1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466			trust validation.
467			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473			others).
474
475	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
476			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
479			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482			  a single hierarchy
483			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484			  subsystem
485			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495			Format: <string>
496			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500			Format: { "0" | "1" }
501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503				any implied execute protection).
504			1 -- check protection requested by application.
505			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506			Value can be changed at runtime via
507				/selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509	cio_ignore=	[S390]
510			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511	clk_ignore_unused
512			[CLK]
513			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520			platform with proper driver support.  For more
521			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
522
523	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524			[Deprecated]
525			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
531			Format: <string>
532			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533			with the name specified.
534			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535			the platform:
536			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537			[ACPI] acpi_pm
538			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542			[MIPS] MIPS
543			[PARISC] cr16
544			[S390] tod
545			[SH] SuperH
546			[SPARC64] tick
547			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550			[ARM,ARM64]
551			Format: <bool>
552			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555			systems.
556
557	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562			ones should be.
563			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564			or using the feature without checking anything
565			will still see it. This just prevents it from
566			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568			some critical bits.
569
570	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571			[ARM,X86,KNL]
572			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574			placement constraint by the physical address range of
575			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576			altogether. For more information, see
577			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
582			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583			a hypervisor.
584			Default: yes
585
586	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
587			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588			allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
591			Format:
592			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
593
594	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
597	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
598			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
599			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
602	conmode=
603
604	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608		ttyS<n>[,options]
609		ttyUSB0[,options]
610			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
611			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
615
616			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
617			information.  See
618			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619			alternative.
620
621		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
626			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
628			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
630			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
634			the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
636		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
638
639		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
641			console=brl,ttyS0
642		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
644	console_msg_format=
645			[KNL] Change console messages format
646		default
647			By default we print messages on consoles in
648			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650			`printk_time' param).
651		syslog
652			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656			from /proc/kmsg.
657
658	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
659			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
660			Defaults to 0.
661
662	coredump_filter=
663			[KNL] Change the default value for
664			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
667	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668			[ARM,ARM64]
669			Format: <bool>
670			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671			0: default value, disable debugging
672			1: enable debugging at boot time
673
674	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
675			disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
677	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
678			disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
680	cpu_init_udelay=N
681			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
683			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684			Default: 10000
685
686	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
687			Format:
688			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
689
690	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695			is selected automatically. Check
696			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
697
698	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700			in the running system. The syntax of range is
701			start-[end] where start and end are both
702			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
703			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
704
705	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
706			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710			available.
711			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
712	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
715			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
717			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
721			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722			for second kernel instead.
723			0: to disable low allocation.
724			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
725			or memory reserved is below 4G.
726
727	cryptomgr.notests
728			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
729
730	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
731			Format: <dma>
732
733	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
734			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
735
736	dasd=		[HW,NET]
737			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740			(one device per port)
741			Format: <port#>,<type>
742			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
743
744	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
745			time. See
746			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
747			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
748
749	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
751	debug_boot_weak_hash
752			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
753			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
754			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
755			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
756			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
757			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
758
759	debug_locks_verbose=
760			[KNL] verbose self-tests
761			Format=<0|1>
762			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
763			self-tests.
764			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
765			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
766			only useful to kernel developers.
767
768	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
769
770	no_debug_objects
771			[KNL] Disable object debugging
772
773	debug_guardpage_minorder=
774			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
776			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
777			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
778			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
779			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
780			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
781			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
782			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
783			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
784			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
785			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
786			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
787			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
788			bypassed) which are not detectable by
789			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
790			tracking down these problems.
791
792	debug_pagealloc=
793			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
795			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
796			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
797			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
798			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
799			on: enable the feature
800
801	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
802
803	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
804			Format: <area>[,<node>]
805			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
806
807	default_hugepagesz=
808			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
809			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
810			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
811			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
812			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
813			if not specified.
814
815	deferred_probe_timeout=
816			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
817			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
818			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
819			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
820			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
821			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
822			retrying.
823
824	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
825			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
826
827	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
828			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
829			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
830			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
831			miss to occur.
832
833	disable=	[IPV6]
834			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
835
836	hardened_usercopy=
837                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
838                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
839                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
840                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
841                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
842                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
843                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
844                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
845                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
846
847	disable_radix	[PPC]
848			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
849
850	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
851			Format: <int>
852			The number of initial APIC ID for the
853			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
854			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
855			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
856			causing system reset or hang due to sending
857			INIT from AP to BSP.
858
859	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
860			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
861			to workaround buggy firmware.
862
863	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
864			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
865
866	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
867			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
868			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
869			entry later. This parameter disables that.
870
871	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
872			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
873			memory out of your available memory pool based on
874			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
875			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
876
877	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
878			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
879			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
880
881	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
882
883	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
884			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
885
886	dma_debug_entries=<number>
887			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
888			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
889			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
890			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
891			architectural default is too low.
892
893	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
894			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
895			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
896			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
897			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
898			driver later using sysfs.
899
900	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
901			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
902			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
903			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
904			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
905			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
906			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
907			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
908			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
909			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
910			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
911			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
912			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
913			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
914			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
915			data set with no connector name will be used for
916			any connectors not explicitly specified.
917
918	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
919
920	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
921			Format: {"off" | "known"}
922			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
923			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
924			exists).
925			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
926			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
927			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
928
929	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
930			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
931			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
932			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
933
934	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
935	module.dyndbg[="val"]
936			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
937			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
938			for details.
939
940	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
941			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
942			information about the feature.
943
944	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
945			in some Intel CPUs.
946
947	module.async_probe [KNL]
948			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
949
950	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
951			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
952			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
953			which are not unmapped.
954
955	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
956
957			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
958			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
959			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
960
961			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
962			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
963
964		cdns,<addr>[,options]
965			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
966			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
967			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
968			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
969			configured.
970
971		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
972		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
973		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
974		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
975		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
976			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
977			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
978			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
979			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
980			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
981			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
982			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
983			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
984
985		pl011,<addr>
986		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
987			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
988			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
989			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
991			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
992			the device registers.
993
994		meson,<addr>
995			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
996			port at the specified address. The serial port must
997			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
998			supported.
999
1000		msm_serial,<addr>
1001			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1002			port at the specified address. The serial port
1003			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1004			yet supported.
1005
1006		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1007			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1008			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1009			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1010			yet supported.
1011
1012		owl,<addr>
1013			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1014			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1015			specified address. The serial port must already be
1016			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1017
1018		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1019
1020		s3c2410,<addr>
1021		s3c2412,<addr>
1022		s3c2440,<addr>
1023		s3c6400,<addr>
1024		s5pv210,<addr>
1025		exynos4210,<addr>
1026			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1027			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1028			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1029			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1030			Options are not yet supported.
1031
1032		lantiq,<addr>
1033			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1034			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1035			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1036			yet supported.
1037
1038		lpuart,<addr>
1039		lpuart32,<addr>
1040			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1041			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1042			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1043			port must already be setup and configured.
1044
1045		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1046			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1047			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1048			address. The serial port must already be setup
1049			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1050
1051		qcom_geni,<addr>
1052			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1053			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1054			specified address. The serial port must already be
1055			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1056
1057	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1058			earlyprintk=vga
1059			earlyprintk=efi
1060			earlyprintk=sclp
1061			earlyprintk=xen
1062			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1063			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1064			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1065			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1066			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1067			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1068
1069			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1070			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1071			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1072
1073			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1074			takes over.
1075
1076			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1077			be used at a time.
