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.txt, 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.txt 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.txt
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/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/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			on: enable the feature
813
814	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
816	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
817			Format: <area>[,<node>]
818			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
820	default_hugepagesz=
821			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826			if not specified.
827
828	deferred_probe_timeout=
829			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835			retrying.
836
837	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
838			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
839
840	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
841			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
842			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
843			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
844			miss to occur.
845
846	disable=	[IPV6]
847			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
848
849	hardened_usercopy=
850                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
851                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
852                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
853                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
854                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
855                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
856                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
857                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
858                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
859
860	disable_radix	[PPC]
861			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
862
863	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
864			Format: <int>
865			The number of initial APIC ID for the
866			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
867			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
868			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
869			causing system reset or hang due to sending
870			INIT from AP to BSP.
871
872	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
873			Format: <bool>
874			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
875			The feature only exists starting from
876			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
877
878	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
879			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
880			to workaround buggy firmware.
881
882	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
883			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
884
885	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
886			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
887			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
888			entry later. This parameter disables that.
889
890	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
891			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
892			memory out of your available memory pool based on
893			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
894			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
895
896	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
897			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
898			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
899
900	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
901
902	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
903			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
904
905	dma_debug_entries=<number>
906			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
907			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
908			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
909			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
910			architectural default is too low.
911
912	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
913			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
914			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
915			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
916			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
917			driver later using sysfs.
918
919	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
920			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
921			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
922
923	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
924			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
925			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
926			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
927			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
928			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
929			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
930			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
931			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
932			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
933			available in Documentation/EDID/howto.rst. An EDID
934			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
935			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
936			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
937			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
938			data set with no connector name will be used for
939			any connectors not explicitly specified.
940
941	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
942
943	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
944			Format: {"off" | "known"}
945			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
946			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
947			exists).
948			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
949			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
950			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
951
952	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
953			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
954			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
955			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
956
957	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
958	module.dyndbg[="val"]
959			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
960			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
961			for details.
962
963	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
964			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
965			information about the feature.
966
967	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
968			in some Intel CPUs.
969
970	module.async_probe [KNL]
971			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
972
973	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
974			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
975			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
976			which are not unmapped.
977
978	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
979
980			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
981			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
982			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
983
984			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
985			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
986
987		cdns,<addr>[,options]
988			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
989			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
990			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
991			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
992			configured.
993
994		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
995		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
996		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
997		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
998		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
999			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1000			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1001			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1002			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1003			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1004			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1005			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1006			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1007
1008		pl011,<addr>
1009		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1010			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1011			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1012			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1014			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1015			the device registers.
1016
1017		meson,<addr>
1018			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1019			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1020			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1021			supported.
1022
1023		msm_serial,<addr>
1024			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1025			port at the specified address. The serial port
1026			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027			yet supported.
1028
1029		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1030			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1031			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1032			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1033			yet supported.
1034
1035		owl,<addr>
1036			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1037			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1038			specified address. The serial port must already be
1039			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1040
1041		rda,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1043			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1044			specified address. The serial port must already be
1045			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1046
1047		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1048
1049		s3c2410,<addr>
1050		s3c2412,<addr>
1051		s3c2440,<addr>
1052		s3c6400,<addr>
1053		s5pv210,<addr>
1054		exynos4210,<addr>
1055			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1056			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1057			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1058			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1059			Options are not yet supported.
1060
1061		lantiq,<addr>
1062			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1063			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1064			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1065			yet supported.
1066
1067		lpuart,<addr>
1068		lpuart32,<addr>
1069			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1070			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1071			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1072			port must already be setup and configured.
1073
1074		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1075			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1076			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1077			address. The serial port must already be setup
1078			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1079
1080		qcom_geni,<addr>
1081			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1082			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1083			specified address. The serial port must already be
1084			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1085
1086		efifb,[options]
1087			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1088			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1089			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1090			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1091			mapped with the correct attributes.
1092
1093	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1094			earlyprintk=vga
1095			earlyprintk=sclp
1096			earlyprintk=xen
1097			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1098			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1099			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1100			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1101			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1102			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1103
1104			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1105			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1106			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1107
1108			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1109			takes over.
1110
1111			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1112			be used at a time.
1113
1114			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1115			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1116			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1117			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1118				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1119			You can find the port for a given device in
1120			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1121				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1122
1123			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1124			very good.
1125
1126			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1127			the real console.
1128
1129			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1130
1131			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1132
1133			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1134			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1135			UART class.
1136
1137	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1138			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1139			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1140			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1141			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1142			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1143			default: on.
1144
1145	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1146			ekgdboc=kbd
1147
1148			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1149			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1150
1151	edd=		[EDD]
1152			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1153
1154	efi=		[EFI]
1155			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1156			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1157			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1158			default.
1159			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1160			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1161			firmware implementations.
1162			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1163			debug: enable misc debug output
1164
1165	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1166			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1167			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1168			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1169			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1170
1171	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1172			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1173			updating original EFI memory map.
1174			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1175			from ss to ss+nn.
1176			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1177			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1178			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1179			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1180
1181			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1182			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1183			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1184			doesn't support it.
1185
1186	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1187			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1188			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1189			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1190			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1191
1192
1193	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1194			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1195
1196	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1197			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1198			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1199
1200	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1201			Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1202			See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt,
1203			Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and
1204			Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details.
1205
1206	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1207			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1208			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1209			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1210			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1211
1212	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1213			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1214			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1215			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1216
1217	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1218			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1219			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1220			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1221			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1222
1223	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1224			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1225			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1226			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1227			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1228			Default value is 0.
1229			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1230
1231	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1232			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1233			support.
1234
1235	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1236			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1237			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1238
1239	evm=		[EVM]
1240			Format: { "fix" }
1241			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1242			current integrity status.
1243
1244	failslab=
1245	fail_page_alloc=
1246	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1247			General fault injection mechanism.
1248			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1249			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1250
1251	floppy=		[HW]
1252			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1253
1254	force_pal_cache_flush
1255			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1256			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1257			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1258			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1259
1260	forcepae	[X86-32]
1261			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1262			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1263			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1264			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1265			and may cause unknown problems.
1266
1267	ftrace=[tracer]
1268			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1269			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1270			boot debugging.
1271
1272	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1273			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1274			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1275			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1276			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1277			oops.
1278
1279	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1280			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1281			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1282			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1283			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1284			tracing directory.
1285
1286	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1287			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1288			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1289			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1290			tracing directory.
1291
1292	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1293			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1294			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1295			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1296			that can be changed at run time by the
1297			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1298
1299	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1300			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1301			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1302			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1303			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1304
1305	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1306			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1307			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1308			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1309			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1310
1311	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1312			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1313			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1314			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1315			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1316
1317	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1318
1319	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1320			Format: off | on
1321			default: on
1322
1323	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1324			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1325			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1326			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1327			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1328
1329	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1330			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1331			android emulator
1332
1333	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1334			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1335			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1336			GPT to be used instead.
1337
1338	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1339			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1340			Format: 0 | 1
1341			Default: 0
1342	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1343			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344			Format: 0 | 1
1345			Default: 0
1346	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1347			Format: 0 | 1
1348			Default: 0
1349	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1350			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1351			Default: 1024
1352	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1353			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1354			Default: 1024
1355
1356	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1357			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1358			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1359
1360	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1361			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1362			backtraces on all cpus.
1363			Format: <integer>
1364
1365	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1366			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1367			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1368			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1369
1370	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1371
1372	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1373			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1374
1375	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1376			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1377			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1378			logic will be disabled.
