1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity while booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bert_disable	[ACPI]
441			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
442
443	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
444	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
445			kernel args too.
446	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
447	bttv.tuner=
448
449	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
450			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
451			at a time.
452
453	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
454
455	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
456			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
457			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
458			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
459			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
460			This option provides an override for these situations.
461
462	carrier_timeout=
463			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
464			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
465			it waits 120 seconds.
466
467	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
468			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
469			trust validation.
470			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
471
472	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
473			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
474			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
475			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
476			others).
477
478	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
479			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
480
481	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
482			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
483			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
484			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
485			  a single hierarchy
486			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
487			  subsystem
488			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
489			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
490			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
491
492	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
493			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
494			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
495			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
496			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
497			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
498			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
499			all v1 hierarchies.
500
501	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
502			Format: <string>
503			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
504			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
505
506	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
507			Format: { "0" | "1" }
508			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
509			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
510				any implied execute protection).
511			1 -- check protection requested by application.
512			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
513			Value can be changed at runtime via
514				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
515
516	cio_ignore=	[S390]
517			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
518	clk_ignore_unused
519			[CLK]
520			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
521			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
522			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
523			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
524			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
525			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
526			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
527			platform with proper driver support.  For more
528			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
529
530	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
531			[Deprecated]
532			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
533			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
534			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
535			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
536
537	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
538			Format: <string>
539			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
540			with the name specified.
541			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
542			the platform:
543			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
544			[ACPI] acpi_pm
545			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
546				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
547			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
548				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
549			[MIPS] MIPS
550			[PARISC] cr16
551			[S390] tod
552			[SH] SuperH
553			[SPARC64] tick
554			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
555
556	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
557			[ARM,ARM64]
558			Format: <bool>
559			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
560			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
561			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
562			systems.
563
564	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
565			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
566			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
567			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
568			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
569			ones should be.
570			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
571			or using the feature without checking anything
572			will still see it. This just prevents it from
573			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
574			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
575			some critical bits.
576
577	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
578			[ARM,X86,KNL]
579			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
580			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
581			placement constraint by the physical address range of
582			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
583			altogether. For more information, see
584			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
585
586	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
587			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
588			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
589			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
590			a hypervisor.
591			Default: yes
592
593	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
594			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
595			allocations, by default set to 256K.
596
597	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
598			Format:
599			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
600
601	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
602			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
603
604	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
605			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
606			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
607
608	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
609	conmode=
610
611	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
612
613		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
614
615		ttyS<n>[,options]
616		ttyUSB0[,options]
617			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
618			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
619			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
620			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
621			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
622
623			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
624			information.  See
625			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
626			alternative.
627
628		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
629		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
630		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
631		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
632		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
633			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
634			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
635			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
636			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
637			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
638			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
639			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
640			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
641			the h/w is not re-initialized.
642
643		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
644			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
645
646		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
647		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
648			console=brl,ttyS0
649		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
650
651	console_msg_format=
652			[KNL] Change console messages format
653		default
654			By default we print messages on consoles in
655			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
656			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
657			`printk_time' param).
658		syslog
659			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
660			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
661			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
662			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
663			from /proc/kmsg.
664
665	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
666			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
667			Defaults to 0.
668
669	coredump_filter=
670			[KNL] Change the default value for
671			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
672			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
673
674	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
675			[ARM,ARM64]
676			Format: <bool>
677			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
678			0: default value, disable debugging
679			1: enable debugging at boot time
680
681	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
682			disable the cpuidle sub-system
683
684	cpuidle.governor=
685			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
686
687	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
688			disable the cpufreq sub-system
689
690	cpu_init_udelay=N
691			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
692			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
693			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
694			Default: 10000
695
696	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
697			Format:
698			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
699
700	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
701			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
702			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
703			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
704			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
705			is selected automatically.
706			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
707			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
708			hasn't been specified.
709			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
710
711	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
712			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
713			in the running system. The syntax of range is
714			start-[end] where start and end are both
715			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
716			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
717
718	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
719			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
720			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
721			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
722			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
723			available.
724			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
725	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
726			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
727			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
728			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
729			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
730			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
731			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
732			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
733			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
734			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
735			for second kernel instead.
736			0: to disable low allocation.
737			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
738			or memory reserved is below 4G.
739
740	cryptomgr.notests
741			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
742
743	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
744			Format: <dma>
745
746	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
747			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
748
749	dasd=		[HW,NET]
750			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
751
752	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
753			(one device per port)
754			Format: <port#>,<type>
755			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
756
757	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
758			time. See
759			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
760			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
761
762	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
763
764	debug_boot_weak_hash
765			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
766			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
767			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
768			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
769			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
770			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
771
772	debug_locks_verbose=
773			[KNL] verbose self-tests
774			Format=<0|1>
775			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
776			self-tests.
777			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
778			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
779			only useful to kernel developers.
780
781	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
782
783	no_debug_objects
784			[KNL] Disable object debugging
785
786	debug_guardpage_minorder=
787			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
788			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
789			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
790			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
791			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
792			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
793			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
794			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
795			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
796			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
797			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
798			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
799			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
800			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
801			bypassed) which are not detectable by
802			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
803			tracking down these problems.
804
805	debug_pagealloc=
806			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
807			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
808			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
809			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
810			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
811			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
812			on: enable the feature
813
814	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
816	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
817			Format: <area>[,<node>]
818			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
820	default_hugepagesz=
821			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826			if not specified.
827
828	deferred_probe_timeout=
829			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835			retrying.
836
837	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
838			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
839			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
840			          level 1 and decompression (default)
841			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
842			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
843			          only (compression on level 1)
844			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
845			          only (decompression)
846			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
847			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
848
849	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
850			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
851
852	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
853			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
854			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
855			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
856			miss to occur.
857
858	disable=	[IPV6]
859			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
860
861	hardened_usercopy=
862                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
863                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
864                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
865                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
866                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
867                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
868                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
869                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
870                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
871
872	disable_radix	[PPC]
873			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
874
875	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
876			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
877			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
878
879	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
880			Format: <int>
881			The number of initial APIC ID for the
882			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
883			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
884			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
885			causing system reset or hang due to sending
886			INIT from AP to BSP.
887
888	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
889			Format: <bool>
890			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
891			The feature only exists starting from
892			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
893
894	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
895			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
896			to workaround buggy firmware.
897
898	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
899			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
900
901	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
902			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
903			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
904			entry later. This parameter disables that.
905
906	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
907			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
908			memory out of your available memory pool based on
909			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
910			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
911
912	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
913			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
914			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
915
916	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
917
918	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
919			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
920
921	dma_debug_entries=<number>
922			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
923			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
924			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
925			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
926			architectural default is too low.
927
928	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
929			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
930			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
931			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
932			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
933			driver later using sysfs.
934
935	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
936			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
937			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
938
939	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
940			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
941			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
942			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
943			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
944			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
945			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
946			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
947			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
948			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
949			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
950			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
951			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
952			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
953			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
954			data set with no connector name will be used for
955			any connectors not explicitly specified.
956
957	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
958
959	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
960			Format: {"off" | "known"}
961			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
962			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
963			exists).
964			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
965			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
966			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
967
968	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
969			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
970			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
971			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
972
973	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
974	module.dyndbg[="val"]
975			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
976			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
977			for details.
978
979	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
980			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
981			information about the feature.
982
983	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
984			in some Intel CPUs.
985
986	module.async_probe [KNL]
987			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
988
989	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
990			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
991			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
992			which are not unmapped.
993
994	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
995
996			When used with no options, the early console is
997			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
998			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
999			the platform.
1000
1001		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1002			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1003			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1004			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1005			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1006			configured.
1007
1008		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1009		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1010		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1011		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1012		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1013			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1014			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1015			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1016			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1017			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1018			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1019			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1020			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1021
1022		pl011,<addr>
1023		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1024			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1025			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1026			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1028			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1029			the device registers.
1030
1031		meson,<addr>
1032			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1033			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1034			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1035			supported.
1036
1037		msm_serial,<addr>
1038			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1039			port at the specified address. The serial port
1040			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1041			yet supported.
1042
1043		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1044			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1045			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1046			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1047			yet supported.
1048
1049		owl,<addr>
1050			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1051			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1052			specified address. The serial port must already be
1053			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1054
1055		rda,<addr>
1056			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1057			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1058			specified address. The serial port must already be
1059			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1060
1061		sbi
1062			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1063			console.