1078
1079			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1080			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1081			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1082			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1083				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1084			You can find the port for a given device in
1085			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1086				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1087
1088			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1089			very good.
1090
1091			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1092			the real console.
1093
1094			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1095
1096			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1097
1098	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1099			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1100			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1101			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1102			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1103			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1104			default: on.
1105
1106	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1107			ekgdboc=kbd
1108
1109			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1110			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1111
1112	edd=		[EDD]
1113			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1114
1115	efi=		[EFI]
1116			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1117			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1118			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1119			default.
1120			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1121			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1122			firmware implementations.
1123			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1124			debug: enable misc debug output
1125
1126	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1127			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1128			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1129			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1130			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1131
1132	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1133			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1134			updating original EFI memory map.
1135			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1136			from ss to ss+nn.
1137			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1138			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1139			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1140			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1141
1142			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1143			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1144			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1145			doesn't support it.
1146
1147	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1148			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1149			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1150			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1151			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1152
1153
1154	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1155			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1156
1157	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1158			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1159			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1160
1161	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1162			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1163			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1164			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1165
1166	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1167			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1168			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1169			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1170			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1171
1172	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1173			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1174			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1175			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1176
1177	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1178			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1179			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1180			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1181			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1182
1183	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1184			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1185			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1186			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1187			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1188			Default value is 0.
1189			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1190
1191	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1192			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1193			support.
1194
1195	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1196			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1197			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1198
1199	evm=		[EVM]
1200			Format: { "fix" }
1201			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1202			current integrity status.
1203
1204	failslab=
1205	fail_page_alloc=
1206	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1207			General fault injection mechanism.
1208			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1209			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1210
1211	floppy=		[HW]
1212			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1213
1214	force_pal_cache_flush
1215			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1216			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1217			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1218			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1219
1220	forcepae	[X86-32]
1221			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1222			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1223			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1224			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1225			and may cause unknown problems.
1226
1227	ftrace=[tracer]
1228			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1229			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1230			boot debugging.
1231
1232	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1233			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1234			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1235			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1236			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1237			oops.
1238
1239	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1240			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1241			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1242			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1243			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1244			tracing directory.
1245
1246	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1247			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1248			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1249			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1250			tracing directory.
1251
1252	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1253			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1254			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1255			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1256			that can be changed at run time by the
1257			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1258
1259	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1260			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1261			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1262			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1263			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1264
1265	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1266			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1267			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1268			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1269			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1270
1271	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1272			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1273			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1274			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1275			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1276
1277	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1278
1279	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1280			Format: off | on
1281			default: on
1282
1283	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1284			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1285			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1286			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1287			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1288
1289	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1290			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1291			android emulator
1292
1293	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1294			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1295			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1296			GPT to be used instead.
1297
1298	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1299			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1300			Format: 0 | 1
1301			Default: 0
1302	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1303			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1304			Format: 0 | 1
1305			Default: 0
1306	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1307			Format: 0 | 1
1308			Default: 0
1309	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1310			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1311			Default: 1024
1312	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1313			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1314			Default: 1024
1315
1316	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1317			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1318			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1319
1320	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1321			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1322			backtraces on all cpus.
1323			Format: <integer>
1324
1325	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1326			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1327			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1328			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1329
1330	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1331
1332	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1333			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1334
1335	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1336			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1337			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1338			logic will be disabled.
1339
1340	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1341			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1342			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1343			size on bigger boxes.
1344
1345	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1346			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1347			Default: "on"
1348
1349	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1350			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1351
1352	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1353
1354	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1355			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1356				verbose }
1357			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1358			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1359				VIA, nVidia)
1360			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1361
1362	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1363			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1364
1365	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1366	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1367			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1368			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1369			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1370			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1371			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1372
1373	hung_task_panic=
1374			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1375			Format: <integer>
1376
1377			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1378			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1379			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1380			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1381			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1382
1383	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1384				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1385	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1386				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1387				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1388	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1389			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1390			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1391			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1392			the real console.
1393
1394	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1395				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1396				registered from board initialization code.
1397				Format:
1398				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1399
1400	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1401	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1402			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1403			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1404			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1405	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1406	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1407			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1408			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1409	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1410	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1411	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1412			     for the AUX port
1413	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1414			     controller
1415	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1416			     controllers
1417	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1418	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1419			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1420			     transitions, or never reset
1421			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1422			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1423			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1424			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1425			architectures force reset to be always executed
1426	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1427	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1428
1429	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1430
1431	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1432			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1433			hardware.
1434	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1435			does not match list of supported models.
1436	i8k.power_status
1437			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1438			(disabled by default)
1439	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1440			capability is set.
1441
1442	i915.invert_brightness=
1443			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1444			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1445			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1446			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1447			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1448			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1449			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1450			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1451			value switches the backlight off.
1452			-1 -- never invert brightness
1453			 0 -- machine default
1454			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1455
1456	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1457			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1458
1459	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1460			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1461			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1462			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1463			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1464
1465	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1466			Format: <int>
1467			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1468			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1469			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1470			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1471			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1472			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1473			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1474			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1475			was 0x3.
1476
1477	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1478			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1479
1480	idle=		[X86]
1481			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1482			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1483			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1484			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1485			Not recommended.
1486			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1487			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1488			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1489
1490	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1491			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1492			Default: strict
1493
1494			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1495			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1496			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1497			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1498			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1499			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1500			encoding mode.
1501
1502			Available settings are as follows:
1503			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1504				supported by the FPU
1505			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1506				by the FPU
1507			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1508				by the FPU
1509			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1510				supported by the FPU
1511
1512			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1513			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1514			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1515			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1516			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1517			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1518			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1519			MIPS64 CPUs.
1520
1521			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1522			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1523			except where unsupported by hardware.
1524
1525	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1526			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1527			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1528			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1529			could change it dynamically, usually by
1530			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1531
1532	ignore_rlimit_data
1533			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1534			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1535			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1536
1537	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1538			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1539
1540	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1541			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1542			default: "enforce"
1543
1544	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1545			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1546			owned by uid=0.
1547
1548	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1549			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1550			measurements, instead of host native format.
1551
1552	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1553			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1554				   | sha512 | ... }
1555			default: "sha1"
1556
1557			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1558			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1559
1560	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1561			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1562			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1563				 fail_securely"
1564
1565			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1566			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1567			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1568			uid=0.
1569
1570			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1571			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1572			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1573
1574			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1575			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1576			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1577
1578			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1579			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1580			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1581			flag.
1582
1583	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1584			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1585			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1586			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1587			opened for read by uid=0.
1588
1589	ima_template=	[IMA]
1590			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1591			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1592			Default: "ima-ng"
1593
1594	ima_template_fmt=
1595			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1596			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1597
1598	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1599			Format: <min_file_size>
1600			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1601			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1602
1603			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1604			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1605			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1606
1607	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1608			Format: <bufsize>
1609			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1610
1611			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1612			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1613			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1614
1615	init=		[KNL]
1616			Format: <full_path>
1617			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1618			process.
1619
1620	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1621			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1622			startup.
1623
1624	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1625			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1626			modules and initcalls.
1627
1628	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1629
1630	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1631			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1632			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1633			override in debugfs after boot.
1634
1635	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1636			Format: <irq>
1637
1638	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1639
1640	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1641			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1642			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1643			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1644
1645	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1646		on
1647			Enable intel iommu driver.
1648		off
1649			Disable intel iommu driver.
1650		igfx_off [Default Off]
1651			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1652			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1653			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1654			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1655			DMA.
