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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
25				default _serial_ console on ARM64
26			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
27			"acpi=nospcr" are available
28			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
29			are available
30
31			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
32
33	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
34			Format: <int>
35			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
36			1,0: use 1st APIC table
37			default: 0
38
39	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
40			{ vendor | video | native | none }
41			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
42			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
43			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
44			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
45			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
46			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
47
48	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
49			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
50			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
51			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
52			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
53
54	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
55			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
56			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
57			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
58			This option is useful for developers to identify the
59			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
60			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
61
62	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
63	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
64			Format: <int>
65			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
66			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
67			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
68			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
69			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
70			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
71			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
72			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
73			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
74			debug layers and levels.
75
76			Enable processor driver info messages:
77			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
78			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
79			object while interpreting AML:
80			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
81			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
82			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
83
84			Some values produce so much output that the system is
85			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
86			if you need to capture more output.
87
88	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
89			{ strict | lax | no }
90			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
91			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
92			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
93			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
94			can interfere with legacy drivers.
95			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
96			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
97			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
98			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
99			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
100			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
101			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
102			no further checks are performed.
103
104	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
105			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
106			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
107			size limitation.
108
109	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
110			ACPI will balance active IRQs
111			default in APIC mode
112
113	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
115			default in PIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
118			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
119
120	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
121			use by PCI
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
125			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
126			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
127			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
128			the GPE dispatcher.
129			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
130			GPE floodings.
131			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
132
133	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
134			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
135			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
136			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
137			auto-serialization feature.
138			This feature is enabled by default.
139			This option allows to turn off the feature.
140
141	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
142			   kernels.
143
144	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
145			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
146			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
147			installed automatically and they will appear under
148			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
149			This option turns off this feature.
150			Note that specifying this option does not affect
151			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
152			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
153
154	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
155			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
156			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
157
158	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
159			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
160			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
161			second kernel for kdump.
162
163	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
164			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
165
166	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
167			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
168			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
169			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
170			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
171
172	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
173			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
174			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
175			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
176			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
177						  strings
178			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
179						  strings
180			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
181
182			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
183			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
184			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
185			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
186			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
187			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
188			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
189			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
190			care about the state of the feature group strings which
191			should be controlled by the OSPM.
192			Examples:
193			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
194			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
195			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
196
197			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
198			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
199			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
200			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
201			multiple times through kernel command line is also
202			meaningless.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
205			     FALSE.
206
207			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
208			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
209			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
210			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
211			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
212			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
213			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
214			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
215			is useful when one want to control the state of the
216			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
217			the OSPM features.
218			Examples:
219			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
220			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
221			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
222			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
223			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
224			     equivalent to
225			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
226			     and
227			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
228			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
229
230	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
231			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
232			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
233			and always returns good values.
234
235	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
236			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
237
238	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
239			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
240			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
241
242	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
243			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
244				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
245				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
246			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
247			s3_bios and s3_mode.
248			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
249			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
250			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
251			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
252			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
253			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
254			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
255			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
256			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
257			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
258			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
259			used (or even warned about) during resume.
260			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
261			control method, with respect to putting devices into
262			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
263			of _PTS is used by default).
264			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
265			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
266			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
267			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
268			but some broken systems don't work without it).
269			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
270			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
271			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
272
273	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
274			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
275			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
276
277	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
278			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
279
280	agp=		[AGP]
281			{ off | try_unsupported }
282			off: disable AGP support
283			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
284				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
285
286	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
287			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
288
289	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
290			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
291			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
292			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
293
294	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
295			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
296			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
297			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
298			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
299			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
300			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
301
302			32: only for 32-bit processes
303			64: only for 64-bit processes
304			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
305			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
306
307	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
308			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
309			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
310			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
311			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
312			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
313
314	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
315			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
316			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
317			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
318			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
319			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
320			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
321
322			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
323			information.
324
325	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
327			Possible values are:
328			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
329			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
330				    the system
331			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
332					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
333					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
334					  requirements as needed. This option
335					  does not override iommu=pt
336			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
337				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
338				       option with care.
339			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
340			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
341			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
342
343	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
344			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
345			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
346			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
347			IOMMU initialization.
348
349	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
350			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
351			remapping modes:
352			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
353			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
354			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
355			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
356			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
357
358	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
359			disable
360			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
361			  scaling driver for the supported processors
362			passive
363			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
364			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
365			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
366			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
367			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
368			active
369			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
370			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
371			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
372			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
373			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
374			  frequency.
375			guided
376			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
377			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
378			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
379			  to the current workload.
380
381	amd_prefcore=
382			[X86]
383			disable
384			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
385
386	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
387			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
388			Format: <a>,<b>
389			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
390
391	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
392			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
393			connected to one of 16 gameports
394			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
395
396	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
397			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
398			Format: noidle
399			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
400			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
401			APC and your system crashes randomly.
402
403	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
404			Change the output verbosity while booting
405			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
406			Change the amount of debugging information output
407			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
408			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
409			driver name.
410			Format: apic=driver_name
411			Examples: apic=bigsmp
412
413	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
414			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
415			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
416			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
417			      backup of CPU 0
418			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
419			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
420			      shot down by NMI
421
422	autoconf=	[IPV6]
423			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
424
425	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
426			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
427
428	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
429			Format: { "0" | "1" }
430			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
431			0 -- disable.
432			1 -- enable.
433			Default value is set via kernel config option.
434
435	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
436			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
437
438	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
439			32 bit applications.
440
441	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
442			Identification support
443
444	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
445			Set instructions support
446
447	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
448			support
449
450	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
451			support
452
453	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
454			Extension support
455
456	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
457			Extension support
458
459	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
460
461	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
462
463	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
464			EzKey and similar keyboards
465
466	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
467
468	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
469			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
470
471	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
472			keyboards
473
474	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
475			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
476
477	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
478			Use software keyboard repeat
479
480	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
481			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
482			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
483			    enabled until the next reboot
484			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
485			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
486			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
487			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
488			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
489			    userspace auditd.
490			Default: unset
491
492	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
493			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
494			Default: 64
495
496	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
497			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			0 - Disable the BAU.
500			1 - Enable the BAU.
501			unset - Disable the BAU.
502
503	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
504			Format: <io>,<mode>
505
506	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
507			Format: <io>,<mode>
508			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
509
510	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
511			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
512			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
513			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
514
515	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
516			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
517			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
518			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
519
520	bert_disable	[ACPI]
521			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
522
523	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
524			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
525
526	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
527			embedded devices based on command line input.
528			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
529
530	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
531			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
532			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
533			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
534			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
535			erroneous and ignored.
536			Format: integer
537
538	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
539			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
540			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
541
542			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
543
544	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
545	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
546			kernel args too.
547	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
548	bttv.tuner=
549
550	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
551			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
552			at a time.
553
554	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
555
556	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
557			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
558			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
559			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
560			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
561			This option provides an override for these situations.
562
563	carrier_timeout=
564			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
565			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
566			it waits 120 seconds.
567
568	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
569			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
570			trust validation.
571			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
572
573	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
574			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
575			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
576			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
577			others).
578
579	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
580			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
581
582	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
583			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
584			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
585			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
586			  a single hierarchy
587			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
588			  subsystem
589			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
590			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
591			  created
592			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
593			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
594			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
595			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
596			stall information accounting feature
597
598	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
599			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
600			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
601			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
602			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
603			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
604			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
605			all v1 hierarchies.
606
607	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
608			Format: { "true" | "false" }
609			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
610
611	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
612			Format: <string>
613			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
614			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
615			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
616
617	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
618			Format: { "0" | "1" }
619			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
620			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
621				any implied execute protection).
622			1 -- check protection requested by application.
623			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
624			Value can be changed at runtime via
625				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
626			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
627
628	cio_ignore=	[S390]
629			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
630
631	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
632			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
633			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
634			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
635			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
636			ones should be.
637			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
638			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
639			instability issue. However, not all features have names
640			in /proc/cpuinfo.
641			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
642			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
643			or using the feature without checking anything
644			will still see it. This just prevents it from
645			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
646			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
647			some critical bits.
648
649	clk_ignore_unused
650			[CLK]
651			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
652			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
653			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
654			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
655			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
656			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
657			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
658			platform with proper driver support.  For more
659			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
660
661	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
662			[Deprecated]
663			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
664			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
665			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
666			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
667
668	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
669			Format: <string>
670			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
671			with the name specified.
672			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
673			the platform:
674			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
675			[ACPI] acpi_pm
676			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
677				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
678			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
679				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
680			[MIPS] MIPS
681			[PARISC] cr16
682			[S390] tod
683			[SH] SuperH
684			[SPARC64] tick
685			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
686
687	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
688			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
689			Format: <bool>
690			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
691			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
692			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
693			systems.
694
695	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
696			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
697			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
698			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
699			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
700			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
701			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
702			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
703			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
704
705	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
706			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
707			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
708			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
709			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
710
711	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
712			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
713			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
714			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
715			placement constraint by the physical address range of
716			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
717			altogether. For more information, see
718			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
719
720	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
721			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
722			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
723			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
724			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
725			specified, the default value is 0.
726			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
727			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
728			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
729			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
730
731	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
732			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
733			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
734			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
735			area for the specified node.
736
737			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
738			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
739			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
740			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
741
742	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
743			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
744			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
745			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
746			a hypervisor.
747			Default: yes
748
749	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
751			allocations, by default set to 256K.
752
753	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
754			Format:
755			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
756
757	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
758			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
759
760	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
761			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
762			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
763
764	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
765	conmode=
766
767	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
768			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
769			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
770			the console buffer is full. In this case the
771			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
772			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
773			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
774			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
775			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
776			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
777
778	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
779
780		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
781
782		ttyS<n>[,options]
783		ttyUSB0[,options]
784			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
785			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
786			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
787			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
788			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
789
790			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
791			information.  See
792			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
793			alternative.
794
795		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
796		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
797		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
798		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
799		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
800			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
801			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
802			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
803			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
804			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
805			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
806			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
807			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
808			the h/w is not re-initialized.
809
810		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
811			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
812
813		{ null | "" }
814			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
815			console messages discarded.
816			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
817			kernel command line.
818
819		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
820		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
821			console=brl,ttyS0
822		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
823
824	console_msg_format=
825			[KNL] Change console messages format
826		default
827			By default we print messages on consoles in
828			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
829			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
830			`printk_time' param).
831		syslog
832			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
833			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
834			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
835			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
836			from /proc/kmsg.
837
838	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
839			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
840			Defaults to 0.
841
842	coredump_filter=
843			[KNL] Change the default value for
844			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
845			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
846
847	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
848			[ARM,ARM64]
849			Format: <bool>
850			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
851			0: default value, disable debugging
852			1: enable debugging at boot time
853
854	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
855			Format:
856			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
857
858	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
859			disable the cpuidle sub-system
860
861	cpuidle.governor=
862			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
863
864	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
865			disable the cpufreq sub-system
866
867	cpufreq.default_governor=
868			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
869			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
870			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
871
872	cpu_init_udelay=N
873			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
874			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
875			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
876			Default: 10000
877
878	cpuhp.parallel=
879			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
880			Format: <bool>
881			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
882			the parameter has no effect.
883
884	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
885			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
886			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
887			succeeds in any situation.
888			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
889			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
890			kernel more unstable.
891
892	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
893			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
894			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
895			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
896			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
897			is selected automatically.
898			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
899			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
900			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
901			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
902
903	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
904			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
905			in the running system. The syntax of range is
906			start-[end] where start and end are both
907			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
908			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
909
910	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
911			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
912			above 4G.
913			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
914			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
915			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
916			below 4G, if available.
917			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
918	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
919			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
920			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
921			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
922			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
923			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
924			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
925			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
926			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
927			size is	platform dependent.
928			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
929			  --> arm64: 128MiB
930			  --> riscv: 128MiB
931			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
932			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
933			for second kernel instead.
934			0: to disable low allocation.
935			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
936			or memory reserved is below 4G.
