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/acpi/debug.txt 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	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466			trust validation.
467			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473			others).
474
475	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
476			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
479			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482			  a single hierarchy
483			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484			  subsystem
485			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
490			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
491			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
492			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
493			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
494			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
495			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
496			all v1 hierarchies.
497
498	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
499			Format: <string>
500			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
501			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
502
503	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
504			Format: { "0" | "1" }
505			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
506			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
507				any implied execute protection).
508			1 -- check protection requested by application.
509			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
510			Value can be changed at runtime via
511				/selinux/checkreqprot.
512
513	cio_ignore=	[S390]
514			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
515	clk_ignore_unused
516			[CLK]
517			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
518			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
519			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
520			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
521			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
522			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
523			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
524			platform with proper driver support.  For more
525			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
526
527	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
528			[Deprecated]
529			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
530			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
531			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
532			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
533
534	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
535			Format: <string>
536			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
537			with the name specified.
538			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
539			the platform:
540			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
541			[ACPI] acpi_pm
542			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
543				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
544			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
545				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
546			[MIPS] MIPS
547			[PARISC] cr16
548			[S390] tod
549			[SH] SuperH
550			[SPARC64] tick
551			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
552
553	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
554			[ARM,ARM64]
555			Format: <bool>
556			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
557			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
558			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
559			systems.
560
561	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
562			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
563			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
564			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
565			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
566			ones should be.
567			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
568			or using the feature without checking anything
569			will still see it. This just prevents it from
570			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
571			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
572			some critical bits.
573
574	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
575			[ARM,X86,KNL]
576			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
577			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
578			placement constraint by the physical address range of
579			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
580			altogether. For more information, see
581			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
582
583	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
584			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
585			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
586			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
587			a hypervisor.
588			Default: yes
589
590	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
591			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
592			allocations, by default set to 256K.
593
594	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
595			Format:
596			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
597
598	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
599			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
600
601	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
602			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
603			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
604
605	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
606	conmode=
607
608	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
609
610		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
611
612		ttyS<n>[,options]
613		ttyUSB0[,options]
614			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
615			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
616			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
617			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
618			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
619
620			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
621			information.  See
622			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
623			alternative.
624
625		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
626		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
627		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
628		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
629		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
630			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
631			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
632			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
633			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
634			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
635			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
636			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
637			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
638			the h/w is not re-initialized.
639
640		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
641			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
642
643		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
644		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
645			console=brl,ttyS0
646		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
647
648	console_msg_format=
649			[KNL] Change console messages format
650		default
651			By default we print messages on consoles in
652			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
653			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
654			`printk_time' param).
655		syslog
656			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
657			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
658			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
659			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
660			from /proc/kmsg.
661
662	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
663			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
664			Defaults to 0.
665
666	coredump_filter=
667			[KNL] Change the default value for
668			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
669			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
670
671	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
672			[ARM,ARM64]
673			Format: <bool>
674			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
675			0: default value, disable debugging
676			1: enable debugging at boot time
677
678	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
679			disable the cpuidle sub-system
680
681	cpuidle.governor=
682			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
683
684	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
685			disable the cpufreq sub-system
686
687	cpu_init_udelay=N
688			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
689			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
690			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
691			Default: 10000
692
693	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
694			Format:
695			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
696
697	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
698			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
699			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
700			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
701			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
702			is selected automatically. Check
703			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
704
705	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
706			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
707			in the running system. The syntax of range is
708			start-[end] where start and end are both
709			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
710			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
711
712	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
713			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
714			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
715			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
716			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
717			available.
718			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
719	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
720			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
721			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
722			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
723			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
724			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
725			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
726			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
727			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
728			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
729			for second kernel instead.
730			0: to disable low allocation.
731			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
732			or memory reserved is below 4G.
733
734	cryptomgr.notests
735			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
736
737	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
738			Format: <dma>
739
740	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
741			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
742
743	dasd=		[HW,NET]
744			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
745
746	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
747			(one device per port)
748			Format: <port#>,<type>
749			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
750
751	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
752			time. See
753			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
754			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
755
756	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
757
758	debug_boot_weak_hash
759			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
760			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
761			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
762			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
763			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
764			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
765
766	debug_locks_verbose=
767			[KNL] verbose self-tests
768			Format=<0|1>
769			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
770			self-tests.
771			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
772			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
773			only useful to kernel developers.
774
775	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
776
777	no_debug_objects
778			[KNL] Disable object debugging
779
780	debug_guardpage_minorder=
781			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
782			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
783			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
784			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
785			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
786			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
787			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
788			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
789			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
790			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
791			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
792			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
793			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
794			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
795			bypassed) which are not detectable by
796			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
797			tracking down these problems.
798
799	debug_pagealloc=
800			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
801			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
802			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
803			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
804			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
805			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
806			on: enable the feature
807
808	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
809
810	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
811			Format: <area>[,<node>]
812			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
813
814	default_hugepagesz=
815			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
816			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
817			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
818			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
819			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
820			if not specified.
821
822	deferred_probe_timeout=
823			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
824			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
825			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
826			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
827			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
828			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
829			retrying.
830
831	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
832			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
833
834	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
835			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
836			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
837			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
838			miss to occur.
839
840	disable=	[IPV6]
841			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
843	hardened_usercopy=
844                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
845                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
846                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
847                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
848                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
849                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
850                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
851                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
852                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
853
854	disable_radix	[PPC]
855			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
856
857	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
858			Format: <int>
859			The number of initial APIC ID for the
860			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
861			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
862			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
863			causing system reset or hang due to sending
864			INIT from AP to BSP.
865
866	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
867			Format: <bool>
868			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
869			The feature only exists starting from
870			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
871
872	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
873			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
874			to workaround buggy firmware.
875
876	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
877			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
878
879	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
880			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
881			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
882			entry later. This parameter disables that.
883
884	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
885			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
886			memory out of your available memory pool based on
887			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
888			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
889
890	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
891			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
892			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
893
894	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
895
896	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
897			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
898
899	dma_debug_entries=<number>
900			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
901			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
902			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
903			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
904			architectural default is too low.
905
906	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
907			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
908			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
909			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
910			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
911			driver later using sysfs.
912
913	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
914			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
915			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
916			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
917			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
918			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
919			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
920			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
921			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
922			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
923			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
924			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
925			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
926			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
927			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
928			data set with no connector name will be used for
929			any connectors not explicitly specified.
930
931	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
932
933	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
934			Format: {"off" | "known"}
935			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
936			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
937			exists).
938			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
939			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
940			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
941
942	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
943			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
944			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
945			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
946
947	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
948	module.dyndbg[="val"]
949			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
950			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
951			for details.
952
953	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
954			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
955			information about the feature.
956
957	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
958			in some Intel CPUs.
959
960	module.async_probe [KNL]
961			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
962
963	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
964			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
965			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
966			which are not unmapped.
967
968	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
969
970			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
971			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
972			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
973
974			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
975			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
976
977		cdns,<addr>[,options]
978			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
979			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
980			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
981			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
982			configured.
983
984		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
985		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
986		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
987		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
988		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
989			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
990			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
991			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
992			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
993			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
994			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
995			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
996			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
997
998		pl011,<addr>
999		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1000			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1001			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1002			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1003			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1004			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1005			the device registers.
1006
1007		meson,<addr>
1008			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1009			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1010			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1011			supported.
1012
1013		msm_serial,<addr>
1014			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1015			port at the specified address. The serial port
1016			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1017			yet supported.
1018
1019		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1020			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1021			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1022			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1023			yet supported.
1024
1025		owl,<addr>
1026			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1027			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1028			specified address. The serial port must already be
1029			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1030
1031		rda,<addr>
1032			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1033			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1034			specified address. The serial port must already be
1035			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1036
1037		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1038
1039		s3c2410,<addr>
1040		s3c2412,<addr>
1041		s3c2440,<addr>
1042		s3c6400,<addr>
1043		s5pv210,<addr>
1044		exynos4210,<addr>
1045			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1046			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1047			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1048			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1049			Options are not yet supported.
