	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1407			does not match list of supported models.
1408	i8k.power_status
1409			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1410			(disabled by default)
1411	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1412			capability is set.
1413
1414	i915.invert_brightness=
1415			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1416			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1417			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1418			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1419			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1420			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1421			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1422			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1423			value switches the backlight off.
1424			-1 -- never invert brightness
1425			 0 -- machine default
1426			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1427
1428	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1429			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1430
1431	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1432			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1433			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1434			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1435			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1436
1437	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1438			Format: <int>
1439			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1440			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1441			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1442			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1443			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1444			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1445			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1446			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1447			was 0x3.
1448
1449	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1450			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1451
1452	idle=		[X86]
1453			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1454			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1455			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1456			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1457			Not recommended.
1458			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1459			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1460			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1461
1462	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1463			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1464			Default: strict
1465
1466			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1467			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1468			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1469			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1470			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1471			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1472			encoding mode.
1473
1474			Available settings are as follows:
1475			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1476				supported by the FPU
1477			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1478				by the FPU
1479			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1480				by the FPU
1481			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1482				supported by the FPU
1483
1484			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1485			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1486			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1487			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1488			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1489			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1490			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1491			MIPS64 CPUs.
1492
1493			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1494			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1495			except where unsupported by hardware.
1496
1497	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1498			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1499			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1500			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1501			could change it dynamically, usually by
1502			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1503
1504	ignore_rlimit_data
1505			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1506			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1507			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1508
1509	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1510			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1511
1512	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1513			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1514			default: "enforce"
1515
1516	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1517			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1518			owned by uid=0.
1519
1520	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1521			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1522			measurements, instead of host native format.
1523
1524	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1525			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1526				   | sha512 | ... }
1527			default: "sha1"
1528
1529			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1530			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1531
1532	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1533			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1534			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1535				 fail_securely"
1536
1537			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1538			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1539			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1540			uid=0.
1541
1542			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1543			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1544			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1545
1546			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1547			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1548			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1549
1550			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1551			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1552			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1553			flag.
1554
1555	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1556			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1557			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1558			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1559			opened for read by uid=0.
1560
1561	ima_template=	[IMA]
1562			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1563			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1564			Default: "ima-ng"
1565
1566	ima_template_fmt=
1567			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1568			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1569
1570	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1571			Format: <min_file_size>
1572			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1573			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1574
1575			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1576			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1577			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1578
1579	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1580			Format: <bufsize>
1581			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1582
1583			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1584			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1585			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1586
1587	init=		[KNL]
1588			Format: <full_path>
1589			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1590			process.
1591
1592	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1593			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1594			startup.
1595
1596	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1597			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1598			modules and initcalls.
1599
1600	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1601
1602	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1603			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1604			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1605			override in debugfs after boot.
1606
1607	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1608			Format: <irq>
1609
1610	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1611
1612	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1613			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1614			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1615			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1616
1617	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1618		on
1619			Enable intel iommu driver.
1620		off
1621			Disable intel iommu driver.
1622		igfx_off [Default Off]
1623			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1624			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1625			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1626			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1627			DMA.
1628		forcedac [x86_64]
1629			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1630			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1631			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1632			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1633			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1634			then look in the higher range.
1635		strict [Default Off]
1636			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1637			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1638			to batching them for performance.
1639		sp_off [Default Off]
1640			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1641			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1642			not be supported.
1643		ecs_off [Default Off]
1644			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1645			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1646			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1647			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1648			on hardware which claims to support them.
1649		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1650			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1651			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1652			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1653			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1654			mapping is enabled.
1655			Note that using this option lowers the security
1656			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1657			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1658
1659	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1660			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1661			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1662
1663	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1664			disable
1665			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1666			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1667			passive
1668			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1669			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1670			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1671			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1672			  feature.
1673			force
1674			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1675			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1676			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1677			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1678			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1679			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1680			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1681			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1682			no_hwp
1683			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1684			  if available.
1685			hwp_only
1686			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1687			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1688			support_acpi_ppc
1689			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1690			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1691			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1692			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1693			per_cpu_perf_limits
1694			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1695			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1696
1697	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1698			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1699			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1700			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1701			no_x2apic_optout
1702				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1703			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1704
1705	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1706		strict	regions from userspace.
1707		relaxed
1708
1709	iommu=		[x86]
1710		off
1711		force
1712		noforce
1713		biomerge
1714		panic
1715		nopanic
1716		merge
1717		nomerge
1718		soft
1719		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1720		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1721			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1722
1723	iommu.passthrough=
1724			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1725			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1726			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1727			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1728			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1729
1730	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1731			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1732			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1733
1734	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1735		0x80
1736			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1737		0xed
1738			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1739		udelay
1740			Simple two microseconds delay
1741		none
1742			No delay
1743
1744	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1745			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1746
1747	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1748			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1749
1750	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1751			[ARM, ARM64]
1752			Format: <bool>
1753			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1754			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1755			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1756
1757	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1758			[ARM, ARM64]
1759			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1760			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1761			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1762			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1763			LPIs.
1764
1765	irqfixup	[HW]
1766			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1767			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1768			firmware running.
1769
1770	irqpoll		[HW]
1771			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1772			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1773			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1774			firmware running.
1775
1776	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1777			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1778
1779	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1780			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1781			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1782
1783			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1784			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1785
1786			nohz
1787			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1788
1789			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1790			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1791			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1792			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1793			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1794
1795			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1796			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1797			  be configured manually after bootup.
