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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
404
405	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
407	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408			EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
412	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
413			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
414
415	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416			keyboards
417
418	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
420
421	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422			Use software keyboard repeat
423
424	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
425			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427			    enabled until the next reboot
428			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
430			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433			    userspace auditd.
434			Default: unset
435
436	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438			Default: 64
439
440	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
441			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442			Format: { "0" | "1" }
443			0 - Disable the BAU.
444			1 - Enable the BAU.
445			unset - Disable the BAU.
446
447	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
448			Format: <io>,<mode>
449
450	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451			Format: <io>,<mode>
452			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
454	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
455			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
456			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
459	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
460			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
461			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
464	bert_disable	[ACPI]
465			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
466
467	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
468			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
469
470	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
471			embedded devices based on command line input.
472			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
473
474	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
475			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
476			no delay (0).
477			Format: integer
478
479	bootconfig	[KNL]
480			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
481			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
482
483			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
484
485	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
486	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
487			kernel args too.
488	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
489	bttv.tuner=
490
491	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493			at a time.
494
495	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
497	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
498			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502			This option provides an override for these situations.
503
504	carrier_timeout=
505			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507			it waits 120 seconds.
508
509	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511			trust validation.
512			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
513
514	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518			others).
519
520	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
521			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
522
523	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
525			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527			  a single hierarchy
528			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529			  subsystem
530			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532			  created
533			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
536			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537			stall information accounting feature
538
539	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
542			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
544			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546			all v1 hierarchies.
547
548	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549			Format: <string>
550			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
551			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
552
553	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
555			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
556			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557				any implied execute protection).
558			1 -- check protection requested by application.
559			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
560			Value can be changed at runtime via
561				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
562			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
563
564	cio_ignore=	[S390]
565			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
566
567	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
568			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
569			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
570			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
571			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
572			ones should be.
573			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
574			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
575			instability issue. However, not all features have names
576			in /proc/cpuinfo.
577			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
578			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
579			or using the feature without checking anything
580			will still see it. This just prevents it from
581			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
582			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
583			some critical bits.
584
585	clk_ignore_unused
586			[CLK]
587			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
588			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
589			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
590			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
591			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
592			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
593			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
594			platform with proper driver support.  For more
595			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
596
597	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
598			[Deprecated]
599			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
600			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
601			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
602			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
603
604	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
605			Format: <string>
606			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
607			with the name specified.
608			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
609			the platform:
610			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
611			[ACPI] acpi_pm
612			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
613				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
614			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
615				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
616			[MIPS] MIPS
617			[PARISC] cr16
618			[S390] tod
619			[SH] SuperH
620			[SPARC64] tick
621			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
622
623	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
624			[ARM,ARM64]
625			Format: <bool>
626			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
627			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
628			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
629			systems.
630
631	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
632			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
633			external delays before the clock will be marked
634			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
635			three attempts to read the clock under test.
636
637	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
638			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
639			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
640			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
641			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
642			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
643			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
644			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
645			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
646
647	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
648			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
649			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
650			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
651			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
652
653	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
654			[KNL,CMA]
655			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
656			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
657			placement constraint by the physical address range of
658			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
659			altogether. For more information, see
660			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
661
662	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
663			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
664			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
665			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
666			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
667			specificed, the default value is 0.
668			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
669			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
670			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
671			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
672
673	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
674			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
675			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
676			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
677			a hypervisor.
678			Default: yes
679
680	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
681			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
682			allocations, by default set to 256K.
683
684	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
685			Format:
686			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
687
688	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
689			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
690
691	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
692			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
693			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
694
695	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
696	conmode=
697
698	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
699
700		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
701
702		ttyS<n>[,options]
703		ttyUSB0[,options]
704			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
705			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
706			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
707			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
708			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
709
710			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
711			information.  See
712			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
713			alternative.
714
715		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
716		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
717		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
718		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
719		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
720			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
721			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
722			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
723			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
724			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
725			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
726			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
727			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
728			the h/w is not re-initialized.
729
730		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
731			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
732
733		{ null | "" }
734			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
735			console messages discarded.
736			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
737			kernel command line.
738
739		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
740		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
741			console=brl,ttyS0
742		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
743
744	console_msg_format=
745			[KNL] Change console messages format
746		default
747			By default we print messages on consoles in
748			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
749			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
750			`printk_time' param).
751		syslog
752			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
753			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
754			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
755			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
756			from /proc/kmsg.
757
758	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
759			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
760			Defaults to 0.
761
762	coredump_filter=
763			[KNL] Change the default value for
764			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
765			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
766
767	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
768			[ARM,ARM64]
769			Format: <bool>
770			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
771			0: default value, disable debugging
772			1: enable debugging at boot time
773
774	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
775			Format:
776			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
777
778	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
779			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
780			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
781			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
782			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
783			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
784			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
785			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
786			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
787			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
788			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
789			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
790			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
791
792	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
793			disable the cpuidle sub-system
794
795	cpuidle.governor=
796			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
797
798	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
799			disable the cpufreq sub-system
800
801	cpufreq.default_governor=
802			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
803			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
804			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
805
806	cpu_init_udelay=N
807			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
808			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
809			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
810			Default: 10000
811
812	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
813			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
814			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
815			succeeds in any situation.
816			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
817			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
818			kernel more unstable.
819
820	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
821			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
822			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
823			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
824			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
825			is selected automatically.
826			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
827			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
828			hasn't been specified.
829			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
830
831	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
832			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
833			in the running system. The syntax of range is
834			start-[end] where start and end are both
835			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
836			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
837
838	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
839			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
840			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
841			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
842			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
843			available.
844			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
845	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
846			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
847			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
848			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
849			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
850			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
851			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
852			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
853			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
854			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
855			for second kernel instead.
856			0: to disable low allocation.
857			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
858			or memory reserved is below 4G.
859
860			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
861			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
862			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
863			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
864			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
865
866	cryptomgr.notests
867			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
868
869	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
870			Format: <dma>
871
872	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
873			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
874
875	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
876			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
877			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
878			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
879			to resolve the hang situation.
880			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
881			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
882			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
883			     but more data)
884
885	dasd=		[HW,NET]
886			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
887
888	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
889			(one device per port)
890			Format: <port#>,<type>
891			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
892
893	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
894
895	debug_boot_weak_hash
896			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
897			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
898			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
899			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
900			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
901			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
902
903	debug_locks_verbose=
904			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
905			Format: <int>
906			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
907			self-tests.
908			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
909			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
910			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
911			useful to lockdep developers.
912
913	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
914
915	no_debug_objects
916			[KNL] Disable object debugging
917
918	debug_guardpage_minorder=
919			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
920			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
921			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
922			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
923			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
924			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
925			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
926			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
927			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
928			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
929			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
930			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
931			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
932			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
933			bypassed) which are not detectable by
934			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
935			tracking down these problems.
936
937	debug_pagealloc=
938			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
939			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
940			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
941			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
942			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
943			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
944			on: enable the feature
945
946	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
947			and debugfs internal clients.
948			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
949			on: 	All functions are enabled.
950			no-mount:
951				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
952			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
953				its content. There is nothing to mount.
954			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
955			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
956				or directories within debugfs.
957				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
958				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
959			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
960
961	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
962
963	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
964			Format: <area>[,<node>]
965			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
966
967	default_hugepagesz=
968			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
969			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
970			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
971			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
972			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
973			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
974			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
975			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
976			Format: size[KMG]
977
978	deferred_probe_timeout=
979			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
980			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
981			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
982			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
983			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
984			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
985			successful driver registration. This option will also
986			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
987			retrying.
988
989	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
990
991	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
992			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
993			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
994			hardware.
995
996	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
997			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
998			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
999			blacklisted features.
1000
1001	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1002			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1003			(disabled by default).
1004
1005	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1006			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1007			capability is set.
1008
1009	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1010			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1011
1012	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1013			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1014
1015	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1016			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1017			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1018			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1019			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1020			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1021			          only (compression on level 1)
1022			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1023			          only (decompression)
1024			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1025			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1026
1027	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1028			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1029
1030	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1031			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1032			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1033			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1034			miss to occur.
1035
1036	stress_slb	[PPC]
1037			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1038			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1039			on kernel addresses.
1040
1041	disable=	[IPV6]
1042			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1043
1044	disable_radix	[PPC]
1045			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1046
1047	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1048			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1049			invalidate.
1050
1051	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1052			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1053			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1054
1055	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1056			Format: <int>
1057			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1058			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1059			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1060			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1061			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1062			INIT from AP to BSP.
1063
1064	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1065			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1066			to workaround buggy firmware.
1067
1068	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1069			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1070
1071	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1072			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1073			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1074			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1075
1076	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1077			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1078			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1079			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1080			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1081
1082	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1083			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1084			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1085
1086	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1087
1088	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1089			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1090
1091	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1092			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1093			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1094			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1095			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1096			architectural default is too low.
1097
1098	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1099			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1100			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1101			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1102			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1103			driver later using sysfs.
1104
1105	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1106			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1107			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1108			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1109			match the *.
1110			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1111
1112	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1113			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1114			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1115			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1116			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1117			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1118			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1119			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1120			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1121			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1122			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1123			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1124			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1125			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1126			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1127			data set with no connector name will be used for
1128			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1129
1130	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1131
1132	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1133			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1134			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1135			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1136			exists).
1137			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1138			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1139			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1140
1141	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1142			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1143			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1144			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1145
1146	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1147	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1148			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1149			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1150			for details.
1151
1152	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1153			in some Intel CPUs.
1154
1155	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1156			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1157
1158	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1159			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1160			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1161			which are not unmapped.
1162
1163	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1164
1165			When used with no options, the early console is
1166			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1167			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1168			the platform.
1169
1170		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1171			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1172			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1173			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1174			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1175			configured.
1176
1177		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1178		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1179		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1180		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1181		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1182			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1183			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1184			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1185			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1186			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1187			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1188			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1189			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1190
1191		pl011,<addr>
1192		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1193			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1194			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1195			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1196			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1197			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1198			the device registers.
1199
1200		liteuart,<addr>
1201			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1202			specified address. The serial port must already be
1203			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1204
1205		meson,<addr>
1206			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1207			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1208			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1209			supported.
1210
1211		msm_serial,<addr>
1212			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1213			port at the specified address. The serial port
1214			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1215			yet supported.
1216
1217		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1218			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1219			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1220			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1221			yet supported.