1050
1051		lantiq,<addr>
1052			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1053			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1054			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1055			yet supported.
1056
1057		lpuart,<addr>
1058		lpuart32,<addr>
1059			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1060			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1061			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1062			port must already be setup and configured.
1063
1064		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1065			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1066			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1067			address. The serial port must already be setup
1068			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1069
1070		qcom_geni,<addr>
1071			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1072			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1073			specified address. The serial port must already be
1074			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1075
1076	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1077			earlyprintk=vga
1078			earlyprintk=efi
1079			earlyprintk=sclp
1080			earlyprintk=xen
1081			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1082			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1083			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1084			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1085			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1086			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1087
1088			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1089			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1090			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1091
1092			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1093			takes over.
1094
1095			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1096			be used at a time.
1097
1098			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1099			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1100			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1101			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1102				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1103			You can find the port for a given device in
1104			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1105				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1106
1107			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1108			very good.
1109
1110			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1111			the real console.
1112
1113			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1114
1115			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1116
1117			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1118			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1119			UART class.
1120
1121	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1122			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1123			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1124			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1125			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1126			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1127			default: on.
1128
1129	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1130			ekgdboc=kbd
1131
1132			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1133			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1134
1135	edd=		[EDD]
1136			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1137
1138	efi=		[EFI]
1139			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1140			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1141			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1142			default.
1143			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1144			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1145			firmware implementations.
1146			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1147			debug: enable misc debug output
1148
1149	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1150			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1151			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1152			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1153			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1154
1155	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1156			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1157			updating original EFI memory map.
1158			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1159			from ss to ss+nn.
1160			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1161			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1162			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1163			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1164
1165			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1166			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1167			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1168			doesn't support it.
1169
1170	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1171			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1172			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1173			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1174			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1175
1176
1177	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1178			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1179
1180	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1181			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1182			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1183
1184	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1185			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1186			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1187			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1188
1189	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1190			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1191			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1192			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1193			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1194
1195	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1196			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1197			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1198			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1199
1200	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1201			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1202			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1203			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1204			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1205
1206	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1207			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1208			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1209			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1210			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1211			Default value is 0.
1212			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1213
1214	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1215			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1216			support.
1217
1218	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1219			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1220			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1221
1222	evm=		[EVM]
1223			Format: { "fix" }
1224			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1225			current integrity status.
1226
1227	failslab=
1228	fail_page_alloc=
1229	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1230			General fault injection mechanism.
1231			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1232			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1233
1234	floppy=		[HW]
1235			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1236
1237	force_pal_cache_flush
1238			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1239			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1240			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1241			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1242
1243	forcepae	[X86-32]
1244			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1245			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1246			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1247			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1248			and may cause unknown problems.
1249
1250	ftrace=[tracer]
1251			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1252			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1253			boot debugging.
1254
1255	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1256			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1257			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1258			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1259			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1260			oops.
1261
1262	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1263			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1264			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1265			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1266			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1267			tracing directory.
1268
1269	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1270			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1271			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1272			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1273			tracing directory.
1274
1275	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1276			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1277			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1278			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1279			that can be changed at run time by the
1280			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1281
1282	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1283			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1284			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1285			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1286			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1287
1288	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1289			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1290			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1291			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1292			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1293
1294	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1295			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1296			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1297			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1298			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1299
1300	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1301
1302	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1303			Format: off | on
1304			default: on
1305
1306	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1307			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1308			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1309			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1310			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1311
1312	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1313			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1314			android emulator
1315
1316	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1317			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1318			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1319			GPT to be used instead.
1320
1321	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1322			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1323			Format: 0 | 1
1324			Default: 0
1325	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1326			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1327			Format: 0 | 1
1328			Default: 0
1329	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1330			Format: 0 | 1
1331			Default: 0
1332	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1333			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1334			Default: 1024
1335	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1336			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1337			Default: 1024
1338
1339	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1340			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1341			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1342
1343	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1344			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1345			backtraces on all cpus.
1346			Format: <integer>
1347
1348	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1349			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1350			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1351			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1352
1353	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1354
1355	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1356			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1357
1358	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1359			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1360			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1361			logic will be disabled.
1362
1363	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1364			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1365			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1366			size on bigger boxes.
1367
1368	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1369			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1370			Default: "on"
1371
1372	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1373			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1374
1375	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1376
1377	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1378			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1379				verbose }
1380			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1381			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1382				VIA, nVidia)
1383			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1384
1385	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1386			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1387
1388	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1389	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1390			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1391			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1392			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1393			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1394			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1395
1396	hung_task_panic=
1397			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1398			Format: <integer>
1399
1400			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1401			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1402			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1403			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1404			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1405
1406	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1407				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1408	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1409				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1410				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1411
1412	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1413				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1414				      guest on lock contention.
1415
1416	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1417			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1418			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1419			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1420			the real console.
1421
1422	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1423				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1424				registered from board initialization code.
1425				Format:
1426				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1427
1428	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1429	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1430			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1431			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1432			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1433	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1434	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1435			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1436			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1437	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1438	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1439	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1440			     for the AUX port
1441	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1442			     controller
1443	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1444			     controllers
1445	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1446	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1447			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1448			     transitions, or never reset
1449			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1450			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1451			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1452			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1453			architectures force reset to be always executed
1454	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1455	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1456
1457	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1458
1459	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1460			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1461			hardware.
1462	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1463			does not match list of supported models.
1464	i8k.power_status
1465			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1466			(disabled by default)
1467	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1468			capability is set.
1469
1470	i915.invert_brightness=
1471			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1472			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1473			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1474			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1475			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1476			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1477			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1478			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1479			value switches the backlight off.
1480			-1 -- never invert brightness
1481			 0 -- machine default
1482			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1483
1484	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1485			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1486
1487	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1488			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1489			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1490			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1491			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1492
1493	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1494			Format: <int>
1495			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1496			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1497			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1498			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1499			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1500			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1501			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1502			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1503			was 0x3.
1504
1505	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1506			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1507
1508	idle=		[X86]
1509			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1510			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1511			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1512			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1513			Not recommended.
1514			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1515			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1516			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1517
1518	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1519			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1520			Default: strict
1521
1522			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1523			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1524			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1525			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1526			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1527			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1528			encoding mode.
1529
1530			Available settings are as follows:
1531			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1532				supported by the FPU
1533			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1534				by the FPU
1535			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1536				by the FPU
1537			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1538				supported by the FPU
1539
1540			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1541			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1542			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1543			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1544			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1545			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1546			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1547			MIPS64 CPUs.
1548
1549			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1550			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1551			except where unsupported by hardware.
1552
1553	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1554			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1555			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1556			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1557			could change it dynamically, usually by
1558			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1559
1560	ignore_rlimit_data
1561			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1562			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1563			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1564
1565	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1566			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1567
1568	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1569			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1570			default: "enforce"
1571
1572	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1573			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1574			owned by uid=0.
1575
1576	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1577			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1578			measurements, instead of host native format.
1579
1580	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1581			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1582				   | sha512 | ... }
1583			default: "sha1"
1584
1585			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1586			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1587
1588	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1589			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1590			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1591				 fail_securely"
1592
1593			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1594			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1595			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1596			uid=0.
1597
1598			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1599			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1600			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1601
1602			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1603			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1604			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1605
1606			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1607			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1608			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1609			flag.
1610
1611	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1612			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1613			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1614			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1615			opened for read by uid=0.
1616
1617	ima_template=	[IMA]
1618			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1619			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1620			Default: "ima-ng"
1621
1622	ima_template_fmt=
1623			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1624			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1625
1626	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1627			Format: <min_file_size>
1628			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1629			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1630
1631			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1632			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1633			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1634
1635	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1636			Format: <bufsize>
1637			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1638
1639			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1640			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1641			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1642
1643	init=		[KNL]
1644			Format: <full_path>
1645			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1646			process.
