1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
482			no delay (0).
483			Format: integer
484
485	bootconfig	[KNL]
486			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
487			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
488
489			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
490
491	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
492	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
493			kernel args too.
494	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
495	bttv.tuner=
496
497	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
498			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
499			at a time.
500
501	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
502
503	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
504			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
505			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
506			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
507			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
508			This option provides an override for these situations.
509
510	carrier_timeout=
511			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
512			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
513			it waits 120 seconds.
514
515	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
516			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
517			trust validation.
518			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
519
520	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
521			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
522			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
523			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
524			others).
525
526	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528
529	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
530			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
531			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
532			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
533			  a single hierarchy
534			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
535			  subsystem
536			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
537			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
538			  created
539			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
540			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
541			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
542			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
543			stall information accounting feature
544
545	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
546			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
547			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
548			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
549			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
550			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
551			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
552			all v1 hierarchies.
553
554	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
555			Format: <string>
556			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
557			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
558
559	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
560			Format: { "0" | "1" }
561			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
562			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
563				any implied execute protection).
564			1 -- check protection requested by application.
565			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
566			Value can be changed at runtime via
567				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
568			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
569
570	cio_ignore=	[S390]
571			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
572
573	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
574			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
575			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
576			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
577			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
578			ones should be.
579			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
580			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
581			instability issue. However, not all features have names
582			in /proc/cpuinfo.
583			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
584			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
585			or using the feature without checking anything
586			will still see it. This just prevents it from
587			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
588			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
589			some critical bits.
590
591	clk_ignore_unused
592			[CLK]
593			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
594			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
595			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
596			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
597			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
598			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
599			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
600			platform with proper driver support.  For more
601			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
602
603	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
604			[Deprecated]
605			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
606			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
607			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
608			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
609
610	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
611			Format: <string>
612			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
613			with the name specified.
614			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
615			the platform:
616			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
617			[ACPI] acpi_pm
618			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
619				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
620			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
621				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
622			[MIPS] MIPS
623			[PARISC] cr16
624			[S390] tod
625			[SH] SuperH
626			[SPARC64] tick
627			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
628
629	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
630			[ARM,ARM64]
631			Format: <bool>
632			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
633			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
634			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
635			systems.
636
637	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
638			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
639			external delays before the clock will be marked
640			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
641			three attempts to read the clock under test.
642
643	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
644			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
645			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
646			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
647			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
648			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
649			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
650			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
651			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
652
653	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
654			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
655			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
656			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
657			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
658
659	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
660			[KNL,CMA]
661			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
662			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
663			placement constraint by the physical address range of
664			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
665			altogether. For more information, see
666			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
667
668	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
669			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
670			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
671			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
672			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
673			specificed, the default value is 0.
674			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
675			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
676			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
677			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
678
679	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
680			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
681			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
682			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
683			a hypervisor.
684			Default: yes
685
686	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
687			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
688			allocations, by default set to 256K.
689
690	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
691			Format:
692			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
693
694	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
695			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
696
697	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
698			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
699			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
700
701	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
702	conmode=
703
704	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
705
706		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
707
708		ttyS<n>[,options]
709		ttyUSB0[,options]
710			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
711			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
712			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
713			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
714			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
715
716			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
717			information.  See
718			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
719			alternative.
720
721		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
722		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
723		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
724		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
725		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
726			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
727			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
728			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
729			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
730			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
731			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
732			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
733			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
734			the h/w is not re-initialized.
735
736		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
737			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
738
739		{ null | "" }
740			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
741			console messages discarded.
742			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
743			kernel command line.
744
745		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
746		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
747			console=brl,ttyS0
748		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
749
750	console_msg_format=
751			[KNL] Change console messages format
752		default
753			By default we print messages on consoles in
754			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
755			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
756			`printk_time' param).
757		syslog
758			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
759			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
760			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
761			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
762			from /proc/kmsg.
763
764	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
765			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
766			Defaults to 0.
767
768	coredump_filter=
769			[KNL] Change the default value for
770			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
771			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
772
773	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
774			[ARM,ARM64]
775			Format: <bool>
776			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
777			0: default value, disable debugging
778			1: enable debugging at boot time
779
780	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
781			Format:
782			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
783
784	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
785			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
786			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
787			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
788			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
789			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
790			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
791			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
792			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
793			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
794			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
795			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
796			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
797
798	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
799			disable the cpuidle sub-system
800
801	cpuidle.governor=
802			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
803
804	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
805			disable the cpufreq sub-system
806
807	cpufreq.default_governor=
808			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
809			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
810			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
811
812	cpu_init_udelay=N
813			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
814			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
815			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
816			Default: 10000
817
818	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
819			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
820			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
821			succeeds in any situation.
822			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
823			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
824			kernel more unstable.
825
826	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
827			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
828			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
829			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
830			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
831			is selected automatically.
832			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
833			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
834			hasn't been specified.
835			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
836
837	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
838			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
839			in the running system. The syntax of range is
840			start-[end] where start and end are both
841			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
842			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
843
844	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
845			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
846			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
847			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
848			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
849			available.
850			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
851	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
852			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
853			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
854			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
855			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
856			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
857			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
858			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
859			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
860			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
861			for second kernel instead.
862			0: to disable low allocation.
863			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
864			or memory reserved is below 4G.
865
866			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
867			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
868			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
869			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
870			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
871
872	cryptomgr.notests
873			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
874
875	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
876			Format: <dma>
877
878	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
879			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
880
881	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
882			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
883			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
884			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
885			to resolve the hang situation.
886			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
887			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
888			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
889			     but more data)
890
891	dasd=		[HW,NET]
892			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
893
894	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
895			(one device per port)
896			Format: <port#>,<type>
897			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
898
899	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
900
901	debug_boot_weak_hash
902			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
903			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
904			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
905			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
906			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
907			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
908
909	debug_locks_verbose=
910			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
911			Format: <int>
912			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
913			self-tests.
914			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
915			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
916			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
917			useful to lockdep developers.
918
919	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
920
921	no_debug_objects
922			[KNL] Disable object debugging
923
924	debug_guardpage_minorder=
925			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
926			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
927			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
928			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
929			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
930			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
931			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
932			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
933			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
934			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
935			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
936			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
937			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
938			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
939			bypassed) which are not detectable by
940			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
941			tracking down these problems.
942
943	debug_pagealloc=
944			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
945			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
946			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
947			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
948			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
949			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
950			on: enable the feature
951
952	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
953			and debugfs internal clients.
954			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
955			on: 	All functions are enabled.
956			no-mount:
957				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
958			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
959				its content. There is nothing to mount.
960			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
961			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
962				or directories within debugfs.
963				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
964				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
965			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
966
967	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
968
969	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
970			Format: <area>[,<node>]
971			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
972
973	default_hugepagesz=
974			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
975			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
976			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
977			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
978			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
979			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
980			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
981			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
982			Format: size[KMG]
983
984	deferred_probe_timeout=
985			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
986			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
987			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
988			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
989			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
990			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
991			successful driver registration. This option will also
992			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
993			retrying.
994
995	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
996
997	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
998			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
999			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1000			hardware.
1001
1002	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1003			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1004			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1005			blacklisted features.
1006
1007	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1008			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1009			(disabled by default).
1010
1011	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1012			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1013			capability is set.
1014
1015	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1016			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1017
1018	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1019			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1020
1021	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1022			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1023			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1024			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1025			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1026			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1027			          only (compression on level 1)
1028			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1029			          only (decompression)
1030			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1031			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1032
1033	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1034			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1035
1036	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1037			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1038			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1039			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1040			miss to occur.
1041
1042	stress_slb	[PPC]
1043			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1044			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1045			on kernel addresses.
1046
1047	disable=	[IPV6]
1048			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1049
1050	disable_radix	[PPC]
1051			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1052
1053	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1054			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1055			invalidate.
1056
1057	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1058			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1059			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1060
1061	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1062			Format: <int>
1063			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1064			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1065			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1066			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1067			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1068			INIT from AP to BSP.
1069
1070	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1071			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1072			to workaround buggy firmware.
1073
1074	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1075			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1076
1077	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1078			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1079			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1080			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1081
1082	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1083			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1084			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1085			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1086			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1087
1088	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1089			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1090			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1091
1092	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1093
1094	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1095			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1096
1097	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1098			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1099			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1100			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1101			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1102			architectural default is too low.
1103
1104	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1105			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1106			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1107			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1108			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1109			driver later using sysfs.
1110
1111	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1112			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1113			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1114			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1115			match the *.
1116			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1117
1118	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1119			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1120			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1121			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1122			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1123			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1124			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1125			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1126			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1127			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1128			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1129			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1130			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1131			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1132			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1133			data set with no connector name will be used for
1134			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1135
1136	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1137
1138	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1139			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1140			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1141			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1142			exists).
1143			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1144			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1145			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1146
1147	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1148			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1149			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1150			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1151
1152	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1153	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1154			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1155			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1156			for details.
1157
1158	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1159			in some Intel CPUs.
1160
1161	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
1162			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
1163			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
1164			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
1165			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
1166			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
1167
1168	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1169			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1170			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1171			which are not unmapped.
1172
1173	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1174
1175			When used with no options, the early console is
1176			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1177			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1178			the platform.
1179
1180		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1181			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1182			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1183			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1184			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1185			configured.
1186
1187		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1188		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1189		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1190		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1191		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1192			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1193			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1194			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1195			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1196			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1197			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1198			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1199			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1200
1201		pl011,<addr>
1202		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1203			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1204			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1205			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1206			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1207			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1208			the device registers.
1209
1210		liteuart,<addr>
1211			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1212			specified address. The serial port must already be
1213			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1214
1215		meson,<addr>
1216			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1217			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1218			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1219			supported.
1220
1221		msm_serial,<addr>
1222			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1223			port at the specified address. The serial port
1224			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1225			yet supported.
1226
1227		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1228			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1229			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1230			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1231			yet supported.
1232
1233		owl,<addr>
1234			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1235			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1236			specified address. The serial port must already be
1237			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1238
1239		rda,<addr>
1240			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1241			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1242			specified address. The serial port must already be
1243			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1244
1245		sbi
1246			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1247			console.
1248
1249		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1250
1251		s3c2410,<addr>
1252		s3c2412,<addr>
1253		s3c2440,<addr>
1254		s3c6400,<addr>
1255		s5pv210,<addr>
1256		exynos4210,<addr>
1257			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1258			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1259			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1260			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1261			Options are not yet supported.
1262
1263		lantiq,<addr>
1264			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1265			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1266			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1267			yet supported.