1656		forcedac [x86_64]
1657			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1658			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1659			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1660			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1661			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1662			then look in the higher range.
1663		strict [Default Off]
1664			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1665			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1666			to batching them for performance.
1667		sp_off [Default Off]
1668			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1669			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1670			not be supported.
1671		ecs_off [Default Off]
1672			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1673			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1674			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1675			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1676			on hardware which claims to support them.
1677		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1678			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1679			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1680			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1681			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1682			mapping is enabled.
1683			Note that using this option lowers the security
1684			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1685			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1686
1687	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1688			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1689			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1690
1691	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1692			disable
1693			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1694			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1695			passive
1696			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1697			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1698			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1699			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1700			  feature.
1701			force
1702			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1703			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1704			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1705			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1706			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1707			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1708			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1709			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1710			no_hwp
1711			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1712			  if available.
1713			hwp_only
1714			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1715			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1716			support_acpi_ppc
1717			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1718			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1719			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1720			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1721			per_cpu_perf_limits
1722			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1723			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1724
1725	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1726			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1727			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1728			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1729			no_x2apic_optout
1730				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1731			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1732
1733	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1734		strict	regions from userspace.
1735		relaxed
1736
1737	iommu=		[x86]
1738		off
1739		force
1740		noforce
1741		biomerge
1742		panic
1743		nopanic
1744		merge
1745		nomerge
1746		soft
1747		pt		[x86]
1748		nopt		[x86]
1749		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1750			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1751
1752	iommu.passthrough=
1753			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1754			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1755			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1756			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1757			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1758
1759	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1760			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1761			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1762
1763	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1764		0x80
1765			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1766		0xed
1767			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1768		udelay
1769			Simple two microseconds delay
1770		none
1771			No delay
1772
1773	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1774			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1775
1776	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1777			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1778
1779	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1780			[ARM, ARM64]
1781			Format: <bool>
1782			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1783			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1784			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1785
1786	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1787			[ARM, ARM64]
1788			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1789			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1790			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1791			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1792			LPIs.
1793
1794	irqfixup	[HW]
1795			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1796			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1797			firmware running.
1798
1799	irqpoll		[HW]
1800			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1801			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1802			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1803			firmware running.
1804
1805	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1806			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1807
1808	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1809			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1810			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1811
1812			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1813			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1814
1815			nohz
1816			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1817
1818			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1819			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1820			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1821			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1822			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1823
1824			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1825			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1826			  be configured manually after bootup.
1827
1828			domain
1829			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1830			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1831			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1832			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1833			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1834			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1835			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1836			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1837
1838			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1839			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1840			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1841			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1842
1843			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1844
1845
1846
1847	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1848
1849	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1850			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1851			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1852			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1853			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1854				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1855
1856	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1857			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1858			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1859			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1860			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1861				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1862
1863	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1864			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1865			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1866			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1867			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1868				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1869
1870	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1871			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1872
1873	nokaslr		[KNL]
1874			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1875			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1876			Layout Randomization).
1877
1878	kasan_multi_shot
1879			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1880			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1881			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1882			invalid access.
1883
1884	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1885
1886	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1887			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1888			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1889			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1890			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1891			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1892			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1893			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1894			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1895			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1896
1897			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1898			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1899			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1900			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1901			zone if it does not.
1902
1903			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1904			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1905			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1906			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1907			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1908			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1909			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1910
1911	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1912			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1913			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1914			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1915			optional and is the number seconds in between
1916			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1917			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1918			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1919			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1920			the kernel debugger.
1921
1922	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1923			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1924			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1925			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1926			 keyboard only format: kbd
1927			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1928			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1929			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1930			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1931
1932	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1933			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1934
1935	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1936			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1937			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1938
1939	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1940			Valid arguments: on, off
1941			Default: on
1942			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1943			the default is off.
1944
1945	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1946			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1947
1948	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1949				   Default is false (don't support).
1950
1951	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1952			KVM MMU at runtime.
1953			Default is 0 (off)
1954
1955	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1956			Default is 1 (enabled)
1957
1958	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1959			for all guests.
1960			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1961
1962	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1963			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1964			system registers
1965
1966	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1967			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1968			system registers
1969
1970	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1971			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1972			system registers
1973
1974	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1975			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1976			LPIs.
1977
1978	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1979			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1980			Default is 1 (enabled)
1981
1982	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1983			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1984			Default is 0 (disabled)
1985
1986	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1987			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1988			Default is 1 (enabled)
1989
1990	kvm-intel.nested=
1991			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1992			Default is 0 (disabled)
1993
1994	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1995			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1996			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1997			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1998
1999	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2000			CVE-2018-3620.
2001
2002			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2003
2004			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2005			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2006				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2007			never:	Disables the mitigation
2008
2009			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2010
2011	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2012			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2013			Default is 1 (enabled)
2014
2015	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2016			      affected CPUs
2017
2018			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2019			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2020
2021			full
2022				Provides all available mitigations for the
2023				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2024				enables all mitigations in the
2025				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2026
2027				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2028				sysfs interface is still possible after
2029				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2030				when the first VM is started in a
2031				potentially insecure configuration,
2032				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2033
2034			full,force
2035				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2036				flush runtime control. Implies the
2037				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2038				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2039
2040			flush
2041				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2042				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2043				L1D flush.
2044
2045				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2046				sysfs interface is still possible after
2047				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2048				when the first VM is started in a
2049				potentially insecure configuration,
2050				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2051
2052			flush,nosmt
2053
2054				Disables SMT and enables the default
2055				hypervisor mitigation.
2056
2057				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2058				sysfs interface is still possible after
2059				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2060				when the first VM is started in a
2061				potentially insecure configuration,
2062				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2063
2064			flush,nowarn
2065				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2066				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2067				insecure configuration.
2068
2069			off
2070				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2071				emit any warnings.
2072
2073			Default is 'flush'.
2074
2075			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2076
2077	l2cr=		[PPC]
2078
2079	l3cr=		[PPC]
2080
2081	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2082			disabled it.
2083
2084	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2085			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2086			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2087
2088	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2089			in C2 power state.
2090
2091	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2092			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2093			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2094			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2095			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2096			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2097			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2098
2099	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2100			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2101			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2102
2103	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2104			when set.
2105			Format: <int>
2106
2107	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2108			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2109			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2110			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2111			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2112			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2113			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2114			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2115
2116			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2117			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2118			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2119			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2120			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2121			host link and device attached to it.
2122
2123			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2124			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2125			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2126			The following configurations can be forced.
2127
2128			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2129			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2130
2131			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2132
2133			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2134			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2135			  allowed.
2136
2137			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2138
2139			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2140
2141			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2142			  and both resets.
2143
2144			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2145			  hot-unplug link recovery
2146
2147			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2148
2149			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2150
2151			* disable: Disable this device.
2152
2153			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2154			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2155
2156	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2157
2158	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2159			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2160
2161	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2162			Format: <integer>
2163
2164	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2165			Format: <integer>
2166
2167	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2168			Format: <integer>
2169
2170	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2171			Format: <integer>
2172
2173	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2174			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2175			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2176			number of online CPUs.
2177
2178	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2179			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2180
2181	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2182			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2183
2184	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2185			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2186			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2187
2188	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2189			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2190			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2191			mode during the locktorture test.
2192
2193	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2194			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2195			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2196
2197	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2198			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2199
2200	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2201			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2202			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2203			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2204			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2205			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2206
2207	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2208			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2209
2210	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2211			Enable additional printk() statements.