1798
1799			domain
1800			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1801			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1802			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1803			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1804			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1805			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1806			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1807			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1808
1809			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1810			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1811			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1812			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1813
1814			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1815
1816
1817
1818	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1819
1820	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1821			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1822			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1823			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1824			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1825				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1826
1827	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1828			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1829			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1830			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1831			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1832				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1833
1834	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1835			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1836			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1837			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1838			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1839				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1840
1841	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1842			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1843
1844	nokaslr		[KNL]
1845			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1846			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1847			Layout Randomization).
1848
1849	kasan_multi_shot
1850			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1851			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1852			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1853			invalid access.
1854
1855	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1856
1857	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1858			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1859			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1860			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1861			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1862			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1863			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1864			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1865			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1866			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1867
1868			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1869			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1870			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1871			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1872			zone if it does not.
1873
1874			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1875			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1876			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1877			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1878			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1879			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1880			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1881
1882	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1883			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1884			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1885			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1886			optional and is the number seconds in between
1887			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1888			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1889			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1890			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1891			the kernel debugger.
1892
1893	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1894			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1895			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1896			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1897			 keyboard only format: kbd
1898			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1899			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1900			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1901			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1902
1903	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1904			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1905
1906	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1907			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1908			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1909
1910	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1911			Valid arguments: on, off
1912			Default: on
1913			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1914			the default is off.
1915
1916	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1917			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1918
1919	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1920				   Default is false (don't support).
1921
1922	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1923			KVM MMU at runtime.
1924			Default is 0 (off)
1925
1926	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1927			Default is 1 (enabled)
1928
1929	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1930			for all guests.
1931			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1932
1933	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1934			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1935			system registers
1936
1937	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1938			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1939			system registers
1940
1941	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1942			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1943			system registers
1944
1945	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1946			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1947			LPIs.
1948
1949	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1950			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1951			Default is 1 (enabled)
1952
1953	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1954			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1955			Default is 0 (disabled)
1956
1957	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1958			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1959			Default is 1 (enabled)
1960
1961	kvm-intel.nested=
1962			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1963			Default is 0 (disabled)
1964
1965	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1966			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1967			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1968			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1969
1970	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1971			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1972			Default is 1 (enabled)
1973
1974	l2cr=		[PPC]
1975
1976	l3cr=		[PPC]
1977
1978	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1979			disabled it.
1980
1981	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1982			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1983			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1984
1985	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1986			in C2 power state.
1987
1988	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1989			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1990			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1991			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1992			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1993			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1994			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1995
1996	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1997			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1998			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1999
2000	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2001			when set.
2002			Format: <int>
2003
2004	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2005			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2006			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2007			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2008			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2009			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2010			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2011			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2012
2013			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2014			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2015			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2016			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2017			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2018			host link and device attached to it.
2019
2020			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2021			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2022			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2023			The following configurations can be forced.
2024
2025			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2026			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2027
2028			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2029
2030			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2031			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2032			  allowed.
2033
2034			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2035
2036			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2037
2038			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2039			  and both resets.
2040
2041			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2042			  hot-unplug link recovery
2043
2044			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2045
2046			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2047
2048			* disable: Disable this device.
2049
2050			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2051			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2052
2053	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2054
2055	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2056			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2057
2058	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2059			Format: <integer>
2060
2061	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2062			Format: <integer>
2063
2064	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2065			Format: <integer>
2066
2067	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2068			Format: <integer>
2069
2070	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2071			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2072			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2073			number of online CPUs.
2074
2075	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2076			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2077
2078	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2079			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2080
2081	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2082			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2083			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2084
2085	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2086			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2087			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2088			mode during the locktorture test.
2089
2090	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2091			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2092			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2093
2094	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2095			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2096
2097	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2098			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2099			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2100			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2101			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2102			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2103
2104	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2105			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2106
2107	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2108			Enable additional printk() statements.
2109
2110	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2111			Format: <irq>
2112
2113	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2114			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2115			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2116			loglevels are defined as follows:
2117
2118			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2119			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2120			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2121			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2122			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2123			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2124			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2125			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2126
2127	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2128			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2129			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2130			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2131			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2132			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2133			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2134
2135	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2136			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2137			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2138			kernel boot problems.
2139
2140	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2141	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2142	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2143	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2144				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2145				attached printers to be reset. Using
2146				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2147				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2148				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2149				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2150				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2151				port specification list means that device IDs
2152				from each port should be examined, to see if
2153				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2154				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2155				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2156
2157	lpj=n		[KNL]
2158			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2159			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2160			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2161			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2162			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2163			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2164			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2165			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2166			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2167			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2168			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2169			hardware.
2170
2171	ltpc=		[NET]
2172			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2173
2174	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2175			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2176			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2177
2178	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2179			 yeeloong laptop.
2180			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2181
2182	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2183			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2184
2185	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2186			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2187			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2188			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2189			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2190			only takes effect during system bootup.
2191			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2192			which also disables the IO APIC.
2193
2194	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2195	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2196			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2197			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2198			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2199			/dev/loop-control interface.
2200
2201	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2202
2203	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2204
2205	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2206			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2207
2208	mdacon=		[MDA]
2209			Format: <first>,<last>
2210			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2211
2212	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2213			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2214			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2215			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2216			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2217			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2218			belonging to unused RAM.
2219
2220	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2221			memory.
2222
2223	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2224			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2225			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2226
2227	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2228			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2229			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2230			set according to the
2231			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2232			option.
2233			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2234
2235	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2236			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2237			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2238			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2239			option description.
2240
2241	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2242			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2243			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2244			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2245			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2246			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2247			comma delimited.
2248			Example:
2249				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2250
2251	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2252			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2253			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2254
2255	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2256			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2257			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2258			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2259			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2260			         or
2261			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2262			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2263			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2264			will be eaten.
2265
2266	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2267			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2268			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2269			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2270			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2271
2272	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2273			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2274			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2275			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2276			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2277			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2278			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2279			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2280
2281	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2282			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2283			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2284			Setting this option will scan the memory
2285			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2286			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2287			from using the memory being corrupted.
