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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
14			"acpi=force" are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
327
328	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
329			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
330			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
331			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
332			IOMMU initialization.
333
334	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
335			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
336			remapping modes:
337			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
338			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
339			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
340			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
341			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
342
343	amd_pstate=	[X86]
344			disable
345			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
346			  scaling driver for the supported processors
347			passive
348			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
349			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
350			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
351			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
352			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
353			active
354			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
355			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
356			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
357			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
358			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
359			  frequency.
360			guided
361			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
362			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
363			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
364			  to the current workload.
365
366	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
367			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
368			Format: <a>,<b>
369			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
370
371	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
372			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
373			connected to one of 16 gameports
374			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
375
376	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
377			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
378			Format: noidle
379			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
380			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
381			APC and your system crashes randomly.
382
383	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
384			Change the output verbosity while booting
385			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
386			Change the amount of debugging information output
387			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
388			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
389			driver name.
390			Format: apic=driver_name
391			Examples: apic=bigsmp
392
393	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
394			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
395			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
396			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
397			      backup of CPU 0
398			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
399			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
400			      shot down by NMI
401
402	autoconf=	[IPV6]
403			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
404
405	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
406			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
407
408	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
411			0 -- disable.
412			1 -- enable.
413			Default value is set via kernel config option.
414
415	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
416			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
417
418	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
419			Identification support
420
421	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
422			Set instructions support
423
424	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
425			support
426
427	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
428			support
429
430	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
431			Extension support
432
433	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
434			Extension support
435
436	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
437
438	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
439
440	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
441			EzKey and similar keyboards
442
443	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
444
445	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
446			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
447
448	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
449			keyboards
450
451	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
452			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
453
454	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
455			Use software keyboard repeat
456
457	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
458			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
459			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
460			    enabled until the next reboot
461			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
462			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
463			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
464			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
465			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
466			    userspace auditd.
467			Default: unset
468
469	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
470			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
471			Default: 64
472
473	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
474			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
475			Format: { "0" | "1" }
476			0 - Disable the BAU.
477			1 - Enable the BAU.
478			unset - Disable the BAU.
479
480	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
481			Format: <io>,<mode>
482
483	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
484			Format: <io>,<mode>
485			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
486
487	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
488			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
489			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
490			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
491
492	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
493			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
494			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
495			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
496
497	bert_disable	[ACPI]
498			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
499
500	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
501			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
502
503	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
504			embedded devices based on command line input.
505			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
506
507	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
508			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
509			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
510			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
511			erroneous and ignored.
512			Format: integer
513
514	bootconfig	[KNL]
515			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
516			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
517
518			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
519
520	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
521	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
522			kernel args too.
523	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
524	bttv.tuner=
525
526	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
527			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
528			at a time.
529
530	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
531
532	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
533			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
534			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
535			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
536			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
537			This option provides an override for these situations.
538
539	carrier_timeout=
540			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
541			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
542			it waits 120 seconds.
543
544	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
545			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
546			trust validation.
547			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
548
549	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
550			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
551			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
552			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
553			others).
554
555	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
556			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557
558	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
559			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
560			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
561			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
562			  a single hierarchy
563			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
564			  subsystem
565			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
566			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
567			  created
568			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
569			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
570			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
571			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
572			stall information accounting feature
573
574	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
575			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
576			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
577			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
578			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
579			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
580			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
581			all v1 hierarchies.
582
583	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
584			Format: <string>
585			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
586			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
587			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
588
589	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
590			Format: { "0" | "1" }
591			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
592			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
593				any implied execute protection).
594			1 -- check protection requested by application.
595			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
596			Value can be changed at runtime via
597				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
598			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
599
600	cio_ignore=	[S390]
601			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
602
603	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
604			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
605			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
606			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
607			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
608			ones should be.
609			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
610			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
611			instability issue. However, not all features have names
612			in /proc/cpuinfo.
613			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
614			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
615			or using the feature without checking anything
616			will still see it. This just prevents it from
617			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
618			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
619			some critical bits.
620
621	clk_ignore_unused
622			[CLK]
623			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
624			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
625			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
626			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
627			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
628			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
629			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
630			platform with proper driver support.  For more
631			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
632
633	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
634			[Deprecated]
635			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
636			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
637			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
638			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
639
640	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
641			Format: <string>
642			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
643			with the name specified.
644			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
645			the platform:
646			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
647			[ACPI] acpi_pm
648			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
649				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
650			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
651				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
652			[MIPS] MIPS
653			[PARISC] cr16
654			[S390] tod
655			[SH] SuperH
656			[SPARC64] tick
657			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
658
659	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
660			[ARM,ARM64]
661			Format: <bool>
662			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
663			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
664			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
665			systems.
666
667	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
668			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
669			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
670			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
671			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
672			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
673			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
674			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
675			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
676
677	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
678			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
679			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
680			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
681			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
682
683	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
684			[KNL,CMA]
685			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
686			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
687			placement constraint by the physical address range of
688			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
689			altogether. For more information, see
690			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
691
692	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
693			[KNL,CMA]
694			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
695			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
696			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
697			specified, the default value is 0.
698			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
699			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
700			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
701			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
702
703	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
704			[KNL,CMA]
705			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
706			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
707			area for the specified node.
708
709			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
710			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
711			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
712			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
713
714	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
715			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
716			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
717			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
718			a hypervisor.
719			Default: yes
720
721	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
722			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
723			allocations, by default set to 256K.
724
725	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
726			Format:
727			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
728
729	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
730			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
731
732	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
733			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
734			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
735
736	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
737	conmode=
738
739	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
740			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
741			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
742			the console buffer is full. In this case the
743			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
744			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
745			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
746			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
747			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
748			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
749
750	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
751
752		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
753
754		ttyS<n>[,options]
755		ttyUSB0[,options]
756			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
757			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
758			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
759			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
760			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
761
762			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
763			information.  See
764			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
765			alternative.
766
767		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
768		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
769		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
770		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
771		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
772			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
773			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
774			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
775			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
776			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
777			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
778			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
779			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
780			the h/w is not re-initialized.
781
782		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
783			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
784
785		{ null | "" }
786			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
787			console messages discarded.
788			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
789			kernel command line.
790
791		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
792		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
793			console=brl,ttyS0
794		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
795
796	console_msg_format=
797			[KNL] Change console messages format
798		default
799			By default we print messages on consoles in
800			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
801			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
802			`printk_time' param).
803		syslog
804			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
805			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
806			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
807			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
808			from /proc/kmsg.
809
810	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
811			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
812			Defaults to 0.
813
814	coredump_filter=
815			[KNL] Change the default value for
816			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
817			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
818
819	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
820			[ARM,ARM64]
821			Format: <bool>
822			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
823			0: default value, disable debugging
824			1: enable debugging at boot time
825
826	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
827			Format:
828			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
829
830	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
831			disable the cpuidle sub-system
832
833	cpuidle.governor=
834			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
835
836	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
837			disable the cpufreq sub-system
838
839	cpufreq.default_governor=
840			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
841			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
842			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
843
844	cpu_init_udelay=N
845			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
846			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
847			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
848			Default: 10000
849
850	cpuhp.parallel=
851			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
852			Format: <bool>
853			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
854			the parameter has no effect.
855
856	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
857			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
858			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
859			succeeds in any situation.
860			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
861			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
862			kernel more unstable.
863
864	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
865			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
866			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
867			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
868			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
869			is selected automatically.
870			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and
871			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
872			hasn't been specified.
873			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
874
875	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
876			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
877			in the running system. The syntax of range is
878			start-[end] where start and end are both
879			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
880			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
881
882	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
883			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G.
884			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
885			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
886			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
887			below 4G, if available.
888			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
889	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
890			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
891			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
892			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
893			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
894			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
895			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
896			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
897			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
898			size is	platform dependent.
899			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
900			  --> arm64: 128MiB
901			  --> riscv: 128MiB
902			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
903			for second kernel instead.
904			0: to disable low allocation.
905			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
906			or memory reserved is below 4G.
907
908	cryptomgr.notests
909			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
910
911	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
912			Format: <dma>
913
914	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
915			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
916
917	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
918			function call handling. When switched on,
919			additional debug data is printed to the console
920			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
921			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
922			the hang situation.  The default value of this
923			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
924			Kconfig option.
925
926	dasd=		[HW,NET]
927			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
928
929	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
930			(one device per port)
931			Format: <port#>,<type>
932			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
933
934	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
935
936	debug_boot_weak_hash
937			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
938			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
939			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
940			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
941			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
942			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
943
944	debug_locks_verbose=
945			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
946			Format: <int>
947			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
948			self-tests.
949			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
950			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
951			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
952			useful to lockdep developers.
953
954	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
955
956	debug_guardpage_minorder=
957			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
958			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
959			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
960			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
961			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
962			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
963			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
964			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
965			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
966			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
967			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
968			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
969			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
970			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
971			bypassed) which are not detectable by
972			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
973			tracking down these problems.
974
975	debug_pagealloc=
976			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
977			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
978			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
979			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
980			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
981			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
982			on: enable the feature
983
984	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
985			and debugfs internal clients.
986			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
987			on: 	All functions are enabled.
988			no-mount:
989				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
990			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
991				its content. There is nothing to mount.
992			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
993			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
994				or directories within debugfs.
995				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
996				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
997			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
998
999	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1000
1001	default_hugepagesz=
1002			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1003			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1004			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1005			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1006			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1007			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1008			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1009			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1010			Format: size[KMG]
1011
1012	deferred_probe_timeout=
1013			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1014			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1015			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1016			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1017			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1018			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1019			successful driver registration. This option will also
1020			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1021			retrying.
1022
1023	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1024
1025	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1026			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1027			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1028			hardware.
1029
1030	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1031			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1032			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1033			blacklisted features.
1034
1035	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1036			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1037			(disabled by default).
1038
1039	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1040			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1041			capability is set.
1042
1043	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1044			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1045
1046	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1047			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1048
1049	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1050			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1051			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1052			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1053			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1054			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1055			          only (compression on level 1)
1056			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1057			          only (decompression)
1058			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1059			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1060
1061	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1062			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1063
1064	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1065			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1066			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1067			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1068			miss to occur.
1069
1070	disable=	[IPV6]
1071			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1072
1073	disable_radix	[PPC]
1074			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1075
1076	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1077			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1078			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1079
1080	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1081			Format: <int>
1082			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1083			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1084			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1085			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1086			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1087			INIT from AP to BSP.
1088
1089	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1090			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1091			to workaround buggy firmware.
1092
1093	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1094			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1095
1096	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1097			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1098			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1099			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1100
1101	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1102			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1103			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1104			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1105			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1106
1107	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1108			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1109			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1110
1111	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1112
1113	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1114			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1115
1116	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1117			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1118			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1119			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1120			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1121			architectural default is too low.
1122
1123	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1124			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1125			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1126			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1127			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1128			driver later using sysfs.
1129
1130	reg_file_data_sampling=
1131			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1132			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1133			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1134			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1135			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1136			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1137
1138			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1139			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1140
1141			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1142			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1143			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1144			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1145			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1146
1147			For details see:
1148			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1149
1150	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1151			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1152			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1153			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1154			match the *.
1155			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1156
1157	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1158			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1159			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1160			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1161			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1162			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1163			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1164			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1165			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1166			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1167			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1168			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1169			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1170			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1171			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1172			data set with no connector name will be used for
1173			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1174
1175	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1176
1177	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1178			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1179			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1180			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1181			exists).