1268
1269		lpuart,<addr>
1270		lpuart32,<addr>
1271			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1272			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1273			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1274			port must already be setup and configured.
1275
1276		ec_imx21,<addr>
1277		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1278			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1279			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1280			must already be setup and configured.
1281
1282		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1283			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1284			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1285			address. The serial port must already be setup
1286			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1287
1288		qcom_geni,<addr>
1289			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1290			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1291			specified address. The serial port must already be
1292			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1293
1294		efifb,[options]
1295			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1296			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1297			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1298			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1299			mapped with the correct attributes.
1300
1301		linflex,<addr>
1302			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1303			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1304			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1305			already be setup and configured.
1306
1307	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1308			earlyprintk=vga
1309			earlyprintk=sclp
1310			earlyprintk=xen
1311			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1312			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1313			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1314			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1315			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1316			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1317
1318			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1319			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1320			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1321
1322			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1323			takes over.
1324
1325			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1326			be used at a time.
1327
1328			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1329			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1330			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1331			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1332				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1333			You can find the port for a given device in
1334			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1335				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1336
1337			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1338			very good.
1339
1340			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1341			the real console.
1342
1343			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1344
1345			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1346
1347			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1348			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1349			UART class.
1350
1351	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1352			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1353			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1354			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1355			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1356			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1357			default: on.
1358
1359	edd=		[EDD]
1360			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1361
1362	efi=		[EFI]
1363			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1364				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1365				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1366			debug: enable misc debug output.
1367			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1368			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1369			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1370			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1371			firmware implementations.
1372			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1373			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1374			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1375			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1376			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1377			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1378			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1379			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1380			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1381			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1382
1383	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1384			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1385			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1386			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1387			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1388
1389	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1390			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1391			updating original EFI memory map.
1392			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1393			from ss to ss+nn.
1394
1395			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1396			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1397			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1398			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1399
1400			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1401			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1402			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1403
1404			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1405			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1406			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1407			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1408			"soft reserved".
1409
1410	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1411			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1412			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1413			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1414			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1415
1416
1417	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1418			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1419
1420	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1421			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1422
1423			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1424			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1425
1426			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1427			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1428			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1429			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1430
1431	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1432			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1433			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1434
1435	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1436			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1437			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1438			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1439			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1440
1441	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1442			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1443			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1444			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1445
1446	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1447			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1448			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1449			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1450			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1451
1452	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1453			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1454			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1455			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1456			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1457			Default value is 0.
1458			Value can be changed at runtime via
1459			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1460
1461	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1462			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1463			support.
1464
1465	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1466			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1467			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1468
1469	evm=		[EVM]
1470			Format: { "fix" }
1471			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1472			current integrity status.
1473
1474	failslab=
1475	fail_usercopy=
1476	fail_page_alloc=
1477	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1478			General fault injection mechanism.
1479			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1480			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1481
1482	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1483			Format: { initns | none }
1484			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1485			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1486
1487	floppy=		[HW]
1488			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1489
1490	force_pal_cache_flush
1491			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1492			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1493			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1494			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1495
1496	forcepae	[X86-32]
1497			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1498			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1499			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1500			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1501			and may cause unknown problems.
1502
1503	ftrace=[tracer]
1504			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1505			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1506			boot debugging.
1507
1508	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1509			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1510			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1511			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1512			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1513			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1514			start up functionality.
1515
1516	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1517			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1518			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1519			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1520			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1521			oops.
1522
1523	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1524			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1525			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1526			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1527			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1528			tracing directory.
1529
1530	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1531			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1532			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1533			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1534			tracing directory.
1535
1536	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1537			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1538			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1539			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1540			that can be changed at run time by the
1541			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1542
1543	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1544			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1545			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1546			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1547			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1548
1549	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1550			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1551			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1552			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1553			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1554
1555	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1556			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1557			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1558			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1559			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1560			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1561			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1562			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1563			suppliers).
1564			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1565			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1566			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1567				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1568				up (sync_state() calls).
1569			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1570				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1571			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1572
1573	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1574			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1575			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1576			Format: <bool>
1577
1578	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1579			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1580			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1581			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1582			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1583
1584	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1585
1586	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1587			Format: off | on
1588			default: on
1589
1590	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1591			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1592			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1593			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1594			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1595
1596	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1597			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1598			android emulator
1599
1600	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1601			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1602			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1603	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1604			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1605
1606	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1607			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1608			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1609			GPT to be used instead.
1610
1611	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1612			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1613			Format: 0 | 1
1614			Default: 0
1615	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1616			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1617			Format: 0 | 1
1618			Default: 0
1619	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1620			Format: 0 | 1
1621			Default: 0
1622	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1623			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1624			Default: 1024
1625	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1626			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1627			Default: 1024
1628
1629	hardened_usercopy=
1630			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1631			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1632			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1633			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1634			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1635			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1636			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1637		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1638		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1639
1640	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1641			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1642			backtraces on all cpus.
1643			Format: 0 | 1
1644
1645	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1646			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1647			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1648			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1649
1650	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1651
1652	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1653			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1654
1655	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1656			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1657			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1658			logic will be disabled.
1659
1660	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1661		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1662				present during boot.
1663		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1664		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1665		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1666				(that will set all pages holding image data
1667				during restoration read-only).
1668
1669	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1670			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1671			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1672			size on bigger boxes.
1673
1674	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1675			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1676			Default: "on"
1677
1678	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1679
1680	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1681			Format: <string>
1682			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1683			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1684			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1685			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1686			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1687			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1688			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1689			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1690			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1691			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1692
1693	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1694			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1695				verbose }
1696			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1697			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1698				VIA, nVidia)
1699			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1700
1701	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1702			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1703
1704	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1705			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1706			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1707			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1708			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1709			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1710			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1711			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1712			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1713				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1714
1715	hugepagesz=
1716			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1717			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1718			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1719			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1720			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1721			architecture dependent.  See also
1722			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1723			Format: size[KMG]
1724
1725	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1726			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1727			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1728			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1729				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1730
1731			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1732			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1733			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1734
1735	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1736			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1737			enabled.
1738			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1739			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1740			Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) }
1741
1742			[oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature
1743			[oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature
1744
1745			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1746			the default is on.
1747
1748			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1749			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1750			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1751			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1752			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1753
1754	hung_task_panic=
1755			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1756			Format: 0 | 1
1757
1758			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1759			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1760			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1761			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1762			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1763
1764	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1765				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1766	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1767				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1768				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1769
1770	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1771				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1772				      guest on lock contention.
1773
1774	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1775			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1776			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1777			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1778			the real console.
1779
1780	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1781				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1782				registered from board initialization code.
1783				Format:
1784				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1785
1786	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1787	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1788			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1789			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1790			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1791	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1792	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1793			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1794			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1795	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1796	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1797	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1798			     for the AUX port
1799	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1800			     controller
1801	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1802			     controllers
1803	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1804	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1805			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1806			     transitions, or never reset
1807			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1808			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1809			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1810			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1811			architectures force reset to be always executed
1812	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1813	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1814	i8042.probe_defer
1815			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1816
1817	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1818
1819	i915.invert_brightness=
1820			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1821			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1822			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1823			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1824			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1825			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1826			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1827			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1828			value switches the backlight off.
1829			-1 -- never invert brightness
1830			 0 -- machine default
1831			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1832
1833	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1834			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1835
1836
1837	idle=		[X86]
1838			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1839			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1840			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1841			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1842			Not recommended.
1843			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1844			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1845			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1846
1847	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1848			Format: <bool>
1849			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1850			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1851			true (1).
1852
1853	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1854			Format: <bool>
1855			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1856			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1857
1858	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1859			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1860			Default: strict
1861
1862			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1863			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1864			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1865			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1866			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1867			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1868			encoding mode.
1869
1870			Available settings are as follows:
1871			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1872				supported by the FPU
1873			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1874				by the FPU
1875			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1876				by the FPU
1877			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1878				supported by the FPU
1879
1880			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1881			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1882			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1883			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1884			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1885			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1886			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1887			MIPS64 CPUs.
1888
1889			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1890			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1891			except where unsupported by hardware.
1892
1893	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1894			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1895			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1896			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1897			could change it dynamically, usually by
1898			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1899
1900	ignore_rlimit_data
1901			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1902			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1903			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1904
1905	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1906			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1907
1908	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1909			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1910			default: "enforce"
1911
1912	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1913			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1914			owned by uid=0.
1915
1916	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1917			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1918			measurements, instead of host native format.
1919
1920	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1921			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1922				   | sha512 | ... }
1923			default: "sha1"
1924
1925			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1926			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1927
1928	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1929			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1930			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1931				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1932
1933			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1934			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1935			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1936			uid=0.
1937
1938			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1939			all files owned by root.
1940
1941			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1942			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1943			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1944
1945			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1946			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1947			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1948			flag.
1949
1950			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1951			critical data.
1952
1953	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1954			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1955			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1956			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1957			opened for read by uid=0.
1958
1959	ima_template=	[IMA]
1960			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1961			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1962				   "ima-sigv2" }
1963			Default: "ima-ng"
1964
1965	ima_template_fmt=
1966			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1967			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1968
1969	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1970			Format: <min_file_size>
1971			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1972			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1973
1974			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1975			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1976			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1977
1978	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1979			Format: <bufsize>
1980			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1981
1982			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1983			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1984			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1985
1986	init=		[KNL]
1987			Format: <full_path>
1988			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1989			process.
1990
1991	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1992			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1993			startup.
1994
1995	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1996			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1997			modules and initcalls.
1998
1999	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2000			Format: <bool>
2001			Default: 1
2002			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2003			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2004			with devices being probed and
2005			initialized. This should normally just work,
2006			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2007			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2008			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2009			late_ initcalls.
2010
2011	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2012
2013	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2014			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2015			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2016			setting.
2017			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2018			Default is 0, 0
2019
2020	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2021			zeroes.
2022			Format: 0 | 1
2023			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2024
2025	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2026			Format: 0 | 1
2027			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2028
2029	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2030			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2031			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2032			override in debugfs after boot.
2033
2034	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2035			Format: <irq>
2036
2037	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2038
2039	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2040			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2041			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2042			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2043
2044	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2045		on
2046			Enable intel iommu driver.
2047		off
2048			Disable intel iommu driver.
2049		igfx_off [Default Off]
2050			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2051			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2052			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2053			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2054			DMA.
2055		strict [Default Off]
2056			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2057		sp_off [Default Off]
2058			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2059			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2060			not be supported.
2061		sm_on
2062			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2063			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2064			translation.
2065		sm_off
2066			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2067		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2068			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2069			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2070			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2071			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2072			mapping is enabled.