1647
1648	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1649			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1650			startup.
1651
1652	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1653			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1654			modules and initcalls.
1655
1656	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1657
1658	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1659			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1660			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1661			override in debugfs after boot.
1662
1663	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1664			Format: <irq>
1665
1666	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1667
1668	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1669			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1670			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1671			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1672
1673	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1674		on
1675			Enable intel iommu driver.
1676		off
1677			Disable intel iommu driver.
1678		igfx_off [Default Off]
1679			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1680			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1681			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1682			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1683			DMA.
1684		forcedac [x86_64]
1685			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1686			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1687			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1688			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1689			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1690			then look in the higher range.
1691		strict [Default Off]
1692			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1693			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1694			to batching them for performance.
1695		sp_off [Default Off]
1696			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1697			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1698			not be supported.
1699		sm_off [Default Off]
1700			By default, scalable mode will be supported if the
1701			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1702			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1703			will not be used even on hardware which claims to support
1704			it.
1705		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1706			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1707			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1708			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1709			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1710			mapping is enabled.
1711			Note that using this option lowers the security
1712			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1713			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1714
1715	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1716			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1717			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1718
1719	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1720			disable
1721			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1722			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1723			passive
1724			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1725			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1726			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1727			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1728			  feature.
1729			force
1730			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1731			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1732			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1733			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1734			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1735			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1736			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1737			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1738			no_hwp
1739			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1740			  if available.
1741			hwp_only
1742			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1743			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1744			support_acpi_ppc
1745			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1746			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1747			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1748			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1749			per_cpu_perf_limits
1750			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1751			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1752
1753	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1754			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1755			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1756			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1757			no_x2apic_optout
1758				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1759			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1760
1761	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1762		strict	regions from userspace.
1763		relaxed
1764
1765	iommu=		[x86]
1766		off
1767		force
1768		noforce
1769		biomerge
1770		panic
1771		nopanic
1772		merge
1773		nomerge
1774		soft
1775		pt		[x86]
1776		nopt		[x86]
1777		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1778			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1779
1780	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1781			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1782			0 - Lazy mode.
1783			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1784			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1785			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1786			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1787			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1788			1 - Strict mode (default).
1789			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1790			  synchronously.
1791
1792	iommu.passthrough=
1793			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1794			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1795			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1796			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1797			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1798
1799	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1800			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1801			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1802
1803	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1804		0x80
1805			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1806		0xed
1807			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1808		udelay
1809			Simple two microseconds delay
1810		none
1811			No delay
1812
1813	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1814			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1815
1816	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1817			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1818
1819	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1820			[ARM, ARM64]
1821			Format: <bool>
1822			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1823			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1824			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1825
1826	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1827			[ARM, ARM64]
1828			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1829			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1830			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1831			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1832			LPIs.
1833
1834	irqfixup	[HW]
1835			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1836			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1837			firmware running.
1838
1839	irqpoll		[HW]
1840			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1841			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1842			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1843			firmware running.
1844
1845	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1846			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1847
1848	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1849			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1850			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1851
1852			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1853			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1854
1855			nohz
1856			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1857
1858			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1859			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1860			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1861			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1862			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1863
1864			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1865			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1866			  be configured manually after bootup.
1867
1868			domain
1869			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1870			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1871			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1872			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1873			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1874			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1875			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1876			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1877
1878			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1879			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1880			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1881			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1882
1883			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1884
1885
1886
1887	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1888
1889	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1890			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1891			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1892			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1893			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1894				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1895
1896	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1897			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1898			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1899			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1900			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1901				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1902
1903	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1904			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1905			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1906			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1907			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1908				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1909
1910	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1911			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1912
1913	nokaslr		[KNL]
1914			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1915			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1916			Layout Randomization).
1917
1918	kasan_multi_shot
1919			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1920			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1921			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1922			invalid access.
1923
1924	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1925
1926	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1927			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1928			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1929			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1930			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1931			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1932			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1933			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1934			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1935			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1936
1937			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1938			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1939			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1940			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1941			zone if it does not.
1942
1943			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1944			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1945			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1946			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1947			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1948			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1949			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1950
1951	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1952			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1953			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1954			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1955			optional and is the number seconds in between
1956			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1957			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1958			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1959			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1960			the kernel debugger.
1961
1962	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1963			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1964			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1965			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1966			 keyboard only format: kbd
1967			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1968			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1969			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1970			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1971
1972	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1973			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1974
1975	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1976			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1977			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1978
1979	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1980			Valid arguments: on, off
1981			Default: on
1982			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1983			the default is off.
1984
1985	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1986			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1987
1988	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1989				   Default is false (don't support).
1990
1991	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1992			KVM MMU at runtime.
1993			Default is 0 (off)
1994
1995	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1996			Default is 1 (enabled)
1997
1998	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1999			for all guests.
2000			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2001
2002	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2003			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2004			system registers
2005
2006	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2007			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2008			system registers
2009
2010	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2011			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2012			system registers
2013
2014	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2015			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2016			LPIs.
2017
2018	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2019			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2020			Default is 1 (enabled)
2021
2022	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2023			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2024			Default is 0 (disabled)
2025
2026	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2027			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2028			Default is 1 (enabled)
2029
2030	kvm-intel.nested=
2031			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2032			Default is 0 (disabled)
2033
2034	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2035			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2036			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2037			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2038
2039	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2040			CVE-2018-3620.
2041
2042			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2043
2044			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2045			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2046				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2047			never:	Disables the mitigation
2048
2049			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2050
2051	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2052			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2053			Default is 1 (enabled)
2054
2055	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2056			      affected CPUs
2057
2058			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2059			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2060
2061			full
2062				Provides all available mitigations for the
2063				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2064				enables all mitigations in the
2065				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2066
2067				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2068				sysfs interface is still possible after
2069				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2070				when the first VM is started in a
2071				potentially insecure configuration,
2072				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2073
2074			full,force
2075				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2076				flush runtime control. Implies the
2077				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2078				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2079
2080			flush
2081				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2082				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2083				L1D flush.
2084
2085				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2086				sysfs interface is still possible after
2087				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2088				when the first VM is started in a
2089				potentially insecure configuration,
2090				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2091
2092			flush,nosmt
2093
2094				Disables SMT and enables the default
2095				hypervisor mitigation.
2096
2097				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2098				sysfs interface is still possible after
2099				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2100				when the first VM is started in a
2101				potentially insecure configuration,
2102				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2103
2104			flush,nowarn
2105				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2106				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2107				insecure configuration.
2108
2109			off
2110				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2111				emit any warnings.
2112				It also drops the swap size and available
2113				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2114				bare metal.
2115
2116			Default is 'flush'.
2117
2118			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2119
2120	l2cr=		[PPC]
2121
2122	l3cr=		[PPC]
2123
2124	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2125			disabled it.
2126
2127	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2128			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2129			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2130
2131	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2132			in C2 power state.
2133
2134	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2135			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2136			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2137			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2138			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2139			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2140			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2141
2142	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2143			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2144			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2145
2146	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2147			when set.
2148			Format: <int>
2149
2150	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2151			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2152			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2153			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2154			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2155			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2156			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2157			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2158
2159			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2160			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2161			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2162			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2163			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2164			host link and device attached to it.
2165
2166			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2167			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2168			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2169			The following configurations can be forced.
2170
2171			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2172			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2173
2174			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2175
2176			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2177			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2178			  allowed.
2179
2180			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2181
2182			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2183
2184			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2185			  and both resets.
2186
2187			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2188			  hot-unplug link recovery
2189
2190			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2191
2192			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2193
2194			* disable: Disable this device.