1182			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1183			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1184			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1185
1186	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1187			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1188			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1189			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1190
1191	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1192	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1193			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1194			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1195			for details.
1196
1197	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1198			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1199			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1200			which are not unmapped.
1201
1202	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1203
1204			When used with no options, the early console is
1205			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1206			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1207			the platform.
1208
1209		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1210			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1211			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1212			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1213			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1214			configured.
1215
1216		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1217		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1218		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1219		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1220		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1221			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1222			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1223			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1224			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1225			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1226			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1227			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1228			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1229			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1230			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1231
1232		pl011,<addr>
1233		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1234			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1235			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1236			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1237			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1238			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1239			the device registers.
1240
1241		liteuart,<addr>
1242			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1243			specified address. The serial port must already be
1244			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1245
1246		meson,<addr>
1247			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1248			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1249			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1250			supported.
1251
1252		msm_serial,<addr>
1253			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1254			port at the specified address. The serial port
1255			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1256			yet supported.
1257
1258		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1259			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1260			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1261			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1262			yet supported.
1263
1264		owl,<addr>
1265			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1266			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1267			specified address. The serial port must already be
1268			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1269
1270		rda,<addr>
1271			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1272			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1273			specified address. The serial port must already be
1274			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1275
1276		sbi
1277			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1278			console.
1279
1280		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1281
1282		s3c2410,<addr>
1283		s3c2412,<addr>
1284		s3c2440,<addr>
1285		s3c6400,<addr>
1286		s5pv210,<addr>
1287		exynos4210,<addr>
1288			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1289			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1290			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1291			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1292			Options are not yet supported.
1293
1294		lantiq,<addr>
1295			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1296			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1297			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1298			yet supported.
1299
1300		lpuart,<addr>
1301		lpuart32,<addr>
1302			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1303			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1304			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1305			port must already be setup and configured.
1306
1307		ec_imx21,<addr>
1308		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1309			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1310			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1311			must already be setup and configured.
1312
1313		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1314			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1315			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1316			address. The serial port must already be setup
1317			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1318
1319		qcom_geni,<addr>
1320			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1321			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1322			specified address. The serial port must already be
1323			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1324
1325		efifb,[options]
1326			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1327			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1328			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1329			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1330			mapped with the correct attributes.
1331
1332		linflex,<addr>
1333			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1334			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1335			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1336			already be setup and configured.
1337
1338	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1339			earlyprintk=vga
1340			earlyprintk=sclp
1341			earlyprintk=xen
1342			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1343			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1344			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1345			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1346			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1347			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1348
1349			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1350			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1351			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1352
1353			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1354			takes over.
1355
1356			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1357			be used at a time.
1358
1359			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1360			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1361			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1362			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1363				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1364			You can find the port for a given device in
1365			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1366				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1367
1368			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1369			very good.
1370
1371			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1372			the real console.
1373
1374			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1375
1376			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1377
1378			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1379			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1380			UART class.
1381
1382	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1383			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1384			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1385			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1386			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1387			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1388			default: on.
1389
1390	edd=		[EDD]
1391			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1392
1393	efi=		[EFI]
1394			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1395				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1396				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1397			debug: enable misc debug output.
1398			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1399			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1400			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1401			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1402			firmware implementations.
1403			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1404			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1405			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1406			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1407			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1408			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1409			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1410			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1411			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1412			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1413
1414	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1415			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1416			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1417			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1418			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1419
1420	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1421			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1422			updating original EFI memory map.
1423			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1424			from ss to ss+nn.
1425
1426			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1427			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1428			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1429			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1430
1431			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1432			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1433			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1434
1435			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1436			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1437			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1438			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1439			"soft reserved".
1440
1441	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1442			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1443			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1444			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1445			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1446
1447
1448	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1449			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1450
1451	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1452			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1453
1454			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1455			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1456
1457			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1458			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1459			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1460			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1461
1462	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1463			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1464			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1465
1466	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1467			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1468			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1469			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1470			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1471
1472	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1473			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1474			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1475			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1476
1477	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1478			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1479			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1480			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1481			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1482
1483	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1484			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1485			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1486			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1487			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1488			Default value is 0.
1489			Value can be changed at runtime via
1490			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1491
1492	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1493			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1494			support.
1495
1496	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1497			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1498			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1499
1500	evm=		[EVM]
1501			Format: { "fix" }
1502			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1503			current integrity status.
1504
1505	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1506			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1507			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1508			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1509			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1510			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1511			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1512
1513	failslab=
1514	fail_usercopy=
1515	fail_page_alloc=
1516	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1517			General fault injection mechanism.
1518			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1519			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1520
1521	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1522			Format: { initns | none }
1523			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1524			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1525
1526	floppy=		[HW]
1527			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1528
1529	force_pal_cache_flush
1530			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1531			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1532			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1533			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1534
1535	forcepae	[X86-32]
1536			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1537			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1538			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1539			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1540			and may cause unknown problems.
1541
1542	ftrace=[tracer]
1543			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1544			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1545			boot debugging.
1546
1547	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1548			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1549			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1550			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1551			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1552			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1553			start up functionality.
1554
1555			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1556			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1557			line parameter.
1558
1559			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1560
1561			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1562			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1563
1564	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1565			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1566			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1567			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1568			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1569			oops.
1570
1571	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1572			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1573			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1574			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1575			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1576			tracing directory.
1577
1578	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1579			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1580			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1581			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1582			tracing directory.
1583
1584	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1585			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1586			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1587			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1588			that can be changed at run time by the
1589			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1590
1591	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1592			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1593			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1594			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1595			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1596
1597	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1598			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1599			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1600			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1601			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1602
1603	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1604			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1605			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1606			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1607			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1608			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1609			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1610			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1611			suppliers).
1612			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1613			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1614			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1615				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1616				up (sync_state() calls).
1617			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1618				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1619			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1620
1621	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1622			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1623			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1624			Format: <bool>
1625
1626	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1627			[KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished
1628			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1629			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1630			calls.
1631			Format: { strict | timeout }
1632			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1633				probe successfully.
1634			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1635				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1636				received their sync_state() calls after
1637				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1638				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1639
1640	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1641			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1642			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1643			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1644			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1645
1646	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1647
1648	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1649			Format: off | on
1650			default: on
1651
1652	gather_data_sampling=
1653			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1654			mitigation.
1655
1656			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1657			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1658			previously stored in vector registers.
1659
1660			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1661			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1662			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1663			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1664
1665			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1666				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1667				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1668				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1669
1670			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1671
1672	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1673			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1674			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1675			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1676			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1677
1678	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1679			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1680			android emulator
1681
1682	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1683			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1684			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1685	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1686			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1687
1688	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1689			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1690			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1691			GPT to be used instead.
1692
1693	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1694			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1695			Format: 0 | 1
1696			Default: 0
1697	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1698			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1699			Format: 0 | 1
1700			Default: 0
1701	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1702			Format: 0 | 1
1703			Default: 0
1704	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1705			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1706			Default: 1024
1707	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1708			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1709			Default: 1024
1710
1711	hardened_usercopy=
1712			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1713			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1714			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1715			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1716			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1717			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1718			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1719		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1720		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1721
1722	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1723			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1724			backtraces on all cpus.
1725			Format: 0 | 1
1726
1727	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1728			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1729			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1730			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1731
1732	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1733
1734	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1735			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1736
1737	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1738			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1739			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1740			logic will be disabled.
1741
1742	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1743		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1744				present during boot.
1745		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1746		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1747		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1748				(that will set all pages holding image data
1749				during restoration read-only).
1750
1751	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1752			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1753			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1754			size on bigger boxes.
1755
1756	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1757			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1758			Default: "on"
1759
1760	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1761
1762	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1763			Format: <string>
1764			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1765			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1766			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1767			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1768			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1769			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1770			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1771			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1772			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1773			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1774
1775	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1776			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1777				verbose }
1778			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1779			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1780				VIA, nVidia)
1781			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1782
1783	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1784			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1785
1786	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1787			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1788			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1789			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1790			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1791			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1792			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1793			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1794			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1795				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1796
1797	hugepagesz=
1798			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1799			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1800			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1801			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1802			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1803			architecture dependent.  See also
1804			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1805			Format: size[KMG]
1806
1807	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1808			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1809			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1810			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1811				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1812
1813			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1814			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1815			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1816
1817	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1818			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1819			enabled.
1820			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1821			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1822			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1823			Format: { on | off (default) }
1824
1825			on: enable HVO
1826			off: disable HVO
1827
1828			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1829			the default is on.
1830
1831			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1832			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1833			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1834			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1835			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1836
1837	hung_task_panic=
1838			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1839			Format: 0 | 1
1840
1841			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1842			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1843			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1844			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1845			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1846
1847	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1848				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1849	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1850				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1851				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1852
1853	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1854				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1855				      guest on lock contention.
1856
1857	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1858				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1859				registered from board initialization code.
1860				Format:
1861				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1862
1863	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1864	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1865			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1866			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1867			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1868	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1869	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1870			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1871			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1872	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1873	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1874	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1875			     for the AUX port
1876	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1877			     controller
1878	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1879			     controllers
1880	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1881	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1882			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1883			     transitions, or never reset
1884			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1885			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1886			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1887			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1888			architectures force reset to be always executed
1889	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1890	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1891	i8042.probe_defer
1892			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1893
1894	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1895
1896	i915.invert_brightness=
1897			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1898			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1899			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1900			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1901			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1902			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1903			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1904			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1905			value switches the backlight off.
1906			-1 -- never invert brightness
1907			 0 -- machine default
1908			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1909
1910	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1911			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1912
1913
1914	idle=		[X86]
1915			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1916			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1917			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1918			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1919			Not recommended.
1920			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1921			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1922			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1923
1924	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1925			Format: <bool>
1926			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1927			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1928			true (1).
1929
1930	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1931			Format: <bool>
1932			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1933			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1934
1935	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1936			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1937			Default: strict
1938
1939			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1940			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1941			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1942			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1943			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1944			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1945			encoding mode.
1946
1947			Available settings are as follows:
1948			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1949				supported by the FPU
1950			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1951				by the FPU
1952			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1953				by the FPU
1954			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1955				supported by the FPU
1956
1957			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1958			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1959			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1960			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1961			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1962			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1963			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1964			MIPS64 CPUs.
1965
1966			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1967			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1968			except where unsupported by hardware.
1969
1970	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1971			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1972			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1973			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1974			could change it dynamically, usually by
1975			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1976
1977	ignore_rlimit_data
1978			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1979			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1980			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1981
1982	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1983			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1984
1985	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1986			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1987			default: "enforce"
1988
1989	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1990			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1991			owned by uid=0.
1992
1993	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1994			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1995			measurements, instead of host native format.
1996
1997	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1998			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1999				   | sha512 | ... }
2000			default: "sha1"
2001
2002			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2003			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2004
2005	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2006			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2007			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2008				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2009
2010			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2011			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2012			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2013			uid=0.
2014
2015			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2016			all files owned by root.
2017
2018			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2019			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2020			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2021
2022			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2023			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2024			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2025			flag.
2026
2027			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2028			critical data.
2029
2030	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2031			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2032			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2033			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2034			opened for read by uid=0.
2035
2036	ima_template=	[IMA]
2037			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2038			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2039				   "ima-sigv2" }
2040			Default: "ima-ng"
2041
2042	ima_template_fmt=
2043			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2044			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2045
2046	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2047			Format: <min_file_size>
2048			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2049			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2050
2051			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2052			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2053			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2054
2055	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2056			Format: <bufsize>
2057			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2058
2059			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2060			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2061			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2062
2063	indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2064			Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2065			microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2066
2067			on:     Enable mitigation (default).