2073			Note that using this option lowers the security
2074			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2075			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2076
2077	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2078			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2079			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2080
2081	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2082			disable
2083			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2084			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2085			passive
2086			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2087			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2088			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2089			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2090			  feature.
2091			force
2092			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2093			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2094			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2095			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2096			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2097			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2098			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2099			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2100			no_hwp
2101			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2102			  if available.
2103			hwp_only
2104			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2105			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2106			support_acpi_ppc
2107			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2108			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2109			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2110			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2111			per_cpu_perf_limits
2112			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2113			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2114
2115	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2116			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2117			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2118			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2119			no_x2apic_optout
2120				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2121			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2122
2123	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2124		strict	regions from userspace.
2125		relaxed
2126
2127	iommu=		[X86]
2128		off
2129		force
2130		noforce
2131		biomerge
2132		panic
2133		nopanic
2134		merge
2135		nomerge
2136		soft
2137		pt		[X86]
2138		nopt		[X86]
2139		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2140			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2141
2142	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2143			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2144			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2145			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2146			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2147			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2148			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2149
2150	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2151			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2152			0 - Lazy mode.
2153			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2154			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2155			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2156			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2157			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2158			1 - Strict mode.
2159			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2160			  synchronously.
2161			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2162			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2163			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2164
2165	iommu.passthrough=
2166			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2167			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2168			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2169			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2170			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2171
2172	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2173			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2174			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2175
2176	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2177		0x80
2178			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2179		0xed
2180			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2181		udelay
2182			Simple two microseconds delay
2183		none
2184			No delay
2185
2186	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2187			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2188
2189	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2190			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2191
2192	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2193			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2194
2195	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2196			[ARM, ARM64]
2197			Format: <bool>
2198			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2199			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2200			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2201
2202	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2203			[ARM, ARM64]
2204			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2205			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2206			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2207			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2208			LPIs.
2209
2210	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2211			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2212			requires the kernel to be built with
2213			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2214
2215	irqfixup	[HW]
2216			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2217			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2218			firmware running.
2219
2220	irqpoll		[HW]
2221			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2222			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2223			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2224			firmware running.
2225
2226	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2227			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2228
2229	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2230			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2231			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2232
2233			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2234			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2235
2236			nohz
2237			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2238
2239			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2240			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2241			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2242			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2243			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2244
2245			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2246			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2247			  be configured manually after bootup.
2248
2249			domain
2250			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2251			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2252			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2253			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2254			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2255			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2256			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2257			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2258
2259			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2260			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2261			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2262			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2263
2264			managed_irq
2265
2266			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2267			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2268			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2269			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2270			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2271
2272			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2273			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2274			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2275			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2276			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2277			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2278			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2279
2280			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2281			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2282			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2283			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2284			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2285			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2286			  queues.
2287
2288			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2289
2290	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2291
2292	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2293			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2294			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2295			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2296			For example:
2297			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2298			  write the parameter as:
2299				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2300			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2301			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2302				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2303
2304	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2305			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2306			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2307			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2308			For example:
2309			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2310			  write the parameter as:
2311				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2312			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2313			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2314				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2315
2316	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2317			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2318			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2319
2320			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2321			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2322			write the parameter as:
2323				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2324
2325			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2326			For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2327				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2328
2329	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2330			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2331
2332	nokaslr		[KNL]
2333			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2334			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2335			Layout Randomization).
2336
2337	kasan_multi_shot
2338			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2339			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2340			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2341			invalid access.
2342
2343	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2344
2345	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2346			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2347			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2348			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2349			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2350			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2351			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2352			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2353			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2354			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2355
2356			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2357			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2358			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2359			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2360			zone if it does not.
2361
2362			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2363			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2364			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2365			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2366			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2367			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2368			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2369
2370	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2371			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2372			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2373			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2374			optional and is the number seconds in between
2375			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2376			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2377			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2378			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2379			the kernel debugger.
2380
2381	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2382			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2383			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2384			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2385			 keyboard only format: kbd
2386			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2387			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2388			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2389			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2390
2391	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2392			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2393			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2394			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2395			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2396			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2397			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2398
2399			The name of the early console should be specified
2400			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2401			the early console might be different than the tty
2402			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2403			blank and the first boot console that implements
2404			read() will be picked.
2405
2406	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2407			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2408
2409	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2410			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2411			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2412
2413	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2414			Valid arguments: on, off
2415			Default: on
2416			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2417			the default is off.
2418
2419	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2420			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2421			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2422			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2423			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2424			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2425			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2426
2427			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2428
2429			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2430			Boot Parameter" section.
2431
2432	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2433			and kernel address spaces.
2434			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2435			0: force disabled
2436			1: force enabled
2437
2438	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2439			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2440
2441	kvm.eager_page_split=
2442			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2443			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2444			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2445			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2446			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2447			required to split huge pages lazily.
2448
2449			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2450			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2451			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2452			still be used for reads.
2453
2454			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2455			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2456			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2457			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2458			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2459			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2460			cleared.
2461
2462			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2463
2464			Default is Y (on).
2465
2466	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2467				   Default is false (don't support).
2468
2469	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2470			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2471			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2472			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2473			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2474			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2475				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2476
2477			Default is 'auto'.
2478
2479			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2480			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2481
2482	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2483			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2484			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2485			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2486			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2487
2488	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2489			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2490			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2491			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2492			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2493			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2494
2495	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2496			Default is 1 (enabled)
2497
2498	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2499			for all guests.
2500			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2501
2502	kvm-arm.mode=
2503			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2504
2505			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2506
2507			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2508			      protected guests.
2509
2510			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2511				   state is kept private from the host.
2512
2513			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2514			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2515			for the host.
2516
2517	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2518			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2519			system registers
2520
2521	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2522			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2523			system registers
2524
2525	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2526			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2527			system registers
2528
2529	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2530			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2531			LPIs.
2532
2533	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2534			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2535			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2536			allocation.
2537			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2538			Format: <integer>
2539			Default: 5
2540
2541	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2542			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2543			Default is 1 (enabled)
2544
2545	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2546			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2547			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2548			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2549			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2550			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2551			Default is 1 (enabled)
2552
2553	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2554			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2555			Default is 1 (enabled)
2556
2557	kvm-intel.nested=
2558			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2559			Default is 0 (disabled)
2560
2561	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2562			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2563			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2564			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2565
2566	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2567			CVE-2018-3620.
2568
2569			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2570
2571			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2572			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2573				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2574			never:	Disables the mitigation
2575
2576			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2577
2578	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2579			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2580			Default is 1 (enabled)
2581
2582	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2583			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2584
2585			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2586			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2587			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2588
2589			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2590			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2591			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2592			not have direct access.
2593
2594			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2595			options are:
2596
2597			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2598
2599	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2600			      affected CPUs
2601
2602			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2603			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2604
2605			full
2606				Provides all available mitigations for the
2607				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2608				enables all mitigations in the
2609				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2610
2611				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2612				sysfs interface is still possible after
2613				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2614				when the first VM is started in a
2615				potentially insecure configuration,
2616				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2617
2618			full,force
2619				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2620				flush runtime control. Implies the
2621				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2622				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2623
2624			flush
2625				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2626				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2627				L1D flush.
2628
2629				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2630				sysfs interface is still possible after
2631				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2632				when the first VM is started in a
2633				potentially insecure configuration,
2634				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2635
2636			flush,nosmt
2637
2638				Disables SMT and enables the default
2639				hypervisor mitigation.
2640
2641				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2642				sysfs interface is still possible after
2643				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2644				when the first VM is started in a
2645				potentially insecure configuration,
2646				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2647
2648			flush,nowarn
2649				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2650				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2651				insecure configuration.
2652
2653			off
2654				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2655				emit any warnings.
2656				It also drops the swap size and available
2657				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2658				bare metal.
2659
2660			Default is 'flush'.
2661
2662			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2663
2664	l2cr=		[PPC]
2665
2666	l3cr=		[PPC]
2667
2668	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2669			disabled it.
2670
2671	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2672			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2673			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2674			Format: notscdeadline
2675
2676	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2677			in C2 power state.
2678
2679	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2680			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2681			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2682			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2683			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2684			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2685			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2686
2687	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2688			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2689			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2690
2691	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2692			when set.
2693			Format: <int>
2694
2695	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2696			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2697			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2698			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2699			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2700			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2701			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2702			to all ports, links and devices.
2703
2704			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2705			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2706			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2707			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2708			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2709			host link and device attached to it.
2710
2711			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2712			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2713			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2714			The following configurations can be forced.
2715
2716			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2717			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2718
2719			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2720
2721			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2722			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2723			  allowed.
2724
2725			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2726			  resets.
2727
2728			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2729			  link recovery.
2730
2731			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2732			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2733			  detection.
2734
2735			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2736
2737			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2738
2739			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2740
2741			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2742
2743			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2744
2745			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2746
2747			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2748
2749			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2750
2751			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2752			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2753
2754			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2755			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2756
2757			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2758			  identify device data log.
2759
2760			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2761			  purpose log directory.
2762
2763			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2764
2765			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2766			  1024 sectors.
2767
2768			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2769			  65535 sectors.
2770
2771			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2772
2773			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2774			  should be skipped.
2775
2776			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2777
2778			* disable: Disable this device.
2779
2780			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2781			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2782
2783	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2784
2785	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2786			Format: <integer>
2787
2788	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2789			Format: <integer>
2790
2791	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2792			Format: <integer>
2793
2794	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2795			Format: <integer>
2796
2797	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2798			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2799			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2800			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2801			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2802			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2803			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2804			are also disabled.
2805
2806	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2807			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2808			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2809			number of online CPUs.
2810
2811	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2812			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2813
2814	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2815			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2816
2817	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2818			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2819			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2820
2821	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2822			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2823			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2824			mode during the locktorture test.
2825
2826	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2827			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2828			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2829
2830	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2831			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2832
2833	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2834			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2835			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2836			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2837			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2838			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2839
2840	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2841			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2842
2843	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2844			Enable additional printk() statements.
2845
2846	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2847			Format: <irq>
2848
2849	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2850			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2851			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2852			loglevels are defined as follows:
2853
2854			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2855			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2856			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2857			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2858			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2859			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2860			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2861			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2862
2863	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2864			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2865			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2866			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2867			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2868			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2869			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2870
2871	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2872			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2873			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2874			kernel boot problems.