1379
1380	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1381			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1382			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1383			size on bigger boxes.
1384
1385	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1386			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1387			Default: "on"
1388
1389	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1390
1391	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1392			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1393				verbose }
1394			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1395			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1396				VIA, nVidia)
1397			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1398
1399	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1400			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1401
1402	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1403	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1404			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1405			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1406			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1407			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1408			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1409
1410	hung_task_panic=
1411			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1412			Format: <integer>
1413
1414			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1415			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1416			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1417			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1418			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1419
1420	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1421				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1422	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1423				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1424				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1425
1426	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1427				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1428				      guest on lock contention.
1429
1430	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1431			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1432			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1433			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1434			the real console.
1435
1436	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1437				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1438				registered from board initialization code.
1439				Format:
1440				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1441
1442	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1443	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1444			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1445			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1446			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1447	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1448	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1449			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1450			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1451	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1452	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1453	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1454			     for the AUX port
1455	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1456			     controller
1457	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1458			     controllers
1459	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1460	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1461			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1462			     transitions, or never reset
1463			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1464			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1465			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1466			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1467			architectures force reset to be always executed
1468	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1469	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1470
1471	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1472
1473	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1474			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1475			hardware.
1476	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1477			does not match list of supported models.
1478	i8k.power_status
1479			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1480			(disabled by default)
1481	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1482			capability is set.
1483
1484	i915.invert_brightness=
1485			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1486			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1487			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1488			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1489			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1490			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1491			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1492			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1493			value switches the backlight off.
1494			-1 -- never invert brightness
1495			 0 -- machine default
1496			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1497
1498	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1499			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1500
1501	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1502			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1503			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1504			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1505			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1506
1507	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1508			Format: <int>
1509			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1510			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1511			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1512			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1513			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1514			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1515			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1516			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1517			was 0x3.
1518
1519	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1520			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1521
1522	idle=		[X86]
1523			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1524			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1525			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1526			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1527			Not recommended.
1528			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1529			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1530			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1531
1532	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1533			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1534			Default: strict
1535
1536			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1537			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1538			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1539			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1540			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1541			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1542			encoding mode.
1543
1544			Available settings are as follows:
1545			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1546				supported by the FPU
1547			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1548				by the FPU
1549			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1550				by the FPU
1551			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1552				supported by the FPU
1553
1554			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1555			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1556			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1557			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1558			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1559			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1560			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1561			MIPS64 CPUs.
1562
1563			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1564			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1565			except where unsupported by hardware.
1566
1567	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1568			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1569			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1570			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1571			could change it dynamically, usually by
1572			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1573
1574	ignore_rlimit_data
1575			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1576			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1577			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1578
1579	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1580			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1581
1582	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1583			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1584			default: "enforce"
1585
1586	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1587			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1588			owned by uid=0.
1589
1590	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1591			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1592			measurements, instead of host native format.
1593
1594	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1595			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1596				   | sha512 | ... }
1597			default: "sha1"
1598
1599			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1600			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1601
1602	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1603			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1604			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1605				 fail_securely"
1606
1607			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1608			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1609			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1610			uid=0.
1611
1612			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1613			all files owned by root.
1614
1615			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1616			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1617			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1618
1619			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1620			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1621			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1622			flag.
1623
1624	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1625			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1626			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1627			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1628			opened for read by uid=0.
1629
1630	ima_template=	[IMA]
1631			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1632			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1633			Default: "ima-ng"
1634
1635	ima_template_fmt=
1636			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1637			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1638
1639	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1640			Format: <min_file_size>
1641			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1642			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1643
1644			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1645			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1646			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1647
1648	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1649			Format: <bufsize>
1650			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1651
1652			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1653			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1654			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1655
1656	init=		[KNL]
1657			Format: <full_path>
1658			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1659			process.
1660
1661	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1662			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1663			startup.
1664
1665	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1666			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1667			modules and initcalls.
1668
1669	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1670
1671	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1672			zeroes.
1673			Format: 0 | 1
1674			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1675
1676	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1677			Format: 0 | 1
1678			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1679
1680	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1681			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1682			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1683			override in debugfs after boot.
1684
1685	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1686			Format: <irq>
1687
1688	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1689
1690	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1691			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1693			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1694
1695	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1696		on
1697			Enable intel iommu driver.
1698		off
1699			Disable intel iommu driver.
1700		igfx_off [Default Off]
1701			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1702			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1703			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1704			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1705			DMA.
1706		forcedac [x86_64]
1707			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1708			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1709			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1710			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1711			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1712			then look in the higher range.
1713		strict [Default Off]
1714			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1715			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1716			to batching them for performance.
1717		sp_off [Default Off]
1718			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1719			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1720			not be supported.
1721		sm_on [Default Off]
1722			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1723			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1724			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1725			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1726		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1727			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1728			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1729			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1730			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1731			mapping is enabled.
1732			Note that using this option lowers the security
1733			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1734			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1735
1736	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1737			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1738			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1739
1740	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1741			disable
1742			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1743			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1744			passive
1745			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1746			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1747			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1748			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1749			  feature.
1750			force
1751			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1752			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1753			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1754			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1755			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1756			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1757			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1758			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1759			no_hwp
1760			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1761			  if available.
1762			hwp_only
1763			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1764			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1765			support_acpi_ppc
1766			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1767			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1768			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1769			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1770			per_cpu_perf_limits
1771			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1772			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1773
1774	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1775			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1776			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1777			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1778			no_x2apic_optout
1779				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1780			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1781
1782	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1783		strict	regions from userspace.
1784		relaxed
1785
1786	iommu=		[x86]
1787		off
1788		force
1789		noforce
1790		biomerge
1791		panic
1792		nopanic
1793		merge
1794		nomerge
1795		soft
1796		pt		[x86]
1797		nopt		[x86]
1798		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1799			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1800
1801	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1802			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1803			0 - Lazy mode.
1804			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1805			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1806			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1807			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1808			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1809			1 - Strict mode (default).
1810			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1811			  synchronously.
1812
1813	iommu.passthrough=
1814			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1815			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1816			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1817			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1818			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1819
1820	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1821			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1822			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1823
1824	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1825		0x80
1826			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1827		0xed
1828			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1829		udelay
1830			Simple two microseconds delay
1831		none
1832			No delay
1833
1834	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1835			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1836
1837	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1838			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1839
1840	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1841			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1842
1843	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1844			[ARM, ARM64]
1845			Format: <bool>
1846			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1847			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1848			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1849
1850	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1851			[ARM, ARM64]
1852			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1853			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1854			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1855			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1856			LPIs.
1857
1858	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1859			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1860			requires the kernel to be built with
1861			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1862
1863	irqfixup	[HW]
1864			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1865			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1866			firmware running.
1867
1868	irqpoll		[HW]
1869			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1870			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1871			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1872			firmware running.
1873
1874	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1875			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1876
1877	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1878			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1879			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1880
1881			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1882			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1883
1884			nohz
1885			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1886
1887			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1888			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1889			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1890			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1891			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1892
1893			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1894			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1895			  be configured manually after bootup.
1896
1897			domain
1898			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1899			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1900			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1901			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1902			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1903			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1904			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1905			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1906
1907			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1908			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1909			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1910			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1911
1912			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1913
1914
1915
1916	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1917
1918	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1919			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1920			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1921			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1922			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1923				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1924
1925	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1926			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1927			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1928			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1929			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1930				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1931
1932	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1933			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1934			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1935			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1936			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1937				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1938
1939	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1940			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1941
1942	nokaslr		[KNL]
1943			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1944			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1945			Layout Randomization).