1222
1223		owl,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1225			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1226			specified address. The serial port must already be
1227			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1228
1229		rda,<addr>
1230			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1231			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1232			specified address. The serial port must already be
1233			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1234
1235		sbi
1236			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1237			console.
1238
1239		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1240
1241		s3c2410,<addr>
1242		s3c2412,<addr>
1243		s3c2440,<addr>
1244		s3c6400,<addr>
1245		s5pv210,<addr>
1246		exynos4210,<addr>
1247			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1248			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1249			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1250			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1251			Options are not yet supported.
1252
1253		lantiq,<addr>
1254			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1255			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1256			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1257			yet supported.
1258
1259		lpuart,<addr>
1260		lpuart32,<addr>
1261			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1262			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1263			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1264			port must already be setup and configured.
1265
1266		ec_imx21,<addr>
1267		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1269			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1270			must already be setup and configured.
1271
1272		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1273			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1274			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1275			address. The serial port must already be setup
1276			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1277
1278		qcom_geni,<addr>
1279			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1280			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1281			specified address. The serial port must already be
1282			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		efifb,[options]
1285			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1286			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1287			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1288			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1289			mapped with the correct attributes.
1290
1291		linflex,<addr>
1292			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1293			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1294			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1295			already be setup and configured.
1296
1297	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1298			earlyprintk=vga
1299			earlyprintk=sclp
1300			earlyprintk=xen
1301			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1302			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1303			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1304			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1305			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1306			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1307
1308			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1309			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1310			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1311
1312			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1313			takes over.
1314
1315			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1316			be used at a time.
1317
1318			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1319			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1320			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1321			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1322				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1323			You can find the port for a given device in
1324			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1325				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1326
1327			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1328			very good.
1329
1330			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1331			the real console.
1332
1333			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1334
1335			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1336
1337			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1338			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1339			UART class.
1340
1341	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1342			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1343			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1344			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1345			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1346			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1347			default: on.
1348
1349	edd=		[EDD]
1350			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1351
1352	efi=		[EFI]
1353			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1354				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1355				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1356			debug: enable misc debug output.
1357			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1358			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1359			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1360			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1361			firmware implementations.
1362			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1363			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1364			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1365			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1366			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1367			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1368			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1369			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1370			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1371			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1372
1373	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1374			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1375			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1376			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1377			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1378
1379	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1380			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1381			updating original EFI memory map.
1382			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1383			from ss to ss+nn.
1384
1385			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1386			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1387			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1388			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1389
1390			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1391			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1392			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1393
1394			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1395			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1396			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1397			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1398			"soft reserved".
1399
1400	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1401			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1402			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1403			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1404			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1405
1406
1407	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1408			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1409
1410	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1411			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1412
1413			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1414			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1415
1416			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1417			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1418			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1419			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1420
1421	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1422			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1423			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1424
1425	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1426			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1427			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1428			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1429			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1430
1431	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1432			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1433			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1434			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1435
1436	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1437			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1438			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1439			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1440			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1441
1442	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1443			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1444			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1445			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1446			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1447			Default value is 0.
1448			Value can be changed at runtime via
1449			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1450
1451	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1452			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1453			support.
1454
1455	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1456			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1457			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1458
1459	evm=		[EVM]
1460			Format: { "fix" }
1461			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1462			current integrity status.
1463
1464	failslab=
1465	fail_usercopy=
1466	fail_page_alloc=
1467	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1468			General fault injection mechanism.
1469			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1470			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1471
1472	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1473			Format: { initns | none }
1474			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1475			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1476
1477	floppy=		[HW]
1478			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1479
1480	force_pal_cache_flush
1481			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1482			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1483			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1484			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1485
1486	forcepae	[X86-32]
1487			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1488			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1489			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1490			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1491			and may cause unknown problems.
1492
1493	ftrace=[tracer]
1494			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1495			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1496			boot debugging.
1497
1498	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1499			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1500			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1501			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1502			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1503			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1504			start up functionality.
1505
1506	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1507			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1508			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1509			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1510			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1511			oops.
1512
1513	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1514			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1515			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1516			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1517			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1518			tracing directory.
1519
1520	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1521			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1522			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1523			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1524			tracing directory.
1525
1526	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1527			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1528			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1529			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1530			that can be changed at run time by the
1531			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1532
1533	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1534			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1535			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1536			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1537			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1538
1539	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1540			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1541			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1542			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1543			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1544
1545	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1546			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1547			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1548			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1549			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1550			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1551			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1552			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1553			suppliers).
1554			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1555			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1556			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1557				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1558				up (sync_state() calls).
1559			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1560				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1561			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1562
1563	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1564			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1565			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1566			Format: <bool>
1567
1568	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1569			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1570			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1571			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1572			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1573
1574	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1575
1576	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1577			Format: off | on
1578			default: on
1579
1580	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1581			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1582			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1583			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1584			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1585
1586	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1587			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1588			android emulator
1589
1590	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1591			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1592			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1593	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1594			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1595
1596	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1597			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1598			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1599			GPT to be used instead.
1600
1601	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1602			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1603			Format: 0 | 1
1604			Default: 0
1605	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1606			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1607			Format: 0 | 1
1608			Default: 0
1609	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1610			Format: 0 | 1
1611			Default: 0
1612	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1613			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1614			Default: 1024
1615	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1616			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1617			Default: 1024
1618
1619	hardened_usercopy=
1620			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1621			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1622			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1623			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1624			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1625			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1626			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1627		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1628		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1629
1630	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1631			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1632			backtraces on all cpus.
1633			Format: 0 | 1
1634
1635	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1636			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1637			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1638			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1639
1640	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1641
1642	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1643			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1644
1645	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1646			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1647			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1648			logic will be disabled.
1649
1650	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1651		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1652				present during boot.
1653		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1654		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1655		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1656				(that will set all pages holding image data
1657				during restoration read-only).
1658
1659	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1660			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1661			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1662			size on bigger boxes.
1663
1664	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1665			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1666			Default: "on"
1667
1668	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1669
1670	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1671			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1672				verbose }
1673			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1674			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1675				VIA, nVidia)
1676			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1677
1678	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1679			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1680
1681	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1682			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1683			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1684			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1685			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1686			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1687			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1688			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1689			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1690				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1691
1692	hugepagesz=
1693			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1694			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1695			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1696			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1697			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1698			architecture dependent.  See also
1699			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1700			Format: size[KMG]
1701
1702	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1703			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1704			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1705			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1706				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1707
1708			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1709			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1710			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1711
1712	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1713			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1714			enabled.
1715			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1716			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1717			Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) }
1718
1719			[oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature
1720			[oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature
1721
1722			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1723			the default is on.
1724
1725			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1726			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1727			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1728
1729	hung_task_panic=
1730			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1731			Format: 0 | 1
1732
1733			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1734			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1735			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1736			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1737			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1738
1739	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1740				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1741	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1742				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1743				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1744
1745	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1746				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1747				      guest on lock contention.
1748
1749	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1750			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1751			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1752			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1753			the real console.
1754
1755	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1756				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1757				registered from board initialization code.
1758				Format:
1759				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1760
1761	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1762	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1763			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1764			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1765			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1766	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1767	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1768			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1769			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1770	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1771	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1772	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1773			     for the AUX port
1774	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1775			     controller
1776	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1777			     controllers
1778	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1779	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1780			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1781			     transitions, or never reset
1782			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1783			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1784			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1785			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1786			architectures force reset to be always executed
1787	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1788	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1789	i8042.probe_defer
1790			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1791
1792	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1793
1794	i915.invert_brightness=
1795			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1796			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1797			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1798			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1799			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1800			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1801			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1802			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1803			value switches the backlight off.
1804			-1 -- never invert brightness
1805			 0 -- machine default
1806			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1807
1808	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1809			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1810
1811
1812	idle=		[X86]
1813			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1814			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1815			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1816			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1817			Not recommended.
1818			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1819			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1820			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1821
1822	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1823			Format: <bool>
1824			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1825			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1826			true (1).
1827
1828	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1829			Format: <bool>
1830			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1831			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1832
1833	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1834			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1835			Default: strict
1836
1837			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1838			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1839			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1840			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1841			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1842			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1843			encoding mode.
1844
1845			Available settings are as follows:
1846			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1847				supported by the FPU
1848			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1849				by the FPU
1850			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1851				by the FPU
1852			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1853				supported by the FPU
1854
1855			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1856			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1857			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1858			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1859			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1860			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1861			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1862			MIPS64 CPUs.
1863
1864			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1865			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1866			except where unsupported by hardware.
1867
1868	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1869			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1870			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1871			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1872			could change it dynamically, usually by
1873			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1874
1875	ignore_rlimit_data
1876			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1877			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1878			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1879
1880	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1881			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1882
1883	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1884			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1885			default: "enforce"
1886
1887	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1888			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1889			owned by uid=0.
1890
1891	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1892			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1893			measurements, instead of host native format.
1894
1895	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1896			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1897				   | sha512 | ... }
1898			default: "sha1"
1899
1900			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1901			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1902
1903	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1904			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1905			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1906				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1907
1908			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1909			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1910			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1911			uid=0.
1912
1913			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1914			all files owned by root.
1915
1916			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1917			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1918			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1919
1920			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1921			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1922			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1923			flag.
1924
1925			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1926			critical data.
1927
1928	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1929			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1930			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1931			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1932			opened for read by uid=0.
1933
1934	ima_template=	[IMA]
1935			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1936			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1937				   "ima-sigv2" }
1938			Default: "ima-ng"
1939
1940	ima_template_fmt=
1941			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1942			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1943
1944	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1945			Format: <min_file_size>
1946			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1947			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1948
1949			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1950			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1951			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1952
1953	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1954			Format: <bufsize>
1955			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1956
1957			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1958			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1959			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1960
1961	init=		[KNL]
1962			Format: <full_path>
1963			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1964			process.
1965
1966	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1967			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1968			startup.
1969
1970	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1971			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1972			modules and initcalls.
1973
1974	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1975			Format: <bool>
1976			Default: 1
1977			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1978			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1979			with devices being probed and
1980			initialized. This should normally just work,
1981			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1982			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1983			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1984			late_ initcalls.
1985
1986	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1987
1988	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1989			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1990			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1991			setting.
1992			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1993			Default is 0, 0
1994
1995	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1996			zeroes.
1997			Format: 0 | 1
1998			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1999
2000	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2001			Format: 0 | 1
2002			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2003
2004	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2005			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2006			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2007			override in debugfs after boot.
