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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326
327	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
328			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
329			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
330			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
331			IOMMU initialization.
332
333	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
334			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
335			remapping modes:
336			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
337			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
338			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
339			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
340			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
341
342	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
343			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
344			Format: <a>,<b>
345			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
346
347	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
348			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
349			connected to one of 16 gameports
350			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
351
352	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
353			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
354			Format: noidle
355			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
356			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
357			APC and your system crashes randomly.
358
359	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Change the output verbosity while booting
361			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
362			Change the amount of debugging information output
363			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
364			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
365			driver name.
366			Format: apic=driver_name
367			Examples: apic=bigsmp
368
369	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
370			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
371			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
372			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
373			      backup of CPU 0
374			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
375			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
376			      shot down by NMI
377
378	autoconf=	[IPV6]
379			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
380
381	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
382			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
383
384	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
385			Format: { "0" | "1" }
386			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
387			0 -- disable.
388			1 -- enable.
389			Default value is set via kernel config option.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
482			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
483			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
484			erroneous and ignored.
485			Format: integer
486
487	bootconfig	[KNL]
488			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
489			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
490
491			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
492
493	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
494	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
495			kernel args too.
496	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
497	bttv.tuner=
498
499	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
500			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
501			at a time.
502
503	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
504
505	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
506			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
507			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
508			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
509			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
510			This option provides an override for these situations.
511
512	carrier_timeout=
513			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
514			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
515			it waits 120 seconds.
516
517	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
518			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
519			trust validation.
520			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
521
522	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
523			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
524			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
525			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
526			others).
527
528	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
529			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
530
531	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
532			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
533			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
534			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
535			  a single hierarchy
536			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
537			  subsystem
538			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
539			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
540			  created
541			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
542			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
543			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
544			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
545			stall information accounting feature
546
547	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
548			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
549			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
550			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
551			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
552			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
553			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
554			all v1 hierarchies.
555
556	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
557			Format: <string>
558			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
559			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
560			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
561
562	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
563			Format: { "0" | "1" }
564			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
565			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
566				any implied execute protection).
567			1 -- check protection requested by application.
568			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
569			Value can be changed at runtime via
570				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
571			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
572
573	cio_ignore=	[S390]
574			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
575
576	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
577			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
578			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
579			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
580			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
581			ones should be.
582			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
583			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
584			instability issue. However, not all features have names
585			in /proc/cpuinfo.
586			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
587			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
588			or using the feature without checking anything
589			will still see it. This just prevents it from
590			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
591			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
592			some critical bits.
593
594	clk_ignore_unused
595			[CLK]
596			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
597			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
598			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
599			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
600			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
601			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
602			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
603			platform with proper driver support.  For more
604			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
605
606	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
607			[Deprecated]
608			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
609			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
610			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
611			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
612
613	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
614			Format: <string>
615			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
616			with the name specified.
617			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
618			the platform:
619			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
620			[ACPI] acpi_pm
621			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
622				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
623			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
624				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
625			[MIPS] MIPS
626			[PARISC] cr16
627			[S390] tod
628			[SH] SuperH
629			[SPARC64] tick
630			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
631
632	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
633			[ARM,ARM64]
634			Format: <bool>
635			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
636			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
637			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
638			systems.
639
640	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
641			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
642			external delays before the clock will be marked
643			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
644			three attempts to read the clock under test.
645
646	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
647			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
648			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
649			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
650			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
651			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
652			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
653			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
654			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
655
656	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
657			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
658			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
659			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
660			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
661
662	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
663			[KNL,CMA]
664			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
665			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
666			placement constraint by the physical address range of
667			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
668			altogether. For more information, see
669			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
670
671	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
672			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
673			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
674			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
675			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
676			specified, the default value is 0.
677			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
678			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
679			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
680			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
681
682	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
683			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
684			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
685			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
686			a hypervisor.
687			Default: yes
688
689	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
690			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
691			allocations, by default set to 256K.
692
693	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
694			Format:
695			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
696
697	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
698			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
699
700	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
701			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
702			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
703
704	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
705	conmode=
706
707	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
708			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
709			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
710			the console buffer is full. In this case the
711			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
712			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
713			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
714			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
715			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
716			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
717
718	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
719
720		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
721
722		ttyS<n>[,options]
723		ttyUSB0[,options]
724			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
725			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
726			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
727			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
728			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
729
730			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
731			information.  See
732			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
733			alternative.
734
735		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
736		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
737		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
738		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
739		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
740			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
741			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
742			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
743			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
744			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
745			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
746			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
747			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
748			the h/w is not re-initialized.
749
750		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
751			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
752
753		{ null | "" }
754			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
755			console messages discarded.
756			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
757			kernel command line.
758
759		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
760		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
761			console=brl,ttyS0
762		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
763
764	console_msg_format=
765			[KNL] Change console messages format
766		default
767			By default we print messages on consoles in
768			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
769			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
770			`printk_time' param).
771		syslog
772			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
773			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
774			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
775			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
776			from /proc/kmsg.
777
778	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
779			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
780			Defaults to 0.
781
782	coredump_filter=
783			[KNL] Change the default value for
784			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
785			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
786
787	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
788			[ARM,ARM64]
789			Format: <bool>
790			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
791			0: default value, disable debugging
792			1: enable debugging at boot time
793
794	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
795			Format:
796			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
797
798	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
799			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
800			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
801			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
802			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
803			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
804			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
805			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
806			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
807			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
808			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
809			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
810			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
811
812	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
813			disable the cpuidle sub-system
814
815	cpuidle.governor=
816			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
817
818	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
819			disable the cpufreq sub-system
820
821	cpufreq.default_governor=
822			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
823			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
824			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
825
826	cpu_init_udelay=N
827			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
828			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
829			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
830			Default: 10000
831
832	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
833			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
834			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
835			succeeds in any situation.
836			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
837			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
838			kernel more unstable.
839
840	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
841			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
842			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
843			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
844			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
845			is selected automatically.
846			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and
847			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
848			hasn't been specified.
849			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
850
851	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
852			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
853			in the running system. The syntax of range is
854			start-[end] where start and end are both
855			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
856			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
857
858	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
859			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
860			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
861			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
862			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
863			available.
864			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
865	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
866			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
867			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
868			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
869			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
870			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
871			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
872			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
873			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
874			size is	platform dependent.
875			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
876			  --> arm64: 128MiB
877			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
878			for second kernel instead.
879			0: to disable low allocation.
880			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
881			or memory reserved is below 4G.
882
883	cryptomgr.notests
884			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
885
886	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
887			Format: <dma>
888
889	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
890			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
891
892	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
893			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
894			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
895			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
896			to resolve the hang situation.
897			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
898			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
899			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
900			     but more data)
901
902	dasd=		[HW,NET]
903			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
904
905	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
906			(one device per port)
907			Format: <port#>,<type>
908			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
909
910	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
911
912	debug_boot_weak_hash
913			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
914			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
915			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
916			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
917			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
918			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
919
920	debug_locks_verbose=
921			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
922			Format: <int>
923			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
924			self-tests.
925			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
926			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
927			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
928			useful to lockdep developers.
929
930	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
931
932	debug_guardpage_minorder=
933			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
934			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
935			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
936			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
937			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
938			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
939			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
940			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
941			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
942			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
943			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
944			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
945			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
946			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
947			bypassed) which are not detectable by
948			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
949			tracking down these problems.
950
951	debug_pagealloc=
952			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
953			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
954			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
955			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
956			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
957			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
958			on: enable the feature
959
960	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
961			and debugfs internal clients.
962			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
963			on: 	All functions are enabled.
964			no-mount:
965				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
966			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
967				its content. There is nothing to mount.
968			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
969			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
970				or directories within debugfs.
971				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
972				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
973			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
974
975	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
976
977	default_hugepagesz=
978			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
979			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
980			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
981			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
982			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
983			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
984			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
985			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
986			Format: size[KMG]
987
988	deferred_probe_timeout=
989			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
990			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
991			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
992			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
993			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
994			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
995			successful driver registration. This option will also
996			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
997			retrying.
998
999	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1000
1001	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1002			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1003			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1004			hardware.
1005
1006	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1007			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1008			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1009			blacklisted features.
1010
1011	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1012			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1013			(disabled by default).
1014
1015	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1016			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1017			capability is set.
1018
1019	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1020			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1021
1022	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1023			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1024
1025	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1026			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1027			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1028			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1029			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1030			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1031			          only (compression on level 1)
1032			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1033			          only (decompression)
1034			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1035			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1036
1037	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1038			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1039
1040	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1041			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1042			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1043			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1044			miss to occur.
1045
1046	disable=	[IPV6]
1047			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1048
1049	disable_radix	[PPC]
1050			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1051
1052	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1053			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1054			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1055
1056	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1057			Format: <int>
1058			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1059			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1060			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1061			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1062			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1063			INIT from AP to BSP.
1064
1065	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1066			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1067			to workaround buggy firmware.
1068
1069	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1070			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1071
1072	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1073			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1074			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1075			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1076
1077	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1078			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1079			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1080			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1081			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1082
1083	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1084			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1085			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1086
1087	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1088
1089	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1090			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1091
1092	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1093			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1094			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1095			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1096			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1097			architectural default is too low.
1098
1099	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1100			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1101			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1102			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1103			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1104			driver later using sysfs.
1105
1106	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1107			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1108			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1109			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1110			match the *.
1111			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1112
1113	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1114			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1115			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1116			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1117			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1118			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1119			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1120			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1121			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1122			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1123			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1124			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1125			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1126			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1127			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1128			data set with no connector name will be used for
1129			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1130
1131	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1132
1133	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1134			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1135			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1136			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1137			exists).
1138			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1139			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1140			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1141
1142	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1143			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1144			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1145			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1146
1147	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1148	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1149			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1150			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1151			for details.
1152
1153	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1154			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1155			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1156			which are not unmapped.
1157
1158	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1159
1160			When used with no options, the early console is
1161			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1162			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1163			the platform.
1164
1165		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1166			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1167			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1168			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1169			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1170			configured.
1171
1172		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1173		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1174		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1175		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1176		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1177			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1178			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1179			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1180			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1181			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1182			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1183			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1184			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1185			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1186			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1187
1188		pl011,<addr>
1189		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1190			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1191			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1192			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1193			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1194			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1195			the device registers.
1196
1197		liteuart,<addr>
1198			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1199			specified address. The serial port must already be
1200			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1201
1202		meson,<addr>
1203			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1204			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1205			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1206			supported.
1207
1208		msm_serial,<addr>
1209			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1210			port at the specified address. The serial port
1211			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1212			yet supported.
1213
1214		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1215			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1216			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1217			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1218			yet supported.
1219
1220		owl,<addr>
1221			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1222			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1223			specified address. The serial port must already be
1224			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1225
1226		rda,<addr>
1227			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1228			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1229			specified address. The serial port must already be
1230			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1231
1232		sbi
1233			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1234			console.