2212
2213	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2214			Format: <irq>
2215
2216	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2217			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2218			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2219			loglevels are defined as follows:
2220
2221			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2222			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2223			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2224			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2225			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2226			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2227			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2228			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2229
2230	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2231			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2232			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2233			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2234			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2235			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2236			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2237
2238	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2239			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2240			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2241			kernel boot problems.
2242
2243	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2244	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2245	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2246	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2247				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2248				attached printers to be reset. Using
2249				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2250				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2251				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2252				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2253				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2254				port specification list means that device IDs
2255				from each port should be examined, to see if
2256				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2257				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2258				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2259
2260	lpj=n		[KNL]
2261			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2262			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2263			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2264			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2265			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2266			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2267			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2268			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2269			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2270			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2271			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2272			hardware.
2273
2274	ltpc=		[NET]
2275			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2276
2277	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2278			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2279			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2280
2281	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2282			 yeeloong laptop.
2283			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2284
2285	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2286			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2287
2288	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2289			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2290			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2291			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2292			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2293			only takes effect during system bootup.
2294			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2295			which also disables the IO APIC.
2296
2297	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2298	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2299			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2300			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2301			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2302			/dev/loop-control interface.
2303
2304	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2305
2306	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2307
2308	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2309			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2310
2311	mdacon=		[MDA]
2312			Format: <first>,<last>
2313			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2314
2315	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2316			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2317			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2318			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2319			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2320			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2321			belonging to unused RAM.
2322
2323	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2324			memory.
2325
2326	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2327			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2328			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2329
2330	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2331			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2332			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2333			set according to the
2334			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2335			option.
2336			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2337
2338	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2339			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2340			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2341			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2342			option description.
2343
2344	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2345			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2346			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2347			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2348			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2349			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2350			comma delimited.
2351			Example:
2352				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2353
2354	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2355			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2356			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2357
2358	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2359			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2360			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2361			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2362			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2363			         or
2364			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2365			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2366			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2367			will be eaten.
2368
2369	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2370			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2371			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2372			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2373			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2374
2375	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2376			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2377			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2378			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2379			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2380			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2381			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2382			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2383
2384	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2385			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2386			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2387			Setting this option will scan the memory
2388			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2389			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2390			from using the memory being corrupted.
2391			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2392			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2393			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2394			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2395
2396	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2397			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2398			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2399			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2400			corruption in more or less memory.
2401
2402	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2403			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2404			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2405			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2406
2407	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2408			Format: <integer>
2409			default : 0 <disable>
2410			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2411			performed. Each pass selects another test
2412			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2413			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2414			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2415			regions that are detected.
2416
2417	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2418			Valid arguments: on, off
2419			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2420			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2421			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2422			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2423			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2424
2425			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2426			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2427
2428	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2429			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2430			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2431			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2432			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2433
2434	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2435			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2436
2437	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2438			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2439			platforms.
2440
2441	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2442			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2443			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2444			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2445
2446	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2447
2448	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2449			physical address is ignored.
2450
2451	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2452			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2453			Default: "0tb"
2454			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2455			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2456			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2457			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2458			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2459			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2460			unconfigured.
2461			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2462			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2463			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2464			VGA shield.
2465			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2466			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2467			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2468			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2469			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2470			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2471
2472	mminit_loglevel=
2473			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2474			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2475			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2476			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2477			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2478			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2479
2480	module.sig_enforce
2481			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2482			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2483			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2484			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2485
2486	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2487			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2488
2489	mousedev.tap_time=
2490			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2491			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2492			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2493			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2494			Format: <msecs>
2495	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2496			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2497	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2498			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2499
2500	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2501			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2502			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2503			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2504			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2505			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2506			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2507			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2508			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2509			is not too small.
2510
2511	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2512			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2513			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2514			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2515			allocations. Use with caution!
2516
2517	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2518			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2519
2520	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2521			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2522
2523	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2524			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2525
2526	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2527			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2528			at a time.
2529
2530	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2531
2532			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2533
2534			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2535				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2536			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2537				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2538				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2539
2540	mtdset=		[ARM]
2541			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2542
2543			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2544
2545	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2546			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2547			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2548
2549	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2550			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2551			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2552
2553	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2554			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2555			Default is 1.
2556			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2557			using up MTRRs.
2558
2559	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2560			Format: <integer>
2561			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2562			Default : 1
2563			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2564			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2565
2566	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2567
2568	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2569			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2570			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2571			something different and driver-specific.
2572			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2573			file if at all.
2574
2575	nf_conntrack.acct=
2576			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2577			0 to disable accounting
2578			1 to enable accounting
2579			Default value is 0.
2580
2581	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2582			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2583
2584	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2585			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2586
2587	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2588			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2589
2590	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2591			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2592			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2593			requests.
2594
2595	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2596			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2597			channel should listen.
2598
2599	nfs.cache_getent=
2600			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2601			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2602
2603	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2604			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2605			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2606
2607	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2608			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2609			entries.
2610
2611	nfs.enable_ino64=
2612			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2613			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2614			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2615			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2616			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2617
2618	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2619			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2620			slots the client will assign to the callback
2621			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2622			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2623			a particular server.
2624
2625	nfs.max_session_slots=
2626			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2627			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2628			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2629			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2630			Note that there is little point in setting this
2631			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2632
2633	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2634			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2635			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2636			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2637			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2638			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2639			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2640			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2641			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2642			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2643			back to using the idmapper.
2644			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2645	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2646			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2647			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2648			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2649			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2650
2651	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2652			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2653			information in exchange_id requests.
2654			If zero, no implementation identification information
2655			will be sent.
2656			The default is to send the implementation identification
2657			information.
2658
2659	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2660			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2661			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2662			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2663			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2664			after the locks are lost.
2665			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2666			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2667			parameter to '1'.
2668			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2669			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2670
2671	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2672			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2673			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2674
2675			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2676			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2677			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2678			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2679
2680	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2681			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2682			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2683			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2684			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2685			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2686
2687	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2688			when a NMI is triggered.
2689			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2690
2691	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2692			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2693			Valid num: 0 or 1
2694			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2695			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2696			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2697			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2698			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2699			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2700			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2701			need the box quickly up again.
2702
2703			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2704			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2705
2706	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2707			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2708			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2709			waits 4 seconds.
2710
2711	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2712			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2713			is present.
2714
2715	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2716			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2717
2718	no_console_suspend
2719			[HW] Never suspend the console
2720			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2721			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2722			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2723			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2724			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2725			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2726			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2727			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2728			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2729			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2730			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2731			turn on/off it dynamically.
2732
2733	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2734			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2735			but will impact performance.
2736
2737	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2738
2739	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2740			(CPU alternatives feature).
2741
2742	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2743			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2744
2745	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2746
2747	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2748			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2749
2750	nocache		[ARM]
2751
2752	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2753
2754	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2755
2756	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2757
2758	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2759
2760	noexec		[IA-64]
2761
2762	noexec		[X86]
2763			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2764			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2765			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2766
2767	nosmap		[X86]
2768			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2769			even if it is supported by processor.
2770
2771	nosmep		[X86]
2772			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2773			even if it is supported by processor.
2774
2775	noexec32	[X86-64]
2776			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2777			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2778				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2779			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2780				read implies executable mappings
2781
2782	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2783
2784	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2785			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2786			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2787
2788	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2789
2790	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2791			Equivalent to smt=1.