2195
2196			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2197			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2198
2199	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2200
2201	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2202			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2203
2204	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2205			Format: <integer>
2206
2207	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2208			Format: <integer>
2209
2210	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2211			Format: <integer>
2212
2213	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2214			Format: <integer>
2215
2216	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2217			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2218			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2219			number of online CPUs.
2220
2221	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2222			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2223
2224	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2225			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2226
2227	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2228			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2229			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2230
2231	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2232			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2233			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2234			mode during the locktorture test.
2235
2236	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2237			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2238			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2239
2240	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2241			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2242
2243	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2244			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2245			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2246			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2247			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2248			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2249
2250	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2251			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2252
2253	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2254			Enable additional printk() statements.
2255
2256	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2257			Format: <irq>
2258
2259	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2260			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2261			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2262			loglevels are defined as follows:
2263
2264			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2265			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2266			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2267			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2268			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2269			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2270			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2271			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2272
2273	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2274			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2275			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2276			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2277			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2278			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2279			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2280
2281	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2282			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2283			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2284			kernel boot problems.
2285
2286	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2287	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2288	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2289	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2290				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2291				attached printers to be reset. Using
2292				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2293				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2294				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2295				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2296				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2297				port specification list means that device IDs
2298				from each port should be examined, to see if
2299				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2300				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2301				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2302
2303	lpj=n		[KNL]
2304			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2305			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2306			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2307			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2308			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2309			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2310			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2311			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2312			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2313			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2314			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2315			hardware.
2316
2317	ltpc=		[NET]
2318			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2319
2320	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2321
2322	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2323			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2324			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2325
2326	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2327			 yeeloong laptop.
2328			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2329
2330	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2331			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2332
2333	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2334			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2335			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2336			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2337			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2338			only takes effect during system bootup.
2339			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2340			which also disables the IO APIC.
2341
2342	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2343	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2344			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2345			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2346			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2347			/dev/loop-control interface.
2348
2349	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2350
2351	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2352
2353	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2354			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2355
2356	mdacon=		[MDA]
2357			Format: <first>,<last>
2358			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2359
2360	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2361			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2362			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2363			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2364			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2365			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2366			belonging to unused RAM.
2367
2368	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2369			memory.
2370
2371	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2372			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2373			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2374
2375	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2376			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2377			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2378			set according to the
2379			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2380			option.
2381			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2382
2383	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2384			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2385			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2386			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2387			option description.
2388
2389	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2390			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2391			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2392			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2393			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2394			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2395			comma delimited.
2396			Example:
2397				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2398
2399	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2400			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2401			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2402
2403	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2404			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2405			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2406			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2407			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2408			         or
2409			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2410			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2411			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2412			will be eaten.
2413
2414	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2415			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2416			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2417			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2418			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2419
2420	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2421			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2422			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2423			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2424			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2425			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2426			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2427			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2428
2429	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2430			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2431			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2432			Setting this option will scan the memory
2433			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2434			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2435			from using the memory being corrupted.
2436			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2437			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2438			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2439			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2440
2441	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2442			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2443			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2444			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2445			corruption in more or less memory.
2446
2447	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2448			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2449			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2450			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2451
2452	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2453			Format: <integer>
2454			default : 0 <disable>
2455			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2456			performed. Each pass selects another test
2457			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2458			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2459			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2460			regions that are detected.
2461
2462	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2463			Valid arguments: on, off
2464			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2465			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2466			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2467			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2468			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2469
2470			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2471			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2472
2473	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2474			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2475			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2476			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2477			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2478
2479	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2480			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2481
2482	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2483			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2484			platforms.
2485
2486	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2487			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2488			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2489			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2490
2491	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2492
2493	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2494			physical address is ignored.
2495
2496	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2497			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2498			Default: "0tb"
2499			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2500			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2501			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2502			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2503			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2504			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2505			unconfigured.
2506			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2507			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2508			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2509			VGA shield.
2510			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2511			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2512			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2513			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2514			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2515			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2516
2517	mminit_loglevel=
2518			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2519			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2520			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2521			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2522			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2523			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2524
2525	module.sig_enforce
2526			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2527			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2528			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2529			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2530
2531	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2532			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2533
2534	mousedev.tap_time=
2535			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2536			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2537			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2538			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2539			Format: <msecs>
2540	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2541			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2542	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2543			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2544
2545	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2546			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2547			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2548			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2549			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2550			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2551			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2552			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2553			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2554			is not too small.
2555
2556	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2557			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2558			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2559			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2560			allocations. Use with caution!
2561
2562	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2563			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2564
2565	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2566			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2567
2568	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2569			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2570
2571	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2572			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2573			at a time.
2574
2575	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2576
2577			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2578
2579			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2580				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2581			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2582				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2583				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2584
2585	mtdset=		[ARM]
2586			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2587
2588			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2589
2590	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2591			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2592			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2593
2594	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2595			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2596			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2597
2598	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2599			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2600			Default is 1.
2601			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2602			using up MTRRs.
2603
2604	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2605			Format: <integer>
2606			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2607			Default : 1
2608			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2609			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2610
2611	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2612
2613	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2614			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2615			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2616			something different and driver-specific.
2617			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2618			file if at all.
2619
2620	nf_conntrack.acct=
2621			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2622			0 to disable accounting
2623			1 to enable accounting
2624			Default value is 0.
2625
2626	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2627			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2628
2629	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2630			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2631
2632	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2633			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2634
2635	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2636			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2637			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2638			requests.
2639
2640	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2641			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2642			channel should listen.
2643
2644	nfs.cache_getent=
2645			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2646			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2647
2648	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2649			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2650			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2651
2652	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2653			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2654			entries.
2655
2656	nfs.enable_ino64=
2657			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2658			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2659			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2660			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2661			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2662
2663	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2664			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2665			slots the client will assign to the callback
2666			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2667			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2668			a particular server.
2669
2670	nfs.max_session_slots=
2671			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2672			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2673			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2674			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2675			Note that there is little point in setting this
2676			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2677
2678	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2679			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2680			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2681			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2682			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2683			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2684			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2685			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2686			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2687			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2688			back to using the idmapper.
2689			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2690	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2691			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2692			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2693			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2694			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2695
2696	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2697			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2698			information in exchange_id requests.
2699			If zero, no implementation identification information
2700			will be sent.
2701			The default is to send the implementation identification
2702			information.
2703
2704	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2705			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2706			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2707			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2708			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2709			after the locks are lost.
2710			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2711			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2712			parameter to '1'.
2713			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2714			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2715
2716	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2717			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2718			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2719
2720			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2721			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2722			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2723			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2724
2725	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2726			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2727			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2728			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2729			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2730			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2731
2732	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2733			when a NMI is triggered.
2734			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2735
2736	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2737			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2738			Valid num: 0 or 1
2739			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2740			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2741			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2742			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2743			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2744			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2745			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2746			need the box quickly up again.
2747
2748			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2749			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2750
2751	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2752			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2753			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2754			waits 4 seconds.
2755
2756	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2757			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2758			is present.
2759
2760	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2761			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2762
2763	no_console_suspend
2764			[HW] Never suspend the console
2765			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2766			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2767			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2768			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2769			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2770			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2771			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2772			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2773			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2774			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2775			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2776			turn on/off it dynamically.
2777
2778	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2779			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2780			but will impact performance.
2781
2782	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2783
2784	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2785			(CPU alternatives feature).
2786
2787	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2788			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2789
2790	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2791
2792	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2793			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2794
2795	nocache		[ARM]
2796
2797	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2798
2799	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2800
2801	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2802
2803	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2804
2805	noexec		[IA-64]
2806
2807	noexec		[X86]
2808			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2809			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2810			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2811
2812	nosmap		[X86]
2813			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2814			even if it is supported by processor.
2815
2816	nosmep		[X86]
2817			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2818			even if it is supported by processor.