1235
1236		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1237
1238		s3c2410,<addr>
1239		s3c2412,<addr>
1240		s3c2440,<addr>
1241		s3c6400,<addr>
1242		s5pv210,<addr>
1243		exynos4210,<addr>
1244			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1245			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1246			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1247			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1248			Options are not yet supported.
1249
1250		lantiq,<addr>
1251			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1252			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1253			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1254			yet supported.
1255
1256		lpuart,<addr>
1257		lpuart32,<addr>
1258			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1259			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1260			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1261			port must already be setup and configured.
1262
1263		ec_imx21,<addr>
1264		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1265			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1266			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1267			must already be setup and configured.
1268
1269		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1270			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1271			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1272			address. The serial port must already be setup
1273			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1274
1275		qcom_geni,<addr>
1276			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1277			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1278			specified address. The serial port must already be
1279			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1280
1281		efifb,[options]
1282			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1283			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1284			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1285			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1286			mapped with the correct attributes.
1287
1288		linflex,<addr>
1289			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1290			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1291			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1292			already be setup and configured.
1293
1294	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1295			earlyprintk=vga
1296			earlyprintk=sclp
1297			earlyprintk=xen
1298			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1299			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1300			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1301			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1302			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1303			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1304
1305			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1306			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1307			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1308
1309			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1310			takes over.
1311
1312			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1313			be used at a time.
1314
1315			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1316			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1317			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1318			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1319				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1320			You can find the port for a given device in
1321			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1322				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1323
1324			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1325			very good.
1326
1327			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1328			the real console.
1329
1330			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1331
1332			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1333
1334			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1335			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1336			UART class.
1337
1338	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1339			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1340			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1341			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1342			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1343			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1344			default: on.
1345
1346	edd=		[EDD]
1347			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1348
1349	efi=		[EFI]
1350			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1351				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1352				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1353			debug: enable misc debug output.
1354			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1355			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1356			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1357			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1358			firmware implementations.
1359			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1360			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1361			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1362			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1363			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1364			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1365			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1366			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1367			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1368			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1369
1370	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1371			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1372			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1373			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1374			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1375
1376	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1377			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1378			updating original EFI memory map.
1379			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1380			from ss to ss+nn.
1381
1382			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1383			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1384			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1385			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1386
1387			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1388			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1389			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1390
1391			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1392			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1393			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1394			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1395			"soft reserved".
1396
1397	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1398			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1399			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1400			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1401			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1402
1403
1404	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1405			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1406
1407	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1408			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1409
1410			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1411			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1412
1413			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1414			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1415			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1416			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1417
1418	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1419			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1420			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1421
1422	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1423			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1424			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1425			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1426			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1427
1428	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1429			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1430			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1431			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1432
1433	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1434			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1435			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1436			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1437			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1438
1439	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1440			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1441			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1442			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1443			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1444			Default value is 0.
1445			Value can be changed at runtime via
1446			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1447
1448	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1449			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1450			support.
1451
1452	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1453			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1454			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1455
1456	evm=		[EVM]
1457			Format: { "fix" }
1458			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1459			current integrity status.
1460
1461	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1462			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1463			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1464			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1465			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1466			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1467			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1468
1469	failslab=
1470	fail_usercopy=
1471	fail_page_alloc=
1472	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1473			General fault injection mechanism.
1474			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1475			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1476
1477	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1478			Format: { initns | none }
1479			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1480			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1481
1482	floppy=		[HW]
1483			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1484
1485	force_pal_cache_flush
1486			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1487			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1488			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1489			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1490
1491	forcepae	[X86-32]
1492			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1493			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1494			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1495			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1496			and may cause unknown problems.
1497
1498	ftrace=[tracer]
1499			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1500			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1501			boot debugging.
1502
1503	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1504			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1505			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1506			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1507			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1508			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1509			start up functionality.
1510
1511			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1512			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1513			line parameter.
1514
1515			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1516
1517			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1518			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1519
1520	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1521			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1522			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1523			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1524			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1525			oops.
1526
1527	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1528			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1529			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1530			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1531			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1532			tracing directory.
1533
1534	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1535			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1536			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1537			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1538			tracing directory.
1539
1540	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1541			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1542			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1543			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1544			that can be changed at run time by the
1545			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1546
1547	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1548			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1549			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1550			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1551			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1552
1553	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1554			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1555			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1556			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1557			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1558
1559	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1560			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1561			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1562			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1563			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1564			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1565			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1566			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1567			suppliers).
1568			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1569			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1570			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1571				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1572				up (sync_state() calls).
1573			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1574				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1575			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1576
1577	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1578			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1579			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1580			Format: <bool>
1581
1582	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1583			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1584			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1585			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1586			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1587
1588	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1589
1590	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1591			Format: off | on
1592			default: on
1593
1594	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1595			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1596			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1597			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1598			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1599
1600	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1601			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1602			android emulator
1603
1604	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1605			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1606			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1607	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1608			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1609
1610	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1611			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1612			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1613			GPT to be used instead.
1614
1615	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1616			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1617			Format: 0 | 1
1618			Default: 0
1619	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1620			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1621			Format: 0 | 1
1622			Default: 0
1623	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1624			Format: 0 | 1
1625			Default: 0
1626	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1627			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1628			Default: 1024
1629	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1630			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1631			Default: 1024
1632
1633	hardened_usercopy=
1634			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1635			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1636			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1637			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1638			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1639			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1640			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1641		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1642		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1643
1644	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1645			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1646			backtraces on all cpus.
1647			Format: 0 | 1
1648
1649	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1650			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1651			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1652			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1653
1654	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1655
1656	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1657			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1658
1659	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1660			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1661			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1662			logic will be disabled.
1663
1664	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1665		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1666				present during boot.
1667		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1668		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1669		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1670				(that will set all pages holding image data
1671				during restoration read-only).
1672
1673	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1674			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1675			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1676			size on bigger boxes.
1677
1678	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1679			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1680			Default: "on"
1681
1682	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1683
1684	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1685			Format: <string>
1686			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1687			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1688			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1689			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1690			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1691			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1692			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1693			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1694			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1695			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1696
1697	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1698			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1699				verbose }
1700			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1701			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1702				VIA, nVidia)
1703			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1704
1705	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1706			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1707
1708	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1709			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1710			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1711			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1712			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1713			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1714			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1715			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1716			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1717				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1718
1719	hugepagesz=
1720			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1721			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1722			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1723			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1724			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1725			architecture dependent.  See also
1726			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1727			Format: size[KMG]
1728
1729	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1730			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1731			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1732			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1733				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1734
1735			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1736			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1737			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1738
1739	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1740			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1741			enabled.
1742			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1743			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1744			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1745			Format: { on | off (default) }
1746
1747			on: enable HVO
1748			off: disable HVO
1749
1750			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1751			the default is on.
1752
1753			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1754			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1755			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1756			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1757			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1758
1759	hung_task_panic=
1760			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1761			Format: 0 | 1
1762
1763			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1764			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1765			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1766			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1767			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1768
1769	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1770				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1771	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1772				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1773				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1774
1775	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1776				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1777				      guest on lock contention.
1778
1779	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1780				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1781				registered from board initialization code.
1782				Format:
1783				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1784
1785	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1786	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1787			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1788			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1789			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1790	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1791	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1792			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1793			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1794	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1795	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1796	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1797			     for the AUX port
1798	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1799			     controller
1800	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1801			     controllers
1802	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1803	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1804			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1805			     transitions, or never reset
1806			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1807			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1808			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1809			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1810			architectures force reset to be always executed
1811	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1812	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1813	i8042.probe_defer
1814			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1815
1816	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1817
1818	i915.invert_brightness=
1819			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1820			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1821			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1822			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1823			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1824			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1825			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1826			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1827			value switches the backlight off.
1828			-1 -- never invert brightness
1829			 0 -- machine default
1830			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1831
1832	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1833			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1834
1835
1836	idle=		[X86]
1837			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1838			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1839			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1840			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1841			Not recommended.
1842			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1843			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1844			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1845
1846	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1847			Format: <bool>
1848			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1849			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1850			true (1).
1851
1852	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1853			Format: <bool>
1854			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1855			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1856
1857	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1858			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1859			Default: strict
1860
1861			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1862			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1863			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1864			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1865			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1866			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1867			encoding mode.
1868
1869			Available settings are as follows:
1870			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1871				supported by the FPU
1872			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1873				by the FPU
1874			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1875				by the FPU
1876			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1877				supported by the FPU
1878
1879			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1880			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1881			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1882			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1883			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1884			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1885			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1886			MIPS64 CPUs.
1887
1888			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1889			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1890			except where unsupported by hardware.
1891
1892	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1893			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1894			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1895			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1896			could change it dynamically, usually by
1897			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1898
1899	ignore_rlimit_data
1900			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1901			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1902			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1903
1904	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1905			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1906
1907	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1908			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1909			default: "enforce"
1910
1911	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1912			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1913			owned by uid=0.
1914
1915	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1916			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1917			measurements, instead of host native format.
1918
1919	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1920			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1921				   | sha512 | ... }
1922			default: "sha1"
1923
1924			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1925			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1926
1927	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1928			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1929			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1930				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1931
1932			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1933			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1934			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1935			uid=0.
1936
1937			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1938			all files owned by root.
1939
1940			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1941			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1942			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1943
1944			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1945			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1946			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1947			flag.
1948
1949			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1950			critical data.
1951
1952	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1953			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1954			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1955			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1956			opened for read by uid=0.
1957
1958	ima_template=	[IMA]
1959			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1960			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1961				   "ima-sigv2" }
1962			Default: "ima-ng"
1963
1964	ima_template_fmt=
1965			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1966			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1967
1968	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1969			Format: <min_file_size>
1970			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1971			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1972
1973			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1974			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1975			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1976
1977	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1978			Format: <bufsize>
1979			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1980
1981			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1982			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1983			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1984
1985	init=		[KNL]
1986			Format: <full_path>
1987			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1988			process.
1989
1990	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1991			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1992			startup.
1993
1994	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1995			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1996			modules and initcalls.
1997
1998	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1999			Format: <bool>
2000			Default: 1
2001			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2002			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2003			with devices being probed and
2004			initialized. This should normally just work,
2005			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2006			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2007			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2008			late_ initcalls.
2009
2010	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2011
2012	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2013			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2014			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2015			setting.
2016			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2017			Default is 0, 0
2018
2019	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2020			zeroes.
2021			Format: 0 | 1
2022			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2023
2024	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2025			Format: 0 | 1
2026			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2027
2028	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2029			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2030			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2031			override in debugfs after boot.
2032
2033	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2034			Format: <irq>
2035
2036	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2037
2038	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2039			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2040			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2041			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2042
2043	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2044		on
2045			Enable intel iommu driver.
2046		off
2047			Disable intel iommu driver.
2048		igfx_off [Default Off]
2049			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2050			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2051			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2052			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2053			DMA.
