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