1064
1065		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1066
1067		s3c2410,<addr>
1068		s3c2412,<addr>
1069		s3c2440,<addr>
1070		s3c6400,<addr>
1071		s5pv210,<addr>
1072		exynos4210,<addr>
1073			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1074			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1075			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1076			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1077			Options are not yet supported.
1078
1079		lantiq,<addr>
1080			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1081			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1082			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1083			yet supported.
1084
1085		lpuart,<addr>
1086		lpuart32,<addr>
1087			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1088			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1089			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1090			port must already be setup and configured.
1091
1092		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1093			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1094			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1095			address. The serial port must already be setup
1096			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1097
1098		qcom_geni,<addr>
1099			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1100			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1101			specified address. The serial port must already be
1102			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1103
1104		efifb,[options]
1105			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1106			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1107			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1108			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1109			mapped with the correct attributes.
1110
1111		linflex,<addr>
1112			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1113			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1114			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1115			already be setup and configured.
1116
1117	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1118			earlyprintk=vga
1119			earlyprintk=sclp
1120			earlyprintk=xen
1121			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1122			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1123			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1124			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1125			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1126			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1127
1128			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1129			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1130			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1131
1132			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1133			takes over.
1134
1135			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1136			be used at a time.
1137
1138			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1139			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1140			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1141			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1142				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1143			You can find the port for a given device in
1144			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1145				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1146
1147			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1148			very good.
1149
1150			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1151			the real console.
1152
1153			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1154
1155			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1156
1157			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1158			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1159			UART class.
1160
1161	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1162			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1163			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1164			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1165			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1166			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1167			default: on.
1168
1169	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1170			ekgdboc=kbd
1171
1172			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1173			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1174
1175	edd=		[EDD]
1176			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1177
1178	efi=		[EFI]
1179			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
1180				  "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1181				  "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1182			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1183			runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
1184			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1185			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1186			firmware implementations.
1187			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1188			debug: enable misc debug output
1189			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1190			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1191			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1192			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1193			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1194			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1195			disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1196			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1197			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1198			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1199
1200	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1201			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1202			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1203			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1204			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1205
1206	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1207			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1208			updating original EFI memory map.
1209			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1210			from ss to ss+nn.
1211
1212			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1213			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1214			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1215			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1216
1217			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1218			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1219			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1220
1221			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1222			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1223			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1224			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1225			"soft reserved".
1226
1227	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1228			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1229			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1230			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1231			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1232
1233
1234	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1235			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1236
1237	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1238			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1239			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1240
1241	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1242			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1243			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1244			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1245			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1246
1247	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1248			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1249			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1250			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1251
1252	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1253			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1254			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1255			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1256			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1257
1258	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1259			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1260			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1261			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1262			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1263			Default value is 0.
1264			Value can be changed at runtime via
1265			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1266
1267	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1268			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1269			support.
1270
1271	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1272			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1273			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1274
1275	evm=		[EVM]
1276			Format: { "fix" }
1277			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1278			current integrity status.
1279
1280	failslab=
1281	fail_page_alloc=
1282	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1283			General fault injection mechanism.
1284			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1285			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1286
1287	floppy=		[HW]
1288			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1289
1290	force_pal_cache_flush
1291			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1292			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1293			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1294			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1295
1296	forcepae	[X86-32]
1297			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1298			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1299			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1300			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1301			and may cause unknown problems.
1302
1303	ftrace=[tracer]
1304			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1305			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1306			boot debugging.
1307
1308	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1309			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1310			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1311			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1312			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1313			oops.
1314
1315	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1316			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1317			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1318			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1319			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1320			tracing directory.
1321
1322	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1323			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1324			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1325			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1326			tracing directory.
1327
1328	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1329			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1330			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1331			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1332			that can be changed at run time by the
1333			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1334
1335	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1336			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1337			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1338			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1339			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1340
1341	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1342			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1343			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1344			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1345			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1346
1347	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1348			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1349			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1350			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1351			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1352
1353	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1354
1355	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1356			Format: off | on
1357			default: on
1358
1359	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1360			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1361			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1362			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1363			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1364
1365	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1366			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1367			android emulator
1368
1369	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1370			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1371			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1372			GPT to be used instead.
1373
1374	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1375			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1376			Format: 0 | 1
1377			Default: 0
1378	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1379			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1380			Format: 0 | 1
1381			Default: 0
1382	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1383			Format: 0 | 1
1384			Default: 0
1385	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1386			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1387			Default: 1024
1388	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1389			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1390			Default: 1024
1391
1392	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1393			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1394			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1395
1396	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1397			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1398			backtraces on all cpus.
1399			Format: <integer>
1400
1401	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1402			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1403			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1404			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1405
1406	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1407
1408	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1409			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1410
1411	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1412			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1413			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1414			logic will be disabled.
1415
1416	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1417			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1418			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1419			size on bigger boxes.
1420
1421	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1422			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1423			Default: "on"
1424
1425	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1426
1427	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1428			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1429				verbose }
1430			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1431			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1432				VIA, nVidia)
1433			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1434
1435	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1436			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1437
1438	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1439	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1440			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1441			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1442			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1443			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1444			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1445
1446	hung_task_panic=
1447			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1448			Format: <integer>
1449
1450			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1451			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1452			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1453			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1454			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1455
1456	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1457				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1458	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1459				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1460				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1461
1462	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1463				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1464				      guest on lock contention.
1465
1466	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1467			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1468			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1469			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1470			the real console.
1471
1472	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1473				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1474				registered from board initialization code.
1475				Format:
1476				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1477
1478	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1479	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1480			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1481			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1482			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1483	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1484	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1485			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1486			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1487	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1488	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1489	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1490			     for the AUX port
1491	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1492			     controller
1493	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1494			     controllers
1495	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1496	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1497			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1498			     transitions, or never reset
1499			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1500			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1501			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1502			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1503			architectures force reset to be always executed
1504	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1505	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1506
1507	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1508
1509	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1510			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1511			hardware.
1512	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1513			does not match list of supported models.
1514	i8k.power_status
1515			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1516			(disabled by default)
1517	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1518			capability is set.
1519
1520	i915.invert_brightness=
1521			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1522			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1523			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1524			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1525			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1526			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1527			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1528			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1529			value switches the backlight off.
1530			-1 -- never invert brightness
1531			 0 -- machine default
1532			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1533
1534	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1535			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1536
1537	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1538			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1539			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1540			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1541			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1542
1543	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1544			Format: <int>
1545			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1546			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1547			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1548			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1549			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1550			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1551			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1552			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1553			was 0x3.
1554
1555	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1556			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1557
1558	idle=		[X86]
1559			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1560			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1561			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1562			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1563			Not recommended.
1564			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1565			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1566			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1567
1568	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1569			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1570			Default: strict
1571
1572			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1573			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1574			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1575			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1576			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1577			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1578			encoding mode.
1579
1580			Available settings are as follows:
1581			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1582				supported by the FPU
1583			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1584				by the FPU
1585			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1586				by the FPU
1587			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1588				supported by the FPU
1589
1590			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1591			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1592			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1593			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1594			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1595			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1596			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1597			MIPS64 CPUs.
1598
1599			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1600			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1601			except where unsupported by hardware.
1602
1603	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1604			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1605			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1606			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1607			could change it dynamically, usually by
1608			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1609
1610	ignore_rlimit_data
1611			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1612			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1613			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1614
1615	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1616			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1617
1618	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1619			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1620			default: "enforce"
1621
1622	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1623			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1624			owned by uid=0.
1625
1626	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1627			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1628			measurements, instead of host native format.
1629
1630	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1631			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1632				   | sha512 | ... }
1633			default: "sha1"
1634
1635			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1636			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1637
1638	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1639			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1640			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1641				 fail_securely"
1642
1643			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1644			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1645			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1646			uid=0.
1647
1648			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1649			all files owned by root.
1650
1651			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1652			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1653			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1654
1655			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1656			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1657			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1658			flag.
1659
1660	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1661			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1662			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1663			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1664			opened for read by uid=0.
1665
1666	ima_template=	[IMA]
1667			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1668			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1669			Default: "ima-ng"
1670
1671	ima_template_fmt=
1672			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1673			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1674
1675	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1676			Format: <min_file_size>
1677			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1678			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1679
1680			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1681			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1682			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1683
1684	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1685			Format: <bufsize>
1686			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1687
1688			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1689			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1690			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1691
1692	init=		[KNL]
1693			Format: <full_path>
1694			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1695			process.
1696
1697	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1698			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1699			startup.
1700
1701	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1702			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1703			modules and initcalls.
1704
1705	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1706
1707	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1708			zeroes.