1946
1947	kasan_multi_shot
1948			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1949			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1950			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1951			invalid access.
1952
1953	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1954
1955	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1956			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1957			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1958			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1959			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1960			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1961			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1962			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1963			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1964			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1965
1966			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1967			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1968			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1969			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1970			zone if it does not.
1971
1972			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1973			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1974			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1975			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1976			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1977			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1978			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1979
1980	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1981			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1982			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1983			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1984			optional and is the number seconds in between
1985			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1986			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1987			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1988			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1989			the kernel debugger.
1990
1991	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1992			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1993			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1994			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1995			 keyboard only format: kbd
1996			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1997			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1998			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1999			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2000
2001	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2002			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2003
2004	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2005			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2006			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2007
2008	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2009			Valid arguments: on, off
2010			Default: on
2011			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2012			the default is off.
2013
2014	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2015			and kernel address spaces.
2016			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2017			0: force disabled
2018			1: force enabled
2019
2020	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2021			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2022
2023	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2024				   Default is false (don't support).
2025
2026	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2027			KVM MMU at runtime.
2028			Default is 0 (off)
2029
2030	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2031			Default is 1 (enabled)
2032
2033	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2034			for all guests.
2035			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2036
2037	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2038			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2039			system registers
2040
2041	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2042			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2043			system registers
2044
2045	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2046			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2047			system registers
2048
2049	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2050			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2051			LPIs.
2052
2053	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2054			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2055			Default is 1 (enabled)
2056
2057	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2058			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2059			Default is 0 (disabled)
2060
2061	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2062			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2063			Default is 1 (enabled)
2064
2065	kvm-intel.nested=
2066			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2067			Default is 0 (disabled)
2068
2069	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2070			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2071			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2072			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2073
2074	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2075			CVE-2018-3620.
2076
2077			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2078
2079			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2080			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2081				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2082			never:	Disables the mitigation
2083
2084			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2085
2086	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2087			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2088			Default is 1 (enabled)
2089
2090	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2091			      affected CPUs
2092
2093			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2094			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2095
2096			full
2097				Provides all available mitigations for the
2098				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2099				enables all mitigations in the
2100				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2101
2102				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2103				sysfs interface is still possible after
2104				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2105				when the first VM is started in a
2106				potentially insecure configuration,
2107				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2108
2109			full,force
2110				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2111				flush runtime control. Implies the
2112				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2113				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2114
2115			flush
2116				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2117				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2118				L1D flush.
2119
2120				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2121				sysfs interface is still possible after
2122				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2123				when the first VM is started in a
2124				potentially insecure configuration,
2125				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2126
2127			flush,nosmt
2128
2129				Disables SMT and enables the default
2130				hypervisor mitigation.
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			flush,nowarn
2140				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2141				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2142				insecure configuration.
2143
2144			off
2145				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2146				emit any warnings.
2147				It also drops the swap size and available
2148				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2149				bare metal.
2150
2151			Default is 'flush'.
2152
2153			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2154
2155	l2cr=		[PPC]
2156
2157	l3cr=		[PPC]
2158
2159	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2160			disabled it.
2161
2162	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2163			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2164			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2165
2166	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2167			in C2 power state.
2168
2169	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2170			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2171			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2172			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2173			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2174			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2175			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2176
2177	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2178			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2179			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2180
2181	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2182			when set.
2183			Format: <int>
2184
2185	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2186			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2187			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2188			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2189			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2190			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2191			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2192			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2193
2194			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2195			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2196			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2197			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2198			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2199			host link and device attached to it.
2200
2201			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2202			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2203			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2204			The following configurations can be forced.
2205
2206			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2207			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2208
2209			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2210
2211			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2212			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2213			  allowed.
2214
2215			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2216
2217			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2218
2219			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2220			  and both resets.
2221
2222			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2223			  hot-unplug link recovery
2224
2225			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2226
2227			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2228
2229			* disable: Disable this device.
2230
2231			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2232			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2233
2234	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2235
2236	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2237			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2238
2239	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2240			Format: <integer>
2241
2242	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2243			Format: <integer>
2244
2245	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2246			Format: <integer>
2247
2248	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2249			Format: <integer>
2250
2251	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2252			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2253			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2254			number of online CPUs.
2255
2256	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2257			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2258
2259	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2260			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2261
2262	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2263			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2264			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2265
2266	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2267			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2268			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2269			mode during the locktorture test.
2270
2271	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2272			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2273			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2274
2275	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2276			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2277
2278	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2279			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2280			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2281			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2282			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2283			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2284
2285	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2286			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2287
2288	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2289			Enable additional printk() statements.
2290
2291	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2292			Format: <irq>
2293
2294	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2295			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2296			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2297			loglevels are defined as follows:
2298
2299			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2300			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2301			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2302			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2303			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2304			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2305			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2306			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2307
2308	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2309			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2310			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2311			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2312			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2313			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2314			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2315
2316	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2317			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2318			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2319			kernel boot problems.
2320
2321	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2322	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2323	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2324	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2325				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2326				attached printers to be reset. Using
2327				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2328				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2329				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2330				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2331				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2332				port specification list means that device IDs
2333				from each port should be examined, to see if
2334				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2335				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2336				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2337
2338	lpj=n		[KNL]
2339			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2340			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2341			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2342			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2343			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2344			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2345			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2346			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2347			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2348			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2349			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2350			hardware.
2351
2352	ltpc=		[NET]
2353			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2354
2355	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2356
2357	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2358			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2359			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2360
2361	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2362			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2363			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2364
2365	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2366			 yeeloong laptop.
2367			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2368
2369	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2370			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2371
2372	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2373			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2374			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2375			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2376			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2377			only takes effect during system bootup.
2378			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2379			which also disables the IO APIC.
2380
2381	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2382	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2383			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2384			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2385			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2386			/dev/loop-control interface.
2387
2388	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2389
2390	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2391
2392	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2393			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2394
2395	mdacon=		[MDA]
2396			Format: <first>,<last>
2397			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2398
2399	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2400			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2401			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2402
2403			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2404			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2405			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2406
2407			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2408			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2409			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2410			not have direct access.
2411
2412			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2413			options are:
2414
2415			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2416			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2417				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2418			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2419
2420			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2421			mds=full.
2422
2423			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2424
2425	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2426			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2427			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2428			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2429			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2430			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2431			belonging to unused RAM.
2432
2433	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2434			memory.
2435
2436	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2437			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2438			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2439
2440	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2441			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2442			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2443			set according to the
2444			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2445			option.
2446			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2447
2448	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2449			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2450			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2451			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2452			option description.
2453
2454	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2455			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2456			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2457			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2458			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2459			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2460			comma delimited.
2461			Example:
2462				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2463
2464	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2465			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2466			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2467
2468	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2469			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2470			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2471			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2472			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2473			         or
2474			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2475			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2476			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2477			will be eaten.
2478
2479	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2480			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2481			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2482			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2483			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2484
2485	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2486			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2487			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2488			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2489			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2490			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2491			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2492			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2493
2494	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2495			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2496			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2497			Setting this option will scan the memory
2498			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2499			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2500			from using the memory being corrupted.
2501			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2502			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2503			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2504			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2505
2506	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2507			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2508			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2509			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2510			corruption in more or less memory.
