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			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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: <int>
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_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity while booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	carrier_timeout=
465			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467			it waits 120 seconds.
468
469	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471			trust validation.
472			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
473
474	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478			others).
479
480	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
481			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
482
483	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
484			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
485			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487			  a single hierarchy
488			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489			  subsystem
490			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
493
494	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
497			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
499			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501			all v1 hierarchies.
502
503	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504			Format: <string>
505			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
506			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
507
508	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509			Format: { "0" | "1" }
510			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
511			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512				any implied execute protection).
513			1 -- check protection requested by application.
514			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
515			Value can be changed at runtime via
516				/selinux/checkreqprot.
517
518	cio_ignore=	[S390]
519			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
520	clk_ignore_unused
521			[CLK]
522			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529			platform with proper driver support.  For more
530			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
531
532	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
533			[Deprecated]
534			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
535			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
536			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
537			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
539	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
540			Format: <string>
541			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542			with the name specified.
543			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544			the platform:
545			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546			[ACPI] acpi_pm
547			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
549			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
550				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551			[MIPS] MIPS
552			[PARISC] cr16
553			[S390] tod
554			[SH] SuperH
555			[SPARC64] tick
556			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
558	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559			[ARM,ARM64]
560			Format: <bool>
561			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564			systems.
565
566	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
568			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
569			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
570			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571			ones should be.
572			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573			or using the feature without checking anything
574			will still see it. This just prevents it from
575			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577			some critical bits.
578
579	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580			[ARM,X86,KNL]
581			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583			placement constraint by the physical address range of
584			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585			altogether. For more information, see
586			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
588	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
591			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592			a hypervisor.
593			Default: yes
594
595	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
596			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
597			allocations, by default set to 256K.
598
599	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
600			Format:
601			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
602
603	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
606	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
607			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
608			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
611	conmode=
612
613	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617		ttyS<n>[,options]
618		ttyUSB0[,options]
619			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
620			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
624
625			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
626			information.  See
627			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628			alternative.
629
630		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
632		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
633		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
635			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
637			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
639			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
643			the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
645		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
647
648		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
650			console=brl,ttyS0
651		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
653	console_msg_format=
654			[KNL] Change console messages format
655		default
656			By default we print messages on consoles in
657			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659			`printk_time' param).
660		syslog
661			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665			from /proc/kmsg.
666
667	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
668			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
669			Defaults to 0.
670
671	coredump_filter=
672			[KNL] Change the default value for
673			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
676	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677			[ARM,ARM64]
678			Format: <bool>
679			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680			0: default value, disable debugging
681			1: enable debugging at boot time
682
683	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
684			disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
686	cpuidle.governor=
687			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
689	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
690			disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
692	cpu_init_udelay=N
693			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
695			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696			Default: 10000
697
698	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
699			Format:
700			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
701
702	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
707			is selected automatically.
708			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710			hasn't been specified.
711			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
712
713	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715			in the running system. The syntax of range is
716			start-[end] where start and end are both
717			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
718			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
719
720	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
721			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725			available.
726			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
727	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
730			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
732			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
736			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737			for second kernel instead.
738			0: to disable low allocation.
739			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
740			or memory reserved is below 4G.
741
742	cryptomgr.notests
743			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
744
745	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
746			Format: <dma>
747
748	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
749			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
750
751	dasd=		[HW,NET]
752			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755			(one device per port)
756			Format: <port#>,<type>
757			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
758
759	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
760			time. See
761			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
762			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
763
764	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
766	debug_boot_weak_hash
767			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
770			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
774	debug_locks_verbose=
775			[KNL] verbose self-tests
776			Format=<0|1>
777			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778			self-tests.
779			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781			only useful to kernel developers.
782
783	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
784
785	no_debug_objects
786			[KNL] Disable object debugging
787
788	debug_guardpage_minorder=
789			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
796			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803			bypassed) which are not detectable by
804			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805			tracking down these problems.
806
807	debug_pagealloc=
808			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
809			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
810			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
811			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
812			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
813			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
814			on: enable the feature
815
816	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
817
818	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
819			Format: <area>[,<node>]
820			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
821
822	default_hugepagesz=
823			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
824			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
825			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
826			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
827			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
828			if not specified.
829
830	deferred_probe_timeout=
831			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
832			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
833			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
834			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
835			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
836			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
837			retrying.
838
839	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
840			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
841
842	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
843			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
844			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
845			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
846			miss to occur.
847
848	disable=	[IPV6]
849			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
850
851	hardened_usercopy=
852                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
853                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
854                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
855                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
856                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
857                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
858                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
859                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
860                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
861
862	disable_radix	[PPC]
863			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
864
865	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
866			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
867			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
868
869	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
870			Format: <int>
871			The number of initial APIC ID for the
872			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
873			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
874			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
875			causing system reset or hang due to sending
876			INIT from AP to BSP.
877
878	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
879			Format: <bool>
880			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
881			The feature only exists starting from
882			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
883
884	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
885			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
886			to workaround buggy firmware.
887
888	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
889			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
890
891	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
892			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
893			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
894			entry later. This parameter disables that.
895
896	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
897			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
898			memory out of your available memory pool based on
899			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
900			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
901
902	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
903			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
904			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
905
906	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
907
908	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
909			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
910
911	dma_debug_entries=<number>
912			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
913			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
914			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
915			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
916			architectural default is too low.
917
918	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
919			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
920			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
921			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
922			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
923			driver later using sysfs.
924
925	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
926			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
927			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
928
929	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
930			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
931			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
932			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
933			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
934			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
935			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
936			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
937			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
938			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
939			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
940			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
941			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
942			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
943			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
944			data set with no connector name will be used for
945			any connectors not explicitly specified.
946
947	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
948
949	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
950			Format: {"off" | "known"}
951			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
952			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
953			exists).
954			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
955			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
956			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
957
958	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
959			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
960			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
961			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
962
963	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
964	module.dyndbg[="val"]
965			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
966			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
967			for details.
968
969	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
970			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
971			information about the feature.
972
973	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
974			in some Intel CPUs.
975
976	module.async_probe [KNL]
977			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
978
979	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
980			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
981			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
982			which are not unmapped.
983
984	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
985
986			When used with no options, the early console is
987			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
988			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
989			the platform.
990
991			[RISCV] When used with no options, the early
992			console is determined by the stdout-path
993			property in the device tree's chosen node.
994
995		cdns,<addr>[,options]
996			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
997			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
998			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
999			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1000			configured.
1001
1002		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1003		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1004		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1005		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1006		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1007			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1008			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1009			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1010			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1011			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1012			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1013			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1014			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1015
1016		pl011,<addr>
1017		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1018			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1019			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1020			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1021			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1022			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1023			the device registers.
1024
1025		meson,<addr>
1026			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1027			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1028			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1029			supported.
1030
1031		msm_serial,<addr>
1032			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1033			port at the specified address. The serial port
1034			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1035			yet supported.
1036
1037		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1038			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1039			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1040			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1041			yet supported.
1042
1043		owl,<addr>
1044			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1045			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1046			specified address. The serial port must already be
1047			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1048
1049		rda,<addr>
1050			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1051			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1052			specified address. The serial port must already be
1053			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1054
1055		sbi
1056			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1057			console.
1058
1059		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1060
1061		s3c2410,<addr>
1062		s3c2412,<addr>
1063		s3c2440,<addr>
1064		s3c6400,<addr>
1065		s5pv210,<addr>
1066		exynos4210,<addr>
1067			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1068			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1069			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1070			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1071			Options are not yet supported.
1072
1073		lantiq,<addr>
1074			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1075			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1076			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1077			yet supported.
1078
1079		lpuart,<addr>
1080		lpuart32,<addr>
1081			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1082			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1083			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1084			port must already be setup and configured.
1085
1086		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1087			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1088			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1089			address. The serial port must already be setup
1090			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1091
1092		qcom_geni,<addr>
1093			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1094			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1095			specified address. The serial port must already be
1096			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1097
1098		efifb,[options]
1099			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1100			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1101			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1102			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1103			mapped with the correct attributes.