2875
2876	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2877	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2878	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2879	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2880				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2881				attached printers to be reset. Using
2882				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2883				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2884				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2885				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2886				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2887				port specification list means that device IDs
2888				from each port should be examined, to see if
2889				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2890				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2891				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2892
2893	lpj=n		[KNL]
2894			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2895			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2896			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2897			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2898			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2899			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2900			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2901			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2902			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2903			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2904			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2905			hardware.
2906
2907	ltpc=		[NET]
2908			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2909
2910	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2911
2912	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2913			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2914			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2915
2916	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2917			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2918			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2919
2920	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2921			different yeeloong laptops.
2922			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2923
2924	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2925			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2926
2927	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2928			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2929			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2930			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2931			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2932			only takes effect during system bootup.
2933			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2934			which also disables the IO APIC.
2935
2936	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2937	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2938			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2939			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2940			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2941			/dev/loop-control interface.
2942
2943	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2944
2945	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2946
2947	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2948			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2949
2950	mdacon=		[MDA]
2951			Format: <first>,<last>
2952			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2953
2954	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2955			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2956			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2957
2958			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2959			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2960			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2961
2962			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2963			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2964			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2965			not have direct access.
2966
2967			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2968			options are:
2969
2970			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2971			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2972				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2973			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2974
2975			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2976			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2977			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2978			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2979			too.
2980
2981			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2982			mds=full.
2983
2984			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2985
2986	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2987			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2988
2989	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2990			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2991
2992			1 for test;
2993			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2994			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2995			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2996			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2997
2998			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2999			high memory is not affected.
3000
3001			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3002			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3003
3004			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3005			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3006			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3007			belonging to unused RAM.
3008
3009			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3010			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3011			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3012
3013	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3014			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3015			firmware.
3016			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3017			ss[KMG].
3018			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3019			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3020
3021	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3022			memory.
3023
3024	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3025
3026	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3027			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3028			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3029
3030	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3031			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3032			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3033			set according to the
3034			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3035			option.
3036			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3037
3038	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3039			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3040			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3041			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3042			option description.
3043
3044	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3045			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3046			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3047			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3048			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3049			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3050			comma delimited.
3051			Example:
3052				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3053
3054	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3055			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3056			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3057
3058	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3059			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3060			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3061			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3062			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3063			         or
3064			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3065			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3066			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3067			will be eaten.
3068
3069	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3070			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3071			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3072			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3073			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3074
3075	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3076			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3077			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3078			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3079			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3080			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3081			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3082			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3083
3084	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3085			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3086			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3087			Setting this option will scan the memory
3088			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3089			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3090			from using the memory being corrupted.
3091			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3092			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3093			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3094			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3095
3096	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3097			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3098			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3099			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3100			corruption in more or less memory.
3101
3102	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3103			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3104			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3105			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3106
3107	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3108			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3109			Format: {on | off (default)}
3110			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3111			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3112			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3113			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3114			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3115			lot of memory without requiring additional
3116			memory to do so.
3117			This feature is disabled by default because it
3118			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3119			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3120			memory blocks).
3121			The state of the flag can be read in
3122			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3123			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3124			the feature is not effective.
3125
3126	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3127			Format: <integer>
3128			default : 0 <disable>
3129			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3130			performed. Each pass selects another test
3131			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3132			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3133			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3134			regions that are detected.
3135
3136	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3137			Valid arguments: on, off
3138			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3139			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3140			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3141			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3142			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3143
3144			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3145			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3146
3147	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3148			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3149			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3150			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3151			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3152
3153	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3154			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3155
3156	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3157			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3158			platforms.
3159
3160	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3161			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3162			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3163			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3164
3165	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3166
3167	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3168			physical address is ignored.
3169
3170	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3171			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3172			Default: "0tb"
3173			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3174			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3175			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3176			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3177			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3178			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3179			unconfigured.
3180			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3181			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3182			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3183			VGA shield.
3184			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3185			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3186			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3187			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3188			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3189			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3190
3191	mitigations=
3192			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3193			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3194			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3195			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3196
3197			off
3198				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3199				improves system performance, but it may also
3200				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3201				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3202					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3203					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3204					       nobp=0 [S390]
3205					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3206					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3207					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3208					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3209					       l1tf=off [X86]
3210					       mds=off [X86]
3211					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3212					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3213					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3214					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3215					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3216					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3217					       retbleed=off [X86]
3218
3219				Exceptions:
3220					       This does not have any effect on
3221					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3222					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3223
3224			auto (default)
3225				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3226				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3227				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3228				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3229				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3230				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3231
3232			auto,nosmt
3233				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3234				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3235				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3236				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3237					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3238					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3239					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3240					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3241
3242	mminit_loglevel=
3243			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3244			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3245			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3246			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3247			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3248			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3249
3250	mmio_stale_data=
3251			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3252			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3253
3254			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3255			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3256			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3257			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3258			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3259			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3260
3261			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3262			options are:
3263
3264			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3265
3266			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3267				     vulnerable CPUs.
3268
3269			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3270
3271			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3272			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3273			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3274			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3275			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3276			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3277
3278			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3279			mmio_stale_data=full.
3280
3281			For details see:
3282			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3283
3284	module.async_probe=<bool>
3285			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3286			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3287			specific module, use the module specific control that
3288			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3289			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3290			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3291			the specific module.
3292
3293	module.sig_enforce
3294			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3295			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3296			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3297			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3298
3299	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3300			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3301
3302	mousedev.tap_time=
3303			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3304			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3305			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3306			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3307			Format: <msecs>
3308	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3309			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3310	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3311			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3312
3313	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3314			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3315			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3316			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3317			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3318			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3319			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3320			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3321			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3322			is not too small.
3323
3324	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3325			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3326			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3327			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3328			allocations. Use with caution!
3329
3330	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3331			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3332
3333	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3334			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3335
3336	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3337			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3338
3339	mtdset=		[ARM]
3340			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3341
3342			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3343
3344	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3345			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3346			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3347
3348	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3349			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3350			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3351
3352	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3353			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3354			Default is 1.
3355			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3356			using up MTRRs.
3357
3358	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3359			Format: <integer>
3360			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3361			Default : 1
3362			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3363			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3364
3365	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3366			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3367			at a time.
3368
3369	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3370
3371	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3372			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3373			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3374			something different and driver-specific.
3375			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3376			file if at all.
3377
3378	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3379			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3380			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3381			waits 4 seconds.
3382
3383	nf_conntrack.acct=
3384			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3385			0 to disable accounting
3386			1 to enable accounting
3387			Default value is 0.
3388
3389	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3390			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3391
3392	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3393			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3394
3395	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3396			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3397
3398	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3399			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3400			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3401			requests.
3402
3403	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3404			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3405			channel should listen.
3406
3407	nfs.cache_getent=
3408			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3409			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3410
3411	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3412			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3413			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3414
3415	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3416			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3417			entries.
3418
3419	nfs.enable_ino64=
3420			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3421			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3422			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3423			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3424			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3425
3426	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3427			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3428			slots the client will assign to the callback
3429			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3430			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3431			a particular server.
3432
3433	nfs.max_session_slots=
3434			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3435			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3436			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3437			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3438			Note that there is little point in setting this
3439			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3440
3441	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3442			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3443			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3444			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3445			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3446			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3447			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3448			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3449			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3450			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3451			back to using the idmapper.
3452			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3453	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3454			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3455			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3456			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3457			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3458
3459	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3460			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3461			information in exchange_id requests.
3462			If zero, no implementation identification information
3463			will be sent.
3464			The default is to send the implementation identification
3465			information.
3466
3467	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3468			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3469			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3470			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3471			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3472			after the locks are lost.
3473			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3474			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3475			parameter to '1'.
3476			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3477			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3478
3479	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3480			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3481			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3482
3483			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3484			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3485			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3486			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3487
3488	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3489			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3490			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3491			the destination of the copy.
3492
3493	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3494			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3495			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3496			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3497			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3498			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3499			this parameter.
3500
3501	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3502			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3503			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3504			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3505			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3506			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3507
3508
3509	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3510			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3511			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3512
3513	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3514			when a NMI is triggered.
3515			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3516
3517	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3518			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3519			Valid num: 0 or 1
3520			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3521			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3522			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3523			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3524			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3525			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3526			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3527			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3528			need the box quickly up again.
3529
3530			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3531			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3532
3533	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3534			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3535			is present.
3536
3537	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3538			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3539
3540	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3541
3542	no_console_suspend
3543			[HW] Never suspend the console
3544			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3545			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3546			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3547			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3548			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3549			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3550			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3551			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3552			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3553			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3554			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3555			turn on/off it dynamically.
3556
3557	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3558			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3559			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3560			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3561			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3562			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3563			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3564			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3565			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3566			is set.
3567
3568	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3569			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3570			but will impact performance.
3571
3572	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3573
3574	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3575			(CPU alternatives feature).
3576
3577	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3578			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3579
3580	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3581
3582	nocache		[ARM]
3583
3584	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3585
3586	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3587
3588	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3589
3590	noexec		[IA-64]
3591
3592	nosmap		[PPC]
3593			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3594			even if it is supported by processor.
3595
3596	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3597			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3598			even if it is supported by processor.
3599
3600	noexec32	[X86-64]
3601			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3602			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3603				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3604			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3605				read implies executable mappings
3606
3607	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3608
3609	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3610			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3611			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3612
3613	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3614
3615	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3616
3617	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3618			Equivalent to smt=1.
3619
3620			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3621			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3622				     via the sysfs control file.
3623
3624	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3625			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3626			possible in the system.
3627
3628	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3629			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3630			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3631			option.
3632
3633	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3634			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3635
3636	no_uaccess_flush
3637	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3638
3639	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3640			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3641			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3642
3643	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3644			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3645			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3646			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3647			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3648			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3649
3650	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3651			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3652			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3653			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3654			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3655			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3656			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3657
3658	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3659			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3660			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3661			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3662			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3663			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3664			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3665			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3666
3667	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3668			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3669			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3670
3671	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3672			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3673			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3674			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3675			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3676			real-time systems.
3677
3678	no_hash_pointers
3679			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3680			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3681			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3682			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3683			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3684			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3685			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3686			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3687			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3688			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3689			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3690			kernels.
3691
3692	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3693
3694	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3695			Valid arguments: on, off
3696			Default: on
3697
3698	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3699			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3700			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3701			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3702			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3703			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3704			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3705			just as if they had also been called out in the
3706			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3707
3708			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3709			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3710
3711	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3712
3713	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3714			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3715
3716	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3717			broken timer IRQ sources.
3718
3719	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3720
3721	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3722			initial RAM disk.
3723
3724	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3725			remapping.
3726			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3727
3728	nointroute	[IA-64]
3729
3730	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3731
3732	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3733
3734	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3735
3736	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3737			fault handling.