2054		strict [Default Off]
2055			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2056		sp_off [Default Off]
2057			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2058			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2059			not be supported.
2060		sm_on
2061			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2062			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2063			translation.
2064		sm_off
2065			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2066		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2067			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2068			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2069			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2070			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2071			mapping is enabled.
2072			Note that using this option lowers the security
2073			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2074			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2075
2076	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2077			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2078			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2079
2080	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2081			disable
2082			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2083			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2084			passive
2085			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2086			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2087			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2088			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2089			  feature.
2090			force
2091			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2092			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2093			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2094			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2095			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2096			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2097			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2098			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2099			no_hwp
2100			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2101			  if available.
2102			hwp_only
2103			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2104			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2105			support_acpi_ppc
2106			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2107			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2108			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2109			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2110			per_cpu_perf_limits
2111			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2112			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2113
2114	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2115			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2116			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2117			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2118			no_x2apic_optout
2119				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2120			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2121
2122	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2123		strict	regions from userspace.
2124		relaxed
2125
2126	iommu=		[X86]
2127		off
2128		force
2129		noforce
2130		biomerge
2131		panic
2132		nopanic
2133		merge
2134		nomerge
2135		soft
2136		pt		[X86]
2137		nopt		[X86]
2138		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2139			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2140
2141	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2142			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2143			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2144			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2145			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2146			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2147			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2148
2149	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2150			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2151			0 - Lazy mode.
2152			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2153			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2154			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2155			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2156			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2157			1 - Strict mode.
2158			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2159			  synchronously.
2160			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2161			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2162			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2163
2164	iommu.passthrough=
2165			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2166			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2167			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2168			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2169			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2170
2171	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2172			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2173			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2174
2175	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2176		0x80
2177			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2178		0xed
2179			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2180		udelay
2181			Simple two microseconds delay
2182		none
2183			No delay
2184
2185	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2186			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2187
2188	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2189			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2190
2191	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2192			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2193
2194	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2195			[ARM, ARM64]
2196			Format: <bool>
2197			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2198			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2199			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2200
2201	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2202			[ARM, ARM64]
2203			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2204			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2205			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2206			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2207			LPIs.
2208
2209	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2210			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2211			requires the kernel to be built with
2212			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2213
2214	irqfixup	[HW]
2215			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2216			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2217			firmware running.
2218
2219	irqpoll		[HW]
2220			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2221			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2222			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2223			firmware running.
2224
2225	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2226			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2227
2228	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2229			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2230			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2231
2232			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2233			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2234
2235			nohz
2236			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2237
2238			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2239			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2240			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2241			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2242			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2243
2244			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2245			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2246			  be configured manually after bootup.
2247
2248			domain
2249			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2250			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2251			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2252			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2253			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2254			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2255			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2256			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2257
2258			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2259			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2260			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2261			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2262
2263			managed_irq
2264
2265			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2266			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2267			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2268			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2269			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2270
2271			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2272			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2273			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2274			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2275			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2276			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2277			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2278
2279			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2280			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2281			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2282			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2283			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2284			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2285			  queues.
2286
2287			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2288
2289	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2290
2291	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2292			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2293			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2294			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2295
2296			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2297			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2298			write the parameter as:
2299				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2300
2301			Deprecated formats:
2302			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2303			  write the parameter as:
2304				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2305			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2306			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2307				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2308
2309	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2310			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2311			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2312			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2313
2314			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2315			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2316			write the parameter as:
2317				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2318
2319			Deprecated formats:
2320			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2321			  write the parameter as:
2322				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2323			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2324			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2325				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2326
2327	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2328			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2329			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2330			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2331
2332			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2333			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2334			write the parameter as:
2335				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2336
2337			Deprecated formats:
2338			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2339			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2340				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2341			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2342			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2343				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2344
2345	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2346			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2347
2348	kasan_multi_shot
2349			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2350			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2351			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2352			invalid access.
2353
2354	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2355			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2356			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2357			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2358			the real console.
2359
2360	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2361
2362	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2363			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2364			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2365			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2366			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2367			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2368			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2369			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2370			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2371			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2372
2373			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2374			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2375			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2376			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2377			zone if it does not.
2378
2379			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2380			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2381			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2382			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2383			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2384			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2385			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2386
2387	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2388			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2389			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2390			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2391			optional and is the number seconds in between
2392			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2393			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2394			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2395			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2396			the kernel debugger.
2397
2398	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2399			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2400			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2401			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2402			 keyboard only format: kbd
2403			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2404			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2405			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2406			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2407
2408	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2409			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2410			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2411			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2412			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2413			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2414			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2415
2416			The name of the early console should be specified
2417			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2418			the early console might be different than the tty
2419			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2420			blank and the first boot console that implements
2421			read() will be picked.
2422
2423	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2424			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2425
2426	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2427			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2428			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2429
2430	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2431			Valid arguments: on, off
2432			Default: on
2433			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2434			the default is off.
2435
2436	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2437			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2438			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2439			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2440			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2441			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2442			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2443
2444			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2445
2446			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2447			Boot Parameter" section.
2448
2449	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2450			and kernel address spaces.
2451			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2452			0: force disabled
2453			1: force enabled
2454
2455	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2456			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2457			default value can be overridden via
2458			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2459			Default is 1 (enabled)
2460
2461	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2462			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2463
2464	kvm.eager_page_split=
2465			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2466			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2467			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2468			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2469			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2470			required to split huge pages lazily.
2471
2472			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2473			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2474			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2475			still be used for reads.
2476
2477			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2478			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2479			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2480			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2481			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2482			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2483			cleared.
2484
2485			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2486
2487			Default is Y (on).
2488
2489	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2490				   Default is false (don't support).
2491
2492	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2493			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2494			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2495			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2496			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2497			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2498				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2499
2500			Default is 'auto'.
2501
2502			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2503			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2504
2505	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2506			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2507			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2508			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2509			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2510
2511	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2512			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2513			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2514			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2515			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2516			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2517
2518	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2519			Default is 1 (enabled)
2520
2521	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2522			for all guests.
2523			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2524
2525	kvm-arm.mode=
2526			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2527
2528			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2529
2530			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2531			      protected guests.
2532
2533			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2534				   state is kept private from the host.
2535
2536			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2537				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2538				hardware.
2539
2540			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2541			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2542			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2543			used with extreme caution.
2544
2545	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2546			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2547			system registers
2548
2549	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2550			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2551			system registers
2552
2553	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2554			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2555			system registers
2556
2557	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2558			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2559			LPIs.
2560
2561	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2562			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2563			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2564			allocation.
2565			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2566			Format: <integer>
2567			Default: 5
2568
2569	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2570			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2571			Default is 1 (enabled)
2572
2573	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2574			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2575			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2576			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2577			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2578			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2579			Default is 1 (enabled)
2580
2581	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2582			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2583			Default is 1 (enabled)
2584
2585	kvm-intel.nested=
2586			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2587			Default is 0 (disabled)
2588
2589	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2590			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2591			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2592			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2593
2594	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2595			CVE-2018-3620.
2596
2597			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2598
2599			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2600			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2601				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2602			never:	Disables the mitigation
2603
2604			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2605
2606	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2607			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2608			Default is 1 (enabled)
2609
2610	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2611			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2612
2613			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2614			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2615			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2616
2617			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2618			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2619			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2620			not have direct access.
2621
2622			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2623			options are:
2624
2625			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2626
2627	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2628			      affected CPUs
2629
2630			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2631			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2632
2633			full
2634				Provides all available mitigations for the
2635				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2636				enables all mitigations in the
2637				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2638
2639				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2640				sysfs interface is still possible after
2641				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2642				when the first VM is started in a
2643				potentially insecure configuration,
2644				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2645
2646			full,force
2647				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2648				flush runtime control. Implies the
2649				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2650				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2651
2652			flush
2653				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2654				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2655				L1D flush.
2656
2657				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2658				sysfs interface is still possible after
2659				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2660				when the first VM is started in a
2661				potentially insecure configuration,
2662				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2663
2664			flush,nosmt
2665
2666				Disables SMT and enables the default
2667				hypervisor mitigation.
2668
2669				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2670				sysfs interface is still possible after
2671				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2672				when the first VM is started in a
2673				potentially insecure configuration,
2674				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2675
2676			flush,nowarn
2677				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2678				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2679				insecure configuration.
2680
2681			off
2682				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2683				emit any warnings.
2684				It also drops the swap size and available
2685				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2686				bare metal.
2687
2688			Default is 'flush'.
2689
2690			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2691
2692	l2cr=		[PPC]
2693
2694	l3cr=		[PPC]
2695
2696	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2697			disabled it.
2698
2699	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2700			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2701			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2702			Format: notscdeadline
2703
2704	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2705			in C2 power state.
2706
2707	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2708			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2709			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2710			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2711			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2712			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2713			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2714
2715	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2716			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2717			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2718
2719	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2720			when set.
2721			Format: <int>
2722
2723	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2724			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2725			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2726			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2727			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2728			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2729			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2730			to all ports, links and devices.
2731
2732			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2733			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2734			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2735			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2736			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2737			host link and device attached to it.
2738
2739			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2740			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2741			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2742			The following configurations can be forced.
2743
2744			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2745			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2746
2747			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2748
2749			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2750			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2751			  allowed.
2752
2753			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2754			  resets.
2755
2756			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2757			  link recovery.
2758
2759			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2760			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2761			  detection.
2762
2763			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2764
2765			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2766
2767			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2768
2769			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2770
2771			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2772
2773			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2774
2775			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2776
2777			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2778
2779			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2780			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2781
2782			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2783			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2784
2785			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2786			  identify device data log.
2787
2788			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2789			  purpose log directory.
2790
2791			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2792
2793			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2794			  1024 sectors.
2795
2796			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2797			  65535 sectors.
2798
2799			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2800
2801			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2802			  should be skipped.
2803
2804			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2805			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2806
2807			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2808
2809			* disable: Disable this device.
2810
2811			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2812			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2813
2814	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2815
2816	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2817			Format: <integer>
2818
2819	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2820			Format: <integer>
2821
2822	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2823			Format: <integer>
2824
2825	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2826			Format: <integer>
2827
2828	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2829			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2830			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2831			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2832			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2833			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2834			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2835			are also disabled.
2836
2837	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2838			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2839			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2840			number of online CPUs.
2841
2842	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2843			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2844
2845	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2846			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2847
2848	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2849			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2850			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2851
2852	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2853			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2854			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2855			mode during the locktorture test.
2856
2857	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2858			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2859			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2860
2861	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2862			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2863
2864	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2865			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2866			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2867			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2868			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2869			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2870
2871	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2872			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2873
2874	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2875			Enable additional printk() statements.
2876
2877	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2878			Format: <irq>
2879
2880	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2881			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2882			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2883			loglevels are defined as follows:
2884
2885			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2886			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2887			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2888			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2889			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2890			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2891			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2892			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2893
2894	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2895			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2896			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2897			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2898			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2899			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2900			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2901
2902	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2903			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2904			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2905			kernel boot problems.