937
938	cryptomgr.notests
939			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
940
941	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
942			Format: <dma>
943
944	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
945			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
946
947	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
948			function call handling. When switched on,
949			additional debug data is printed to the console
950			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
951			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
952			the hang situation.  The default value of this
953			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
954			Kconfig option.
955
956	dasd=		[HW,NET]
957			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
958
959	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
960			(one device per port)
961			Format: <port#>,<type>
962			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
963
964	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
965
966	debug_boot_weak_hash
967			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
968			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
969			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
970			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
971			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
972			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
973
974	debug_locks_verbose=
975			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
976			Format: <int>
977			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
978			self-tests.
979			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
980			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
981			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
982			useful to lockdep developers.
983
984	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
985
986	debug_guardpage_minorder=
987			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
988			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
989			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
990			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
991			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
992			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
993			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
994			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
995			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
996			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
997			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
998			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
999			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1000			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1001			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1002			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1003			help tracking down these problems.
1004
1005	debug_pagealloc=
1006			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1007			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1008			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1009			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1010			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1011			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1012			on: enable the feature
1013
1014	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1015			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1016			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1017			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1018			no-mount:
1019				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1020			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1021				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1022			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1023			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1024				or directories within debugfs.
1025				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1026				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1027			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1028
1029	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1030
1031	default_hugepagesz=
1032			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1033			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1034			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1035			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1036			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1037			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1038			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1039			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1040			Format: size[KMG]
1041
1042	deferred_probe_timeout=
1043			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1044			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1045			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1046			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1047			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1048			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1049			successful driver registration. This option will also
1050			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1051			retrying.
1052
1053	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1054
1055	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1056			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1057			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1058			hardware.
1059
1060	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1061			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1062			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1063			blacklisted features.
1064
1065	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1066			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1067			(disabled by default).
1068
1069	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1070			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1071			capability is set.
1072
1073	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1074			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1075
1076	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1077			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1078
1079	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1080			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1081			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1082			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1083			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1084			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1085			          only (compression on level 1)
1086			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1087			          only (decompression)
1088			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1089			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1090
1091	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1092			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1093
1094	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1095			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1096			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1097			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1098			miss to occur.
1099
1100	disable=	[IPV6]
1101			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1102
1103	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1104			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1105
1106	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1107			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1108			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1109
1110	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1111			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1112			to workaround buggy firmware.
1113
1114	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1115			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1116
1117	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1118			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1119			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1120			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1121
1122	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1123			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1124			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1125			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1126			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1127
1128	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1129			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1130			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1131
1132	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1133
1134	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1135			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1136
1137	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1138			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1139			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1140			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1141			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1142			architectural default is too low.
1143
1144	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1145			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1146			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1147			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1148			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1149			driver later using sysfs.
1150
1151	reg_file_data_sampling=
1152			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1153			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1154			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1155			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1156			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1157			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1158
1159			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1160			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1161
1162			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1163			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1164			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1165			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1166			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1167
1168			For details see:
1169			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1170
1171	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1172			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1173			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1174			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1175			match the *.
1176			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1177
1178	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1179			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1180			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1181			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1182			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1183			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1184			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1185			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1186			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1187			data set with no connector name will be used for
1188			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1189
1190	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1191
1192	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1193			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1194			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1195			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1196			exists).
1197			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1198			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1199			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1200
1201	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1202			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1203			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1204			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1205
1206	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1207	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1208			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1209			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1210			for details.
1211
1212	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1213			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1214			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1215			which are not unmapped.
1216
1217	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1218
1219			When used with no options, the early console is
1220			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1221			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1222			the platform.
1223
1224		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1225			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1226			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1227			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1228			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1229			configured.
1230
1231		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1232		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1233		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1234		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1235		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1236			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1237			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1238			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1239			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1240			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1241			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1242			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1243			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1244			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1245			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1246
1247		pl011,<addr>
1248		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1249			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1250			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1251			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1252			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1253			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1254			the device registers.
1255
1256		liteuart,<addr>
1257			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1258			specified address. The serial port must already be
1259			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1260
1261		meson,<addr>
1262			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1263			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1264			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1265			supported.
1266
1267		msm_serial,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1269			port at the specified address. The serial port
1270			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1271			yet supported.
1272
1273		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1274			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1275			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1276			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1277			yet supported.
1278
1279		owl,<addr>
1280			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1281			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1282			specified address. The serial port must already be
1283			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1284
1285		rda,<addr>
1286			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1287			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1288			specified address. The serial port must already be
1289			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1290
1291		sbi
1292			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1293			console.
1294
1295		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1296
1297		s3c2410,<addr>
1298		s3c2412,<addr>
1299		s3c2440,<addr>
1300		s3c6400,<addr>
1301		s5pv210,<addr>
1302		exynos4210,<addr>
1303			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1304			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1305			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1306			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1307			Options are not yet supported.
1308
1309		lantiq,<addr>
1310			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1311			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1312			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1313			yet supported.
1314
1315		lpuart,<addr>
1316		lpuart32,<addr>
1317			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1318			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1319			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1320			port must already be setup and configured.
1321
1322		ec_imx21,<addr>
1323		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1324			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1325			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1326			must already be setup and configured.
1327
1328		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1329			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1330			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1331			address. The serial port must already be setup
1332			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1333
1334		qcom_geni,<addr>
1335			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1336			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1337			specified address. The serial port must already be
1338			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1339
1340		efifb,[options]
1341			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1342			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1343			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1344			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1345			mapped with the correct attributes.
1346
1347		linflex,<addr>
1348			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1349			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1350			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1351			already be setup and configured.
1352
1353	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1354			earlyprintk=vga
1355			earlyprintk=sclp
1356			earlyprintk=xen
1357			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1358			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1359			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1360			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1361			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1362			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1363			earlyprintk=bios
1364
1365			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1366			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1367			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1368
1369			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1370			takes over.
1371
1372			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1373			be used at a time.
1374
1375			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1376			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1377			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1378			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1379				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1380			You can find the port for a given device in
1381			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1382				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1383
1384			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1385			very good.
1386
1387			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1388			the real console.
1389
1390			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1391
1392			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1393
1394			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1395
1396			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1397			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1398			UART class.
1399
1400	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1401			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1402			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1403			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1404			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1405			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1406			default: on.
1407
1408	edd=		[EDD]
1409			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1410
1411	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1412			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1413				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1414				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1415			debug: enable misc debug output.
1416			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1417			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1418			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1419			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1420			firmware implementations.
1421			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1422			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1423			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1424			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1425			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1426			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1427			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1428			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1429			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1430			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1431
1432	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1433			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1434			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1435			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1436			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1437
1438	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1439			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1440			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1441			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1442			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1443
1444
1445	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1446			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1447
1448	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1449			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1450
1451			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1452			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1453
1454			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1455			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1456			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1457			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1458
1459	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1460			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1461			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1462
1463	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1464			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1465			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1466			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1467			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1468
1469	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1470			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1471			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1472			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1473
1474	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1475			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1476			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1477			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1478			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1479
1480	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1481			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1482			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1483			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1484			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1485			Default value is 0.
1486			Value can be changed at runtime via
1487			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1488
1489	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1490			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1491			support.
1492
1493	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1494			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1495			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1496
1497	evm=		[EVM]
1498			Format: { "fix" }
1499			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1500			current integrity status.
1501
1502	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1503			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1504			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1505			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1506			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1507			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1508			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1509
1510	failslab=
1511	fail_usercopy=
1512	fail_page_alloc=
1513	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1514			General fault injection mechanism.
1515			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1516			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1517
1518	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1519			Format: { initns | none }
1520			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1521			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1522
1523	floppy=		[HW]
1524			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1525
1526	forcepae	[X86-32]
1527			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1528			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1529			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1530			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1531			and may cause unknown problems.
1532
1533	fred=		[X86-64]
1534			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1535			Format: { on | off }
1536			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1537			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1538
1539	ftrace=[tracer]
1540			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1541			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1542			boot debugging.
1543
1544	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1545			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1546			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1547			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1548			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1549			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1550			start up functionality.
1551
1552			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1553			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1554			line parameter.
1555
1556			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1557
1558			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1559			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1560
1561	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1562			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1563			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1564			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1565			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1566			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1567			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1568			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1569			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1570			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1571			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1572
1573			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1574
1575			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1576			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1577
1578			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1579
1580			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1581			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1582			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1583
1584	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1585			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1586			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1587			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1588			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1589			tracing directory.
1590
1591	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1592			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1593			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1594			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1595			tracing directory.
1596
1597	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1598			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1599			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1600			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1601			that can be changed at run time by the
1602			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1603
1604	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1605			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1606			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1607			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1608			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1609
1610	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1611			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1612			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1613			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1614			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1615
1616	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1617			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1618			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1619			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1620			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1621			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1622			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1623			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1624			suppliers).
1625			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1626			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1627			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1628				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1629				up (sync_state() calls).
1630			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1631				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1632			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1633
1634	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1635			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1636			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1637			Format: <bool>
1638
1639	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1640			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1641			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1642			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1643			calls.
1644			Format: { strict | timeout }
1645			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1646				probe successfully.
1647			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1648				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1649				received their sync_state() calls after
1650				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1651				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1652
1653	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1654			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1655			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1656			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1657			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1658
1659	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1660
1661	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1662			Format: off | on
1663			default: on
1664
1665	gather_data_sampling=
1666			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1667			mitigation.
1668
1669			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1670			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1671			previously stored in vector registers.
1672
1673			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1674			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1675			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1676			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1677
1678			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1679				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1680				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1681				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1682
1683			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1684
1685	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1686			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1687			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1688			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1689			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1690
1691	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1692			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1693			android emulator
1694
1695	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1696			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1697			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1698	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1699			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1700
1701	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1702			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1703			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1704			GPT to be used instead.
1705
1706	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1707			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1708			Format: 0 | 1
1709			Default: 0
1710	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1711			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1712			Format: 0 | 1
1713			Default: 0
1714	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1715			Format: 0 | 1
1716			Default: 0
1717	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1718			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1719			Default: 1024
1720	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1721			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1722			Default: 1024
1723
1724	hardened_usercopy=
1725			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1726			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1727			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1728			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1729			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1730			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1731			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1732		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1733		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1734
1735	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1736			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1737			backtraces on all cpus.
1738			Format: 0 | 1
1739
1740	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1741			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1742			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1743			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1744
1745	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1746
1747	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1748			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1749
1750	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1751			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1752			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1753			logic will be disabled.
1754
1755	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1756		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1757				present during boot.
1758		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1759		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1760		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1761				(that will set all pages holding image data
1762				during restoration read-only).
1763
1764	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1765				used with hibernation.
1766				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1767				Default: lzo
1768
1769				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1770				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1771
1772				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1773				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1774
1775	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1776			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1777			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1778			size on bigger boxes.
1779
1780	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1781			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1782			Default: "on"
1783
1784	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1785
1786	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1787			Format: <string>
1788			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1789			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1790			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1791			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1792			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1793			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1794			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1795			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1796			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1797			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1798
1799	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1800			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1801				verbose }
1802			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1803			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1804				VIA, nVidia)
1805			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1806
1807	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1808			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1809
1810	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1811			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1812			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1813			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1814			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1815			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1816			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1817			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1818			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1819				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1820
1821	hugepagesz=
1822			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1823			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1824			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1825			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1826			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1827			architecture dependent.  See also
1828			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1829			Format: size[KMG]
1830
1831	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1832			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1833			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1834			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1835				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1836
1837			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1838			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1839			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1840
1841	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1842			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1843			enabled.
1844			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1845			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1846			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1847			Format: { on | off (default) }
1848
1849			on: enable HVO
1850			off: disable HVO
1851
1852			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1853			the default is on.
1854
1855			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1856			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1857			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1858			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1859			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1860
1861	hung_task_panic=
1862			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1863			Format: 0 | 1
1864
1865			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1866			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1867			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1868			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1869			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1870
1871	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1872				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1873	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1874				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1875				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1876
1877	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1878			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1879			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1880			on lock contention.
1881
1882	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1883				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1884				registered from board initialization code.
1885				Format:
1886				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1887
1888	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1889			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1890			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1891			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
1892			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
1893			adding a DMI quirk for this.