3738
3739	no-vmw-sched-clock
3740			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3741			clock and use the default one.
3742
3743	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3744			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3745			influence scheduler behaviour
3746
3747	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3748
3749	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3750
3751	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3752
3753	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3754
3755	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3756			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3757
3758	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3759			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3760			irq.
3761
3762	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3763			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3764			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3765			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3766
3767			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3768
3769	nomodule	Disable module load
3770
3771	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3772			pagetables) support.
3773
3774	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3775
3776	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3777			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3778
3779	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3780			with UP alternatives
3781
3782	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3783			space.
3784
3785	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3786			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3787			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3788
3789	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3790
3791	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3792
3793	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3794			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3795
3796	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3797
3798	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3799
3800	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3801			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3802
3803	nowb		[ARM]
3804
3805	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3806
3807	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3808			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3809			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3810			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3811			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3812			parameter's value.
3813			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3814			Default: 255
3815
3816	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3817			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3818			SAL PALO.
3819
3820	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3821			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3822			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3823			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3824			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3825			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3826			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3827			hot plugging.
3828
3829	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3830
3831	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3832			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3833
3834	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3835			NUMA balancing.
3836			Allowed values are enable and disable
3837
3838	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3839			'node', 'default' can be specified
3840			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3841			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3842
3843	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3844			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3845			info.
3846
3847	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3848			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3849			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3850			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3851			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3852			interrupts *may* be lost!
3853
3854	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3855			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3856			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3857			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3858
3859	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3860
3861			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3862
3863			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3864				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3865			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3866				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3867				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3868
3869	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3870			process, but there is a small probability of
3871			deadlocking the machine.
3872			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3873			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3874
3875	page_alloc.shuffle=
3876			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3877			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3878			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3879			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3880			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3881			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3882			can be read from sysfs at:
3883			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3884
3885	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3886			Storage of the information about who allocated
3887			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3888			we can turn it on.
3889			on: enable the feature
3890
3891	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3892			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3893			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3894			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3895			on: turn on poisoning
3896
3897	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3898			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3899			Format: <integer>
3900			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3901			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3902
3903	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3904			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3905			timeout = 0: wait forever
3906			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3907			Format: <timeout>
3908
3909	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3910			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3911			bit 0: print all tasks info
3912			bit 1: print system memory info
3913			bit 2: print timer info
3914			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3915			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3916			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3917			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3918			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3919			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3920			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3921			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3922
3923	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3924			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3925			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3926			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3927			called with any of the flags in this set.
3928			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3929			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3930			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3931			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3932			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3933			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3934			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3935
3936	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3937			on a WARN().
3938
3939	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3940			connected to, default is 0.
3941			Format: <parport#>
3942	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3943			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3944			Format: <mode>
3945
3946	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3947			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3948			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3949			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3950			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3951			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3952			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3953			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3954			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3955			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3956			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3957			are specified on the command line, starting
3958			with parport0.
3959
3960	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3961			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3962			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3963			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3964			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3965			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3966			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3967
3968	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3969			Format: <int>
3970			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3971			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3972			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3973
3974	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3975			Format: <int>
3976			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3977			changes.  Disabled by default.
3978
3979	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3980			Format: <int>
3981			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3982			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3983			Disabled by default.
3984
3985	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3986			Format: <int>
3987			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3988			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3989			Disabled by default.
3990
3991	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3992			Format: <int>
3993			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3994			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3995			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3996			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3997			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3998			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3999			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4000			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4001			all channels.
4002
4003	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4004			Format: <int>
4005			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4006			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4007			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4008
4009	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4010			Format: <int>
4011			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4012			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4013			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4014
4015	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4016			Format: <int>
4017			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4018			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4019			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4020			All modes allowed by default.
4021
4022	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4023			Format: <int>
4024			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4025			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4026
4027	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4028			Format: <int>
4029			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4030			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4031			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4032			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4033			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4034			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4035			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4036			By default all supported ports are probed.
4037
4038	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4039			Format: <int>
4040			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4041			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4042
4043	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4044			Format: <int>
4045			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4046			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4047			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4048			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4049			0 otherwise.
4050
4051	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4052			Format: <int>
4053			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4054			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4055			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4056			allowed by default.
4057
4058	pause_on_oops=
4059			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4060			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4061			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4062
4063	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4064
4065	pcd.		[PARIDE]
4066			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
4067			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4068
4069	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4070
4071				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4072				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4073				specified in one of the following formats:
4074
4075				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4076				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4077
4078				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4079				bus/device/function address which may change
4080				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4081				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4082				by other kernel parameters. If the
4083				domain is left unspecified, it is
4084				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4085				to a device through multiple device/function
4086				addresses can be specified after the base
4087				address (this is more robust against
4088				renumbering issues).  The second format
4089				selects devices using IDs from the
4090				configuration space which may match multiple
4091				devices in the system.
4092
4093		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4094				changes anything
4095		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4096		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4097				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4098				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4099		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4100				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4101				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4102				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4103		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4104				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4105				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4106		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4107				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4108				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4109				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4110				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4111				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4112				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4113		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4114				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4115				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4116		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4117				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4118		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4119				Configuration
4120		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4121				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4122				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4123		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4124				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4125				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4126		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4127				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4128				should never be necessary.
4129		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4130				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4131				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4132				when the system masks IRQs.
4133		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4134				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4135				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4136				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4137		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4138				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4139				on several machines and they hang the machine
4140				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4141				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4142				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4143				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4144				motherboard.
4145		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4146				Use with caution as certain devices share
4147				address decoders between ROMs and other
4148				resources.
4149		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4150				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4151				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4152		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4153				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4154		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4155				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4156				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4157				this way.
4158		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4159				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4160				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4161				F0000h-100000h range.
4162		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4163				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4164				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4165				explicitly which ones they are.
4166		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4167				numbers ourselves, overriding
4168				whatever the firmware may have done.
4169		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4170				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4171				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4172				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4173				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4174				IRQ routing is enabled.
4175		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4176				or for PCI scanning.
4177		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4178				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4179				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4180				please report a bug.
4181		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4182				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4183		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4184				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4185				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4186				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4187				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4188		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4189				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4190				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4191				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4192		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4193				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4194				so this option is a temporary workaround
4195				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4196		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4197				handle more pci cards
4198		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4199				This might help on some broken boards which
4200				machine check when some devices' config space
4201				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4202				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4203		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4204				This sorting is done to get a device
4205				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4206		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4207		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4208				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4209		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4210				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4211		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4212				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4213				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4214				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4215				or bus can support) for best performance.
4216		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4217				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4218				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4219				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4220				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4221				that hot-added devices will work.
4222		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4223				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4224				The default value is 256 bytes.
4225		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4226				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4227				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4228		resource_alignment=
4229				Format:
4230				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4231				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4232				aligned memory resources. How to
4233				specify the device is described above.
4234				If <order of align> is not specified,
4235				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4236				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4237				windows need to be expanded.
4238				To specify the alignment for several
4239				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4240				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4241				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4242				for 4096-byte alignment.
4243		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4244				end-to-end CRC checking).
4245				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4246				the default.
4247				off: Turn ECRC off
4248				on: Turn ECRC on.
4249		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4250				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4251				Default size is 256 bytes.
4252		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4253				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4254				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4255		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4256				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4257				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4258		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4259				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4260				MMIO_PREF window.
4261				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4262		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4263				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4264				Default is 1.
4265		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4266				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4267				accommodate resources required by all child
4268				devices.
4269				off: Turn realloc off
4270				on: Turn realloc on
4271		realloc		same as realloc=on
4272		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4273		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4274				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4275		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4276				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4277				port.
4278		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4279				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4280				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4281				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4282				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4283				taints the kernel.
4284		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4285				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4286				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4287				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4288				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4289				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4290				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4291				this removes isolation between devices and
4292				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4293		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4294		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4295		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4296				one PCI domain per PCI function
4297
4298	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4299			Management.
4300		off	Disable ASPM.
4301		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4302			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4303
4304	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4305		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4306			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4307			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4308			also tries to use these services.
4309		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4310				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4311		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4312			hotplug).
4313
4314	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4315		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4316		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4317
4318	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4319		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4320			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4321
4322	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4323
4324	pd_ignore_unused
4325			[PM]
4326			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4327			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4328			for debug and development, but should not be
4329			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4330
4331	pd.		[PARIDE]
4332			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4333
4334	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4335			boot time.
4336			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4337			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4338
4339	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4340			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4341			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4342			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4343			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4344			and performance comparison.
4345
4346	pf.		[PARIDE]
4347			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4348
4349	pg.		[PARIDE]
4350			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4351
4352	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4353			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4354
4355	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4356			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4357			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4358
4359	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4360			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4361			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4362
4363	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4364			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4365			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4366			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4367			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4368			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4369			remains 0.
4370
4371	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4372			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4373
4374	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4375			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4376			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4377			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4378			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4379			possible settings and some assignment information.
4380
4381	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4382			{ off }
4383
4384	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4385			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4386
4387	pnp_reserve_irq=
4388			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4389
4390	pnp_reserve_dma=
4391			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4392
4393	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4394			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4395
4396	pnp_reserve_mem=
4397			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4398			autoconfiguration.
4399			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4400
4401	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4402			Default is 21.
4403			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4404			may be specified.
4405			Format: <port>,<port>....
4406
4407	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4408			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4409			platform machine description specific power_save
4410			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4411			execution priority.
4412
4413	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4414			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4415			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4416			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4417			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4418
4419	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4420			Format: {"off"}
4421			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4422
4423	preempt=	[KNL]
4424			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4425			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4426			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4427			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4428			       can be preempted anytime.
4429
4430	print-fatal-signals=
4431			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4432
4433			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4434			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4435			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4436			coredump - etc.
4437
4438			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4439			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4440
4441			default: off.
4442
4443	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4444			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4445			panics
4446			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4447			default: disabled
4448
4449	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4450			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4451			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4452			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4453			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4454			in order to provide more debug information.
4455			Format: <bool>
4456			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4457
4458	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4459			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4460			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4461			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4462			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4463			Default: ratelimit
4464
4465	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4466			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4467
4468	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4469			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4470			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4471
4472	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4473			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4474			instead using the legacy FADT method
4475
4476	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4477			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4478			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4479				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4480			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4481			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4482				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4483			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4484			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4485				statistical time based profiling.
4486
4487	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4488
4489	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4490			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4491			that).
4492			Format: <bool>
4493
4494	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4495			tracking.
4496			Format: <bool>
4497
4498	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4499			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4500	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4501			per second.
4502	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4503			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4504			(0 = never).