2906
2907	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2908	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2909	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2910	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2911				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2912				attached printers to be reset. Using
2913				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2914				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2915				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2916				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2917				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2918				port specification list means that device IDs
2919				from each port should be examined, to see if
2920				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2921				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2922				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2923
2924	lpj=n		[KNL]
2925			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2926			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2927			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2928			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2929			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2930			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2931			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2932			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2933			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2934			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2935			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2936			hardware.
2937
2938	ltpc=		[NET]
2939			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2940
2941	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2942
2943	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2944			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2945			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2946
2947	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2948			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2949			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2950
2951	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2952			different yeeloong laptops.
2953			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2954
2955	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2956			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2957
2958	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2959			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2960			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2961			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2962			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2963			only takes effect during system bootup.
2964			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2965			which also disables the IO APIC.
2966
2967	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2968	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2969			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2970			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2971			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2972			/dev/loop-control interface.
2973
2974	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2975
2976	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2977
2978	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2979			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2980
2981	mdacon=		[MDA]
2982			Format: <first>,<last>
2983			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2984
2985	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2986			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2987			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2988
2989			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2990			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2991			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2992
2993			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2994			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2995			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2996			not have direct access.
2997
2998			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2999			options are:
3000
3001			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3002			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3003				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3004			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3005
3006			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3007			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3008			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3009			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3010			too.
3011
3012			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3013			mds=full.
3014
3015			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3016
3017	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3018			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3019
3020	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3021			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3022
3023			1 for test;
3024			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3025			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3026			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3027			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3028
3029			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3030			high memory is not affected.
3031
3032			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3033			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3034
3035			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3036			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3037			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3038			belonging to unused RAM.
3039
3040			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3041			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3042			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3043
3044	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3045			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3046			firmware.
3047			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3048			ss[KMG].
3049			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3050			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3051
3052	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3053			memory.
3054
3055	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3056
3057	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3058			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3059			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3060
3061	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3062			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3063			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3064			set according to the
3065			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3066			option.
3067			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3068
3069	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3070			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3071			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3072			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3073			option description.
3074
3075	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3076			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3077			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3078			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3079			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3080			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3081			comma delimited.
3082			Example:
3083				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3084
3085	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3086			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3087			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3088
3089	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3090			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3091			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3092			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3093			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3094			         or
3095			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3096			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3097			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3098			will be eaten.
3099
3100	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3101			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3102			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3103			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3104			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3105
3106	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3107			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3108			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3109			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3110			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3111			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3112			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3113			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3114
3115	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3116			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3117			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3118			Setting this option will scan the memory
3119			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3120			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3121			from using the memory being corrupted.
3122			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3123			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3124			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3125			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3126
3127	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3128			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3129			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3130			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3131			corruption in more or less memory.
3132
3133	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3134			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3135			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3136			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3137
3138	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3139			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3140			Format: {on | off (default)}
3141			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3142			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3143			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3144			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3145			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3146			lot of memory without requiring additional
3147			memory to do so.
3148			This feature is disabled by default because it
3149			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3150			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3151			memory blocks).
3152			The state of the flag can be read in
3153			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3154			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3155			the feature is not effective.
3156
3157	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3158			Format: <integer>
3159			default : 0 <disable>
3160			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3161			performed. Each pass selects another test
3162			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3163			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3164			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3165			regions that are detected.
3166
3167	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3168			Valid arguments: on, off
3169			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3170			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3171			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3172			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3173			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3174
3175			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3176			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3177
3178	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3179			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3180			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3181			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3182			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3183
3184	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3185			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3186
3187	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3188			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3189			platforms.
3190
3191	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3192			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3193			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3194			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3195
3196	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3197
3198	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3199			physical address is ignored.
3200
3201	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3202			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3203			Default: "0tb"
3204			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3205			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3206			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3207			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3208			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3209			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3210			unconfigured.
3211			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3212			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3213			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3214			VGA shield.
3215			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3216			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3217			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3218			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3219			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3220			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3221
3222	mitigations=
3223			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3224			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3225			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3226			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3227
3228			off
3229				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3230				improves system performance, but it may also
3231				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3232				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3233					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3234					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3235					       nobp=0 [S390]
3236					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3237					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3238					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3239					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3240					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3241					       l1tf=off [X86]
3242					       mds=off [X86]
3243					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3244					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3245					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3246					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3247					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3248					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3249					       retbleed=off [X86]
3250
3251				Exceptions:
3252					       This does not have any effect on
3253					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3254					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3255
3256			auto (default)
3257				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3258				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3259				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3260				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3261				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3262				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3263
3264			auto,nosmt
3265				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3266				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3267				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3268				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3269					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3270					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3271					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3272					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3273
3274	mminit_loglevel=
3275			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3276			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3277			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3278			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3279			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3280			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3281
3282	mmio_stale_data=
3283			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3284			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3285
3286			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3287			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3288			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3289			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3290			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3291			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3292
3293			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3294			options are:
3295
3296			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3297
3298			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3299				     vulnerable CPUs.
3300
3301			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3302
3303			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3304			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3305			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3306			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3307			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3308			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3309
3310			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3311			mmio_stale_data=full.
3312
3313			For details see:
3314			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3315
3316	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3317			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3318			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3319			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3320			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3321			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3322
3323	module.async_probe=<bool>
3324			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3325			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3326			specific module, use the module specific control that
3327			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3328			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3329			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3330			the specific module.
3331
3332	module.sig_enforce
3333			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3334			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3335			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3336			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3337
3338	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3339			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3340
3341	mousedev.tap_time=
3342			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3343			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3344			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3345			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3346			Format: <msecs>
3347	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3348			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3349	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3350			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3351
3352	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3353			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3354			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3355			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3356			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3357			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3358			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3359			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3360			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3361			is not too small.
3362
3363	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3364			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3365			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3366			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3367			allocations. Use with caution!
3368
3369	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3370			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3371
3372	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3373			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3374
3375	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3376			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3377
3378	mtdset=		[ARM]
3379			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3380
3381			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3382
3383	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3384			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3385			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3386
3387	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3388			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3389			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3390
3391	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3392			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3393			Default is 1.
3394			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3395			using up MTRRs.
3396
3397	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3398			Format: <integer>
3399			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3400			Default : 1
3401			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3402			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3403
3404	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3405			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3406			at a time.
3407
3408	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3409
3410	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3411			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3412			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3413			something different and driver-specific.
3414			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3415			file if at all.
3416
3417	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3418			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3419			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3420			waits 4 seconds.
3421
3422	nf_conntrack.acct=
3423			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3424			0 to disable accounting
3425			1 to enable accounting
3426			Default value is 0.
3427
3428	nfs.cache_getent=
3429			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3430			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3431
3432	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3433			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3434			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3435
3436	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3437			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3438			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3439			requests.
3440
3441	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3442			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3443			channel should listen.
3444
3445	nfs.enable_ino64=
3446			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3447			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3448			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3449			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3450			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3451
3452	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3453			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3454			entries.
3455
3456	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3457			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3458			slots the client will assign to the callback
3459			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3460			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3461			a particular server.
3462
3463	nfs.max_session_slots=
3464			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3465			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3466			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3467			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3468			Note that there is little point in setting this
3469			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3470
3471	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3472			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3473			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3474			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3475			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3476			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3477			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3478			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3479			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3480			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3481			back to using the idmapper.
3482			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3483
3484	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3485			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3486			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3487			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3488			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3489
3490	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3491			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3492			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3493			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3494			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3495			after the locks are lost.
3496			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3497			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3498			parameter to '1'.
3499			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3500			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3501
3502	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3503			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3504			information in exchange_id requests.
3505			If zero, no implementation identification information
3506			will be sent.
3507			The default is to send the implementation identification
3508			information.
3509
3510	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3511			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3512			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3513
3514			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3515			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3516			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3517			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3518
3519	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3520			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3521			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3522			the destination of the copy.
3523
3524	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3525			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3526			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3527			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3528			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3529			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3530
3531	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3532			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3533			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3534			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3535			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3536			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3537			this parameter.
3538
3539	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3540			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3541
3542	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3543			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3544
3545	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3546			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3547
3548	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3549			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3550			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3551
3552	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3553			when a NMI is triggered.
3554			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3555
3556	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3557			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3558			Valid num: 0 or 1
3559			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3560			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3561			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3562			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3563			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3564			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3565			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3566			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3567			need the box quickly up again.
3568
3569			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3570			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3571
3572	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3573			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3574			is present.
3575
3576	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3577			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3578
3579	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3580			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3581			but will impact performance.
3582
3583	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3584
3585	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3586			(CPU alternatives feature).
3587
3588	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3589			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3590
3591	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3592
3593	nocache		[ARM]
3594
3595	no_console_suspend
3596			[HW] Never suspend the console
3597			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3598			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3599			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3600			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3601			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3602			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3603			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3604			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3605			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3606			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3607			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3608			turn on/off it dynamically.
3609
3610	no_debug_objects
3611			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3612
3613	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3614
3615	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3616
3617	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3618
3619	noexec		[IA-64]
3620
3621	noexec32	[X86-64]
3622			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3623			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3624				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3625			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3626				read implies executable mappings
3627
3628	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3629			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3630			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3631
3632	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3633
3634	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3635
3636	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3637			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3638			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3639
3640	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3641			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3642			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3643			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3644			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3645			real-time systems.
3646
3647	no_hash_pointers
3648			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3649			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3650			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3651			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3652			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3653			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3654			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3655			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3656			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3657			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3658			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3659			kernels.
3660
3661	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3662
3663	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3664			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3665			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3666			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3667			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3668			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3669			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3670			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3671
3672	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3673
3674	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3675
3676	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3677			Valid arguments: on, off
3678			Default: on
3679
3680	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3681			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3682			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3683			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3684			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3685			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3686			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3687			just as if they had also been called out in the
3688			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3689
3690			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3691			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3692
3693	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3694			initial RAM disk.
3695
3696	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3697			remapping.
3698			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3699
3700	nointroute	[IA-64]
3701
3702	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3703
3704	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3705
3706	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3707			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3708
3709	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3710
3711	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3712
3713	nokaslr		[KNL]
3714			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3715			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3716			Layout Randomization).
3717
3718	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3719			fault handling.
3720
3721	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3722
3723	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3724
3725	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3726
3727	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3728
3729	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3730
3731	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3732			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3733
3734	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3735			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3736			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3737			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3738			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3739			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3740			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3741
3742			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3743
3744	nomodule	Disable module load
3745
3746	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3747			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3748			irq.
3749
3750	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3751			pagetables) support.
3752
3753	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3754
3755	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3756			in some Intel CPUs.
3757
3758	nopti		[X86-64]
3759			Equivalent to pti=off
3760
3761	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3762			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3763			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3764			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3765
3766	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3767			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3768			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3769			contention.