2068			off:    Disable mitigation.
2069			force:	Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2070				mitigation.
2071			vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2072				guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2073			stuff:	Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2074				also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2075				mitigation.
2076
2077			For details see:
2078			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2079
2080	init=		[KNL]
2081			Format: <full_path>
2082			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2083			process.
2084
2085	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2086			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2087			startup.
2088
2089	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2090			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2091			modules and initcalls.
2092
2093	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2094			Format: <bool>
2095			Default: 1
2096			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2097			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2098			with devices being probed and
2099			initialized. This should normally just work,
2100			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2101			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2102			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2103			late_ initcalls.
2104
2105	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2106
2107	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2108			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2109			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2110			setting.
2111			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2112			Default is 0, 0
2113
2114	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2115			zeroes.
2116			Format: 0 | 1
2117			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2118
2119	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2120			Format: 0 | 1
2121			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2122
2123	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2124			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2125			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2126			override in debugfs after boot.
2127
2128	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2129			Format: <irq>
2130
2131	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2132
2133	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2134			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2135			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2136			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2137
2138	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2139		on
2140			Enable intel iommu driver.
2141		off
2142			Disable intel iommu driver.
2143		igfx_off [Default Off]
2144			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2145			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2146			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2147			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2148			DMA.
2149		strict [Default Off]
2150			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2151		sp_off [Default Off]
2152			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2153			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2154			not be supported.
2155		sm_on
2156			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2157			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2158			translation.
2159		sm_off
2160			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2161		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2162			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2163			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2164			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2165			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2166			mapping is enabled.
2167			Note that using this option lowers the security
2168			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2169			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2170
2171	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2172			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2173			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2174
2175	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2176			disable
2177			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2178			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2179                        active
2180                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2181                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2182                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2183                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2184                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2185                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2186                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2187                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2188                          and possibly on the processor model.
2189			passive
2190			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2191			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2192			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2193			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2194			  feature.
2195			force
2196			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2197			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2198			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2199			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2200			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2201			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2202			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2203			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2204			no_hwp
2205			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2206			  if available.
2207			hwp_only
2208			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2209			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2210			support_acpi_ppc
2211			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2212			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2213			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2214			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2215			per_cpu_perf_limits
2216			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2217			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2218
2219	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2220			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2221			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2222			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2223			no_x2apic_optout
2224				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2225			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2226
2227	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2228		strict	regions from userspace.
2229		relaxed
2230
2231	iommu=		[X86]
2232		off
2233		force
2234		noforce
2235		biomerge
2236		panic
2237		nopanic
2238		merge
2239		nomerge
2240		soft
2241		pt		[X86]
2242		nopt		[X86]
2243		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2244			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2245
2246	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2247			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2248			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2249			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2250			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2251			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2252			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2253
2254	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2255			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2256			0 - Lazy mode.
2257			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2258			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2259			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2260			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2261			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2262			1 - Strict mode.
2263			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2264			  synchronously.
2265			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2266			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2267			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2268
2269	iommu.passthrough=
2270			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2271			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2272			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2273			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2274			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2275
2276	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2277			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2278			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2279
2280	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2281		0x80
2282			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2283		0xed
2284			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2285		udelay
2286			Simple two microseconds delay
2287		none
2288			No delay
2289
2290	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2291			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2292
2293	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2294			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2295
2296	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2297			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2298
2299	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2300			[ARM, ARM64]
2301			Format: <bool>
2302			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2303			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2304			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2305
2306	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2307			[ARM, ARM64]
2308			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2309			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2310			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2311			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2312			LPIs.
2313
2314	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2315			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2316			requires the kernel to be built with
2317			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2318
2319	irqfixup	[HW]
2320			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2321			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2322			firmware running.
2323
2324	irqpoll		[HW]
2325			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2326			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2327			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2328			firmware running.
2329
2330	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2331			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2332
2333	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2334			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2335			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2336
2337			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2338			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2339
2340			nohz
2341			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2342
2343			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2344			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2345			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2346			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2347			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2348
2349			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2350			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2351			  be configured manually after bootup.
2352
2353			domain
2354			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2355			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2356			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2357			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2358			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2359			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2360			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2361			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2362
2363			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2364			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2365			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2366			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2367
2368			managed_irq
2369
2370			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2371			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2372			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2373			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2374			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2375
2376			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2377			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2378			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2379			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2380			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2381			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2382			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2383
2384			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2385			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2386			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2387			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2388			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2389			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2390			  queues.
2391
2392			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2393
2394	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2395
2396	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2397			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2398			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2399			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2400
2401			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2402			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2403			write the parameter as:
2404				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2405
2406			Deprecated formats:
2407			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2408			  write the parameter as:
2409				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2410			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2411			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2412				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2413
2414	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2415			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2416			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2417			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2418
2419			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2420			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2421			write the parameter as:
2422				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2423
2424			Deprecated formats:
2425			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2426			  write the parameter as:
2427				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2428			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2429			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2430				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2431
2432	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2433			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2434			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2435			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2436
2437			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2438			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2439			write the parameter as:
2440				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2441
2442			Deprecated formats:
2443			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2444			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2445				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2446			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2447			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2448				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2449
2450	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2451			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2452
2453	kasan_multi_shot
2454			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2455			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2456			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2457			invalid access.
2458
2459	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2460			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2461			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2462			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2463			the real console.
2464
2465	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2466
2467	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2468			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2469			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2470			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2471			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2472			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2473			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2474			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2475			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2476			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2477
2478			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2479			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2480			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2481			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2482			zone if it does not.
2483
2484			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2485			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2486			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2487			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2488			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2489			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2490			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2491
2492	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2493			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2494			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2495			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2496			optional and is the number seconds in between
2497			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2498			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2499			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2500			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2501			the kernel debugger.
2502
2503	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2504			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2505			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2506			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2507			 keyboard only format: kbd
2508			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2509			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2510			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2511			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2512
2513	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2514			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2515			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2516			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2517			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2518			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2519			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2520
2521			The name of the early console should be specified
2522			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2523			the early console might be different than the tty
2524			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2525			blank and the first boot console that implements
2526			read() will be picked.
2527
2528	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2529			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2530
2531	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2532			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2533			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2534
2535	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2536			Valid arguments: on, off
2537			Default: on
2538			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2539			the default is off.
2540
2541	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2542			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2543			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2544			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2545			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2546			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2547			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2548
2549			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2550
2551			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2552			Boot Parameter" section.
2553
2554	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2555			and kernel address spaces.
2556			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2557			0: force disabled
2558			1: force enabled
2559
2560	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2561			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2562			default value can be overridden via
2563			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2564			Default is 1 (enabled)
2565
2566	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2567			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2568
2569	kvm.eager_page_split=
2570			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2571			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2572			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2573			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2574			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2575			required to split huge pages lazily.
2576
2577			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2578			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2579			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2580			still be used for reads.
2581
2582			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2583			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2584			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2585			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2586			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2587			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2588			cleared.
2589
2590			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2591
2592			Default is Y (on).
2593
2594	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2595				   Default is false (don't support).
2596
2597	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2598			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2599			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2600			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2601			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2602			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2603				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2604
2605			Default is 'auto'.
2606
2607			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2608			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2609
2610	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2611			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2612			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2613			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2614			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2615
2616	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2617			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2618			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2619			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2620			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2621			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2622
2623	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2624			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2625
2626	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2627			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2628			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2629			for NPT.
2630
2631	kvm-arm.mode=
2632			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2633
2634			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2635
2636			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2637			      protected guests.
2638
2639			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2640				   state is kept private from the host.
2641
2642			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2643				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2644				hardware.
2645
2646			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2647			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2648			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2649			used with extreme caution.
2650
2651	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2652			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2653			system registers
2654
2655	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2656			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2657			system registers
2658
2659	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2660			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2661			system registers
2662
2663	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2664			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2665			LPIs.
2666
2667	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2668			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2669			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2670			allocation.
2671			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2672			Format: <integer>
2673			Default: 5
2674
2675	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2676			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2677			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2678			for EPT.
2679
2680	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2681			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2682			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2683			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2684			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2685			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2686			Default is 1 (enabled).
2687
2688	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2689			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2690			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2691			hardware lacks support for it.
2692
2693	kvm-intel.nested=
2694			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2695			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2696
2697	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2698			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2699			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2700			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2701			hardware lacks support for it.
2702
2703	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2704			CVE-2018-3620.
2705
2706			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2707
2708			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2709			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2710				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2711			never:	Disables the mitigation
2712
2713			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2714
2715	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2716			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2717			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2718			for it.
2719
2720	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2721			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2722
2723			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2724			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2725			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2726
2727			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2728			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2729			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2730			not have direct access.
2731
2732			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2733			options are:
2734
2735			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2736
2737	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2738			      affected CPUs
2739
2740			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2741			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2742
2743			full
2744				Provides all available mitigations for the
2745				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2746				enables all mitigations in the
2747				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2748
2749				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2750				sysfs interface is still possible after
2751				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2752				when the first VM is started in a
2753				potentially insecure configuration,
2754				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2755
2756			full,force
2757				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2758				flush runtime control. Implies the
2759				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2760				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2761
2762			flush
2763				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2764				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2765				L1D flush.
2766
2767				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2768				sysfs interface is still possible after
2769				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2770				when the first VM is started in a
2771				potentially insecure configuration,
2772				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2773
2774			flush,nosmt
2775
2776				Disables SMT and enables the default
2777				hypervisor mitigation.
2778
2779				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2780				sysfs interface is still possible after
2781				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2782				when the first VM is started in a
2783				potentially insecure configuration,
2784				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2785
2786			flush,nowarn
2787				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2788				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2789				insecure configuration.
2790
2791			off
2792				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2793				emit any warnings.
2794				It also drops the swap size and available
2795				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2796				bare metal.
2797
2798			Default is 'flush'.
2799
2800			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2801
2802	l2cr=		[PPC]
2803
2804	l3cr=		[PPC]
2805
2806	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2807			disabled it.
2808
2809	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2810			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2811			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2812			Format: notscdeadline
2813
2814	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2815			in C2 power state.
2816
2817	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2818			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2819			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2820			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2821			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2822			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2823			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2824
2825	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2826			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2827			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2828
2829	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2830			when set.
2831			Format: <int>
2832
2833	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2834			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2835			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2836			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2837			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2838			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2839			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2840			to all ports, links and devices.
2841
2842			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2843			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2844			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2845			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2846			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2847			host link and device attached to it.
2848
2849			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2850			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2851			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2852			The following configurations can be forced.
2853
2854			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2855			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2856
2857			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2858
2859			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2860			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2861			  allowed.
2862
2863			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2864			  resets.
2865
2866			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2867			  link recovery.
2868
2869			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2870			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2871			  detection.
2872
2873			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2874
2875			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2876
2877			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2878
2879			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2880
2881			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2882
2883			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2884
2885			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2886
2887			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2888
2889			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2890			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2891
2892			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2893			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2894
2895			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2896			  identify device data log.
2897
2898			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2899			  purpose log directory.
2900
2901			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2902
2903			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2904			  1024 sectors.
2905
2906			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2907			  65535 sectors.
2908
2909			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2910
2911			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2912			  should be skipped.
2913
2914			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2915			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2916
2917			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2918
2919			* disable: Disable this device.
