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