1894
1895			Format:
1896			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
1897			Where <val> is one of:
1898			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
1899			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
1900			Anything else		Set a string device-property
1901
1902			Examples (split over multiple lines):
1903			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
1904			touchscreen-inverted-y
1905
1906			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
1907			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
1908			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
1909
1910	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1911	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1912			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1913			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1914			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1915	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1916	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1917			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1918			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1919	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1920	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1921	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1922			     for the AUX port
1923	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1924			     controller
1925	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1926			     controllers
1927	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1928	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1929			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1930			     transitions, or never reset
1931			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1932			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1933			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1934			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1935			architectures force reset to be always executed
1936	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1937	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1938	i8042.probe_defer
1939			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1940
1941	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1942
1943	i915.invert_brightness=
1944			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1945			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1946			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1947			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1948			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1949			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1950			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1951			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1952			value switches the backlight off.
1953			-1 -- never invert brightness
1954			 0 -- machine default
1955			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1956
1957	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1958			Format: <bool>
1959			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1960			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1961			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1962
1963	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1964			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1965
1966
1967	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
1968			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1969			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1970			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1971			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1972			Not recommended.
1973			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1974			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1975			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1976
1977	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1978			Format: <bool>
1979			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1980			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1981			true (1).
1982
1983	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1984			Format: <bool>
1985			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1986			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1987
1988	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1989			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1990			Default: strict
1991
1992			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1993			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1994			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1995			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1996			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1997			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1998			encoding mode.
1999
2000			Available settings are as follows:
2001			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2002				supported by the FPU
2003			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2004				by the FPU
2005			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2006				by the FPU
2007			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2008				supported by the FPU
2009
2010			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2011			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2012			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2013			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2014			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2015			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2016			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2017			MIPS64 CPUs.
2018
2019			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2020			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2021			except where unsupported by hardware.
2022
2023	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2024			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2025			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2026			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2027			could change it dynamically, usually by
2028			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2029
2030	ignore_rlimit_data
2031			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2032			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2033			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2034
2035	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2036			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2037
2038	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2039			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2040			default: "enforce"
2041
2042	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2043			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2044			owned by uid=0.
2045
2046	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2047			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2048			measurements, instead of host native format.
2049
2050	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2051			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2052				   | sha512 | ... }
2053			default: "sha1"
2054
2055			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2056			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2057
2058	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2059			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2060			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2061				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2062
2063			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2064			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2065			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2066			uid=0.
2067
2068			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2069			all files owned by root.
2070
2071			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2072			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2073			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2074
2075			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2076			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2077			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2078			flag.
2079
2080			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2081			critical data.
2082
2083	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2084			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2085			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2086			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2087			opened for read by uid=0.
2088
2089	ima_template=	[IMA]
2090			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2091			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2092				   "ima-sigv2" }
2093			Default: "ima-ng"
2094
2095	ima_template_fmt=
2096			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2097			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2098
2099	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2100			Format: <min_file_size>
2101			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2102			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2103
2104			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2105			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2106			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2107
2108	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2109			Format: <bufsize>
2110			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2111
2112			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2113			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2114			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2115
2116	init=		[KNL]
2117			Format: <full_path>
2118			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2119			process.
2120
2121	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2122			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2123			startup.
2124
2125	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2126			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2127			modules and initcalls.
2128
2129	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2130			Format: <bool>
2131			Default: 1
2132			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2133			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2134			with devices being probed and
2135			initialized. This should normally just work,
2136			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2137			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2138			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2139			late_ initcalls.
2140
2141	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2142
2143	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2144			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2145			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2146			setting.
2147			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2148			Default is 0, 0
2149
2150	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2151			zeroes.
2152			Format: 0 | 1
2153			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2154
2155	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2156			Format: 0 | 1
2157			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2158
2159	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2160			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2161			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2162			override in debugfs after boot.
2163
2164	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2165			Format: <irq>
2166
2167	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2168
2169	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2170			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2171			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2172			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2173
2174	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2175		on
2176			Enable intel iommu driver.
2177		off
2178			Disable intel iommu driver.
2179		igfx_off [Default Off]
2180			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2181			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2182			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2183			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2184			DMA.
2185		strict [Default Off]
2186			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2187		sp_off [Default Off]
2188			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2189			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2190			not be supported.
2191		sm_on
2192			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2193			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2194			translation.
2195		sm_off
2196			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2197		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2198			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2199			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2200			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2201			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2202			mapping is enabled.
2203			Note that using this option lowers the security
2204			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2205			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2206
2207	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2208			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2209			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2210
2211	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2212			disable
2213			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2214			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2215                        active
2216                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2217                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2218                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2219                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2220                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2221                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2222                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2223                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2224                          and possibly on the processor model.
2225			passive
2226			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2227			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2228			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2229			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2230			  feature.
2231			force
2232			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2233			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2234			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2235			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2236			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2237			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2238			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2239			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2240			no_hwp
2241			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2242			  if available.
2243			hwp_only
2244			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2245			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2246			support_acpi_ppc
2247			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2248			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2249			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2250			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2251			per_cpu_perf_limits
2252			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2253			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2254
2255	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2256			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2257			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2258			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2259			no_x2apic_optout
2260				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2261			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2262			posted_msi
2263				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2264
2265	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2266		strict	regions from userspace.
2267		relaxed
2268
2269	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2270		off
2271		force
2272		noforce
2273		biomerge
2274		panic
2275		nopanic
2276		merge
2277		nomerge
2278		soft
2279		pt		[X86]
2280		nopt		[X86]
2281		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2282			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2283
2284	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2285			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2286			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2287			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2288			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2289			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2290			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2291
2292	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2293			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2294			0 - Lazy mode.
2295			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2296			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2297			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2298			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2299			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2300			1 - Strict mode.
2301			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2302			  synchronously.
2303			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2304			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2305			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2306
2307	iommu.passthrough=
2308			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2309			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2310			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2311			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2312			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2313
2314	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2315			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2316			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2317
2318	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2319		0x80
2320			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2321		0xed
2322			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2323		udelay
2324			Simple two microseconds delay
2325		none
2326			No delay
2327
2328	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2329			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2330
2331	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2332			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2333
2334	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2335			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2336
2337	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2338			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2339			Format: <bool>
2340			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2341			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2342			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2343
2344	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2345			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2346			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2347			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2348			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2349			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2350			LPIs.
2351
2352	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2353			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2354			requires the kernel to be built with
2355			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2356
2357	irqfixup	[HW]
2358			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2359			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2360			firmware running.
2361
2362	irqpoll		[HW]
2363			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2364			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2365			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2366			firmware running.
2367
2368	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2369			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2370
2371	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2372			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2373			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2374
2375			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2376			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2377
2378			nohz
2379			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2380
2381			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2382			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2383			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2384			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2385			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2386
2387			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2388			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2389			  be configured manually after bootup.
2390
2391			domain
2392			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2393			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2394			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2395			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2396			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2397			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2398			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2399			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2400
2401			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2402			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2403			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2404			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2405
2406			managed_irq
2407
2408			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2409			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2410			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2411			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2412			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2413
2414			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2415			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2416			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2417			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2418			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2419			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2420			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2421
2422			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2423			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2424			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2425			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2426			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2427			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2428			  queues.
2429
2430			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2431
2432	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2433
2434	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2435			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2436			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2437			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2438
2439			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2440			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2441			write the parameter as:
2442				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2443
2444			Deprecated formats:
2445			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2446			  write the parameter as:
2447				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2448			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2449			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2450				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2451
2452	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2453			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2454			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2455			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2456
2457			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2458			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2459			write the parameter as:
2460				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2461
2462			Deprecated formats:
2463			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2464			  write the parameter as:
2465				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2466			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2467			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2468				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2469
2470	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2471			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2472			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2473			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2474
2475			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2476			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2477			write the parameter as:
2478				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2479
2480			Deprecated formats:
2481			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2482			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2483				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2484			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2485			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2486				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2487
2488	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2489			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2490
2491	kasan_multi_shot
2492			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2493			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2494			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2495			invalid access.
2496
2497	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2498			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2499			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2500			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2501			the real console.
2502
2503	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2504
2505	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY]
2506			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2507			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2508			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2509			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2510			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2511			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2512			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2513			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2514			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2515
2516			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2517			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2518			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2519			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2520			zone if it does not.
2521
2522			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2523			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2524			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2525			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2526			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2527			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2528			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2529
2530	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2531			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2532			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2533			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2534			optional and is the number seconds in between
2535			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2536			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2537			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2538			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2539			the kernel debugger.
2540
2541	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2542			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2543			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2544			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2545			 keyboard only format: kbd
2546			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2547			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2548			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2549			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2550
2551	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2552			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2553			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2554			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2555			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2556			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2557			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2558
2559			The name of the early console should be specified
2560			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2561			the early console might be different than the tty
2562			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2563			blank and the first boot console that implements
2564			read() will be picked.
2565
2566	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2567			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2568
2569	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2570			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2571			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2572
2573	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2574			Valid arguments: on, off
2575			Default: on
2576			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2577			the default is off.
2578
2579	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2580			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2581			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2582			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2583			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2584			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2585			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2586
2587			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2588
2589			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2590			Boot Parameter" section.
2591
2592	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2593			user and kernel address spaces.
2594			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2595			0: force disabled
2596			1: force enabled
2597
2598	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2599			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2600			default value can be overridden via
2601			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2602			Default is 1 (enabled)
2603
2604	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2605			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2606
2607	kvm.eager_page_split=
2608			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2609			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2610			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2611			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2612			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2613			required to split huge pages lazily.
2614
2615			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2616			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2617			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2618			still be used for reads.
2619
2620			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2621			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2622			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2623			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2624			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2625			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2626			cleared.
2627
2628			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2629
2630			Default is Y (on).
2631
2632	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2633				   Default is false (don't support).
2634
2635	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2636			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2637			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2638			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2639			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2640			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2641				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2642
2643			Default is 'auto'.
2644
2645			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2646			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2647
2648	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2649			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2650			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2651			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2652			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2653
2654	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2655			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2656			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2657			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2658			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2659			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2660
2661	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2662			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2663
2664	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2665			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2666			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2667			for NPT.
2668
2669	kvm-arm.mode=
2670			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2671			operation.
2672
2673			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2674
2675			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2676			      protected guests.
2677
2678			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2679				   state is kept private from the host.
2680
2681			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2682				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2683				hardware.
2684
2685			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2686			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2687			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2688			used with extreme caution.
2689
2690	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2691			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2692			system registers
2693
2694	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2695			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2696			system registers
2697
2698	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2699			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2700			system registers
2701
2702	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2703			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2704			injection of LPIs.
2705
2706	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2707			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2708			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2709			allocation.
2710			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2711			Format: <integer>
2712			Default: 5
2713
2714	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2715			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2716			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2717			for EPT.
2718
2719	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2720			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2721			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2722			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2723			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2724			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2725			Default is 1 (enabled).
2726
2727	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2728			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2729			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2730			hardware lacks support for it.
2731
2732	kvm-intel.nested=
2733			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2734			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2735
2736	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2737			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2738			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2739			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2740			hardware lacks support for it.
2741
2742	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2743			CVE-2018-3620.
2744
2745			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2746
2747			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2748			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2749				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2750			never:	Disables the mitigation
2751
2752			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2753
2754	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2755			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2756			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2757			for it.
2758
2759	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
2760			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2761
2762			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2763			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2764			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2765
2766			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2767			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2768			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2769			not have direct access.
2770
2771			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2772			options are:
2773
2774			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2775
2776	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2777			      affected CPUs
2778
2779			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2780			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2781
2782			full
2783				Provides all available mitigations for the
2784				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2785				enables all mitigations in the
2786				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2787
2788				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2789				sysfs interface is still possible after
2790				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2791				when the first VM is started in a
2792				potentially insecure configuration,
2793				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2794
2795			full,force
2796				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2797				flush runtime control. Implies the
2798				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2799				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2800
2801			flush
2802				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2803				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2804				L1D flush.
2805
2806				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2807				sysfs interface is still possible after
2808				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2809				when the first VM is started in a
2810				potentially insecure configuration,
2811				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2812
2813			flush,nosmt
2814
2815				Disables SMT and enables the default
2816				hypervisor mitigation.