2920
2921			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2922			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2923
2924	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2925
2926	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2927			Format: <integer>
2928
2929	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2930			Format: <integer>
2931
2932	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2933			Format: <integer>
2934
2935	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2936			Format: <integer>
2937
2938	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2939			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2940			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2941			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2942			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2943			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2944			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2945			are also disabled.
2946
2947	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2948			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2949			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2950			number of online CPUs.
2951
2952	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2953			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2954
2955	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2956			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2957
2958	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2959			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2960			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2961
2962	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2963			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2964			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2965			mode during the locktorture test.
2966
2967	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2968			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2969			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2970
2971	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2972			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2973
2974	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2975			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2976			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2977			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2978			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2979			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2980
2981	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2982			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2983
2984	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
2985			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
2986			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
2987
2988	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2989			Enable additional printk() statements.
2990
2991	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2992			Format: <irq>
2993
2994	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2995			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2996			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2997			loglevels are defined as follows:
2998
2999			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3000			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3001			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3002			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3003			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3004			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3005			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3006			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3007
3008	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
3009			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
3010			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
3011			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
3012			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
3013			that allows to increase the default size depending on
3014			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
3015
3016	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3017			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3018			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3019			kernel boot problems.
3020
3021	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3022	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3023	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3024	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3025				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3026				attached printers to be reset. Using
3027				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3028				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3029				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3030				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3031				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3032				port specification list means that device IDs
3033				from each port should be examined, to see if
3034				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3035				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3036				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3037
3038	lpj=n		[KNL]
3039			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3040			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3041			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3042			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3043			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3044			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3045			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3046			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3047			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3048			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3049			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3050			hardware.
3051
3052	ltpc=		[NET]
3053			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3054
3055	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3056
3057	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3058			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3059			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3060
3061	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3062			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3063			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3064
3065	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3066			different yeeloong laptops.
3067			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3068
3069	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3070			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3071
3072	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3073			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3074			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3075			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3076			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3077			only takes effect during system bootup.
3078			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3079			which also disables the IO APIC.
3080
3081	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3082	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3083			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3084			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3085			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3086			/dev/loop-control interface.
3087
3088	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3089
3090	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3091
3092	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3093			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3094
3095	mdacon=		[MDA]
3096			Format: <first>,<last>
3097			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3098
3099	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
3100			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3101			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3102
3103			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3104			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3105			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3106
3107			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3108			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3109			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3110			not have direct access.
3111
3112			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3113			options are:
3114
3115			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3116			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3117				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3118			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3119
3120			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3121			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3122			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3123			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3124			too.
3125
3126			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3127			mds=full.
3128
3129			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3130
3131	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3132			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3133
3134	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3135			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3136
3137			1 for test;
3138			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3139			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3140			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3141			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3142
3143			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3144			high memory is not affected.
3145
3146			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3147			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3148
3149			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3150			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3151			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3152			belonging to unused RAM.
3153
3154			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3155			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3156			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3157
3158	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3159			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3160			firmware.
3161			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3162			ss[KMG].
3163			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3164			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3165
3166	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3167			memory.
3168
3169	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3170
3171	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3172			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3173			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3174
3175	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3176			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3177			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3178			set according to the
3179			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3180			option.
3181			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3182
3183	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3184			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3185			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3186			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3187			option description.
3188
3189	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3190			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3191			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3192			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3193			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3194			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3195			comma delimited.
3196			Example:
3197				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3198
3199	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3200			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3201			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3202
3203	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3204			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3205			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3206			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3207			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3208			         or
3209			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3210			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3211			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3212			will be eaten.
3213
3214	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3215			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3216			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3217			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3218			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3219
3220	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3221			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3222			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3223			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3224			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3225			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3226			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3227			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3228
3229	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3230			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3231			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3232			Setting this option will scan the memory
3233			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3234			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3235			from using the memory being corrupted.
3236			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3237			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3238			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3239			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3240
3241	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3242			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3243			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3244			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3245			corruption in more or less memory.
3246
3247	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3248			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3249			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3250			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3251
3252	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3253			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3254			Format: {on | off (default)}
3255			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3256			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3257			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3258			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3259			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3260			lot of memory without requiring additional
3261			memory to do so.
3262			This feature is disabled by default because it
3263			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3264			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3265			memory blocks).
3266			The state of the flag can be read in
3267			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3268			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3269			the feature is not effective.
3270
3271	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3272			Format: <integer>
3273			default : 0 <disable>
3274			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3275			performed. Each pass selects another test
3276			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3277			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3278			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3279			regions that are detected.
3280
3281	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3282			Valid arguments: on, off
3283			Default: off
3284			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3285			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3286
3287			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3288			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3289
3290	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3291			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3292			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3293			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3294			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3295
3296	mem.devmem=	Activate the /dev/mem device
3297			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3298
3299	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3300			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3301			platforms.
3302
3303	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3304			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3305			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3306			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3307
3308	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3309
3310	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3311			Format: <bool>
3312			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3313			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3314
3315	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3316			physical address is ignored.
3317
3318	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3319			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3320			Default: "0tb"
3321			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3322			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3323			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3324			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3325			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3326			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3327			unconfigured.
3328			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3329			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3330			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3331			VGA shield.
3332			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3333			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3334			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3335			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3336			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3337			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3338
3339	mitigations=
3340			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3341			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3342			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3343			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3344
3345			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3346			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3347
3348			off
3349				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3350				improves system performance, but it may also
3351				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3352				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3353					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3354					       indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
3355					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3356					       l1tf=off [X86]
3357					       mds=off [X86]
3358					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3359					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3360					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3361					       nobp=0 [S390]
3362					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3363					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3364					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3365					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3366					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3367					       retbleed=off [X86]
3368					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3369					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3370					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3371					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3372					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3373					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3374
3375				Exceptions:
3376					       This does not have any effect on
3377					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3378					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3379
3380			auto (default)
3381				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3382				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3383				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3384				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3385				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3386				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3387
3388			auto,nosmt
3389				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3390				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3391				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3392				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3393					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3394					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3395					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3396					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3397
3398	mminit_loglevel=
3399			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3400			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3401			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3402			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3403			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3404			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3405
3406	mmio_stale_data=
3407			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3408			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3409
3410			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3411			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3412			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3413			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3414			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3415			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3416
3417			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3418			options are:
3419
3420			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3421
3422			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3423				     vulnerable CPUs.
3424
3425			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3426
3427			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3428			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3429			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3430			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3431			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3432			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3433
3434			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3435			mmio_stale_data=full.
3436
3437			For details see:
3438			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3439
3440	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3441			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3442			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3443			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3444			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3445			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3446
3447	module.async_probe=<bool>
3448			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3449			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3450			specific module, use the module specific control that
3451			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3452			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3453			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3454			the specific module.
3455
3456	module.enable_dups_trace
3457			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3458			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3459			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3460			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3461			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3462	module.sig_enforce
3463			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3464			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3465			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3466			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3467
3468	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3469			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3470
3471	mousedev.tap_time=
3472			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3473			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3474			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3475			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3476			Format: <msecs>
3477	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3478			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3479	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3480			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3481
3482	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3483			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3484			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3485			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3486			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3487			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3488			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3489			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3490			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3491			is not too small.
3492
3493	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3494			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3495			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3496			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3497			allocations. Use with caution!
3498
3499	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3500			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3501
3502	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3503			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3504
3505	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3506			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3507
3508	mtdset=		[ARM]
3509			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3510
3511			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3512
3513	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3514			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3515			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3516
3517	mtrr=debug	[X86]
3518			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3519			registers at boot time.
3520
3521	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3522			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3523			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3524
3525	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3526			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3527			Default is 1.
3528			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3529			using up MTRRs.
3530
3531	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3532			Format: <integer>
3533			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3534			Default : 1
3535			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3536			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3537
3538	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3539			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3540			at a time.
3541
3542	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3543
3544	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3545			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3546			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3547			something different and driver-specific.
3548			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3549			file if at all.
3550
3551	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3552			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3553			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3554			waits 4 seconds.
3555
3556	nf_conntrack.acct=
3557			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3558			0 to disable accounting
3559			1 to enable accounting
3560			Default value is 0.
3561
3562	nfs.cache_getent=
3563			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3564			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3565
3566	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3567			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3568			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3569
3570	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3571			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3572			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3573			requests.
3574
3575	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3576			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3577			channel should listen.
3578
3579	nfs.enable_ino64=
3580			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3581			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3582			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3583			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3584			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3585
3586	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3587			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3588			entries.
3589
3590	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3591			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3592			slots the client will assign to the callback
3593			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3594			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3595			a particular server.
3596
3597	nfs.max_session_slots=
3598			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3599			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3600			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3601			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3602			Note that there is little point in setting this
3603			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3604
3605	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3606			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3607			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3608			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3609			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3610			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3611			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3612			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3613			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3614			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3615			back to using the idmapper.
3616			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3617
3618	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3619			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3620			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3621			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3622			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3623
3624	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3625			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3626			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3627			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3628			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3629			after the locks are lost.
3630			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3631			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3632			parameter to '1'.
3633			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3634			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3635
3636	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3637			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3638			information in exchange_id requests.
3639			If zero, no implementation identification information
3640			will be sent.
3641			The default is to send the implementation identification
3642			information.
3643
3644	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3645			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3646			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3647
3648			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3649			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3650			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3651			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3652
3653	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3654			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3655			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3656			the destination of the copy.
3657
3658	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3659			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3660			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3661			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3662			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3663			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3664
3665	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3666			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3667			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3668			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3669			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3670			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3671			this parameter.
3672
3673	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3674			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3675
3676	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3677			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3678
3679	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3680			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3681
3682	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3683			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3684			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3685
3686	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3687			when a NMI is triggered.
3688			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3689
3690	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3691			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3692			Valid num: 0 or 1
3693			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3694			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3695			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3696			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3697			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3698			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3699			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3700			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3701			need the box quickly up again.
3702
3703			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3704			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3705
3706	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3707			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3708			is present.
3709
3710	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3711			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3712
3713	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3714			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3715
3716	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3717			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3718			but will impact performance.
3719
3720	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3721
3722	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3723			(CPU alternatives feature).
3724
3725	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3726			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3727
3728	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3729
3730	nocache		[ARM]
3731
3732	no_console_suspend
3733			[HW] Never suspend the console
3734			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3735			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3736			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3737			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3738			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3739			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3740			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3741			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3742			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3743			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3744			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3745			turn on/off it dynamically.
3746
3747	no_debug_objects
3748			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3749
3750	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3751
3752	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3753
3754	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3755
3756	noexec		[IA-64]
3757
3758	noexec32	[X86-64]
3759			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3760			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3761				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3762			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3763				read implies executable mappings
3764
3765	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3766			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3767			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3768
3769	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3770
3771	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3772
3773	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3774			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3775			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3776
3777	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3778			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3779			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3780			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3781			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3782			real-time systems.
3783
3784	no_hash_pointers
3785			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3786			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3787			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3788			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3789			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3790			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3791			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3792			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3793			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3794			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3795			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3796			kernels.
3797
3798	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3799
3800	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3801			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3802			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3803			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3804			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3805			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3806			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3807			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3808
3809	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3810
3811	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3812
3813	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3814			Valid arguments: on, off
3815			Default: on
3816
3817	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3818			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3819			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3820			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3821			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3822			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3823			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3824			just as if they had also been called out in the
3825			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3826
3827			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3828			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3829
3830	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3831			initial RAM disk.
3832
3833	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3834			remapping.