2511
2512	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2513			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2514			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2515			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2516
2517	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2518			Format: <integer>
2519			default : 0 <disable>
2520			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2521			performed. Each pass selects another test
2522			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2523			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2524			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2525			regions that are detected.
2526
2527	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2528			Valid arguments: on, off
2529			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2530			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2531			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2532			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2533			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2534
2535			Refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2536			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2537
2538	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2539			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2540			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2541			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2542			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2543
2544	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2545			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2546
2547	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2548			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2549			platforms.
2550
2551	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2552			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2553			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2554			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2555
2556	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2557
2558	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2559			physical address is ignored.
2560
2561	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2562			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2563			Default: "0tb"
2564			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2565			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2566			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2567			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2568			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2569			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2570			unconfigured.
2571			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2572			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2573			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2574			VGA shield.
2575			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2576			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2577			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2578			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2579			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2580			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2581
2582	mitigations=
2583			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2584			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2585			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2586			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2587
2588			off
2589				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2590				improves system performance, but it may also
2591				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2592				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2593					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2594					       nospectre_v1 [PPC]
2595					       nobp=0 [S390]
2596					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2597					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2598					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2599					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2600					       l1tf=off [X86]
2601					       mds=off [X86]
2602
2603			auto (default)
2604				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2605				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2606				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2607				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2608				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2609				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2610
2611			auto,nosmt
2612				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2613				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2614				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2615				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2616					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2617
2618	mminit_loglevel=
2619			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2620			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2621			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2622			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2623			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2624			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2625
2626	module.sig_enforce
2627			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2628			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2629			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2630			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2631
2632	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2633			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2634
2635	mousedev.tap_time=
2636			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2637			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2638			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2639			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2640			Format: <msecs>
2641	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2642			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2643	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2644			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2645
2646	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2647			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2648			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2649			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2650			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2651			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2652			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2653			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2654			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2655			is not too small.
2656
2657	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2658			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2659			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2660			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2661			allocations. Use with caution!
2662
2663	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2664			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2665
2666	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2667			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2668
2669	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2670			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2671
2672	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2673			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2674			at a time.
2675
2676	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2677
2678			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2679
2680			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2681				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2682			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2683				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2684				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2685
2686	mtdset=		[ARM]
2687			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2688
2689			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2690
2691	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2692			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2693			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2694
2695	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2696			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2697			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2698
2699	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2700			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2701			Default is 1.
2702			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2703			using up MTRRs.
2704
2705	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2706			Format: <integer>
2707			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2708			Default : 1
2709			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2710			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2711
2712	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2713
2714	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2715			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2716			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2717			something different and driver-specific.
2718			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2719			file if at all.
2720
2721	nf_conntrack.acct=
2722			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2723			0 to disable accounting
2724			1 to enable accounting
2725			Default value is 0.
2726
2727	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2728			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2729
2730	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2731			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2732
2733	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2734			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2735
2736	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2737			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2738			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2739			requests.
2740
2741	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2742			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2743			channel should listen.
2744
2745	nfs.cache_getent=
2746			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2747			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2748
2749	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2750			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2751			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2752
2753	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2754			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2755			entries.
2756
2757	nfs.enable_ino64=
2758			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2759			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2760			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2761			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2762			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2763
2764	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2765			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2766			slots the client will assign to the callback
2767			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2768			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2769			a particular server.
2770
2771	nfs.max_session_slots=
2772			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2773			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2774			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2775			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2776			Note that there is little point in setting this
2777			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2778
2779	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2780			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2781			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2782			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2783			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2784			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2785			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2786			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2787			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2788			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2789			back to using the idmapper.
2790			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2791	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2792			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2793			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2794			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2795			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2796
2797	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2798			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2799			information in exchange_id requests.
2800			If zero, no implementation identification information
2801			will be sent.
2802			The default is to send the implementation identification
2803			information.
2804
2805	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2806			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2807			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2808			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2809			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2810			after the locks are lost.
2811			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2812			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2813			parameter to '1'.
2814			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2815			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2816
2817	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2818			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2819			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2820
2821			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2822			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2823			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2824			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2825
2826	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2827			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2828			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2829			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2830			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2831			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2832
2833	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2834			when a NMI is triggered.
2835			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2836
2837	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2838			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2839			Valid num: 0 or 1
2840			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2841			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2842			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2843			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2844			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2845			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2846			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2847			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2848			need the box quickly up again.
2849
2850			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2851			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2852
2853	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2854			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2855			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2856			waits 4 seconds.
2857
2858	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2859			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2860			is present.
2861
2862	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2863			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2864
2865	no_console_suspend
2866			[HW] Never suspend the console
2867			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2868			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2869			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2870			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2871			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2872			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2873			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2874			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2875			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2876			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2877			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2878			turn on/off it dynamically.
2879
2880	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2881			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2882			but will impact performance.
2883
2884	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2885
2886	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2887			(CPU alternatives feature).
2888
2889	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2890			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2891
2892	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2893
2894	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2895			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2896
2897	nocache		[ARM]
2898
2899	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2900
2901	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2902
2903	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2904
2905	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2906
2907	noexec		[IA-64]
2908
2909	noexec		[X86]
2910			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2911			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2912			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2913
2914	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
2915			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2916			even if it is supported by processor.
2917
2918	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
2919			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2920			even if it is supported by processor.
2921
2922	noexec32	[X86-64]
2923			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2924			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2925				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2926			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2927				read implies executable mappings
2928
2929	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2930
2931	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2932			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2933			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2934
2935	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2936
2937	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2938			Equivalent to smt=1.
2939
2940			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2941			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2942				     via the sysfs control file.
2943
2944	nospectre_v1	[PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2945			check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2946			in the system.
2947
2948	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2949			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2950			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2951			option.
2952
2953	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2954			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2955
2956	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2957			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2958			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2959
2960	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2961			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2962			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2963			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2964			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2965			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2966
2967	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2968			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2969			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2970			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2971			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2972			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2973			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2974
2975	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2976			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2977			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2978
2979	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2980			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2981			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2982
2983	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2984			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2985			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2986			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2987			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2988			real-time systems.
2989
2990	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2991
2992	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2993			Valid arguments: on, off
2994			Default: on
2995
2996	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2997			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2998			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2999			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3000			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3001			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3002			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3003			just as if they had also been called out in the
3004			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3005
3006	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3007
3008	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3009			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3010
3011	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3012			broken timer IRQ sources.
3013
3014	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3015
3016	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3017			initial RAM disk.
3018
3019	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3020			remapping.
3021			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3022
3023	nointroute	[IA-64]
3024
3025	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3026
3027	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3028
3029	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3030
3031	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3032			fault handling.
3033
3034	no-vmw-sched-clock
3035			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3036			clock and use the default one.
3037
3038	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3039			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3040			behaviour
3041
3042	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3043
3044	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3045
3046	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3047			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3048
3049	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3050
3051	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3052
3053	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3054			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3055
3056	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3057			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3058			irq.
3059
3060	nomodule	Disable module load
3061
3062	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3063			pagetables) support.
3064
3065	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3066
3067	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3068			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3069
3070	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3071			with UP alternatives
3072
3073	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3074			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3075			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3076			available to user space applications.
3077
3078	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3079			space.
3080
3081	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3082			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3083			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3084
3085	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3086
3087	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3088
3089	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3090			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3091
3092	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3093
3094	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3095
3096	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3097			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3098
3099	nowb		[ARM]
3100
3101	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3102
3103	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3104			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3105			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3106			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3107			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3108			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3109			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3110			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3111			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3112			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3113			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3114			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3115			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3116
3117	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3118			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3119			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3120			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3121			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3122			parameter's value.