2817
2818				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2819				sysfs interface is still possible after
2820				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2821				when the first VM is started in a
2822				potentially insecure configuration,
2823				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2824
2825			flush,nowarn
2826				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2827				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2828				insecure configuration.
2829
2830			off
2831				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2832				emit any warnings.
2833				It also drops the swap size and available
2834				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2835				bare metal.
2836
2837			Default is 'flush'.
2838
2839			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2840
2841	l2cr=		[PPC]
2842
2843	l3cr=		[PPC]
2844
2845	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2846			disabled it.
2847
2848	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2849			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2850			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2851			Format: notscdeadline
2852
2853	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
2854			in C2 power state.
2855
2856	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2857			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2858			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2859			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2860			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2861			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2862			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2863
2864	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2865			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2866			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2867
2868	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2869			when set.
2870			Format: <int>
2871
2872	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2873			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2874			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2875			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2876			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2877			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2878			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2879			to all ports, links and devices.
2880
2881			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2882			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2883			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2884			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2885			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2886			host link and device attached to it.
2887
2888			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2889			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2890			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2891			The following configurations can be forced.
2892
2893			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2894			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2895
2896			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2897
2898			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2899			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2900			  allowed.
2901
2902			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2903			  resets.
2904
2905			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2906			  link recovery.
2907
2908			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2909			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2910			  detection.
2911
2912			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2913
2914			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2915
2916			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2917
2918			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2919
2920			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2921
2922			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2923
2924			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2925
2926			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2927
2928			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2929			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2930
2931			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2932			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2933
2934			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2935			  identify device data log.
2936
2937			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2938			  purpose log directory.
2939
2940			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2941
2942			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2943			  1024 sectors.
2944
2945			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2946			  65535 sectors.
2947
2948			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2949
2950			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2951			  should be skipped.
2952
2953			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2954			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2955
2956			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2957
2958			* disable: Disable this device.
2959
2960			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2961			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2962
2963	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2964
2965	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2966			Format: <integer>
2967
2968	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2969			Format: <integer>
2970
2971	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2972			Format: <integer>
2973
2974	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2975			Format: <integer>
2976
2977	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
2978			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2979			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2980			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2981			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2982			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2983			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2984			are also disabled.
2985
2986	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
2987			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
2988			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
2989			will result in a splat once they do complete.
2990
2991	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
2992			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
2993			to be bound.
2994
2995	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
2996			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
2997			to be bound.
2998
2999	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3000			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3001			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3002			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3003			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3004			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3005
3006	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3007			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3008			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3009			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3010
3011	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3012			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3013			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3014			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3015			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3016			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3017
3018	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3019			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3020			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3021			number of online CPUs.
3022
3023	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3024			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3025
3026	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3027			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3028
3029	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3030			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3031			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3032
3033	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3034			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3035			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3036			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3037			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3038			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3039			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3040			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3041			disable boosting.
3042
3043	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3044			Number that determines how often and for how
3045			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3046			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3047			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3048			constant as the number of writers increases.
3049			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3050			increases with the number of writers.
3051
3052	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3053			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3054			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3055			mode during the locktorture test.
3056
3057	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3058			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3059			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3060
3061	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3062			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3063
3064	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3065			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3066			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3067			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3068			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3069			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3070
3071	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3072			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3073
3074	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3075			Enable additional printk() statements.
3076
3077	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3078			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3079			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3080
3081	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3082			Format: <irq>
3083
3084	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3085			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3086			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3087			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3088			loglevels are defined as follows:
3089
3090			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3091			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3092			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3093			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3094			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3095			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3096			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3097			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3098
3099	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3100			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3101			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3102			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3103			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3104			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3105			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3106			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3107			for more details.
3108
3109	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3110			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3111			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3112			kernel boot problems.
3113
3114	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3115	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3116	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3117	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3118				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3119				attached printers to be reset. Using
3120				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3121				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3122				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3123				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3124				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3125				port specification list means that device IDs
3126				from each port should be examined, to see if
3127				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3128				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3129				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3130
3131	lpj=n		[KNL]
3132			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3133			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3134			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3135			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3136			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3137			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3138			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3139			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3140			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3141			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3142			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3143			hardware.
3144
3145	ltpc=		[NET]
3146			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3147
3148	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3149
3150	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3151			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3152			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3153
3154	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3155			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3156			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3157
3158	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3159			different yeeloong laptops.
3160			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3161
3162	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3163			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3164
3165	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3166			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3167			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3168			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3169			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3170			only takes effect during system bootup.
3171			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3172			which also disables the IO APIC.
3173
3174	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3175	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3176			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3177			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3178			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3179			/dev/loop-control interface.
3180
3181	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3182
3183	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3184
3185	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3186			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3187
3188	mdacon=		[MDA]
3189			Format: <first>,<last>
3190			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3191
3192	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3193			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3194			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3195
3196			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3197			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3198			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3199
3200			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3201			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3202			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3203			not have direct access.
3204
3205			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3206			options are:
3207
3208			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3209			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3210				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3211			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3212
3213			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3214			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3215			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3216			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3217			too.
3218
3219			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3220			mds=full.
3221
3222			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3223
3224	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3225			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3226
3227	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3228			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3229			as follows:
3230
3231			1 for test;
3232			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3233			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3234			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3235			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3236
3237			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3238			high memory is not affected.
3239
3240			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3241			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3242
3243			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3244			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3245			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3246			belonging to unused RAM.
3247
3248			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3249			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3250			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3251
3252	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3253			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3254			reported by firmware.
3255			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3256			ss[KMG].
3257			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3258			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3259
3260	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3261			memory.
3262
3263	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3264
3265	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3266			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3267			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3268
3269	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3270			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3271			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3272			set according to the
3273			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3274			option.
3275			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3276
3277	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3278			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3279			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3280			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3281			option description.
3282
3283	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3284			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3285			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3286			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3287			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3288			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3289			comma delimited.
3290			Example:
3291				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3292
3293	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3294			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3295			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3296
3297	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3298			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3299			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3300			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3301			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3302			         or
3303			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3304			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3305			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3306			will be eaten.
3307
3308	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3309			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3310			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3311			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3312			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3313
3314	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3315			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3316			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3317			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3318			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3319			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3320			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3321			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3322
3323	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3324			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3325			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3326			Setting this option will scan the memory
3327			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3328			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3329			from using the memory being corrupted.
3330			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3331			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3332			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3333			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3334
3335	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3336			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3337			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3338			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3339			corruption in more or less memory.
3340
3341	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3342			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3343			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3344			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3345
3346	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3347			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3348			Format: {on | off (default)}
3349			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3350			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3351			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3352			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3353			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3354			lot of memory without requiring additional
3355			memory to do so.
3356			This feature is disabled by default because it
3357			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3358			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3359			memory blocks).
3360			The state of the flag can be read in
3361			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3362			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3363			the feature is not effective.
3364
3365	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3366			Format: <integer>
3367			default : 0 <disable>
3368			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3369			performed. Each pass selects another test
3370			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3371			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3372			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3373			regions that are detected.
3374
3375	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3376			Valid arguments: on, off
3377			Default: off
3378			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3379			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3380
3381			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3382			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3383
3384	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3385			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3386			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3387			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3388			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3389
3390	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3391			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3392			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3393			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3394
3395	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3396
3397	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3398			Format: <bool>
3399			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3400			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3401
3402	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3403			physical address is ignored.
3404
3405	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3406			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3407			Default: "0tb"
3408			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3409			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3410			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3411			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3412			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3413			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3414			unconfigured.
3415			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3416			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3417			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3418			VGA shield.
3419			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3420			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3421			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3422			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3423			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3424			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3425
3426	mitigations=
3427			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3428			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3429			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3430			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3431
3432			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3433			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3434
3435			off
3436				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3437				improves system performance, but it may also
3438				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3439				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3440					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3441					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3442					       l1tf=off [X86]
3443					       mds=off [X86]
3444					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3445					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3446					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3447					       nobp=0 [S390]
3448					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3449					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3450					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3451					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3452					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3453					       retbleed=off [X86]
3454					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3455					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3456					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3457					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3458					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3459					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3460					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3461
3462				Exceptions:
3463					       This does not have any effect on
3464					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3465					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3466
3467			auto (default)
3468				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3469				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3470				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3471				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3472				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3473				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3474
3475			auto,nosmt
3476				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3477				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3478				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3479				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3480					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3481					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3482					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3483					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3484
3485	mminit_loglevel=
3486			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3487			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3488			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3489			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3490			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3491			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3492
3493	mmio_stale_data=
3494			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3495			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3496
3497			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3498			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3499			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3500			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3501			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3502			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3503
3504			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3505			options are:
3506
3507			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3508
3509			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3510				     vulnerable CPUs.
3511
3512			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3513
3514			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3515			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3516			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3517			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3518			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3519			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3520
3521			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3522			mmio_stale_data=full.
3523
3524			For details see:
3525			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3526
3527	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3528			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3529			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3530			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3531			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3532			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3533
3534	module.async_probe=<bool>
3535			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3536			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3537			specific module, use the module specific control that
3538			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3539			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3540			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3541			the specific module.
3542
3543	module.enable_dups_trace
3544			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3545			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3546			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3547			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3548			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3549	module.sig_enforce
3550			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3551			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3552			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3553			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3554
3555	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3556			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3557
3558	mousedev.tap_time=
3559			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3560			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3561			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3562			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3563			Format: <msecs>
3564	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3565			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3566	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3567			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3568
3569	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY]
3570			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3571			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3572			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3573			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3574			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3575			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3576			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3577			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3578			is not too small.
3579
3580	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3581			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3582			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3583			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3584			allocations. Use with caution!
3585
3586	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3587			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3588
3589	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3590			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3591
3592	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3593			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3594
3595	mtdset=		[ARM]
3596			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3597
3598			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3599
3600	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3601			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3602			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3603
3604	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3605			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3606			registers at boot time.
3607
3608	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3609			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3610			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3611
3612	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3613			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3614			Default is 1.
3615			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3616			using up MTRRs.
3617
3618	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3619			Format: <integer>
3620			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3621			Default : 1
3622			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3623			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3624
3625	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3626			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3627			at a time.
3628
3629	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3630
3631	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3632			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3633			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3634			something different and driver-specific.
3635			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3636			file if at all.
3637
3638	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3639			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3640			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3641			waits 4 seconds.
3642
3643	nf_conntrack.acct=
3644			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3645			0 to disable accounting
3646			1 to enable accounting
3647			Default value is 0.
3648
3649	nfs.cache_getent=
3650			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3651			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3652
3653	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3654			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3655			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3656
3657	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3658			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3659			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3660			requests.
3661
3662	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3663			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3664			channel should listen.
3665
3666	nfs.delay_retrans=
3667			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3668			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3669			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3670			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3671			and the specified value is >= 0.
3672
3673	nfs.enable_ino64=
3674			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3675			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3676			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3677			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3678			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3679
3680	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3681			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3682			entries.
3683
3684	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3685			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3686			slots the client will assign to the callback
3687			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3688			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3689			a particular server.
3690
3691	nfs.max_session_slots=
3692			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3693			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3694			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3695			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3696			Note that there is little point in setting this
3697			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3698
3699	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3700			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3701			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3702			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3703			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3704			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3705			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3706			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3707			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3708			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3709			back to using the idmapper.
3710			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3711
3712	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3713			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3714			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3715			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3716			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3717
3718	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3719			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3720			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3721			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3722			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3723			after the locks are lost.
3724			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3725			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3726			parameter to '1'.
3727			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3728			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3729
3730	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3731			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3732			information in exchange_id requests.
3733			If zero, no implementation identification information
3734			will be sent.
3735			The default is to send the implementation identification
3736			information.
3737
3738	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3739			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3740			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3741
3742			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3743			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3744			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3745			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3746
3747	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3748			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3749			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3750			the destination of the copy.
3751
3752	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3753			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3754			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3755			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3756			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3757			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3758
3759	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3760			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3761			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3762			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3763			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3764			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3765			this parameter.
3766
3767	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3768			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3769
3770	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3771			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3772
3773	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3774			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3775
3776	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3777			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3778			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3779
3780	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3781			when a NMI is triggered.