1709			Format: 0 | 1
1710			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1711
1712	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1713			Format: 0 | 1
1714			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1715
1716	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1717			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1718			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1719			override in debugfs after boot.
1720
1721	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1722			Format: <irq>
1723
1724	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1725
1726	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1727			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1728			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1729			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1730
1731	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1732		on
1733			Enable intel iommu driver.
1734		off
1735			Disable intel iommu driver.
1736		igfx_off [Default Off]
1737			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1738			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1739			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1740			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1741			DMA.
1742		forcedac [x86_64]
1743			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1744			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1745			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1746			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1747			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1748			then look in the higher range.
1749		strict [Default Off]
1750			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1751			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1752			to batching them for performance.
1753		sp_off [Default Off]
1754			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1755			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1756			not be supported.
1757		sm_on [Default Off]
1758			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1759			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1760			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1761			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1762		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1763			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1764			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1765			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1766			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1767			mapping is enabled.
1768			Note that using this option lowers the security
1769			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1770			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1771		nobounce [Default off]
1772			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1773			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1774			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1775			risks of DMA attacks.
1776
1777	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1778			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1779			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1780
1781	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1782			disable
1783			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1784			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1785			passive
1786			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1787			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1788			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1789			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1790			  feature.
1791			force
1792			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1793			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1794			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1795			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1796			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1797			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1798			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1799			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1800			no_hwp
1801			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1802			  if available.
1803			hwp_only
1804			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1805			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1806			support_acpi_ppc
1807			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1808			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1809			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1810			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1811			per_cpu_perf_limits
1812			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1813			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1814
1815	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1816			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1817			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1818			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1819			no_x2apic_optout
1820				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1821			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1822
1823	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1824		strict	regions from userspace.
1825		relaxed
1826
1827	iommu=		[x86]
1828		off
1829		force
1830		noforce
1831		biomerge
1832		panic
1833		nopanic
1834		merge
1835		nomerge
1836		soft
1837		pt		[x86]
1838		nopt		[x86]
1839		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1840			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1841
1842	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1843			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1844			0 - Lazy mode.
1845			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1846			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1847			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1848			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1849			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1850			1 - Strict mode (default).
1851			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1852			  synchronously.
1853
1854	iommu.passthrough=
1855			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1856			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1857			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1858			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1859			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1860
1861	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1862			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1863			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1864
1865	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1866		0x80
1867			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1868		0xed
1869			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1870		udelay
1871			Simple two microseconds delay
1872		none
1873			No delay
1874
1875	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1876			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1877
1878	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1879			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1880
1881	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1882			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1883
1884	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1885			[ARM, ARM64]
1886			Format: <bool>
1887			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1888			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1889			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1890
1891	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1892			[ARM, ARM64]
1893			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1894			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1895			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1896			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1897			LPIs.
1898
1899	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1900			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1901			requires the kernel to be built with
1902			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1903
1904	irqfixup	[HW]
1905			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1906			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1907			firmware running.
1908
1909	irqpoll		[HW]
1910			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1911			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1912			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1913			firmware running.
1914
1915	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1916			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1917
1918	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1919			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1920			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1921
1922			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1923			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1924
1925			nohz
1926			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1927
1928			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1929			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1930			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1931			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1932			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1933
1934			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1935			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1936			  be configured manually after bootup.
1937
1938			domain
1939			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1940			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1941			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1942			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1943			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1944			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1945			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1946			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1947
1948			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1949			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1950			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1951			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1952
1953			managed_irq
1954
1955			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1956			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1957			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1958			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1959			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1960
1961			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
1962			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1963			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1964			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1965			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
1966			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
1967			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
1968
1969			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
1970			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
1971			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
1972			  only delivered when tasks running on those
1973			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
1974			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
1975			  queues.
1976
1977			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1978
1979	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1980
1981	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1982			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1983			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1984			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1985			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1986				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1987
1988	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1989			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1990			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1991			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1992			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1993				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1994
1995	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1996			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1997			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1998			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1999			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2000				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2001
2002	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2003			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2004
2005	nokaslr		[KNL]
2006			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2007			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2008			Layout Randomization).
2009
2010	kasan_multi_shot
2011			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2012			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2013			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2014			invalid access.
2015
2016	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2017
2018	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2019			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2020			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2021			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2022			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2023			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2024			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2025			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2026			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2027			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2028
2029			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2030			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2031			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2032			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2033			zone if it does not.
2034
2035			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2036			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2037			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2038			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2039			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2040			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2041			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2042
2043	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2044			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2045			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2046			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2047			optional and is the number seconds in between
2048			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2049			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2050			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2051			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2052			the kernel debugger.
2053
2054	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2055			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2056			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2057			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2058			 keyboard only format: kbd
2059			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2060			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2061			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2062			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2063
2064	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2065			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2066
2067	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2068			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2069			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2070
2071	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2072			Valid arguments: on, off
2073			Default: on
2074			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2075			the default is off.
2076
2077	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2078			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2079			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2080			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2081			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2082			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2083			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2084
2085			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2086
2087			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2088			Boot Parameter" section.
2089
2090	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2091			and kernel address spaces.
2092			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2093			0: force disabled
2094			1: force enabled
2095
2096	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2097			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2098
2099	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2100				   Default is false (don't support).
2101
2102	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2103			KVM MMU at runtime.
2104			Default is 0 (off)
2105
2106	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2107			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2108			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2109			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2110			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2111			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2112				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2113
2114			Default is 'auto'.
2115
2116			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2117			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2118
2119	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2120			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2121			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2122			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2123			minute.  The default is 60.
2124
2125	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2126			Default is 1 (enabled)
2127
2128	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2129			for all guests.
2130			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2131
2132	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2133			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2134			system registers
2135
2136	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2137			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2138			system registers
2139
2140	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2141			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2142			system registers
2143
2144	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2145			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2146			LPIs.
2147
2148	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2149			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2150			Default is 1 (enabled)
2151
2152	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2153			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2154			Default is 0 (disabled)
2155
2156	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2157			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2158			Default is 1 (enabled)
2159
2160	kvm-intel.nested=
2161			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2162			Default is 0 (disabled)
2163
2164	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2165			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2166			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2167			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2168
2169	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2170			CVE-2018-3620.
2171
2172			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2173
2174			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2175			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2176				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2177			never:	Disables the mitigation
2178
2179			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2180
2181	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2182			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2183			Default is 1 (enabled)
2184
2185	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2186			      affected CPUs
2187
2188			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2189			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2190
2191			full
2192				Provides all available mitigations for the
2193				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2194				enables all mitigations in the
2195				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2196
2197				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2198				sysfs interface is still possible after
2199				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2200				when the first VM is started in a
2201				potentially insecure configuration,
2202				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2203
2204			full,force
2205				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2206				flush runtime control. Implies the
2207				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2208				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2209
2210			flush
2211				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2212				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2213				L1D flush.
2214
2215				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2216				sysfs interface is still possible after
2217				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2218				when the first VM is started in a
2219				potentially insecure configuration,
2220				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2221
2222			flush,nosmt
2223
2224				Disables SMT and enables the default
2225				hypervisor mitigation.
2226
2227				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2228				sysfs interface is still possible after
2229				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2230				when the first VM is started in a
2231				potentially insecure configuration,
2232				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2233
2234			flush,nowarn
2235				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2236				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2237				insecure configuration.
2238
2239			off
2240				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2241				emit any warnings.
2242				It also drops the swap size and available
2243				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2244				bare metal.
2245
2246			Default is 'flush'.
2247
2248			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2249
2250	l2cr=		[PPC]
2251
2252	l3cr=		[PPC]
2253
2254	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2255			disabled it.
2256
2257	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2258			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2259			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2260
2261	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2262			in C2 power state.
2263
2264	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2265			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2266			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2267			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2268			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2269			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2270			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2271
2272	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2273			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2274			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2275
2276	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2277			when set.
2278			Format: <int>
2279
2280	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2281			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2282			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2283			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2284			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2285			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2286			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2287			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2288
2289			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2290			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2291			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2292			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2293			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2294			host link and device attached to it.
2295
2296			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2297			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2298			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2299			The following configurations can be forced.
2300
2301			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2302			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2303
2304			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2305
2306			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2307			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2308			  allowed.
2309
2310			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2311
2312			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2313
2314			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2315			  and both resets.
2316
2317			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2318			  hot-unplug link recovery
2319
2320			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2321
2322			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2323
2324			* disable: Disable this device.