2288			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2289			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2290			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2291			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2292
2293	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2294			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2295			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2296			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2297			corruption in more or less memory.
2298
2299	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2300			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2301			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2302			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2303
2304	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2305			Format: <integer>
2306			default : 0 <disable>
2307			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2308			performed. Each pass selects another test
2309			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2310			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2311			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2312			regions that are detected.
2313
2314	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2315			Valid arguments: on, off
2316			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2317			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2318			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2319			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2320			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2321
2322			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2323			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2324
2325	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2326			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2327			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2328			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2329			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2330
2331	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2332			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2333
2334	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2335			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2336			platforms.
2337
2338	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2339			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2340			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2341			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2342
2343	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2344
2345	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2346			physical address is ignored.
2347
2348	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2349			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2350			Default: "0tb"
2351			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2352			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2353			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2354			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2355			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2356			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2357			unconfigured.
2358			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2359			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2360			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2361			VGA shield.
2362			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2363			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2364			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2365			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2366			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2367			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2368
2369	mminit_loglevel=
2370			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2371			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2372			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2373			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2374			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2375			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2376
2377	module.sig_enforce
2378			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2379			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2380			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2381			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2382
2383	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2384			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2385
2386	mousedev.tap_time=
2387			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2388			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2389			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2390			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2391			Format: <msecs>
2392	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2393			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2394	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2395			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2396
2397	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2398			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2399			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2400			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2401			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2402			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2403			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2404			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2405			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2406			is not too small.
2407
2408	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2409			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2410			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2411			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2412			allocations. Use with caution!
2413
2414	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2415			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2416
2417	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2418			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2419
2420	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2421			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2422
2423	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2424			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2425			at a time.
2426
2427	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2428
2429			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2430
2431			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2432				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2433			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2434				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2435				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2436
2437	mtdset=		[ARM]
2438			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2439
2440			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2441
2442	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2443			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2444			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2445
2446	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2447			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2448			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2449
2450	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2451			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2452			Default is 1.
2453			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2454			using up MTRRs.
2455
2456	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2457			Format: <integer>
2458			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2459			Default : 1
2460			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2461			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2462
2463	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2464
2465	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2466			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2467			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2468			something different and driver-specific.
2469			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2470			file if at all.
2471
2472	nf_conntrack.acct=
2473			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2474			0 to disable accounting
2475			1 to enable accounting
2476			Default value is 0.
2477
2478	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2479			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2480
2481	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2482			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2483
2484	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2485			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2486
2487	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2488			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2489			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2490			requests.
2491
2492	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2493			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2494			channel should listen.
2495
2496	nfs.cache_getent=
2497			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2498			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2499
2500	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2501			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2502			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2503
2504	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2505			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2506			entries.
2507
2508	nfs.enable_ino64=
2509			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2510			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2511			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2512			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2513			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2514
2515	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2516			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2517			slots the client will assign to the callback
2518			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2519			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2520			a particular server.
2521
2522	nfs.max_session_slots=
2523			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2524			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2525			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2526			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2527			Note that there is little point in setting this
2528			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2529
2530	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2531			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2532			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2533			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2534			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2535			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2536			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2537			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2538			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2539			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2540			back to using the idmapper.
2541			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2542	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2543			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2544			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2545			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2546			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2547
2548	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2549			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2550			information in exchange_id requests.
2551			If zero, no implementation identification information
2552			will be sent.
2553			The default is to send the implementation identification
2554			information.
2555
2556	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2557			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2558			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2559			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2560			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2561			after the locks are lost.
2562			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2563			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2564			parameter to '1'.
2565			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2566			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2567
2568	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2569			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2570			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2571
2572			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2573			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2574			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2575			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2576
2577	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2578			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2579			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2580			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2581			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2582			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2583
2584	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2585			when a NMI is triggered.
2586			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2587
2588	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2589			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2590			Valid num: 0 or 1
2591			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2592			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2593			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2594			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2595			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2596			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2597			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2598			need the box quickly up again.
2599
2600			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2601			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2602
2603	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2604			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2605			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2606			waits 4 seconds.
2607
2608	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2609			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2610			is present.
2611
2612	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2613			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2614
2615	no_console_suspend
2616			[HW] Never suspend the console
2617			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2618			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2619			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2620			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2621			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2622			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2623			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2624			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2625			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2626			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2627			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2628			turn on/off it dynamically.
2629
2630	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2631			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2632			but will impact performance.
2633
2634	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2635
2636	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2637			(CPU alternatives feature).
2638
2639	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2640			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2641
2642	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2643
2644	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2645			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2646
2647	nocache		[ARM]
2648
2649	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2650
2651	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2652
2653	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2654
2655	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2656
2657	noexec		[IA-64]
2658
2659	noexec		[X86]
2660			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2661			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2662			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2663
2664	nosmap		[X86]
2665			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2666			even if it is supported by processor.
2667
2668	nosmep		[X86]
2669			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2670			even if it is supported by processor.
2671
2672	noexec32	[X86-64]
2673			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2674			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2675				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2676			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2677				read implies executable mappings
2678
2679	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2680
2681	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2682			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2683			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2684
2685	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2686
2687	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2688			Equivalent to smt=1.
2689
2690	nospectre_v1	[PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2691			check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2692			in the system.
2693
2694	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2695			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2696			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2697			to spectre_v2=off.
2698
2699	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2700			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2701
2702	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2703			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2704			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2705
2706	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2707			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2708			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2709			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2710			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2711			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2712
2713	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2714			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2715			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2716			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2717			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2718			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2719			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2720
2721	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2722			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2723			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2724
2725	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2726			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2727			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2728
2729	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2730			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2731			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2732			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2733			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2734			real-time systems.