3782			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3783
3784	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3785			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
3786			Valid num: 0 or 1
3787			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3788			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3789			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
3790
3791			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3792			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3793			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3794			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3795			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3796			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3797			need the box quickly up again.
3798
3799			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3800			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3801
3802	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3803			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3804			is present.
3805
3806	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3807			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3808
3809	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3810			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3811
3812	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3813
3814	noaltinstr	[S390,EARLY] Disables alternative instructions
3815			patching (CPU alternatives feature).
3816
3817	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3818			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3819
3820	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3821
3822	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
3823
3824	no_console_suspend
3825			[HW] Never suspend the console
3826			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3827			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3828			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3829			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3830			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3831			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3832			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3833			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3834			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3835			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3836			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3837			turn on/off it dynamically.
3838
3839	no_debug_objects
3840			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
3841
3842	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3843
3844	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
3845
3846	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3847
3848	noexec		[IA-64]
3849
3850	noexec32	[X86-64]
3851			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3852			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3853				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3854			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3855				read implies executable mappings
3856
3857	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3858			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3859			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3860
3861	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3862
3863	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3864
3865	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3866			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3867			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3868
3869	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3870			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3871			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3872			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3873			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3874			real-time systems.
3875
3876	no_hash_pointers
3877			[KNL,EARLY]
3878			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3879			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3880			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3881			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3882			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3883			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3884			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3885			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3886			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3887			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3888			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3889			kernels.
3890
3891	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3892
3893	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3894			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3895			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3896			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3897			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3898			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3899			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3900			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3901
3902	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3903
3904	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3905
3906	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3907			Valid arguments: on, off
3908			Default: on
3909
3910	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3911			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3912			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3913			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3914			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3915			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3916			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3917			just as if they had also been called out in the
3918			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3919
3920			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3921			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3922
3923	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3924			initial RAM disk.
3925
3926	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
3927			remapping.
3928			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3929
3930	nointroute	[IA-64]
3931
3932	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3933
3934	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3935
3936	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3937			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3938
3939	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3940
3941	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3942
3943	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
3944			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3945			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3946			Layout Randomization).
3947
3948	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3949			fault handling.
3950
3951	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3952
3953	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3954
3955	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3956
3957	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3958
3959	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3960
3961	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3962			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3963
3964	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3965			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3966			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3967			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3968			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3969			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3970			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3971
3972			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3973
3974	nomodule	Disable module load
3975
3976	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3977			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3978			irq.
3979
3980	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3981			pagetables) support.
3982
3983	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3984
3985	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3986			in some Intel CPUs.
3987
3988	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
3989			Equivalent to pti=off
3990
3991	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
3992			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3993			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3994			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3995
3996	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
3997			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3998			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3999			contention.
4000
4001	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4002			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4003
4004	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4005			with UP alternatives
4006
4007	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4008			space.
4009
4010	nosbagart	[IA-64]
4011
4012	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4013			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4014			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4015
4016	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4017
4018	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4019			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4020			even if it is supported by processor.
4021
4022	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4023			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4024			even if it is supported by processor.
4025
4026	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4027			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4028
4029	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4030			Equivalent to smt=1.
4031
4032			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4033			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4034				     via the sysfs control file.
4035
4036	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4037
4038	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4039			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4040			Store Bypass vulnerability
4041
4042	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4043			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4044			with this option.
4045
4046	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4047			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4048			possible in the system.
4049
4050	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4051			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4052			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4053			leaks with this option.
4054
4055	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,EARLY] Disable
4056			paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time is
4057			computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4058
4059	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4060
4061	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4062			broken timer IRQ sources.
4063
4064	no_uaccess_flush
4065	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4066
4067	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4068			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4069			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4070			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4071			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4072			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4073			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4074			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4075			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4076			is set.
4077
4078	no-vmw-sched-clock
4079			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4080			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4081
4082	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4083			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4084
4085	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4086
4087	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4088
4089			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4090			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4091			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4092
4093	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4094			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4095			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4096
4097	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4098			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4099			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4100			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4101			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4102			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4103
4104	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4105			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4106			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4107			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4108			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4109			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4110			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4111
4112	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
4113			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
4114			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
4115			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
4116			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
4117			parameter's value.
4118			Format: integer between 1 and 255
4119			Default: 255
4120
4121	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4122			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4123			SAL PALO.
4124
4125	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4126			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4127			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4128			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4129			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4130			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4131			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4132			hot plugging.
4133
4134	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4135
4136	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4137			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4138			spanning all memory.
4139
4140	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4141			NUMA balancing.
4142			Allowed values are enable and disable
4143
4144	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4145			'node', 'default' can be specified
4146			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4147			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4148
4149	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4150			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4151			info.
4152
4153	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4154			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4155			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4156			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4157			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4158			interrupts *may* be lost!
4159
4160	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4161			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4162			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4163			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4164
4165	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4166
4167			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4168
4169			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4170				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4171			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4172				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4173				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4174
4175	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4176			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4177			process, but there is a small probability of
4178			deadlocking the machine.
4179			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4180			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4181
4182	page_alloc.shuffle=
4183			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4184			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4185			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4186			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4187			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4188			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4189
4190	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4191			Storage of the information about who allocated
4192			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4193			we can turn it on.
4194			on: enable the feature
4195
4196	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4197			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4198			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4199			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4200			on: turn on poisoning
4201
4202	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4203			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4204			Format: <integer>
4205			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4206			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4207
4208	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4209			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4210			timeout = 0: wait forever
4211			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4212			Format: <timeout>
4213
4214	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4215			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4216			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4217			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4218			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4219			called with any of the flags in this set.
4220			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4221			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4222			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4223			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4224			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4225			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4226			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4227
4228	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4229			on a WARN().
4230
4231	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4232			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4233			bit 0: print all tasks info
4234			bit 1: print system memory info
4235			bit 2: print timer info
4236			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4237			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4238			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4239			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4240			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4241			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4242			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4243			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4244			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4245
4246	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4247			connected to, default is 0.
4248			Format: <parport#>
4249	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4250			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4251			Format: <mode>
4252
4253	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4254			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4255			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4256			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4257			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4258			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4259			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4260			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4261			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4262			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4263			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4264			are specified on the command line, starting
4265			with parport0.
4266
4267	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4268			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4269			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4270			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4271			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4272			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4273			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4274
4275	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4276			Format: <int>
4277			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4278			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4279			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4280
4281	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4282			Format: <int>
4283			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4284			changes.  Disabled by default.
4285
4286	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4287			Format: <int>
4288			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4289			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4290			Disabled by default.
4291
4292	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4293			Format: <int>
4294			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4295			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4296			Disabled by default.
4297
4298	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4299			Format: <int>
4300			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4301			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4302			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4303			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4304			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4305			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4306			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4307			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4308			all channels.
4309
4310	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4311			Format: <int>
4312			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4313			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4314			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4315
4316	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4317			Format: <int>
4318			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4319			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4320			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4321
4322	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4323			Format: <int>
4324			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4325			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4326			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4327			All modes allowed by default.
4328
4329	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4330			Format: <int>
4331			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4332			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4333
4334	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4335			Format: <int>
4336			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4337			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4338			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4339			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4340			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4341			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4342			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4343			By default all supported ports are probed.
4344
4345	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4346			Format: <int>
4347			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4348			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4349
4350	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4351			Format: <int>
4352			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4353			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4354			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4355			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4356			0 otherwise.
4357
4358	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4359			Format: <int>
4360			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4361			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4362			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4363			allowed by default.
4364
4365	pause_on_oops=<int>
4366			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4367			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4368			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4369
4370	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4371
4372	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4373
4374				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4375				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4376				specified in one of the following formats:
4377
4378				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4379				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4380
4381				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4382				bus/device/function address which may change
4383				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4384				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4385				by other kernel parameters. If the
4386				domain is left unspecified, it is
4387				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4388				to a device through multiple device/function
4389				addresses can be specified after the base
4390				address (this is more robust against
4391				renumbering issues).  The second format
4392				selects devices using IDs from the
4393				configuration space which may match multiple
4394				devices in the system.
4395
4396		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4397				changes anything
4398		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4399		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4400				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4401				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4402		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4403				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4404				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4405				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4406		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4407				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4408				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4409		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4410				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4411				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4412				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4413				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4414				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4415				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4416		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4417				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4418				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4419		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4420				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4421		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4422				Configuration
4423		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4424				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4425				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4426		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4427				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4428				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4429		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4430				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4431				should never be necessary.
4432		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4433				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4434				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4435				when the system masks IRQs.
4436		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4437				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4438				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4439				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4440		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4441				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4442				on several machines and they hang the machine
4443				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4444				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4445				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4446				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4447				motherboard.
4448		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4449				Use with caution as certain devices share
4450				address decoders between ROMs and other
4451				resources.
4452		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4453				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4454				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4455		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4456				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4457		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4458				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4459				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4460				this way.
4461		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4462				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4463				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4464				F0000h-100000h range.
4465		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4466				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4467				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4468				explicitly which ones they are.
4469		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4470				numbers ourselves, overriding
4471				whatever the firmware may have done.
4472		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4473				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4474				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4475				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4476				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4477				IRQ routing is enabled.
4478		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4479				or for PCI scanning.
4480		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4481				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4482				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4483				please report a bug.
4484		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4485				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4486		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4487				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4488				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4489				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4490				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4491		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4492				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4493				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4494				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4495		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4496				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4497				so this option is a temporary workaround
4498				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4499		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4500				handle more pci cards
4501		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4502				This might help on some broken boards which
4503				machine check when some devices' config space
4504				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4505				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4506		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4507				This sorting is done to get a device
4508				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4509		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4510		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4511				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4512		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4513				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4514		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4515				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4516				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4517				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4518				or bus can support) for best performance.
4519		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4520				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4521				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4522				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4523				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4524				that hot-added devices will work.
4525		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4526				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4527				The default value is 256 bytes.
4528		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4529				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4530				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4531		resource_alignment=
4532				Format:
4533				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4534				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4535				aligned memory resources. How to
4536				specify the device is described above.
4537				If <order of align> is not specified,
4538				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4539				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4540				windows need to be expanded.
4541				To specify the alignment for several
4542				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4543				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4544				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4545				for 4096-byte alignment.
4546		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4547				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4548				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4549				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4550				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4551				the default.
4552				off: Turn ECRC off
4553				on: Turn ECRC on.
4554		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4555				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4556				Default size is 256 bytes.
4557		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4558				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4559				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4560		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4561				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4562				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4563		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4564				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4565				MMIO_PREF window.
4566				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4567		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4568				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4569				Default is 1.
4570		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4571				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4572				accommodate resources required by all child
4573				devices.
4574				off: Turn realloc off
4575				on: Turn realloc on
4576		realloc		same as realloc=on
4577		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4578		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4579				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4580		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4581				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4582				port.
4583		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4584				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4585				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4586				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4587				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4588				taints the kernel.
4589		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4590				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4591				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4592				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4593				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4594				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4595				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4596				this removes isolation between devices and
4597				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4598		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4599		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4600		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4601				one PCI domain per PCI function
4602
4603	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4604			Management.
4605		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4606			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4607		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4608			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4609
4610	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4611		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4612			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4613			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4614			also tries to use these services.
4615		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4616				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4617		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4618			hotplug).
4619
4620	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4621		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4622		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4623
4624	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4625		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4626			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4627
4628	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4629
4630	pd_ignore_unused
4631			[PM]
4632			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4633			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4634			for debug and development, but should not be
4635			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4636
4637	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4638			boot time.
4639			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4640			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4641
4642	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
4643			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4644			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4645			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4646			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4647			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4648			and performance comparison.
4649
4650	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4651			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4652
4653	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4654			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4655			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4656
4657	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4658			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4659			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4660
4661	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4662			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4663			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4664			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4665			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4666			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4667			remains 0.
4668
4669	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4670			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4671
4672	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4673			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4674			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4675			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4676			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4677			possible settings and some assignment information.
4678
4679	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4680			{ off }
4681
4682	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4683			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4684
4685	pnp_reserve_irq=
4686			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4687
4688	pnp_reserve_dma=
4689			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4690
4691	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4692			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4693
4694	pnp_reserve_mem=
4695			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4696			autoconfiguration.