3123			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3124			Default: 255
3125
3126	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3127			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3128			SAL PALO.
3129
3130	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3131			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3132			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3133			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3134			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3135			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3136			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3137			hot plugging.
3138
3139	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3140
3141	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3142			Allowed values are enable and disable
3143
3144	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3145			'node', 'default' can be specified
3146			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3147			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3148
3149	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3150			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3151			info.
3152
3153	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3154			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3155			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3156			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3157			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3158			interrupts *may* be lost!
3159
3160	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3161			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3162			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3163			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3164
3165	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3166			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3167
3168	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3169			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3170			userland or if you want common events.
3171			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3172			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3173				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3174				CPU specific event set.
3175			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3176				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3177				for generic hr timer mode)
3178
3179	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3180			process, but there is a small probability of
3181			deadlocking the machine.
3182			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3183			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3184
3185	page_alloc.shuffle=
3186			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3187			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3188			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3189			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3190			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3191			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3192			can be read from sysfs at:
3193			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3194
3195	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3196			Storage of the information about who allocated
3197			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3198			we can turn it on.
3199			on: enable the feature
3200
3201	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3202			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3203			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3204			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3205			on: turn on poisoning
3206
3207	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3208			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3209			timeout = 0: wait forever
3210			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3211			Format: <timeout>
3212
3213	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3214			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3215			bit 0: print all tasks info
3216			bit 1: print system memory info
3217			bit 2: print timer info
3218			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3219			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3220			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3221
3222	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3223			on a WARN().
3224
3225	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3226			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3227			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3228			succeeds in any situation.
3229			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3230			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3231			kernel more unstable.
3232
3233	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3234			connected to, default is 0.
3235			Format: <parport#>
3236	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3237			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3238			Format: <mode>
3239
3240	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3241			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3242			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3243			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3244			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3245			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3246			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3247			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3248			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3249			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3250			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3251			are specified on the command line, starting
3252			with parport0.
3253
3254	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3255			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3256			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3257			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3258			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3259			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3260			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3261
3262	pause_on_oops=
3263			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3264			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3265			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3266
3267	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3268
3269	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3270			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3271			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3272
3273	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3274
3275				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3276				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3277				specified in one of the following formats:
3278
3279				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3280				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3281
3282				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3283				bus/device/function address which may change
3284				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3285				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3286				by other kernel parameters. If the
3287				domain is left unspecified, it is
3288				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3289				to a device through multiple device/function
3290				addresses can be specified after the base
3291				address (this is more robust against
3292				renumbering issues).  The second format
3293				selects devices using IDs from the
3294				configuration space which may match multiple
3295				devices in the system.
3296
3297		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3298				changes anything
3299		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3300		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3301				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3302				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3303		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3304				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3305				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3306				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3307		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3308				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3309				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3310		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3311				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3312				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3313				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3314				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3315				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3316				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3317		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3318				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3319				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3320		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3321				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3322		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3323				Configuration
3324		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3325				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3326				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3327		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3328				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3329				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3330		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3331				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3332				should never be necessary.
3333		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3334				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3335				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3336				when the system masks IRQs.
3337		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3338				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3339				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3340				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3341		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3342				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3343				on several machines and they hang the machine
3344				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3345				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3346				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3347				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3348				motherboard.
3349		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3350				Use with caution as certain devices share
3351				address decoders between ROMs and other
3352				resources.
3353		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3354				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3355				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3356		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3357				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3358		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3359				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3360				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3361				this way.
3362		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3363				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3364				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3365				F0000h-100000h range.
3366		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3367				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3368				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3369				explicitly which ones they are.
3370		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3371				numbers ourselves, overriding
3372				whatever the firmware may have done.
3373		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3374				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3375				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3376				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3377				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3378				IRQ routing is enabled.
3379		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3380				or for PCI scanning.
3381		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3382				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3383				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3384				please report a bug.
3385		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3386				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3387		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3388				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3389				so this option is a temporary workaround
3390				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3391		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3392				handle more pci cards
3393		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3394				This might help on some broken boards which
3395				machine check when some devices' config space
3396				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3397				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3398		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3399				This sorting is done to get a device
3400				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3401		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3402		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3403				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3404		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3405				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3406		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3407				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3408				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3409				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3410				or bus can support) for best performance.
3411		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3412				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3413				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3414				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3415				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3416				that hot-added devices will work.
3417		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3418				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3419				The default value is 256 bytes.
3420		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3421				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3422				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3423		resource_alignment=
3424				Format:
3425				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3426				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3427				aligned memory resources. How to
3428				specify the device is described above.
3429				If <order of align> is not specified,
3430				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3431				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3432				windows need to be expanded.
3433				To specify the alignment for several
3434				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3435				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3436				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3437		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3438				end-to-end CRC checking).
3439				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3440				the default.
3441				off: Turn ECRC off
3442				on: Turn ECRC on.
3443		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3444				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3445				Default size is 256 bytes.
3446		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3447				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3448				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3449		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3450				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3451				Default is 1.
3452		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3453				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3454				accommodate resources required by all child
3455				devices.
3456				off: Turn realloc off
3457				on: Turn realloc on
3458		realloc		same as realloc=on
3459		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3460		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3461				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3462		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3463				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3464				port.
3465		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3466				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3467				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3468				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3469				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3470				taints the kernel.
3471		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3472				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3473				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3474				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3475				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3476				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3477				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3478				this removes isolation between devices and
3479				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3480		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3481		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3482
3483	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3484			Management.
3485		off	Disable ASPM.
3486		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3487			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3488
3489	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3490		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3491			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3492			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3493			also tries to use these services.
3494		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3495			hotplug).
3496
3497	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3498		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3499		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3500
3501	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3502		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3503			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3504
3505	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3506
3507	pd_ignore_unused
3508			[PM]
3509			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3510			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3511			for debug and development, but should not be
3512			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3513
3514	pd.		[PARIDE]
3515			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3516
3517	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3518			boot time.
3519			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3520			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3521
3522	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3523			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3524			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3525			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3526			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3527			and performance comparison.
3528
3529	pf.		[PARIDE]
3530			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3531
3532	pg.		[PARIDE]
3533			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3534
3535	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3536			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3537
3538	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3539			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3540			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3541
3542	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3543			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3544			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3545
3546	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3547			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3548			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3549			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3550			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3551			possible settings and some assignment information.
3552
3553	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3554			{ off }
3555
3556	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3557			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3558
3559	pnp_reserve_irq=
3560			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3561
3562	pnp_reserve_dma=
3563			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3564
3565	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3566			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3567
3568	pnp_reserve_mem=
3569			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3570			autoconfiguration.
3571			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3572
3573	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3574			Default is 21.
3575			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3576			may be specified.
3577			Format: <port>,<port>....
3578
3579	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3580			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3581			platform machine description specific power_save
3582			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3583			execution priority.
3584
3585	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3586			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3587			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3588			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3589			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3590
3591	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3592			Format: {"off"}
3593			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3594
3595	print-fatal-signals=
3596			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3597
3598			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3599			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3600			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3601			coredump - etc.
3602
3603			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3604			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3605
3606			default: off.