1104
1105		linflex,<addr>
1106			Use early console provided by Freescale LinFlex UART
1107			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1108			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1109			already be setup and configured.
1110
1111	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1112			earlyprintk=vga
1113			earlyprintk=sclp
1114			earlyprintk=xen
1115			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1116			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1117			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1118			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1119			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1120			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1121
1122			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1123			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1124			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1125
1126			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1127			takes over.
1128
1129			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1130			be used at a time.
1131
1132			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1133			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1134			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1135			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1136				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1137			You can find the port for a given device in
1138			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1139				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1140
1141			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1142			very good.
1143
1144			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1145			the real console.
1146
1147			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1148
1149			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1150
1151			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1152			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1153			UART class.
1154
1155	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1156			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1157			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1158			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1159			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1160			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1161			default: on.
1162
1163	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1164			ekgdboc=kbd
1165
1166			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1167			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1168
1169	edd=		[EDD]
1170			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1171
1172	efi=		[EFI]
1173			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1174			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1175			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1176			default.
1177			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1178			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1179			firmware implementations.
1180			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1181			debug: enable misc debug output
1182
1183	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1184			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1185			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1186			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1187			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1188
1189	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1190			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1191			updating original EFI memory map.
1192			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1193			from ss to ss+nn.
1194			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1195			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1196			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1197			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1198
1199			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1200			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1201			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1202			doesn't support it.
1203
1204	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1205			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1206			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1207			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1208			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1209
1210
1211	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1212			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1213
1214	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1215			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1216			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1217
1218	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1219			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1220			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1221			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1222			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1223
1224	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1225			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1226			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1227			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1228
1229	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1230			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1231			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1232			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1233			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1234
1235	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1236			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1237			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1238			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1239			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1240			Default value is 0.
1241			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1242
1243	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1244			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1245			support.
1246
1247	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1248			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1249			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1250
1251	evm=		[EVM]
1252			Format: { "fix" }
1253			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1254			current integrity status.
1255
1256	failslab=
1257	fail_page_alloc=
1258	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1259			General fault injection mechanism.
1260			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1261			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1262
1263	floppy=		[HW]
1264			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1265
1266	force_pal_cache_flush
1267			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1268			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1269			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1270			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1271
1272	forcepae	[X86-32]
1273			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1274			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1275			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1276			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1277			and may cause unknown problems.
1278
1279	ftrace=[tracer]
1280			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1281			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1282			boot debugging.
1283
1284	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1285			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1286			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1287			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1288			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1289			oops.
1290
1291	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1292			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1293			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1294			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1295			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1296			tracing directory.
1297
1298	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1299			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1300			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1301			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1302			tracing directory.
1303
1304	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1305			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1306			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1307			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1308			that can be changed at run time by the
1309			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1310
1311	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1312			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1313			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1314			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1315			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1316
1317	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1318			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1319			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1320			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1321			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1322
1323	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1324			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1325			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1326			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1327			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1328
1329	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1330
1331	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1332			Format: off | on
1333			default: on
1334
1335	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1336			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1337			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1338			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1339			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1340
1341	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1342			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1343			android emulator
1344
1345	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1346			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1347			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1348			GPT to be used instead.
1349
1350	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1351			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1352			Format: 0 | 1
1353			Default: 0
1354	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1355			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1356			Format: 0 | 1
1357			Default: 0
1358	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1359			Format: 0 | 1
1360			Default: 0
1361	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1362			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1363			Default: 1024
1364	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1365			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1366			Default: 1024
1367
1368	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1369			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1370			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1371
1372	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1373			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1374			backtraces on all cpus.
1375			Format: <integer>
1376
1377	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1378			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1379			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1380			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1381
1382	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1383
1384	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1385			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1386
1387	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1388			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1389			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1390			logic will be disabled.
1391
1392	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1393			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1394			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1395			size on bigger boxes.
1396
1397	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1398			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1399			Default: "on"
1400
1401	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1402
1403	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1404			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1405				verbose }
1406			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1407			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1408				VIA, nVidia)
1409			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1410
1411	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1412			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1413
1414	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1415	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1416			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1417			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1418			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1419			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1420			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1421
1422	hung_task_panic=
1423			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1424			Format: <integer>
1425
1426			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1427			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1428			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1429			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1430			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1431
1432	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1433				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1434	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1435				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1436				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1437
1438	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1439				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1440				      guest on lock contention.
1441
1442	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1443			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1444			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1445			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1446			the real console.
1447
1448	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1449				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1450				registered from board initialization code.
1451				Format:
1452				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1453
1454	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1455	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1456			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1457			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1458			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1459	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1460	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1461			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1462			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1463	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1464	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1465	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1466			     for the AUX port
1467	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1468			     controller
1469	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1470			     controllers
1471	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1472	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1473			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1474			     transitions, or never reset
1475			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1476			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1477			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1478			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1479			architectures force reset to be always executed
1480	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1481	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1482
1483	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1484
1485	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1486			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1487			hardware.
1488	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1489			does not match list of supported models.
1490	i8k.power_status
1491			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1492			(disabled by default)
1493	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1494			capability is set.
1495
1496	i915.invert_brightness=
1497			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1498			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1499			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1500			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1501			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1502			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1503			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1504			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1505			value switches the backlight off.
1506			-1 -- never invert brightness
1507			 0 -- machine default
1508			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1509
1510	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1511			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1512
1513	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1514			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1515			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1516			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1517			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1518
1519	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1520			Format: <int>
1521			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1522			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1523			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1524			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1525			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1526			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1527			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1528			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1529			was 0x3.
1530
1531	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1532			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1533
1534	idle=		[X86]
1535			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1536			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1537			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1538			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1539			Not recommended.
1540			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1541			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1542			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1543
1544	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1545			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1546			Default: strict
1547
1548			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1549			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1550			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1551			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1552			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1553			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1554			encoding mode.
1555
1556			Available settings are as follows:
1557			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1558				supported by the FPU
1559			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1560				by the FPU
1561			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1562				by the FPU
1563			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1564				supported by the FPU
1565
1566			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1567			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1568			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1569			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1570			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1571			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1572			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1573			MIPS64 CPUs.
1574
1575			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1576			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1577			except where unsupported by hardware.
1578
1579	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1580			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1581			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1582			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1583			could change it dynamically, usually by
1584			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1585
1586	ignore_rlimit_data
1587			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1588			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1589			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1590
1591	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1592			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1593
1594	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1595			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1596			default: "enforce"
1597
1598	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1599			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1600			owned by uid=0.
1601
1602	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1603			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1604			measurements, instead of host native format.
1605
1606	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1607			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1608				   | sha512 | ... }
1609			default: "sha1"
1610
1611			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1612			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1613
1614	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1615			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1616			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1617				 fail_securely"
1618
1619			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1620			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1621			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1622			uid=0.
1623
1624			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1625			all files owned by root.
1626
1627			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1628			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1629			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1630
1631			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1632			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1633			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1634			flag.
1635
1636	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1637			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1638			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1639			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1640			opened for read by uid=0.
1641
1642	ima_template=	[IMA]
1643			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1644			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1645			Default: "ima-ng"
1646
1647	ima_template_fmt=
1648			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1649			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1650
1651	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1652			Format: <min_file_size>
1653			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1654			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1655
1656			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1657			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1658			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1659
1660	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1661			Format: <bufsize>
1662			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1663
1664			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1665			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1666			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1667
1668	init=		[KNL]
1669			Format: <full_path>
1670			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1671			process.
1672
1673	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1674			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1675			startup.
1676
1677	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1678			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1679			modules and initcalls.
1680
1681	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1682
1683	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1684			zeroes.
1685			Format: 0 | 1
1686			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1687
1688	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1689			Format: 0 | 1
1690			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1691
1692	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1693			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1694			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1695			override in debugfs after boot.
1696
1697	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1698			Format: <irq>
1699
1700	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1701
1702	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1703			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1704			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1705			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1706
1707	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1708		on
1709			Enable intel iommu driver.
1710		off
1711			Disable intel iommu driver.
1712		igfx_off [Default Off]
1713			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1714			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1715			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1716			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1717			DMA.