2819
2820	noexec32	[X86-64]
2821			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2822			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2823				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2824			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2825				read implies executable mappings
2826
2827	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2828
2829	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2830			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2831			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2832
2833	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2834
2835	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2836			Equivalent to smt=1.
2837
2838			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2839			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2840				     via the sysfs control file.
2841
2842	nospectre_v1	[PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2843			check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2844			in the system.
2845
2846	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2847			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2848			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2849			to spectre_v2=off.
2850
2851	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2852			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2853
2854	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2855			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2856			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2857
2858	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2859			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2860			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2861			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2862			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2863			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2864
2865	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2866			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2867			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2868			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2869			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2870			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2871			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2872
2873	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2874			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2875			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2876
2877	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2878			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2879			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2880
2881	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2882			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2883			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2884			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2885			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2886			real-time systems.
2887
2888	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2889
2890	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2891			Valid arguments: on, off
2892			Default: on
2893
2894	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2895			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2896			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2897			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2898			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2899			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2900			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2901			just as if they had also been called out in the
2902			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2903
2904	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2905
2906	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2907			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2908
2909	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2910			broken timer IRQ sources.
2911
2912	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2913
2914	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2915			initial RAM disk.
2916
2917	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2918			remapping.
2919			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2920
2921	nointroute	[IA-64]
2922
2923	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2924
2925	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2926
2927	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2928
2929	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2930			fault handling.
2931
2932	no-vmw-sched-clock
2933			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2934			clock and use the default one.
2935
2936	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2937			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2938			behaviour
2939
2940	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2941
2942	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2943
2944	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2945			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2946
2947	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2948
2949	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2950
2951	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2952			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2953
2954	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2955			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2956			irq.
2957
2958	nomodule	Disable module load
2959
2960	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2961			pagetables) support.
2962
2963	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2964
2965	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2966			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2967
2968	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2969			with UP alternatives
2970
2971	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2972			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2973			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2974			available to user space applications.
2975
2976	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2977			space.
2978
2979	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2980			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2981			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2982
2983	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2984
2985	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2986
2987	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2988			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2989
2990	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2991
2992	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2993
2994	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2995			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2996
2997	nowb		[ARM]
2998
2999	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3000
3001	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3002			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3003			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3004			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3005			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3006			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3007			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3008			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3009			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3010			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3011			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3012			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3013			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3014
3015	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3016			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3017			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3018			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3019			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3020			parameter's value.
3021			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3022			Default: 255
3023
3024	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3025			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3026			SAL PALO.
3027
3028	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3029			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3030			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3031			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3032			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3033			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3034			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3035			hot plugging.
3036
3037	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3038
3039	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3040			Allowed values are enable and disable
3041
3042	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3043			'node', 'default' can be specified
3044			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3045			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3046
3047	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3048			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3049			info.
3050
3051	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3052			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3053			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3054			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3055			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3056			interrupts *may* be lost!
3057
3058	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3059			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3060			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3061			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3062
3063	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3064			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3065
3066	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3067			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3068			userland or if you want common events.
3069			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3070			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3071				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3072				CPU specific event set.
3073			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3074				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3075				for generic hr timer mode)
3076
3077	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3078			process, but there is a small probability of
3079			deadlocking the machine.
3080			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3081			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3082
3083	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3084			Storage of the information about who allocated
3085			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3086			we can turn it on.
3087			on: enable the feature
3088
3089	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3090			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3091			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3092			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3093			on: turn on poisoning
3094
3095	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3096			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3097			timeout = 0: wait forever
3098			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3099			Format: <timeout>
3100
3101	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3102			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3103			bit 0: print all tasks info
3104			bit 1: print system memory info
3105			bit 2: print timer info
3106			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3107			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3108
3109	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3110			on a WARN().
3111
3112	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3113			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3114			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3115			succeeds in any situation.
3116			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3117			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3118			kernel more unstable.
3119
3120	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3121			connected to, default is 0.
3122			Format: <parport#>
3123	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3124			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3125			Format: <mode>
3126
3127	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3128			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3129			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3130			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3131			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3132			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3133			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3134			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3135			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3136			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3137			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3138			are specified on the command line, starting
3139			with parport0.
3140
3141	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3142			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3143			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3144			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3145			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3146			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3147			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3148
3149	pause_on_oops=
3150			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3151			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3152			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3153
3154	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3155
3156	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3157			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3158			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3159
3160	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3161
3162				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3163				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3164				specified in one of the following formats:
3165
3166				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3167				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3168
3169				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3170				bus/device/function address which may change
3171				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3172				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3173				by other kernel parameters. If the
3174				domain is left unspecified, it is
3175				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3176				to a device through multiple device/function
3177				addresses can be specified after the base
3178				address (this is more robust against
3179				renumbering issues).  The second format
3180				selects devices using IDs from the
3181				configuration space which may match multiple
3182				devices in the system.
3183
3184		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3185				changes anything
3186		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3187		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3188				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3189				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3190		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3191				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3192				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3193				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3194		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3195				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3196				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3197		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3198				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3199				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3200				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3201				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3202				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3203				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3204		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3205				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3206				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3207		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3208				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3209		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3210				Configuration
3211		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3212				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3213				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3214		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3215				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3216				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3217		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3218				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3219				should never be necessary.
3220		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3221				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3222				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3223				when the system masks IRQs.
3224		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3225				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3226				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3227				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3228		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3229				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3230				on several machines and they hang the machine
3231				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3232				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3233				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3234				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3235				motherboard.
3236		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3237				Use with caution as certain devices share
3238				address decoders between ROMs and other
3239				resources.
3240		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3241				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3242				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3243		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3244				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3245		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3246				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3247				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3248				this way.
3249		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3250				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3251				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3252				F0000h-100000h range.
3253		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3254				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3255				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3256				explicitly which ones they are.
3257		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3258				numbers ourselves, overriding
3259				whatever the firmware may have done.
3260		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3261				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3262				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3263				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3264				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3265				IRQ routing is enabled.
3266		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3267				or for PCI scanning.
3268		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3269				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3270				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3271				please report a bug.
3272		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3273				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3274		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3275				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3276				so this option is a temporary workaround
3277				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3278		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3279				handle more pci cards
3280		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3281				This might help on some broken boards which
3282				machine check when some devices' config space
3283				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3284				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3285		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3286				This sorting is done to get a device
3287				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3288		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3289		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3290				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3291		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3292				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3293		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3294				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3295				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3296				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3297				or bus can support) for best performance.
3298		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3299				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3300				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3301				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3302				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3303				that hot-added devices will work.
3304		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3305				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3306				The default value is 256 bytes.
3307		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3308				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3309				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3310		resource_alignment=
3311				Format:
3312				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3313				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3314				aligned memory resources. How to
3315				specify the device is described above.
3316				If <order of align> is not specified,
3317				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3318				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3319				windows need to be expanded.
3320				To specify the alignment for several
3321				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3322				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3323				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3324		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3325				end-to-end CRC checking).
3326				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3327				the default.
3328				off: Turn ECRC off
3329				on: Turn ECRC on.
3330		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3331				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3332				Default size is 256 bytes.
3333		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3334				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3335				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3336		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3337				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3338				Default is 1.
3339		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3340				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3341				accommodate resources required by all child
3342				devices.
3343				off: Turn realloc off
3344				on: Turn realloc on
3345		realloc		same as realloc=on
3346		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3347		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3348				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3349		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3350				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3351				port.
3352		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3353				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3354				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3355				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3356				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3357				taints the kernel.
3358		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3359				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3360				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3361				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3362				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3363				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3364				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3365				this removes isolation between devices and
3366				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3367
3368	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3369			Management.
3370		off	Disable ASPM.
3371		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3372			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3373
3374	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3375		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3376			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3377			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3378			also tries to use these services.
3379		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3380			hotplug).