2008
2009	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2010			Format: <irq>
2011
2012	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2013
2014	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2015			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2016			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2017			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2018
2019	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2020		on
2021			Enable intel iommu driver.
2022		off
2023			Disable intel iommu driver.
2024		igfx_off [Default Off]
2025			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2026			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2027			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2028			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2029			DMA.
2030		strict [Default Off]
2031			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2032		sp_off [Default Off]
2033			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2034			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2035			not be supported.
2036		sm_on
2037			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2038			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2039			translation.
2040		sm_off
2041			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2042		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2043			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2044			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2045			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2046			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2047			mapping is enabled.
2048			Note that using this option lowers the security
2049			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2050			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2051
2052	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2053			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2054			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2055
2056	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2057			disable
2058			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2059			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2060			passive
2061			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2062			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2063			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2064			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2065			  feature.
2066			force
2067			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2068			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2069			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2070			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2071			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2072			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2073			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2074			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2075			no_hwp
2076			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2077			  if available.
2078			hwp_only
2079			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2080			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2081			support_acpi_ppc
2082			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2083			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2084			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2085			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2086			per_cpu_perf_limits
2087			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2088			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2089
2090	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2091			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2092			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2093			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2094			no_x2apic_optout
2095				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2096			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2097
2098	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2099		strict	regions from userspace.
2100		relaxed
2101
2102	iommu=		[X86]
2103		off
2104		force
2105		noforce
2106		biomerge
2107		panic
2108		nopanic
2109		merge
2110		nomerge
2111		soft
2112		pt		[X86]
2113		nopt		[X86]
2114		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2115			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2116
2117	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2118			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2119			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2120			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2121			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2122			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2123			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2124
2125	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2126			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2127			0 - Lazy mode.
2128			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2129			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2130			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2131			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2132			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2133			1 - Strict mode.
2134			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2135			  synchronously.
2136			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2137			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2138			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2139
2140	iommu.passthrough=
2141			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2142			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2143			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2144			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2145			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2146
2147	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2148			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2149			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2150
2151	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2152		0x80
2153			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2154		0xed
2155			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2156		udelay
2157			Simple two microseconds delay
2158		none
2159			No delay
2160
2161	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2162			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2163
2164	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2165			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2166
2167	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2168			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2169
2170	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2171			[ARM, ARM64]
2172			Format: <bool>
2173			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2174			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2175			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2176
2177	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2178			[ARM, ARM64]
2179			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2180			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2181			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2182			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2183			LPIs.
2184
2185	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2186			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2187			requires the kernel to be built with
2188			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2189
2190	irqfixup	[HW]
2191			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2192			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2193			firmware running.
2194
2195	irqpoll		[HW]
2196			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2197			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2198			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2199			firmware running.
2200
2201	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2202			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2203
2204	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2205			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2206			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2207
2208			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2209			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2210
2211			nohz
2212			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2213
2214			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2215			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2216			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2217			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2218			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2219
2220			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2221			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2222			  be configured manually after bootup.
2223
2224			domain
2225			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2226			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2227			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2228			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2229			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2230			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2231			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2232			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2233
2234			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2235			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2236			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2237			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2238
2239			managed_irq
2240
2241			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2242			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2243			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2244			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2245			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2246
2247			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2248			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2249			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2250			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2251			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2252			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2253			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2254
2255			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2256			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2257			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2258			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2259			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2260			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2261			  queues.
2262
2263			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2264
2265	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2266
2267	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2268			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2269			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2270			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2271			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2272				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2273
2274	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2275			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2276			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2277			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2278			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2279				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2280
2281	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2282			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2283			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2284			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2285			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2286				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2287
2288	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2289			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2290
2291	nokaslr		[KNL]
2292			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2293			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2294			Layout Randomization).
2295
2296	kasan_multi_shot
2297			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2298			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2299			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2300			invalid access.
2301
2302	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2303
2304	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2305			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2306			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2307			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2308			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2309			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2310			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2311			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2312			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2313			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2314
2315			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2316			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2317			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2318			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2319			zone if it does not.
2320
2321			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2322			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2323			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2324			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2325			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2326			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2327			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2328
2329	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2330			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2331			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2332			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2333			optional and is the number seconds in between
2334			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2335			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2336			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2337			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2338			the kernel debugger.
2339
2340	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2341			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2342			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2343			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2344			 keyboard only format: kbd
2345			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2346			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2347			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2348			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2349
2350	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2351			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2352			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2353			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2354			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2355			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2356			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2357
2358			The name of the early console should be specified
2359			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2360			the early console might be different than the tty
2361			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2362			blank and the first boot console that implements
2363			read() will be picked.
2364
2365	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2366			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2367
2368	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2369			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2370			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2371
2372	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2373			Valid arguments: on, off
2374			Default: on
2375			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2376			the default is off.
2377
2378	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2379			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2380			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2381			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2382			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2383			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2384			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2385
2386			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2387
2388			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2389			Boot Parameter" section.
2390
2391	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2392			and kernel address spaces.
2393			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2394			0: force disabled
2395			1: force enabled
2396
2397	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2398			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2399
2400	kvm.eager_page_split=
2401			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2402			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2403			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2404			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2405			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2406			required to split huge pages lazily.
2407
2408			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2409			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2410			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2411			still be used for reads.
2412
2413			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2414			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2415			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2416			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2417			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2418			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2419			cleared.
2420
2421			Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting
2422			huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU.
2423
2424			Default is Y (on).
2425
2426	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2427				   Default is false (don't support).
2428
2429	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2430			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2431			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2432			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2433			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2434			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2435				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2436
2437			Default is 'auto'.
2438
2439			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2440			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2441
2442	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2443			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2444			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2445			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2446			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2447
2448	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2449			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2450			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2451			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2452			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2453			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2454
2455	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2456			Default is 1 (enabled)
2457
2458	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2459			for all guests.
2460			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2461
2462	kvm-arm.mode=
2463			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2464
2465			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2466
2467			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2468			      protected guests.
2469
2470			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2471				   state is kept private from the host.
2472				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2473
2474			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2475			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2476			for the host.
2477
2478	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2479			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2480			system registers
2481
2482	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2483			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2484			system registers
2485
2486	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2487			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2488			system registers
2489
2490	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2491			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2492			LPIs.
2493
2494	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2495			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2496			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2497			allocation.
2498			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2499			Format: <integer>
2500			Default: 5
2501
2502	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2503			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2504			Default is 1 (enabled)
2505
2506	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2507			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2508			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2509			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2510			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2511			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2512			Default is 1 (enabled)
2513
2514	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2515			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2516			Default is 1 (enabled)
2517
2518	kvm-intel.nested=
2519			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2520			Default is 0 (disabled)
2521
2522	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2523			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2524			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2525			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2526
2527	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2528			CVE-2018-3620.
2529
2530			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2531
2532			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2533			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2534				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2535			never:	Disables the mitigation
2536
2537			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2538
2539	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2540			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2541			Default is 1 (enabled)
2542
2543	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2544			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2545
2546			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2547			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2548			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2549
2550			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2551			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2552			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2553			not have direct access.
2554
2555			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2556			options are:
2557
2558			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2559
2560	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2561			      affected CPUs
2562
2563			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2564			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2565
2566			full
2567				Provides all available mitigations for the
2568				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2569				enables all mitigations in the
2570				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2571
2572				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2573				sysfs interface is still possible after
2574				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2575				when the first VM is started in a
2576				potentially insecure configuration,
2577				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2578
2579			full,force
2580				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2581				flush runtime control. Implies the
2582				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2583				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2584
2585			flush
2586				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2587				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2588				L1D flush.
2589
2590				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2591				sysfs interface is still possible after
2592				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2593				when the first VM is started in a
2594				potentially insecure configuration,
2595				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2596
2597			flush,nosmt
2598
2599				Disables SMT and enables the default
2600				hypervisor mitigation.
2601
2602				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2603				sysfs interface is still possible after
2604				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2605				when the first VM is started in a
2606				potentially insecure configuration,
2607				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2608
2609			flush,nowarn
2610				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2611				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2612				insecure configuration.
2613
2614			off
2615				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2616				emit any warnings.
2617				It also drops the swap size and available
2618				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2619				bare metal.
2620
2621			Default is 'flush'.
2622
2623			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2624
2625	l2cr=		[PPC]
2626
2627	l3cr=		[PPC]
2628
2629	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2630			disabled it.
2631
2632	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2633			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2634			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2635			Format: notscdeadline
2636
2637	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2638			in C2 power state.
2639
2640	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2641			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2642			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2643			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2644			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2645			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2646			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2647
2648	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2649			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2650			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2651
2652	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2653			when set.
2654			Format: <int>
2655
2656	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2657			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2658			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2659			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2660			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2661			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2662			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2663			to all ports, links and devices.
2664
2665			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2666			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2667			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2668			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2669			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2670			host link and device attached to it.
2671
2672			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2673			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2674			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2675			The following configurations can be forced.
2676
2677			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2678			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2679
2680			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2681
2682			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2683			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2684			  allowed.
2685
2686			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2687			  resets.
2688
2689			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2690			  link recovery.
2691
2692			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2693			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2694			  detection.
2695
2696			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2697
2698			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2699
2700			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2701
2702			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2703
2704			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2705
2706			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2707
2708			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2709
2710			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2711
2712			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2713			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2714
2715			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2716			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2717
2718			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2719			  identify device data log.
2720
2721			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2722			  purpose log directory.
2723
2724			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2725
2726			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2727			  1024 sectors.
2728
2729			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2730			  65535 sectors.
2731
2732			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2733
2734			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2735			  should be skipped.
2736
2737			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2738
2739			* disable: Disable this device.
2740
2741			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2742			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2743
2744	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2745
2746	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2747			Format: <integer>
2748
2749	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2750			Format: <integer>
2751
2752	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2753			Format: <integer>
2754
2755	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2756			Format: <integer>
2757
2758	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2759			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2760			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2761			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2762			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2763			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2764			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2765			are also disabled.
2766
2767	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2768			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2769			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2770			number of online CPUs.
2771
2772	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2773			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2774
2775	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2776			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2777
2778	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2779			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2780			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2781
2782	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2783			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2784			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2785			mode during the locktorture test.
2786
2787	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2788			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2789			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2790
2791	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2792			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2793
2794	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2795			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2796			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2797			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2798			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2799			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2800
2801	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2802			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2803
2804	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2805			Enable additional printk() statements.