4697			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4698
4699	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4700			Default is 21.
4701			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4702			may be specified.
4703			Format: <port>,<port>....
4704
4705	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
4706			Format: <unsigned int>
4707			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
4708			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
4709
4710	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4711			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4712			platform machine description specific power_save
4713			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4714			execution priority.
4715
4716	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4717			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4718			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4719			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4720			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4721
4722	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
4723			Format: {"off"}
4724			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4725
4726	preempt=	[KNL]
4727			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4728			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4729			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4730			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4731			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
4732			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
4733			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
4734
4735	print-fatal-signals=
4736			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4737
4738			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4739			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4740			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4741			coredump - etc.
4742
4743			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4744			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4745
4746			default: off.
4747
4748	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4749			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4750			panics
4751			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4752			default: disabled
4753
4754	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4755			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4756			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4757			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4758			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4759			in order to provide more debug information.
4760			Format: <bool>
4761			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4762
4763	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4764			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4765			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4766			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4767			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4768			Default: ratelimit
4769
4770	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4771			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4772
4773	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4774			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4775			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4776
4777	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4778			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4779			instead using the legacy FADT method
4780
4781	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4782			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4783			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4784				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4785			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4786			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4787				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4788			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4789			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4790				statistical time based profiling.
4791
4792	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4793
4794	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4795			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4796			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
4797			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
4798			Layout Randomization is disabled.
4799			Format: <bool>
4800
4801	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4802			tracking.
4803			Format: <bool>
4804
4805	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4806			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4807	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4808			per second.
4809	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4810			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4811			(0 = never).
4812	psmouse.resolution=
4813			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4814	psmouse.smartscroll=
4815			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4816			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4817
4818	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4819
4820	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4821			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4822			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4823			system calls and interrupts.
4824
4825			on   - unconditionally enable
4826			off  - unconditionally disable
4827			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4828			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4829
4830			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4831
4832	pty.legacy_count=
4833			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4834			default number.
4835
4836	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
4837
4838	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4839
4840	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4841			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4842			invalidate.
4843
4844	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4845			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4846
4847	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4848			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4849
4850	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4851
4852	random.trust_cpu=off
4853			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4854			random number generator (if available) to
4855			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4856
4857	random.trust_bootloader=off
4858			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4859			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4860			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4861
4862	randomize_kstack_offset=
4863			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4864			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4865			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4866			that depend on stack address determinism or
4867			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4868			available on architectures that have defined
4869			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4870			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4871			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4872
4873	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4874
4875		cec_disable	[X86]
4876				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4877				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4878
4879	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4880			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4881			as described above.
4882
4883			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4884			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4885			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4886			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4887			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4888			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4889			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4890			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4891			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4892			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4893			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4894			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4895
4896			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4897			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4898
4899			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4900			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4901			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4902			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4903
4904			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4905			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4906
4907	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4908			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4909			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4910			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4911			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4912			This improves the real-time response for the
4913			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4914			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4915			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4916			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4917
4918	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4919			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4920			process in one batch.
4921
4922	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4923			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4924			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4925			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4926			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4927			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4928
4929	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4930			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4931			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4932			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4933
4934	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4935			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4936			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4937
4938	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4939			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4940			RCU grace-period initialization.
4941
4942	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4943			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4944			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4945			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4946			the rcu_node combining tree.
4947
4948	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4949			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4950			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4951			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4952			and maximum value is HZ.
4953
4954	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4955			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4956			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4957			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4958
4959	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4960			Set required age in jiffies for a
4961			given grace period before RCU starts
4962			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4963			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4964			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4965			a value based on the most recent settings
4966			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4967			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4968			This calculated value may be viewed in
4969			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4970			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4971			overwritten.
4972
4973	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4974			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4975			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4976			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4977			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4978			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4979			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4980			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4981			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4982			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4983			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4984			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4985
4986	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4987			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4988			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4989			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4990			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4991			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4992			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4993			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4994			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4995			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4996			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4997			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4998
4999	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5000			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5001			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5002			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5003			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5004			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5005			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5006
5007	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5008			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5009			batch limiting is disabled.
5010
5011	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5012			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5013			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5014
5015	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5016			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5017			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5018			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5019			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5020			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5021			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5022			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5023
5024	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5025			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5026			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5027			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5028
5029	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5030			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5031			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5032			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5033			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5034			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5035			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5036			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5037
5038			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5039			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5040			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5041			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5042			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5043
5044	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5045			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5046			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5047			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5048			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5049
5050	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5051			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5052			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5053			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5054			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5055			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5056			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5057
5058	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5059			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5060			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5061			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5062			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5063			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5064			condition.
5065
5066	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5067			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5068			each group, which defaults to the square root
5069			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5070			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5071			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5072			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5073
5074	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5075			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5076			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5077			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5078			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5079			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5080
5081	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5082			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5083			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5084			By default, this limit is checked only once
5085			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5086			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5087
5088	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5089			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5090			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5091			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5092			Larger delays increase the probability of
5093			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5094			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5095			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5096
5097	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5098			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5099			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5100			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5101
5102	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5103			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5104			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5105			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5106			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5107
5108			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5109			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5110			to zero.
5111
5112	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5113			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5114			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5115			big.
5116
5117	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5118			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5119			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5120			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5121			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5122			normal grace period.
5123
5124			How to enable it:
5125
5126			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5127			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5128
5129			Default is 0.
5130
5131	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5132			Measure performance of asynchronous
5133			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5134
5135	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5136			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5137			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5138			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5139			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5140			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5141
5142	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5143			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5144			grace-period primitives.
5145
5146	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5147			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5148			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5149			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5150			interference.
5151
5152	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5153			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5154			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5155
5156	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5157			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5158			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5159			Defaults to 1.
5160
5161	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5162			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5163
5164	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5165			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5166			If this parameter has the same value as
5167			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5168			and double-argument variants are tested.
5169
5170	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5171			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5172			If this parameter has the same value as
5173			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5174			and double-argument variants are tested.
5175
5176	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5177			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5178
5179	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5180			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5181
5182	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5183			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5184			of allocations and frees.
5185
5186	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5187			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5188			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5189			but instead allows better measurement of things
5190			like CPU consumption.
5191
5192	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5193			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5194			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5195			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5196			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5197			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5198			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5199			a single reader.
5200
5201	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5202			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5203			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5204			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5205
5206	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5207			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5208
5209	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5210			Shut the system down after performance tests
5211			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5212			testing.
5213
5214	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5215			Enable additional printk() statements.
5216
5217	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5218			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5219			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5220			no holdoff.
5221
5222	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5223			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5224			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5225			says no holdoff.
5226
5227	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5228			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5229			in microseconds.
5230
5231	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5232			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5233			in microseconds.
5234
5235	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5236			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5237			in seconds.
5238
5239	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5240			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5241			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5242			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5243			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5244			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5245			of CPUs to be used.
5246
5247	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5248			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5249			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5250
5251	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5252			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5253			forward-progress tests.
5254
5255	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5256			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5257			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5258			testing.
5259
5260	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5261			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5262			primitives, if available.
5263
5264	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5265			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5266
5267	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5268			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5269			update-side primitives, if available.
5270
5271	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5272			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5273			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5274			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5275			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5276			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5277			they are all non-zero.
5278
5279	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5280			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5281			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5282			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5283
5284	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5285			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5286			This can of course result in splats, and is
5287			intended to test the ability of things like
5288			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5289			such leaks.
5290
5291	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5292			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5293
5294	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5295			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5296			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5297			test, hence the "fake".
5298
5299	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5300			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5301			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5302
5303	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5304			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5305			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5306
5307	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5308			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5309			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5310			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5311			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5312			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5313
5314	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5315			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5316
5317	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5318			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5319
5320	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5321			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5322			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5323
5324	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5325			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5326			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5327			task-exit processing.
5328
5329	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5330			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5331			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5332			is spawned.
5333
5334	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5335			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5336			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5337
5338	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5339			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5340			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5341			during the rcutorture test.
5342
5343	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5344			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5345			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5346
5347	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5348			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5349			warnings, zero to disable.
5350
5351	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5352			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5353			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5354			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5355			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5356			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5357			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5358			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5359			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5360			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5361
5362			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5363
5364
5365	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5366			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5367
5368	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5369			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5370
5371	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5372			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5373			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5374			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5375			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5376			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5377
5378	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5379			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5380
5381	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5382			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5383			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5384			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5385			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5386
5387	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5388			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5389			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5390			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5391
5392	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5393			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5394
5395	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5396			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5397
5398	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5399			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5400			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5401
5402	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5403			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5404
5405	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5406			Enable additional printk() statements.
5407
5408	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5409			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5410			stall warning.
5411
5412	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5413			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5414			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5415			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5416			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5417
5418	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5419			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5420
5421	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5422			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5423			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5424			during early boot, that is, during the time
5425			before the init task is spawned.
5426
5427	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5428			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5429			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5430			value is 300 seconds.
5431
5432	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5433			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5434			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5435			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5436			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5437			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5438			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5439			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5440			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5441
5442	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5443			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5444			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5445			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5446			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5447
5448	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5449			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5450			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5451			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5452
5453	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5454			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5455			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5456			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5457			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5458			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5459			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5460
5461	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5462			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5463			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5464			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5465			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5466			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5467			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5468			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5469			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5470
5471	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5472			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5473			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5474			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5475			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5476
5477			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5478			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5479			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5480			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5481			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5482			grace-period processing.
5483
5484	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5485			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5486			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5487			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5488			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5489			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5490			set to the default value of -1.
5491
5492	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5493			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5494			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5495			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5496			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5497			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5498			the default value of -1.
5499
5500	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5501			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5502			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5503			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5504			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5505			for use in testing.
5506
5507	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5508			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5509			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5510			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5511			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5512			but lengthens grace periods.
5513
5514	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5515			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5516			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5517			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5518			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5519			callback flooding.
5520
5521	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5522			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5523			informational messages, which give some indication
5524			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5525			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5526			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5527			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5528			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5529			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5530			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5531
5532	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5533			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5534			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5535			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5536			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5537			the value three, so that the first informational
5538			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5539			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5540			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5541			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5542
5543	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5544			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5545			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5546			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5547			A change in value does not take effect until
5548			the beginning of the next grace period.
5549
5550	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5551			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5552			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5553			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5554			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5555			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5556
5557	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5558			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5559			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5560			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5561			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5562			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5563			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5564
5565	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5566			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5567			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5568			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5569			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5570			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5571			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5572
5573	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5574			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5575
5576	rdinit=		[KNL]
5577			Format: <full_path>
5578			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5579			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5580
5581	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
5582			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5583				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5584				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5585				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5586				path).
5587
5588	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5589			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5590			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5591			mba, smba, bmec.
5592			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5593				rdt=cmt,!mba
5594
5595	reboot=		[KNL]
5596			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5597				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5598				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5599				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5600				[[,]f[orce]
5601			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5602					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5603					reboot only),
5604			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5605			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5606			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5607					to be used for rebooting.
5608
5609	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5610			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5611			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5612			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5613			interference.
5614
5615	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5616			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5617			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5618			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5619			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5620
5621	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5622			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5623			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5624			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5625			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5626			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5627			x86 laptops.
5628
5629	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5630			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5631			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5632			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5633
5634	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5635			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5636			the console log.
5637
5638	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5639			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5640			measured in microseconds.
5641
5642	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5643			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5644
5645	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5646			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5647			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5648			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5649			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5650
5651	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5652			Enable additional printk() statements.
5653
5654	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5655			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5656			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5657			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5658			specified.
5659
5660	regulator_ignore_unused
5661			[REGULATOR]
5662			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5663			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5664			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5665			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5666
5667	relax_domain_level=
5668			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5669			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5670
5671	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5672			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5673			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5674			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5675			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5676
5677	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
5678			Format: nn[KMG]
5679			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5680			address space.
5681
5682	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5683			during initialization.
5684
5685	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5686			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5687			Format:
5688			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5689
5690	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5691			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5692			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5693			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5694			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5695
5696	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5697			read the resume files
5698
5699	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5700			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5701			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5702
5703	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
5704			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
5705
5706	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5707			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5708			vulnerability.