2792
2793			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2794			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2795				     via the sysfs control file.
2796
2797	nospectre_v1	[PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2798			check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2799			in the system.
2800
2801	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2802			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2803			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2804			to spectre_v2=off.
2805
2806	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2807			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2808
2809	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2810			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2811			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2812
2813	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2814			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2815			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2816			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2817			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2818			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2819
2820	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2821			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2822			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2823			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2824			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2825			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2826			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2827
2828	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2829			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2830			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2831
2832	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2833			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2834			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2835
2836	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2837			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2838			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2839			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2840			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2841			real-time systems.
2842
2843	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2844
2845	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2846			Valid arguments: on, off
2847			Default: on
2848
2849	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2850			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2851			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2852			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2853			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2854			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2855			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2856			just as if they had also been called out in the
2857			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2858
2859	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2860
2861	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2862			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2863
2864	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2865			broken timer IRQ sources.
2866
2867	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2868
2869	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2870			initial RAM disk.
2871
2872	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2873			remapping.
2874			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2875
2876	nointroute	[IA-64]
2877
2878	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2879
2880	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2881
2882	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2883
2884	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2885			fault handling.
2886
2887	no-vmw-sched-clock
2888			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2889			clock and use the default one.
2890
2891	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2892			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2893			behaviour
2894
2895	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2896
2897	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2898
2899	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2900			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2901
2902	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2903
2904	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2905
2906	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2907			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2908
2909	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2910			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2911			irq.
2912
2913	nomodule	Disable module load
2914
2915	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2916			pagetables) support.
2917
2918	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2919
2920	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2921			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2922
2923	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2924			with UP alternatives
2925
2926	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2927			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2928			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2929			available to user space applications.
2930
2931	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2932			space.
2933
2934	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2935			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2936			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2937
2938	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2939
2940	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2941
2942	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2943			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2944
2945	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2946
2947	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2948
2949	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2950			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2951
2952	nowb		[ARM]
2953
2954	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2955
2956	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2957			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2958			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2959			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2960			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2961			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2962			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2963			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2964			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2965			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2966			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2967			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2968			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2969
2970	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
2971			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2972			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2973			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2974			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2975			parameter's value.
2976			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2977			Default: 255
2978
2979	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2980			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2981			SAL PALO.
2982
2983	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2984			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2985			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2986			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2987			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2988			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2989			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2990			hot plugging.
2991
2992	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2993
2994	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2995			Allowed values are enable and disable
2996
2997	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2998			'node', 'default' can be specified
2999			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3000			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3001
3002	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3003			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3004			info.
3005
3006	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3007			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3008			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3009			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3010			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3011			interrupts *may* be lost!
3012
3013	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3014			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3015			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3016			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3017
3018	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3019			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3020
3021	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3022			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3023			userland or if you want common events.
3024			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3025			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3026				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3027				CPU specific event set.
3028			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3029				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3030				for generic hr timer mode)
3031
3032	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3033			process, but there is a small probability of
3034			deadlocking the machine.
3035			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3036			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3037
3038	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3039			Storage of the information about who allocated
3040			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3041			we can turn it on.
3042			on: enable the feature
3043
3044	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3045			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3046			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3047			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3048			on: turn on poisoning
3049
3050	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3051			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3052			timeout = 0: wait forever
3053			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3054			Format: <timeout>
3055
3056	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3057			on a WARN().
3058
3059	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3060			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3061			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3062			succeeds in any situation.
3063			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3064			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3065			kernel more unstable.
3066
3067	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3068			connected to, default is 0.
3069			Format: <parport#>
3070	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3071			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3072			Format: <mode>
3073
3074	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3075			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3076			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3077			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3078			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3079			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3080			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3081			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3082			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3083			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3084			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3085			are specified on the command line, starting
3086			with parport0.
3087
3088	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3089			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3090			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3091			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3092			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3093			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3094			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3095
3096	pause_on_oops=
3097			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3098			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3099			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3100
3101	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3102
3103	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3104			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3105			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3106
3107	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3108
3109				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3110				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3111				specified in one of the following formats:
3112
3113				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3114				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3115
3116				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3117				bus/device/function address which may change
3118				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3119				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3120				by other kernel parameters. If the
3121				domain is left unspecified, it is
3122				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3123				to a device through multiple device/function
3124				addresses can be specified after the base
3125				address (this is more robust against
3126				renumbering issues).  The second format
3127				selects devices using IDs from the
3128				configuration space which may match multiple
3129				devices in the system.
3130
3131		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3132				changes anything
3133		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3134		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3135				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3136				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3137		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3138				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3139				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3140				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3141		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3142				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3143				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3144		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3145				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3146				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3147				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3148				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3149				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3150				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3151		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3152				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3153				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3154		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3155				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3156		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3157				Configuration
3158		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3159				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3160				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3161		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3162				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3163				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3164		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3165				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3166				should never be necessary.
3167		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3168				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3169				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3170				when the system masks IRQs.
3171		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3172				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3173				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3174				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3175		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3176				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3177				on several machines and they hang the machine
3178				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3179				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3180				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3181				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3182				motherboard.
3183		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3184				Use with caution as certain devices share
3185				address decoders between ROMs and other
3186				resources.
3187		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3188				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3189				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3190		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3191				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3192		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3193				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3194				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3195				this way.
3196		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3197				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3198				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3199				F0000h-100000h range.
3200		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3201				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3202				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3203				explicitly which ones they are.
3204		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3205				numbers ourselves, overriding
3206				whatever the firmware may have done.
3207		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3208				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3209				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3210				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3211				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3212				IRQ routing is enabled.
3213		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3214				or for PCI scanning.
3215		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3216				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3217				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3218				please report a bug.
3219		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3220				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3221		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3222				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3223				so this option is a temporary workaround
3224				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3225		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3226				handle more pci cards
3227		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3228				This might help on some broken boards which
3229				machine check when some devices' config space
3230				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3231				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3232		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3233				This sorting is done to get a device
3234				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3235		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3236		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3237				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3238		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3239				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3240		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3241				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3242				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3243				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3244				or bus can support) for best performance.
3245		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3246				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3247				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3248				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3249				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3250				that hot-added devices will work.
3251		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3252				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3253				The default value is 256 bytes.
3254		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3255				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3256				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3257		resource_alignment=
3258				Format:
3259				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3260				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3261				aligned memory resources. How to
3262				specify the device is described above.
3263				If <order of align> is not specified,
3264				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3265				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3266				windows need to be expanded.
3267				To specify the alignment for several
3268				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3269				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3270				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3271		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3272				end-to-end CRC checking).
3273				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3274				the default.
3275				off: Turn ECRC off
3276				on: Turn ECRC on.
3277		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3278				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3279				Default size is 256 bytes.
3280		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3281				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3282				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3283		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3284				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3285				Default is 1.
3286		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3287				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3288				accommodate resources required by all child
3289				devices.
3290				off: Turn realloc off
3291				on: Turn realloc on
3292		realloc		same as realloc=on
3293		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3294		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3295				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3296		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3297				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3298				port.
3299		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3300				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3301				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3302				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3303				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3304				taints the kernel.
3305		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3306				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3307				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3308				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3309				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3310				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3311				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3312				this removes isolation between devices and
3313				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3314
3315	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3316			Management.
3317		off	Disable ASPM.
3318		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3319			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3320
3321	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3322		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3323			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3324			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3325			also tries to use these services.
3326		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3327			hotplug).