3770
3771	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3772			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3773
3774	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3775			with UP alternatives
3776
3777	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3778			space.
3779
3780	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3781
3782	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3783			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3784			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3785
3786	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3787
3788	nosmap		[PPC]
3789			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3790			even if it is supported by processor.
3791
3792	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3793			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3794			even if it is supported by processor.
3795
3796	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3797			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3798
3799	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3800			Equivalent to smt=1.
3801
3802			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3803			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3804				     via the sysfs control file.
3805
3806	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3807
3808	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3809			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3810
3811	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3812			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3813			with this option.
3814
3815	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3816			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3817			possible in the system.
3818
3819	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3820			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3821			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3822			option.
3823
3824	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3825			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3826			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3827
3828	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3829
3830	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3831			broken timer IRQ sources.
3832
3833	no_uaccess_flush
3834	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3835
3836	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3837			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3838			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3839			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3840			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3841			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3842			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3843			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3844			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3845			is set.
3846
3847	no-vmw-sched-clock
3848			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3849			clock and use the default one.
3850
3851	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3852			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3853
3854	nowb		[ARM]
3855
3856	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3857
3858			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3859			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3860			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3861
3862	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3863			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3864			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3865
3866	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3867			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3868			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3869			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3870			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3871			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3872
3873	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3874			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3875			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3876			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3877			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3878			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3879			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3880
3881	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3882			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3883			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3884			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3885			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3886			parameter's value.
3887			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3888			Default: 255
3889
3890	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3891			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3892			SAL PALO.
3893
3894	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3895			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3896			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3897			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3898			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3899			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3900			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3901			hot plugging.
3902
3903	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3904
3905	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3906			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3907
3908	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3909			NUMA balancing.
3910			Allowed values are enable and disable
3911
3912	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3913			'node', 'default' can be specified
3914			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3915			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3916
3917	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3918			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3919			info.
3920
3921	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3922			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3923			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3924			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3925			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3926			interrupts *may* be lost!
3927
3928	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3929			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3930			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3931			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3932
3933	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3934
3935			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3936
3937			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3938				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3939			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3940				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3941				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3942
3943	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3944			process, but there is a small probability of
3945			deadlocking the machine.
3946			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3947			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3948
3949	page_alloc.shuffle=
3950			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3951			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3952			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3953			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3954			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3955			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3956			can be read from sysfs at:
3957			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3958
3959	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3960			Storage of the information about who allocated
3961			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3962			we can turn it on.
3963			on: enable the feature
3964
3965	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3966			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3967			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3968			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3969			on: turn on poisoning
3970
3971	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3972			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3973			Format: <integer>
3974			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3975			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3976
3977	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3978			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3979			timeout = 0: wait forever
3980			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3981			Format: <timeout>
3982
3983	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3984			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3985			bit 0: print all tasks info
3986			bit 1: print system memory info
3987			bit 2: print timer info
3988			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3989			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3990			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3991			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3992			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3993			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3994			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3995			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3996
3997	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3998			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3999			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4000			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4001			called with any of the flags in this set.
4002			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4003			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4004			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4005			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4006			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4007			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4008			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4009
4010	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4011			on a WARN().
4012
4013	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4014			connected to, default is 0.
4015			Format: <parport#>
4016	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4017			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4018			Format: <mode>
4019
4020	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4021			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4022			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4023			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4024			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4025			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4026			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4027			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4028			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4029			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4030			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4031			are specified on the command line, starting
4032			with parport0.
4033
4034	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4035			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4036			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4037			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4038			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4039			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4040			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4041
4042	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4043			Format: <int>
4044			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4045			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4046			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4047
4048	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4049			Format: <int>
4050			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4051			changes.  Disabled by default.
4052
4053	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4054			Format: <int>
4055			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4056			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4057			Disabled by default.
4058
4059	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4060			Format: <int>
4061			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4062			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4063			Disabled by default.
4064
4065	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4066			Format: <int>
4067			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4068			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4069			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4070			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4071			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4072			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4073			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4074			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4075			all channels.
4076
4077	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4078			Format: <int>
4079			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4080			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4081			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4082
4083	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4084			Format: <int>
4085			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4086			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4087			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4088
4089	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4090			Format: <int>
4091			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4092			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4093			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4094			All modes allowed by default.
4095
4096	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4097			Format: <int>
4098			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4099			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4100
4101	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4102			Format: <int>
4103			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4104			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4105			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4106			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4107			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4108			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4109			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4110			By default all supported ports are probed.
4111
4112	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4113			Format: <int>
4114			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4115			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4116
4117	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4118			Format: <int>
4119			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4120			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4121			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4122			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4123			0 otherwise.
4124
4125	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4126			Format: <int>
4127			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4128			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4129			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4130			allowed by default.
4131
4132	pause_on_oops=
4133			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4134			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4135			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4136
4137	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4138
4139	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4140
4141				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4142				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4143				specified in one of the following formats:
4144
4145				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4146				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4147
4148				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4149				bus/device/function address which may change
4150				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4151				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4152				by other kernel parameters. If the
4153				domain is left unspecified, it is
4154				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4155				to a device through multiple device/function
4156				addresses can be specified after the base
4157				address (this is more robust against
4158				renumbering issues).  The second format
4159				selects devices using IDs from the
4160				configuration space which may match multiple
4161				devices in the system.
4162
4163		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4164				changes anything
4165		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4166		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4167				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4168				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4169		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4170				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4171				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4172				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4173		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4174				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4175				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4176		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4177				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4178				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4179				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4180				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4181				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4182				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4183		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4184				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4185				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4186		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4187				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4188		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4189				Configuration
4190		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4191				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4192				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4193		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4194				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4195				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4196		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4197				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4198				should never be necessary.
4199		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4200				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4201				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4202				when the system masks IRQs.
4203		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4204				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4205				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4206				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4207		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4208				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4209				on several machines and they hang the machine
4210				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4211				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4212				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4213				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4214				motherboard.
4215		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4216				Use with caution as certain devices share
4217				address decoders between ROMs and other
4218				resources.
4219		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4220				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4221				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4222		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4223				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4224		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4225				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4226				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4227				this way.
4228		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4229				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4230				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4231				F0000h-100000h range.
4232		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4233				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4234				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4235				explicitly which ones they are.
4236		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4237				numbers ourselves, overriding
4238				whatever the firmware may have done.
4239		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4240				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4241				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4242				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4243				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4244				IRQ routing is enabled.
4245		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4246				or for PCI scanning.
4247		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4248				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4249				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4250				please report a bug.
4251		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4252				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4253		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4254				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4255				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4256				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4257				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4258		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4259				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4260				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4261				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4262		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4263				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4264				so this option is a temporary workaround
4265				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4266		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4267				handle more pci cards
4268		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4269				This might help on some broken boards which
4270				machine check when some devices' config space
4271				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4272				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4273		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4274				This sorting is done to get a device
4275				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4276		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4277		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4278				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4279		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4280				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4281		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4282				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4283				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4284				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4285				or bus can support) for best performance.
4286		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4287				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4288				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4289				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4290				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4291				that hot-added devices will work.
4292		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4293				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4294				The default value is 256 bytes.
4295		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4296				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4297				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4298		resource_alignment=
4299				Format:
4300				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4301				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4302				aligned memory resources. How to
4303				specify the device is described above.
4304				If <order of align> is not specified,
4305				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4306				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4307				windows need to be expanded.
4308				To specify the alignment for several
4309				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4310				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4311				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4312				for 4096-byte alignment.
4313		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4314				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4315				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4316				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4317				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4318				the default.
4319				off: Turn ECRC off
4320				on: Turn ECRC on.
4321		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4322				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4323				Default size is 256 bytes.
4324		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4325				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4326				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4327		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4328				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4329				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4330		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4331				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4332				MMIO_PREF window.
4333				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4334		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4335				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4336				Default is 1.
4337		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4338				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4339				accommodate resources required by all child
4340				devices.
4341				off: Turn realloc off
4342				on: Turn realloc on
4343		realloc		same as realloc=on
4344		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4345		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4346				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4347		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4348				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4349				port.
4350		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4351				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4352				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4353				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4354				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4355				taints the kernel.
4356		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4357				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4358				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4359				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4360				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4361				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4362				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4363				this removes isolation between devices and
4364				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4365		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4366		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4367		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4368				one PCI domain per PCI function
4369
4370	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4371			Management.
4372		off	Disable ASPM.
4373		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4374			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4375
4376	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4377		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4378			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4379			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4380			also tries to use these services.
4381		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4382				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4383		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4384			hotplug).
4385
4386	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4387		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4388		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4389
4390	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4391		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4392			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4393
4394	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4395
4396	pd_ignore_unused
4397			[PM]
4398			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4399			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4400			for debug and development, but should not be
4401			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4402
4403	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4404			boot time.
4405			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4406			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4407
4408	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4409			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4410			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4411			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4412			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4413			and performance comparison.
4414
4415	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4416			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4417
4418	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4419			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4420			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4421
4422	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4423			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4424			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4425
4426	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4427			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4428			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4429			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4430			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4431			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4432			remains 0.
4433
4434	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4435			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4436
4437	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4438			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4439			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4440			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4441			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4442			possible settings and some assignment information.
4443
4444	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4445			{ off }
4446
4447	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4448			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4449
4450	pnp_reserve_irq=
4451			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4452
4453	pnp_reserve_dma=
4454			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4455
4456	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4457			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4458
4459	pnp_reserve_mem=
4460			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4461			autoconfiguration.
4462			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4463
4464	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4465			Default is 21.
4466			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4467			may be specified.
4468			Format: <port>,<port>....
4469
4470	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4471			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4472			platform machine description specific power_save
4473			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4474			execution priority.
4475
4476	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4477			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4478			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4479			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4480			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4481
4482	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4483			Format: {"off"}
4484			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4485
4486	preempt=	[KNL]
4487			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4488			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4489			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4490			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4491			       can be preempted anytime.
4492
4493	print-fatal-signals=
4494			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4495
4496			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4497			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4498			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4499			coredump - etc.
4500
4501			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4502			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4503
4504			default: off.
4505
4506	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4507			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4508			panics
4509			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4510			default: disabled
4511
4512	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4513			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4514			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4515			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4516			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4517			in order to provide more debug information.
4518			Format: <bool>
4519			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4520
4521	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4522			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4523			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4524			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4525			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4526			Default: ratelimit
4527
4528	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4529			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4530
4531	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4532			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4533			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4534
4535	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4536			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4537			instead using the legacy FADT method
4538
4539	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4540			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4541			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4542				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4543			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4544			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4545				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4546			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4547			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4548				statistical time based profiling.
4549
4550	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4551
4552	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4553			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4554			that).
4555			Format: <bool>
4556
4557	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4558			tracking.
4559			Format: <bool>
4560
4561	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4562			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4563	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4564			per second.
4565	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4566			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4567			(0 = never).