5709
5710			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5711			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5712			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5713			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5714			that don't.
5715
5716			off          - no mitigation
5717			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5718			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5719				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5720				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5721				       and older without STIBP).
5722			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5723				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5724				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5725				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5726				       on Intel.
5727			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5728				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5729				       the alternative for systems which do not
5730				       have STIBP.
5731			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5732				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5733				       systems.
5734			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5735				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5736				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5737
5738			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5739			time according to the CPU.
5740
5741			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5742
5743	rfkill.default_state=
5744		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5745			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5746		1	Unblocked.
5747
5748	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5749		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5750		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5751			blocked and the previous configuration.
5752		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5753			blocked and everything unblocked.
5754
5755	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5756			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5757
5758	ring3mwait=disable
5759			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5760			CPUs.
5761
5762	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
5763			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5764			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5765			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5766			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5767			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5768
5769	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5770
5771	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
5772		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5773		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5774		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5775		        [arm64]
5776
5777	rockchip.usb_uart
5778			[EARLY]
5779			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5780			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5781			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5782			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5783
5784	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5785			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5786			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5787			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5788			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5789			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5790			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5791
5792	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5793			mount the root filesystem
5794
5795	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5796
5797	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5798
5799	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5800			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5801			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5802
5803	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5804			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5805			filesystem.
5806
5807	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5808			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5809			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5810			managed by CMA.
5811
5812	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5813
5814	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5815
5816	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5817			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5818		strict
5819			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5820			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5821			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5822			iommu.strict=1.
5823
5824	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5825			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5826			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5827			factor of the size of main memory.
5828			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5829			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5830			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5831			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5832			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5833			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5834			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5835
5836	sa1100ir	[NET]
5837			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5838
5839	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5840
5841	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5842			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5843			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5844			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5845
5846	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5847			[Deprecated]
5848			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5849			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5850			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5851			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5852			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5853			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5854			value.
5855			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5856			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5857				1			64 ms
5858				2			128 ms
5859			and so on.
5860			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5861			Default is 0.
5862
5863	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5864			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5865			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5866			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5867			tests.
5868
5869	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5870			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5871			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5872			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5873			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5874			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5875			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5876
5877	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5878			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5879			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5880			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5881			equal to the number of CPUs.
5882
5883	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5884			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5885			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5886
5887	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5888			Number seconds to wait between successive
5889			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5890			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5891
5892	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5893			The number of seconds following the start of the
5894			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5895			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5896			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5897
5898	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5899			The number of seconds between outputting the
5900			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5901			of zero disables statistics output.
5902
5903	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5904			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5905			to the set of CPUs under test.
5906
5907	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5908			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5909			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5910			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5911			functions.
5912
5913	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5914			Enable additional printk() statements.
5915
5916	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5917			The probability weighting to use for the
5918			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5919			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5920			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5921			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5922			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5923
5924	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5925			The probability weighting to use for the
5926			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5927			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5928
5929	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5930			The probability weighting to use for the
5931			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5932			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5933			Note well that setting a high probability for
5934			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5935			on the system.
5936
5937	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5938			The probability weighting to use for the
5939			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5940			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5941			and weight_many.
5942
5943	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5944			The probability weighting to use for the
5945			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5946			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5947			weight_many.
5948
5949	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5950			The probability weighting to use for the
5951			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5952			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5953			and weight_many.
5954
5955	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5956			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5957			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5958			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5959			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5960			1 -- enable.
5961			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5962			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5963
5964	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5965			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5966			"lsm=" parameter.
5967
5968	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5969			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5970			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5971			0 -- disable.
5972			1 -- enable.
5973			Default value is 1.
5974
5975	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5976
5977	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5978
5979	shapers=	[NET]
5980			Maximal number of shapers.
5981
5982	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5983			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5984			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5985			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5986			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5987			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5988			apic=verbose is specified.
5989			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5990
5991	simeth=		[IA-64]
5992	simscsi=
5993
5994	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
5995			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
5996			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5997			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5998			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5999			last alloc / free. For more information see
6000			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6001			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6002
6003	slab_max_order= [MM]
6004			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6005			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6006			fragmentation. For more information see
6007			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6008			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6009
6010	slab_merge	[MM]
6011			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6012			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6013			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6014
6015	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6016			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6017			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6018			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6019			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6020			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6021			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6022			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6023			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6024
6025	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6026			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6027			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6028			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6029			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6030
6031	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6032			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6033			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6034			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6035			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6036			layout control by attackers can usually be
6037			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6038			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6039			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6040			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6041			own.
6042			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6043			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6044
6045	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6046
6047	smart2=		[HW]
6048			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6049
6050	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6051			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6052			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6053			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6054			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6055			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6056			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6057			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6058			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6059			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6060
6061	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6062			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6063			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6064			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6065			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6066			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6067
6068	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6069	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6070	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6071	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6072	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6073	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6074	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6075				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6076				1: Fast pin select (default)
6077				2: ATC IRMode
6078
6079	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6080			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6081			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6082			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6083			Format: <integer>
6084			Default: -1 (no limit)
6085
6086	softlockup_panic=
6087			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6088			Format: 0 | 1
6089
6090			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6091			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6092			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6093			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6094			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6095
6096	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6097			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6098			backtraces on all cpus.
6099			Format: 0 | 1
6100
6101	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6102			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6103
6104	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6105			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6106			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6107			clearing sequence.
6108
6109			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6110				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6111				 both syscalls and VMs.
6112			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6113				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6114				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6115				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6116				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6117			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6118
6119	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6120			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6121			The default operation protects the kernel from
6122			user space attacks.
6123
6124			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6125			       spectre_v2_user=on
6126			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6127			       spectre_v2_user=off
6128			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6129			       vulnerable
6130
6131			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6132			mitigation method at run time according to the
6133			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6134			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6135			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6136
6137			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6138			against user space to user space task attacks.
6139
6140			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6141			the user space protections.
6142
6143			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6144
6145			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6146			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6147			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6148			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6149			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6150			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6151			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6152			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6153
6154			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6155			spectre_v2=auto.
6156
6157	spectre_v2_user=
6158			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6159		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6160		        user space tasks
6161
6162			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6163				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6164
6165			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6166				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6167
6168			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6169				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6170				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6171				  is inherited on fork.
6172
6173			prctl,ibpb
6174				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6175				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6176				  always when switching between different user
6177				  space processes.
6178
6179			seccomp
6180				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6181				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6182				  they explicitly opt out.
6183
6184			seccomp,ibpb
6185				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6186				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6187				  always when switching between different
6188				  user space processes.
6189
6190			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6191				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6192
6193			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6194
6195			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6196			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6197
6198	spec_rstack_overflow=
6199			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6200
6201			off		- Disable mitigation
6202			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6203			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6204			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6205					  kernel entry
6206			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6207					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6208
6209	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6210			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6211			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6212
6213			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6214			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6215			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6216			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6217			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6218			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6219			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6220			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6221
6222			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6223			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6224			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6225			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6226
6227			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6228			Bypass optimization is used.
6229
6230			On x86 the options are:
6231
6232			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6233			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6234			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6235				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6236				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6237				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6238				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6239				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6240			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6241				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6242				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6243				  is inherited on fork.
6244			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6245				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6246
6247			Default mitigations:
6248			X86:	"prctl"
6249
6250			On powerpc the options are:
6251
6252			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6253				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6254				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6255				  exit.
6256			off	- No action.
6257
6258			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6259			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6260
6261	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6262	spia_fio_base=
6263	spia_pedr=
6264	spia_peddr=
6265
6266	split_lock_detect=
6267			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6268
6269			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6270			instructions that access data across cache line
6271			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6272			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6273			bus lock detection.
6274
6275			off	- not enabled
6276
6277			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6278				  about applications triggering the #AC
6279				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6280				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6281				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6282				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6283				  enabled in hardware.
6284
6285			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6286				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6287				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6288				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6289
6290			ratelimit:N -
6291				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6292				  per second for bus lock detection.
6293				  0 < N <= 1000.
6294
6295				  N/A for split lock detection.
6296
6297
6298			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6299			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6300			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6301			mode.
6302
6303			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6304			CPL > 0.
6305
6306	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6307			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6308			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6309
6310			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6311			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6312			number generator.
6313
6314			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6315			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6316			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6317			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6318			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6319
6320			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6321			the following option:
6322
6323			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6324				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6325
6326	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6327			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6328			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6329			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6330			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6331			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6332			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6333			(decide at boot).
6334
6335	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6336			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6337			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6338			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6339
6340				   0:  Never.
6341				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6342				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6343				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6344				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6345
6346			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6347			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6348			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6349
6350	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6351			Specifies how frequently to check for
6352			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6353			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6354			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6355			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6356			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6357			are ignored.
6358
6359	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6360			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6361			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6362			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6363			grace period will be considered for automatic
6364			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6365			expediting.
6366
6367	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6368			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6369			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6370			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6371			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6372			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6373
6374	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6375			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6376			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6377			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6378			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6379			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6380
6381	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6382			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6383			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6384
6385	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6386			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6387			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6388			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6389			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6390			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6391			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6392
6393	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
6394			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6395
6396			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6397			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6398			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6399			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6400
6401			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6402				   for both kernel and userspace
6403			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6404				   for both kernel and userspace
6405			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6406				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6407				   to allow userspace to register its
6408				   interest in being mitigated too.
6409
6410	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6411			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6412			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6413			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6414			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6415			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6416
6417	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
6418			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6419			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6420			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6421			to false.
6422
6423	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6424			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6425
6426	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6427			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6428			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6429			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6430			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6431			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6432			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6433
6434	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6435			Format: <num>
6436			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6437			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6438			as the initial boot-console.
6439			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6440
6441	sti_font=	[HW]
6442			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6443
6444	stifb=		[HW]
6445			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6446
6447        strict_sas_size=
6448			[X86]
6449			Format: <bool>
6450			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6451			against the required signal frame size which
6452			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6453			be used to filter out binaries which have
6454			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6455
6456	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
6457			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6458			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6459			faults on kernel addresses.
6460
6461	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
6462			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6463			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6464			on kernel addresses.
6465
6466	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6467	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6468			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6469			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6470			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6471			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6472			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6473			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6474			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6475			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6476			maximum port values.
6477
6478	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6479			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6480			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6481			process in parallel from a single connection.
6482			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6483
6484	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6485			[NFS]
6486			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6487			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6488			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6489			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6490			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6491			NFS server is running.
6492
6493			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6494				    automatically using heuristics
6495			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6496			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6497			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6498				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6499
6500	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6501	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6502			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6503			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6504			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6505			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6506			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6507			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6508
6509	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6510			[SUSPEND]
6511			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6512			mode before resuming the system (see
6513			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6514			is set. Default value is 5.
6515
6516	svm=		[PPC]
6517			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6518			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6519			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6520
6521	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86,EARLY]
6522			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6523			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6524			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6525				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6526				 to a power of 2.
6527			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6528			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6529			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6530
6531	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
6532
6533	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6534			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6535			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6536			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6537			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6538			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6539			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6540			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6541
6542	sysrq_always_enabled
6543			[KNL]
6544			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6545			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6546			Useful for debugging.
6547
6548	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6549			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6550			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6551			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6552			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6553			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6554
6555	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6556
6557	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6558			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6559			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6560			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6561			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6562			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6563			The system is woken from this state using a
6564			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6565
6566	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6567			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6568
6569	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6570			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6571			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6572
6573	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6574			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6575			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6576
6577	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6578			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6579
6580	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6581			-1: disable all passive trip points
6582			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6583			value
6584
6585	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6586			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6587			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6588			0: no polling (default)
6589
6590	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
6591			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6592			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6593
6594	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
6595			Format: {off | on}
6596			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6597			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6598			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6599			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6600			Default is on.
6601
6602	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6603			Format: {off}
6604			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6605			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6606			LPAR.
6607
6608	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6609			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6610			until after init has spawned.
6611
6612	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6613			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6614			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6615			very costly operation when many torture tests
6616			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6617			with rotating-rust storage.
6618
6619	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6620			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6621			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6622			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6623
6624	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6625			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6626
6627	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6628
6629	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6630			Format: integer pcr id
6631			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6632			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6633			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6634			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6635			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6636			are saved.
