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