4505	psmouse.resolution=
4506			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4507	psmouse.smartscroll=
4508			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4509			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4510
4511	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4512
4513	pt.		[PARIDE]
4514			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4515
4516	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4517			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4518			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4519			system calls and interrupts.
4520
4521			on   - unconditionally enable
4522			off  - unconditionally disable
4523			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4524			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4525
4526			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4527
4528	nopti		[X86-64]
4529			Equivalent to pti=off
4530
4531	pty.legacy_count=
4532			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4533			default number.
4534
4535	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4536
4537	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4538
4539	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4540			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4541
4542	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4543			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4544
4545	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4546
4547	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4548			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4549			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4550			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4551			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4552
4553	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4554			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4555			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4556			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4557			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4558
4559	randomize_kstack_offset=
4560			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4561			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4562			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4563			that depend on stack address determinism or
4564			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4565			available on architectures that have defined
4566			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4567			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4568			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4569
4570	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4571
4572		cec_disable	[X86]
4573				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4574				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4575
4576	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4577			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4578			as described above.
4579
4580			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4581			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4582			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4583			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4584			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4585			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4586			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4587			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4588			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4589			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4590			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4591			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4592
4593			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4594			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4595
4596			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4597			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4598			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4599			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4600
4601			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4602			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4603
4604	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4605			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4606			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4607			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4608			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4609			This improves the real-time response for the
4610			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4611			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4612			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4613			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4614
4615	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4616			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4617			process in one batch.
4618
4619	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4620			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4621			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4622			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4623
4624	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4625			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4626			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4627
4628	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4629			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4630			RCU grace-period initialization.
4631
4632	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4633			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4634			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4635			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4636			the rcu_node combining tree.
4637
4638	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4639			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4640			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4641			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4642			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4643
4644			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4645			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4646			to zero.
4647
4648	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4649			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4650			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4651			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4652			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4653
4654	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4655			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4656			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4657			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4658			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4659			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4660			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4661
4662	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4663			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4664			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4665			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4666			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4667			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4668			condition.
4669
4670	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4671			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4672			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4673			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4674
4675	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4676			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4677			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4678			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4679			and maximum value is HZ.
4680
4681	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4682			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4683			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4684			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4685
4686	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4687			Set required age in jiffies for a
4688			given grace period before RCU starts
4689			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4690			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4691			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4692			a value based on the most recent settings
4693			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4694			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4695			This calculated value may be viewed in
4696			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4697			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4698			overwritten.
4699
4700	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4701			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4702			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4703			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4704			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4705			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4706			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4707			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4708			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4709			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4710			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4711			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4712
4713	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4714			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4715			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4716			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4717			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4718			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4719			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4720			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4721
4722			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4723			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4724			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4725			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4726			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4727
4728	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4729			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4730			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4731			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4732			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4733			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4734			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4735			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4736			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4737			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4738			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4739			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4740
4741	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4742			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4743			each group, which defaults to the square root
4744			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4745			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4746			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4747			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4748
4749	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4750			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4751			batch limiting is disabled.
4752
4753	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4754			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4755			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4756
4757	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4758			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4759			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4760			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4761			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4762			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4763			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4764			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4765
4766	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4767			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4768			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4769			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4770			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4771			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4772
4773	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4774			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4775			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4776			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4777			Larger delays increase the probability of
4778			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4779			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4780			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4781
4782	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4783			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4784			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4785			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4786
4787	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4788			Measure performance of asynchronous
4789			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4790
4791	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4792			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4793			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4794			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4795			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4796			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4797
4798	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4799			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4800			grace-period primitives.
4801
4802	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4803			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4804			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4805			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4806			interference.
4807
4808	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4809			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4810
4811	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4812			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4813			If this parameter has the same value as
4814			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4815			and double-argument variants are tested.
4816
4817	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4818			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4819			If this parameter has the same value as
4820			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4821			and double-argument variants are tested.
4822
4823	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4824			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4825
4826	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4827			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4828
4829	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4830			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4831			of allocations and frees.
4832
4833	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4834			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4835			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4836			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4837			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4838			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4839			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4840			a single reader.
4841
4842	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4843			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4844			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4845			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4846
4847	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4848			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4849
4850	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4851			Shut the system down after performance tests
4852			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4853			testing.
4854
4855	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4856			Enable additional printk() statements.
4857
4858	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4859			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4860			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4861			no holdoff.
4862
4863	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4864			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4865			in microseconds.
4866
4867	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4868			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4869			in microseconds.
4870
4871	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4872			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4873			in seconds.
4874
4875	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4876			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4877			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4878			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4879			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4880			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4881			of CPUs to be used.
4882
4883	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4884			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4885			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4886
4887	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4888			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4889			forward-progress tests.
4890
4891	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4892			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4893			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4894			testing.
4895
4896	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4897			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4898			primitives, if available.
4899
4900	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4901			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4902
4903	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4904			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4905			update-side primitives, if available.
4906
4907	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4908			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4909			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4910			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4911			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4912			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4913			they are all non-zero.
4914
4915	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4916			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4917			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4918			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4919
4920	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4921			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4922			This can of course result in splats, and is
4923			intended to test the ability of things like
4924			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4925			such leaks.
4926
4927	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4928			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4929
4930	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4931			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4932			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4933			test, hence the "fake".
4934
4935	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4936			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4937			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4938
4939	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4940			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4941			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4942
4943	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4944			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4945			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4946			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4947			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4948			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4949
4950	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4951			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4952
4953	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4954			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4955
4956	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4957			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4958			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4959
4960	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4961			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4962			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4963			task-exit processing.
4964
4965	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4966			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4967			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4968			is spawned.
4969
4970	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4971			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4972			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4973
4974	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4975			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4976			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4977			during the rcutorture test.
4978
4979	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4980			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4981			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4982
4983	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4984			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4985			warnings, zero to disable.
4986
4987	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4988			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4989			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4990			to any other stall-related activity.
4991
4992	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4993			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4994
4995	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4996			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4997
4998	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4999			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5000			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5001			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5002			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5003			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5004
5005	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5006			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5007
5008	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5009			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5010			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5011			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5012			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5013
5014	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5015			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5016			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5017			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5018
5019	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5020			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5021
5022	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5023			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5024
5025	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5026			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5027			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5028
5029	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5030			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5031
5032	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5033			Enable additional printk() statements.
5034
5035	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5036			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5037			stall warning.
5038
5039	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5040			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5041
5042	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5043			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5044			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5045			during early boot, that is, during the time
5046			before the init task is spawned.
5047
5048	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5049			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5050			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5051			value is 300 seconds.
5052
5053	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5054			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5055			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5056			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5057			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5058			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5059			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5060			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5061			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5062
5063	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5064			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5065			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5066			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5067			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5068			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5069			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5070
5071	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5072			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5073			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5074			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5075			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5076			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5077			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5078			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5079			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5080
5081	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5082			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5083			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5084			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5085			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5086
5087			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5088			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5089			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5090			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5091			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5092			grace-period processing.
5093
5094	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5095			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5096			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5097			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5098			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5099			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5100			set to the default value of -1.
5101
5102	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5103			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5104			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5105			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5106			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5107			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5108			the default value of -1.
5109
5110	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5111			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5112			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5113			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5114			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5115			for use in testing.
5116
5117	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5118			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5119			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5120			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5121			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5122			but lengthens grace periods.
5123
5124	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5125			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5126			informational messages, which give some indication
5127			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5128			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5129			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5130			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5131			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5132			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5133			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5134
5135	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5136			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5137			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5138			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5139			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5140			the value three, so that the first informational
5141			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5142			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5143			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5144			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5145
5146	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5147			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5148			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5149			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5150			A change in value does not take effect until
5151			the beginning of the next grace period.
5152
5153	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5154			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5155
5156	rdinit=		[KNL]
5157			Format: <full_path>
5158			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5159			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5160
5161	rdrand=		[X86]
5162			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5163				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5164				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5165				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5166				path).
5167
5168	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5169			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5170			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5171			mba.
5172			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5173				rdt=cmt,!mba
5174
5175	reboot=		[KNL]
5176			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5177				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5178				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5179				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5180				[[,]f[orce]
5181			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5182					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5183					reboot only),
5184			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5185			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5186			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5187					to be used for rebooting.
5188
5189	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5190			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5191			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5192			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5193			interference.
5194
5195	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5196			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5197			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5198			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5199			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5200			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5201			x86 laptops.
5202
5203	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5204			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5205			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5206			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5207
5208	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5209			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5210			the console log.
5211
5212	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5213			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5214			measured in microseconds.
5215
5216	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5217			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5218
5219	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5220			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5221			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5222			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5223			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5224
5225	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5226			Enable additional printk() statements.
5227
5228	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5229			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5230			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5231			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5232			specified.
5233
5234	relax_domain_level=
5235			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5236			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5237
5238	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5239			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5240			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5241			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5242			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5243
5244	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5245			Format: nn[KMG]
5246			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5247			address space.
5248
5249	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5250			during initialization.
5251
5252	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5253			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5254			Format:
5255			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5256
5257	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5258			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5259			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5260			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5261			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5262
5263	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5264			read the resume files
5265
5266	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5267			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5268			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5269
5270	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5271
5272	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5273			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5274			vulnerability.
5275
5276			off          - no mitigation
5277			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5278			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5279				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5280				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5281				       and older without STIBP).
5282			ibpb	     - mitigate short speculation windows on
5283				       basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest
5284				       perf impact.
5285			unret        - force enable untrained return thunks,
5286				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h
5287				       based systems.
5288			unret,nosmt  - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP
5289			               is not available.
5290
5291			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5292			time according to the CPU.
5293
5294			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5295
5296	rfkill.default_state=
5297		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5298			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5299		1	Unblocked.
5300
5301	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5302		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5303		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5304			blocked and the previous configuration.
5305		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5306			blocked and everything unblocked.
5307
5308	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5309			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5310
5311	ring3mwait=disable
5312			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5313			CPUs.
5314
5315	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5316
5317	rodata=		[KNL]
5318		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5319		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5320
5321	rockchip.usb_uart
5322			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5323			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5324			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5325			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5326
5327	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5328			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5329
5330	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5331			mount the root filesystem
5332
5333	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5334
5335	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5336
5337	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5338			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5339			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5340
5341	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5342			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5343			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5344			managed by CMA.
5345
5346	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5347
5348	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5349
5350	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5351			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5352		strict
5353			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5354			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5355			which is faster.
5356
5357	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5358			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5359			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5360			factor of the size of main memory.