2325
2326			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2327			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2328
2329	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2330
2331	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2332			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2333
2334	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2335			Format: <integer>
2336
2337	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2338			Format: <integer>
2339
2340	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2341			Format: <integer>
2342
2343	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2344			Format: <integer>
2345
2346	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2347			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2348			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2349			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2350			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2351			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2352			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2353			are also disabled.
2354
2355	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2356			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2357			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2358			number of online CPUs.
2359
2360	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2361			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2362
2363	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2364			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2365
2366	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2367			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2368			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2369
2370	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2371			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2372			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2373			mode during the locktorture test.
2374
2375	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2376			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2377			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2378
2379	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2380			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2381
2382	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2383			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2384			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2385			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2386			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2387			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2388
2389	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2390			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2391
2392	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2393			Enable additional printk() statements.
2394
2395	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2396			Format: <irq>
2397
2398	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2399			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2400			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2401			loglevels are defined as follows:
2402
2403			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2404			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2405			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2406			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2407			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2408			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2409			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2410			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2411
2412	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2413			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2414			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2415			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2416			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2417			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2418			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2419
2420	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2421			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2422			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2423			kernel boot problems.
2424
2425	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2426	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2427	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2428	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2429				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2430				attached printers to be reset. Using
2431				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2432				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2433				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2434				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2435				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2436				port specification list means that device IDs
2437				from each port should be examined, to see if
2438				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2439				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2440				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2441
2442	lpj=n		[KNL]
2443			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2444			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2445			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2446			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2447			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2448			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2449			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2450			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2451			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2452			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2453			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2454			hardware.
2455
2456	ltpc=		[NET]
2457			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2458
2459	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2460
2461	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2462			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2463			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2464
2465	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2466			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2467			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2468
2469	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2470			 yeeloong laptop.
2471			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2472
2473	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2474			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2475
2476	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2477			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2478			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2479			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2480			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2481			only takes effect during system bootup.
2482			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2483			which also disables the IO APIC.
2484
2485	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2486	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2487			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2488			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2489			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2490			/dev/loop-control interface.
2491
2492	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2493
2494	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2495
2496	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2497			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2498
2499	mdacon=		[MDA]
2500			Format: <first>,<last>
2501			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2502
2503	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2504			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2505			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2506
2507			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2508			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2509			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2510
2511			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2512			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2513			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2514			not have direct access.
2515
2516			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2517			options are:
2518
2519			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2520			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2521				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2522			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2523
2524			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2525			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2526			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2527			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2528			too.
2529
2530			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2531			mds=full.
2532
2533			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2534
2535	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2536			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2537			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2538			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2539			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2540			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2541			belonging to unused RAM.
2542
2543	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2544			memory.
2545
2546	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2547			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2548			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2549
2550	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2551			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2552			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2553			set according to the
2554			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2555			option.
2556			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2557
2558	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2559			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2560			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2561			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2562			option description.
2563
2564	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2565			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2566			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2567			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2568			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2569			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2570			comma delimited.
2571			Example:
2572				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2573
2574	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2575			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2576			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2577
2578	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2579			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2580			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2581			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2582			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2583			         or
2584			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2585			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2586			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2587			will be eaten.
2588
2589	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2590			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2591			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2592			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2593			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2594
2595	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2596			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2597			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2598			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2599			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2600			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2601			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2602			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2603
2604	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2605			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2606			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2607			Setting this option will scan the memory
2608			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2609			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2610			from using the memory being corrupted.
2611			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2612			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2613			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2614			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2615
2616	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2617			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2618			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2619			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2620			corruption in more or less memory.
2621
2622	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2623			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2624			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2625			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2626
2627	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2628			Format: <integer>
2629			default : 0 <disable>
2630			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2631			performed. Each pass selects another test
2632			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2633			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2634			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2635			regions that are detected.
2636
2637	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2638			Valid arguments: on, off
2639			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2640			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2641			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2642			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2643			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2644
2645			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2646			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2647
2648	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2649			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2650			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2651			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2652			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2653
2654	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2655			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2656
2657	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2658			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2659			platforms.
2660
2661	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2662			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2663			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2664			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2665
2666	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2667
2668	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2669			physical address is ignored.
2670
2671	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2672			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2673			Default: "0tb"
2674			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2675			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2676			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2677			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2678			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2679			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2680			unconfigured.
2681			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2682			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2683			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2684			VGA shield.
2685			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2686			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2687			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2688			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2689			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2690			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2691
2692	mitigations=
2693			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2694			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2695			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2696			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2697
2698			off
2699				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2700				improves system performance, but it may also
2701				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2702				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2703					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2704					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2705					       nobp=0 [S390]
2706					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2707					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2708					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2709					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2710					       l1tf=off [X86]
2711					       mds=off [X86]
2712					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2713					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2714
2715				Exceptions:
2716					       This does not have any effect on
2717					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2718					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2719
2720			auto (default)
2721				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2722				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2723				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2724				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2725				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2726				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2727
2728			auto,nosmt
2729				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2730				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2731				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2732				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2733					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2734					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2735
2736	mminit_loglevel=
2737			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2738			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2739			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2740			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2741			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2742			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2743
2744	module.sig_enforce
2745			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2746			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2747			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2748			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2749
2750	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2751			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2752
2753	mousedev.tap_time=
2754			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2755			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2756			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2757			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2758			Format: <msecs>
2759	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2760			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2761	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2762			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2763
2764	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2765			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2766			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2767			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2768			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2769			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2770			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2771			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2772			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2773			is not too small.
2774
2775	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2776			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2777			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2778			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2779			allocations. Use with caution!
2780
2781	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2782			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2783
2784	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2785			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2786
2787	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2788			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2789
2790	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2791			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2792			at a time.
2793
2794	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2795
2796			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2797
2798			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2799				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2800			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2801				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2802				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2803
2804	mtdset=		[ARM]
2805			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2806
2807			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2808
2809	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2810			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2811			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2812
2813	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2814			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2815			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2816
2817	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2818			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2819			Default is 1.
2820			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2821			using up MTRRs.
2822
2823	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2824			Format: <integer>
2825			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2826			Default : 1
2827			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2828			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2829
2830	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2831
2832	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2833			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2834			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2835			something different and driver-specific.
2836			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2837			file if at all.
2838
2839	nf_conntrack.acct=
2840			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2841			0 to disable accounting
2842			1 to enable accounting
2843			Default value is 0.
2844
2845	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2846			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2847
2848	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2849			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2850
2851	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2852			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2853
2854	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2855			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2856			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2857			requests.
2858
2859	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2860			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2861			channel should listen.
2862
2863	nfs.cache_getent=
2864			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2865			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2866
2867	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2868			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2869			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2870
2871	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2872			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2873			entries.
2874
2875	nfs.enable_ino64=
2876			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2877			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2878			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2879			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2880			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2881
2882	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2883			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2884			slots the client will assign to the callback
2885			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2886			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2887			a particular server.
2888
2889	nfs.max_session_slots=
2890			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2891			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2892			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2893			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2894			Note that there is little point in setting this
2895			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2896
2897	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2898			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2899			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2900			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2901			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2902			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2903			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2904			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2905			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2906			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2907			back to using the idmapper.
2908			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2909	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2910			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2911			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2912			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2913			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2914
2915	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2916			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2917			information in exchange_id requests.
2918			If zero, no implementation identification information
2919			will be sent.
2920			The default is to send the implementation identification
2921			information.
2922
2923	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2924			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2925			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2926			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2927			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2928			after the locks are lost.
2929			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2930			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2931			parameter to '1'.
2932			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2933			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2934
2935	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2936			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2937			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2938
2939			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2940			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2941			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2942			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2943
2944	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2945			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2946			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2947			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2948			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2949			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2950
2951	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2952			when a NMI is triggered.
2953			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2954
2955	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2956			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2957			Valid num: 0 or 1
2958			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2959			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2960			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2961			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2962			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2963			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2964			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2965			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2966			need the box quickly up again.
2967
2968			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2969			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2970
2971	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2972			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2973			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2974			waits 4 seconds.
2975
2976	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2977			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2978			is present.
2979
2980	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2981			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2982
2983	no_console_suspend
2984			[HW] Never suspend the console
2985			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2986			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2987			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2988			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2989			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2990			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2991			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2992			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2993			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2994			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2995			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2996			turn on/off it dynamically.
2997
2998	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
2999			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3000			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3001			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3002			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3003			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3004			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3005			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3006			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3007			is set.
3008
3009	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3010			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3011			but will impact performance.
3012
3013	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3014
3015	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3016			(CPU alternatives feature).