2806
2807	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2808			Format: <irq>
2809
2810	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2811			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2812			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2813			loglevels are defined as follows:
2814
2815			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2816			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2817			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2818			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2819			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2820			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2821			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2822			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2823
2824	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2825			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2826			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2827			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2828			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2829			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2830			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2831
2832	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2833			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2834			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2835			kernel boot problems.
2836
2837	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2838	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2839	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2840	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2841				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2842				attached printers to be reset. Using
2843				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2844				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2845				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2846				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2847				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2848				port specification list means that device IDs
2849				from each port should be examined, to see if
2850				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2851				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2852				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2853
2854	lpj=n		[KNL]
2855			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2856			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2857			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2858			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2859			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2860			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2861			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2862			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2863			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2864			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2865			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2866			hardware.
2867
2868	ltpc=		[NET]
2869			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2870
2871	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2872
2873	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2874			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2875			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2876
2877	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2878			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2879			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2880
2881	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2882			different yeeloong laptops.
2883			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2884
2885	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2886			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2887
2888	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2889			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2890			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2891			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2892			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2893			only takes effect during system bootup.
2894			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2895			which also disables the IO APIC.
2896
2897	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2898	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2899			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2900			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2901			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2902			/dev/loop-control interface.
2903
2904	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2905
2906	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2907
2908	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2909			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2910
2911	mdacon=		[MDA]
2912			Format: <first>,<last>
2913			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2914
2915	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2916			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2917			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2918
2919			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2920			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2921			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2922
2923			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2924			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2925			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2926			not have direct access.
2927
2928			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2929			options are:
2930
2931			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2932			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2933				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2934			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2935
2936			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2937			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2938			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2939			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2940			too.
2941
2942			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2943			mds=full.
2944
2945			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2946
2947	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2948			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2949
2950	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2951			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2952
2953			1 for test;
2954			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2955			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2956			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2957			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2958
2959			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2960			high memory is not affected.
2961
2962			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2963			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
2964
2965			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2966			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2967			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2968			belonging to unused RAM.
2969
2970			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2971			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2972			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2973
2974	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2975			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2976			firmware.
2977			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
2978			ss[KMG].
2979			Multiple different regions can be specified with
2980			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
2981
2982	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2983			memory.
2984
2985	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2986
2987	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2988			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2989			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2990
2991	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2992			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2993			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2994			set according to the
2995			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2996			option.
2997			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2998
2999	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3000			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3001			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3002			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3003			option description.
3004
3005	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3006			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3007			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3008			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3009			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3010			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3011			comma delimited.
3012			Example:
3013				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3014
3015	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3016			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3017			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3018
3019	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3020			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3021			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3022			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3023			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3024			         or
3025			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3026			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3027			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3028			will be eaten.
3029
3030	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3031			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3032			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3033			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3034			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3035
3036	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3037			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3038			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3039			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3040			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3041			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3042			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3043			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3044
3045	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3046			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3047			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3048			Setting this option will scan the memory
3049			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3050			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3051			from using the memory being corrupted.
3052			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3053			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3054			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3055			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3056
3057	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3058			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3059			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3060			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3061			corruption in more or less memory.
3062
3063	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3064			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3065			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3066			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3067
3068	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3069			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3070			Format: {on | off (default)}
3071			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3072			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
3073			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
3074			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
3075			additional memory to do so.
3076			This feature is disabled by default because it
3077			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3078			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3079			memory blocks).
3080			The state of the flag can be read in
3081			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3082			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3083			the feature is not effective.
3084
3085			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
3086			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
3087			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
3088
3089	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3090			Format: <integer>
3091			default : 0 <disable>
3092			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3093			performed. Each pass selects another test
3094			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3095			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3096			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3097			regions that are detected.
3098
3099	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3100			Valid arguments: on, off
3101			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3102			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3103			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3104			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3105			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3106
3107			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3108			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3109
3110	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3111			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3112			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3113			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3114			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3115
3116	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3117			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3118
3119	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3120			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3121			platforms.
3122
3123	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3124			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3125			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3126			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3127
3128	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3129
3130	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3131			physical address is ignored.
3132
3133	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3134			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3135			Default: "0tb"
3136			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3137			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3138			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3139			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3140			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3141			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3142			unconfigured.
3143			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3144			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3145			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3146			VGA shield.
3147			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3148			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3149			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3150			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3151			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3152			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3153
3154	mitigations=
3155			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3156			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3157			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3158			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3159
3160			off
3161				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3162				improves system performance, but it may also
3163				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3164				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3165					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3166					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3167					       nobp=0 [S390]
3168					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3169					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3170					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3171					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3172					       l1tf=off [X86]
3173					       mds=off [X86]
3174					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3175					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3176					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3177					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3178					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3179
3180				Exceptions:
3181					       This does not have any effect on
3182					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3183					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3184
3185			auto (default)
3186				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3187				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3188				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3189				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3190				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3191				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3192
3193			auto,nosmt
3194				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3195				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3196				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3197				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3198					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3199					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3200
3201	mminit_loglevel=
3202			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3203			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3204			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3205			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3206			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3207			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3208
3209	module.sig_enforce
3210			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3211			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3212			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3213			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3214
3215	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3216			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3217
3218	mousedev.tap_time=
3219			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3220			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3221			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3222			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3223			Format: <msecs>
3224	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3225			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3226	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3227			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3228
3229	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3230			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3231			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3232			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3233			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3234			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3235			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3236			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3237			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3238			is not too small.
3239
3240	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3241			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3242			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3243			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3244			allocations. Use with caution!
3245
3246	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3247			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3248
3249	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3250			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3251
3252	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3253			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3254
3255	mtdset=		[ARM]
3256			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3257
3258			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3259
3260	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3261			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3262			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3263
3264	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3265			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3266			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3267
3268	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3269			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3270			Default is 1.
3271			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3272			using up MTRRs.
3273
3274	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3275			Format: <integer>
3276			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3277			Default : 1
3278			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3279			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3280
3281	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3282			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3283			at a time.
3284
3285	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3286
3287	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3288			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3289			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3290			something different and driver-specific.
3291			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3292			file if at all.
3293
3294	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3295			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3296			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3297			waits 4 seconds.
3298
3299	nf_conntrack.acct=
3300			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3301			0 to disable accounting
3302			1 to enable accounting
3303			Default value is 0.
3304
3305	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3306			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3307
3308	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3309			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3310
3311	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3312			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3313
3314	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3315			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3316			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3317			requests.
3318
3319	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3320			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3321			channel should listen.
3322
3323	nfs.cache_getent=
3324			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3325			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3326
3327	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3328			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3329			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3330
3331	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3332			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3333			entries.
3334
3335	nfs.enable_ino64=
3336			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3337			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3338			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3339			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3340			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3341
3342	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3343			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3344			slots the client will assign to the callback
3345			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3346			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3347			a particular server.
3348
3349	nfs.max_session_slots=
3350			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3351			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3352			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3353			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3354			Note that there is little point in setting this
3355			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3356
3357	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3358			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3359			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3360			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3361			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3362			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3363			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3364			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3365			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3366			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3367			back to using the idmapper.
3368			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3369	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3370			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3371			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3372			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3373			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3374
3375	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3376			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3377			information in exchange_id requests.
3378			If zero, no implementation identification information
3379			will be sent.
3380			The default is to send the implementation identification
3381			information.
3382
3383	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3384			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3385			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3386			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3387			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3388			after the locks are lost.
3389			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3390			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3391			parameter to '1'.
3392			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3393			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3394
3395	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3396			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3397			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3398
3399			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3400			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3401			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3402			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3403
3404	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3405			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3406			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3407			the destination of the copy.
3408
3409	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3410			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3411			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3412			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3413			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3414			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3415			this parameter.
3416
3417	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3418			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3419			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3420			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3421			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3422			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3423
3424
3425	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3426			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3427			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3428
3429	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3430			when a NMI is triggered.
3431			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3432
3433	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3434			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3435			Valid num: 0 or 1
3436			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3437			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3438			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3439			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3440			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3441			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3442			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3443			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3444			need the box quickly up again.
3445
3446			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3447			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3448
3449	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3450			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3451			is present.
3452
3453	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3454			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3455
3456	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3457
3458	no_console_suspend
3459			[HW] Never suspend the console
3460			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3461			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3462			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3463			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3464			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3465			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3466			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3467			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3468			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3469			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3470			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3471			turn on/off it dynamically.
3472
3473	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3474			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3475			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3476			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3477			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3478			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3479			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3480			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3481			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3482			is set.
3483
3484	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3485			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3486			but will impact performance.
3487
3488	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3489
3490	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3491			(CPU alternatives feature).
3492
3493	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3494			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3495
3496	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3497
3498	nocache		[ARM]
3499
3500	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3501
3502	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3503
3504	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3505
3506	noexec		[IA-64]
3507
3508	nosmap		[PPC]
3509			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3510			even if it is supported by processor.
3511
3512	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3513			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3514			even if it is supported by processor.
3515
3516	noexec32	[X86-64]
3517			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3518			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3519				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3520			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3521				read implies executable mappings
3522
3523	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3524
3525	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3526			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3527			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3528
3529	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3530
3531	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3532
3533	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3534			Equivalent to smt=1.
3535
3536			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3537			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3538				     via the sysfs control file.
3539
3540	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3541			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3542			possible in the system.
3543
3544	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3545			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3546			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3547			option.
3548
3549	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3550			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3551
3552	no_uaccess_flush
3553	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3554
3555	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3556			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3557			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3558
3559	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3560			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3561			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3562			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3563			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3564			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3565
3566	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3567			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3568			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3569			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3570			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3571			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3572			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3573
3574	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3575			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3576			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3577			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3578			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3579			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3580			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3581			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3582
3583	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3584			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3585			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3586
3587	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3588			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3589			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3590			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3591			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3592			real-time systems.
3593
3594	no_hash_pointers
3595			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3596			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3597			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3598			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3599			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3600			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3601			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3602			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3603			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3604			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3605			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3606			kernels.
3607
3608	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3609
3610	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3611			Valid arguments: on, off
3612			Default: on
3613
3614	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3615			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3616			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3617			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3618			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3619			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3620			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3621			just as if they had also been called out in the
3622			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3623
3624	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3625
3626	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3627			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3628
3629	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3630			broken timer IRQ sources.
3631
3632	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3633
3634	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3635			initial RAM disk.
