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