3381
3382	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3383		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3384		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3385
3386	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3387		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3388			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3389
3390	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3391
3392	pd_ignore_unused
3393			[PM]
3394			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3395			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3396			for debug and development, but should not be
3397			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3398
3399	pd.		[PARIDE]
3400			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3401
3402	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3403			boot time.
3404			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3405			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3406
3407	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3408			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3409			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3410			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3411			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3412			and performance comparison.
3413
3414	pf.		[PARIDE]
3415			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3416
3417	pg.		[PARIDE]
3418			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3419
3420	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3421			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3422
3423	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3424			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3425			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3426
3427	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3428			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3429			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3430
3431	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3432			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3433			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3434			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3435			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3436			possible settings and some assignment information.
3437
3438	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3439			{ off }
3440
3441	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3442			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3443
3444	pnp_reserve_irq=
3445			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3446
3447	pnp_reserve_dma=
3448			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3449
3450	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3451			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3452
3453	pnp_reserve_mem=
3454			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3455			autoconfiguration.
3456			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3457
3458	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3459			Default is 21.
3460			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3461			may be specified.
3462			Format: <port>,<port>....
3463
3464	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3465			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3466			platform machine description specific power_save
3467			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3468			execution priority.
3469
3470	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3471			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3472			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3473			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3474			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3475
3476	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3477			Format: {"off"}
3478			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3479
3480	print-fatal-signals=
3481			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3482
3483			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3484			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3485			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3486			coredump - etc.
3487
3488			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3489			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3490
3491			default: off.
3492
3493	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3494			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3495			panics
3496			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3497			default: disabled
3498
3499	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3500			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3501			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3502			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3503			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3504			Default: ratelimit
3505
3506	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3507			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3508
3509	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3510			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3511			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3512
3513	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3514			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3515			instead using the legacy FADT method
3516
3517	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3518			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3519			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3520				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3521			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3522			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3523				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3524			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3525			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3526				statistical time based profiling.
3527
3528	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3529			before loading.
3530			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3531
3532	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3533			tracking.
3534			Format: <bool>
3535
3536	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3537			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3538	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3539			per second.
3540	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3541			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3542			(0 = never).
3543	psmouse.resolution=
3544			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3545	psmouse.smartscroll=
3546			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3547			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3548
3549	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3550
3551	pt.		[PARIDE]
3552			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3553
3554	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3555			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3556			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3557			system calls and interrupts.
3558
3559			on   - unconditionally enable
3560			off  - unconditionally disable
3561			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3562			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3563
3564			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3565
3566	nopti		[X86_64]
3567			Equivalent to pti=off
3568
3569	pty.legacy_count=
3570			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3571			default number.
3572
3573	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3574
3575	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3576
3577	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3578			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3579
3580	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3581			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3582
3583	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3584			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3585			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3586			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3587			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3588
3589	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3590
3591		cec_disable	[X86]
3592				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3593				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3594
3595	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3596			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3597
3598			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3599			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3600			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3601			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3602			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3603			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3604			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3605			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3606			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3607			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3608
3609	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3610			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3611			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3612			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3613			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3614			This improves the real-time response for the
3615			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3616			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3617			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3618			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3619
3620	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3621			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3622			process in one batch.
3623
3624	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3625			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3626			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3627			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3628
3629	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3630			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3631			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3632
3633	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3634			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3635			RCU grace-period initialization.
3636
3637	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3638			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3639			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3640			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3641			the rcu_node combining tree.
3642
3643	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3644			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3645			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3646			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3647			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3648
3649	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3650			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3651			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3652			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3653			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3654			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3655			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3656
3657	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3658			Set required age in jiffies for a
3659			given grace period before RCU starts
3660			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3661			rcu_note_context_switch().  If not specified, the
3662			kernel will calculate a value based on the most
3663			recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3664			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3665			This calculated value may be viewed in
3666			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to
3667			set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
3668			cheerfully overwritten.
3669
3670	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3671			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3672			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3673			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3674			and maximum value is HZ.
3675
3676	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3677			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3678			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3679			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3680
3681	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3682			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3683			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3684			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3685			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3686			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3687			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3688			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3689			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3690			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3691
3692	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3693			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3694			defaults to the square root of the number of
3695			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3696			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3697			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3698
3699	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3700			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3701			batch limiting is disabled.
3702
3703	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3704			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3705			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3706
3707	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3708			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3709			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3710
3711	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3712			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3713			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3714			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3715			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3716
3717	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3718			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3719			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3720			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3721			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3722			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3723
3724	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3725			Measure performance of asynchronous
3726			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3727
3728	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3729			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3730			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3731			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3732			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3733			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3734
3735	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3736			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3737			grace-period primitives.
3738
3739	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3740			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3741			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3742			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3743			interference.
3744
3745	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3746			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3747			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3748			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3749			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3750			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3751			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3752			a single reader.
3753
3754	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3755			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3756			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3757			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3758
3759	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3760			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3761
3762	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3763			Shut the system down after performance tests
3764			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3765			testing.
3766
3767	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3768			Enable additional printk() statements.
3769
3770	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3771			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3772			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3773			no holdoff.
3774
3775	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3776			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3777			in microseconds.
3778
3779	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3780			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3781			in microseconds.
3782
3783	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3784			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3785			in seconds.
3786
3787	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3788			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3789			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3790
3791	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3792			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3793			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3794
3795	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3796			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3797			forward-progress tests.
3798
3799	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3800			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3801			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3802			testing.
3803
3804	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3805			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3806			primitives, if available.
3807
3808	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3809			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3810
3811	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3812			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3813			update-side primitives, if available.
3814
3815	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3816			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3817			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3818			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3819			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3820			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3821			they are all non-zero.
3822
3823	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3824			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3825
3826	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3827			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3828			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3829			test, hence the "fake".
3830
3831	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3832			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3833			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3834			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3835			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3836			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3837
3838	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3839			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3840
3841	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3842			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3843
3844	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3845			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3846			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3847
3848	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3849			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3850			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3851			during the rcutorture test.
3852
3853	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3854			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3855			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3856
3857	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3858			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3859			warnings, zero to disable.
3860
3861	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3862			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3863
3864	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3865			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3866
3867	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3868			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3869
3870	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3871			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3872			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3873			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3874			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3875
3876	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3877			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3878			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3879			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3880
3881	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3882			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3883
3884	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3885			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3886
3887	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3888			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3889			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3890
3891	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3892			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3893
3894	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3895			Enable additional printk() statements.
3896
3897	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3898			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3899
3900	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3901			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3902
3903	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3904			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3905			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3906			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3907			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3908			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3909			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3910
3911	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3912			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3913			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3914			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3915			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3916			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3917			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3918			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3919			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3920
3921	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3922			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3923			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3924			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3925			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3926
3927	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3928			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3929			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3930			to zero.
3931
3932	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3933			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3934
3935	rdinit=		[KNL]
3936			Format: <full_path>
3937			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3938			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3939
3940	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3941			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3942			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3943			mba.
3944			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3945				rdt=cmt,!mba
3946
3947	reboot=		[KNL]
3948			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3949				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3950				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3951				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3952				[[,]f[orce]
3953			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3954			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3955			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3956			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3957					to be used for rebooting.
3958
3959	relax_domain_level=
3960			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3961			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3962
3963	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3964			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3965			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3966			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3967			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
3968
3969	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3970			Format: nn[KMG]
3971			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3972			address space.
3973
3974	reservelow=	[X86]
3975			Format: nn[K]
3976			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3977			the bottom of the address space.
3978
3979	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3980			during initialization.
3981
3982	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3983			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3984			Format:
3985			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3986
3987	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3988			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3989			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3990			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3991			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3992
3993	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3994			read the resume files
3995
3996	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3997			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3998			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3999
4000	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4001		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4002				present during boot.
4003		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4004		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4005		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4006				(that will set all pages holding image data
4007				during restoration read-only).