3017
3018	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3019			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3020
3021	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3022
3023	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3024			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3025
3026	nocache		[ARM]
3027
3028	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3029
3030	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3031
3032	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3033
3034	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3035
3036	noexec		[IA-64]
3037
3038	noexec		[X86]
3039			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3040			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3041			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3042
3043	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3044			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3045			even if it is supported by processor.
3046
3047	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3048			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3049			even if it is supported by processor.
3050
3051	noexec32	[X86-64]
3052			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3053			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3054				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3055			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3056				read implies executable mappings
3057
3058	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3059
3060	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3061			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3062			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3063
3064	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3065
3066	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3067			Equivalent to smt=1.
3068
3069			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3070			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3071				     via the sysfs control file.
3072
3073	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3074			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3075			possible in the system.
3076
3077	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3078			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3079			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3080			option.
3081
3082	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3083			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3084
3085	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3086			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3087			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3088
3089	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3090			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3091			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3092			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3093			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3094			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3095
3096	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3097			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3098			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3099			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3100			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3101			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3102			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3103
3104	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3105			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3106			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3107
3108	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3109			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3110			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3111
3112	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3113			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3114			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3115			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3116			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3117			real-time systems.
3118
3119	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3120
3121	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3122			Valid arguments: on, off
3123			Default: on
3124
3125	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3126			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3127			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3128			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3129			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3130			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3131			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3132			just as if they had also been called out in the
3133			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3134
3135	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3136
3137	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3138			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3139
3140	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3141			broken timer IRQ sources.
3142
3143	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3144
3145	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3146			initial RAM disk.
3147
3148	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3149			remapping.
3150			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3151
3152	nointroute	[IA-64]
3153
3154	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3155
3156	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3157
3158	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3159
3160	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3161			fault handling.
3162
3163	no-vmw-sched-clock
3164			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3165			clock and use the default one.
3166
3167	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3168			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3169			influence scheduler behaviour
3170
3171	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3172
3173	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3174
3175	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3176			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3177
3178	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3179
3180	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3181
3182	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3183			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3184
3185	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3186			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3187			irq.
3188
3189	nomodule	Disable module load
3190
3191	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3192			pagetables) support.
3193
3194	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3195
3196	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3197			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3198
3199	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3200			with UP alternatives
3201
3202	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3203			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3204			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3205			available to user space applications.
3206
3207	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3208			space.
3209
3210	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3211			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3212			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3213
3214	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3215
3216	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3217
3218	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3219			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3220
3221	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3222
3223	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3224
3225	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3226			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3227
3228	nowb		[ARM]
3229
3230	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3231
3232	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3233			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3234			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3235			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3236			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3237			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3238			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3239			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3240			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3241			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3242			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3243			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3244			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3245
3246	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3247			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3248			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3249			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3250			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3251			parameter's value.
3252			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3253			Default: 255
3254
3255	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3256			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3257			SAL PALO.
3258
3259	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3260			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3261			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3262			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3263			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3264			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3265			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3266			hot plugging.
3267
3268	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3269
3270	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3271			Allowed values are enable and disable
3272
3273	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3274			'node', 'default' can be specified
3275			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3276			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3277
3278	of_devlink	[OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
3279			supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
3280			consumer/supplier relationships.  A consumer device
3281			will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
3282			probed successfully.
3283
3284	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3285			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3286			info.
3287
3288	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3289			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3290			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3291			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3292			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3293			interrupts *may* be lost!
3294
3295	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3296			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3297			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3298			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3299
3300	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3301			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3302
3303	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3304			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3305			userland or if you want common events.
3306			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3307			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3308				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3309				CPU specific event set.
3310			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3311				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3312				for generic hr timer mode)
3313
3314	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3315			process, but there is a small probability of
3316			deadlocking the machine.
3317			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3318			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3319
3320	page_alloc.shuffle=
3321			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3322			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3323			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3324			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3325			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3326			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3327			can be read from sysfs at:
3328			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3329
3330	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3331			Storage of the information about who allocated
3332			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3333			we can turn it on.
3334			on: enable the feature
3335
3336	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3337			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3338			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3339			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3340			on: turn on poisoning
3341
3342	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3343			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3344			timeout = 0: wait forever
3345			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3346			Format: <timeout>
3347
3348	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3349			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3350			bit 0: print all tasks info
3351			bit 1: print system memory info
3352			bit 2: print timer info
3353			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3354			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3355			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3356
3357	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3358			on a WARN().
3359
3360	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3361			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3362			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3363			succeeds in any situation.
3364			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3365			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3366			kernel more unstable.
3367
3368	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3369			connected to, default is 0.
3370			Format: <parport#>
3371	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3372			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3373			Format: <mode>
3374
3375	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3376			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3377			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3378			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3379			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3380			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3381			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3382			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3383			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3384			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3385			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3386			are specified on the command line, starting
3387			with parport0.
3388
3389	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3390			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3391			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3392			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3393			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3394			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3395			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3396
3397	pause_on_oops=
3398			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3399			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3400			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3401
3402	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3403
3404	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3405			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3406			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3407
3408	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3409
3410				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3411				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3412				specified in one of the following formats:
3413
3414				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3415				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3416
3417				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3418				bus/device/function address which may change
3419				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3420				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3421				by other kernel parameters. If the
3422				domain is left unspecified, it is
3423				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3424				to a device through multiple device/function
3425				addresses can be specified after the base
3426				address (this is more robust against
3427				renumbering issues).  The second format
3428				selects devices using IDs from the
3429				configuration space which may match multiple
3430				devices in the system.
3431
3432		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3433				changes anything
3434		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3435		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3436				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3437				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3438		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3439				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3440				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3441				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3442		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3443				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3444				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3445		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3446				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3447				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3448				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3449				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3450				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3451				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3452		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3453				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3454				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3455		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3456				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3457		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3458				Configuration
3459		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3460				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3461				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3462		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3463				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3464				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3465		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3466				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3467				should never be necessary.
3468		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3469				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3470				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3471				when the system masks IRQs.
3472		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3473				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3474				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3475				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3476		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3477				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3478				on several machines and they hang the machine
3479				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3480				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3481				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3482				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3483				motherboard.
3484		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3485				Use with caution as certain devices share
3486				address decoders between ROMs and other
3487				resources.
3488		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3489				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3490				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3491		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3492				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3493		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3494				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3495				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3496				this way.
3497		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3498				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3499				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3500				F0000h-100000h range.
3501		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3502				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3503				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3504				explicitly which ones they are.
3505		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3506				numbers ourselves, overriding
3507				whatever the firmware may have done.
3508		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3509				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3510				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3511				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3512				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3513				IRQ routing is enabled.
3514		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3515				or for PCI scanning.
3516		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3517				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3518				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3519				please report a bug.
3520		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3521				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3522		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3523				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3524				so this option is a temporary workaround
3525				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3526		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3527				handle more pci cards
3528		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3529				This might help on some broken boards which
3530				machine check when some devices' config space
3531				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3532				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3533		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3534				This sorting is done to get a device
3535				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3536		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3537		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3538				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3539		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3540				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3541		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3542				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3543				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3544				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3545				or bus can support) for best performance.
3546		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3547				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3548				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3549				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3550				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3551				that hot-added devices will work.
3552		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3553				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3554				The default value is 256 bytes.
3555		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3556				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3557				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3558		resource_alignment=
3559				Format:
3560				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3561				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3562				aligned memory resources. How to
3563				specify the device is described above.
3564				If <order of align> is not specified,
3565				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3566				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3567				windows need to be expanded.
3568				To specify the alignment for several
3569				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3570				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3571				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3572				for 4096-byte alignment.
3573		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3574				end-to-end CRC checking).
3575				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3576				the default.
3577				off: Turn ECRC off
3578				on: Turn ECRC on.
3579		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3580				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3581				Default size is 256 bytes.
3582		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3583				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3584				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3585		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3586				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3587				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3588		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3589				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3590				MMIO_PREF window.
3591				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3592		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3593				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3594				Default is 1.
3595		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3596				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3597				accommodate resources required by all child
3598				devices.
3599				off: Turn realloc off
3600				on: Turn realloc on
3601		realloc		same as realloc=on
3602		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3603		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3604				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3605		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3606				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3607				port.
3608		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3609				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3610				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3611				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3612				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3613				taints the kernel.
3614		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3615				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3616				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3617				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3618				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3619				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3620				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3621				this removes isolation between devices and
3622				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3623		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3624		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3625
3626	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3627			Management.