3328
3329	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3330		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3331		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3332
3333	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3334		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3335			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3336
3337	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3338
3339	pd_ignore_unused
3340			[PM]
3341			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3342			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3343			for debug and development, but should not be
3344			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3345
3346	pd.		[PARIDE]
3347			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3348
3349	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3350			boot time.
3351			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3352			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3353
3354	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3355			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3356			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3357			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3358			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3359			and performance comparison.
3360
3361	pf.		[PARIDE]
3362			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3363
3364	pg.		[PARIDE]
3365			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3366
3367	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3368			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3369
3370	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3371			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3372			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3373
3374	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3375			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3376			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3377
3378	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3379			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3380			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3381			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3382			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3383			possible settings and some assignment information.
3384
3385	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3386			{ off }
3387
3388	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3389			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3390
3391	pnp_reserve_irq=
3392			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3393
3394	pnp_reserve_dma=
3395			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3396
3397	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3398			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3399
3400	pnp_reserve_mem=
3401			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3402			autoconfiguration.
3403			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3404
3405	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3406			Default is 21.
3407			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3408			may be specified.
3409			Format: <port>,<port>....
3410
3411	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3412			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3413			platform machine description specific power_save
3414			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3415			execution priority.
3416
3417	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3418			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3419			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3420			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3421			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3422
3423	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3424			Format: {"off"}
3425			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3426
3427	print-fatal-signals=
3428			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3429
3430			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3431			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3432			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3433			coredump - etc.
3434
3435			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3436			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3437
3438			default: off.
3439
3440	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3441			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3442			panics
3443			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3444			default: disabled
3445
3446	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3447			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3448			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3449			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3450			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3451			Default: ratelimit
3452
3453	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3454			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3455
3456	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3457			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3458			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3459
3460	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3461			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3462			instead using the legacy FADT method
3463
3464	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3465			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3466			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3467				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3468			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3469			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3470				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3471			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3472			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3473				statistical time based profiling.
3474
3475	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3476			before loading.
3477			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3478
3479	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3480			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3481	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3482			per second.
3483	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3484			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3485			(0 = never).
3486	psmouse.resolution=
3487			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3488	psmouse.smartscroll=
3489			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3490			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3491
3492	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3493
3494	pt.		[PARIDE]
3495			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3496
3497	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3498			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3499			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3500			system calls and interrupts.
3501
3502			on   - unconditionally enable
3503			off  - unconditionally disable
3504			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3505			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3506
3507			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3508
3509	nopti		[X86_64]
3510			Equivalent to pti=off
3511
3512	pty.legacy_count=
3513			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3514			default number.
3515
3516	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3517
3518	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3519
3520	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3521			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3522
3523	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3524			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3525
3526	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3527			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3528			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3529			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3530			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3531
3532	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3533
3534		cec_disable	[X86]
3535				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3536				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3537
3538	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3539			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3540
3541			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3542			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3543			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3544			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3545			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3546			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3547			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3548			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3549			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3550			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3551
3552	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3553			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3554			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3555			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3556			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3557			This improves the real-time response for the
3558			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3559			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3560			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3561			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3562
3563	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3564			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3565			process in one batch.
3566
3567	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3568			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3569			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3570			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3571
3572	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3573			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3574			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3575
3576	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3577			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3578			RCU grace-period initialization.
3579
3580	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3581			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3582			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3583			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3584			the rcu_node combining tree.
3585
3586	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3587			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3588			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3589			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3590			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3591
3592	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3593			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3594			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3595			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3596			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3597			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3598			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3599
3600	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3601			Set required age in jiffies for a
3602			given grace period before RCU starts
3603			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3604			rcu_note_context_switch().
3605
3606	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3607			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3608			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3609			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3610			and maximum value is HZ.
3611
3612	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3613			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3614			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3615			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3616
3617	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3618			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3619			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3620			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3621			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3622			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3623			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3624			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3625			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3626			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3627
3628	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3629			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3630			defaults to the square root of the number of
3631			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3632			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3633			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3634
3635	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3636			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3637			batch limiting is disabled.
3638
3639	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3640			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3641			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3642
3643	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3644			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3645			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3646
3647	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3648			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3649			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3650			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3651			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3652
3653	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3654			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3655			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3656			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3657			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3658			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3659
3660	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3661			Measure performance of asynchronous
3662			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3663
3664	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3665			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3666			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3667			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3668			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3669			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3670
3671	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3672			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3673			grace-period primitives.
3674
3675	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3676			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3677			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3678			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3679			interference.
3680
3681	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3682			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3683			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3684			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3685			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3686			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3687			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3688			a single reader.
3689
3690	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3691			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3692			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3693			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3694
3695	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3696			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3697
3698	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3699			Shut the system down after performance tests
3700			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3701			testing.
3702
3703	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3704			Enable additional printk() statements.
3705
3706	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3707			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3708			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3709			no holdoff.
3710
3711	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3712			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3713			callback-flood tests.
3714
3715	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3716			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3717			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3718			test.
3719
3720	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3721			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3722			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3723			disable callback-flood testing.
3724
3725	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3726			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3727			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3728
3729	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3730			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3731			in microseconds.
3732
3733	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3734			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3735			in microseconds.
3736
3737	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3738			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3739			in seconds.
3740
3741	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3742			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3743			primitives, if available.
3744
3745	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3746			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3747
3748	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3749			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3750			update-side primitives, if available.
3751
3752	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3753			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3754			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3755			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3756			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3757			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3758			they are all non-zero.
3759
3760	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3761			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3762
3763	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3764			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3765			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3766			test, hence the "fake".
3767
3768	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3769			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3770			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3771			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3772			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3773			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3774
3775	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3776			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3777
3778	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3779			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3780
3781	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3782			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3783			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3784
3785	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3786			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3787			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3788			during the rcutorture test.
3789
3790	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3791			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3792			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3793
3794	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3795			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3796			warnings, zero to disable.
3797
3798	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3799			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3800
3801	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3802			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3803
3804	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3805			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3806
3807	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3808			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3809			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3810			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3811			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3812
3813	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3814			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3815			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3816			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3817
3818	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3819			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3820
3821	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3822			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3823
3824	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3825			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3826			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3827
3828	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3829			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3830
3831	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3832			Enable additional printk() statements.
3833
3834	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3835			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3836
3837	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3838			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3839
3840	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3841			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3842			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3843			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3844			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3845			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3846			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3847
3848	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3849			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3850			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3851			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3852			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3853			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3854			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3855			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3856			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3857
3858	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3859			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3860			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3861			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3862			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3863
3864	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3865			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3866			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3867			to zero.
3868
3869	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3870			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3871
3872	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3873			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3874
3875	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3876			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3877
3878	rdinit=		[KNL]
3879			Format: <full_path>
3880			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3881			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3882
3883	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3884			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3885			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3886			mba.
3887			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3888				rdt=cmt,!mba
3889
3890	reboot=		[KNL]
3891			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3892				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3893				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3894				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3895				[[,]f[orce]
3896			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3897			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3898			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3899			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3900					to be used for rebooting.
3901
3902	relax_domain_level=
3903			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3904			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3905
3906	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3907			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3908			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3909			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3910			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
3911
3912	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3913			Format: nn[KMG]
3914			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3915			address space.
3916
3917	reservelow=	[X86]
3918			Format: nn[K]
3919			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3920			the bottom of the address space.
3921
3922	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3923			during initialization.