3835			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3836
3837	nointroute	[IA-64]
3838
3839	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3840
3841	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3842
3843	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3844			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3845
3846	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3847
3848	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3849
3850	nokaslr		[KNL]
3851			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3852			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3853			Layout Randomization).
3854
3855	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3856			fault handling.
3857
3858	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3859
3860	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3861
3862	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3863
3864	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3865
3866	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3867
3868	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3869			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3870
3871	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3872			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3873			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3874			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3875			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3876			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3877			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3878
3879			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3880
3881	nomodule	Disable module load
3882
3883	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3884			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3885			irq.
3886
3887	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3888			pagetables) support.
3889
3890	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3891
3892	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3893			in some Intel CPUs.
3894
3895	nopti		[X86-64]
3896			Equivalent to pti=off
3897
3898	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3899			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3900			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3901			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3902
3903	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3904			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3905			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3906			contention.
3907
3908	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3909			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3910
3911	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3912			with UP alternatives
3913
3914	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3915			space.
3916
3917	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3918
3919	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3920			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3921			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3922
3923	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3924
3925	nosmap		[PPC]
3926			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3927			even if it is supported by processor.
3928
3929	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3930			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3931			even if it is supported by processor.
3932
3933	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3934			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3935
3936	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3937			Equivalent to smt=1.
3938
3939			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3940			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3941				     via the sysfs control file.
3942
3943	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3944
3945	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3946			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3947
3948	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3949			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3950			with this option.
3951
3952	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3953			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3954			possible in the system.
3955
3956	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3957			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3958			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3959			option.
3960
3961	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3962			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3963			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3964
3965	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3966
3967	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3968			broken timer IRQ sources.
3969
3970	no_uaccess_flush
3971	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3972
3973	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3974			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3975			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3976			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3977			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3978			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3979			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3980			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3981			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3982			is set.
3983
3984	no-vmw-sched-clock
3985			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3986			clock and use the default one.
3987
3988	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3989			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3990
3991	nowb		[ARM]
3992
3993	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3994
3995			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3996			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3997			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3998
3999	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4000			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4001			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4002
4003	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4004			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4005			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4006			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4007			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4008			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4009
4010	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4011			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4012			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4013			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4014			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4015			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4016			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4017
4018	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
4019			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
4020			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
4021			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
4022			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
4023			parameter's value.
4024			Format: integer between 1 and 255
4025			Default: 255
4026
4027	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4028			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4029			SAL PALO.
4030
4031	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
4032			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4033			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4034			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4035			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4036			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4037			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4038			hot plugging.
4039
4040	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4041
4042	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
4043			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
4044
4045	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4046			NUMA balancing.
4047			Allowed values are enable and disable
4048
4049	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4050			'node', 'default' can be specified
4051			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4052			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4053
4054	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4055			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4056			info.
4057
4058	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4059			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4060			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4061			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4062			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4063			interrupts *may* be lost!
4064
4065	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4066			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4067			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4068			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4069
4070	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4071
4072			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4073
4074			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4075				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4076			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4077				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4078				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4079
4080	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4081			process, but there is a small probability of
4082			deadlocking the machine.
4083			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4084			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4085
4086	page_alloc.shuffle=
4087			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4088			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
4089			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
4090			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
4091			cache, and this parameter can be used to
4092			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
4093			can be read from sysfs at:
4094			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4095
4096	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4097			Storage of the information about who allocated
4098			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4099			we can turn it on.
4100			on: enable the feature
4101
4102	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4103			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4104			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4105			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4106			on: turn on poisoning
4107
4108	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4109			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4110			Format: <integer>
4111			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4112			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER.
4113
4114	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4115			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4116			timeout = 0: wait forever
4117			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4118			Format: <timeout>
4119
4120	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4121			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4122			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4123			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4124			called with any of the flags in this set.
4125			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4126			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4127			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4128			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4129			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4130			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4131			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4132
4133	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4134			on a WARN().
4135
4136	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4137			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4138			bit 0: print all tasks info
4139			bit 1: print system memory info
4140			bit 2: print timer info
4141			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4142			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4143			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4144			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4145			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4146			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4147			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4148			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4149
4150	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4151			connected to, default is 0.
4152			Format: <parport#>
4153	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4154			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4155			Format: <mode>
4156
4157	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4158			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4159			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4160			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4161			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4162			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4163			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4164			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4165			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4166			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4167			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4168			are specified on the command line, starting
4169			with parport0.
4170
4171	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4172			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4173			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4174			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4175			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4176			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4177			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4178
4179	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4180			Format: <int>
4181			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4182			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4183			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4184
4185	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4186			Format: <int>
4187			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4188			changes.  Disabled by default.
4189
4190	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4191			Format: <int>
4192			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4193			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4194			Disabled by default.
4195
4196	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4197			Format: <int>
4198			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4199			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4200			Disabled by default.
4201
4202	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4203			Format: <int>
4204			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4205			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4206			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4207			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4208			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4209			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4210			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4211			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4212			all channels.
4213
4214	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4215			Format: <int>
4216			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4217			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4218			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4219
4220	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4221			Format: <int>
4222			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4223			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4224			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4225
4226	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4227			Format: <int>
4228			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4229			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4230			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4231			All modes allowed by default.
4232
4233	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4234			Format: <int>
4235			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4236			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4237
4238	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4239			Format: <int>
4240			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4241			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4242			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4243			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4244			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4245			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4246			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4247			By default all supported ports are probed.
4248
4249	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4250			Format: <int>
4251			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4252			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4253
4254	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4255			Format: <int>
4256			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4257			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4258			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4259			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4260			0 otherwise.
4261
4262	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4263			Format: <int>
4264			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4265			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4266			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4267			allowed by default.
4268
4269	pause_on_oops=<int>
4270			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4271			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4272			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4273
4274	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4275
4276	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4277
4278				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4279				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4280				specified in one of the following formats:
4281
4282				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4283				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4284
4285				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4286				bus/device/function address which may change
4287				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4288				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4289				by other kernel parameters. If the
4290				domain is left unspecified, it is
4291				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4292				to a device through multiple device/function
4293				addresses can be specified after the base
4294				address (this is more robust against
4295				renumbering issues).  The second format
4296				selects devices using IDs from the
4297				configuration space which may match multiple
4298				devices in the system.
4299
4300		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4301				changes anything
4302		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4303		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4304				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4305				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4306		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4307				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4308				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4309				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4310		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4311				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4312				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4313		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4314				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4315				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4316				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4317				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4318				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4319				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4320		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4321				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4322				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4323		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4324				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4325		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4326				Configuration
4327		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4328				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4329				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4330		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4331				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4332				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4333		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4334				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4335				should never be necessary.
4336		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4337				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4338				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4339				when the system masks IRQs.
4340		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4341				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4342				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4343				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4344		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4345				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4346				on several machines and they hang the machine
4347				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4348				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4349				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4350				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4351				motherboard.
4352		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4353				Use with caution as certain devices share
4354				address decoders between ROMs and other
4355				resources.
4356		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4357				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4358				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4359		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4360				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4361		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4362				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4363				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4364				this way.
4365		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4366				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4367				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4368				F0000h-100000h range.
4369		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4370				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4371				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4372				explicitly which ones they are.
4373		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4374				numbers ourselves, overriding
4375				whatever the firmware may have done.
4376		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4377				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4378				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4379				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4380				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4381				IRQ routing is enabled.
4382		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4383				or for PCI scanning.
4384		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4385				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4386				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4387				please report a bug.
4388		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4389				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4390		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4391				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4392				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4393				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4394				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4395		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4396				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4397				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4398				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4399		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4400				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4401				so this option is a temporary workaround
4402				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4403		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4404				handle more pci cards
4405		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4406				This might help on some broken boards which
4407				machine check when some devices' config space
4408				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4409				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4410		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4411				This sorting is done to get a device
4412				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4413		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4414		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4415				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4416		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4417				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4418		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4419				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4420				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4421				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4422				or bus can support) for best performance.
4423		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4424				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4425				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4426				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4427				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4428				that hot-added devices will work.
4429		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4430				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4431				The default value is 256 bytes.
4432		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4433				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4434				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4435		resource_alignment=
4436				Format:
4437				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4438				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4439				aligned memory resources. How to
4440				specify the device is described above.
4441				If <order of align> is not specified,
4442				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4443				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4444				windows need to be expanded.
4445				To specify the alignment for several
4446				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4447				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4448				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4449				for 4096-byte alignment.
4450		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4451				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4452				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4453				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4454				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4455				the default.
4456				off: Turn ECRC off
4457				on: Turn ECRC on.
4458		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4459				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4460				Default size is 256 bytes.
4461		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4462				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4463				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4464		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4465				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4466				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4467		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4468				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4469				MMIO_PREF window.
4470				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4471		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4472				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4473				Default is 1.
4474		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4475				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4476				accommodate resources required by all child
4477				devices.
4478				off: Turn realloc off
4479				on: Turn realloc on
4480		realloc		same as realloc=on
4481		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4482		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4483				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4484		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4485				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4486				port.
4487		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4488				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4489				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4490				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4491				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4492				taints the kernel.
4493		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4494				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4495				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4496				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4497				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4498				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4499				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4500				this removes isolation between devices and
4501				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4502		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4503		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4504		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4505				one PCI domain per PCI function
4506
4507	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4508			Management.
4509		off	Disable ASPM.
4510		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4511			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4512
4513	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4514		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4515			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4516			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4517			also tries to use these services.
4518		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4519				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4520		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4521			hotplug).
4522
4523	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4524		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4525		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4526
4527	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4528		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4529			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4530
4531	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4532
4533	pd_ignore_unused
4534			[PM]
4535			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4536			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4537			for debug and development, but should not be
4538			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4539
4540	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4541			boot time.
4542			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4543			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4544
4545	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4546			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4547			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4548			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4549			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4550			and performance comparison.
4551
4552	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4553			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4554
4555	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4556			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4557			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4558
4559	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4560			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4561			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4562
4563	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4564			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4565			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4566			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4567			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4568			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4569			remains 0.
4570
4571	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4572			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4573
4574	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4575			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4576			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4577			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4578			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4579			possible settings and some assignment information.
4580
4581	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4582			{ off }
4583
4584	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4585			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4586
4587	pnp_reserve_irq=
4588			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4589
4590	pnp_reserve_dma=
4591			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4592
4593	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4594			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4595
4596	pnp_reserve_mem=
4597			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4598			autoconfiguration.
4599			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4600
4601	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4602			Default is 21.
4603			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4604			may be specified.
4605			Format: <port>,<port>....
4606
4607	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4608			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4609			platform machine description specific power_save
4610			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4611			execution priority.
4612
4613	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4614			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4615			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4616			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4617			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4618
4619	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4620			Format: {"off"}
4621			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4622
4623	preempt=	[KNL]
4624			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4625			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4626			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4627			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4628			       can be preempted anytime.
4629
4630	print-fatal-signals=
4631			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4632
4633			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4634			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4635			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4636			coredump - etc.
4637
4638			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4639			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4640
4641			default: off.
4642
4643	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4644			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4645			panics
4646			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4647			default: disabled
4648
4649	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4650			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4651			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4652			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4653			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4654			in order to provide more debug information.
4655			Format: <bool>
4656			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4657
4658	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4659			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4660			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4661			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4662			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4663			Default: ratelimit
4664
4665	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4666			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4667
4668	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
4669			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
4670			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
4671			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
4672			restrict that. Can be one of:
4673			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
4674			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
4675			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
4676			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
4677
4678	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4679			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4680			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4681
4682	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4683			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4684			instead using the legacy FADT method
4685
4686	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4687			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4688			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
4689				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4690			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4691			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4692			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4693				statistical time based profiling.