3628		off	Disable ASPM.
3629		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3630			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3631
3632	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3633		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3634			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3635			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3636			also tries to use these services.
3637		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3638				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3639		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3640			hotplug).
3641
3642	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3643		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3644		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3645
3646	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3647		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3648			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3649
3650	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3651
3652	pd_ignore_unused
3653			[PM]
3654			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3655			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3656			for debug and development, but should not be
3657			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3658
3659	pd.		[PARIDE]
3660			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3661
3662	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3663			boot time.
3664			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3665			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3666
3667	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3668			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3669			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3670			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3671			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3672			and performance comparison.
3673
3674	pf.		[PARIDE]
3675			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3676
3677	pg.		[PARIDE]
3678			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3679
3680	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3681			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3682
3683	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3684			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3685			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3686
3687	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3688			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3689			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3690
3691	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3692			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3693			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3694			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3695			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3696			possible settings and some assignment information.
3697
3698	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3699			{ off }
3700
3701	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3702			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3703
3704	pnp_reserve_irq=
3705			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3706
3707	pnp_reserve_dma=
3708			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3709
3710	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3711			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3712
3713	pnp_reserve_mem=
3714			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3715			autoconfiguration.
3716			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3717
3718	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3719			Default is 21.
3720			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3721			may be specified.
3722			Format: <port>,<port>....
3723
3724	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3725			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3726			platform machine description specific power_save
3727			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3728			execution priority.
3729
3730	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3731			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3732			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3733			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3734			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3735
3736	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3737			Format: {"off"}
3738			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3739
3740	print-fatal-signals=
3741			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3742
3743			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3744			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3745			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3746			coredump - etc.
3747
3748			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3749			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3750
3751			default: off.
3752
3753	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3754			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3755			panics
3756			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3757			default: disabled
3758
3759	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3760			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3761			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3762			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3763			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3764			Default: ratelimit
3765
3766	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3767			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3768
3769	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3770			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3771			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3772
3773	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3774			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3775			instead using the legacy FADT method
3776
3777	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3778			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3779			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3780				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3781			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3782			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3783				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3784			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3785			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3786				statistical time based profiling.
3787
3788	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3789			before loading.
3790			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3791
3792	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3793			tracking.
3794			Format: <bool>
3795
3796	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3797			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3798	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3799			per second.
3800	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3801			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3802			(0 = never).
3803	psmouse.resolution=
3804			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3805	psmouse.smartscroll=
3806			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3807			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3808
3809	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3810
3811	pt.		[PARIDE]
3812			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3813
3814	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3815			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3816			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3817			system calls and interrupts.
3818
3819			on   - unconditionally enable
3820			off  - unconditionally disable
3821			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3822			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3823
3824			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3825
3826	nopti		[X86_64]
3827			Equivalent to pti=off
3828
3829	pty.legacy_count=
3830			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3831			default number.
3832
3833	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3834
3835	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3836
3837	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3838			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3839
3840	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3841			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3842
3843	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3844			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3845			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3846			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3847			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3848
3849	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3850
3851		cec_disable	[X86]
3852				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3853				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3854
3855	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3856			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3857			except that the string "all" can be used to
3858			specify every CPU on the system.
3859
3860			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3861			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3862			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3863			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3864			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3865			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3866			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3867			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3868			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3869			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3870
3871	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3872			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3873			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3874			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3875			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3876			This improves the real-time response for the
3877			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3878			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3879			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3880			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3881
3882	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3883			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3884			process in one batch.
3885
3886	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3887			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3888			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3889			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3890
3891	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3892			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3893			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3894
3895	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3896			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3897			RCU grace-period initialization.
3898
3899	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3900			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3901			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3902			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3903			the rcu_node combining tree.
3904
3905	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3906			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3907			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3908			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3909			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3910
3911	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3912			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3913			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3914			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3915			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3916
3917	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3918			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3919			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3920			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3921			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3922			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3923			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3924
3925	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3926			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3927			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3928			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3929			and maximum value is HZ.
3930
3931	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3932			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3933			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3934			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3935
3936	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3937			Set required age in jiffies for a
3938			given grace period before RCU starts
3939			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3940			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3941			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3942			a value based on the most recent settings
3943			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3944			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3945			This calculated value may be viewed in
3946			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3947			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3948			overwritten.
3949
3950	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3951			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3952			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3953			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3954			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3955			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3956			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3957			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3958			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3959			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3960
3961	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3962			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3963			each group, which defaults to the square root
3964			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3965			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3966			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3967			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3968
3969	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3970			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3971			batch limiting is disabled.
3972
3973	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3974			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3975			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3976
3977	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3978			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3979			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3980
3981	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3982			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3983			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3984			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3985			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3986
3987	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3988			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3989			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3990			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3991			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3992			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3993
3994	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3995			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3996			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3997			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3998
3999	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4000			Measure performance of asynchronous
4001			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4002
4003	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4004			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4005			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4006			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4007			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4008			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4009
4010	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4011			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4012			grace-period primitives.
4013
4014	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4015			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4016			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4017			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4018			interference.
4019
4020	rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4021			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4022
4023	rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4024			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4025
4026	rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4027			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4028
4029	rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4030			Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4031			of allocations and frees.
4032
4033	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4034			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4035			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4036			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4037			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4038			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4039			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4040			a single reader.
4041
4042	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4043			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4044			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4045			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4046
4047	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4048			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4049
4050	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4051			Shut the system down after performance tests
4052			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4053			testing.
4054
4055	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4056			Enable additional printk() statements.
4057
4058	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4059			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4060			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4061			no holdoff.
4062
4063	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4064			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4065			in microseconds.
4066
4067	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4068			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4069			in microseconds.
4070
4071	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4072			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4073			in seconds.
4074
4075	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4076			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4077			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4078
4079	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4080			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4081			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4082
4083	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4084			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4085			forward-progress tests.
4086
4087	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4088			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4089			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4090			testing.
4091
4092	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4093			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4094			primitives, if available.
4095
4096	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4097			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4098
4099	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4100			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4101			update-side primitives, if available.
4102
4103	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4104			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4105			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4106			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4107			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4108			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4109			they are all non-zero.
4110
4111	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4112			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4113
4114	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4115			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4116			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4117			test, hence the "fake".
4118
4119	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4120			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4121			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4122			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4123			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4124			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4125
4126	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4127			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4128
4129	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4130			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4131
4132	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4133			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4134			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4135
4136	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4137			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4138			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4139			during the rcutorture test.
4140
4141	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4142			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4143			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4144
4145	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4146			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4147			warnings, zero to disable.
4148
4149	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4150			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4151
4152	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4153			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4154
4155	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4156			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4157
4158	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4159			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4160			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4161			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4162			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4163
4164	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4165			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4166			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4167			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4168
4169	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4170			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4171
4172	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4173			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4174
4175	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4176			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4177			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4178
4179	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4180			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4181
4182	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4183			Enable additional printk() statements.
4184
4185	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4186			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4187			stall warning.
4188
4189	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4190			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4191
4192	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4193			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4194
4195	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4196			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4197			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4198			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4199			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4200			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4201			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4202
4203	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4204			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4205			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4206			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4207			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4208			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4209			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4210			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4211			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4212
4213	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4214			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4215			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4216			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4217			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4218
4219	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4220			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4221			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4222			to zero.
4223
4224	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4225			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4226
4227	rdinit=		[KNL]
4228			Format: <full_path>
4229			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4230			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4231
4232	rdrand=		[X86]
4233			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4234				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4235				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4236				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4237				path).
4238
4239	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4240			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4241			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4242			mba.
4243			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4244				rdt=cmt,!mba
4245
4246	reboot=		[KNL]
4247			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4248				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4249				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4250				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4251				[[,]f[orce]
4252			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4253					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4254					reboot only),
4255			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4256			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4257			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4258					to be used for rebooting.
4259
4260	relax_domain_level=
4261			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4262			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4263
4264	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4265			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4266			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4267			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4268			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4269
4270	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4271			Format: nn[KMG]
4272			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4273			address space.
4274
4275	reservelow=	[X86]
4276			Format: nn[K]
4277			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4278			the bottom of the address space.
4279
4280	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4281			during initialization.
4282
4283	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4284			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4285			Format:
4286			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4287
4288	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4289			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4290			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4291			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4292			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4293
4294	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4295			read the resume files
4296
4297	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4298			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4299			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4300
4301	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4302		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4303				present during boot.
4304		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4305		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4306		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4307				(that will set all pages holding image data
4308				during restoration read-only).