3607
3608	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3609			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3610			panics
3611			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3612			default: disabled
3613
3614	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3615			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3616			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3617			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3618			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3619			Default: ratelimit
3620
3621	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3622			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3623
3624	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3625			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3626			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3627
3628	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3629			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3630			instead using the legacy FADT method
3631
3632	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3633			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3634			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3635				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3636			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3637			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3638				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3639			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3640			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3641				statistical time based profiling.
3642
3643	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3644			before loading.
3645			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3646
3647	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3648			tracking.
3649			Format: <bool>
3650
3651	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3652			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3653	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3654			per second.
3655	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3656			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3657			(0 = never).
3658	psmouse.resolution=
3659			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3660	psmouse.smartscroll=
3661			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3662			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3663
3664	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3665
3666	pt.		[PARIDE]
3667			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3668
3669	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3670			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3671			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3672			system calls and interrupts.
3673
3674			on   - unconditionally enable
3675			off  - unconditionally disable
3676			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3677			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3678
3679			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3680
3681	nopti		[X86_64]
3682			Equivalent to pti=off
3683
3684	pty.legacy_count=
3685			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3686			default number.
3687
3688	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3689
3690	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3691
3692	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3693			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3694
3695	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3696			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3697
3698	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3699			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3700			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3701			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3702			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3703
3704	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3705
3706		cec_disable	[X86]
3707				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3708				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3709
3710	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3711			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3712			except that the string "all" can be used to
3713			specify every CPU on the system.
3714
3715			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3716			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3717			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3718			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3719			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3720			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3721			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3722			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3723			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3724			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3725
3726	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3727			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3728			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3729			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3730			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3731			This improves the real-time response for the
3732			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3733			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3734			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3735			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3736
3737	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3738			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3739			process in one batch.
3740
3741	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3742			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3743			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3744			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3745
3746	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3747			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3748			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3749
3750	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3751			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3752			RCU grace-period initialization.
3753
3754	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3755			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3756			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3757			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3758			the rcu_node combining tree.
3759
3760	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3761			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3762			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3763			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3764			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3765
3766	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3767			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3768			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3769			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3770			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3771
3772	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3773			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3774			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3775			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3776			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3777			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3778			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3779
3780	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3781			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3782			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3783			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3784			and maximum value is HZ.
3785
3786	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3787			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3788			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3789			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3790
3791	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3792			Set required age in jiffies for a
3793			given grace period before RCU starts
3794			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3795			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3796			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3797			a value based on the most recent settings
3798			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3799			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3800			This calculated value may be viewed in
3801			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3802			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3803			overwritten.
3804
3805	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3806			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3807			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3808			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3809			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3810			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3811			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3812			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3813			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3814			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3815
3816	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3817			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3818			defaults to the square root of the number of
3819			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3820			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3821			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3822
3823	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3824			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3825			batch limiting is disabled.
3826
3827	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3828			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3829			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3830
3831	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3832			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3833			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3834
3835	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3836			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3837			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3838			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3839			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3840
3841	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3842			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3843			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3844			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3845			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3846			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3847
3848	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3849			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3850			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3851			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3852
3853	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3854			Measure performance of asynchronous
3855			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3856
3857	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3858			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3859			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3860			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3861			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3862			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3863
3864	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3865			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3866			grace-period primitives.
3867
3868	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3869			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3870			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3871			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3872			interference.
3873
3874	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3875			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3876			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3877			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3878			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3879			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3880			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3881			a single reader.
3882
3883	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3884			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3885			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3886			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3887
3888	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3889			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3890
3891	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3892			Shut the system down after performance tests
3893			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3894			testing.
3895
3896	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3897			Enable additional printk() statements.
3898
3899	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3900			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3901			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3902			no holdoff.
3903
3904	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3905			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3906			in microseconds.
3907
3908	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3909			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3910			in microseconds.
3911
3912	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3913			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3914			in seconds.
3915
3916	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3917			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3918			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3919
3920	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3921			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3922			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3923
3924	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3925			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3926			forward-progress tests.
3927
3928	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3929			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3930			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3931			testing.
3932
3933	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3934			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3935			primitives, if available.
3936
3937	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3938			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3939
3940	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3941			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3942			update-side primitives, if available.
3943
3944	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3945			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3946			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3947			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3948			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3949			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3950			they are all non-zero.
3951
3952	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3953			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3954
3955	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3956			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3957			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3958			test, hence the "fake".
3959
3960	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3961			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3962			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3963			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3964			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3965			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3966
3967	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3968			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3969
3970	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3971			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3972
3973	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3974			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3975			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3976
3977	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3978			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3979			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3980			during the rcutorture test.
3981
3982	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3983			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3984			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3985
3986	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3987			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3988			warnings, zero to disable.
3989
3990	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3991			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3992
3993	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3994			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3995
3996	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3997			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3998
3999	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4000			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4001			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4002			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4003			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4004
4005	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4006			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4007			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4008			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4009
4010	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4011			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4012
4013	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4014			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4015
4016	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4017			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4018			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4019
4020	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4021			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4022
4023	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4024			Enable additional printk() statements.
4025
4026	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4027			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4028
4029	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4030			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4031
4032	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4033			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4034			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4035			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4036			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4037			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4038			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4039
4040	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4041			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4042			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4043			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4044			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4045			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4046			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4047			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4048			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4049
4050	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4051			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4052			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4053			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4054			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4055
4056	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4057			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4058			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4059			to zero.
4060
4061	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4062			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4063
4064	rdinit=		[KNL]
4065			Format: <full_path>
4066			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4067			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4068
4069	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4070			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4071			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4072			mba.
4073			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4074				rdt=cmt,!mba
4075
4076	reboot=		[KNL]
4077			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4078				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4079				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4080				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4081				[[,]f[orce]
4082			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4083					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4084					reboot only),
4085			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4086			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4087			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4088					to be used for rebooting.
4089
4090	relax_domain_level=
4091			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4092			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4093
4094	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4095			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4096			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4097			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4098			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4099
4100	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4101			Format: nn[KMG]
4102			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4103			address space.
4104
4105	reservelow=	[X86]
4106			Format: nn[K]
4107			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4108			the bottom of the address space.
4109
4110	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4111			during initialization.
4112
4113	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4114			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4115			Format:
4116			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4117
4118	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4119			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4120			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4121			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4122			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4123
4124	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4125			read the resume files
4126
4127	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4128			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4129			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4130
4131	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4132		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4133				present during boot.
4134		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4135		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4136		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4137				(that will set all pages holding image data
4138				during restoration read-only).
4139
4140	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4141
4142	rfkill.default_state=
4143		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4144			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4145		1	Unblocked.
4146
4147	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4148		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4149		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4150			blocked and the previous configuration.
4151		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4152			blocked and everything unblocked.
4153
4154	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4155			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4156
4157	ring3mwait=disable
4158			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4159			CPUs.
4160
4161	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4162
4163	rodata=		[KNL]
4164		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4165		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4166
4167	rockchip.usb_uart
4168			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4169			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4170			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4171			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4172
4173	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4174			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4175
4176	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4177			mount the root filesystem
4178
4179	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4180
4181	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4182
4183	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4184			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4185			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4186
4187	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4188			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4189			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4190			managed by CMA.
4191
4192	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4193
4194	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4195
4196	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4197			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4198		strict
4199			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4200			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4201			which is faster.
4202
4203	sa1100ir	[NET]
4204			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4205
4206	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4207
4208	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4209
4210	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4211			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4212			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4213			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4214
4215	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4216			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4217			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4218			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4219			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4220			1 -- enable.
4221			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4222			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4223
4224	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4225			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4226			"lsm=" parameter.