4568	psmouse.resolution=
4569			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4570	psmouse.smartscroll=
4571			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4572			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4573
4574	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4575
4576	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4577			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4578			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4579			system calls and interrupts.
4580
4581			on   - unconditionally enable
4582			off  - unconditionally disable
4583			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4584			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4585
4586			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4587
4588	pty.legacy_count=
4589			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4590			default number.
4591
4592	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4593
4594	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4595
4596	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4597			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4598			invalidate.
4599
4600	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4601			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4602
4603	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4604			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4605
4606	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4607
4608	random.trust_cpu=off
4609			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4610			random number generator (if available) to
4611			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4612
4613	random.trust_bootloader=off
4614			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4615			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4616			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4617
4618	randomize_kstack_offset=
4619			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4620			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4621			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4622			that depend on stack address determinism or
4623			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4624			available on architectures that have defined
4625			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4626			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4627			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4628
4629	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4630
4631		cec_disable	[X86]
4632				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4633				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4634
4635	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4636			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4637			as described above.
4638
4639			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4640			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4641			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4642			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4643			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4644			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4645			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4646			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4647			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4648			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4649			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4650			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4651
4652			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4653			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4654
4655			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4656			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4657			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4658			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4659
4660			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4661			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4662
4663	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4664			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4665			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4666			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4667			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4668			This improves the real-time response for the
4669			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4670			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4671			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4672			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4673
4674	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4675			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4676			process in one batch.
4677
4678	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4679			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4680			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4681			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4682
4683	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4684			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4685			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4686
4687	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4688			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4689			RCU grace-period initialization.
4690
4691	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4692			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4693			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4694			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4695			the rcu_node combining tree.
4696
4697	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4698			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4699			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4700			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4701			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4702
4703			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4704			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4705			to zero.
4706
4707	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4708			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4709			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4710			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4711			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4712
4713	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4714			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4715			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4716			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4717			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4718			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4719			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4720
4721	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4722			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4723			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4724			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4725			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4726			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4727			condition.
4728
4729	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4730			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4731			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4732			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4733
4734	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4735			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4736			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4737			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4738			and maximum value is HZ.
4739
4740	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4741			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4742			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4743			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4744
4745	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4746			Set required age in jiffies for a
4747			given grace period before RCU starts
4748			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4749			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4750			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4751			a value based on the most recent settings
4752			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4753			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4754			This calculated value may be viewed in
4755			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4756			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4757			overwritten.
4758
4759	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4760			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4761			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4762			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4763			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4764			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4765			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4766			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4767			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4768			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4769			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4770			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4771
4772	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4773			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4774			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4775			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4776			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4777			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4778			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4779			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4780
4781			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4782			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4783			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4784			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4785			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4786
4787	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4788			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4789			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4790			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4791			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4792			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4793			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4794			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4795			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4796			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4797			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4798			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4799
4800	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4801			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4802			each group, which defaults to the square root
4803			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4804			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4805			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4806			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4807
4808	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4809			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4810			batch limiting is disabled.
4811
4812	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4813			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4814			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4815
4816	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4817			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4818			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4819			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4820			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4821			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4822			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4823			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4824
4825	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4826			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4827			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4828			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4829			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4830			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4831
4832	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4833			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4834			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4835			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4836			Larger delays increase the probability of
4837			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4838			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4839			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4840
4841	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4842			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4843			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4844			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4845
4846	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4847			Measure performance of asynchronous
4848			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4849
4850	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4851			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4852			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4853			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4854			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4855			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4856
4857	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4858			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4859			grace-period primitives.
4860
4861	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4862			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4863			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4864			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4865			interference.
4866
4867	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4868			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4869
4870	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4871			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4872			If this parameter has the same value as
4873			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4874			and double-argument variants are tested.
4875
4876	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4877			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4878			If this parameter has the same value as
4879			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4880			and double-argument variants are tested.
4881
4882	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4883			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4884
4885	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4886			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4887
4888	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4889			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4890			of allocations and frees.
4891
4892	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4893			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4894			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4895			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4896			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4897			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4898			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4899			a single reader.
4900
4901	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4902			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4903			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4904			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4905
4906	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4907			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4908
4909	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4910			Shut the system down after performance tests
4911			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4912			testing.
4913
4914	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4915			Enable additional printk() statements.
4916
4917	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4918			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4919			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4920			no holdoff.
4921
4922	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4923			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4924			in microseconds.
4925
4926	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4927			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4928			in microseconds.
4929
4930	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4931			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4932			in seconds.
4933
4934	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4935			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4936			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4937			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4938			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4939			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4940			of CPUs to be used.
4941
4942	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4943			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4944			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4945
4946	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4947			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4948			forward-progress tests.
4949
4950	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4951			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4952			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4953			testing.
4954
4955	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4956			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4957			primitives, if available.
4958
4959	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4960			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4961
4962	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4963			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4964			update-side primitives, if available.
4965
4966	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4967			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4968			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4969			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4970			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4971			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4972			they are all non-zero.
4973
4974	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4975			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4976			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4977			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4978
4979	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4980			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4981			This can of course result in splats, and is
4982			intended to test the ability of things like
4983			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4984			such leaks.
4985
4986	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4987			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4988
4989	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4990			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4991			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4992			test, hence the "fake".
4993
4994	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4995			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4996			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4997
4998	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4999			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5000			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5001
5002	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5003			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5004			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5005			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5006			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5007			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5008
5009	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5010			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5011
5012	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5013			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5014
5015	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5016			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5017			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5018
5019	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5020			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5021			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5022			task-exit processing.
5023
5024	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5025			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5026			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5027			is spawned.
5028
5029	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5030			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5031			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5032
5033	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5034			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5035			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5036			during the rcutorture test.
5037
5038	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5039			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5040			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5041
5042	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5043			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5044			warnings, zero to disable.
5045
5046	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5047			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5048			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
5049			to any other stall-related activity.
5050
5051	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5052			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5053
5054	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5055			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5056
5057	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5058			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5059			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5060			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5061			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5062			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5063
5064	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5065			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5066
5067	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5068			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5069			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5070			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5071			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5072
5073	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5074			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5075			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5076			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5077
5078	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5079			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5080
5081	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5082			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5083
5084	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5085			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5086			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5087
5088	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5089			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5090
5091	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5092			Enable additional printk() statements.
5093
5094	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5095			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5096			stall warning.
5097
5098	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5099			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5100
5101	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5102			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5103			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5104			during early boot, that is, during the time
5105			before the init task is spawned.
5106
5107	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5108			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5109			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5110			value is 300 seconds.
5111
5112	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5113			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5114			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5115			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5116			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5117			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5118			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5119			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5120			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5121
5122	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5123			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5124			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5125			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5126			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5127
5128	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5129			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5130			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5131			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5132
5133	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5134			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5135			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5136			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5137			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5138			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5139			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5140
5141	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5142			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5143			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5144			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5145			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5146			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5147			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5148			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5149			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5150
5151	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5152			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5153			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5154			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5155			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5156
5157			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5158			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5159			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5160			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5161			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5162			grace-period processing.
5163
5164	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5165			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5166			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5167			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5168			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5169			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5170			set to the default value of -1.
5171
5172	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5173			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5174			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5175			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5176			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5177			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5178			the default value of -1.
5179
5180	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5181			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5182			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5183			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5184			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5185			for use in testing.
5186
5187	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5188			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5189			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5190			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5191			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5192			but lengthens grace periods.
5193
5194	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5195			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5196			informational messages, which give some indication
5197			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5198			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5199			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5200			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5201			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5202			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5203			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5204
5205	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5206			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5207			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5208			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5209			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5210			the value three, so that the first informational
5211			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5212			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5213			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5214			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5215
5216	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5217			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5218			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5219			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5220			A change in value does not take effect until
5221			the beginning of the next grace period.
5222
5223	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5224			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5225
5226	rdinit=		[KNL]
5227			Format: <full_path>
5228			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5229			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5230
5231	rdrand=		[X86]
5232			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5233				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5234				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5235				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5236				path).
5237
5238	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5239			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5240			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5241			mba, smba, bmec.
5242			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5243				rdt=cmt,!mba
5244
5245	reboot=		[KNL]
5246			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5247				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5248				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5249				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5250				[[,]f[orce]
5251			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5252					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5253					reboot only),
5254			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5255			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5256			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5257					to be used for rebooting.
5258
5259	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5260			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5261			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5262			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5263			interference.
5264
5265	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5266			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5267			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5268			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5269			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5270			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5271			x86 laptops.
5272
5273	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5274			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5275			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5276			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5277
5278	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5279			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5280			the console log.
5281
5282	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5283			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5284			measured in microseconds.
5285
5286	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5287			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5288
5289	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5290			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5291			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5292			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5293			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5294
5295	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5296			Enable additional printk() statements.
5297
5298	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5299			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5300			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5301			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5302			specified.
5303
5304	relax_domain_level=
5305			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5306			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5307
5308	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5309			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5310			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5311			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5312			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5313
5314	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5315			Format: nn[KMG]
5316			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5317			address space.
5318
5319	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5320			during initialization.
5321
5322	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5323			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5324			Format:
5325			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5326
5327	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5328			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5329			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5330			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5331			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5332
5333	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5334			read the resume files
5335
5336	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5337			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5338			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5339
5340	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5341
5342	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5343			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5344			vulnerability.
5345
5346			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5347			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5348			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5349			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5350			that don't.
5351
5352			off          - no mitigation
5353			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5354			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5355				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5356				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5357				       and older without STIBP).
5358			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5359				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5360				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5361				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5362				       on Intel.
5363			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5364				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5365				       the alternative for systems which do not
5366				       have STIBP.
5367			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5368				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5369				       systems.
5370			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5371				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5372				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5373
5374			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5375			time according to the CPU.
5376
5377			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5378
5379	rfkill.default_state=
5380		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5381			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5382		1	Unblocked.
5383
5384	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5385		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5386		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5387			blocked and the previous configuration.
5388		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5389			blocked and everything unblocked.
5390
5391	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5392			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5393
5394	ring3mwait=disable
5395			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5396			CPUs.
5397
5398	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5399
5400	rodata=		[KNL]
5401		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5402		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5403		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5404		        [arm64]
5405
5406	rockchip.usb_uart
5407			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5408			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5409			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5410			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5411
5412	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5413			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5414
5415	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5416			mount the root filesystem
5417
5418	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5419
5420	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5421
5422	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5423			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5424			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5425
5426	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5427			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5428			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5429			managed by CMA.
5430
5431	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5432
5433	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5434
5435	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5436			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5437		strict
5438			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5439			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5440			which is faster.
5441
5442	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5443			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5444			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5445			factor of the size of main memory.
5446			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5447			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5448			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5449			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5450			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5451			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5452			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5453
5454	sa1100ir	[NET]
5455			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5456
5457	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5458
5459	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5460			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5461			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5462			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5463
5464	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5465			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5466			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5467			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5468			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5469			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5470			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5471			value.