4694
4695	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4696
4697	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4698			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4699			that).
4700			Format: <bool>
4701
4702	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4703			tracking.
4704			Format: <bool>
4705
4706	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4707			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4708	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4709			per second.
4710	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4711			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4712			(0 = never).
4713	psmouse.resolution=
4714			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4715	psmouse.smartscroll=
4716			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4717			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4718
4719	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4720
4721	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4722			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4723			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4724			system calls and interrupts.
4725
4726			on   - unconditionally enable
4727			off  - unconditionally disable
4728			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4729			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4730
4731			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4732
4733	pty.legacy_count=
4734			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4735			default number.
4736
4737	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4738
4739	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4740
4741	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4742			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4743			invalidate.
4744
4745	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4746			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4747
4748	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4749			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4750
4751	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4752
4753	random.trust_cpu=off
4754			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4755			random number generator (if available) to
4756			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4757
4758	random.trust_bootloader=off
4759			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4760			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4761			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4762
4763	randomize_kstack_offset=
4764			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4765			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4766			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4767			that depend on stack address determinism or
4768			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4769			available on architectures that have defined
4770			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4771			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4772			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4773
4774	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4775
4776		cec_disable	[X86]
4777				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4778				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4779
4780	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4781			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4782			as described above.
4783
4784			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4785			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4786			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4787			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4788			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4789			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4790			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4791			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4792			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4793			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4794			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4795			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4796
4797			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4798			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4799
4800			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4801			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4802			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4803			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4804
4805			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4806			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4807
4808	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4809			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4810			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4811			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4812			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4813			This improves the real-time response for the
4814			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4815			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4816			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4817			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4818
4819	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4820			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4821			process in one batch.
4822
4823	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4824			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4825			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4826			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4827
4828	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4829			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4830			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4831
4832	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4833			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4834			RCU grace-period initialization.
4835
4836	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4837			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4838			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4839			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4840			the rcu_node combining tree.
4841
4842	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4843			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4844			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4845			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4846			and maximum value is HZ.
4847
4848	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4849			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4850			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4851			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4852
4853	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4854			Set required age in jiffies for a
4855			given grace period before RCU starts
4856			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4857			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4858			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4859			a value based on the most recent settings
4860			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4861			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4862			This calculated value may be viewed in
4863			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4864			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4865			overwritten.
4866
4867	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4868			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4869			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4870			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4871			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4872			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4873			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4874			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4875			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4876			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4877			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4878			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4879
4880	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4881			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4882			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4883			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4884			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4885			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4886			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4887			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4888			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4889			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4890			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4891			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4892
4893	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4894			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4895			batch limiting is disabled.
4896
4897	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4898			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4899			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4900
4901	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4902			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4903			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4904			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4905			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4906			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4907			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4908			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4909
4910	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4911			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4912			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4913			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4914
4915	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4916			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4917			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4918			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4919			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4920			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4921			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4922			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4923
4924			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4925			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4926			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4927			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4928			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4929
4930	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4931			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4932			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4933			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4934			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4935
4936	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4937			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4938			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4939			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4940			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4941			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4942			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4943
4944	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4945			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4946			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4947			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4948			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4949			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4950			condition.
4951
4952	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4953			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4954			each group, which defaults to the square root
4955			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4956			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4957			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4958			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4959
4960	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4961			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4962			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4963			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4964			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4965			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4966
4967	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
4968			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
4969			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
4970			By default, this limit is checked only once
4971			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
4972			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
4973
4974	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4975			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4976			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4977			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4978			Larger delays increase the probability of
4979			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4980			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4981			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4982
4983	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4984			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4985			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4986			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4987
4988	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4989			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4990			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4991			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4992			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4993
4994			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4995			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4996			to zero.
4997
4998	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4999			Measure performance of asynchronous
5000			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5001
5002	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5003			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5004			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5005			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5006			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5007			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5008
5009	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5010			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5011			grace-period primitives.
5012
5013	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5014			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5015			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5016			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5017			interference.
5018
5019	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5020			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5021			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5022
5023	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5024			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5025			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5026			Defaults to 1.
5027
5028	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5029			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5030
5031	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5032			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5033			If this parameter has the same value as
5034			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5035			and double-argument variants are tested.
5036
5037	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5038			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5039			If this parameter has the same value as
5040			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5041			and double-argument variants are tested.
5042
5043	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5044			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5045
5046	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5047			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5048
5049	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5050			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5051			of allocations and frees.
5052
5053	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5054			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5055			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5056			but instead allows better measurement of things
5057			like CPU consumption.
5058
5059	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5060			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5061			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5062			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5063			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5064			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5065			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5066			a single reader.
5067
5068	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5069			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5070			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5071			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5072
5073	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5074			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5075
5076	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5077			Shut the system down after performance tests
5078			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5079			testing.
5080
5081	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5082			Enable additional printk() statements.
5083
5084	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5085			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5086			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5087			no holdoff.
5088
5089	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5090			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5091			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5092			says no holdoff.
5093
5094	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5095			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5096			in microseconds.
5097
5098	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5099			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5100			in microseconds.
5101
5102	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5103			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5104			in seconds.
5105
5106	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5107			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5108			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5109			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5110			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5111			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5112			of CPUs to be used.
5113
5114	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5115			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5116			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5117
5118	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5119			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5120			forward-progress tests.
5121
5122	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5123			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5124			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5125			testing.
5126
5127	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5128			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5129			primitives, if available.
5130
5131	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5132			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5133
5134	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5135			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5136			update-side primitives, if available.
5137
5138	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5139			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5140			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5141			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5142			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5143			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5144			they are all non-zero.
5145
5146	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5147			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5148			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5149			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5150
5151	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5152			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5153			This can of course result in splats, and is
5154			intended to test the ability of things like
5155			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5156			such leaks.
5157
5158	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5159			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5160
5161	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5162			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5163			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5164			test, hence the "fake".
5165
5166	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5167			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5168			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5169
5170	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5171			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5172			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5173
5174	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5175			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5176			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5177			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5178			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5179			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5180
5181	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5182			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5183
5184	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5185			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5186
5187	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5188			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5189			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5190
5191	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5192			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5193			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5194			task-exit processing.
5195
5196	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5197			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5198			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5199			is spawned.
5200
5201	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5202			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5203			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5204
5205	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5206			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5207			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5208			during the rcutorture test.
5209
5210	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5211			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5212			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5213
5214	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5215			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5216			warnings, zero to disable.
5217
5218	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5219			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5220			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5221			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5222			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5223			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5224			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5225			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5226			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5227			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5228
5229			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5230
5231
5232	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5233			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5234
5235	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5236			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5237
5238	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5239			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5240			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5241			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5242			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5243			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5244
5245	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5246			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5247
5248	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5249			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5250			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5251			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5252			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5253
5254	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5255			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5256			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5257			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5258
5259	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5260			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5261
5262	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5263			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5264
5265	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5266			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5267			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5268
5269	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5270			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5271
5272	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5273			Enable additional printk() statements.
5274
5275	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5276			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5277			stall warning.
5278
5279	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5280			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5281
5282	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5283			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5284			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5285			during early boot, that is, during the time
5286			before the init task is spawned.
5287
5288	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5289			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5290			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5291			value is 300 seconds.
5292
5293	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5294			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5295			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5296			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5297			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5298			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5299			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5300			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5301			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5302
5303	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5304			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5305			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5306			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5307			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5308
5309	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5310			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5311			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5312			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5313
5314	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5315			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5316			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5317			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5318			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5319			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5320			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5321
5322	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5323			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5324			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5325			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5326			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5327			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5328			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5329			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5330			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5331
5332	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5333			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5334			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5335			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5336			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5337
5338			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5339			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5340			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5341			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5342			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5343			grace-period processing.
5344
5345	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5346			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5347			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5348			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5349			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5350			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5351			set to the default value of -1.
5352
5353	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5354			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5355			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5356			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5357			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5358			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5359			the default value of -1.
5360
5361	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5362			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5363			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5364			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5365			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5366			for use in testing.
5367
5368	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5369			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5370			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5371			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5372			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5373			but lengthens grace periods.
5374
5375	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5376			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5377			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5378			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5379			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5380			callback flooding.
5381
5382	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5383			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5384			informational messages, which give some indication
5385			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5386			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5387			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5388			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5389			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5390			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5391			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5392
5393	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5394			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5395			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5396			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5397			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5398			the value three, so that the first informational
5399			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5400			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5401			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5402			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5403
5404	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5405			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5406			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5407			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5408			A change in value does not take effect until
5409			the beginning of the next grace period.
5410
5411	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5412			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5413			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5414			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5415			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5416			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5417
5418	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5419			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5420			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5421			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5422			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5423			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5424			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5425
5426	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5427			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5428			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5429			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5430			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5431			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5432			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5433
5434	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5435			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5436
5437	rdinit=		[KNL]
5438			Format: <full_path>
5439			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5440			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5441
5442	rdrand=		[X86]
5443			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5444				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5445				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5446				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5447				path).
5448
5449	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5450			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5451			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5452			mba, smba, bmec.
5453			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5454				rdt=cmt,!mba
5455
5456	reboot=		[KNL]
5457			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5458				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5459				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5460				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5461				[[,]f[orce]
5462			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5463					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5464					reboot only),
5465			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5466			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5467			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5468					to be used for rebooting.
5469
5470	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5471			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5472			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5473			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5474			interference.
5475
5476	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5477			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5478			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5479			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5480			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5481			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5482			x86 laptops.
5483
5484	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5485			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5486			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5487			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5488
5489	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5490			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5491			the console log.
5492
5493	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5494			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5495			measured in microseconds.
5496
5497	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5498			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5499
5500	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5501			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5502			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5503			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5504			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5505
5506	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5507			Enable additional printk() statements.
5508
5509	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5510			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5511			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5512			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5513			specified.
5514
5515	relax_domain_level=
5516			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5517			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5518
5519	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5520			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5521			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5522			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5523			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5524
5525	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5526			Format: nn[KMG]
5527			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5528			address space.
5529
5530	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5531			during initialization.
5532
5533	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5534			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5535			Format:
5536			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5537
5538	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5539			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5540			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5541			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5542			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5543
5544	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5545			read the resume files
5546
5547	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5548			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5549			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5550
5551	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5552
5553	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5554			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5555			vulnerability.
5556
5557			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5558			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5559			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5560			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5561			that don't.
5562
5563			off          - no mitigation
5564			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5565			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5566				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5567				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5568				       and older without STIBP).
5569			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5570				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5571				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5572				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5573				       on Intel.
5574			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5575				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5576				       the alternative for systems which do not
5577				       have STIBP.
5578			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5579				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5580				       systems.
5581			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5582				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5583				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5584
5585			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5586			time according to the CPU.
5587
5588			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5589
5590	rfkill.default_state=
5591		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5592			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5593		1	Unblocked.
5594
5595	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5596		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5597		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5598			blocked and the previous configuration.
5599		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5600			blocked and everything unblocked.
5601
5602	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5603			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5604
5605	ring3mwait=disable
5606			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5607			CPUs.
5608
5609	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV]
5610			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5611			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5612			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5613			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5614			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5615
5616	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5617
5618	rodata=		[KNL]
5619		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5620		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5621		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5622		        [arm64]
5623
5624	rockchip.usb_uart
5625			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5626			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5627			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5628			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5629
5630	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5631			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5632			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5633			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5634			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5635			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5636			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5637
5638	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5639			mount the root filesystem
5640
5641	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5642
5643	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5644
5645	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5646			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5647			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5648
5649	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5650			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5651			filesystem.