4008
4009	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4010
4011	rfkill.default_state=
4012		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4013			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4014		1	Unblocked.
4015
4016	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4017		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4018		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4019			blocked and the previous configuration.
4020		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4021			blocked and everything unblocked.
4022
4023	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4024			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4025
4026	ring3mwait=disable
4027			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4028			CPUs.
4029
4030	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4031
4032	rodata=		[KNL]
4033		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4034		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4035
4036	rockchip.usb_uart
4037			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4038			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4039			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4040			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4041
4042	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4043			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4044
4045	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4046			mount the root filesystem
4047
4048	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4049
4050	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4051
4052	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4053			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4054			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4055
4056	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4057			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4058			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4059			managed by CMA.
4060
4061	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4062
4063	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4064
4065	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4066			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4067		strict
4068			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4069			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4070			which is faster.
4071
4072	sa1100ir	[NET]
4073			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4074
4075	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4076
4077	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4078
4079	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4080			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4081			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4082			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4083
4084	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4085			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4086			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4087			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4088			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4089			1 -- enable.
4090			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4091			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4092
4093	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4094			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4095			security module asking for security registration will be
4096			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4097			as if no module has been chosen.
4098
4099	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4100			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4101			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4102			0 -- disable.
4103			1 -- enable.
4104			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4105			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4106			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4107
4108	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4109			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4110			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4111			0 -- disable.
4112			1 -- enable.
4113			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4114
4115	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4116
4117	shapers=	[NET]
4118			Maximal number of shapers.
4119
4120	simeth=		[IA-64]
4121	simscsi=
4122
4123	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4124
4125	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4126			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4127			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4128			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4129			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4130			layout control by attackers can usually be
4131			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4132			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4133			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4134			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4135			own.
4136			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4137
4138	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4139			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4140			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4141			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4142			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4143
4144	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4145			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4146			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4147			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4148			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4149			last alloc / free. For more information see
4150			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4151
4152	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4153			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4154			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4155			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4156			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4157			directories and files being created under
4158			/sys/kernel/slub.
4159
4160	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4161			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4162			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4163			fragmentation. For more information see
4164			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4165
4166	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4167			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4168			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4169			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4170			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4171			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4172			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4173			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4174
4175	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4176			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4177			lower than slub_max_order.
4178			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4179
4180	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4181			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4182			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4183
4184	smart2=		[HW]
4185			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4186
4187	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4188	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4189	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4190	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4191	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4192	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4193	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4194				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4195				1: Fast pin select (default)
4196				2: ATC IRMode
4197
4198	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4199			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4200			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4201			actual hardware limit.
4202			Format: <integer>
4203			Default: -1 (no limit)
4204
4205	softlockup_panic=
4206			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4207			Format: <integer>
4208
4209			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4210			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4211			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4212			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4213			functionality.
4214
4215	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4216			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4217			backtraces on all cpus.
4218			Format: <integer>
4219
4220	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4221			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4222
4223	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4224			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4225			The default operation protects the kernel from
4226			user space attacks.
4227
4228			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4229			       spectre_v2_user=on
4230			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4231			       spectre_v2_user=off
4232			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4233			       vulnerable
4234
4235			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4236			mitigation method at run time according to the
4237			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4238			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4239			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4240
4241			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4242			against user space to user space task attacks.
4243
4244			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4245			the user space protections.
4246
4247			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4248
4249			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4250			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4251			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4252
4253			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4254			spectre_v2=auto.
4255
4256	spectre_v2_user=
4257			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4258		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4259		        user space tasks
4260
4261			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4262				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4263
4264			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4265				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4266
4267			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4268				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4269				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4270				  is inherited on fork.
4271
4272			prctl,ibpb
4273				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4274				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4275				  always when switching between different user
4276				  space processes.
4277
4278			seccomp
4279				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4280				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4281				  they explicitly opt out.
4282
4283			seccomp,ibpb
4284				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4285				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4286				  always when switching between different
4287				  user space processes.
4288
4289			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4290				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4291
4292			Default mitigation:
4293			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4294
4295			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4296			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4297
4298	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4299			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4300			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4301
4302			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4303			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4304			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4305			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4306			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4307			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4308			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4309			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4310
4311			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4312			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4313			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4314			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4315
4316			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4317			Bypass optimization is used.
4318
4319			On x86 the options are:
4320
4321			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4322			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4323			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4324				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4325				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4326				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4327				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4328				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4329			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4330				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4331				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4332				  is inherited on fork.
4333			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4334				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4335
4336			Default mitigations:
4337			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4338
4339			On powerpc the options are:
4340
4341			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4342				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4343				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4344				  exit.
4345			off	- No action.
4346
4347			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4348			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4349
4350	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4351	spia_fio_base=
4352	spia_pedr=
4353	spia_peddr=
4354
4355	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4356			Specifies how frequently to check for
4357			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4358			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4359			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4360			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4361			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4362			are ignored.
4363
4364	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4365			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4366			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4367			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4368			grace period will be considered for automatic
4369			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4370			expediting.
4371
4372	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4373			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4374
4375			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4376			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4377			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4378			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4379
4380			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4381				   for both kernel and userspace
4382			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4383				   for both kernel and userspace
4384			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4385				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4386				   to allow userspace to register its
4387				   interest in being mitigated too.
4388
4389	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4390			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4391			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4392			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4393			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4394			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4395
4396	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4397			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4398
4399	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4400			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4401			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4402			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4403			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4404			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4405			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4406
4407	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4408			Format: <num>
4409			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4410			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4411			as the initial boot-console.
4412			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4413
4414	sti_font=	[HW]
4415			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4416
4417	stifb=		[HW]
4418			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4419
4420	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4421	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4422			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4423			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4424			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4425			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4426			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4427			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4428			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4429			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4430			maximum port values.
4431
4432	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4433			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4434			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4435			process in parallel from a single connection.
4436			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4437
4438	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4439			[NFS]
4440			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4441			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4442			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4443			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4444			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4445			NFS server is running.
4446
4447			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4448				    automatically using heuristics
4449			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4450			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4451			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4452				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4453
4454	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4455	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4456			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4457			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4458			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4459			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4460			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4461			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4462
4463	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4464			[SUSPEND]
4465			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4466			mode before resuming the system (see
4467			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4468			is set. Default value is 5.
4469
4470	swapaccount=[0|1]
4471			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4472			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4473			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4474
4475	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4476			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4477			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4478			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4479			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4480			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4481
4482	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4483
4484	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4485			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4486			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4487			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4488			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4489			in older udev will not work anymore.
4490			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4491			the kernel configuration.
4492
4493	sysrq_always_enabled
4494			[KNL]
4495			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4496			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4497			Useful for debugging.
4498
4499	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4500			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4501			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4502			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4503			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4504			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4505
4506	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4507
4508	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4509			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4510			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4511			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4512			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4513			The system is woken from this state using a
4514			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4515
4516	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4517			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4518
4519	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4520			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4521			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4522
4523	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4524			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4525			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4526
4527	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4528			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4529			critical and hot trip points.
4530
4531	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4532			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4533
4534	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4535			-1: disable all passive trip points
4536			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4537			value
4538
4539	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4540			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4541			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4542			0: no polling (default)
4543
4544	threadirqs	[KNL]
4545			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4546			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4547
4548	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4549			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4550
4551	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4552			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4553			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4554
4555	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4556			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4557			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4558			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4559
4560	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4561			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4562			to the hypervisor.
4563
4564	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4565			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4566			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4567			kernel based on different criteria.
4568
4569	topology=	[S390]
4570			Format: {off | on}
4571			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4572			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4573			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4574			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4575			Default is on.
4576
4577	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4578			Format: {off}
4579			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4580			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4581			LPAR.
4582
4583	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4584
4585	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4586			Format: integer pcr id
4587			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4588			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4589			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4590			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4591			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4592			are saved.
