1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64]
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,riscv64]
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 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
14			"acpi=force" are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
327
328	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
329			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
330			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
331			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
332			IOMMU initialization.
333
334	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
335			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
336			remapping modes:
337			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
338			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
339			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
340			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
341			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
342
343	amd_pstate=	[X86]
344			disable
345			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
346			  scaling driver for the supported processors
347			passive
348			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
349			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
350			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
351			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
352			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
353			active
354			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
355			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
356			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
357			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
358			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
359			  frequency.
360			guided
361			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
362			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
363			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
364			  to the current workload.
365
366	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
367			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
368			Format: <a>,<b>
369			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
370
371	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
372			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
373			connected to one of 16 gameports
374			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
375
376	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
377			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
378			Format: noidle
379			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
380			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
381			APC and your system crashes randomly.
382
383	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
384			Change the output verbosity while booting
385			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
386			Change the amount of debugging information output
387			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
388			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
389			driver name.
390			Format: apic=driver_name
391			Examples: apic=bigsmp
392
393	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
394			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
395			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
396			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
397			      backup of CPU 0
398			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
399			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
400			      shot down by NMI
401
402	autoconf=	[IPV6]
403			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
404
405	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
406			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
407
408	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
411			0 -- disable.
412			1 -- enable.
413			Default value is set via kernel config option.
414
415	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
416			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
417
418	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
419			Identification support
420
421	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
422			Set instructions support
423
424	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
425			support
426
427	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
428			support
429
430	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
431			Extension support
432
433	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
434			Extension support
435
436	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
437
438	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
439
440	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
441			EzKey and similar keyboards
442
443	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
444
445	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
446			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
447
448	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
449			keyboards
450
451	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
452			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
453
454	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
455			Use software keyboard repeat
456
457	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
458			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
459			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
460			    enabled until the next reboot
461			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
462			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
463			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
464			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
465			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
466			    userspace auditd.
467			Default: unset
468
469	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
470			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
471			Default: 64
472
473	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
474			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
475			Format: { "0" | "1" }
476			0 - Disable the BAU.
477			1 - Enable the BAU.
478			unset - Disable the BAU.
479
480	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
481			Format: <io>,<mode>
482
483	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
484			Format: <io>,<mode>
485			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
486
487	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
488			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
489			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
490			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
491
492	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
493			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
494			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
495			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
496
497	bert_disable	[ACPI]
498			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
499
500	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
501			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
502
503	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
504			embedded devices based on command line input.
505			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
506
507	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
508			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
509			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
510			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
511			erroneous and ignored.
512			Format: integer
513
514	bootconfig	[KNL]
515			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
516			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
517
518			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
519
520	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
521	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
522			kernel args too.
523	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
524	bttv.tuner=
525
526	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
527			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
528			at a time.
529
530	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
531
532	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
533			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
534			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
535			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
536			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
537			This option provides an override for these situations.
538
539	carrier_timeout=
540			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
541			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
542			it waits 120 seconds.
543
544	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
545			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
546			trust validation.
547			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
548
549	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
550			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
551			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
552			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
553			others).
554
555	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
556			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557
558	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
559			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
560			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
561			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
562			  a single hierarchy
563			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
564			  subsystem
565			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
566			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
567			  created
568			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
569			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
570			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
571			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
572			stall information accounting feature
573
574	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
575			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
576			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
577			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
578			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
579			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
580			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
581			all v1 hierarchies.
582
583	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
584			Format: <string>
585			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
586			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
587			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
588
589	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
590			Format: { "0" | "1" }
591			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
592			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
593				any implied execute protection).
594			1 -- check protection requested by application.
595			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
596			Value can be changed at runtime via
597				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
598			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
599
600	cio_ignore=	[S390]
601			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
602
603	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
604			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
605			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
606			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
607			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
608			ones should be.
609			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
610			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
611			instability issue. However, not all features have names
612			in /proc/cpuinfo.
613			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
614			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
615			or using the feature without checking anything
616			will still see it. This just prevents it from
617			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
618			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
619			some critical bits.
620
621	clk_ignore_unused
622			[CLK]
623			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
624			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
625			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
626			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
627			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
628			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
629			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
630			platform with proper driver support.  For more
631			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
632
633	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
634			[Deprecated]
635			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
636			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
637			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
638			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
639
640	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
641			Format: <string>
642			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
643			with the name specified.
644			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
645			the platform:
646			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
647			[ACPI] acpi_pm
648			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
649				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
650			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
651				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
652			[MIPS] MIPS
653			[PARISC] cr16
654			[S390] tod
655			[SH] SuperH
656			[SPARC64] tick
657			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
658
659	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
660			[ARM,ARM64]
661			Format: <bool>
662			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
663			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
664			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
665			systems.
666
667	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
668			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
669			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
670			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
671			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
672			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
673			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
674			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
675			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
676
677	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
678			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
679			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
680			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
681			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
682
683	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
684			[KNL,CMA]
685			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
686			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
687			placement constraint by the physical address range of
688			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
689			altogether. For more information, see
690			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
691
692	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
693			[KNL,CMA]
694			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
695			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
696			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
697			specified, the default value is 0.
698			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
699			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
700			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
701			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
702
703	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
704			[KNL,CMA]
705			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
706			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
707			area for the specified node.
708
709			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
710			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
711			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
712			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
713
714	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
715			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
716			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
717			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
718			a hypervisor.
719			Default: yes
720
721	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
722			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
723			allocations, by default set to 256K.