5652
5653	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5654			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5655			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5656			managed by CMA.
5657
5658	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5659
5660	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5661
5662	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5663			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5664		strict
5665			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5666			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5667			which is faster.
5668
5669	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5670			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5671			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5672			factor of the size of main memory.
5673			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5674			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5675			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5676			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5677			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5678			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5679			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5680
5681	sa1100ir	[NET]
5682			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5683
5684	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5685
5686	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5687			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5688			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5689			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5690
5691	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5692			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5693			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5694			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5695			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5696			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5697			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5698			value.
5699			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5700			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5701				1			64 ms
5702				2			128 ms
5703			and so on.
5704			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5705			Default is 0.
5706
5707	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5708			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5709			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5710			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5711			tests.
5712
5713	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5714			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5715			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5716			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5717			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5718			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5719			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5720
5721	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5722			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5723			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5724			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5725			equal to the number of CPUs.
5726
5727	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5728			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5729			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5730
5731	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5732			Number seconds to wait between successive
5733			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5734			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5735
5736	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5737			The number of seconds following the start of the
5738			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5739			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5740			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5741
5742	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5743			The number of seconds between outputting the
5744			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5745			of zero disables statistics output.
5746
5747	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5748			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5749			to the set of CPUs under test.
5750
5751	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5752			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5753			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5754			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5755			functions.
5756
5757	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5758			Enable additional printk() statements.
5759
5760	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5761			The probability weighting to use for the
5762			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5763			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5764			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5765			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5766			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5767
5768	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5769			The probability weighting to use for the
5770			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5771			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5772
5773	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5774			The probability weighting to use for the
5775			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5776			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5777			Note well that setting a high probability for
5778			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5779			on the system.
5780
5781	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5782			The probability weighting to use for the
5783			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5784			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5785			and weight_many.
5786
5787	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5788			The probability weighting to use for the
5789			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5790			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5791			weight_many.
5792
5793	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5794			The probability weighting to use for the
5795			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5796			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5797			and weight_many.
5798
5799	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5800			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5801			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5802			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5803			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5804			1 -- enable.
5805			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5806			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5807
5808	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5809			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5810			"lsm=" parameter.
5811
5812	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5813			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5814			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5815			0 -- disable.
5816			1 -- enable.
5817			Default value is 1.
5818
5819	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5820
5821	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5822
5823	shapers=	[NET]
5824			Maximal number of shapers.
5825
5826	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5827			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5828			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5829			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5830			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5831			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5832			apic=verbose is specified.
5833			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5834
5835	simeth=		[IA-64]
5836	simscsi=
5837
5838	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5839
5840	slab_merge	[MM]
5841			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5842			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5843
5844	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5845			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5846			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5847			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5848			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5849			layout control by attackers can usually be
5850			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5851			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5852			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5853			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5854			own.
5855			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5856
5857	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5858			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5859			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5860			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5861			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5862
5863	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5864			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5865			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5866			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5867			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5868			last alloc / free. For more information see
5869			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5870
5871	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5872			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5873			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5874			fragmentation. For more information see
5875			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5876
5877	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5878			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5879			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5880			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5881			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5882			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5883			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5884			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5885
5886	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5887			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5888			lower than slub_max_order.
5889			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5890
5891	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5892			Same with slab_merge.
5893
5894	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5895			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5896			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5897
5898	smart2=		[HW]
5899			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5900
5901	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5902			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5903			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5904			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5905			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5906			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5907			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5908			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5909			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5910			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5911
5912	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
5913			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
5914			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
5915			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
5916			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
5917			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
5918
5919	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5920	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5921	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5922	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5923	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5924	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5925	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5926				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5927				1: Fast pin select (default)
5928				2: ATC IRMode
5929
5930	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5931			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5932			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5933			actual hardware limit.
5934			Format: <integer>
5935			Default: -1 (no limit)
5936
5937	softlockup_panic=
5938			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5939			Format: 0 | 1
5940
5941			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5942			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5943			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5944			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5945			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5946
5947	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5948			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5949			backtraces on all cpus.
5950			Format: 0 | 1
5951
5952	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5953			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5954
5955	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
5956			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
5957			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
5958			clearing sequence.
5959
5960			on   - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation
5961			       as needed.
5962			off  - Disable the mitigation.
5963
5964	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5965			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5966			The default operation protects the kernel from
5967			user space attacks.
5968
5969			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5970			       spectre_v2_user=on
5971			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5972			       spectre_v2_user=off
5973			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5974			       vulnerable
5975
5976			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5977			mitigation method at run time according to the
5978			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5979			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5980			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5981
5982			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5983			against user space to user space task attacks.
5984			Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
5985			user mitigations.
5986
5987			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5988			the user space protections.
5989
5990			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5991
5992			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5993			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5994			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5995			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5996			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5997			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5998			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5999			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6000
6001			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6002			spectre_v2=auto.
6003
6004	spectre_v2_user=
6005			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6006		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6007		        user space tasks
6008
6009			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6010				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6011
6012			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6013				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6014
6015			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6016				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6017				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6018				  is inherited on fork.
6019
6020			prctl,ibpb
6021				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6022				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6023				  always when switching between different user
6024				  space processes.
6025
6026			seccomp
6027				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6028				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6029				  they explicitly opt out.
6030
6031			seccomp,ibpb
6032				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6033				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6034				  always when switching between different
6035				  user space processes.
6036
6037			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6038				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6039
6040			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6041
6042			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6043			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6044
6045	spec_rstack_overflow=
6046			[X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6047
6048			off		- Disable mitigation
6049			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6050			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6051			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6052					  kernel entry
6053			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6054					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6055
6056	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6057			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6058			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6059
6060			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6061			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6062			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6063			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6064			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6065			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6066			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6067			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6068
6069			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6070			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6071			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6072			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6073
6074			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6075			Bypass optimization is used.
6076
6077			On x86 the options are:
6078
6079			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6080			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6081			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6082				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6083				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6084				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6085				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6086				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6087			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6088				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6089				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6090				  is inherited on fork.
6091			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6092				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6093
6094			Default mitigations:
6095			X86:	"prctl"
6096
6097			On powerpc the options are:
6098
6099			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6100				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6101				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6102				  exit.
6103			off	- No action.
6104
6105			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6106			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6107
6108	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6109	spia_fio_base=
6110	spia_pedr=
6111	spia_peddr=
6112
6113	split_lock_detect=
6114			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6115
6116			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6117			instructions that access data across cache line
6118			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6119			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6120			bus lock detection.
6121
6122			off	- not enabled
6123
6124			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6125				  about applications triggering the #AC
6126				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6127				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6128				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6129				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6130				  enabled in hardware.
6131
6132			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6133				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6134				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6135				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6136
6137			ratelimit:N -
6138				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6139				  per second for bus lock detection.
6140				  0 < N <= 1000.
6141
6142				  N/A for split lock detection.
6143
6144
6145			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6146			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6147			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6148			mode.
6149
6150			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6151			CPL > 0.
6152
6153	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
6154			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6155			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6156
6157			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6158			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6159			number generator.
6160
6161			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6162			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6163			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6164			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6165			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6166
6167			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6168			the following option:
6169
6170			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6171				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6172
6173	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6174			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6175			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6176			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6177			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6178			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6179			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6180			(decide at boot).
6181
6182	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6183			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6184			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6185			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6186
6187				   0:  Never.
6188				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6189				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6190				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6191				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6192
6193			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6194			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6195			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6196
6197	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6198			Specifies how frequently to check for
6199			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6200			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6201			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6202			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6203			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6204			are ignored.
6205
6206	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6207			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6208			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6209			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6210			grace period will be considered for automatic
6211			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6212			expediting.
6213
6214	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6215			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6216			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6217			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6218			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6219			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6220
6221	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6222			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6223			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6224			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6225			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6226			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6227
6228	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6229			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6230			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6231
6232	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6233			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6234			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6235			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6236			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6237			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6238			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6239
6240	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
6241			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6242
6243			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6244			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6245			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6246			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6247
6248			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6249				   for both kernel and userspace
6250			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6251				   for both kernel and userspace
6252			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6253				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6254				   to allow userspace to register its
6255				   interest in being mitigated too.
6256
6257	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6258			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6259			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6260			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6261			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6262			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6263
6264	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6265			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6266			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6267			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6268			to false.
6269
6270	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6271			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6272
6273	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6274			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6275			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6276			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6277			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6278			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6279			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6280
6281	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6282			Format: <num>
6283			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6284			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6285			as the initial boot-console.
6286			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6287
6288	sti_font=	[HW]
6289			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6290
6291	stifb=		[HW]
6292			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6293
6294        strict_sas_size=
6295			[X86]
6296			Format: <bool>
6297			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6298			against the required signal frame size which
6299			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6300			be used to filter out binaries which have
6301			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6302
6303	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6304			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6305			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6306			faults on kernel addresses.
6307
6308	stress_slb	[PPC]
6309			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6310			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6311			on kernel addresses.
6312
6313	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6314	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6315			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6316			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6317			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6318			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6319			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6320			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6321			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6322			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6323			maximum port values.
6324
6325	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6326			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6327			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6328			process in parallel from a single connection.
6329			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6330
6331	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6332			[NFS]
6333			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6334			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6335			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6336			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6337			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6338			NFS server is running.
6339
6340			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6341				    automatically using heuristics
6342			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6343			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6344			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6345				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6346
6347	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6348	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6349			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6350			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6351			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6352			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6353			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6354			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6355
6356	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6357			[SUSPEND]
6358			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6359			mode before resuming the system (see
6360			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6361			is set. Default value is 5.
6362
6363	svm=		[PPC]
6364			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6365			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6366			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6367
6368	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6369			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6370			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6371			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6372				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6373				 to a power of 2.
6374			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6375			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6376			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6377
6378	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6379
6380	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6381			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6382			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6383			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6384			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6385			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6386			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6387			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6388
6389	sysrq_always_enabled
6390			[KNL]
6391			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6392			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6393			Useful for debugging.
6394
6395	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6396			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6397			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6398			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6399			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6400			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6401
6402	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6403
6404	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6405			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6406			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6407			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6408			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6409			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6410			The system is woken from this state using a
6411			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6412
6413	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6414			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6415
6416	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6417			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6418			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6419
6420	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6421			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6422			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6423
6424	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6425			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6426
6427	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6428			-1: disable all passive trip points
6429			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6430			value
6431
6432	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6433			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6434			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6435			0: no polling (default)
6436
6437	threadirqs	[KNL]
6438			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6439			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6440
6441	topology=	[S390]
6442			Format: {off | on}
6443			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6444			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6445			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6446			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6447			Default is on.
6448
6449	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6450			Format: {off}
6451			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6452			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6453			LPAR.
6454
6455	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6456			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6457			until after init has spawned.
6458
6459	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6460			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6461			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6462			very costly operation when many torture tests
6463			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6464			with rotating-rust storage.
6465
6466	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6467			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6468			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6469			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6470
6471	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6472			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6473
6474	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6475
6476	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6477			Format: integer pcr id
6478			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6479			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6480			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6481			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6482			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6483			are saved.
6484
6485	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6486			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6487			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6488			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6489			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6490			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6491
6492	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6493			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6494			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6495			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6496			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6497			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6498
6499			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6500			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6501			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6502			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6503
6504			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6505			to stop the printing of events to console at
6506			late_initcall_sync.