3636
3637	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3638			remapping.
3639			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3640
3641	nointroute	[IA-64]
3642
3643	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3644
3645	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3646
3647	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3648
3649	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3650			fault handling.
3651
3652	no-vmw-sched-clock
3653			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3654			clock and use the default one.
3655
3656	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3657			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3658			influence scheduler behaviour
3659
3660	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3661
3662	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3663
3664	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3665
3666	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3667
3668	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3669			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3670
3671	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3672			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3673			irq.
3674
3675	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3676			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3677			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3678			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3679
3680			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3681
3682	nomodule	Disable module load
3683
3684	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3685			pagetables) support.
3686
3687	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3688
3689	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3690			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3691
3692	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3693			with UP alternatives
3694
3695	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3696			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3697			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3698			available to user space applications.
3699
3700	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3701			space.
3702
3703	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3704			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3705			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3706
3707	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3708
3709	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3710
3711	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3712			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3713
3714	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3715
3716	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3717
3718	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3719			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3720
3721	nowb		[ARM]
3722
3723	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3724
3725	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3726			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3727			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3728			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3729			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3730			parameter's value.
3731			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3732			Default: 255
3733
3734	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3735			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3736			SAL PALO.
3737
3738	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3739			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3740			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3741			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3742			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3743			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3744			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3745			hot plugging.
3746
3747	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3748
3749	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3750			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3751
3752	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3753			NUMA balancing.
3754			Allowed values are enable and disable
3755
3756	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3757			'node', 'default' can be specified
3758			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3759			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3760
3761	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3762			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3763			info.
3764
3765	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3766			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3767			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3768			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3769			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3770			interrupts *may* be lost!
3771
3772	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3773			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3774			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3775			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3776
3777	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3778
3779			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3780
3781			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3782				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3783			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3784				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3785				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3786
3787	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3788			process, but there is a small probability of
3789			deadlocking the machine.
3790			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3791			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3792
3793	page_alloc.shuffle=
3794			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3795			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3796			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3797			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3798			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3799			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3800			can be read from sysfs at:
3801			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3802
3803	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3804			Storage of the information about who allocated
3805			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3806			we can turn it on.
3807			on: enable the feature
3808
3809	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3810			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3811			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3812			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3813			on: turn on poisoning
3814
3815	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3816			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3817			Format: <integer>
3818			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3819			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3820
3821	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3822			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3823			timeout = 0: wait forever
3824			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3825			Format: <timeout>
3826
3827	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3828			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3829			bit 0: print all tasks info
3830			bit 1: print system memory info
3831			bit 2: print timer info
3832			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3833			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3834			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3835			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3836			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3837			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3838			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3839			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3840
3841	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3842			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3843			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3844			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3845			called with any of the flags in this set.
3846			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3847			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3848			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3849			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3850			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3851			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3852			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3853
3854	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3855			on a WARN().
3856
3857	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3858			connected to, default is 0.
3859			Format: <parport#>
3860	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3861			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3862			Format: <mode>
3863
3864	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3865			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3866			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3867			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3868			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3869			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3870			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3871			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3872			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3873			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3874			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3875			are specified on the command line, starting
3876			with parport0.
3877
3878	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3879			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3880			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3881			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3882			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3883			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3884			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3885
3886	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3887			Format: <int>
3888			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3889			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3890			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3891
3892	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3893			Format: <int>
3894			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3895			changes.  Disabled by default.
3896
3897	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3898			Format: <int>
3899			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3900			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3901			Disabled by default.
3902
3903	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3904			Format: <int>
3905			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3906			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3907			Disabled by default.
3908
3909	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3910			Format: <int>
3911			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3912			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3913			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3914			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3915			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3916			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3917			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3918			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3919			all channels.
3920
3921	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3922			Format: <int>
3923			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3924			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3925			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3926
3927	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3928			Format: <int>
3929			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3930			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3931			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3932
3933	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3934			Format: <int>
3935			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3936			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3937			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3938			All modes allowed by default.
3939
3940	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3941			Format: <int>
3942			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3943			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3944
3945	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3946			Format: <int>
3947			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3948			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3949			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3950			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3951			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3952			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3953			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3954			By default all supported ports are probed.
3955
3956	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3957			Format: <int>
3958			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3959			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3960
3961	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3962			Format: <int>
3963			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3964			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3965			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3966			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3967			0 otherwise.
3968
3969	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3970			Format: <int>
3971			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3972			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3973			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3974			allowed by default.
3975
3976	pause_on_oops=
3977			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3978			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3979			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3980
3981	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3982
3983	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3984			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3985			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3986
3987	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3988
3989				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3990				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3991				specified in one of the following formats:
3992
3993				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3994				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3995
3996				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3997				bus/device/function address which may change
3998				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3999				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4000				by other kernel parameters. If the
4001				domain is left unspecified, it is
4002				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4003				to a device through multiple device/function
4004				addresses can be specified after the base
4005				address (this is more robust against
4006				renumbering issues).  The second format
4007				selects devices using IDs from the
4008				configuration space which may match multiple
4009				devices in the system.
4010
4011		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4012				changes anything
4013		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4014		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4015				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4016				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4017		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4018				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4019				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4020				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4021		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4022				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4023				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4024		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4025				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4026				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4027				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4028				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4029				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4030				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4031		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4032				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4033				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4034		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4035				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4036		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4037				Configuration
4038		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4039				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4040				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4041		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4042				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4043				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4044		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4045				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4046				should never be necessary.
4047		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4048				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4049				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4050				when the system masks IRQs.
4051		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4052				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4053				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4054				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4055		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4056				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4057				on several machines and they hang the machine
4058				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4059				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4060				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4061				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4062				motherboard.
4063		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4064				Use with caution as certain devices share
4065				address decoders between ROMs and other
4066				resources.
4067		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4068				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4069				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4070		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4071				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4072		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4073				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4074				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4075				this way.
4076		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4077				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4078				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4079				F0000h-100000h range.
4080		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4081				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4082				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4083				explicitly which ones they are.
4084		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4085				numbers ourselves, overriding
4086				whatever the firmware may have done.
4087		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4088				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4089				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4090				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4091				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4092				IRQ routing is enabled.
4093		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4094				or for PCI scanning.
4095		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4096				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4097				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4098				please report a bug.
4099		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4100				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4101		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4102				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4103				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4104				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4105				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4106		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4107				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4108				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4109				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4110		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4111				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4112				so this option is a temporary workaround
4113				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4114		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4115				handle more pci cards
4116		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4117				This might help on some broken boards which
4118				machine check when some devices' config space
4119				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4120				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4121		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4122				This sorting is done to get a device
4123				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4124		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4125		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4126				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4127		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4128				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4129		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4130				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4131				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4132				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4133				or bus can support) for best performance.
4134		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4135				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4136				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4137				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4138				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4139				that hot-added devices will work.
4140		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4141				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4142				The default value is 256 bytes.
4143		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4144				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4145				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4146		resource_alignment=
4147				Format:
4148				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4149				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4150				aligned memory resources. How to
4151				specify the device is described above.
4152				If <order of align> is not specified,
4153				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4154				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4155				windows need to be expanded.
4156				To specify the alignment for several
4157				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4158				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4159				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4160				for 4096-byte alignment.
4161		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4162				end-to-end CRC checking).
4163				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4164				the default.
4165				off: Turn ECRC off
4166				on: Turn ECRC on.
4167		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4168				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4169				Default size is 256 bytes.
4170		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4171				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4172				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4173		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4174				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4175				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4176		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4177				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4178				MMIO_PREF window.
4179				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4180		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4181				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4182				Default is 1.
4183		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4184				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4185				accommodate resources required by all child
4186				devices.
4187				off: Turn realloc off
4188				on: Turn realloc on
4189		realloc		same as realloc=on
4190		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4191		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4192				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4193		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4194				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4195				port.
4196		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4197				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4198				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4199				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4200				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4201				taints the kernel.
4202		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4203				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4204				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4205				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4206				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4207				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4208				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4209				this removes isolation between devices and
4210				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4211		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4212		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4213		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4214				one PCI domain per PCI function
4215
4216	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4217			Management.
4218		off	Disable ASPM.
4219		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4220			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4221
4222	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4223		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4224			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4225			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4226			also tries to use these services.
4227		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4228				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4229		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4230			hotplug).
4231
4232	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4233		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4234		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4235
4236	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4237		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4238			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4239
4240	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4241
4242	pd_ignore_unused
4243			[PM]
4244			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4245			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4246			for debug and development, but should not be
4247			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4248
4249	pd.		[PARIDE]
4250			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4251
4252	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4253			boot time.
4254			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4255			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4256
4257	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4258			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4259			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4260			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4261			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4262			and performance comparison.
4263
4264	pf.		[PARIDE]
4265			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4266
4267	pg.		[PARIDE]
4268			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4269
4270	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4271			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4272
4273	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4274			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4275			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4276
4277	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4278			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4279			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4280
4281	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4282			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4283			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4284			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4285			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4286			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4287			remains 0.
4288
4289	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4290			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4291
4292	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4293			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4294			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4295			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4296			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4297			possible settings and some assignment information.
4298
4299	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4300			{ off }
4301
4302	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4303			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4304
4305	pnp_reserve_irq=
4306			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4307
4308	pnp_reserve_dma=
4309			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4310
4311	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4312			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4313
4314	pnp_reserve_mem=
4315			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4316			autoconfiguration.
4317			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4318
4319	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4320			Default is 21.
4321			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4322			may be specified.
4323			Format: <port>,<port>....
4324
4325	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4326			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4327			platform machine description specific power_save
4328			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4329			execution priority.
4330
4331	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4332			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4333			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4334			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4335			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4336
4337	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4338			Format: {"off"}
4339			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4340
4341	preempt=	[KNL]
4342			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4343			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4344			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4345			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4346			       can be preempted anytime.
4347
4348	print-fatal-signals=
4349			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4350
4351			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4352			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4353			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4354			coredump - etc.
4355
4356			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4357			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4358
4359			default: off.
4360
4361	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4362			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4363			panics
4364			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4365			default: disabled
4366
4367	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4368			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4369			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4370			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4371			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4372			in order to provide more debug information.
4373			Format: <bool>
4374			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4375
4376	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4377			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4378			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4379			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4380			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4381			Default: ratelimit
4382
4383	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4384			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4385
4386	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4387			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4388			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4389
4390	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4391			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4392			instead using the legacy FADT method
4393
4394	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4395			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4396			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4397				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4398			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4399			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4400				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4401			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4402			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4403				statistical time based profiling.