2735
2736	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2737
2738	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2739			Valid arguments: on, off
2740			Default: on
2741
2742	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2743			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2744			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2745			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2746			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2747			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2748			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2749			just as if they had also been called out in the
2750			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2751
2752	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2753
2754	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2755			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2756
2757	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2758			broken timer IRQ sources.
2759
2760	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2761
2762	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2763			initial RAM disk.
2764
2765	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2766			remapping.
2767			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2768
2769	nointroute	[IA-64]
2770
2771	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2772
2773	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2774
2775	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2776
2777	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2778			fault handling.
2779
2780	no-vmw-sched-clock
2781			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2782			clock and use the default one.
2783
2784	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2785			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2786			behaviour
2787
2788	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2789
2790	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2791
2792	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2793			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2794
2795	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2796
2797	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2798
2799	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2800			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2801
2802	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2803			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2804			irq.
2805
2806	nomodule	Disable module load
2807
2808	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2809			pagetables) support.
2810
2811	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2812
2813	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2814			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2815
2816	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2817			with UP alternatives
2818
2819	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2820			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2821			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2822			available to user space applications.
2823
2824	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2825			space.
2826
2827	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2828			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2829			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2830
2831	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2832
2833	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2834
2835	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2836			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2837
2838	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2839
2840	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2841
2842	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2843
2844	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2845			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2846
2847	nowb		[ARM]
2848
2849	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2850
2851	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2852			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2853			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2854			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2855			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2856			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2857			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2858			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2859			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2860			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2861			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2862			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2863			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2864
2865	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
2866			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2867			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2868			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2869			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2870			parameter's value.
2871			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2872			Default: 255
2873
2874	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2875			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2876			SAL PALO.
2877
2878	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2879			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2880			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2881			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2882			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2883			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2884			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2885			hot plugging.
2886
2887	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2888
2889	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2890			Allowed values are enable and disable
2891
2892	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2893			'node', 'default' can be specified
2894			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2895			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2896
2897	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2898			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2899			info.
2900
2901	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2902			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2903			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2904			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2905			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2906			interrupts *may* be lost!
2907
2908	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2909			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2910			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2911			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2912
2913	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2914			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2915
2916	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2917			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2918			userland or if you want common events.
2919			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2920			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2921				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2922				CPU specific event set.
2923			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2924				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2925				for generic hr timer mode)
2926
2927	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2928			process, but there is a small probability of
2929			deadlocking the machine.
2930			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2931			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2932
2933	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2934			Storage of the information about who allocated
2935			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2936			we can turn it on.
2937			on: enable the feature
2938
2939	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2940			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2941			off: turn off poisoning
2942			on: turn on poisoning
2943
2944	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2945			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2946			timeout = 0: wait forever
2947			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2948			Format: <timeout>
2949
2950	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2951			on a WARN().
2952
2953	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2954			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2955			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2956			succeeds in any situation.
2957			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2958			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2959			kernel more unstable.
2960
2961	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2962			connected to, default is 0.
2963			Format: <parport#>
2964	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2965			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2966			Format: <mode>
2967
2968	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2969			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2970			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2971			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2972			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2973			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2974			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2975			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2976			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2977			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2978			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2979			are specified on the command line, starting
2980			with parport0.
2981
2982	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2983			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2984			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2985			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2986			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2987			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2988			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2989
2990	pause_on_oops=
2991			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2992			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2993			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2994
2995	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2996
2997	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2998			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2999			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3000
3001	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
3002		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
3003				changes anything
3004		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3005		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3006				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3007				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3008		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3009				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3010				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3011				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3012		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3013				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3014				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3015		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3016				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3017				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3018				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3019				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3020				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3021				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3022		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3023				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3024				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3025		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3026				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3027		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3028				Configuration
3029		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3030				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3031				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3032		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3033				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3034				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3035		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3036				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3037				should never be necessary.
3038		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3039				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3040				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3041				when the system masks IRQs.
3042		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3043				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3044				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3045				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3046		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3047				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3048				on several machines and they hang the machine
3049				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3050				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3051				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3052				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3053				motherboard.
3054		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3055				Use with caution as certain devices share
3056				address decoders between ROMs and other
3057				resources.
3058		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3059				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3060				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3061		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3062				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3063		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3064				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3065				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3066				this way.
3067		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3068				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3069				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3070				F0000h-100000h range.
3071		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3072				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3073				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3074				explicitly which ones they are.
3075		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3076				numbers ourselves, overriding
3077				whatever the firmware may have done.
3078		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3079				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3080				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3081				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3082				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3083				IRQ routing is enabled.
3084		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3085				or for PCI scanning.
3086		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3087				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3088				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3089				please report a bug.
3090		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3091				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3092		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3093				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3094				so this option is a temporary workaround
3095				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3096		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3097				handle more pci cards
3098		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3099				This might help on some broken boards which
3100				machine check when some devices' config space
3101				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3102				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3103		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3104				This sorting is done to get a device
3105				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3106		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3107		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3108				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3109		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3110				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3111		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3112				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3113				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3114				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3115				or bus can support) for best performance.
3116		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3117				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3118				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3119				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3120				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3121				that hot-added devices will work.
3122		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3123				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3124				The default value is 256 bytes.
3125		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3126				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3127				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3128		resource_alignment=
3129				Format:
3130				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3131				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3132						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3133				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3134				aligned memory resources.
3135				If <order of align> is not specified,
3136				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3137				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3138				windows need to be expanded.
3139				To specify the alignment for several
3140				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3141				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3142				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3143		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3144				end-to-end CRC checking).
3145				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3146				the default.
3147				off: Turn ECRC off
3148				on: Turn ECRC on.