1718		forcedac [x86_64]
1719			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1720			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1721			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1722			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1723			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1724			then look in the higher range.
1725		strict [Default Off]
1726			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1727			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1728			to batching them for performance.
1729		sp_off [Default Off]
1730			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1731			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1732			not be supported.
1733		sm_on [Default Off]
1734			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1735			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1736			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1737			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1738		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1739			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1740			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1741			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1742			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1743			mapping is enabled.
1744			Note that using this option lowers the security
1745			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1746			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1747		nobounce [Default off]
1748			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1749			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1750			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1751			risks of DMA attacks.
1752
1753	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1754			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1755			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1756
1757	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1758			disable
1759			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1760			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1761			passive
1762			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1763			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1764			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1765			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1766			  feature.
1767			force
1768			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1769			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1770			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1771			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1772			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1773			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1774			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1775			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1776			no_hwp
1777			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1778			  if available.
1779			hwp_only
1780			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1781			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1782			support_acpi_ppc
1783			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1784			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1785			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1786			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1787			per_cpu_perf_limits
1788			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1789			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1790
1791	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1792			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1793			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1794			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1795			no_x2apic_optout
1796				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1797			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1798
1799	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1800		strict	regions from userspace.
1801		relaxed
1802
1803	iommu=		[x86]
1804		off
1805		force
1806		noforce
1807		biomerge
1808		panic
1809		nopanic
1810		merge
1811		nomerge
1812		soft
1813		pt		[x86]
1814		nopt		[x86]
1815		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1816			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1817
1818	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1819			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1820			0 - Lazy mode.
1821			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1822			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1823			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1824			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1825			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1826			1 - Strict mode (default).
1827			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1828			  synchronously.
1829
1830	iommu.passthrough=
1831			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1832			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1833			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1834			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1835			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1836
1837	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1838			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1839			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1840
1841	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1842		0x80
1843			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1844		0xed
1845			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1846		udelay
1847			Simple two microseconds delay
1848		none
1849			No delay
1850
1851	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1852			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1853
1854	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1855			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1856
1857	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1858			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1859
1860	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1861			[ARM, ARM64]
1862			Format: <bool>
1863			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1864			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1865			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1866
1867	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1868			[ARM, ARM64]
1869			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1870			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1871			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1872			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1873			LPIs.
1874
1875	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1876			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1877			requires the kernel to be built with
1878			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1879
1880	irqfixup	[HW]
1881			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1882			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1883			firmware running.
1884
1885	irqpoll		[HW]
1886			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1887			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1888			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1889			firmware running.
1890
1891	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1892			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1893
1894	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1895			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1896			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1897
1898			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1899			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1900
1901			nohz
1902			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1903
1904			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1905			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1906			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1907			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1908			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1909
1910			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1911			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1912			  be configured manually after bootup.
1913
1914			domain
1915			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1916			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1917			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1918			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1919			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1920			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1921			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1922			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1923
1924			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1925			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1926			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1927			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1928
1929			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1930
1931
1932
1933	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1934
1935	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1936			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1937			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1938			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1939			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1940				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1941
1942	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1943			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1944			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1945			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1946			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1947				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1948
1949	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1950			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1951			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1952			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1953			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1954				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1955
1956	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1957			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1958
1959	nokaslr		[KNL]
1960			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1961			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1962			Layout Randomization).
1963
1964	kasan_multi_shot
1965			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1966			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1967			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1968			invalid access.
1969
1970	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1971
1972	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1973			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1974			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1975			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1976			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1977			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1978			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1979			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1980			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1981			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1982
1983			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1984			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1985			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1986			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1987			zone if it does not.
1988
1989			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1990			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1991			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1992			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1993			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1994			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1995			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1996
1997	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1998			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1999			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2000			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2001			optional and is the number seconds in between
2002			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2003			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2004			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2005			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2006			the kernel debugger.
2007
2008	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2009			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2010			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2011			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2012			 keyboard only format: kbd
2013			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2014			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2015			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2016			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2017
2018	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2019			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2020
2021	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2022			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2023			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2024
2025	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2026			Valid arguments: on, off
2027			Default: on
2028			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2029			the default is off.
2030
2031	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2032			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2033			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2034			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2035			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2036			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2037			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2038
2039			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2040
2041			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2042			Boot Parameter" section.
2043
2044	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2045			and kernel address spaces.
2046			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2047			0: force disabled
2048			1: force enabled
2049
2050	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2051			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2052
2053	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2054				   Default is false (don't support).
2055
2056	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2057			KVM MMU at runtime.
2058			Default is 0 (off)
2059
2060	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2061			Default is 1 (enabled)
2062
2063	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2064			for all guests.
2065			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2066
2067	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2068			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2069			system registers
2070
2071	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2072			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2073			system registers
2074
2075	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2076			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2077			system registers
2078
2079	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2080			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2081			LPIs.
2082
2083	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2084			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2085			Default is 1 (enabled)
2086
2087	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2088			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2089			Default is 0 (disabled)
2090
2091	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2092			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2093			Default is 1 (enabled)
2094
2095	kvm-intel.nested=
2096			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2097			Default is 0 (disabled)
2098
2099	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2100			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2101			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2102			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2103
2104	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2105			CVE-2018-3620.
2106
2107			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2108
2109			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2110			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2111				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2112			never:	Disables the mitigation
2113
2114			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2115
2116	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2117			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2118			Default is 1 (enabled)
2119
2120	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2121			      affected CPUs
2122
2123			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2124			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2125
2126			full
2127				Provides all available mitigations for the
2128				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2129				enables all mitigations in the
2130				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2131
2132				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2133				sysfs interface is still possible after
2134				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2135				when the first VM is started in a
2136				potentially insecure configuration,
2137				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2138
2139			full,force
2140				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2141				flush runtime control. Implies the
2142				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2143				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2144
2145			flush
2146				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2147				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2148				L1D flush.
2149
2150				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2151				sysfs interface is still possible after
2152				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2153				when the first VM is started in a
2154				potentially insecure configuration,
2155				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2156
2157			flush,nosmt
2158
2159				Disables SMT and enables the default
2160				hypervisor mitigation.
2161
2162				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2163				sysfs interface is still possible after
2164				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2165				when the first VM is started in a
2166				potentially insecure configuration,
2167				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2168
2169			flush,nowarn
2170				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2171				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2172				insecure configuration.
2173
2174			off
2175				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2176				emit any warnings.
2177				It also drops the swap size and available
2178				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2179				bare metal.
2180
2181			Default is 'flush'.
2182
2183			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2184
2185	l2cr=		[PPC]
2186
2187	l3cr=		[PPC]
2188
2189	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2190			disabled it.
2191
2192	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2193			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2194			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2195
2196	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2197			in C2 power state.
2198
2199	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2200			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2201			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2202			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2203			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2204			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2205			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2206
2207	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2208			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2209			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2210
2211	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2212			when set.
2213			Format: <int>
2214
2215	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2216			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2217			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2218			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2219			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2220			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2221			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2222			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2223
2224			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2225			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2226			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2227			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2228			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2229			host link and device attached to it.
2230
2231			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2232			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2233			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2234			The following configurations can be forced.
2235
2236			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2237			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2238
2239			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2240
2241			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2242			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2243			  allowed.
2244
2245			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2246
2247			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2248
2249			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2250			  and both resets.
2251
2252			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2253			  hot-unplug link recovery
2254
2255			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2256
2257			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2258
2259			* disable: Disable this device.
2260
2261			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2262			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2263
2264	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2265
2266	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2267			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2268
2269	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2270			Format: <integer>
2271
2272	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2273			Format: <integer>
2274
2275	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2276			Format: <integer>
2277
2278	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2279			Format: <integer>
2280
2281	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2282			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2283			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2284			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2285			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2286			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2287			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2288			are also disabled.
2289
2290	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2291			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2292			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2293			number of online CPUs.
2294
2295	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2296			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2297
2298	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2299			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2300
2301	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2302			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2303			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2304
2305	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2306			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2307			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2308			mode during the locktorture test.