4309
4310	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4311
4312	rfkill.default_state=
4313		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4314			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4315		1	Unblocked.
4316
4317	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4318		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4319		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4320			blocked and the previous configuration.
4321		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4322			blocked and everything unblocked.
4323
4324	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4325			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4326
4327	ring3mwait=disable
4328			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4329			CPUs.
4330
4331	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4332
4333	rodata=		[KNL]
4334		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4335		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4336
4337	rockchip.usb_uart
4338			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4339			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4340			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4341			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4342
4343	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4344			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4345
4346	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4347			mount the root filesystem
4348
4349	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4350
4351	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4352
4353	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4354			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4355			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4356
4357	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4358			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4359			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4360			managed by CMA.
4361
4362	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4363
4364	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4365
4366	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4367			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4368		strict
4369			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4370			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4371			which is faster.
4372
4373	sa1100ir	[NET]
4374			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4375
4376	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4377
4378	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4379
4380	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4381			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4382			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4383			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4384
4385	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4386			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4387			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4388			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4389			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4390			1 -- enable.
4391			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4392			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4393
4394	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4395			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4396			"lsm=" parameter.
4397
4398	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4399			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4400			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4401			0 -- disable.
4402			1 -- enable.
4403			Default value is 1.
4404
4405	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4406			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4407			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4408			0 -- disable.
4409			1 -- enable.
4410			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4411
4412	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4413
4414	shapers=	[NET]
4415			Maximal number of shapers.
4416
4417	simeth=		[IA-64]
4418	simscsi=
4419
4420	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4421
4422	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4423			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4424			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4425			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4426			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4427			layout control by attackers can usually be
4428			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4429			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4430			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4431			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4432			own.
4433			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4434
4435	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4436			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4437			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4438			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4439			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4440
4441	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4442			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4443			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4444			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4445			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4446			last alloc / free. For more information see
4447			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4448
4449	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4450			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4451			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4452			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4453			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4454			directories and files being created under
4455			/sys/kernel/slub.
4456
4457	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4458			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4459			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4460			fragmentation. For more information see
4461			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4462
4463	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4464			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4465			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4466			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4467			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4468			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4469			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4470			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4471
4472	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4473			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4474			lower than slub_max_order.
4475			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4476
4477	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4478			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4479			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4480
4481	smart2=		[HW]
4482			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4483
4484	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4485	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4486	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4487	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4488	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4489	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4490	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4491				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4492				1: Fast pin select (default)
4493				2: ATC IRMode
4494
4495	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4496			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4497			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4498			actual hardware limit.
4499			Format: <integer>
4500			Default: -1 (no limit)
4501
4502	softlockup_panic=
4503			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4504			Format: <integer>
4505
4506			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4507			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4508			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4509			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4510			functionality.
4511
4512	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4513			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4514			backtraces on all cpus.
4515			Format: <integer>
4516
4517	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4518			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4519
4520	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4521			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4522			The default operation protects the kernel from
4523			user space attacks.
4524
4525			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4526			       spectre_v2_user=on
4527			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4528			       spectre_v2_user=off
4529			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4530			       vulnerable
4531
4532			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4533			mitigation method at run time according to the
4534			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4535			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4536			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4537
4538			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4539			against user space to user space task attacks.
4540
4541			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4542			the user space protections.
4543
4544			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4545
4546			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4547			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4548			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4549
4550			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4551			spectre_v2=auto.
4552
4553	spectre_v2_user=
4554			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4555		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4556		        user space tasks
4557
4558			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4559				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4560
4561			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4562				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4563
4564			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4565				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4566				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4567				  is inherited on fork.
4568
4569			prctl,ibpb
4570				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4571				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4572				  always when switching between different user
4573				  space processes.
4574
4575			seccomp
4576				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4577				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4578				  they explicitly opt out.
4579
4580			seccomp,ibpb
4581				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4582				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4583				  always when switching between different
4584				  user space processes.
4585
4586			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4587				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4588
4589			Default mitigation:
4590			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4591
4592			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4593			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4594
4595	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4596			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4597			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4598
4599			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4600			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4601			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4602			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4603			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4604			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4605			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4606			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4607
4608			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4609			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4610			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4611			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4612
4613			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4614			Bypass optimization is used.
4615
4616			On x86 the options are:
4617
4618			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4619			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4620			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4621				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4622				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4623				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4624				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4625				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4626			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4627				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4628				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4629				  is inherited on fork.
4630			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4631				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4632
4633			Default mitigations:
4634			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4635
4636			On powerpc the options are:
4637
4638			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4639				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4640				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4641				  exit.
4642			off	- No action.
4643
4644			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4645			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4646
4647	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4648	spia_fio_base=
4649	spia_pedr=
4650	spia_peddr=
4651
4652	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4653			Specifies how frequently to check for
4654			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4655			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4656			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4657			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4658			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4659			are ignored.
4660
4661	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4662			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4663			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4664			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4665			grace period will be considered for automatic
4666			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4667			expediting.
4668
4669	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4670			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4671
4672			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4673			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4674			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4675			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4676
4677			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4678				   for both kernel and userspace
4679			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4680				   for both kernel and userspace
4681			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4682				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4683				   to allow userspace to register its
4684				   interest in being mitigated too.
4685
4686	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4687			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4688			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4689			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4690			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4691			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4692
4693	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4694			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4695
4696	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4697			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4698			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4699			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4700			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4701			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4702			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4703
4704	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4705			Format: <num>
4706			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4707			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4708			as the initial boot-console.
4709			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4710
4711	sti_font=	[HW]
4712			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4713
4714	stifb=		[HW]
4715			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4716
4717	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4718	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4719			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4720			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4721			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4722			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4723			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4724			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4725			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4726			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4727			maximum port values.
4728
4729	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4730			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4731			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4732			process in parallel from a single connection.
4733			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4734
4735	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4736			[NFS]
4737			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4738			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4739			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4740			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4741			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4742			NFS server is running.
4743
4744			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4745				    automatically using heuristics
4746			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4747			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4748			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4749				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4750
4751	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4752	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4753			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4754			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4755			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4756			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4757			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4758			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4759
4760	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4761			[SUSPEND]
4762			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4763			mode before resuming the system (see
4764			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4765			is set. Default value is 5.
4766
4767	svm=		[PPC]
4768			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4769			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4770			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4771
4772	swapaccount=[0|1]
4773			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4774			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4775			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4776
4777	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4778			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4779			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4780			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4781			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4782			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4783
4784	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4785
4786	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4787			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4788			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4789			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4790			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4791			in older udev will not work anymore.
4792			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4793			the kernel configuration.
4794
4795	sysrq_always_enabled
4796			[KNL]
4797			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4798			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4799			Useful for debugging.
4800
4801	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4802			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4803			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4804			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4805			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4806			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4807
4808	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4809
4810	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4811			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4812			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4813			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4814			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4815			The system is woken from this state using a
4816			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4817
4818	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4819			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4820
4821	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4822			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4823			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4824
4825	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4826			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4827			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4828
4829	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4830			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4831			critical and hot trip points.
4832
4833	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4834			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4835
4836	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4837			-1: disable all passive trip points
4838			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4839			value
4840
4841	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4842			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4843			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4844			0: no polling (default)
4845
4846	threadirqs	[KNL]
4847			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4848			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4849
4850	topology=	[S390]
4851			Format: {off | on}
4852			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4853			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4854			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4855			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4856			Default is on.
4857
4858	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4859			Format: {off}
4860			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4861			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4862			LPAR.
4863
4864	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4865
4866	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4867			Format: integer pcr id
4868			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4869			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4870			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4871			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4872			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4873			are saved.
4874
4875	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4876			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4877
4878	trace_event=[event-list]
4879			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4880			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4881			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4882			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4883
4884	trace_options=[option-list]
4885			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4886			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4887			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4888			to echo the option name into
4889
4890			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4891
4892			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4893			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4894
4895			      trace_options=stacktrace
4896
4897			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4898			section.
4899
4900	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4901			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4902			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4903			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4904			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4905			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4906
4907			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4908			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4909			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4910			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4911
4912			** CAUTION **
4913
4914			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4915			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4916			the system to live lock.
4917
4918	traceoff_on_warning
4919			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4920			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4921			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4922			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4923
4924			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4925			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4926			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4927
4928			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4929			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4930
4931	transparent_hugepage=
4932			[KNL]
4933			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4934			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4935			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4936			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4937			for more details.
4938
4939	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4940			Format: <string>
4941			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4942			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4943			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4944			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4945			virtualized environment.