3924
3925	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3926			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3927			Format:
3928			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3929
3930	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3931			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3932			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3933			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3934			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3935
3936	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3937			read the resume files
3938
3939	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3940			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3941			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3942
3943	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3944		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3945				present during boot.
3946		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3947		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3948		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3949				(that will set all pages holding image data
3950				during restoration read-only).
3951
3952	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3953
3954	rfkill.default_state=
3955		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3956			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3957		1	Unblocked.
3958
3959	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3960		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3961		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3962			blocked and the previous configuration.
3963		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3964			blocked and everything unblocked.
3965
3966	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3967			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3968
3969	ring3mwait=disable
3970			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3971			CPUs.
3972
3973	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3974
3975	rodata=		[KNL]
3976		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3977		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3978
3979	rockchip.usb_uart
3980			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3981			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3982			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3983			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3984
3985	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3986			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3987
3988	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3989			mount the root filesystem
3990
3991	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3992
3993	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3994
3995	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3996			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3997			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3998
3999	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4000			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4001			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4002			managed by CMA.
4003
4004	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4005
4006	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4007
4008	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4009			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4010		strict
4011			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4012			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4013			which is faster.
4014
4015	sa1100ir	[NET]
4016			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4017
4018	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4019
4020	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4021
4022	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4023			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4024			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4025			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4026
4027	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4028			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4029			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4030			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4031			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4032			1 -- enable.
4033			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4034			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4035
4036	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4037			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4038			security module asking for security registration will be
4039			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4040			as if no module has been chosen.
4041
4042	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4043			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4044			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4045			0 -- disable.
4046			1 -- enable.
4047			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4048			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4049			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4050
4051	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4052			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4053			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4054			0 -- disable.
4055			1 -- enable.
4056			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4057
4058	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4059
4060	shapers=	[NET]
4061			Maximal number of shapers.
4062
4063	simeth=		[IA-64]
4064	simscsi=
4065
4066	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4067
4068	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4069			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4070			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4071			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4072			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4073			layout control by attackers can usually be
4074			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4075			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4076			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4077			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4078			own.
4079			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4080
4081	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4082			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4083			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4084			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4085			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4086
4087	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4088			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4089			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4090			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4091			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4092			last alloc / free. For more information see
4093			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4094
4095	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4096			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4097			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4098			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4099			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4100			directories and files being created under
4101			/sys/kernel/slub.
4102
4103	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4104			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4105			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4106			fragmentation. For more information see
4107			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4108
4109	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4110			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4111			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4112			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4113			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4114			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4115			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4116			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4117
4118	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4119			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4120			lower than slub_max_order.
4121			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4122
4123	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4124			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4125			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4126
4127	smart2=		[HW]
4128			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4129
4130	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4131	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4132	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4133	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4134	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4135	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4136	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4137				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4138				1: Fast pin select (default)
4139				2: ATC IRMode
4140
4141	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4142			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4143			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4144			actual hardware limit.
4145			Format: <integer>
4146			Default: -1 (no limit)
4147
4148	softlockup_panic=
4149			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4150			Format: <integer>
4151
4152			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4153			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4154			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4155			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4156			functionality.
4157
4158	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4159			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4160			backtraces on all cpus.
4161			Format: <integer>
4162
4163	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4164			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4165
4166	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4167			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4168
4169			on   - unconditionally enable
4170			off  - unconditionally disable
4171			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4172			       vulnerable
4173
4174			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4175			mitigation method at run time according to the
4176			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4177			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4178			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4179
4180			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4181
4182			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4183			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4184			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4185
4186			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4187			spectre_v2=auto.
4188
4189	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4190			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4191			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4192
4193			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4194			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4195			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4196			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4197			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4198			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4199			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4200			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4201
4202			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4203			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4204			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4205			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4206
4207			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4208			Bypass optimization is used.
4209
4210			On x86 the options are:
4211
4212			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4213			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4214			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4215				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4216				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4217				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4218				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4219				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4220			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4221				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4222				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4223				  is inherited on fork.
4224			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4225				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4226
4227			Default mitigations:
4228			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4229
4230			On powerpc the options are:
4231
4232			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4233				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4234				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4235				  exit.
4236			off	- No action.
4237
4238			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4239			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4240
4241	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4242	spia_fio_base=
4243	spia_pedr=
4244	spia_peddr=
4245
4246	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4247			Specifies how frequently to check for
4248			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4249			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4250			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4251			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4252			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4253			are ignored.
4254
4255	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4256			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4257			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4258			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4259			grace period will be considered for automatic
4260			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4261			expediting.
4262
4263	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4264			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4265
4266			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4267			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4268			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4269			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4270
4271			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4272				   for both kernel and userspace
4273			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4274				   for both kernel and userspace
4275			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4276				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4277				   to allow userspace to register its
4278				   interest in being mitigated too.
4279
4280	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4281			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4282			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4283			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4284			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4285			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4286
4287	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4288			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4289
4290	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4291			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4292			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4293			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4294			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4295			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4296			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4297
4298	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4299			Format: <num>
4300			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4301			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4302			as the initial boot-console.
4303			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4304
4305	sti_font=	[HW]
4306			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4307
4308	stifb=		[HW]
4309			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4310
4311	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4312	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4313			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4314			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4315			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4316			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4317			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4318			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4319			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4320			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4321			maximum port values.
4322
4323	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4324			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4325			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4326			process in parallel from a single connection.
4327			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4328
4329	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4330			[NFS]
4331			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4332			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4333			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4334			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4335			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4336			NFS server is running.
4337
4338			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4339				    automatically using heuristics
4340			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4341			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4342			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4343				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4344
4345	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4346	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4347			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4348			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4349			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4350			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4351			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4352			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4353
4354	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4355			[SUSPEND]
4356			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4357			mode before resuming the system (see
4358			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4359			is set. Default value is 5.
4360
4361	swapaccount=[0|1]
4362			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4363			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4364			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4365
4366	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4367			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4368			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4369			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4370			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4371			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4372
4373	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4374
4375	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4376			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4377			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4378			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4379			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4380			in older udev will not work anymore.
4381			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4382			the kernel configuration.
4383
4384	sysrq_always_enabled
4385			[KNL]
4386			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4387			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4388			Useful for debugging.
4389
4390	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4391			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4392			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4393			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4394			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4395			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4396
4397	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4398
4399	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4400			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4401			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4402			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4403			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4404			The system is woken from this state using a
4405			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4406
4407	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4408			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4409
4410	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4411			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4412			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4413
4414	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4415			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4416			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4417
4418	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4419			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4420			critical and hot trip points.
4421
4422	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4423			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4424
4425	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4426			-1: disable all passive trip points
4427			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4428			value
4429
4430	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4431			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4432			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4433			0: no polling (default)
4434
4435	threadirqs	[KNL]
4436			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4437			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4438
4439	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4440			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4441
4442	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4443			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4444			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4445
4446	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4447			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4448			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4449			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4450
4451	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4452			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4453			to the hypervisor.
4454
4455	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4456			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4457			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4458			kernel based on different criteria.
4459
4460	topology=	[S390]
4461			Format: {off | on}
4462			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4463			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4464			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4465			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4466			Default is on.
4467
4468	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4469			Format: {off}
4470			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4471			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4472			LPAR.
4473
4474	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4475
4476	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4477			Format: integer pcr id
4478			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4479			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4480			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4481			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4482			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4483			are saved.