5472			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5473			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5474				1			64 ms
5475				2			128 ms
5476			and so on.
5477			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5478			Default is 0.
5479
5480	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5481			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5482			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5483			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5484			tests.
5485
5486	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5487			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5488			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5489			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5490			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5491			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5492			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5493
5494	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5495			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5496			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5497			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5498			equal to the number of CPUs.
5499
5500	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5501			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5502			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5503
5504	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5505			Number seconds to wait between successive
5506			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5507			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5508
5509	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5510			The number of seconds following the start of the
5511			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5512			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5513			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5514
5515	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5516			The number of seconds between outputting the
5517			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5518			of zero disables statistics output.
5519
5520	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5521			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5522			to the set of CPUs under test.
5523
5524	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5525			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5526			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5527			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5528			functions.
5529
5530	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5531			Enable additional printk() statements.
5532
5533	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5534			The probability weighting to use for the
5535			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5536			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5537			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5538			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5539			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5540
5541	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5542			The probability weighting to use for the
5543			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5544			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5545
5546	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5547			The probability weighting to use for the
5548			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5549			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5550			Note well that setting a high probability for
5551			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5552			on the system.
5553
5554	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5555			The probability weighting to use for the
5556			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5557			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5558			and weight_many.
5559
5560	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5561			The probability weighting to use for the
5562			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5563			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5564			weight_many.
5565
5566	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5567			The probability weighting to use for the
5568			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5569			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5570			and weight_many.
5571
5572	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5573			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5574			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5575			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5576			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5577			1 -- enable.
5578			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5579			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5580
5581	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5582			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5583			"lsm=" parameter.
5584
5585	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5586			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5587			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5588			0 -- disable.
5589			1 -- enable.
5590			Default value is 1.
5591
5592	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5593
5594	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5595
5596	shapers=	[NET]
5597			Maximal number of shapers.
5598
5599	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5600			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5601			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5602			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5603			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5604			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5605			apic=verbose is specified.
5606			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5607
5608	simeth=		[IA-64]
5609	simscsi=
5610
5611	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5612
5613	slab_merge	[MM]
5614			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5615			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5616
5617	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5618			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5619			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5620			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5621			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5622			layout control by attackers can usually be
5623			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5624			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5625			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5626			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5627			own.
5628			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5629
5630	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5631			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5632			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5633			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5634			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5635
5636	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5637			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5638			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5639			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5640			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5641			last alloc / free. For more information see
5642			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5643
5644	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5645			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5646			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5647			fragmentation. For more information see
5648			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5649
5650	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5651			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5652			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5653			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5654			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5655			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5656			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5657			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5658
5659	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5660			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5661			lower than slub_max_order.
5662			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5663
5664	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5665			Same with slab_merge.
5666
5667	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5668			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5669			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5670
5671	smart2=		[HW]
5672			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5673
5674	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5675			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5676			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5677			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5678			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5679			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5680			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5681			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5682			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5683			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5684
5685	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5686	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5687	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5688	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5689	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5690	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5691	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5692				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5693				1: Fast pin select (default)
5694				2: ATC IRMode
5695
5696	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5697			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5698			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5699			actual hardware limit.
5700			Format: <integer>
5701			Default: -1 (no limit)
5702
5703	softlockup_panic=
5704			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5705			Format: 0 | 1
5706
5707			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5708			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5709			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5710			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5711			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5712
5713	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5714			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5715			backtraces on all cpus.
5716			Format: 0 | 1
5717
5718	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5719			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5720
5721	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5722			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5723			The default operation protects the kernel from
5724			user space attacks.
5725
5726			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5727			       spectre_v2_user=on
5728			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5729			       spectre_v2_user=off
5730			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5731			       vulnerable
5732
5733			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5734			mitigation method at run time according to the
5735			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5736			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5737			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5738
5739			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5740			against user space to user space task attacks.
5741
5742			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5743			the user space protections.
5744
5745			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5746
5747			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5748			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5749			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5750			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5751			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5752			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5753			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5754			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5755
5756			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5757			spectre_v2=auto.
5758
5759	spectre_v2_user=
5760			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5761		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5762		        user space tasks
5763
5764			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5765				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5766
5767			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5768				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5769
5770			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5771				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5772				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5773				  is inherited on fork.
5774
5775			prctl,ibpb
5776				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5777				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5778				  always when switching between different user
5779				  space processes.
5780
5781			seccomp
5782				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5783				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5784				  they explicitly opt out.
5785
5786			seccomp,ibpb
5787				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5788				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5789				  always when switching between different
5790				  user space processes.
5791
5792			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5793				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5794
5795			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5796
5797			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5798			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5799
5800	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5801			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5802			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5803
5804			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5805			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5806			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5807			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5808			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5809			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5810			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5811			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5812
5813			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5814			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5815			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5816			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5817
5818			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5819			Bypass optimization is used.
5820
5821			On x86 the options are:
5822
5823			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5824			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5825			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5826				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5827				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5828				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5829				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5830				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5831			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5832				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5833				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5834				  is inherited on fork.
5835			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5836				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5837
5838			Default mitigations:
5839			X86:	"prctl"
5840
5841			On powerpc the options are:
5842
5843			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5844				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5845				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5846				  exit.
5847			off	- No action.
5848
5849			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5850			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5851
5852	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5853	spia_fio_base=
5854	spia_pedr=
5855	spia_peddr=
5856
5857	split_lock_detect=
5858			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5859
5860			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5861			instructions that access data across cache line
5862			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5863			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5864			bus lock detection.
5865
5866			off	- not enabled
5867
5868			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5869				  about applications triggering the #AC
5870				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5871				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5872				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5873				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5874				  enabled in hardware.
5875
5876			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5877				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5878				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5879				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5880
5881			ratelimit:N -
5882				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5883				  per second for bus lock detection.
5884				  0 < N <= 1000.
5885
5886				  N/A for split lock detection.
5887
5888
5889			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5890			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5891			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5892			mode.
5893
5894			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5895			CPL > 0.
5896
5897	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5898			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5899			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5900
5901			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5902			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5903			number generator.
5904
5905			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5906			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5907			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5908			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5909			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5910
5911			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5912			the following option:
5913
5914			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5915				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5916
5917	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5918			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5919			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5920			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5921			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5922			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5923			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5924			(decide at boot).
5925
5926	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5927			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5928			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5929			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5930
5931				   0:  Never.
5932				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5933				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5934				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5935				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5936
5937			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5938			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5939			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5940
5941	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5942			Specifies how frequently to check for
5943			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5944			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5945			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5946			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5947			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5948			are ignored.
5949
5950	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5951			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5952			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5953			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5954			grace period will be considered for automatic
5955			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5956			expediting.
5957
5958	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5959			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5960			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5961			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5962			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5963			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5964
5965	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5966			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5967			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5968			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5969			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5970			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5971
5972	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5973			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5974			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5975
5976	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5977			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5978			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5979			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5980			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5981			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5982			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5983
5984	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5985			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5986
5987			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5988			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5989			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5990			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5991
5992			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5993				   for both kernel and userspace
5994			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5995				   for both kernel and userspace
5996			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5997				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5998				   to allow userspace to register its
5999				   interest in being mitigated too.
6000
6001	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6002			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6003			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6004			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6005			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6006			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6007
6008	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6009			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6010			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6011			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6012			to false.
6013
6014	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6015			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6016
6017	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6018			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6019			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6020			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6021			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6022			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6023			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6024
6025	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6026			Format: <num>
6027			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6028			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6029			as the initial boot-console.
6030			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6031
6032	sti_font=	[HW]
6033			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6034
6035	stifb=		[HW]
6036			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6037
6038        strict_sas_size=
6039			[X86]
6040			Format: <bool>
6041			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6042			against the required signal frame size which
6043			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6044			be used to filter out binaries which have
6045			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6046
6047	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6048			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6049			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6050			faults on kernel addresses.
6051
6052	stress_slb	[PPC]
6053			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6054			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6055			on kernel addresses.
6056
6057	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6058	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6059			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6060			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6061			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6062			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6063			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6064			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6065			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6066			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6067			maximum port values.
6068
6069	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6070			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6071			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6072			process in parallel from a single connection.
6073			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6074
6075	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6076			[NFS]
6077			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6078			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6079			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6080			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6081			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6082			NFS server is running.
6083
6084			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6085				    automatically using heuristics
6086			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6087			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6088			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6089				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6090
6091	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6092	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6093			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6094			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6095			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6096			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6097			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6098			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6099
6100	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6101			[SUSPEND]
6102			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6103			mode before resuming the system (see
6104			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6105			is set. Default value is 5.
6106
6107	svm=		[PPC]
6108			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6109			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6110			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6111
6112	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6113			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6114			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6115			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6116				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6117				 to a power of 2.
6118			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6119			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6120			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6121
6122	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6123
6124	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6125			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6126			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6127			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6128			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6129			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6130			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6131			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6132
6133	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6134			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6135			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6136			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6137			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6138			in older udev will not work anymore.
6139			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6140			the kernel configuration.
6141
6142	sysrq_always_enabled
6143			[KNL]
6144			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6145			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6146			Useful for debugging.
6147
6148	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6149			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6150			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6151			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6152			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6153			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6154
6155	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6156
6157	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6158			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6159			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6160			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6161			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6162			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6163			The system is woken from this state using a
6164			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6165
6166	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6167			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6168
6169	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6170			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6171			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6172
6173	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6174			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6175			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6176
6177	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6178			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6179			critical and hot trip points.
6180
6181	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6182			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6183
6184	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6185			-1: disable all passive trip points
6186			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6187			value
6188
6189	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6190			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6191			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6192			0: no polling (default)
6193
6194	threadirqs	[KNL]
6195			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6196			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6197
6198	topology=	[S390]
6199			Format: {off | on}
6200			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6201			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6202			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6203			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6204			Default is on.
6205
6206	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6207			Format: {off}
6208			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6209			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6210			LPAR.
6211
6212	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6213			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6214			until after init has spawned.
6215
6216	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6217			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6218			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6219			very costly operation when many torture tests
6220			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6221			with rotating-rust storage.
6222
6223	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6224			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6225			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6226			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6227
6228	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6229			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6230
6231	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6232
6233	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6234			Format: integer pcr id
6235			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6236			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6237			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6238			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6239			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6240			are saved.
6241
6242	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6243			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6244			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6245			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6246			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6247			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6248
6249			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6250			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6251			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6252			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6253
6254			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6255			to stop the printing of events to console at
6256			late_initcall_sync.
6257
6258			** CAUTION **
6259
6260			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6261			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6262			the system to live lock.
6263
6264	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6265			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6266			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6267			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6268			make the system inoperable.
6269
6270			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6271			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6272
6273	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6274			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6275
6276	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6277			at boot up.
6278			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6279				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6280				depending on the architecture, may not be
6281				in sync between CPUs.
6282			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6283				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6284				but better for some race conditions.
6285			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6286				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6287				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6288				once per event.