6637
6638	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6639			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6640			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6641			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6642			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6643			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6644
6645	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6646			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6647			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6648			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6649			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6650			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6651
6652			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6653			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6654			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6655			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6656
6657			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6658			to stop the printing of events to console at
6659			late_initcall_sync.
6660
6661			** CAUTION **
6662
6663			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6664			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6665			the system to live lock.
6666
6667	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6668			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6669			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6670			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6671			make the system inoperable.
6672
6673			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6674			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6675
6676	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6677			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6678
6679	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6680			at boot up.
6681			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6682				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6683				depending on the architecture, may not be
6684				in sync between CPUs.
6685			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6686				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6687				but better for some race conditions.
6688			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6689				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6690				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6691				once per event.
6692			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6693			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6694			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6695			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6696				stamps.
6697			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6698			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6699			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6700
6701	trace_event=[event-list]
6702			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6703			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6704			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6705			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6706
6707	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6708			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6709			This will be listed in:
6710
6711				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6712
6713			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6714			via:
6715
6716				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6717
6718			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6719			unique.
6720
6721				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6722
6723			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6724			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6725			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6726
6727	trace_options=[option-list]
6728			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6729			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6730			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6731			to echo the option name into
6732
6733			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6734
6735			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6736			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6737
6738			      trace_options=stacktrace
6739
6740			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6741			section.
6742
6743	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6744			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6745			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6746			filter.
6747
6748			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6749			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6750
6751			For example:
6752
6753			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6754
6755			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6756			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6757			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6758
6759			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6760
6761
6762	traceoff_on_warning
6763			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6764			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6765			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6766			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6767
6768			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6769			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6770			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6771
6772			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6773			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6774
6775	transparent_hugepage=
6776			[KNL]
6777			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6778			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6779			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6780			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6781			for more details.
6782
6783	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6784			Format: <string>
6785			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6786			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6787			sources:
6788			- "tpm"
6789			- "tee"
6790			- "caam"
6791			- "dcp"
6792			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6793			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6794			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6795			successfully during iteration.
6796
6797	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6798			Format: <string>
6799			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6800			Can be one of:
6801			- "kernel"
6802			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6803			- "default"
6804			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6805			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6806
6807	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
6808			This is intended to be used in combination with
6809			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
6810			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
6811
6812	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
6813			This is intended to be used in combination with
6814			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
6815			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
6816			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
6817			scenarios.
6818
6819	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6820			Format: <string>
6821			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6822			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6823			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6824			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6825			virtualized environment.
6826			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6827			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6828			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6829			can add overhead.
6830			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6831			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6832			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6833			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6834			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6835			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6836			acceptable).
6837			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6838			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6839			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6840			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6841			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6842			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6843			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6844			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6845			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6846			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6847
6848	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6849			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6850			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6851			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6852			Format: <unsigned int>
6853
6854	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6855			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6856			support TSX control.
6857
6858			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6859
6860			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6861				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6862				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6863				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6864				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6865				with leaving it enabled.
6866
6867			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6868				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6869				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6870				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6871				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6872				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6873				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6874
6875			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6876				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6877
6878			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6879
6880			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6881			for more details.
6882
6883	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6884			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6885
6886			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6887			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6888			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6889			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6890			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6891			conditions.
6892
6893			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6894			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6895			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6896			access.
6897
6898			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6899			options are:
6900
6901			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6902				     if TSX is enabled.
6903
6904			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6905				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6906				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6907				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6908			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6909
6910			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6911			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6912			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6913			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6914
6915			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6916			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6917			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6918			required and doesn't provide any additional
6919			mitigation.
6920
6921			For details see:
6922			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6923
6924	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6925			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6926			Format:
6927			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6928			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6929
6930	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6931			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6932			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6933			help "seeing" what's going on.
6934
6935	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6936			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6937
6938	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6939			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6940			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6941			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6942			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6943			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6944			reported either.
6945
6946	unknown_nmi_panic
6947			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6948
6949	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
6950			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6951			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6952			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6953			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6954
6955	usbcore.authorized_default=
6956			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6957			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6958			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6959			if device connected to internal port)
6960
6961	usbcore.autosuspend=
6962			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6963			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6964			is the time required before an idle device will be
6965			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6966			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6967
6968	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6969			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6970
6971	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6972			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6973			(default = 65536).
6974
6975	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6976			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6977
6978	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6979			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6980			scheme (default 0 = off).
6981
6982	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6983			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6984			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6985
6986	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6987			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6988			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6989
6990	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6991			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6992			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6993			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6994
6995	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6996
6997	usbcore.quirks=
6998			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6999			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7000			commas. Each entry has the form
7001			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7002			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7003			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7004			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7005			the following meanings:
7006				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7007					descriptors must not be fetched using
7008					a 255-byte read);
7009				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7010					correctly so reset it instead);
7011				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7012					Set-Interface requests);
7013				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7014					handle its Configuration or Interface
7015					strings);
7016				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7017					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7018				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7019					more interface descriptions than the
7020					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7021					talking to these interfaces);
7022				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7023					during initialization, after we read
7024					the device descriptor);
7025				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7026					high speed and super speed interrupt
7027					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7028					require the interval in microframes (1
7029					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7030					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7031					(bInterval-1).
7032					Devices with this quirk report their
7033					bInterval as the result of this
7034					calculation instead of the exponent
7035					variable used in the calculation);
7036				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7037					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7038					requests);
7039				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7040					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7041					remote wakeup capability);
7042				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7043					Power Management);
7044				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7045					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7046					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7047					calculation);
7048				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7049					to be disconnected before suspend to
7050					prevent spurious wakeup);
7051				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7052					pause after every control message);
7053				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7054					delay after resetting its port);
7055				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7056					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7057					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7058			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7059
7060	usbhid.mousepoll=
7061			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7062
7063	usbhid.jspoll=
7064			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7065
7066	usbhid.kbpoll=
7067			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7068
7069	usb-storage.delay_use=
7070			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7071			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7072
7073	usb-storage.quirks=
7074			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7075			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7076			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7077			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7078			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7079			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7080			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7081				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7082					of sense data, not on uas);
7083				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7084					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7085				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7086					device capacity by one sector);
7087				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7088					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7089				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7090					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7091				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7092					command, uas only);
7093				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7094					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7095				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7096					reported device capacity by one
7097					sector if the number is odd);
7098				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7099					device);
7100				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7101					command, uas only);
7102				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7103				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7104					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7105				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7106					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7107					not on uas);
7108				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7109					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7110				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7111					reported by the device, not on uas);
7112				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7113					by default, not on uas);
7114				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7115					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7116				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7117					Logical Unit);
7118				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7119					commands, uas only);
7120				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7121				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7122					medium is write-protected).
7123				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7124					even if the device claims no cache,
7125					not on uas)
7126			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7127
7128	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7129			Format: <int>
7130			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7131				 1 - undefined instruction events
7132				 2 - system calls
7133				 4 - invalid data aborts
7134				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7135				16 - SIGBUS faults
7136			Example: user_debug=31
7137
7138	userpte=
7139			[X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7140
7141				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7142					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7143					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7144
7145	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7146			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7147
7148			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7149			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7150
7151	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7152			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7153			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7154
7155			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7156			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7157			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7158
7159			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7160			alias for vdso32=0.
7161
7162			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7163			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7164
7165	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
7166			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
7167
7168	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7169			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7170
7171	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7172			Format: [0|1]
7173			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7174			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7175			level and then send out the event to user space through
7176			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7177			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7178			brightness level.
7179			default: 1
7180
7181	virtio_mmio.device=
7182			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7183
7184				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7185			where:
7186				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7187						like K, M and G)
7188				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7189				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7190						request_irq())
7191				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7192			example:
7193				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7194
7195			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7196
7197	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7198			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7199			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7200			Use vga=ask for menu.
7201			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7202			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7203
7204	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7205			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7206			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7207			All options are enabled by default, and this
7208			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7209			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7210			debugging features.
7211
7212			Available options are:
7213			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7214			  -	Disable all of the above options
7215
7216	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7217			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7218			the minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be
7219			used to decrease the size and leave more room
7220			for directly mapped kernel RAM.
7221
7222	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7223			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7224			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7225
7226	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7227			Format: <command>
7228
7229	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7230			Format: <command>
7231
7232	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7233			Format: <command>
7234
7235	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7236			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7237			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7238			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7239			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7240			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7241			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7242
7243			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7244			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7245				    readable.
7246
7247			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7248			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7249				    page is not readable.
7250
7251			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7252			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7253			            might break your system.
7254
7255	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7256			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7257			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7258
7259	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7260			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7261			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7262			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7263
7264	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7265			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7266			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7267			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7268			ranging from 0-255.
7269
7270	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7271			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7272			Change the default green palette of the console.
7273			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7274			ranging from 0-255.
7275
7276	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7277			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7278			Change the default red palette of the console.
7279			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7280			ranging from 0-255.
7281
7282	vt.default_utf8=
7283			[VT]
7284			Format=<0|1>
7285			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7286			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7287			newly opened terminals.
7288
7289	vt.global_cursor_default=
7290			[VT]
7291			Format=<-1|0|1>
7292			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7293			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7294			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7295			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7296			cursors, 1 will display them.
7297
7298	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7299			Default: 2 = green.
7300
7301	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7302			Default: 3 = cyan.
7303
7304	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7305			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7306			or other driver-specific files in the
7307			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7308
7309	watchdog_thresh=
7310			[KNL]
7311			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7312			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7313			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7314			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7315			seconds.
7316
7317	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7318			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7319			to use in unbound workqueues.
7320			Format: <cpu-list>
7321			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7322			unbound workqueues.
7323
7324	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7325			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7326			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7327			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7328			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7329			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7330			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7331			corresponding sysfs file.
7332
7333	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7334			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7335			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7336			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7337			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7338			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7339
7340			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7341			will report the work functions which violate this
7342			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7343			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7344
7345	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
7346			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7347			will report the work functions which violate the
7348			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
7349			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
7350			function has violated this threshold number of times.
7351
7352			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
7353
7354	workqueue.power_efficient
7355			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7356			they show better performance thanks to cache
7357			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7358			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7359
7360			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7361			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7362			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7363			power usage at the cost of small performance
7364			overhead.
7365
7366			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7367			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7368
7369        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7370			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7371			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7372			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7373			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7374			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7375
7376			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7377			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7378			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7379			updated accordingly.
7380
7381	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7382			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7383			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7384			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7385			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7386			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7387			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7388			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7389			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7390			impacted.
7391
7392	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
7393			Type) of ioremap_wc().
7394
7395			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7396			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7397
7398	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7399			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7400			supporting x2apic.
7401
7402	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7403			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7404			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7405			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7406			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7407			domains.
7408
7409	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
7410			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7411			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7412			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7413			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7414			nics -- unplug network devices
7415			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7416			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7417				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7418				the unplug protocol
7419			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7420
7421	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7422			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7423			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7424
7425	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7426			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
7427			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
7428			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
7429			debug data in case of multicall errors.
7430
7431	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7432			Format: <bool>
7433			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7434			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7435			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7436
7437	xen_nopv	[X86]
7438			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7439			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7440			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7441			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7442
7443	xen_no_vector_callback
7444			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7445			event channel interrupts.
7446
7447	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7448			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7449			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7450			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7451			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7452
7453	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7454			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7455			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7456			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7457			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7458			more timer interrupts.
7459
7460	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7461			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7462			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7463			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7464			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7465			max. Default is 180.
7466
7467	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7468			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7469			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7470
7471	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7472			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7473			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7474
7475	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7476			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7477			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7478			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7479			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7480			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7481
7482	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7483			Format:
7484			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7485
7486	xive=		[PPC]
7487			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7488			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7489			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7490
7491			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7492				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7493				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7494
7495	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7496			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7497			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7498			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7499			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7500
7501	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7502			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7503			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7504			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7505
7506	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
7507			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7508			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7509			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7510			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7511				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7512			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7513				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7514				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7515				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7516			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7517				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7518				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7519				can be written using xmon commands.
7520			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7521				memory, and other data can't be written using
7522				xmon commands.
7523			off	xmon is disabled.
7524