4484
4485	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4486			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4487
4488	trace_event=[event-list]
4489			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4490			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4491			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4492			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4493
4494	trace_options=[option-list]
4495			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4496			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4497			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4498			to echo the option name into
4499
4500			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4501
4502			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4503			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4504
4505			      trace_options=stacktrace
4506
4507			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4508			section.
4509
4510	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4511			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4512			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4513			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4514			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4515			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4516
4517			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4518			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4519			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4520			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4521
4522			** CAUTION **
4523
4524			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4525			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4526			the system to live lock.
4527
4528	traceoff_on_warning
4529			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4530			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4531			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4532			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4533
4534			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4535			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4536			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4537
4538			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4539			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4540
4541	transparent_hugepage=
4542			[KNL]
4543			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4544			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4545			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4546			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4547			for more details.
4548
4549	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4550			Format: <string>
4551			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4552			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4553			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4554			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4555			virtualized environment.
4556			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4557			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4558			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4559			can add overhead.
4560			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4561			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4562			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4563
4564	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4565			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4566			Format:
4567			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4568			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4569
4570	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4571			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4572			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4573			help "seeing" what's going on.
4574
4575	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4576			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4577
4578	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4579			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4580			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4581			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4582			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4583			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4584			reported either.
4585
4586	unknown_nmi_panic
4587			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4588
4589	usbcore.authorized_default=
4590			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4591			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4592			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4593
4594	usbcore.autosuspend=
4595			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4596			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4597			is the time required before an idle device will be
4598			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4599			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4600
4601	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4602			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4603
4604	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4605			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4606			(default = 65536).
4607
4608	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4609			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4610
4611	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4612			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4613			scheme (default 0 = off).
4614
4615	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4616			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4617			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4618
4619	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4620			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4621			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4622
4623	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4624			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4625			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4626			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4627
4628	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4629
4630	usbcore.quirks=
4631			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4632			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4633			commas. Each entry has the form
4634			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4635			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4636			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4637			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4638			the following meanings:
4639				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4640					descriptors must not be fetched using
4641					a 255-byte read);
4642				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4643					correctly so reset it instead);
4644				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4645					Set-Interface requests);
4646				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4647					handle its Configuration or Interface
4648					strings);
4649				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4650					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4651				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4652					more interface descriptions than the
4653					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4654					talking to these interfaces);
4655				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4656					during initialization, after we read
4657					the device descriptor);
4658				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4659					high speed and super speed interrupt
4660					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4661					require the interval in microframes (1
4662					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4663					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4664					(bInterval-1).
4665					Devices with this quirk report their
4666					bInterval as the result of this
4667					calculation instead of the exponent
4668					variable used in the calculation);
4669				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4670					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4671					requests);
4672				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4673					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4674					remote wakeup capability);
4675				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4676					Power Management);
4677				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4678					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4679					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4680					calculation);
4681				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4682					to be disconnected before suspend to
4683					prevent spurious wakeup);
4684				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4685					pause after every control message);
4686			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4687
4688	usbhid.mousepoll=
4689			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4690
4691	usbhid.jspoll=
4692			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4693
4694	usbhid.kbpoll=
4695			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4696
4697	usb-storage.delay_use=
4698			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4699			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4700
4701	usb-storage.quirks=
4702			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4703			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4704			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4705			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4706			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4707			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4708			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4709				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4710					of sense data);
4711				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4712					bytes of sense data);
4713				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4714					device capacity by one sector);
4715				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4716					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4717				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4718					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4719				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4720					command, uas only);
4721				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4722					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4723				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4724					reported device capacity by one
4725					sector if the number is odd);
4726				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4727					device);
4728				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4729					command, uas only);
4730				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4731					unlock ejectable media);
4732				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4733					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4734				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4735					initial READ(10) command);
4736				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4737					reported by the device);
4738				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4739					by default);
4740				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4741					bogus residue values);
4742				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4743					Logical Unit);
4744				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4745					commands, uas only);
4746				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4747				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4748					medium is write-protected).
4749				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4750					even if the device claims no cache)
4751			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4752
4753	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4754			Format: <int>
4755			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4756				 1 - undefined instruction events
4757				 2 - system calls
4758				 4 - invalid data aborts
4759				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4760				16 - SIGBUS faults
4761			Example: user_debug=31
4762
4763	userpte=
4764			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4765
4766				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4767					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4768					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4769
4770	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4771			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4772
4773			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4774			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4775
4776	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4777			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4778			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4779
4780			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4781			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4782			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4783
4784			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4785			alias for vdso32=0.
4786
4787			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4788			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4789
4790	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4791			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4792
4793	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4794			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4795
4796	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4797			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4798			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4799			level and then send out the event to user space through
4800			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4801			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4802			brightness level.
4803			default: 1
4804
4805	virtio_mmio.device=
4806			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4807
4808				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4809			where:
4810				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4811						like K, M and G)
4812				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4813				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4814						request_irq())
4815				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4816			example:
4817				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4818
4819			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4820
4821	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4822			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4823			Documentation/svga.txt.
4824			Use vga=ask for menu.
4825			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4826			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4827
4828	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4829			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4830			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4831			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4832			mapped kernel RAM.
4833
4834	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4835			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4836			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4837
4838	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4839			Format: <command>
4840
4841	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4842			Format: <command>
4843
4844	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4845			Format: <command>
4846
4847	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4848			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4849			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4850			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4851			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4852			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4853			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4854
4855			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4856			            emulated reasonably safely.
4857
4858			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4859			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4860			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4861			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4862			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4863
4864			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4865			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4866			            might break your system.
4867
4868	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4869			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4870			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4871
4872	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4873			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4874			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4875			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4876
4877	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4878			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4879			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4880			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4881			ranging from 0-255.
4882
4883	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4884			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4885			Change the default green palette of the console.
4886			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4887			ranging from 0-255.
4888
4889	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4890			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4891			Change the default red palette of the console.
4892			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4893			ranging from 0-255.
4894
4895	vt.default_utf8=
4896			[VT]
4897			Format=<0|1>
4898			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4899			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4900			newly opened terminals.
4901
4902	vt.global_cursor_default=
4903			[VT]
4904			Format=<-1|0|1>
4905			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4906			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4907			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4908			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4909			cursors, 1 will display them.
4910
4911	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4912			Default: 2 = green.
4913
4914	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4915			Default: 3 = cyan.
4916
4917	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4918			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4919			or other driver-specific files in the
4920			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4921
4922	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4923			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4924			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4925			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4926			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4927			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4928			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4929			corresponding sysfs file.
4930
4931	workqueue.disable_numa
4932			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4933			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4934			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4935			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4936			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4937			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4938			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4939
4940	workqueue.power_efficient
4941			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4942			they show better performance thanks to cache
4943			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4944			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4945
4946			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4947			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4948			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4949			power usage at the cost of small performance
4950			overhead.
4951
4952			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4953			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4954
4955	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4956			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4957			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4958			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4959			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4960			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4961			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4962			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4963			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4964			impacted.
4965
4966	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4967			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4968			supporting x2apic.
4969
4970	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4971			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4972			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4973			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4974			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4975
4976	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4977			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4978			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4979			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4980			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4981			domains.
4982
4983	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4984			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4985			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4986			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4987			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4988			nics -- unplug network devices
4989			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4990			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4991				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4992				the unplug protocol
4993			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4994
4995	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4996			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4997			optimizations.
4998
4999	xen_nopv	[X86]
5000			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5001			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5002
5003	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5004			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5005			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5006			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5007			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5008
5009	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5010			Format:
5011			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5012
5013	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5014			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5015			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5016			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5017