4227
4228	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4229			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4230			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4231			0 -- disable.
4232			1 -- enable.
4233			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4234			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4235			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4236
4237	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4238			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4239			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4240			0 -- disable.
4241			1 -- enable.
4242			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4243
4244	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4245
4246	shapers=	[NET]
4247			Maximal number of shapers.
4248
4249	simeth=		[IA-64]
4250	simscsi=
4251
4252	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4253
4254	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4255			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4256			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4257			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4258			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4259			layout control by attackers can usually be
4260			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4261			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4262			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4263			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4264			own.
4265			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4266
4267	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4268			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4269			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4270			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4271			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4272
4273	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4274			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4275			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4276			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4277			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4278			last alloc / free. For more information see
4279			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4280
4281	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4282			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4283			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4284			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4285			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4286			directories and files being created under
4287			/sys/kernel/slub.
4288
4289	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4290			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4291			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4292			fragmentation. For more information see
4293			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4294
4295	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4296			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4297			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4298			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4299			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4300			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4301			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4302			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4303
4304	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4305			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4306			lower than slub_max_order.
4307			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4308
4309	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4310			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4311			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4312
4313	smart2=		[HW]
4314			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4315
4316	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4317	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4318	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4319	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4320	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4321	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4322	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4323				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4324				1: Fast pin select (default)
4325				2: ATC IRMode
4326
4327	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4328			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4329			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4330			actual hardware limit.
4331			Format: <integer>
4332			Default: -1 (no limit)
4333
4334	softlockup_panic=
4335			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4336			Format: <integer>
4337
4338			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4339			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4340			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4341			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4342			functionality.
4343
4344	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4345			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4346			backtraces on all cpus.
4347			Format: <integer>
4348
4349	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4350			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4351
4352	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4353			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4354			The default operation protects the kernel from
4355			user space attacks.
4356
4357			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4358			       spectre_v2_user=on
4359			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4360			       spectre_v2_user=off
4361			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4362			       vulnerable
4363
4364			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4365			mitigation method at run time according to the
4366			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4367			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4368			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4369
4370			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4371			against user space to user space task attacks.
4372
4373			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4374			the user space protections.
4375
4376			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4377
4378			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4379			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4380			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4381
4382			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4383			spectre_v2=auto.
4384
4385	spectre_v2_user=
4386			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4387		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4388		        user space tasks
4389
4390			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4391				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4392
4393			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4394				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4395
4396			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4397				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4398				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4399				  is inherited on fork.
4400
4401			prctl,ibpb
4402				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4403				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4404				  always when switching between different user
4405				  space processes.
4406
4407			seccomp
4408				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4409				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4410				  they explicitly opt out.
4411
4412			seccomp,ibpb
4413				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4414				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4415				  always when switching between different
4416				  user space processes.
4417
4418			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4419				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4420
4421			Default mitigation:
4422			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4423
4424			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4425			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4426
4427	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4428			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4429			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4430
4431			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4432			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4433			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4434			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4435			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4436			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4437			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4438			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4439
4440			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4441			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4442			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4443			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4444
4445			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4446			Bypass optimization is used.
4447
4448			On x86 the options are:
4449
4450			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4451			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4452			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4453				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4454				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4455				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4456				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4457				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4458			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4459				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4460				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4461				  is inherited on fork.
4462			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4463				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4464
4465			Default mitigations:
4466			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4467
4468			On powerpc the options are:
4469
4470			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4471				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4472				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4473				  exit.
4474			off	- No action.
4475
4476			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4477			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4478
4479	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4480	spia_fio_base=
4481	spia_pedr=
4482	spia_peddr=
4483
4484	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4485			Specifies how frequently to check for
4486			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4487			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4488			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4489			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4490			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4491			are ignored.
4492
4493	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4494			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4495			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4496			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4497			grace period will be considered for automatic
4498			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4499			expediting.
4500
4501	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4502			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4503
4504			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4505			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4506			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4507			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4508
4509			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4510				   for both kernel and userspace
4511			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4512				   for both kernel and userspace
4513			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4514				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4515				   to allow userspace to register its
4516				   interest in being mitigated too.
4517
4518	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4519			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4520			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4521			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4522			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4523			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4524
4525	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4526			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4527
4528	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4529			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4530			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4531			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4532			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4533			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4534			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4535
4536	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4537			Format: <num>
4538			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4539			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4540			as the initial boot-console.
4541			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4542
4543	sti_font=	[HW]
4544			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4545
4546	stifb=		[HW]
4547			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4548
4549	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4550	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4551			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4552			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4553			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4554			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4555			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4556			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4557			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4558			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4559			maximum port values.
4560
4561	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4562			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4563			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4564			process in parallel from a single connection.
4565			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4566
4567	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4568			[NFS]
4569			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4570			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4571			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4572			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4573			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4574			NFS server is running.
4575
4576			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4577				    automatically using heuristics
4578			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4579			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4580			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4581				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4582
4583	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4584	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4585			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4586			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4587			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4588			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4589			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4590			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4591
4592	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4593			[SUSPEND]
4594			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4595			mode before resuming the system (see
4596			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4597			is set. Default value is 5.
4598
4599	swapaccount=[0|1]
4600			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4601			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4602			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4603
4604	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4605			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4606			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4607			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4608			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4609			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4610
4611	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4612
4613	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4614			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4615			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4616			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4617			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4618			in older udev will not work anymore.
4619			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4620			the kernel configuration.
4621
4622	sysrq_always_enabled
4623			[KNL]
4624			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4625			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4626			Useful for debugging.
4627
4628	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4629			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4630			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4631			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4632			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4633			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4634
4635	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4636
4637	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4638			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4639			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4640			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4641			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4642			The system is woken from this state using a
4643			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4644
4645	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4646			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4647
4648	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4649			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4650			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4651
4652	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4653			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4654			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4655
4656	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4657			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4658			critical and hot trip points.
4659
4660	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4661			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4662
4663	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4664			-1: disable all passive trip points
4665			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4666			value
4667
4668	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4669			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4670			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4671			0: no polling (default)
4672
4673	threadirqs	[KNL]
4674			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4675			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4676
4677	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4678			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4679
4680	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4681			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4682			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4683
4684	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4685			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4686			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4687			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4688
4689	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4690			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4691			to the hypervisor.
4692
4693	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4694			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4695			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4696			kernel based on different criteria.
4697
4698	topology=	[S390]
4699			Format: {off | on}
4700			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4701			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4702			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4703			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4704			Default is on.
4705
4706	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4707			Format: {off}
4708			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4709			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4710			LPAR.
4711
4712	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4713
4714	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4715			Format: integer pcr id
4716			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4717			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4718			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4719			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4720			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4721			are saved.
4722
4723	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4724			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4725
4726	trace_event=[event-list]
4727			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4728			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4729			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4730			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4731
4732	trace_options=[option-list]
4733			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4734			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4735			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4736			to echo the option name into
4737
4738			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4739
4740			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4741			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4742
4743			      trace_options=stacktrace
4744
4745			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4746			section.
4747
4748	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4749			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4750			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4751			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4752			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4753			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4754
4755			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4756			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4757			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4758			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4759
4760			** CAUTION **
4761
4762			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4763			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4764			the system to live lock.
4765
4766	traceoff_on_warning
4767			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4768			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4769			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4770			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4771
4772			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4773			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4774			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4775
4776			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4777			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4778
4779	transparent_hugepage=
4780			[KNL]
4781			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4782			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4783			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4784			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4785			for more details.