3149		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3150				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3151				Default size is 256 bytes.
3152		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3153				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3154				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3155		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3156				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3157				Default is 1.
3158		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3159				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3160				accommodate resources required by all child
3161				devices.
3162				off: Turn realloc off
3163				on: Turn realloc on
3164		realloc		same as realloc=on
3165		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3166		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3167				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3168		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3169				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3170				port.
3171		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3172				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3173				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3174				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3175				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3176				taints the kernel.
3177
3178	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3179			Management.
3180		off	Disable ASPM.
3181		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3182			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3183
3184	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3185		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3186			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3187			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3188			also tries to use these services.
3189		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3190			hotplug).
3191
3192	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3193		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3194		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3195
3196	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3197		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3198			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3199
3200	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3201
3202	pd_ignore_unused
3203			[PM]
3204			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3205			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3206			for debug and development, but should not be
3207			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3208
3209	pd.		[PARIDE]
3210			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3211
3212	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3213			boot time.
3214			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3215			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3216
3217	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3218			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3219			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3220			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3221			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3222			and performance comparison.
3223
3224	pf.		[PARIDE]
3225			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3226
3227	pg.		[PARIDE]
3228			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3229
3230	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3231			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3232
3233	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3234			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3235			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3236
3237	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3238			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3239			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3240
3241	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3242			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3243			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3244			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3245			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3246			possible settings and some assignment information.
3247
3248	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3249			{ off }
3250
3251	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3252			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3253
3254	pnp_reserve_irq=
3255			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3256
3257	pnp_reserve_dma=
3258			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3259
3260	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3261			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3262
3263	pnp_reserve_mem=
3264			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3265			autoconfiguration.
3266			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3267
3268	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3269			Default is 21.
3270			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3271			may be specified.
3272			Format: <port>,<port>....
3273
3274	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3275			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3276			platform machine description specific power_save
3277			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3278			execution priority.
3279
3280	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3281			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3282			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3283			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3284			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3285
3286	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3287			Format: {"off"}
3288			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3289
3290	print-fatal-signals=
3291			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3292
3293			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3294			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3295			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3296			coredump - etc.
3297
3298			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3299			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3300
3301			default: off.
3302
3303	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3304			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3305			panics
3306			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3307			default: disabled
3308
3309	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3310			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3311			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3312			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3313			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3314			Default: ratelimit
3315
3316	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3317			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3318
3319	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3320			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3321			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3322
3323	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3324			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3325			instead using the legacy FADT method
3326
3327	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3328			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3329			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3330				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3331			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3332			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3333				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3334			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3335			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3336				statistical time based profiling.
3337
3338	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3339			before loading.
3340			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3341
3342	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3343			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3344	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3345			per second.
3346	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3347			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3348			(0 = never).
3349	psmouse.resolution=
3350			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3351	psmouse.smartscroll=
3352			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3353			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3354
3355	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3356
3357	pt.		[PARIDE]
3358			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3359
3360	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3361			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3362			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3363			system calls and interrupts.
3364
3365			on   - unconditionally enable
3366			off  - unconditionally disable
3367			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3368			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3369
3370			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3371
3372	nopti		[X86_64]
3373			Equivalent to pti=off
3374
3375	pty.legacy_count=
3376			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3377			default number.
3378
3379	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3380
3381	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3382
3383	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3384			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3385
3386	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3387			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3388
3389	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3390
3391		cec_disable	[X86]
3392				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3393				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3394
3395	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3396			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3397
3398			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3399			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3400			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3401			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3402			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3403			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3404			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3405			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3406			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3407			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3408
3409	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3410			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3411			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3412			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3413			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3414			This improves the real-time response for the
3415			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3416			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3417			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3418			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3419
3420	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3421			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3422			process in one batch.
3423
3424	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3425			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3426			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3427			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3428
3429	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3430			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3431			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3432
3433	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3434			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3435			RCU grace-period initialization.
3436
3437	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3438			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3439			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3440			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3441			the rcu_node combining tree.
3442
3443	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3444			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3445			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3446			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3447			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3448
3449	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3450			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3451			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3452			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3453			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3454			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3455			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3456
3457	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3458			Set required age in jiffies for a
3459			given grace period before RCU starts
3460			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3461			rcu_note_context_switch().
3462
3463	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3464			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3465			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3466			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3467			and maximum value is HZ.
3468
3469	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3470			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3471			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3472			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3473
3474	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3475			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3476			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3477			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3478			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3479			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3480			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3481			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3482			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3483			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3484
3485	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3486			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3487			defaults to the square root of the number of
3488			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3489			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3490			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3491
3492	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3493			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3494			batch limiting is disabled.
3495
3496	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3497			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3498			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3499
3500	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3501			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3502			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3503
3504	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3505			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3506			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3507			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3508			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3509
3510	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3511			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3512			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3513			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3514			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3515			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3516
3517	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3518			Measure performance of asynchronous
3519			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3520
3521	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3522			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3523			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3524			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3525			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3526			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3527
3528	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3529			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3530			grace-period primitives.
3531
3532	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3533			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3534			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3535			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3536			interference.
3537
3538	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3539			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3540			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3541			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3542			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3543			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3544			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3545			a single reader.
3546
3547	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3548			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3549			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3550			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3551
3552	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3553			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3554
3555	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3556			Shut the system down after performance tests
3557			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3558			testing.
3559
3560	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3561			Enable additional printk() statements.
3562
3563	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3564			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3565			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3566			no holdoff.
3567
3568	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3569			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3570			callback-flood tests.
3571
3572	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3573			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3574			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3575			test.
3576
3577	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3578			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3579			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3580			disable callback-flood testing.
3581
3582	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3583			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3584			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3585
3586	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3587			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3588			in microseconds.