5361			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5362			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5363			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5364			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5365			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5366			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5367			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5368
5369	sa1100ir	[NET]
5370			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5371
5372	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5373
5374	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5375			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5376			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5377			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5378
5379	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5380			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5381			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5382			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5383			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5384			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5385			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5386			value.
5387			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5388			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5389				1			64 ms
5390				2			128 ms
5391			and so on.
5392			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5393			Default is 0.
5394
5395	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5396			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5397			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5398			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5399			tests.
5400
5401	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5402			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5403			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5404			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5405			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5406			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5407			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5408
5409	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5410			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5411			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5412			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5413			equal to the number of CPUs.
5414
5415	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5416			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5417			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5418
5419	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5420			Number seconds to wait between successive
5421			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5422			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5423
5424	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5425			The number of seconds following the start of the
5426			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5427			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5428			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5429
5430	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5431			The number of seconds between outputting the
5432			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5433			of zero disables statistics output.
5434
5435	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5436			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5437			to the set of CPUs under test.
5438
5439	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5440			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5441			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5442			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5443			functions.
5444
5445	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5446			Enable additional printk() statements.
5447
5448	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5449			The probability weighting to use for the
5450			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5451			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5452			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5453			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5454			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5455
5456	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5457			The probability weighting to use for the
5458			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5459			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5460
5461	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5462			The probability weighting to use for the
5463			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5464			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5465			Note well that setting a high probability for
5466			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5467			on the system.
5468
5469	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5470			The probability weighting to use for the
5471			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5472			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5473			and weight_many.
5474
5475	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5476			The probability weighting to use for the
5477			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5478			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5479			weight_many.
5480
5481	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5482			The probability weighting to use for the
5483			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5484			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5485			and weight_many.
5486
5487	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5488			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5489			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5490			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5491			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5492			1 -- enable.
5493			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5494			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5495
5496	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5497			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5498			"lsm=" parameter.
5499
5500	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5501			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5502			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5503			0 -- disable.
5504			1 -- enable.
5505			Default value is 1.
5506
5507	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5508			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5509			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5510			0 -- disable.
5511			1 -- enable.
5512			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5513
5514	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5515
5516	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5517
5518	shapers=	[NET]
5519			Maximal number of shapers.
5520
5521	simeth=		[IA-64]
5522	simscsi=
5523
5524	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5525
5526	slab_merge	[MM]
5527			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5528			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5529
5530	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5531			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5532			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5533			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5534			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5535			layout control by attackers can usually be
5536			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5537			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5538			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5539			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5540			own.
5541			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5542
5543	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5544			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5545			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5546			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5547			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5548
5549	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5550			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5551			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5552			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5553			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5554			last alloc / free. For more information see
5555			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5556
5557	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5558			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5559			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5560			fragmentation. For more information see
5561			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5562
5563	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5564			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5565			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5566			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5567			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5568			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5569			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5570			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5571
5572	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5573			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5574			lower than slub_max_order.
5575			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5576
5577	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5578			Same with slab_merge.
5579
5580	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5581			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5582			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5583
5584	smart2=		[HW]
5585			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5586
5587	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5588			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5589			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5590			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5591			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5592			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5593			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5594			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5595			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5596			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5597
5598	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5599	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5600	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5601	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5602	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5603	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5604	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5605				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5606				1: Fast pin select (default)
5607				2: ATC IRMode
5608
5609	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5610			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5611			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5612			actual hardware limit.
5613			Format: <integer>
5614			Default: -1 (no limit)
5615
5616	softlockup_panic=
5617			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5618			Format: 0 | 1
5619
5620			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5621			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5622			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5623			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5624			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5625
5626	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5627			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5628			backtraces on all cpus.
5629			Format: 0 | 1
5630
5631	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5632			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5633
5634	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5635			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5636			The default operation protects the kernel from
5637			user space attacks.
5638
5639			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5640			       spectre_v2_user=on
5641			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5642			       spectre_v2_user=off
5643			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5644			       vulnerable
5645
5646			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5647			mitigation method at run time according to the
5648			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5649			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5650			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5651
5652			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5653			against user space to user space task attacks.
5654
5655			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5656			the user space protections.
5657
5658			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5659
5660			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5661			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5662			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5663			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5664			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5665			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5666			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5667			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5668
5669			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5670			spectre_v2=auto.
5671
5672	spectre_v2_user=
5673			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5674		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5675		        user space tasks
5676
5677			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5678				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5679
5680			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5681				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5682
5683			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5684				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5685				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5686				  is inherited on fork.
5687
5688			prctl,ibpb
5689				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5690				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5691				  always when switching between different user
5692				  space processes.
5693
5694			seccomp
5695				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5696				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5697				  they explicitly opt out.
5698
5699			seccomp,ibpb
5700				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5701				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5702				  always when switching between different
5703				  user space processes.
5704
5705			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5706				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5707
5708			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5709
5710			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5711			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5712
5713	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5714			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5715			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5716
5717			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5718			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5719			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5720			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5721			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5722			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5723			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5724			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5725
5726			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5727			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5728			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5729			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5730
5731			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5732			Bypass optimization is used.
5733
5734			On x86 the options are:
5735
5736			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5737			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5738			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5739				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5740				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5741				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5742				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5743				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5744			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5745				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5746				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5747				  is inherited on fork.
5748			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5749				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5750
5751			Default mitigations:
5752			X86:	"prctl"
5753
5754			On powerpc the options are:
5755
5756			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5757				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5758				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5759				  exit.
5760			off	- No action.
5761
5762			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5763			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5764
5765	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5766	spia_fio_base=
5767	spia_pedr=
5768	spia_peddr=
5769
5770	split_lock_detect=
5771			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5772
5773			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5774			instructions that access data across cache line
5775			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5776			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5777			bus lock detection.
5778
5779			off	- not enabled
5780
5781			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5782				  about applications triggering the #AC
5783				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5784				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5785				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5786				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5787				  enabled in hardware.
5788
5789			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5790				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5791				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5792				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5793
5794			ratelimit:N -
5795				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5796				  per second for bus lock detection.
5797				  0 < N <= 1000.
5798
5799				  N/A for split lock detection.
5800
5801
5802			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5803			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5804			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5805			mode.
5806
5807			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5808			CPL > 0.
5809
5810	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5811			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5812			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5813
5814			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5815			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5816			number generator.
5817
5818			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5819			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5820			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5821			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5822			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5823
5824			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5825			the following option:
5826
5827			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5828				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5829
5830	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5831			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5832			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5833			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5834			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5835			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5836			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5837			(decide at boot).
5838
5839	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5840			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5841			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5842			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5843
5844				   0:  Never.
5845				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5846				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5847				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5848				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5849
5850			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5851			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5852			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5853
5854	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5855			Specifies how frequently to check for
5856			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5857			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5858			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5859			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5860			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5861			are ignored.
5862
5863	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5864			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5865			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5866			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5867			grace period will be considered for automatic
5868			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5869			expediting.
5870
5871	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5872			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5873			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5874			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5875			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5876			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5877
5878	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5879			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5880			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5881			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5882			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5883			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5884
5885	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5886			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5887			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5888
5889	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5890			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5891			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5892			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5893			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5894			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5895			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5896
5897	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5898			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5899
5900			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5901			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5902			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5903			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5904
5905			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5906				   for both kernel and userspace
5907			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5908				   for both kernel and userspace
5909			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5910				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5911				   to allow userspace to register its
5912				   interest in being mitigated too.
5913
5914	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5915			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5916			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5917			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5918			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5919			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5920
5921	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5922			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5923			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5924			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5925			to false.
5926
5927	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5928			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5929
5930	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5931			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5932			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5933			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5934			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5935			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5936			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5937
5938	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5939			Format: <num>
5940			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5941			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5942			as the initial boot-console.
5943			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5944
5945	sti_font=	[HW]
5946			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5947
5948	stifb=		[HW]
5949			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5950
5951        strict_sas_size=
5952			[X86]
5953			Format: <bool>
5954			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5955			against the required signal frame size which
5956			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5957			be used to filter out binaries which have
5958			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5959
5960	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5961	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5962			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5963			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5964			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5965			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5966			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5967			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5968			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5969			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5970			maximum port values.
5971
5972	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5973			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5974			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5975			process in parallel from a single connection.
5976			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5977
5978	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5979			[NFS]
5980			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5981			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5982			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5983			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5984			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5985			NFS server is running.
5986
5987			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5988				    automatically using heuristics
5989			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5990			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5991			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5992				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5993
5994	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5995	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5996			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5997			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5998			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5999			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6000			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6001			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6002
6003	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6004			[SUSPEND]
6005			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6006			mode before resuming the system (see
6007			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6008			is set. Default value is 5.
6009
6010	svm=		[PPC]
6011			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6012			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6013			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6014
6015	swapaccount=	[KNL]
6016			Format: [0|1]
6017			Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
6018			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
6019			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
6020
6021	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6022			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6023			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6024			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6025				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6026				 to a power of 2.
6027			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6028			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6029			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6030
6031	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6032
6033	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6034			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6035			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6036			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6037			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6038			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6039			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6040			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6041
6042	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6043			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6044			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6045			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6046			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6047			in older udev will not work anymore.
6048			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6049			the kernel configuration.
6050
6051	sysrq_always_enabled
6052			[KNL]
6053			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6054			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6055			Useful for debugging.
6056
6057	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6058			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6059			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6060			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6061			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6062			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6063
6064	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6065
6066	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6067			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6068			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6069			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6070			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6071			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6072			The system is woken from this state using a
6073			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6074
6075	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6076			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6077
6078	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6079			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6080			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6081
6082	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6083			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6084			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6085
6086	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6087			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6088			critical and hot trip points.
6089
6090	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6091			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6092
6093	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6094			-1: disable all passive trip points
6095			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6096			value
6097
6098	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6099			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6100			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6101			0: no polling (default)
6102
6103	threadirqs	[KNL]
6104			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6105			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6106
6107	topology=	[S390]
6108			Format: {off | on}
6109			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6110			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6111			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6112			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6113			Default is on.
6114
6115	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6116			Format: {off}
6117			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6118			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6119			LPAR.
6120
6121	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6122			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6123			until after init has spawned.
6124
6125	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6126			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6127			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6128			very costly operation when many torture tests
6129			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6130			with rotating-rust storage.
6131
6132	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6133			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6134			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6135			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6136
6137	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6138			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6139
6140	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6141
6142	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6143			Format: integer pcr id
6144			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6145			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6146			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6147			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6148			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6149			are saved.
6150
6151	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6152			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6153			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6154			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6155			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6156			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6157
6158			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6159			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6160			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6161			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6162
6163			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6164			to stop the printing of events to console at
6165			late_initcall_sync.