4404
4405	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4406
4407	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4408			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4409			that).
4410			Format: <bool>
4411
4412	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4413			tracking.
4414			Format: <bool>
4415
4416	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4417			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4418	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4419			per second.
4420	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4421			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4422			(0 = never).
4423	psmouse.resolution=
4424			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4425	psmouse.smartscroll=
4426			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4427			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4428
4429	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4430
4431	pt.		[PARIDE]
4432			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4433
4434	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4435			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4436			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4437			system calls and interrupts.
4438
4439			on   - unconditionally enable
4440			off  - unconditionally disable
4441			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4442			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4443
4444			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4445
4446	nopti		[X86-64]
4447			Equivalent to pti=off
4448
4449	pty.legacy_count=
4450			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4451			default number.
4452
4453	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4454
4455	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4456
4457	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4458			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4459
4460	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4461			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4462
4463	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4464
4465	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4466			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4467			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4468			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4469			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4470
4471	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4472			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4473			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4474			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4475			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4476
4477	randomize_kstack_offset=
4478			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4479			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4480			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4481			that depend on stack address determinism or
4482			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4483			available on architectures that have defined
4484			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4485			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4486			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4487
4488	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4489
4490		cec_disable	[X86]
4491				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4492				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4493
4494	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4495			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4496			as described above.
4497
4498			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4499			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4500			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4501			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4502			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4503			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4504			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4505			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4506			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4507			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4508			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4509			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4510
4511			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4512			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4513
4514			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4515			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4516			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4517			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4518
4519	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4520			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4521			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4522			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4523			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4524			This improves the real-time response for the
4525			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4526			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4527			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4528			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4529
4530	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4531			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4532			process in one batch.
4533
4534	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4535			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4536			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4537			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4538
4539	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4540			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4541			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4542
4543	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4544			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4545			RCU grace-period initialization.
4546
4547	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4548			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4549			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4550			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4551			the rcu_node combining tree.
4552
4553	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4554			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4555			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4556			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4557			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4558
4559			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4560			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4561			to zero.
4562
4563	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4564			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4565			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4566			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4567			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4568
4569	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4570			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4571			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4572			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4573			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4574			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4575			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4576
4577	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4578			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4579			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4580			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4581			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4582			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4583			condition.
4584
4585	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4586			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4587			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4588			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4589
4590	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4591			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4592			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4593			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4594			and maximum value is HZ.
4595
4596	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4597			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4598			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4599			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4600
4601	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4602			Set required age in jiffies for a
4603			given grace period before RCU starts
4604			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4605			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4606			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4607			a value based on the most recent settings
4608			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4609			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4610			This calculated value may be viewed in
4611			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4612			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4613			overwritten.
4614
4615	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4616			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4617			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4618			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4619			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4620			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4621			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4622			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4623			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4624			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4625			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4626			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4627
4628	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4629			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4630			each group, which defaults to the square root
4631			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4632			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4633			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4634			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4635
4636	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4637			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4638			batch limiting is disabled.
4639
4640	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4641			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4642			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4643
4644	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4645			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4646			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4647			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4648			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4649			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4650			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4651			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4652
4653	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4654			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4655			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4656			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4657			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4658			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4659
4660	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4661			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4662			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4663			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4664			Larger delays increase the probability of
4665			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4666			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4667			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4668
4669	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4670			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4671			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4672			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4673
4674	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4675			Measure performance of asynchronous
4676			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4677
4678	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4679			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4680			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4681			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4682			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4683			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4684
4685	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4686			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4687			grace-period primitives.
4688
4689	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4690			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4691			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4692			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4693			interference.
4694
4695	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4696			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4697
4698	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4699			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4700			If this parameter has the same value as
4701			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4702			and double-argument variants are tested.
4703
4704	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4705			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4706			If this parameter has the same value as
4707			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4708			and double-argument variants are tested.
4709
4710	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4711			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4712
4713	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4714			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4715
4716	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4717			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4718			of allocations and frees.
4719
4720	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4721			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4722			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4723			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4724			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4725			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4726			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4727			a single reader.
4728
4729	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4730			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4731			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4732			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4733
4734	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4735			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4736
4737	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4738			Shut the system down after performance tests
4739			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4740			testing.
4741
4742	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4743			Enable additional printk() statements.
4744
4745	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4746			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4747			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4748			no holdoff.
4749
4750	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4751			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4752			in microseconds.
4753
4754	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4755			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4756			in microseconds.
4757
4758	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4759			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4760			in seconds.
4761
4762	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4763			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4764			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4765			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4766			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4767			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4768			of CPUs to be used.
4769
4770	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4771			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4772			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4773
4774	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4775			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4776			forward-progress tests.
4777
4778	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4779			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4780			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4781			testing.
4782
4783	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4784			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4785			primitives, if available.
4786
4787	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4788			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4789
4790	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4791			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4792			update-side primitives, if available.
4793
4794	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4795			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4796			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4797			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4798			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4799			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4800			they are all non-zero.
4801
4802	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4803			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4804			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4805			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4806
4807	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4808			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4809			This can of course result in splats, and is
4810			intended to test the ability of things like
4811			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4812			such leaks.
4813
4814	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4815			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4816
4817	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4818			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4819			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4820			test, hence the "fake".
4821
4822	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4823			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4824			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4825
4826	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4827			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4828			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4829
4830	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4831			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4832			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4833			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4834			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4835			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4836
4837	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4838			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4839
4840	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4841			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4842
4843	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4844			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4845			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4846
4847	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4848			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4849			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4850			task-exit processing.
4851
4852	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4853			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4854			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4855			is spawned.
4856
4857	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4858			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4859			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4860
4861	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4862			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4863			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4864			during the rcutorture test.
4865
4866	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4867			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4868			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4869
4870	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4871			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4872			warnings, zero to disable.
4873
4874	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4875			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4876			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4877			to any other stall-related activity.
4878
4879	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4880			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4881
4882	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4883			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4884
4885	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4886			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4887			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4888			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4889			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4890			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4891
4892	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4893			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4894
4895	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4896			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4897			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4898			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4899			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4900
4901	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4902			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4903			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4904			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4905
4906	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4907			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4908
4909	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4910			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4911
4912	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4913			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4914			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4915
4916	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4917			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4918
4919	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4920			Enable additional printk() statements.
4921
4922	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4923			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4924			stall warning.
4925
4926	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4927			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4928
4929	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4930			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4931			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4932			during early boot, that is, during the time
4933			before the init task is spawned.
4934
4935	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4936			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4937			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
4938			value is 300 seconds.
4939
4940	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4941			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
4942			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
4943			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
4944			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
4945			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
4946			Setting this to zero causes the value from
4947			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
4948			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
4949
4950	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4951			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4952			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4953			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4954			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4955			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4956			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4957
4958	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4959			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4960			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4961			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4962			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4963			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4964			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4965			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4966			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4967
4968	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4969			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4970			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4971			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4972			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4973
4974			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4975			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4976			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4977			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4978			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4979			grace-period processing.
4980
4981	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
4982			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
4983			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
4984			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
4985			a single callback queue.  This switching only
4986			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
4987			set to the default value of -1.
4988
4989	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
4990			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
4991			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
4992			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
4993			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
4994			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
4995			the default value of -1.
4996
4997	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
4998			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
4999			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5000			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5001			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5002			for use in testing.
5003
5004	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5005			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5006			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5007			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5008			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5009			but lengthens grace periods.
5010
5011	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5012			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5013			informational messages, which give some indication
5014			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5015			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5016			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5017			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5018			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5019			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5020			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5021
5022	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5023			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5024			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5025			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5026			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5027			the value three, so that the first informational
5028			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5029			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5030			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5031			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5032
5033	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5034			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5035			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5036			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5037			A change in value does not take effect until
5038			the beginning of the next grace period.
5039
5040	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5041			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5042
5043	rdinit=		[KNL]
5044			Format: <full_path>
5045			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5046			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5047
5048	rdrand=		[X86]
5049			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5050				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5051				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5052				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5053				path).
5054
5055	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5056			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5057			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5058			mba.
5059			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5060				rdt=cmt,!mba
5061
5062	reboot=		[KNL]
5063			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5064				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5065				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5066				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5067				[[,]f[orce]
5068			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5069					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5070					reboot only),
5071			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5072			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5073			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5074					to be used for rebooting.
5075
5076	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5077			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5078			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5079			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5080			interference.
5081
5082	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5083			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5084			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5085			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5086			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5087			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5088			x86 laptops.
5089
5090	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5091			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5092			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5093			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5094
5095	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5096			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5097			the console log.
5098
5099	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5100			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5101			measured in microseconds.
5102
5103	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5104			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5105
5106	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5107			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5108			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5109			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5110			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5111
5112	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5113			Enable additional printk() statements.
5114
5115	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5116			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5117			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5118			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5119			specified.
5120
5121	relax_domain_level=
5122			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5123			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5124
5125	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5126			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5127			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5128			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5129			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5130
5131	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5132			Format: nn[KMG]
5133			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5134			address space.
5135
5136	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5137			during initialization.
5138
5139	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5140			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5141			Format:
5142			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5143
5144	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5145			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5146			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5147			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5148			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5149
5150	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5151			read the resume files
5152
5153	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5154			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5155			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5156
5157	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5158
5159	rfkill.default_state=
5160		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5161			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5162		1	Unblocked.
5163
5164	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5165		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5166		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5167			blocked and the previous configuration.
5168		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5169			blocked and everything unblocked.
5170
5171	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5172			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5173
5174	ring3mwait=disable
5175			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5176			CPUs.
5177
5178	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5179
5180	rodata=		[KNL]
5181		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5182		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5183
5184	rockchip.usb_uart
5185			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5186			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5187			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5188			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5189
5190	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5191			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5192
5193	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5194			mount the root filesystem
5195
5196	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5197
5198	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5199
5200	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5201			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5202			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5203
5204	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5205			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5206			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5207			managed by CMA.
5208
5209	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5210
5211	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5212
5213	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5214			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5215		strict
5216			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5217			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5218			which is faster.
5219
5220	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5221			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5222			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5223			factor of the size of main memory.
5224			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5225			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5226			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5227			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5228			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5229			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5230			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5231
5232	sa1100ir	[NET]
5233			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5234
5235	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5236
5237	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5238			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5239			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5240			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5241
5242	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5243			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5244			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5245			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5246			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5247			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5248			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5249			value.