2309
2310	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2311			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2312			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2313
2314	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2315			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2316
2317	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2318			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2319			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2320			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2321			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2322			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2323
2324	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2325			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2326
2327	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2328			Enable additional printk() statements.
2329
2330	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2331			Format: <irq>
2332
2333	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2334			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2335			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2336			loglevels are defined as follows:
2337
2338			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2339			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2340			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2341			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2342			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2343			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2344			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2345			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2346
2347	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2348			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2349			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2350			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2351			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2352			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2353			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2354
2355	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2356			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2357			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2358			kernel boot problems.
2359
2360	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2361	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2362	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2363	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2364				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2365				attached printers to be reset. Using
2366				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2367				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2368				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2369				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2370				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2371				port specification list means that device IDs
2372				from each port should be examined, to see if
2373				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2374				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2375				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2376
2377	lpj=n		[KNL]
2378			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2379			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2380			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2381			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2382			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2383			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2384			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2385			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2386			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2387			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2388			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2389			hardware.
2390
2391	ltpc=		[NET]
2392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2393
2394	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2395
2396	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2397			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2398			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2399
2400	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2401			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2402			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2403
2404	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2405			 yeeloong laptop.
2406			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2407
2408	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2409			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2410
2411	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2412			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2413			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2414			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2415			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2416			only takes effect during system bootup.
2417			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2418			which also disables the IO APIC.
2419
2420	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2421	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2422			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2423			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2424			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2425			/dev/loop-control interface.
2426
2427	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2428
2429	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2430
2431	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2432			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2433
2434	mdacon=		[MDA]
2435			Format: <first>,<last>
2436			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2437
2438	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2439			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2440			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2441
2442			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2443			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2444			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2445
2446			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2447			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2448			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2449			not have direct access.
2450
2451			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2452			options are:
2453
2454			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2455			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2456				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2457			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2458
2459			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2460			mds=full.
2461
2462			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2463
2464	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2465			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2466			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2467			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2468			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2469			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2470			belonging to unused RAM.
2471
2472	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2473			memory.
2474
2475	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2476			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2477			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2478
2479	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2480			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2481			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2482			set according to the
2483			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2484			option.
2485			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2486
2487	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2488			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2489			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2490			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2491			option description.
2492
2493	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2494			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2495			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2496			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2497			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2498			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2499			comma delimited.
2500			Example:
2501				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2502
2503	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2504			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2505			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2506
2507	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2508			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2509			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2510			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2511			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2512			         or
2513			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2514			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2515			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2516			will be eaten.
2517
2518	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2519			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2520			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2521			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2522			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2523
2524	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2525			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2526			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2527			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2528			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2529			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2530			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2531			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2532
2533	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2534			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2535			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2536			Setting this option will scan the memory
2537			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2538			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2539			from using the memory being corrupted.
2540			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2541			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2542			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2543			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2544
2545	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2546			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2547			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2548			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2549			corruption in more or less memory.
2550
2551	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2552			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2553			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2554			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2555
2556	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2557			Format: <integer>
2558			default : 0 <disable>
2559			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2560			performed. Each pass selects another test
2561			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2562			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2563			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2564			regions that are detected.
2565
2566	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2567			Valid arguments: on, off
2568			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2569			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2570			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2571			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2572			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2573
2574			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2575			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2576
2577	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2578			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2579			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2580			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2581			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2582
2583	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2584			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2585
2586	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2587			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2588			platforms.
2589
2590	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2591			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2592			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2593			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2594
2595	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2596
2597	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2598			physical address is ignored.
2599
2600	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2601			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2602			Default: "0tb"
2603			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2604			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2605			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2606			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2607			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2608			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2609			unconfigured.
2610			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2611			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2612			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2613			VGA shield.
2614			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2615			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2616			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2617			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2618			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2619			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2620
2621	mitigations=
2622			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2623			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2624			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2625			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2626
2627			off
2628				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2629				improves system performance, but it may also
2630				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2631				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2632					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2633					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2634					       nobp=0 [S390]
2635					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2636					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2637					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2638					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2639					       l1tf=off [X86]
2640					       mds=off [X86]
2641
2642			auto (default)
2643				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2644				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2645				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2646				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2647				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2648				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2649
2650			auto,nosmt
2651				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2652				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2653				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2654				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2655					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2656
2657	mminit_loglevel=
2658			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2659			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2660			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2661			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2662			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2663			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2664
2665	module.sig_enforce
2666			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2667			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2668			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2669			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2670
2671	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2672			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2673
2674	mousedev.tap_time=
2675			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2676			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2677			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2678			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2679			Format: <msecs>
2680	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2681			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2682	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2683			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2684
2685	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2686			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2687			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2688			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2689			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2690			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2691			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2692			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2693			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2694			is not too small.
2695
2696	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2697			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2698			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2699			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2700			allocations. Use with caution!
2701
2702	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2703			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2704
2705	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2706			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2707
2708	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2709			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2710
2711	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2712			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2713			at a time.
2714
2715	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2716
2717			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2718
2719			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2720				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2721			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2722				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2723				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2724
2725	mtdset=		[ARM]
2726			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2727
2728			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2729
2730	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2731			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2732			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2733
2734	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2735			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2736			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2737
2738	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2739			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2740			Default is 1.
2741			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2742			using up MTRRs.
2743
2744	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2745			Format: <integer>
2746			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2747			Default : 1
2748			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2749			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2750
2751	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2752
2753	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2754			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2755			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2756			something different and driver-specific.
2757			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2758			file if at all.
2759
2760	nf_conntrack.acct=
2761			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2762			0 to disable accounting
2763			1 to enable accounting
2764			Default value is 0.
2765
2766	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2767			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2768
2769	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2770			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2771
2772	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2773			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2774
2775	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2776			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2777			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2778			requests.
2779
2780	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2781			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2782			channel should listen.
2783
2784	nfs.cache_getent=
2785			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2786			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2787
2788	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2789			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2790			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2791
2792	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2793			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2794			entries.
2795
2796	nfs.enable_ino64=
2797			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2798			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2799			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2800			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2801			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2802
2803	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2804			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2805			slots the client will assign to the callback
2806			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2807			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2808			a particular server.
2809
2810	nfs.max_session_slots=
2811			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2812			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2813			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2814			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2815			Note that there is little point in setting this
2816			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2817
2818	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2819			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2820			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2821			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2822			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2823			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2824			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2825			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2826			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2827			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2828			back to using the idmapper.
2829			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2830	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2831			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2832			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2833			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2834			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2835
2836	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2837			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2838			information in exchange_id requests.
2839			If zero, no implementation identification information
2840			will be sent.
2841			The default is to send the implementation identification
2842			information.
2843
2844	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2845			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2846			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2847			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2848			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2849			after the locks are lost.
2850			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2851			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2852			parameter to '1'.
2853			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2854			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2855
2856	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2857			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2858			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2859
2860			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2861			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2862			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2863			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2864
2865	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2866			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2867			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2868			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2869			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2870			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2871
2872	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2873			when a NMI is triggered.
2874			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2875
2876	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2877			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2878			Valid num: 0 or 1
2879			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2880			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2881			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2882			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2883			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2884			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2885			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2886			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2887			need the box quickly up again.
2888
2889			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2890			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2891
2892	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2893			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2894			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2895			waits 4 seconds.
2896
2897	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2898			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2899			is present.
2900
2901	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2902			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2903
2904	no_console_suspend
2905			[HW] Never suspend the console
2906			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2907			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2908			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2909			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2910			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2911			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2912			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2913			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2914			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2915			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2916			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2917			turn on/off it dynamically.
2918
2919	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
2920			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2921			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2922			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
2923			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2924			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
2925			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2926			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
2927			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2928			is set.
2929
2930	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2931			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2932			but will impact performance.
2933
2934	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2935
2936	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2937			(CPU alternatives feature).
2938
2939	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2940			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2941
2942	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2943
2944	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2945			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2946
2947	nocache		[ARM]
2948
2949	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2950
2951	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2952
2953	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2954
2955	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2956
2957	noexec		[IA-64]
2958
2959	noexec		[X86]
2960			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2961			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2962			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2963
2964	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
2965			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2966			even if it is supported by processor.