3589
3590	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3591			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3592			in microseconds.
3593
3594	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3595			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3596			in seconds.
3597
3598	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3599			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3600			primitives, if available.
3601
3602	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3603			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3604
3605	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3606			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3607			update-side primitives, if available.
3608
3609	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3610			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3611			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3612			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3613			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3614			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3615			they are all non-zero.
3616
3617	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3618			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3619
3620	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3621			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3622			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3623			test, hence the "fake".
3624
3625	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3626			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3627			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3628			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3629			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3630			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3631
3632	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3633			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3634
3635	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3636			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3637
3638	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3639			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3640			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3641
3642	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3643			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3644			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3645			during the rcutorture test.
3646
3647	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3648			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3649			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3650
3651	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3652			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3653			warnings, zero to disable.
3654
3655	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3656			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3657
3658	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3659			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3660
3661	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3662			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3663
3664	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3665			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3666			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3667			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3668			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3669
3670	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3671			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3672			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3673			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3674
3675	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3676			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3677
3678	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3679			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3680
3681	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3682			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3683			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3684
3685	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3686			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3687
3688	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3689			Enable additional printk() statements.
3690
3691	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3692			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3693
3694	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3695			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3696
3697	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3698			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3699			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3700			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3701			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3702			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3703			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3704
3705	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3706			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3707			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3708			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3709			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3710			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3711			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3712			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3713			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3714
3715	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3716			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3717			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3718			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3719			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3720
3721	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3722			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3723			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3724			to zero.
3725
3726	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3727			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3728
3729	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3730			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3731
3732	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3733			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3734
3735	rdinit=		[KNL]
3736			Format: <full_path>
3737			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3738			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3739
3740	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3741			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3742			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3743			mba.
3744			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3745				rdt=cmt,!mba
3746
3747	reboot=		[KNL]
3748			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3749				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3750				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3751				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3752				[[,]f[orce]
3753			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3754			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3755			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3756			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3757					to be used for rebooting.
3758
3759	relax_domain_level=
3760			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3761			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3762
3763	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3764			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3765			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3766			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3767			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
3768
3769	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3770			Format: nn[KMG]
3771			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3772			address space.
3773
3774	reservelow=	[X86]
3775			Format: nn[K]
3776			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3777			the bottom of the address space.
3778
3779	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3780			during initialization.
3781
3782	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3783			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3784			Format:
3785			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3786
3787	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3788			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3789			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3790			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3791			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3792
3793	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3794			read the resume files
3795
3796	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3797			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3798			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3799
3800	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3801		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3802				present during boot.
3803		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3804		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3805		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3806				(that will set all pages holding image data
3807				during restoration read-only).
3808
3809	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3810
3811	rfkill.default_state=
3812		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3813			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3814		1	Unblocked.
3815
3816	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3817		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3818		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3819			blocked and the previous configuration.
3820		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3821			blocked and everything unblocked.
3822
3823	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3824			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3825
3826	ring3mwait=disable
3827			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3828			CPUs.
3829
3830	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3831
3832	rodata=		[KNL]
3833		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3834		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3835
3836	rockchip.usb_uart
3837			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3838			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3839			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3840			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3841
3842	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3843			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3844
3845	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3846			mount the root filesystem
3847
3848	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3849
3850	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3851
3852	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3853			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3854			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3855
3856	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3857			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3858			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3859			managed by CMA.
3860
3861	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3862
3863	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3864
3865	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3866			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3867		strict
3868			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3869			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3870			which is faster.
3871
3872	sa1100ir	[NET]
3873			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3874
3875	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3876
3877	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3878
3879	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3880			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3881			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3882			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3883
3884	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3885			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3886			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3887			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3888			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3889			1 -- enable.
3890			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3891			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3892
3893	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3894			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3895			security module asking for security registration will be
3896			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3897			as if no module has been chosen.
3898
3899	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3900			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3901			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3902			0 -- disable.
3903			1 -- enable.
3904			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3905			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3906			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3907
3908	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3909			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3910			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3911			0 -- disable.
3912			1 -- enable.
3913			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3914
3915	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3916
3917	shapers=	[NET]
3918			Maximal number of shapers.
3919
3920	simeth=		[IA-64]
3921	simscsi=
3922
3923	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3924
3925	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3926			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3927			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3928			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3929			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3930			layout control by attackers can usually be
3931			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3932			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3933			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3934			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3935			own.
3936			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
3937
3938	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3939			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3940			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3941			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3942			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3943
3944	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3945			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3946			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3947			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3948			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3949			last alloc / free. For more information see
3950			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
3951
3952	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3953			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3954			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3955			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3956			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3957			directories and files being created under
3958			/sys/kernel/slub.
3959
3960	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3961			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3962			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3963			fragmentation. For more information see
3964			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
3965
3966	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3967			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3968			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3969			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3970			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3971			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3972			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3973			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
3974
3975	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3976			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3977			lower than slub_max_order.
3978			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
3979
3980	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3981			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3982			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3983
3984	smart2=		[HW]
3985			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3986
3987	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3988	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3989	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3990	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3991	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3992	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3993	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3994				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3995				1: Fast pin select (default)
3996				2: ATC IRMode
3997
3998	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3999			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4000			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4001			actual hardware limit.
4002			Format: <integer>
4003			Default: -1 (no limit)
4004
4005	softlockup_panic=
4006			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4007			Format: <integer>
4008
4009			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4010			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4011			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4012			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4013			functionality.
4014
4015	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4016			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4017			backtraces on all cpus.
4018			Format: <integer>
4019
4020	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4021			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4022
4023	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4024			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4025
4026			on   - unconditionally enable
4027			off  - unconditionally disable
4028			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4029			       vulnerable
4030
4031			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4032			mitigation method at run time according to the
4033			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4034			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4035			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4036
4037			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4038
4039			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4040			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4041			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4042
4043			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4044			spectre_v2=auto.