6166
6167			** CAUTION **
6168
6169			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6170			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6171			the system to live lock.
6172
6173	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6174			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6175			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6176			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6177			make the system inoperable.
6178
6179			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6180			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6181
6182	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6183			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6184
6185	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6186			at boot up.
6187			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6188				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6189				depending on the architecture, may not be
6190				in sync between CPUs.
6191			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6192				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6193				but better for some race conditions.
6194			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6195				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6196				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6197				once per event.
6198			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6199			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6200			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6201			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6202				stamps.
6203			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6204			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6205			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6206
6207	trace_event=[event-list]
6208			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6209			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6210			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6211			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6212
6213	trace_options=[option-list]
6214			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6215			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6216			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6217			to echo the option name into
6218
6219			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
6220
6221			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6222			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6223
6224			      trace_options=stacktrace
6225
6226			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6227			section.
6228
6229	traceoff_on_warning
6230			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6231			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6232			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6233			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
6234
6235			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6236			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6237			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6238
6239			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6240			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6241
6242	transparent_hugepage=
6243			[KNL]
6244			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6245			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6246			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6247			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6248			for more details.
6249
6250	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6251			Format: <string>
6252			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6253			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6254			sources:
6255			- "tpm"
6256			- "tee"
6257			- "caam"
6258			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6259			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6260			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6261			successfully during iteration.
6262
6263	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6264			Format: <string>
6265			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6266			Can be one of:
6267			- "kernel"
6268			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6269			- "default"
6270			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6271			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6272
6273	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6274			Format: <string>
6275			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6276			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6277			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6278			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6279			virtualized environment.
6280			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6281			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6282			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6283			can add overhead.
6284			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6285			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6286			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6287			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6288			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6289			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6290			acceptable).
6291
6292	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6293			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6294			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6295			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6296			Format: <unsigned int>
6297
6298	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6299			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6300			support TSX control.
6301
6302			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6303
6304			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6305				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6306				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6307				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6308				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6309				with leaving it enabled.
6310
6311			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6312				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6313				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6314				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6315				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6316				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6317				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6318
6319			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6320				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6321
6322			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6323
6324			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6325			for more details.
6326
6327	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6328			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6329
6330			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6331			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6332			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6333			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6334			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6335			conditions.
6336
6337			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6338			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6339			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6340			access.
6341
6342			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6343			options are:
6344
6345			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6346				     if TSX is enabled.
6347
6348			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6349				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6350				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6351				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6352			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6353
6354			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6355			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6356			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6357			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6358
6359			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6360			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6361			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6362			required and doesn't provide any additional
6363			mitigation.
6364
6365			For details see:
6366			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6367
6368	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6369			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6370			Format:
6371			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6372			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6373
6374	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6375			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6376			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6377			help "seeing" what's going on.
6378
6379	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6380			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6381
6382	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6383			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6384			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6385			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6386			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6387			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6388			reported either.
6389
6390	unknown_nmi_panic
6391			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6392
6393	usbcore.authorized_default=
6394			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6395			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6396			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6397			if device connected to internal port)
6398
6399	usbcore.autosuspend=
6400			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6401			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6402			is the time required before an idle device will be
6403			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6404			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6405
6406	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6407			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6408
6409	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6410			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6411			(default = 65536).
6412
6413	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6414			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6415
6416	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6417			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6418			scheme (default 0 = off).
6419
6420	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6421			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6422			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6423
6424	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6425			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6426			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6427
6428	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6429			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6430			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6431			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6432
6433	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6434
6435	usbcore.quirks=
6436			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6437			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6438			commas. Each entry has the form
6439			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6440			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6441			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6442			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6443			the following meanings:
6444				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6445					descriptors must not be fetched using
6446					a 255-byte read);
6447				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6448					correctly so reset it instead);
6449				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6450					Set-Interface requests);
6451				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6452					handle its Configuration or Interface
6453					strings);
6454				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6455					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6456				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6457					more interface descriptions than the
6458					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6459					talking to these interfaces);
6460				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6461					during initialization, after we read
6462					the device descriptor);
6463				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6464					high speed and super speed interrupt
6465					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6466					require the interval in microframes (1
6467					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6468					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6469					(bInterval-1).
6470					Devices with this quirk report their
6471					bInterval as the result of this
6472					calculation instead of the exponent
6473					variable used in the calculation);
6474				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6475					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6476					requests);
6477				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6478					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6479					remote wakeup capability);
6480				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6481					Power Management);
6482				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6483					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6484					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6485					calculation);
6486				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6487					to be disconnected before suspend to
6488					prevent spurious wakeup);
6489				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6490					pause after every control message);
6491				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6492					delay after resetting its port);
6493			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6494
6495	usbhid.mousepoll=
6496			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6497
6498	usbhid.jspoll=
6499			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6500
6501	usbhid.kbpoll=
6502			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6503
6504	usb-storage.delay_use=
6505			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6506			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6507
6508	usb-storage.quirks=
6509			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6510			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6511			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6512			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6513			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6514			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6515			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6516				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6517					of sense data, not on uas);
6518				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6519					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6520				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6521					device capacity by one sector);
6522				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6523					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6524				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6525					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6526				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6527					command, uas only);
6528				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6529					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6530				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6531					reported device capacity by one
6532					sector if the number is odd);
6533				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6534					device);
6535				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6536					command, uas only);
6537				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6538				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6539					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6540				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6541					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6542					not on uas);
6543				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6544					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6545				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6546					reported by the device, not on uas);
6547				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6548					by default, not on uas);
6549				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6550					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6551				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6552					Logical Unit);
6553				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6554					commands, uas only);
6555				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6556				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6557					medium is write-protected).
6558				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6559					even if the device claims no cache,
6560					not on uas)
6561			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6562
6563	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6564			Format: <int>
6565			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6566				 1 - undefined instruction events
6567				 2 - system calls
6568				 4 - invalid data aborts
6569				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6570				16 - SIGBUS faults
6571			Example: user_debug=31
6572
6573	userpte=
6574			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6575
6576				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6577					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6578					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6579
6580	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6581			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6582
6583			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6584			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6585
6586	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6587			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6588			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6589
6590			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6591			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6592			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6593
6594			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6595			alias for vdso32=0.
6596
6597			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6598			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6599
6600	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6601			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6602
6603	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6604			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6605
6606	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6607			Format: [0|1]
6608			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6609			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6610			level and then send out the event to user space through
6611			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6612			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6613			brightness level.
6614			default: 1
6615
6616	virtio_mmio.device=
6617			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6618
6619				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6620			where:
6621				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6622						like K, M and G)
6623				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6624				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6625						request_irq())
6626				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6627			example:
6628				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6629
6630			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6631
6632	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6633			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6634			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6635			Use vga=ask for menu.
6636			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6637			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6638
6639	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6640			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6641			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6642			All options are enabled by default, and this
6643			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6644			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6645			debugging features.
6646
6647			Available options are:
6648			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6649			  -	Disable all of the above options
6650
6651	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6652			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6653			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6654			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6655			mapped kernel RAM.
6656
6657	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6658			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6659			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6660
6661	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6662			Format: <command>
6663
6664	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6665			Format: <command>
6666
6667	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6668			Format: <command>
6669
6670	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6671			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6672			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6673			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6674			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6675			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6676			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6677
6678			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6679			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6680				    page is readable.
6681
6682			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6683			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6684				    page is not readable.
6685
6686			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6687			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6688			            might break your system.
6689
6690	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6691			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6692			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6693
6694	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6695			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6696			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6697			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6698
6699	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6700			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6701			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6702			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6703			ranging from 0-255.
6704
6705	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6706			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6707			Change the default green palette of the console.
6708			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6709			ranging from 0-255.
6710
6711	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6712			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6713			Change the default red palette of the console.
6714			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6715			ranging from 0-255.
6716
6717	vt.default_utf8=
6718			[VT]
6719			Format=<0|1>
6720			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6721			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6722			newly opened terminals.
6723
6724	vt.global_cursor_default=
6725			[VT]
6726			Format=<-1|0|1>
6727			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6728			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6729			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6730			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6731			cursors, 1 will display them.
6732
6733	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6734			Default: 2 = green.
6735
6736	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6737			Default: 3 = cyan.
6738
6739	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6740			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6741			or other driver-specific files in the
6742			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6743
6744	watchdog_thresh=
6745			[KNL]
6746			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6747			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6748			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6749			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6750			seconds.
6751
6752	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6753			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6754			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6755			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6756			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6757			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6758			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6759			corresponding sysfs file.
6760
6761	workqueue.disable_numa
6762			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6763			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6764			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6765			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6766			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6767			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6768			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6769
6770	workqueue.power_efficient
6771			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6772			they show better performance thanks to cache
6773			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6774			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6775
6776			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6777			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6778			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6779			power usage at the cost of small performance
6780			overhead.
6781
6782			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6783			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6784
6785	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6786			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6787			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6788			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6789			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6790			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6791			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6792			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6793			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6794			impacted.
6795
6796	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6797			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6798			supporting x2apic.
6799
6800	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6801			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6802			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6803			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6804			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6805			domains.
6806
6807	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6808			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6809			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6810			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6811			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6812			nics -- unplug network devices
6813			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6814			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6815				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6816				the unplug protocol
6817			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6818
6819	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6820			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6821			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6822
6823	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6824			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6825			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6826			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6827
6828	xen_nopv	[X86]
6829			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6830			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6831			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6832			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6833
6834	xen_no_vector_callback
6835			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6836			event channel interrupts.
6837
6838	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6839			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6840			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6841			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6842			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6843
6844	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6845			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6846			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6847			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6848			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6849			more timer interrupts.
6850
6851	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6852			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6853			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6854			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6855			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6856			max. Default is 180.
6857
6858	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6859			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6860			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6861
6862	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6863			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6864			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6865
6866	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6867			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6868			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6869			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6870			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6871			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6872
6873	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6874			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6875			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6876			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6877
6878	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6879			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6880			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6881			contention.
6882
6883	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6884			Format:
6885			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6886
6887	xive=		[PPC]
6888			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6889			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6890			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6891
6892			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6893				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6894				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6895
6896	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6897			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6898			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6899			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6900			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6901
6902	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6903			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6904			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6905			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6906
6907	xmon		[PPC]
6908			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6909			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6910			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6911			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6912				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6913			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6914				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6915				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6916				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6917			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6918				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6919				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6920				can be written using xmon commands.
6921			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6922				memory, and other data can't be written using
6923				xmon commands.
6924			off	xmon is disabled.
6925