6289			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6290			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6291			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6292			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6293				stamps.
6294			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6295			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6296			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6297
6298	trace_event=[event-list]
6299			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6300			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6301			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6302			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6303
6304	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6305			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6306			This will be listed in:
6307
6308				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6309
6310			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6311			via:
6312
6313				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6314
6315			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6316			unique.
6317
6318				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6319
6320			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6321			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6322			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6323
6324	trace_options=[option-list]
6325			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6326			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6327			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6328			to echo the option name into
6329
6330			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6331
6332			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6333			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6334
6335			      trace_options=stacktrace
6336
6337			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6338			section.
6339
6340	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6341			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6342			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6343			filter.
6344
6345			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6346			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6347
6348			For example:
6349
6350			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6351
6352			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6353			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6354			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6355
6356			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6357
6358
6359	traceoff_on_warning
6360			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6361			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6362			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6363			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6364
6365			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6366			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6367			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6368
6369			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6370			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6371
6372	transparent_hugepage=
6373			[KNL]
6374			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6375			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6376			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6377			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6378			for more details.
6379
6380	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6381			Format: <string>
6382			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6383			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6384			sources:
6385			- "tpm"
6386			- "tee"
6387			- "caam"
6388			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6389			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6390			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6391			successfully during iteration.
6392
6393	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6394			Format: <string>
6395			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6396			Can be one of:
6397			- "kernel"
6398			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6399			- "default"
6400			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6401			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6402
6403	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6404			Format: <string>
6405			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6406			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6407			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6408			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6409			virtualized environment.
6410			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6411			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6412			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6413			can add overhead.
6414			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6415			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6416			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6417			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6418			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6419			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6420			acceptable).
6421			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6422			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6423			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6424			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6425			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6426			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6427			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6428			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6429			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6430			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6431
6432	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6433			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6434			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6435			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6436			Format: <unsigned int>
6437
6438	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6439			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6440			support TSX control.
6441
6442			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6443
6444			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6445				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6446				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6447				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6448				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6449				with leaving it enabled.
6450
6451			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6452				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6453				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6454				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6455				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6456				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6457				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6458
6459			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6460				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6461
6462			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6463
6464			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6465			for more details.
6466
6467	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6468			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6469
6470			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6471			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6472			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6473			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6474			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6475			conditions.
6476
6477			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6478			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6479			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6480			access.
6481
6482			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6483			options are:
6484
6485			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6486				     if TSX is enabled.
6487
6488			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6489				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6490				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6491				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6492			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6493
6494			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6495			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6496			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6497			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6498
6499			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6500			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6501			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6502			required and doesn't provide any additional
6503			mitigation.
6504
6505			For details see:
6506			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6507
6508	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6509			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6510			Format:
6511			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6512			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6513
6514	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6515			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6516			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6517			help "seeing" what's going on.
6518
6519	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6520			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6521
6522	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6523			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6524			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6525			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6526			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6527			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6528			reported either.
6529
6530	unknown_nmi_panic
6531			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6532
6533	usbcore.authorized_default=
6534			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6535			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6536			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6537			if device connected to internal port)
6538
6539	usbcore.autosuspend=
6540			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6541			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6542			is the time required before an idle device will be
6543			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6544			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6545
6546	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6547			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6548
6549	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6550			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6551			(default = 65536).
6552
6553	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6554			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6555
6556	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6557			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6558			scheme (default 0 = off).
6559
6560	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6561			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6562			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6563
6564	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6565			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6566			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6567
6568	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6569			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6570			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6571			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6572
6573	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6574
6575	usbcore.quirks=
6576			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6577			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6578			commas. Each entry has the form
6579			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6580			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6581			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6582			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6583			the following meanings:
6584				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6585					descriptors must not be fetched using
6586					a 255-byte read);
6587				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6588					correctly so reset it instead);
6589				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6590					Set-Interface requests);
6591				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6592					handle its Configuration or Interface
6593					strings);
6594				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6595					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6596				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6597					more interface descriptions than the
6598					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6599					talking to these interfaces);
6600				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6601					during initialization, after we read
6602					the device descriptor);
6603				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6604					high speed and super speed interrupt
6605					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6606					require the interval in microframes (1
6607					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6608					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6609					(bInterval-1).
6610					Devices with this quirk report their
6611					bInterval as the result of this
6612					calculation instead of the exponent
6613					variable used in the calculation);
6614				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6615					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6616					requests);
6617				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6618					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6619					remote wakeup capability);
6620				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6621					Power Management);
6622				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6623					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6624					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6625					calculation);
6626				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6627					to be disconnected before suspend to
6628					prevent spurious wakeup);
6629				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6630					pause after every control message);
6631				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6632					delay after resetting its port);
6633			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6634
6635	usbhid.mousepoll=
6636			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6637
6638	usbhid.jspoll=
6639			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6640
6641	usbhid.kbpoll=
6642			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6643
6644	usb-storage.delay_use=
6645			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6646			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6647
6648	usb-storage.quirks=
6649			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6650			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6651			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6652			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6653			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6654			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6655			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6656				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6657					of sense data, not on uas);
6658				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6659					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6660				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6661					device capacity by one sector);
6662				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6663					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6664				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6665					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6666				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6667					command, uas only);
6668				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6669					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6670				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6671					reported device capacity by one
6672					sector if the number is odd);
6673				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6674					device);
6675				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6676					command, uas only);
6677				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6678				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6679					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6680				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6681					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6682					not on uas);
6683				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6684					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6685				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6686					reported by the device, not on uas);
6687				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6688					by default, not on uas);
6689				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6690					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6691				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6692					Logical Unit);
6693				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6694					commands, uas only);
6695				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6696				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6697					medium is write-protected).
6698				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6699					even if the device claims no cache,
6700					not on uas)
6701			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6702
6703	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6704			Format: <int>
6705			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6706				 1 - undefined instruction events
6707				 2 - system calls
6708				 4 - invalid data aborts
6709				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6710				16 - SIGBUS faults
6711			Example: user_debug=31
6712
6713	userpte=
6714			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6715
6716				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6717					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6718					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6719
6720	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6721			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6722
6723			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6724			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6725
6726	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6727			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6728			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6729
6730			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6731			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6732			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6733
6734			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6735			alias for vdso32=0.
6736
6737			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6738			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6739
6740	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6741			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6742
6743	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6744			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6745
6746	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6747			Format: [0|1]
6748			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6749			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6750			level and then send out the event to user space through
6751			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6752			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6753			brightness level.
6754			default: 1
6755
6756	virtio_mmio.device=
6757			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6758
6759				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6760			where:
6761				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6762						like K, M and G)
6763				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6764				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6765						request_irq())
6766				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6767			example:
6768				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6769
6770			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6771
6772	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6773			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6774			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6775			Use vga=ask for menu.
6776			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6777			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6778
6779	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6780			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6781			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6782			All options are enabled by default, and this
6783			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6784			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6785			debugging features.
6786
6787			Available options are:
6788			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6789			  -	Disable all of the above options
6790
6791	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6792			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6793			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6794			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6795			mapped kernel RAM.
6796
6797	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6798			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6799			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6800
6801	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6802			Format: <command>
6803
6804	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6805			Format: <command>
6806
6807	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6808			Format: <command>
6809
6810	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6811			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6812			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6813			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6814			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6815			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6816			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6817
6818			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
6819			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
6820				    readable.
6821
6822			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6823			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6824				    page is not readable.
6825
6826			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6827			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6828			            might break your system.
6829
6830	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6831			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6832			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6833
6834	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6835			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6836			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6837			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6838
6839	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6840			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6841			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6842			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6843			ranging from 0-255.
6844
6845	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6846			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6847			Change the default green palette of the console.
6848			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6849			ranging from 0-255.
6850
6851	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6852			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6853			Change the default red palette of the console.
6854			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6855			ranging from 0-255.
6856
6857	vt.default_utf8=
6858			[VT]
6859			Format=<0|1>
6860			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6861			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6862			newly opened terminals.
6863
6864	vt.global_cursor_default=
6865			[VT]
6866			Format=<-1|0|1>
6867			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6868			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6869			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6870			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6871			cursors, 1 will display them.
6872
6873	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6874			Default: 2 = green.
6875
6876	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6877			Default: 3 = cyan.
6878
6879	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6880			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6881			or other driver-specific files in the
6882			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6883
6884	watchdog_thresh=
6885			[KNL]
6886			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6887			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6888			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6889			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6890			seconds.
6891
6892	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6893			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6894			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6895			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6896			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6897			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6898			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6899			corresponding sysfs file.
6900
6901	workqueue.disable_numa
6902			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6903			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6904			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6905			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6906			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6907			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6908			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6909
6910	workqueue.power_efficient
6911			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6912			they show better performance thanks to cache
6913			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6914			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6915
6916			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6917			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6918			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6919			power usage at the cost of small performance
6920			overhead.
6921
6922			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6923			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6924
6925	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6926			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6927			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6928			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6929			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6930			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6931			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6932			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6933			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6934			impacted.
6935
6936	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6937			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6938			supporting x2apic.
6939
6940	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6941			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6942			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6943			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6944			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6945			domains.
6946
6947	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6948			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6949			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6950			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6951			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6952			nics -- unplug network devices
6953			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6954			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6955				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6956				the unplug protocol
6957			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6958
6959	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6960			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6961			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6962
6963	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
6964			Format: <bool>
6965			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
6966			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
6967			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
6968
6969	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6970			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6971			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6972			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6973
6974	xen_nopv	[X86]
6975			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6976			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6977			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6978			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6979
6980	xen_no_vector_callback
6981			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6982			event channel interrupts.
6983
6984	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6985			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6986			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6987			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6988			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6989
6990	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6991			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6992			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6993			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6994			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6995			more timer interrupts.
6996
6997	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6998			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6999			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7000			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7001			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7002			max. Default is 180.
7003
7004	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7005			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7006			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7007
7008	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7009			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7010			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7011
7012	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7013			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7014			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7015			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7016			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7017			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7018
7019	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7020			Format:
7021			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7022
7023	xive=		[PPC]
7024			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7025			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7026			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7027
7028			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7029				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7030				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7031
7032	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7033			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7034			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7035			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7036			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7037
7038	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7039			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7040			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7041			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7042
7043	xmon		[PPC]
7044			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7045			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7046			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7047			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7048				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7049			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7050				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7051				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7052				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7053			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7054				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7055				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7056				can be written using xmon commands.
7057			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7058				memory, and other data can't be written using
7059				xmon commands.
7060			off	xmon is disabled.
7061
7062	amd_pstate=	[X86]
7063			disable
7064			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
7065			  scaling driver for the supported processors
7066			passive
7067			  Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a
7068			  desired performance on this abstract scale and the power
7069			  management firmware translates the requests into actual
7070			  hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory
7071			  clocks etc.)
7072			active
7073			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
7074			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
7075			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
7076			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
7077			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
7078			  frequency.
7079