5250			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5251			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5252				1			64 ms
5253				2			128 ms
5254			and so on.
5255			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5256			Default is 0.
5257
5258	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5259			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5260			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5261			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5262			tests.
5263
5264	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5265			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5266			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5267			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5268			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5269			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5270			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5271
5272	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5273			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5274			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5275			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5276			equal to the number of CPUs.
5277
5278	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5279			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5280			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5281
5282	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5283			Number seconds to wait between successive
5284			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5285			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5286
5287	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5288			The number of seconds following the start of the
5289			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5290			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5291			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5292
5293	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5294			The number of seconds between outputting the
5295			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5296			of zero disables statistics output.
5297
5298	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5299			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5300			to the set of CPUs under test.
5301
5302	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5303			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5304			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5305			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5306			functions.
5307
5308	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5309			Enable additional printk() statements.
5310
5311	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5312			The probability weighting to use for the
5313			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5314			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5315			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5316			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5317			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5318
5319	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5320			The probability weighting to use for the
5321			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5322			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5323
5324	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5325			The probability weighting to use for the
5326			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5327			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5328			Note well that setting a high probability for
5329			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5330			on the system.
5331
5332	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5333			The probability weighting to use for the
5334			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5335			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5336			and weight_many.
5337
5338	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5339			The probability weighting to use for the
5340			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5341			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5342			weight_many.
5343
5344	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5345			The probability weighting to use for the
5346			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5347			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5348			and weight_many.
5349
5350	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5351			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5352			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5353			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5354			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5355			1 -- enable.
5356			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5357			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5358
5359	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5360			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5361			"lsm=" parameter.
5362
5363	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5364			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5365			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5366			0 -- disable.
5367			1 -- enable.
5368			Default value is 1.
5369
5370	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5371			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5372			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5373			0 -- disable.
5374			1 -- enable.
5375			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5376
5377	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5378
5379	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5380
5381	shapers=	[NET]
5382			Maximal number of shapers.
5383
5384	simeth=		[IA-64]
5385	simscsi=
5386
5387	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5388
5389	slab_merge	[MM]
5390			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5391			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5392
5393	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5394			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5395			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5396			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5397			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5398			layout control by attackers can usually be
5399			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5400			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5401			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5402			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5403			own.
5404			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5405
5406	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5407			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5408			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5409			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5410			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5411
5412	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5413			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5414			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5415			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5416			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5417			last alloc / free. For more information see
5418			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5419
5420	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5421			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5422			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5423			fragmentation. For more information see
5424			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5425
5426	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5427			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5428			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5429			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5430			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5431			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5432			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5433			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5434
5435	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5436			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5437			lower than slub_max_order.
5438			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5439
5440	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5441			Same with slab_merge.
5442
5443	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5444			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5445			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5446
5447	smart2=		[HW]
5448			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5449
5450	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5451			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5452			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5453			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5454			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5455			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5456			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5457			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5458			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5459			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5460
5461	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5462	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5463	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5464	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5465	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5466	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5467	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5468				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5469				1: Fast pin select (default)
5470				2: ATC IRMode
5471
5472	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5473			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5474			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5475			actual hardware limit.
5476			Format: <integer>
5477			Default: -1 (no limit)
5478
5479	softlockup_panic=
5480			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5481			Format: 0 | 1
5482
5483			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5484			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5485			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5486			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5487			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5488
5489	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5490			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5491			backtraces on all cpus.
5492			Format: 0 | 1
5493
5494	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5495			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5496
5497	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5498			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5499			The default operation protects the kernel from
5500			user space attacks.
5501
5502			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5503			       spectre_v2_user=on
5504			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5505			       spectre_v2_user=off
5506			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5507			       vulnerable
5508
5509			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5510			mitigation method at run time according to the
5511			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5512			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5513			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5514
5515			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5516			against user space to user space task attacks.
5517
5518			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5519			the user space protections.
5520
5521			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5522
5523			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5524			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5525			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5526			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5527			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5528			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5529			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5530
5531			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5532			spectre_v2=auto.
5533
5534	spectre_v2_user=
5535			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5536		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5537		        user space tasks
5538
5539			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5540				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5541
5542			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5543				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5544
5545			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5546				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5547				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5548				  is inherited on fork.
5549
5550			prctl,ibpb
5551				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5552				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5553				  always when switching between different user
5554				  space processes.
5555
5556			seccomp
5557				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5558				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5559				  they explicitly opt out.
5560
5561			seccomp,ibpb
5562				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5563				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5564				  always when switching between different
5565				  user space processes.
5566
5567			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5568				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5569
5570			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5571
5572			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5573			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5574
5575	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5576			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5577			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5578
5579			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5580			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5581			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5582			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5583			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5584			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5585			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5586			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5587
5588			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5589			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5590			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5591			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5592
5593			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5594			Bypass optimization is used.
5595
5596			On x86 the options are:
5597
5598			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5599			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5600			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5601				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5602				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5603				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5604				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5605				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5606			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5607				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5608				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5609				  is inherited on fork.
5610			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5611				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5612
5613			Default mitigations:
5614			X86:	"prctl"
5615
5616			On powerpc the options are:
5617
5618			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5619				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5620				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5621				  exit.
5622			off	- No action.
5623
5624			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5625			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5626
5627	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5628	spia_fio_base=
5629	spia_pedr=
5630	spia_peddr=
5631
5632	split_lock_detect=
5633			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5634
5635			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5636			instructions that access data across cache line
5637			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5638			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5639			bus lock detection.
5640
5641			off	- not enabled
5642
5643			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5644				  about applications triggering the #AC
5645				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5646				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5647				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5648				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5649				  enabled in hardware.
5650
5651			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5652				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5653				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5654				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5655
5656			ratelimit:N -
5657				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5658				  per second for bus lock detection.
5659				  0 < N <= 1000.
5660
5661				  N/A for split lock detection.
5662
5663
5664			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5665			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5666			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5667			mode.
5668
5669			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5670			CPL > 0.
5671
5672	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5673			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5674			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5675
5676			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5677			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5678			number generator.
5679
5680			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5681			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5682			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5683			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5684			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5685
5686			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5687			the following option:
5688
5689			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5690				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5691
5692	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5693			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5694			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5695			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5696			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5697			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5698			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5699			(decide at boot).
5700
5701	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5702			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5703			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5704			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5705
5706				   0:  Never.
5707				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5708				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5709				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5710				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5711
5712			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5713			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5714			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5715
5716	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5717			Specifies how frequently to check for
5718			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5719			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5720			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5721			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5722			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5723			are ignored.
5724
5725	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5726			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5727			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5728			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5729			grace period will be considered for automatic
5730			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5731			expediting.
5732
5733	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5734			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5735			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5736			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5737			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5738			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5739			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5740
5741	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5742			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5743
5744			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5745			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5746			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5747			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5748
5749			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5750				   for both kernel and userspace
5751			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5752				   for both kernel and userspace
5753			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5754				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5755				   to allow userspace to register its
5756				   interest in being mitigated too.
5757
5758	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5759			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5760			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5761			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5762			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5763			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5764
5765	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5766			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5767			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5768			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5769			to false.
5770
5771	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5772			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5773
5774	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5775			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5776			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5777			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5778			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5779			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5780			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5781
5782	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5783			Format: <num>
5784			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5785			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5786			as the initial boot-console.
5787			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5788
5789	sti_font=	[HW]
5790			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5791
5792	stifb=		[HW]
5793			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5794
5795        strict_sas_size=
5796			[X86]
5797			Format: <bool>
5798			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5799			against the required signal frame size which
5800			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5801			be used to filter out binaries which have
5802			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5803
5804	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5805	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5806			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5807			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5808			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5809			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5810			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5811			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5812			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5813			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5814			maximum port values.
5815
5816	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5817			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5818			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5819			process in parallel from a single connection.
5820			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5821
5822	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5823			[NFS]
5824			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5825			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5826			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5827			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5828			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5829			NFS server is running.
5830
5831			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5832				    automatically using heuristics
5833			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5834			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5835			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5836				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5837
5838	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5839	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5840			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5841			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5842			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5843			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5844			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5845			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5846
5847	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5848			[SUSPEND]
5849			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5850			mode before resuming the system (see
5851			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5852			is set. Default value is 5.
5853
5854	svm=		[PPC]
5855			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5856			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5857			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5858
5859	swapaccount=	[KNL]
5860			Format: [0|1]
5861			Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5862			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5863			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5864
5865	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5866			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5867			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5868			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5869			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5870			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5871
5872	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5873
5874	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5875			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5876			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5877			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5878			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5879			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5880			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5881			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5882
5883	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5884			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5885			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5886			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5887			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5888			in older udev will not work anymore.
5889			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5890			the kernel configuration.
5891
5892	sysrq_always_enabled
5893			[KNL]
5894			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5895			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5896			Useful for debugging.
5897
5898	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5899			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5900			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5901			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5902			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5903			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5904
5905	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5906
5907	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
5908			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
5909			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5910			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5911			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5912			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5913			The system is woken from this state using a
5914			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5915
5916	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5917			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5918
5919	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5920			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5921			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5922
5923	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5924			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5925			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5926
5927	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5928			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5929			critical and hot trip points.
5930
5931	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5932			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5933
5934	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5935			-1: disable all passive trip points
5936			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5937			value
5938
5939	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5940			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5941			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5942			0: no polling (default)
5943
5944	threadirqs	[KNL]
5945			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5946			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5947
5948	topology=	[S390]
5949			Format: {off | on}
5950			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5951			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5952			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5953			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5954			Default is on.
5955
5956	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5957			Format: {off}
5958			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5959			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5960			LPAR.
5961
5962	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5963			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5964			until after init has spawned.
5965
5966	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5967			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5968			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5969			very costly operation when many torture tests
5970			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5971			with rotating-rust storage.
5972
5973	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5974			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5975			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5976			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5977
5978	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5979			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5980
5981	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5982
5983	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5984			Format: integer pcr id
5985			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5986			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5987			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5988			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5989			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5990			are saved.
5991
5992	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
5993			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5994			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5995			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5996			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5997			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5998
5999			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6000			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6001			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6002			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6003
6004			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6005			to stop the printing of events to console at
6006			late_initcall_sync.
6007
6008			** CAUTION **
6009
6010			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6011			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6012			the system to live lock.