2967
2968	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
2969			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2970			even if it is supported by processor.
2971
2972	noexec32	[X86-64]
2973			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2974			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2975				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2976			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2977				read implies executable mappings
2978
2979	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2980
2981	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2982			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2983			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2984
2985	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2986
2987	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2988			Equivalent to smt=1.
2989
2990			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2991			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2992				     via the sysfs control file.
2993
2994	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2995			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2996			possible in the system.
2997
2998	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2999			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3000			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3001			option.
3002
3003	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3004			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3005
3006	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3007			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3008			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3009
3010	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3011			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3012			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3013			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3014			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3015			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3016
3017	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3018			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3019			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3020			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3021			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3022			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3023			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3024
3025	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3026			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3027			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3028
3029	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3030			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3031			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3032
3033	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3034			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3035			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3036			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3037			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3038			real-time systems.
3039
3040	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3041
3042	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3043			Valid arguments: on, off
3044			Default: on
3045
3046	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3047			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3048			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3049			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3050			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3051			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3052			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3053			just as if they had also been called out in the
3054			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3055
3056	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3057
3058	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3059			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3060
3061	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3062			broken timer IRQ sources.
3063
3064	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3065
3066	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3067			initial RAM disk.
3068
3069	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3070			remapping.
3071			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3072
3073	nointroute	[IA-64]
3074
3075	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3076
3077	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3078
3079	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3080
3081	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3082			fault handling.
3083
3084	no-vmw-sched-clock
3085			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3086			clock and use the default one.
3087
3088	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3089			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3090			behaviour
3091
3092	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3093
3094	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3095
3096	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3097			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3098
3099	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3100
3101	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3102
3103	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3104			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3105
3106	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3107			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3108			irq.
3109
3110	nomodule	Disable module load
3111
3112	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3113			pagetables) support.
3114
3115	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3116
3117	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3118			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3119
3120	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3121			with UP alternatives
3122
3123	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3124			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3125			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3126			available to user space applications.
3127
3128	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3129			space.
3130
3131	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3132			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3133			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3134
3135	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3136
3137	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3138
3139	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3140			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3141
3142	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3143
3144	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3145
3146	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3147			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3148
3149	nowb		[ARM]
3150
3151	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3152
3153	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3154			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3155			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3156			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3157			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3158			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3159			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3160			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3161			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3162			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3163			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3164			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3165			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3166
3167	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3168			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3169			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3170			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3171			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3172			parameter's value.
3173			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3174			Default: 255
3175
3176	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3177			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3178			SAL PALO.
3179
3180	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3181			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3182			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3183			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3184			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3185			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3186			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3187			hot plugging.
3188
3189	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3190
3191	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3192			Allowed values are enable and disable
3193
3194	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3195			'node', 'default' can be specified
3196			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3197			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3198
3199	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3200			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3201			info.
3202
3203	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3204			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3205			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3206			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3207			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3208			interrupts *may* be lost!
3209
3210	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3211			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3212			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3213			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3214
3215	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3216			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3217
3218	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3219			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3220			userland or if you want common events.
3221			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3222			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3223				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3224				CPU specific event set.
3225			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3226				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3227				for generic hr timer mode)
3228
3229	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3230			process, but there is a small probability of
3231			deadlocking the machine.
3232			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3233			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3234
3235	page_alloc.shuffle=
3236			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3237			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3238			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3239			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3240			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3241			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3242			can be read from sysfs at:
3243			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3244
3245	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3246			Storage of the information about who allocated
3247			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3248			we can turn it on.
3249			on: enable the feature
3250
3251	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3252			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3253			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3254			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3255			on: turn on poisoning
3256
3257	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3258			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3259			timeout = 0: wait forever
3260			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3261			Format: <timeout>
3262
3263	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3264			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3265			bit 0: print all tasks info
3266			bit 1: print system memory info
3267			bit 2: print timer info
3268			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3269			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3270			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3271
3272	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3273			on a WARN().
3274
3275	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3276			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3277			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3278			succeeds in any situation.
3279			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3280			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3281			kernel more unstable.
3282
3283	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3284			connected to, default is 0.
3285			Format: <parport#>
3286	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3287			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3288			Format: <mode>
3289
3290	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3291			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3292			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3293			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3294			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3295			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3296			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3297			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3298			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3299			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3300			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3301			are specified on the command line, starting
3302			with parport0.
3303
3304	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3305			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3306			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3307			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3308			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3309			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3310			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3311
3312	pause_on_oops=
3313			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3314			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3315			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3316
3317	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3318
3319	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3320			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3321			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3322
3323	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3324
3325				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3326				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3327				specified in one of the following formats:
3328
3329				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3330				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3331
3332				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3333				bus/device/function address which may change
3334				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3335				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3336				by other kernel parameters. If the
3337				domain is left unspecified, it is
3338				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3339				to a device through multiple device/function
3340				addresses can be specified after the base
3341				address (this is more robust against
3342				renumbering issues).  The second format
3343				selects devices using IDs from the
3344				configuration space which may match multiple
3345				devices in the system.
3346
3347		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3348				changes anything
3349		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3350		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3351				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3352				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3353		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3354				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3355				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3356				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3357		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3358				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3359				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3360		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3361				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3362				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3363				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3364				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3365				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3366				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3367		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3368				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3369				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3370		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3371				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3372		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3373				Configuration
3374		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3375				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3376				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3377		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3378				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3379				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3380		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3381				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3382				should never be necessary.
3383		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3384				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3385				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3386				when the system masks IRQs.
3387		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3388				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3389				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3390				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3391		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3392				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3393				on several machines and they hang the machine
3394				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3395				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3396				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3397				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3398				motherboard.
3399		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3400				Use with caution as certain devices share
3401				address decoders between ROMs and other
3402				resources.
3403		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3404				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3405				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3406		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3407				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3408		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3409				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3410				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3411				this way.
3412		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3413				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3414				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3415				F0000h-100000h range.
3416		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3417				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3418				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3419				explicitly which ones they are.
3420		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3421				numbers ourselves, overriding
3422				whatever the firmware may have done.
3423		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3424				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3425				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3426				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3427				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3428				IRQ routing is enabled.
3429		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3430				or for PCI scanning.
3431		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3432				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3433				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3434				please report a bug.
3435		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3436				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3437		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3438				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3439				so this option is a temporary workaround
3440				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3441		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3442				handle more pci cards
3443		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3444				This might help on some broken boards which
3445				machine check when some devices' config space
3446				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3447				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3448		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3449				This sorting is done to get a device
3450				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3451		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3452		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3453				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3454		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3455				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3456		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3457				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3458				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3459				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3460				or bus can support) for best performance.
3461		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3462				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3463				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3464				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3465				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3466				that hot-added devices will work.
3467		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3468				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3469				The default value is 256 bytes.
3470		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3471				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3472				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3473		resource_alignment=
3474				Format:
3475				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3476				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3477				aligned memory resources. How to
3478				specify the device is described above.
3479				If <order of align> is not specified,
3480				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3481				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3482				windows need to be expanded.
3483				To specify the alignment for several
3484				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3485				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3486				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3487				for 4096-byte alignment.
3488		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3489				end-to-end CRC checking).
3490				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3491				the default.
3492				off: Turn ECRC off
3493				on: Turn ECRC on.
3494		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3495				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3496				Default size is 256 bytes.
3497		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3498				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3499				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3500		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3501				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3502				Default is 1.
3503		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3504				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3505				accommodate resources required by all child
3506				devices.
3507				off: Turn realloc off
3508				on: Turn realloc on
3509		realloc		same as realloc=on
3510		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3511		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3512				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3513		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3514				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3515				port.
3516		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3517				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3518				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3519				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3520				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3521				taints the kernel.
3522		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3523				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3524				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3525				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3526				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3527				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3528				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3529				this removes isolation between devices and
3530				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3531		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3532		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3533
3534	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3535			Management.
3536		off	Disable ASPM.
3537		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3538			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3539
3540	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3541		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3542			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3543			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3544			also tries to use these services.
3545		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3546			hotplug).