6507
6508			** CAUTION **
6509
6510			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6511			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6512			the system to live lock.
6513
6514	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6515			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6516			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6517			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6518			make the system inoperable.
6519
6520			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6521			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6522
6523	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6524			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6525
6526	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6527			at boot up.
6528			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6529				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6530				depending on the architecture, may not be
6531				in sync between CPUs.
6532			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6533				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6534				but better for some race conditions.
6535			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6536				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6537				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6538				once per event.
6539			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6540			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6541			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6542			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6543				stamps.
6544			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6545			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6546			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6547
6548	trace_event=[event-list]
6549			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6550			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6551			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6552			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6553
6554	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6555			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6556			This will be listed in:
6557
6558				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6559
6560			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6561			via:
6562
6563				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6564
6565			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6566			unique.
6567
6568				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6569
6570			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6571			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6572			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6573
6574	trace_options=[option-list]
6575			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6576			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6577			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6578			to echo the option name into
6579
6580			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6581
6582			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6583			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6584
6585			      trace_options=stacktrace
6586
6587			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6588			section.
6589
6590	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6591			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6592			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6593			filter.
6594
6595			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6596			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6597
6598			For example:
6599
6600			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6601
6602			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6603			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6604			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6605
6606			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6607
6608
6609	traceoff_on_warning
6610			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6611			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6612			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6613			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6614
6615			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6616			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6617			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6618
6619			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6620			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6621
6622	transparent_hugepage=
6623			[KNL]
6624			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6625			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6626			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6627			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6628			for more details.
6629
6630	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6631			Format: <string>
6632			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6633			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6634			sources:
6635			- "tpm"
6636			- "tee"
6637			- "caam"
6638			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6639			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6640			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6641			successfully during iteration.
6642
6643	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6644			Format: <string>
6645			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6646			Can be one of:
6647			- "kernel"
6648			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6649			- "default"
6650			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6651			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6652
6653	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6654			Format: <string>
6655			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6656			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6657			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6658			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6659			virtualized environment.
6660			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6661			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6662			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6663			can add overhead.
6664			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6665			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6666			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6667			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6668			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6669			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6670			acceptable).
6671			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6672			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6673			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6674			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6675			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6676			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6677			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6678			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6679			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6680			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6681
6682	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6683			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6684			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6685			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6686			Format: <unsigned int>
6687
6688	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6689			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6690			support TSX control.
6691
6692			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6693
6694			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6695				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6696				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6697				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6698				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6699				with leaving it enabled.
6700
6701			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6702				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6703				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6704				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6705				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6706				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6707				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6708
6709			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6710				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6711
6712			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6713
6714			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6715			for more details.
6716
6717	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6718			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6719
6720			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6721			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6722			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6723			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6724			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6725			conditions.
6726
6727			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6728			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6729			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6730			access.
6731
6732			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6733			options are:
6734
6735			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6736				     if TSX is enabled.
6737
6738			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6739				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6740				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6741				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6742			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6743
6744			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6745			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6746			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6747			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6748
6749			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6750			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6751			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6752			required and doesn't provide any additional
6753			mitigation.
6754
6755			For details see:
6756			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6757
6758	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6759			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6760			Format:
6761			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6762			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6763
6764	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6765			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6766			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6767			help "seeing" what's going on.
6768
6769	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6770			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6771
6772	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6773			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6774			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6775			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6776			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6777			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6778			reported either.
6779
6780	unknown_nmi_panic
6781			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6782
6783	unwind_debug	[X86-64]
6784			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6785			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6786			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6787			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6788
6789	usbcore.authorized_default=
6790			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6791			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6792			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6793			if device connected to internal port)
6794
6795	usbcore.autosuspend=
6796			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6797			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6798			is the time required before an idle device will be
6799			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6800			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6801
6802	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6803			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6804
6805	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6806			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6807			(default = 65536).
6808
6809	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6810			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6811
6812	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6813			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6814			scheme (default 0 = off).
6815
6816	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6817			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6818			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6819
6820	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6821			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6822			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6823
6824	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6825			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6826			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6827			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6828
6829	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6830
6831	usbcore.quirks=
6832			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6833			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6834			commas. Each entry has the form
6835			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6836			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6837			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6838			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6839			the following meanings:
6840				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6841					descriptors must not be fetched using
6842					a 255-byte read);
6843				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6844					correctly so reset it instead);
6845				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6846					Set-Interface requests);
6847				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6848					handle its Configuration or Interface
6849					strings);
6850				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6851					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6852				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6853					more interface descriptions than the
6854					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6855					talking to these interfaces);
6856				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6857					during initialization, after we read
6858					the device descriptor);
6859				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6860					high speed and super speed interrupt
6861					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6862					require the interval in microframes (1
6863					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6864					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6865					(bInterval-1).
6866					Devices with this quirk report their
6867					bInterval as the result of this
6868					calculation instead of the exponent
6869					variable used in the calculation);
6870				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6871					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6872					requests);
6873				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6874					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6875					remote wakeup capability);
6876				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6877					Power Management);
6878				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6879					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6880					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6881					calculation);
6882				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6883					to be disconnected before suspend to
6884					prevent spurious wakeup);
6885				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6886					pause after every control message);
6887				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6888					delay after resetting its port);
6889				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
6890					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
6891					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
6892			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6893
6894	usbhid.mousepoll=
6895			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6896
6897	usbhid.jspoll=
6898			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6899
6900	usbhid.kbpoll=
6901			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6902
6903	usb-storage.delay_use=
6904			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6905			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6906
6907	usb-storage.quirks=
6908			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6909			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6910			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6911			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6912			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6913			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6914			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6915				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6916					of sense data, not on uas);
6917				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6918					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6919				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6920					device capacity by one sector);
6921				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6922					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6923				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6924					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6925				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6926					command, uas only);
6927				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6928					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6929				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6930					reported device capacity by one
6931					sector if the number is odd);
6932				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6933					device);
6934				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6935					command, uas only);
6936				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6937				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6938					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6939				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6940					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6941					not on uas);
6942				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6943					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6944				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6945					reported by the device, not on uas);
6946				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6947					by default, not on uas);
6948				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6949					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6950				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6951					Logical Unit);
6952				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6953					commands, uas only);
6954				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6955				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6956					medium is write-protected).
6957				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6958					even if the device claims no cache,
6959					not on uas)
6960			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6961
6962	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6963			Format: <int>
6964			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6965				 1 - undefined instruction events
6966				 2 - system calls
6967				 4 - invalid data aborts
6968				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6969				16 - SIGBUS faults
6970			Example: user_debug=31
6971
6972	userpte=
6973			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6974
6975				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6976					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6977					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6978
6979	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6980			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6981
6982			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6983			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6984
6985	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6986			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6987			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6988
6989			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6990			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6991			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6992
6993			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6994			alias for vdso32=0.
6995
6996			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6997			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6998
6999	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
7000			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
7001
7002	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
7003			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7004
7005	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7006			Format: [0|1]
7007			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7008			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7009			level and then send out the event to user space through
7010			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7011			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7012			brightness level.
7013			default: 1
7014
7015	virtio_mmio.device=
7016			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7017
7018				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7019			where:
7020				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7021						like K, M and G)
7022				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7023				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7024						request_irq())
7025				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7026			example:
7027				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7028
7029			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7030
7031	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7032			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7033			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7034			Use vga=ask for menu.
7035			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7036			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7037
7038	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7039			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7040			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7041			All options are enabled by default, and this
7042			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7043			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7044			debugging features.
7045
7046			Available options are:
7047			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7048			  -	Disable all of the above options
7049
7050	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
7051			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
7052			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
7053			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
7054			mapped kernel RAM.
7055
7056	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
7057			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7058			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7059
7060	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7061			Format: <command>
7062
7063	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7064			Format: <command>
7065
7066	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7067			Format: <command>
7068
7069	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
7070			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7071			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7072			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7073			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7074			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7075			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7076
7077			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7078			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7079				    readable.
7080
7081			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7082			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7083				    page is not readable.
7084
7085			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7086			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7087			            might break your system.
7088
7089	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7090			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7091			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7092
7093	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7094			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7095			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7096			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7097
7098	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7099			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7100			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7101			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7102			ranging from 0-255.
7103
7104	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7105			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7106			Change the default green palette of the console.
7107			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7108			ranging from 0-255.
7109
7110	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7111			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7112			Change the default red palette of the console.
7113			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7114			ranging from 0-255.
7115
7116	vt.default_utf8=
7117			[VT]
7118			Format=<0|1>
7119			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7120			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7121			newly opened terminals.
7122
7123	vt.global_cursor_default=
7124			[VT]
7125			Format=<-1|0|1>
7126			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7127			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7128			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7129			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7130			cursors, 1 will display them.
7131
7132	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7133			Default: 2 = green.
7134
7135	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7136			Default: 3 = cyan.
7137
7138	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7139			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7140			or other driver-specific files in the
7141			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7142
7143	watchdog_thresh=
7144			[KNL]
7145			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7146			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7147			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7148			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7149			seconds.
7150
7151	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7152			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7153			to use in unbound workqueues.
7154			Format: <cpu-list>
7155			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7156			unbound workqueues.
7157
7158	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7159			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7160			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7161			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7162			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7163			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7164			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7165			corresponding sysfs file.
7166
7167	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7168			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7169			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7170			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7171			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7172			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7173
7174			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7175			will report the work functions which violate this
7176			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7177			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7178
7179	workqueue.power_efficient
7180			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7181			they show better performance thanks to cache
7182			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7183			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7184
7185			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7186			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7187			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7188			power usage at the cost of small performance
7189			overhead.
7190
7191			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7192			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7193
7194        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7195			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7196			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7197			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7198			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7199			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7200
7201			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7202			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7203			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7204			updated accordignly.
7205
7206	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7207			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7208			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7209			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7210			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7211			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7212			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7213			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7214			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7215			impacted.
7216
7217	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
7218			ioremap_wc().
7219
7220			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7221			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7222
7223	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7224			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7225			supporting x2apic.
7226
7227	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7228			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7229			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7230			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7231			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7232			domains.
7233
7234	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
7235			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7236			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7237			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7238			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7239			nics -- unplug network devices
7240			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7241			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7242				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7243				the unplug protocol
7244			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7245
7246	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
7247			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7248			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7249
7250	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
7251			Format: <bool>
7252			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7253			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7254			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7255
7256	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
7257			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7258			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7259			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7260
7261	xen_nopv	[X86]
7262			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7263			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7264			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7265			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7266
7267	xen_no_vector_callback
7268			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7269			event channel interrupts.
7270
7271	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7272			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7273			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7274			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7275			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7276
7277	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
7278			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7279			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7280			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7281			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7282			more timer interrupts.
7283
7284	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7285			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7286			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7287			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7288			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7289			max. Default is 180.
7290
7291	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7292			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7293			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7294
7295	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7296			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7297			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7298
7299	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7300			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7301			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7302			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7303			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7304			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7305
7306	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7307			Format:
7308			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7309
7310	xive=		[PPC]
7311			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7312			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7313			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7314
7315			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7316				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7317				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7318
7319	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7320			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7321			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7322			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7323			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7324
7325	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7326			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7327			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7328			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7329
7330	xmon		[PPC]
7331			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7332			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7333			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7334			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7335				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7336			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7337				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7338				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7339				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7340			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7341				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7342				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7343				can be written using xmon commands.
7344			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7345				memory, and other data can't be written using
7346				xmon commands.
7347			off	xmon is disabled.
7348
7349