6013
6014	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6015			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6016			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6017			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6018			make the system inoperable.
6019
6020			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6021			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6022
6023	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6024			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6025
6026	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6027			at boot up.
6028			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6029				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6030				depending on the architecture, may not be
6031				in sync between CPUs.
6032			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6033				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6034				but better for some race conditions.
6035			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6036				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6037				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6038				once per event.
6039			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6040			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6041			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6042			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6043				stamps.
6044			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6045			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6046			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6047
6048	trace_event=[event-list]
6049			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6050			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6051			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6052			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6053
6054	trace_options=[option-list]
6055			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6056			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6057			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6058			to echo the option name into
6059
6060			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
6061
6062			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6063			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6064
6065			      trace_options=stacktrace
6066
6067			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6068			section.
6069
6070	traceoff_on_warning
6071			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6072			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6073			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6074			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
6075
6076			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6077			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6078			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6079
6080			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6081			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6082
6083	transparent_hugepage=
6084			[KNL]
6085			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6086			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6087			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6088			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6089			for more details.
6090
6091	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6092			Format: <string>
6093			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6094			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6095			sources:
6096			- "tpm"
6097			- "tee"
6098			- "caam"
6099			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6100			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6101			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6102			successfully during iteration.
6103
6104	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6105			Format: <string>
6106			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6107			Can be one of:
6108			- "kernel"
6109			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6110			- "default"
6111			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6112			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6113
6114	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6115			Format: <string>
6116			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6117			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6118			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6119			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6120			virtualized environment.
6121			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6122			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6123			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6124			can add overhead.
6125			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6126			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6127			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6128			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6129			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6130			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6131			acceptable).
6132
6133	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6134			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6135			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6136			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6137			Format: <unsigned int>
6138
6139	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6140			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6141			support TSX control.
6142
6143			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6144
6145			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6146				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6147				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6148				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6149				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6150				with leaving it enabled.
6151
6152			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6153				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6154				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6155				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6156				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6157				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6158				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6159
6160			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6161				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6162
6163			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6164
6165			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6166			for more details.
6167
6168	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6169			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6170
6171			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6172			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6173			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6174			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6175			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6176			conditions.
6177
6178			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6179			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6180			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6181			access.
6182
6183			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6184			options are:
6185
6186			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6187				     if TSX is enabled.
6188
6189			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6190				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6191				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6192				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6193			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6194
6195			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6196			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6197			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6198			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6199
6200			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6201			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6202			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6203			required and doesn't provide any additional
6204			mitigation.
6205
6206			For details see:
6207			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6208
6209	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6210			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6211			Format:
6212			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6213			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6214
6215	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6216			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6217			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6218			help "seeing" what's going on.
6219
6220	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6221			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6222
6223	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6224			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6225			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6226			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6227			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6228			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6229			reported either.
6230
6231	unknown_nmi_panic
6232			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6233
6234	usbcore.authorized_default=
6235			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6236			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6237			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6238			if device connected to internal port)
6239
6240	usbcore.autosuspend=
6241			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6242			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6243			is the time required before an idle device will be
6244			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6245			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6246
6247	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6248			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6249
6250	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6251			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6252			(default = 65536).
6253
6254	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6255			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6256
6257	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6258			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6259			scheme (default 0 = off).
6260
6261	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6262			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6263			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6264
6265	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6266			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6267			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6268
6269	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6270			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6271			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6272			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6273
6274	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6275
6276	usbcore.quirks=
6277			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6278			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6279			commas. Each entry has the form
6280			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6281			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6282			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6283			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6284			the following meanings:
6285				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6286					descriptors must not be fetched using
6287					a 255-byte read);
6288				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6289					correctly so reset it instead);
6290				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6291					Set-Interface requests);
6292				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6293					handle its Configuration or Interface
6294					strings);
6295				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6296					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6297				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6298					more interface descriptions than the
6299					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6300					talking to these interfaces);
6301				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6302					during initialization, after we read
6303					the device descriptor);
6304				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6305					high speed and super speed interrupt
6306					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6307					require the interval in microframes (1
6308					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6309					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6310					(bInterval-1).
6311					Devices with this quirk report their
6312					bInterval as the result of this
6313					calculation instead of the exponent
6314					variable used in the calculation);
6315				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6316					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6317					requests);
6318				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6319					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6320					remote wakeup capability);
6321				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6322					Power Management);
6323				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6324					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6325					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6326					calculation);
6327				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6328					to be disconnected before suspend to
6329					prevent spurious wakeup);
6330				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6331					pause after every control message);
6332				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6333					delay after resetting its port);
6334			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6335
6336	usbhid.mousepoll=
6337			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6338
6339	usbhid.jspoll=
6340			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6341
6342	usbhid.kbpoll=
6343			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6344
6345	usb-storage.delay_use=
6346			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6347			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6348
6349	usb-storage.quirks=
6350			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6351			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6352			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6353			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6354			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6355			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6356			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6357				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6358					of sense data, not on uas);
6359				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6360					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6361				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6362					device capacity by one sector);
6363				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6364					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6365				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6366					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6367				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6368					command, uas only);
6369				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6370					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6371				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6372					reported device capacity by one
6373					sector if the number is odd);
6374				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6375					device);
6376				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6377					command, uas only);
6378				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6379				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6380					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6381				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6382					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6383					not on uas);
6384				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6385					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6386				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6387					reported by the device, not on uas);
6388				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6389					by default, not on uas);
6390				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6391					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6392				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6393					Logical Unit);
6394				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6395					commands, uas only);
6396				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6397				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6398					medium is write-protected).
6399				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6400					even if the device claims no cache,
6401					not on uas)
6402			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6403
6404	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6405			Format: <int>
6406			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6407				 1 - undefined instruction events
6408				 2 - system calls
6409				 4 - invalid data aborts
6410				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6411				16 - SIGBUS faults
6412			Example: user_debug=31
6413
6414	userpte=
6415			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6416
6417				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6418					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6419					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6420
6421	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6422			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6423
6424			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6425			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6426
6427	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6428			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6429			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6430
6431			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6432			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6433			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6434
6435			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6436			alias for vdso32=0.
6437
6438			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6439			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6440
6441	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6442			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6443
6444	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6445			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6446
6447	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6448			Format: [0|1]
6449			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6450			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6451			level and then send out the event to user space through
6452			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6453			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6454			brightness level.
6455			default: 1
6456
6457	virtio_mmio.device=
6458			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6459
6460				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6461			where:
6462				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6463						like K, M and G)
6464				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6465				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6466						request_irq())
6467				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6468			example:
6469				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6470
6471			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6472
6473	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6474			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6475			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6476			Use vga=ask for menu.
6477			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6478			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6479
6480	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6481			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6482			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6483			All options are enabled by default, and this
6484			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6485			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6486			debugging features.
6487
6488			Available options are:
6489			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6490			  -	Disable all of the above options
6491
6492	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6493			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6494			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6495			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6496			mapped kernel RAM.
6497
6498	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6499			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6500			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6501
6502	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6503			Format: <command>
6504
6505	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6506			Format: <command>
6507
6508	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6509			Format: <command>
6510
6511	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6512			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6513			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6514			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6515			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6516			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6517			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6518
6519			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6520			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6521				    page is readable.
6522
6523			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6524			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6525				    page is not readable.
6526
6527			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6528			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6529			            might break your system.
6530
6531	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6532			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6533			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6534
6535	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6536			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6537			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6538			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6539
6540	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6541			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6542			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6543			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6544			ranging from 0-255.
6545
6546	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6547			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6548			Change the default green palette of the console.
6549			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6550			ranging from 0-255.
6551
6552	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6553			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6554			Change the default red palette of the console.
6555			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6556			ranging from 0-255.
6557
6558	vt.default_utf8=
6559			[VT]
6560			Format=<0|1>
6561			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6562			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6563			newly opened terminals.
6564
6565	vt.global_cursor_default=
6566			[VT]
6567			Format=<-1|0|1>
6568			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6569			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6570			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6571			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6572			cursors, 1 will display them.
6573
6574	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6575			Default: 2 = green.
6576
6577	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6578			Default: 3 = cyan.
6579
6580	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6581			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6582			or other driver-specific files in the
6583			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6584
6585	watchdog_thresh=
6586			[KNL]
6587			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6588			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6589			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6590			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6591			seconds.
6592
6593	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6594			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6595			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6596			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6597			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6598			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6599			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6600			corresponding sysfs file.
6601
6602	workqueue.disable_numa
6603			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6604			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6605			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6606			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6607			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6608			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6609			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6610
6611	workqueue.power_efficient
6612			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6613			they show better performance thanks to cache
6614			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6615			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6616
6617			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6618			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6619			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6620			power usage at the cost of small performance
6621			overhead.
6622
6623			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6624			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6625
6626	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6627			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6628			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6629			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6630			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6631			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6632			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6633			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6634			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6635			impacted.
6636
6637	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6638			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6639			supporting x2apic.
6640
6641	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6642			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6643			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6644			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6645			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6646			domains.
6647
6648	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6649			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6650			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6651			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6652			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6653			nics -- unplug network devices
6654			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6655			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6656				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6657				the unplug protocol
6658			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6659
6660	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6661			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6662			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6663
6664	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6665			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6666			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6667			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6668
6669	xen_nopv	[X86]
6670			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6671			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6672			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6673			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6674
6675	xen_no_vector_callback
6676			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6677			event channel interrupts.
6678
6679	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6680			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6681			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6682			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6683			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6684
6685	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6686			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6687			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6688			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6689			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6690			more timer interrupts.
6691
6692	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6693			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6694			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6695			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6696			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6697			max. Default is 180.
6698
6699	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6700			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6701			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6702
6703	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6704			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6705			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6706
6707	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6708			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6709			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6710			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6711			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6712			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6713
6714	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6715			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6716			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6717			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6718
6719	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6720			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6721			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6722			contention.
6723
6724	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6725			Format:
6726			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6727
6728	xive=		[PPC]
6729			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6730			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6731			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6732
6733			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6734				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6735				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6736
6737	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6738			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6739			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6740			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6741			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6742
6743	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6744			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6745			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6746			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6747
6748	xmon		[PPC]
6749			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6750			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6751			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6752			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6753				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6754			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6755				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6756				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6757				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6758			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6759				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6760				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6761				can be written using xmon commands.
6762			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6763				memory, and other data can't be written using
6764				xmon commands.
6765			off	xmon is disabled.
6766