4786
4787	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4788			Format: <string>
4789			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4790			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4791			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4792			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4793			virtualized environment.
4794			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4795			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4796			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4797			can add overhead.
4798			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4799			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4800			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4801			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4802			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4803			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4804			acceptable).
4805
4806	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4807			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4808			Format:
4809			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4810			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4811
4812	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4813			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4814			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4815			help "seeing" what's going on.
4816
4817	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4818			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4819
4820	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4821			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4822			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4823			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4824			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4825			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4826			reported either.
4827
4828	unknown_nmi_panic
4829			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4830
4831	usbcore.authorized_default=
4832			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4833			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4834			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4835			if device connected to internal port)
4836
4837	usbcore.autosuspend=
4838			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4839			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4840			is the time required before an idle device will be
4841			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4842			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4843
4844	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4845			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4846
4847	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4848			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4849			(default = 65536).
4850
4851	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4852			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4853
4854	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4855			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4856			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4857			 (default 0 = off).
4858
4859	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4860			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4861			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4862
4863	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4864			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4865			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4866
4867	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4868			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4869			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4870			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4871
4872	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4873
4874	usbcore.quirks=
4875			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4876			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4877			commas. Each entry has the form
4878			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4879			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4880			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4881			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4882			the following meanings:
4883				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4884					descriptors must not be fetched using
4885					a 255-byte read);
4886				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4887					correctly so reset it instead);
4888				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4889					Set-Interface requests);
4890				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4891					handle its Configuration or Interface
4892					strings);
4893				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4894					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4895				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4896					more interface descriptions than the
4897					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4898					talking to these interfaces);
4899				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4900					during initialization, after we read
4901					the device descriptor);
4902				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4903					high speed and super speed interrupt
4904					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4905					require the interval in microframes (1
4906					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4907					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4908					(bInterval-1).
4909					Devices with this quirk report their
4910					bInterval as the result of this
4911					calculation instead of the exponent
4912					variable used in the calculation);
4913				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4914					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4915					requests);
4916				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4917					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4918					remote wakeup capability);
4919				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4920					Power Management);
4921				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4922					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4923					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4924					calculation);
4925				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4926					to be disconnected before suspend to
4927					prevent spurious wakeup);
4928				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4929					pause after every control message);
4930				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4931					delay after resetting its port);
4932			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4933
4934	usbhid.mousepoll=
4935			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4936
4937	usbhid.jspoll=
4938			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4939
4940	usbhid.kbpoll=
4941			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4942
4943	usb-storage.delay_use=
4944			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4945			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4946
4947	usb-storage.quirks=
4948			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4949			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4950			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4951			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4952			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4953			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4954			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4955				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4956					of sense data);
4957				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4958					bytes of sense data);
4959				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4960					device capacity by one sector);
4961				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4962					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4963				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4964					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4965				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4966					command, uas only);
4967				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4968					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4969				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4970					reported device capacity by one
4971					sector if the number is odd);
4972				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4973					device);
4974				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4975					command, uas only);
4976				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4977					unlock ejectable media);
4978				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4979					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4980				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4981					initial READ(10) command);
4982				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4983					reported by the device);
4984				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4985					by default);
4986				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4987					bogus residue values);
4988				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4989					Logical Unit);
4990				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4991					commands, uas only);
4992				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4993				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4994					medium is write-protected).
4995				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4996					even if the device claims no cache)
4997			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4998
4999	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5000			Format: <int>
5001			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5002				 1 - undefined instruction events
5003				 2 - system calls
5004				 4 - invalid data aborts
5005				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5006				16 - SIGBUS faults
5007			Example: user_debug=31
5008
5009	userpte=
5010			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5011
5012				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5013					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5014					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5015
5016	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5017			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5018
5019			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5020			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5021
5022	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5023			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5024			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5025
5026			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5027			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5028			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5029
5030			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5031			alias for vdso32=0.
5032
5033			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5034			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5035
5036	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5037			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5038
5039	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5040			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5041
5042	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5043			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5044			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5045			level and then send out the event to user space through
5046			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5047			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5048			brightness level.
5049			default: 1
5050
5051	virtio_mmio.device=
5052			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5053
5054				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5055			where:
5056				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5057						like K, M and G)
5058				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5059				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5060						request_irq())
5061				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5062			example:
5063				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5064
5065			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5066
5067	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5068			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5069			Documentation/svga.txt.
5070			Use vga=ask for menu.
5071			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5072			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5073
5074	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5075			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5076			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5077			All options are enabled by default, and this
5078			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5079			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5080			debugging features.
5081
5082			Available options are:
5083			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5084			  -	Disable all of the above options
5085
5086	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5087			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5088			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5089			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5090			mapped kernel RAM.
5091
5092	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5093			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5094			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5095
5096	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5097			Format: <command>
5098
5099	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5100			Format: <command>
5101
5102	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5103			Format: <command>
5104
5105	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5106			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5107			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5108			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5109			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5110			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5111			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5112
5113			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5114			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5115				    page is readable.
5116
5117			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5118			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5119				    page is not readable.
5120
5121			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5122			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5123			            might break your system.
5124
5125	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5126			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5127			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5128
5129	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5130			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5131			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5132			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5133
5134	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5135			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5136			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5137			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5138			ranging from 0-255.
5139
5140	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5141			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5142			Change the default green palette of the console.
5143			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5144			ranging from 0-255.
5145
5146	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5147			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5148			Change the default red palette of the console.
5149			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5150			ranging from 0-255.
5151
5152	vt.default_utf8=
5153			[VT]
5154			Format=<0|1>
5155			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5156			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5157			newly opened terminals.
5158
5159	vt.global_cursor_default=
5160			[VT]
5161			Format=<-1|0|1>
5162			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5163			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5164			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5165			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5166			cursors, 1 will display them.
5167
5168	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5169			Default: 2 = green.
5170
5171	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5172			Default: 3 = cyan.
5173
5174	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5175			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5176			or other driver-specific files in the
5177			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5178
5179	watchdog_thresh=
5180			[KNL]
5181			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5182			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5183			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5184			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5185			seconds.
5186
5187	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5188			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5189			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5190			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5191			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5192			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5193			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5194			corresponding sysfs file.
5195
5196	workqueue.disable_numa
5197			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5198			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5199			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5200			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5201			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5202			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5203			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5204
5205	workqueue.power_efficient
5206			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5207			they show better performance thanks to cache
5208			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5209			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5210
5211			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5212			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5213			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5214			power usage at the cost of small performance
5215			overhead.
5216
5217			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5218			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5219
5220	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5221			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5222			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5223			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5224			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5225			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5226			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5227			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5228			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5229			impacted.
5230
5231	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5232			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5233			supporting x2apic.
5234
5235	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5236			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5237			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5238			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5239			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5240
5241	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5242			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5243			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5244			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5245			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5246			domains.
5247
5248	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5249			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5250			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5251			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5252			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5253			nics -- unplug network devices
5254			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5255			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5256				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5257				the unplug protocol
5258			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5259
5260	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5261			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5262			optimizations.
5263
5264	xen_nopv	[X86]
5265			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5266			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5267
5268	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5269			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5270			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5271			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5272			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5273
5274	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5275			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5276			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5277			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5278			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5279			more timer interrupts.
5280
5281	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5282			Format:
5283			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5284
5285	xive=		[PPC]
5286			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5287			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5288			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5289
5290			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5291				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5292				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5293
5294	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5295			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5296			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5297			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5298