4593
4594	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4595			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4596
4597	trace_event=[event-list]
4598			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4599			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4600			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4601			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4602
4603	trace_options=[option-list]
4604			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4605			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4606			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4607			to echo the option name into
4608
4609			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4610
4611			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4612			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4613
4614			      trace_options=stacktrace
4615
4616			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4617			section.
4618
4619	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4620			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4621			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4622			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4623			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4624			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4625
4626			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4627			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4628			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4629			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4630
4631			** CAUTION **
4632
4633			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4634			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4635			the system to live lock.
4636
4637	traceoff_on_warning
4638			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4639			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4640			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4641			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4642
4643			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4644			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4645			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4646
4647			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4648			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4649
4650	transparent_hugepage=
4651			[KNL]
4652			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4653			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4654			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4655			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4656			for more details.
4657
4658	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4659			Format: <string>
4660			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4661			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4662			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4663			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4664			virtualized environment.
4665			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4666			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4667			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4668			can add overhead.
4669			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4670			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4671			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4672
4673	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4674			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4675			Format:
4676			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4677			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4678
4679	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4680			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4681			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4682			help "seeing" what's going on.
4683
4684	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4685			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4686
4687	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4688			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4689			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4690			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4691			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4692			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4693			reported either.
4694
4695	unknown_nmi_panic
4696			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4697
4698	usbcore.authorized_default=
4699			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4700			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4701			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4702
4703	usbcore.autosuspend=
4704			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4705			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4706			is the time required before an idle device will be
4707			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4708			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4709
4710	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4711			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4712
4713	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4714			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4715			(default = 65536).
4716
4717	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4718			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4719
4720	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4721			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4722			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4723			 (default 0 = off).
4724
4725	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4726			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4727			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4728
4729	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4730			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4731			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4732
4733	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4734			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4735			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4736			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4737
4738	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4739
4740	usbcore.quirks=
4741			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4742			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4743			commas. Each entry has the form
4744			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4745			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4746			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4747			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4748			the following meanings:
4749				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4750					descriptors must not be fetched using
4751					a 255-byte read);
4752				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4753					correctly so reset it instead);
4754				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4755					Set-Interface requests);
4756				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4757					handle its Configuration or Interface
4758					strings);
4759				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4760					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4761				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4762					more interface descriptions than the
4763					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4764					talking to these interfaces);
4765				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4766					during initialization, after we read
4767					the device descriptor);
4768				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4769					high speed and super speed interrupt
4770					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4771					require the interval in microframes (1
4772					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4773					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4774					(bInterval-1).
4775					Devices with this quirk report their
4776					bInterval as the result of this
4777					calculation instead of the exponent
4778					variable used in the calculation);
4779				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4780					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4781					requests);
4782				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4783					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4784					remote wakeup capability);
4785				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4786					Power Management);
4787				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4788					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4789					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4790					calculation);
4791				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4792					to be disconnected before suspend to
4793					prevent spurious wakeup);
4794				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4795					pause after every control message);
4796				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4797					delay after resetting its port);
4798			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4799
4800	usbhid.mousepoll=
4801			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4802
4803	usbhid.jspoll=
4804			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4805
4806	usbhid.kbpoll=
4807			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4808
4809	usb-storage.delay_use=
4810			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4811			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4812
4813	usb-storage.quirks=
4814			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4815			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4816			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4817			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4818			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4819			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4820			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4821				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4822					of sense data);
4823				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4824					bytes of sense data);
4825				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4826					device capacity by one sector);
4827				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4828					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4829				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4830					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4831				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4832					command, uas only);
4833				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4834					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4835				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4836					reported device capacity by one
4837					sector if the number is odd);
4838				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4839					device);
4840				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4841					command, uas only);
4842				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4843					unlock ejectable media);
4844				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4845					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4846				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4847					initial READ(10) command);
4848				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4849					reported by the device);
4850				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4851					by default);
4852				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4853					bogus residue values);
4854				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4855					Logical Unit);
4856				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4857					commands, uas only);
4858				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4859				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4860					medium is write-protected).
4861				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4862					even if the device claims no cache)
4863			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4864
4865	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4866			Format: <int>
4867			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4868				 1 - undefined instruction events
4869				 2 - system calls
4870				 4 - invalid data aborts
4871				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4872				16 - SIGBUS faults
4873			Example: user_debug=31
4874
4875	userpte=
4876			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4877
4878				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4879					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4880					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4881
4882	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4883			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4884
4885			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4886			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4887
4888	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4889			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4890			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4891
4892			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4893			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4894			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4895
4896			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4897			alias for vdso32=0.
4898
4899			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4900			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4901
4902	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4903			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4904
4905	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4906			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4907
4908	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4909			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4910			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4911			level and then send out the event to user space through
4912			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4913			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4914			brightness level.
4915			default: 1
4916
4917	virtio_mmio.device=
4918			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4919
4920				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4921			where:
4922				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4923						like K, M and G)
4924				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4925				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4926						request_irq())
4927				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4928			example:
4929				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4930
4931			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4932
4933	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4934			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4935			Documentation/svga.txt.
4936			Use vga=ask for menu.
4937			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4938			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4939
4940	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
4941			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
4942			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
4943			All options are enabled by default, and this
4944			interface is meant to allow for selectively
4945			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
4946			debugging features.
4947
4948			Available options are:
4949			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
4950			  -	Disable all of the above options
4951
4952	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4953			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4954			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4955			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4956			mapped kernel RAM.
4957
4958	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4959			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4960			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4961
4962	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4963			Format: <command>
4964
4965	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4966			Format: <command>
4967
4968	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4969			Format: <command>
4970
4971	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4972			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4973			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4974			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4975			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4976			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4977			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4978
4979			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4980			            emulated reasonably safely.
4981
4982			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4983			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4984			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4985			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4986			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4987
4988			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4989			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4990			            might break your system.
4991
4992	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4993			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4994			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4995
4996	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4997			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4998			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4999			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5000
5001	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5002			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5003			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5004			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5005			ranging from 0-255.
5006
5007	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5008			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5009			Change the default green palette of the console.
5010			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5011			ranging from 0-255.
5012
5013	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5014			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5015			Change the default red palette of the console.
5016			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5017			ranging from 0-255.
5018
5019	vt.default_utf8=
5020			[VT]
5021			Format=<0|1>
5022			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5023			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5024			newly opened terminals.
5025
5026	vt.global_cursor_default=
5027			[VT]
5028			Format=<-1|0|1>
5029			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5030			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5031			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5032			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5033			cursors, 1 will display them.
5034
5035	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5036			Default: 2 = green.
5037
5038	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5039			Default: 3 = cyan.
5040
5041	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5042			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
5043			or other driver-specific files in the
5044			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5045
5046	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5047			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5048			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5049			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5050			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5051			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5052			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5053			corresponding sysfs file.
5054
5055	workqueue.disable_numa
5056			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5057			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5058			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5059			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5060			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5061			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5062			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5063
5064	workqueue.power_efficient
5065			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5066			they show better performance thanks to cache
5067			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5068			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5069
5070			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5071			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5072			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5073			power usage at the cost of small performance
5074			overhead.
5075
5076			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5077			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5078
5079	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5080			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5081			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5082			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5083			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5084			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5085			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5086			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5087			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5088			impacted.
5089
5090	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5091			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5092			supporting x2apic.
5093
5094	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5095			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5096			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5097			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5098			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5099
5100	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5101			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5102			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5103			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5104			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5105			domains.
5106
5107	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5108			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5109			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5110			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5111			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5112			nics -- unplug network devices
5113			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5114			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5115				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5116				the unplug protocol
5117			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5118
5119	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5120			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5121			optimizations.
5122
5123	xen_nopv	[X86]
5124			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5125			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5126
5127	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5128			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5129			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5130			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5131			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5132
5133	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5134			Format:
5135			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5136
5137	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5138			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5139			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5140			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5141