4045
4046	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4047			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4048			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4049
4050			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4051			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4052			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4053			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4054			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4055			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4056			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4057			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4058
4059			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4060			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4061			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4062			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4063
4064			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4065			Bypass optimization is used.
4066
4067			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4068			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4069			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4070				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4071				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4072				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4073				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4074				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4075			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4076				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4077				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4078				  is inherited on fork.
4079			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4080				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4081
4082			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4083			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4084
4085			Default mitigations:
4086			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4087
4088	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4089	spia_fio_base=
4090	spia_pedr=
4091	spia_peddr=
4092
4093	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4094			Specifies how frequently to check for
4095			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4096			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4097			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4098			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4099			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4100			are ignored.
4101
4102	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4103			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4104			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4105			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4106			grace period will be considered for automatic
4107			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4108			expediting.
4109
4110	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4111			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4112
4113			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4114			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4115			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4116			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4117
4118			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4119				   for both kernel and userspace
4120			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4121				   for both kernel and userspace
4122			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4123				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4124				   to allow userspace to register its
4125				   interest in being mitigated too.
4126
4127	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4128			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4129			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4130			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4131			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4132			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4133
4134	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4135			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4136
4137	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4138			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4139			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4140			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4141			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4142			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4143			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4144
4145	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4146			Format: <num>
4147			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4148			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4149			as the initial boot-console.
4150			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4151
4152	sti_font=	[HW]
4153			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4154
4155	stifb=		[HW]
4156			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4157
4158	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4159	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4160			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4161			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4162			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4163			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4164			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4165			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4166			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4167			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4168			maximum port values.
4169
4170	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4171			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4172			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4173			process in parallel from a single connection.
4174			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4175
4176	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4177			[NFS]
4178			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4179			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4180			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4181			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4182			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4183			NFS server is running.
4184
4185			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4186				    automatically using heuristics
4187			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4188			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4189			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4190				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4191
4192	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4193	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4194			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4195			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4196			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4197			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4198			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4199			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4200
4201	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4202			[SUSPEND]
4203			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4204			mode before resuming the system (see
4205			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4206			is set. Default value is 5.
4207
4208	swapaccount=[0|1]
4209			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4210			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4211			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4212
4213	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4214			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4215			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4216			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4217			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4218			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4219
4220	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4221
4222	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4223			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4224			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4225			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4226			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4227			in older udev will not work anymore.
4228			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4229			the kernel configuration.
4230
4231	sysrq_always_enabled
4232			[KNL]
4233			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4234			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4235			Useful for debugging.
4236
4237	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4238			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4239			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4240			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4241			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4242			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4243
4244	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4245
4246	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4247			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4248			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4249			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4250			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4251			The system is woken from this state using a
4252			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4253
4254	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4255			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4256
4257	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4258			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4259			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4260
4261	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4262			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4263			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4264
4265	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4266			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4267			critical and hot trip points.
4268
4269	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4270			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4271
4272	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4273			-1: disable all passive trip points
4274			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4275			value
4276
4277	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4278			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4279			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4280			0: no polling (default)
4281
4282	threadirqs	[KNL]
4283			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4284			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4285
4286	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4287			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4288
4289	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4290			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4291			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4292
4293	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4294			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4295			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4296			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4297
4298	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4299			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4300			to the hypervisor.
4301
4302	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4303			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4304			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4305			kernel based on different criteria.
4306
4307	topology=	[S390]
4308			Format: {off | on}
4309			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4310			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4311			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4312			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4313			Default is on.
4314
4315	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4316			Format: {off}
4317			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4318			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4319			LPAR.
4320
4321	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4322
4323	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4324			Format: integer pcr id
4325			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4326			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4327			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4328			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4329			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4330			are saved.
4331
4332	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4333			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4334
4335	trace_event=[event-list]
4336			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4337			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4338			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4339			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4340
4341	trace_options=[option-list]
4342			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4343			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4344			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4345			to echo the option name into
4346
4347			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4348
4349			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4350			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4351
4352			      trace_options=stacktrace
4353
4354			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4355			section.
4356
4357	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4358			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4359			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4360			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4361			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4362			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4363
4364			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4365			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4366			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4367			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4368
4369			** CAUTION **
4370
4371			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4372			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4373			the system to live lock.
4374
4375	traceoff_on_warning
4376			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4377			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4378			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4379			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4380
4381			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4382			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4383			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4384
4385			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4386			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4387
4388	transparent_hugepage=
4389			[KNL]
4390			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4391			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4392			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4393			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4394			for more details.
4395
4396	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4397			Format: <string>
4398			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4399			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4400			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4401			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4402			virtualized environment.
4403			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4404			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4405			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4406			can add overhead.
4407			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4408			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4409			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4410
4411	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4412			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4413			Format:
4414			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4415			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4416
4417	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4418			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4419			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4420			help "seeing" what's going on.
4421
4422	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4423			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4424
4425	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4426			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4427			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4428			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4429			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4430			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4431			reported either.
4432
4433	unknown_nmi_panic
4434			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4435
4436	usbcore.authorized_default=
4437			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4438			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4439			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4440
4441	usbcore.autosuspend=
4442			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4443			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4444			is the time required before an idle device will be
4445			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4446			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4447
4448	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4449			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4450
4451	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4452			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4453			(default = 65536).
4454
4455	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4456			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4457
4458	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4459			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4460			scheme (default 0 = off).