3547
3548	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3549		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3550		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3551
3552	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3553		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3554			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3555
3556	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3557
3558	pd_ignore_unused
3559			[PM]
3560			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3561			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3562			for debug and development, but should not be
3563			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3564
3565	pd.		[PARIDE]
3566			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3567
3568	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3569			boot time.
3570			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3571			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3572
3573	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3574			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3575			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3576			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3577			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3578			and performance comparison.
3579
3580	pf.		[PARIDE]
3581			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3582
3583	pg.		[PARIDE]
3584			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3585
3586	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3587			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3588
3589	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3590			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3591			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3592
3593	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3594			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3595			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3596
3597	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3598			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3599			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3600			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3601			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3602			possible settings and some assignment information.
3603
3604	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3605			{ off }
3606
3607	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3608			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3609
3610	pnp_reserve_irq=
3611			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3612
3613	pnp_reserve_dma=
3614			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3615
3616	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3617			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3618
3619	pnp_reserve_mem=
3620			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3621			autoconfiguration.
3622			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3623
3624	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3625			Default is 21.
3626			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3627			may be specified.
3628			Format: <port>,<port>....
3629
3630	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3631			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3632			platform machine description specific power_save
3633			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3634			execution priority.
3635
3636	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3637			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3638			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3639			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3640			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3641
3642	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3643			Format: {"off"}
3644			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3645
3646	print-fatal-signals=
3647			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3648
3649			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3650			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3651			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3652			coredump - etc.
3653
3654			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3655			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3656
3657			default: off.
3658
3659	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3660			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3661			panics
3662			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3663			default: disabled
3664
3665	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3666			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3667			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3668			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3669			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3670			Default: ratelimit
3671
3672	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3673			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3674
3675	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3676			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3677			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3678
3679	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3680			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3681			instead using the legacy FADT method
3682
3683	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3684			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3685			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3686				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3687			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3688			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3689				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3690			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3691			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3692				statistical time based profiling.
3693
3694	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3695			before loading.
3696			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3697
3698	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3699			tracking.
3700			Format: <bool>
3701
3702	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3703			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3704	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3705			per second.
3706	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3707			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3708			(0 = never).
3709	psmouse.resolution=
3710			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3711	psmouse.smartscroll=
3712			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3713			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3714
3715	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3716
3717	pt.		[PARIDE]
3718			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3719
3720	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3721			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3722			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3723			system calls and interrupts.
3724
3725			on   - unconditionally enable
3726			off  - unconditionally disable
3727			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3728			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3729
3730			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3731
3732	nopti		[X86_64]
3733			Equivalent to pti=off
3734
3735	pty.legacy_count=
3736			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3737			default number.
3738
3739	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3740
3741	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3742
3743	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3744			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3745
3746	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3747			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3748
3749	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3750			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3751			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3752			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3753			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3754
3755	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3756
3757		cec_disable	[X86]
3758				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3759				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3760
3761	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3762			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3763			except that the string "all" can be used to
3764			specify every CPU on the system.
3765
3766			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3767			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3768			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3769			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3770			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3771			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3772			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3773			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3774			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3775			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3776
3777	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3778			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3779			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3780			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3781			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3782			This improves the real-time response for the
3783			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3784			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3785			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3786			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3787
3788	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3789			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3790			process in one batch.
3791
3792	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3793			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3794			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3795			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3796
3797	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3798			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3799			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3800
3801	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3802			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3803			RCU grace-period initialization.
3804
3805	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3806			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3807			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3808			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3809			the rcu_node combining tree.
3810
3811	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3812			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3813			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3814			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3815			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3816
3817	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3818			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3819			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3820			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3821			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3822
3823	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3824			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3825			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3826			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3827			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3828			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3829			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3830
3831	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3832			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3833			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3834			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3835			and maximum value is HZ.
3836
3837	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3838			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3839			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3840			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3841
3842	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3843			Set required age in jiffies for a
3844			given grace period before RCU starts
3845			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3846			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3847			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3848			a value based on the most recent settings
3849			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3850			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3851			This calculated value may be viewed in
3852			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3853			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3854			overwritten.
3855
3856	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3857			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3858			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3859			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3860			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3861			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3862			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3863			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3864			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3865			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3866
3867	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3868			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3869			each group, which defaults to the square root
3870			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3871			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3872			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3873			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3874
3875	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3876			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3877			batch limiting is disabled.
3878
3879	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3880			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3881			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3882
3883	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3884			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3885			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3886
3887	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3888			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3889			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3890			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3891			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3892
3893	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3894			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3895			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3896			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3897			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3898			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3899
3900	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3901			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3902			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3903			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3904
3905	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3906			Measure performance of asynchronous
3907			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3908
3909	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3910			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3911			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3912			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3913			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3914			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3915
3916	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3917			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3918			grace-period primitives.
3919
3920	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3921			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3922			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3923			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3924			interference.
3925
3926	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3927			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3928			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3929			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3930			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3931			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3932			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3933			a single reader.
3934
3935	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3936			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3937			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3938			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3939
3940	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3941			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3942
3943	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3944			Shut the system down after performance tests
3945			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3946			testing.
3947
3948	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3949			Enable additional printk() statements.
3950
3951	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3952			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3953			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3954			no holdoff.
3955
3956	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3957			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3958			in microseconds.
3959
3960	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3961			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3962			in microseconds.
3963
3964	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3965			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3966			in seconds.
3967
3968	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3969			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3970			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3971
3972	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3973			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3974			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3975
3976	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3977			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3978			forward-progress tests.
3979
3980	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3981			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3982			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3983			testing.
3984
3985	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3986			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3987			primitives, if available.
3988
3989	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3990			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3991
3992	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3993			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3994			update-side primitives, if available.
3995
3996	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3997			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3998			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3999			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4000			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4001			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4002			they are all non-zero.
4003
4004	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4005			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4006
4007	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4008			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4009			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4010			test, hence the "fake".
4011
4012	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4013			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4014			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4015			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4016			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4017			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4018
4019	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4020			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4021
4022	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4023			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4024
4025	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4026			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4027			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4028
4029	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4030			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4031			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4032			during the rcutorture test.
4033
4034	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4035			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4036			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4037
4038	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4039			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4040			warnings, zero to disable.
4041
4042	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4043			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4044
4045	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4046			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4047
4048	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4049			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4050
4051	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4052			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4053			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4054			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4055			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4056
4057	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4058			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4059			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4060			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4061
4062	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4063			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4064
4065	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4066			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4067
4068	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4069			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4070			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4071
4072	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4073			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4074
4075	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4076			Enable additional printk() statements.
4077
4078	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4079			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4080			stall warning.
4081
4082	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4083			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4084
4085	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4086			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4087
4088	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4089			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4090			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4091			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4092			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4093			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4094			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4095
4096	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4097			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4098			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4099			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4100			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4101			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4102			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4103			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4104			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4105
4106	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4107			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4108			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4109			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4110			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4111
4112	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4113			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4114			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4115			to zero.
4116
4117	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4118			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4119
4120	rdinit=		[KNL]
4121			Format: <full_path>
4122			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4123			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4124
4125	rdrand=		[X86]
4126			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4127				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4128				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4129				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4130				path).
4131
4132	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4133			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4134			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4135			mba.
4136			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4137				rdt=cmt,!mba
4138
4139	reboot=		[KNL]
4140			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4141				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4142				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4143				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4144				[[,]f[orce]
4145			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4146					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4147					reboot only),
4148			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4149			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4150			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4151					to be used for rebooting.
4152
4153	relax_domain_level=
4154			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4155			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4156
4157	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4158			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4159			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4160			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4161			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4162
4163	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4164			Format: nn[KMG]
4165			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4166			address space.
4167
4168	reservelow=	[X86]
4169			Format: nn[K]
4170			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4171			the bottom of the address space.
4172
4173	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4174			during initialization.
4175
4176	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4177			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4178			Format:
4179			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4180
4181	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4182			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4183			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4184			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4185			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4186
4187	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4188			read the resume files
4189
4190	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4191			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4192			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4193
4194	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4195		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4196				present during boot.
4197		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4198		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4199		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4200				(that will set all pages holding image data
4201				during restoration read-only).