4946			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4947			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4948			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4949			can add overhead.
4950			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4951			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4952			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4953			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4954			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4955			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4956			acceptable).
4957
4958	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4959			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4960			support TSX control.
4961
4962			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4963
4964			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4965				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4966				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4967				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4968				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
4969				with leaving it enabled.
4970
4971			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4972				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4973				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4974				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4975				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4976				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4977				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4978
4979			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4980				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4981
4982			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4983
4984			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4985			for more details.
4986
4987	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4988			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4989
4990			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4991			certain CPUs that support Transactional
4992			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4993			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4994			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4995			conditions.
4996
4997			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4998			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4999			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5000			access.
5001
5002			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5003			options are:
5004
5005			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5006				     if TSX is enabled.
5007
5008			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5009				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5010				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5011				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5012			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5013
5014			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5015			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5016			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5017			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5018
5019			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5020			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5021			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5022			required and doesn't provide any additional
5023			mitigation.
5024
5025			For details see:
5026			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5027
5028	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5029			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5030			Format:
5031			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5032			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5033
5034	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5035			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5036			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5037			help "seeing" what's going on.
5038
5039	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5040			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5041
5042	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5043			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5044			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5045			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5046			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5047			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5048			reported either.
5049
5050	unknown_nmi_panic
5051			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5052
5053	usbcore.authorized_default=
5054			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5055			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5056			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5057			if device connected to internal port)
5058
5059	usbcore.autosuspend=
5060			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5061			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5062			is the time required before an idle device will be
5063			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5064			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5065
5066	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5067			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5068
5069	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5070			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5071			(default = 65536).
5072
5073	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5074			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5075
5076	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5077			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5078			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
5079			 (default 0 = off).
5080
5081	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5082			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5083			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5084
5085	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5086			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5087			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5088
5089	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5090			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5091			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5092			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5093
5094	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5095
5096	usbcore.quirks=
5097			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5098			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5099			commas. Each entry has the form
5100			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5101			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5102			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5103			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5104			the following meanings:
5105				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5106					descriptors must not be fetched using
5107					a 255-byte read);
5108				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5109					correctly so reset it instead);
5110				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5111					Set-Interface requests);
5112				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5113					handle its Configuration or Interface
5114					strings);
5115				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5116					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5117				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5118					more interface descriptions than the
5119					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5120					talking to these interfaces);
5121				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5122					during initialization, after we read
5123					the device descriptor);
5124				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5125					high speed and super speed interrupt
5126					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5127					require the interval in microframes (1
5128					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5129					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5130					(bInterval-1).
5131					Devices with this quirk report their
5132					bInterval as the result of this
5133					calculation instead of the exponent
5134					variable used in the calculation);
5135				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5136					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5137					requests);
5138				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5139					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5140					remote wakeup capability);
5141				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5142					Power Management);
5143				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5144					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5145					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5146					calculation);
5147				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5148					to be disconnected before suspend to
5149					prevent spurious wakeup);
5150				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5151					pause after every control message);
5152				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5153					delay after resetting its port);
5154			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5155
5156	usbhid.mousepoll=
5157			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5158
5159	usbhid.jspoll=
5160			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5161
5162	usbhid.kbpoll=
5163			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5164
5165	usb-storage.delay_use=
5166			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5167			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5168
5169	usb-storage.quirks=
5170			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5171			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5172			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5173			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5174			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5175			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5176			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5177				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5178					of sense data, not on uas);
5179				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5180					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5181				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5182					device capacity by one sector);
5183				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5184					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5185				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5186					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5187				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5188					command, uas only);
5189				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5190					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5191				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5192					reported device capacity by one
5193					sector if the number is odd);
5194				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5195					device);
5196				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5197					command, uas only);
5198				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5199					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5200				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5201					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5202					not on uas);
5203				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5204					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5205				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5206					reported by the device, not on uas);
5207				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5208					by default, not on uas);
5209				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5210					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5211				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5212					Logical Unit);
5213				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5214					commands, uas only);
5215				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5216				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5217					medium is write-protected).
5218				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5219					even if the device claims no cache,
5220					not on uas)
5221			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5222
5223	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5224			Format: <int>
5225			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5226				 1 - undefined instruction events
5227				 2 - system calls
5228				 4 - invalid data aborts
5229				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5230				16 - SIGBUS faults
5231			Example: user_debug=31
5232
5233	userpte=
5234			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5235
5236				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5237					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5238					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5239
5240	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5241			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5242
5243			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5244			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5245
5246	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5247			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5248			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5249
5250			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5251			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5252			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5253
5254			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5255			alias for vdso32=0.
5256
5257			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5258			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5259
5260	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5261			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5262
5263	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5264			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5265
5266	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5267			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5268			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5269			level and then send out the event to user space through
5270			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5271			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5272			brightness level.
5273			default: 1
5274
5275	virtio_mmio.device=
5276			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5277
5278				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5279			where:
5280				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5281						like K, M and G)
5282				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5283				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5284						request_irq())
5285				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5286			example:
5287				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5288
5289			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5290
5291	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5292			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5293			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5294			Use vga=ask for menu.
5295			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5296			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5297
5298	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5299			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5300			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5301			All options are enabled by default, and this
5302			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5303			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5304			debugging features.
5305
5306			Available options are:
5307			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5308			  -	Disable all of the above options
5309
5310	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5311			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5312			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5313			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5314			mapped kernel RAM.
5315
5316	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5317			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5318			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5319
5320	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5321			Format: <command>
5322
5323	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5324			Format: <command>
5325
5326	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5327			Format: <command>
5328
5329	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5330			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5331			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5332			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5333			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5334			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5335			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5336
5337			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5338			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5339				    page is readable.
5340
5341			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5342			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5343				    page is not readable.
5344
5345			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5346			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5347			            might break your system.
5348
5349	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5350			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5351			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5352
5353	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5354			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5355			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5356			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5357
5358	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5359			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5360			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5361			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5362			ranging from 0-255.
5363
5364	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5365			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5366			Change the default green palette of the console.
5367			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5368			ranging from 0-255.
5369
5370	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5371			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5372			Change the default red palette of the console.
5373			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5374			ranging from 0-255.
5375
5376	vt.default_utf8=
5377			[VT]
5378			Format=<0|1>
5379			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5380			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5381			newly opened terminals.
5382
5383	vt.global_cursor_default=
5384			[VT]
5385			Format=<-1|0|1>
5386			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5387			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5388			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5389			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5390			cursors, 1 will display them.
5391
5392	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5393			Default: 2 = green.
5394
5395	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5396			Default: 3 = cyan.
5397
5398	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5399			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5400			or other driver-specific files in the
5401			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5402
5403	watchdog_thresh=
5404			[KNL]
5405			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5406			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5407			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5408			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5409			seconds.
5410
5411	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5412			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5413			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5414			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5415			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5416			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5417			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5418			corresponding sysfs file.
5419
5420	workqueue.disable_numa
5421			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5422			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5423			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5424			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5425			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5426			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5427			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5428
5429	workqueue.power_efficient
5430			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5431			they show better performance thanks to cache
5432			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5433			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5434
5435			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5436			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5437			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5438			power usage at the cost of small performance
5439			overhead.
5440
5441			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5442			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5443
5444	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5445			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5446			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5447			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5448			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5449			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5450			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5451			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5452			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5453			impacted.
5454
5455	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5456			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5457			supporting x2apic.
5458
5459	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5460			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5461			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5462			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5463			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5464
5465	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5466			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5467			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5468			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5469			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5470			domains.
5471
5472	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5473			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5474			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5475			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5476			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5477			nics -- unplug network devices
5478			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5479			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5480				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5481				the unplug protocol
5482			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5483
5484	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5485			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5486			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5487
5488	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5489			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5490			optimizations.
5491
5492	xen_nopv	[X86]
5493			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5494			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5495			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5496			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5497
5498	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5499			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5500			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5501			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5502			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5503
5504	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5505			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5506			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5507			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5508			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5509			more timer interrupts.
5510
5511	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5512			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5513			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5514			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5515
5516	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5517			Format:
5518			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5519
5520	xive=		[PPC]
5521			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5522			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5523			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5524
5525			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5526				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5527				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5528
5529	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5530			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5531			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5532			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5533
5534	xmon		[PPC]
5535			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5536			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5537			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5538			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5539				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5540			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5541				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5542				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5543				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5544			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5545				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5546				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5547				can be written using xmon commands.
5548			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5549				memory, and other data can't be written using
5550				xmon commands.
5551			off	xmon is disabled.
5552