4461
4462	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4463			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4464			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4465
4466	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4467			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4468			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4469
4470	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4471			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4472			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4473			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4474
4475	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4476
4477	usbcore.quirks=
4478			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4479			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4480			commas. Each entry has the form
4481			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4482			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4483			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4484			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4485			the following meanings:
4486				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4487					descriptors must not be fetched using
4488					a 255-byte read);
4489				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4490					correctly so reset it instead);
4491				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4492					Set-Interface requests);
4493				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4494					handle its Configuration or Interface
4495					strings);
4496				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4497					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4498				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4499					more interface descriptions than the
4500					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4501					talking to these interfaces);
4502				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4503					during initialization, after we read
4504					the device descriptor);
4505				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4506					high speed and super speed interrupt
4507					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4508					require the interval in microframes (1
4509					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4510					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4511					(bInterval-1).
4512					Devices with this quirk report their
4513					bInterval as the result of this
4514					calculation instead of the exponent
4515					variable used in the calculation);
4516				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4517					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4518					requests);
4519				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4520					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4521					remote wakeup capability);
4522				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4523					Power Management);
4524				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4525					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4526					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4527					calculation);
4528				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4529					to be disconnected before suspend to
4530					prevent spurious wakeup);
4531				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4532					pause after every control message);
4533			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4534
4535	usbhid.mousepoll=
4536			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4537
4538	usbhid.jspoll=
4539			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4540
4541	usbhid.kbpoll=
4542			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4543
4544	usb-storage.delay_use=
4545			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4546			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4547
4548	usb-storage.quirks=
4549			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4550			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4551			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4552			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4553			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4554			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4555			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4556				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4557					of sense data);
4558				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4559					bytes of sense data);
4560				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4561					device capacity by one sector);
4562				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4563					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4564				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4565					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4566				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4567					command, uas only);
4568				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4569					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4570				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4571					reported device capacity by one
4572					sector if the number is odd);
4573				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4574					device);
4575				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4576					command, uas only);
4577				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4578					unlock ejectable media);
4579				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4580					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4581				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4582					initial READ(10) command);
4583				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4584					reported by the device);
4585				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4586					by default);
4587				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4588					bogus residue values);
4589				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4590					Logical Unit);
4591				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4592					commands, uas only);
4593				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4594				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4595					medium is write-protected).
4596				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4597					even if the device claims no cache)
4598			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4599
4600	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4601			Format: <int>
4602			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4603				 1 - undefined instruction events
4604				 2 - system calls
4605				 4 - invalid data aborts
4606				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4607				16 - SIGBUS faults
4608			Example: user_debug=31
4609
4610	userpte=
4611			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4612
4613				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4614					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4615					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4616
4617	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4618			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4619
4620			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4621			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4622
4623	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4624			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4625			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4626
4627			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4628			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4629			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4630
4631			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4632			alias for vdso32=0.
4633
4634			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4635			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4636
4637	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4638			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4639
4640	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4641			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4642
4643	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4644			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4645			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4646			level and then send out the event to user space through
4647			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4648			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4649			brightness level.
4650			default: 1
4651
4652	virtio_mmio.device=
4653			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4654
4655				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4656			where:
4657				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4658						like K, M and G)
4659				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4660				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4661						request_irq())
4662				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4663			example:
4664				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4665
4666			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4667
4668	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4669			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4670			Documentation/svga.txt.
4671			Use vga=ask for menu.
4672			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4673			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4674
4675	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4676			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4677			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4678			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4679			mapped kernel RAM.
4680
4681	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4682			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4683			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4684
4685	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4686			Format: <command>
4687
4688	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4689			Format: <command>
4690
4691	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4692			Format: <command>
4693
4694	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4695			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4696			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4697			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4698			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4699			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4700			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4701
4702			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4703			            emulated reasonably safely.
4704
4705			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4706			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4707			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4708			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4709			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4710
4711			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4712			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4713			            might break your system.
4714
4715	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4716			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4717			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4718
4719	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4720			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4721			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4722			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4723
4724	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4725			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4726			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4727			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4728			ranging from 0-255.
4729
4730	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4731			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4732			Change the default green palette of the console.
4733			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4734			ranging from 0-255.
4735
4736	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4737			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4738			Change the default red palette of the console.
4739			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4740			ranging from 0-255.
4741
4742	vt.default_utf8=
4743			[VT]
4744			Format=<0|1>
4745			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4746			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4747			newly opened terminals.
4748
4749	vt.global_cursor_default=
4750			[VT]
4751			Format=<-1|0|1>
4752			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4753			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4754			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4755			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4756			cursors, 1 will display them.
4757
4758	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4759			Default: 2 = green.
4760
4761	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4762			Default: 3 = cyan.
4763
4764	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4765			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4766			or other driver-specific files in the
4767			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4768
4769	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4770			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4771			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4772			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4773			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4774			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4775			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4776			corresponding sysfs file.
4777
4778	workqueue.disable_numa
4779			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4780			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4781			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4782			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4783			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4784			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4785			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4786
4787	workqueue.power_efficient
4788			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4789			they show better performance thanks to cache
4790			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4791			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4792
4793			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4794			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4795			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4796			power usage at the cost of small performance
4797			overhead.
4798
4799			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4800			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4801
4802	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4803			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4804			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4805			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4806			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4807			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4808			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4809			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4810			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4811			impacted.
4812
4813	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4814			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4815			supporting x2apic.
4816
4817	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4818			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4819			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4820			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4821			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4822
4823	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4824			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4825			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4826			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4827			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4828			domains.
4829
4830	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4831			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4832			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4833			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4834			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4835			nics -- unplug network devices
4836			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4837			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4838				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4839				the unplug protocol
4840			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4841
4842	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4843			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4844			optimizations.
4845
4846	xen_nopv	[X86]
4847			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4848			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4849
4850	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4851			Format:
4852			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4853