4202
4203	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4204
4205	rfkill.default_state=
4206		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4207			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4208		1	Unblocked.
4209
4210	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4211		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4212		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4213			blocked and the previous configuration.
4214		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4215			blocked and everything unblocked.
4216
4217	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4218			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4219
4220	ring3mwait=disable
4221			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4222			CPUs.
4223
4224	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4225
4226	rodata=		[KNL]
4227		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4228		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4229
4230	rockchip.usb_uart
4231			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4232			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4233			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4234			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4235
4236	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4237			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4238
4239	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4240			mount the root filesystem
4241
4242	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4243
4244	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4245
4246	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4247			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4248			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4249
4250	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4251			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4252			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4253			managed by CMA.
4254
4255	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4256
4257	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4258
4259	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4260			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4261		strict
4262			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4263			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4264			which is faster.
4265
4266	sa1100ir	[NET]
4267			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4268
4269	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4270
4271	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4272
4273	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4274			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4275			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4276			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4277
4278	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4279			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4280			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4281			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4282			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4283			1 -- enable.
4284			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4285			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4286
4287	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4288			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4289			"lsm=" parameter.
4290
4291	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4292			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4293			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4294			0 -- disable.
4295			1 -- enable.
4296			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4297			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4298			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4299
4300	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4301			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4302			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4303			0 -- disable.
4304			1 -- enable.
4305			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4306
4307	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4308
4309	shapers=	[NET]
4310			Maximal number of shapers.
4311
4312	simeth=		[IA-64]
4313	simscsi=
4314
4315	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4316
4317	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4318			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4319			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4320			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4321			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4322			layout control by attackers can usually be
4323			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4324			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4325			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4326			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4327			own.
4328			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4329
4330	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4331			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4332			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4333			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4334			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4335
4336	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4337			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4338			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4339			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4340			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4341			last alloc / free. For more information see
4342			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4343
4344	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4345			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4346			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4347			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4348			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4349			directories and files being created under
4350			/sys/kernel/slub.
4351
4352	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4353			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4354			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4355			fragmentation. For more information see
4356			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4357
4358	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4359			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4360			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4361			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4362			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4363			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4364			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4365			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4366
4367	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4368			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4369			lower than slub_max_order.
4370			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4371
4372	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4373			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4374			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4375
4376	smart2=		[HW]
4377			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4378
4379	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4380	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4381	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4382	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4383	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4384	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4385	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4386				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4387				1: Fast pin select (default)
4388				2: ATC IRMode
4389
4390	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4391			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4392			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4393			actual hardware limit.
4394			Format: <integer>
4395			Default: -1 (no limit)
4396
4397	softlockup_panic=
4398			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4399			Format: <integer>
4400
4401			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4402			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4403			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4404			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4405			functionality.
4406
4407	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4408			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4409			backtraces on all cpus.
4410			Format: <integer>
4411
4412	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4413			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4414
4415	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4416			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4417			The default operation protects the kernel from
4418			user space attacks.
4419
4420			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4421			       spectre_v2_user=on
4422			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4423			       spectre_v2_user=off
4424			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4425			       vulnerable
4426
4427			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4428			mitigation method at run time according to the
4429			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4430			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4431			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4432
4433			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4434			against user space to user space task attacks.
4435
4436			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4437			the user space protections.
4438
4439			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4440
4441			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4442			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4443			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4444
4445			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4446			spectre_v2=auto.
4447
4448	spectre_v2_user=
4449			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4450		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4451		        user space tasks
4452
4453			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4454				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4455
4456			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4457				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4458
4459			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4460				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4461				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4462				  is inherited on fork.
4463
4464			prctl,ibpb
4465				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4466				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4467				  always when switching between different user
4468				  space processes.
4469
4470			seccomp
4471				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4472				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4473				  they explicitly opt out.
4474
4475			seccomp,ibpb
4476				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4477				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4478				  always when switching between different
4479				  user space processes.
4480
4481			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4482				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4483
4484			Default mitigation:
4485			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4486
4487			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4488			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4489
4490	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4491			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4492			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4493
4494			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4495			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4496			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4497			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4498			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4499			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4500			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4501			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4502
4503			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4504			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4505			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4506			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4507
4508			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4509			Bypass optimization is used.
4510
4511			On x86 the options are:
4512
4513			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4514			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4515			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4516				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4517				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4518				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4519				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4520				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4521			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4522				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4523				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4524				  is inherited on fork.
4525			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4526				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4527
4528			Default mitigations:
4529			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4530
4531			On powerpc the options are:
4532
4533			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4534				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4535				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4536				  exit.
4537			off	- No action.
4538
4539			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4540			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4541
4542	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4543	spia_fio_base=
4544	spia_pedr=
4545	spia_peddr=
4546
4547	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4548			Specifies how frequently to check for
4549			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4550			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4551			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4552			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4553			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4554			are ignored.
4555
4556	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4557			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4558			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4559			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4560			grace period will be considered for automatic
4561			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4562			expediting.
4563
4564	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4565			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4566
4567			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4568			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4569			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4570			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4571
4572			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4573				   for both kernel and userspace
4574			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4575				   for both kernel and userspace
4576			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4577				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4578				   to allow userspace to register its
4579				   interest in being mitigated too.
4580
4581	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4582			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4583			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4584			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4585			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4586			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4587
4588	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4589			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4590
4591	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4592			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4593			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4594			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4595			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4596			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4597			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4598
4599	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4600			Format: <num>
4601			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4602			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4603			as the initial boot-console.
4604			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4605
4606	sti_font=	[HW]
4607			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4608
4609	stifb=		[HW]
4610			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4611
4612	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4613	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4614			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4615			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4616			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4617			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4618			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4619			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4620			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4621			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4622			maximum port values.
4623
4624	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4625			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4626			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4627			process in parallel from a single connection.
4628			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4629
4630	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4631			[NFS]
4632			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4633			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4634			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4635			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4636			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4637			NFS server is running.
4638
4639			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4640				    automatically using heuristics
4641			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4642			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4643			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4644				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4645
4646	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4647	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4648			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4649			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4650			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4651			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4652			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4653			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4654
4655	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4656			[SUSPEND]
4657			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4658			mode before resuming the system (see
4659			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4660			is set. Default value is 5.
4661
4662	svm=		[PPC]
4663			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4664			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4665			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4666
4667	swapaccount=[0|1]
4668			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4669			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4670			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4671
4672	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4673			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4674			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4675			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4676			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4677			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4678
4679	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4680
4681	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4682			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4683			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4684			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4685			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4686			in older udev will not work anymore.
4687			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4688			the kernel configuration.
4689
4690	sysrq_always_enabled
4691			[KNL]
4692			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4693			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4694			Useful for debugging.
4695
4696	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4697			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4698			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4699			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4700			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4701			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4702
4703	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4704
4705	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4706			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4707			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4708			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4709			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4710			The system is woken from this state using a
4711			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4712
4713	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4714			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4715
4716	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4717			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4718			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4719
4720	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4721			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4722			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4723
4724	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4725			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4726			critical and hot trip points.
4727
4728	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4729			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4730
4731	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4732			-1: disable all passive trip points
4733			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4734			value
4735
4736	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4737			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4738			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4739			0: no polling (default)
4740
4741	threadirqs	[KNL]
4742			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4743			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4744
4745	topology=	[S390]
4746			Format: {off | on}
4747			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4748			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4749			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4750			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4751			Default is on.
4752
4753	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4754			Format: {off}
4755			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4756			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4757			LPAR.
4758
4759	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4760
4761	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4762			Format: integer pcr id
4763			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4764			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4765			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4766			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4767			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4768			are saved.
4769
4770	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4771			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4772
4773	trace_event=[event-list]
4774			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4775			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4776			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4777			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4778
4779	trace_options=[option-list]
4780			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4781			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4782			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4783			to echo the option name into
4784
4785			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4786
4787			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4788			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4789
4790			      trace_options=stacktrace
4791
4792			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4793			section.
4794
4795	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4796			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4797			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4798			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4799			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4800			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4801
4802			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4803			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4804			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4805			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4806
4807			** CAUTION **
4808
4809			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4810			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4811			the system to live lock.
4812
4813	traceoff_on_warning
4814			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4815			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4816			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4817			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4818
4819			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4820			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4821			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4822
4823			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4824			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4825
4826	transparent_hugepage=
4827			[KNL]
4828			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4829			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4830			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4831			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4832			for more details.
4833
4834	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4835			Format: <string>
4836			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4837			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4838			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4839			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4840			virtualized environment.
4841			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4842			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4843			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4844			can add overhead.
4845			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4846			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4847			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4848			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4849			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4850			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4851			acceptable).
4852
4853	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4854			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4855			Format:
4856			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4857			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4858
4859	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4860			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4861			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4862			help "seeing" what's going on.
4863
4864	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4865			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4866
4867	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4868			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4869			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4870			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4871			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4872			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4873			reported either.
4874
4875	unknown_nmi_panic
4876			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4877
4878	usbcore.authorized_default=
4879			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4880			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4881			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4882			if device connected to internal port)
4883
4884	usbcore.autosuspend=
4885			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4886			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4887			is the time required before an idle device will be
4888			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4889			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4890
4891	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4892			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4893
4894	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4895			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4896			(default = 65536).
4897
4898	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4899			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4900
4901	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4902			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4903			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4904			 (default 0 = off).
4905
4906	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4907			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4908			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4909
4910	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4911			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4912			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4913
4914	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4915			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4916			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4917			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4918
4919	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4920
4921	usbcore.quirks=
4922			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4923			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4924			commas. Each entry has the form
4925			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4926			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4927			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4928			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4929			the following meanings:
4930				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4931					descriptors must not be fetched using
4932					a 255-byte read);
4933				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4934					correctly so reset it instead);
4935				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4936					Set-Interface requests);
4937				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4938					handle its Configuration or Interface
4939					strings);
4940				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4941					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4942				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4943					more interface descriptions than the
4944					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4945					talking to these interfaces);
4946				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4947					during initialization, after we read
4948					the device descriptor);
4949				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4950					high speed and super speed interrupt
4951					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4952					require the interval in microframes (1
4953					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4954					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4955					(bInterval-1).
4956					Devices with this quirk report their
4957					bInterval as the result of this
4958					calculation instead of the exponent
4959					variable used in the calculation);
4960				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4961					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4962					requests);
4963				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4964					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4965					remote wakeup capability);
4966				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4967					Power Management);
4968				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4969					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4970					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4971					calculation);
4972				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4973					to be disconnected before suspend to
4974					prevent spurious wakeup);
4975				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4976					pause after every control message);
4977				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4978					delay after resetting its port);
4979			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4980
4981	usbhid.mousepoll=
4982			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4983
4984	usbhid.jspoll=
4985			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4986
4987	usbhid.kbpoll=
4988			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4989
4990	usb-storage.delay_use=
4991			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4992			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4993
4994	usb-storage.quirks=
4995			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4996			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4997			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4998			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4999			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5000			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5001			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5002				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5003					of sense data);
5004				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5005					bytes of sense data);
5006				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5007					device capacity by one sector);
5008				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5009					READ_DISC_INFO command);
5010				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5011					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5012				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5013					command, uas only);
5014				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5015					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5016				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5017					reported device capacity by one
5018					sector if the number is odd);
5019				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5020					device);
5021				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5022					command, uas only);
5023				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5024					unlock ejectable media);
5025				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5026					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
5027				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5028					initial READ(10) command);
5029				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5030					reported by the device);
5031				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5032					by default);
5033				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5034					bogus residue values);
5035				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5036					Logical Unit);
5037				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5038					commands, uas only);
5039				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5040				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5041					medium is write-protected).
5042				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5043					even if the device claims no cache)
5044			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5045
5046	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5047			Format: <int>
5048			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5049				 1 - undefined instruction events
5050				 2 - system calls
5051				 4 - invalid data aborts
5052				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5053				16 - SIGBUS faults
5054			Example: user_debug=31
5055
5056	userpte=
5057			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5058
5059				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5060					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5061					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5062
5063	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5064			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5065
5066			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5067			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5068
5069	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5070			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5071			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5072
5073			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5074			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5075			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5076
5077			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5078			alias for vdso32=0.
5079
5080			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5081			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5082
5083	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5084			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5085
5086	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5087			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5088
5089	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5090			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5091			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5092			level and then send out the event to user space through
5093			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5094			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5095			brightness level.
5096			default: 1
5097
5098	virtio_mmio.device=
5099			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5100
5101				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5102			where:
5103				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5104						like K, M and G)
5105				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5106				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5107						request_irq())
5108				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5109			example:
5110				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5111
5112			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5113
5114	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5115			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5116			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5117			Use vga=ask for menu.
5118			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5119			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5120
5121	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5122			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5123			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5124			All options are enabled by default, and this
5125			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5126			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5127			debugging features.
5128
5129			Available options are:
5130			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5131			  -	Disable all of the above options
5132
5133	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5134			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5135			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5136			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5137			mapped kernel RAM.
5138
5139	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5140			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5141			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5142
5143	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5144			Format: <command>
5145
5146	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5147			Format: <command>
5148
5149	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5150			Format: <command>
5151
5152	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5153			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5154			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5155			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5156			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5157			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5158			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5159
5160			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5161			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5162				    page is readable.
5163
5164			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5165			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5166				    page is not readable.
5167
5168			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5169			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5170			            might break your system.
5171
5172	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5173			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5174			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5175
5176	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5177			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5178			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5179			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5180
5181	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5182			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5183			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5184			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5185			ranging from 0-255.
5186
5187	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5188			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5189			Change the default green palette of the console.
5190			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5191			ranging from 0-255.
5192
5193	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5194			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5195			Change the default red palette of the console.
5196			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5197			ranging from 0-255.
5198
5199	vt.default_utf8=
5200			[VT]
5201			Format=<0|1>
5202			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5203			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5204			newly opened terminals.
5205
5206	vt.global_cursor_default=
5207			[VT]
5208			Format=<-1|0|1>
5209			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5210			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5211			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5212			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5213			cursors, 1 will display them.
5214
5215	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5216			Default: 2 = green.
5217
5218	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5219			Default: 3 = cyan.
5220
5221	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5222			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5223			or other driver-specific files in the
5224			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5225
5226	watchdog_thresh=
5227			[KNL]
5228			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5229			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5230			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5231			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5232			seconds.
5233
5234	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5235			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5236			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5237			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5238			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5239			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5240			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5241			corresponding sysfs file.
5242
5243	workqueue.disable_numa
5244			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5245			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5246			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5247			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5248			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5249			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5250			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5251
5252	workqueue.power_efficient
5253			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5254			they show better performance thanks to cache
5255			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5256			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5257
5258			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5259			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5260			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5261			power usage at the cost of small performance
5262			overhead.
5263
5264			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5265			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5266
5267	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5268			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5269			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5270			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5271			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5272			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5273			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5274			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5275			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5276			impacted.
5277
5278	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5279			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5280			supporting x2apic.
5281
5282	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5283			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5284			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5285			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5286			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5287
5288	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5289			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5290			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5291			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5292			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5293			domains.
5294
5295	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5296			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5297			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5298			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5299			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5300			nics -- unplug network devices
5301			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5302			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5303				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5304				the unplug protocol
5305			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5306
5307	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5308			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5309			optimizations.
5310
5311	xen_nopv	[X86]
5312			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5313			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5314			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5315			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5316
5317	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5318			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5319			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5320			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5321			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5322
5323	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5324			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5325			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5326			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5327			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5328			more timer interrupts.
5329
5330	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5331			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5332			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5333			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5334
5335	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5336			Format:
5337			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5338
5339	xive=		[PPC]
5340			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5341			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5342			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5343
5344			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5345				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5346				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5347
5348	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5349			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5350			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5351			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5352
5353	xmon		[PPC]
5354			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5355			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5356			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5357			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5358				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5359			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5360				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5361				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5362				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5363			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5364				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5365				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5366				can be written using xmon commands.
5367			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5368				memory, and other data can't be written using
5369				xmon commands.
5370			off	xmon is disabled.
5371