724
725	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
726			Format:
727			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
728
729	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
730			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
731
732	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
733			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
734			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
735
736	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
737	conmode=
738
739	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
740			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
741			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
742			the console buffer is full. In this case the
743			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
744			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
745			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
746			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
747			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
748			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
749
750	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
751
752		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
753
754		ttyS<n>[,options]
755		ttyUSB0[,options]
756			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
757			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
758			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
759			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
760			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
761
762			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
763			information.  See
764			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
765			alternative.
766
767		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
768		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
769		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
770		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
771		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
772			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
773			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
774			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
775			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
776			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
777			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
778			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
779			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
780			the h/w is not re-initialized.
781
782		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
783			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
784
785		{ null | "" }
786			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
787			console messages discarded.
788			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
789			kernel command line.
790
791		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
792		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
793			console=brl,ttyS0
794		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
795
796	console_msg_format=
797			[KNL] Change console messages format
798		default
799			By default we print messages on consoles in
800			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
801			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
802			`printk_time' param).
803		syslog
804			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
805			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
806			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
807			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
808			from /proc/kmsg.
809
810	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
811			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
812			Defaults to 0.
813
814	coredump_filter=
815			[KNL] Change the default value for
816			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
817			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
818
819	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
820			[ARM,ARM64]
821			Format: <bool>
822			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
823			0: default value, disable debugging
824			1: enable debugging at boot time
825
826	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
827			Format:
828			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
829
830	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
831			disable the cpuidle sub-system
832
833	cpuidle.governor=
834			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
835
836	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
837			disable the cpufreq sub-system
838
839	cpufreq.default_governor=
840			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
841			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
842			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
843
844	cpu_init_udelay=N
845			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
846			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
847			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
848			Default: 10000
849
850	cpuhp.parallel=
851			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
852			Format: <bool>
853			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
854			the parameter has no effect.
855
856	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
857			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
858			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
859			succeeds in any situation.
860			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
861			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
862			kernel more unstable.
863
864	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
865			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
866			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
867			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
868			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
869			is selected automatically.
870			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and
871			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
872			hasn't been specified.
873			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
874
875	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
876			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
877			in the running system. The syntax of range is
878			start-[end] where start and end are both
879			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
880			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
881
882	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
883			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G.
884			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
885			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
886			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
887			below 4G, if available.
888			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
889	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
890			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
891			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
892			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
893			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
894			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
895			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
896			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
897			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
898			size is	platform dependent.
899			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
900			  --> arm64: 128MiB
901			  --> riscv: 128MiB
902			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
903			for second kernel instead.
904			0: to disable low allocation.
905			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
906			or memory reserved is below 4G.
907
908	cryptomgr.notests
909			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
910
911	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
912			Format: <dma>
913
914	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
915			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
916
917	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
918			function call handling. When switched on,
919			additional debug data is printed to the console
920			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
921			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
922			the hang situation.  The default value of this
923			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
924			Kconfig option.
925
926	dasd=		[HW,NET]
927			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
928
929	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
930			(one device per port)
931			Format: <port#>,<type>
932			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
933
934	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
935
936	debug_boot_weak_hash
937			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
938			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
939			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
940			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
941			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
942			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
943
944	debug_locks_verbose=
945			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
946			Format: <int>
947			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
948			self-tests.
949			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
950			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
951			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
952			useful to lockdep developers.
953
954	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
955
956	debug_guardpage_minorder=
957			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
958			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
959			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
960			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
961			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
962			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
963			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
964			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
965			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
966			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
967			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
968			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
969			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
970			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
971			bypassed) which are not detectable by
972			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
973			tracking down these problems.
974
975	debug_pagealloc=
976			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
977			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
978			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
979			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
980			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
981			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
982			on: enable the feature
983
984	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
985			and debugfs internal clients.
986			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
987			on: 	All functions are enabled.
988			no-mount:
989				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
990			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
991				its content. There is nothing to mount.
992			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
993			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
994				or directories within debugfs.
995				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
996				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
997			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
998
999	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1000
1001	default_hugepagesz=
1002			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1003			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1004			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1005			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1006			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1007			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1008			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1009			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1010			Format: size[KMG]
1011
1012	deferred_probe_timeout=
1013			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1014			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1015			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1016			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1017			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1018			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1019			successful driver registration. This option will also
1020			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1021			retrying.
1022
1023	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1024
1025	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1026			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1027			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1028			hardware.
1029
1030	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1031			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1032			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1033			blacklisted features.
1034
1035	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1036			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1037			(disabled by default).
1038
1039	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1040			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1041			capability is set.
1042
1043	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1044			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1045
1046	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1047			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1048
1049	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1050			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1051			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1052			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1053			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1054			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1055			          only (compression on level 1)
1056			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1057			          only (decompression)
1058			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1059			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1060
1061	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1062			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1063
1064	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1065			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1066			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1067			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1068			miss to occur.
1069
1070	disable=	[IPV6]
1071			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1072
1073	disable_radix	[PPC]
1074			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1075
1076	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1077			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1078			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1079
1080	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1081			Format: <int>
1082			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1083			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1084			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1085			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1086			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1087			INIT from AP to BSP.
1088
1089	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1090			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1091			to workaround buggy firmware.
1092
1093	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1094			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1095
1096	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1097			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1098			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1099			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1100
1101	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1102			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1103			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1104			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1105			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1106
1107	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1108			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1109			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1110
1111	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1112
1113	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1114			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1115
1116	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1117			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1118			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1119			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1120			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1121			architectural default is too low.
1122
1123	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1124			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1125			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1126			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1127			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1128			driver later using sysfs.
1129
1130	reg_file_data_sampling=
1131			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1132			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1133			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1134			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1135			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1136			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1137
1138			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1139			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1140
1141			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1142			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1143			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1144			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1145			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1146
1147			For details see:
1148			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1149
1150	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1151			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1152			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1153			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1154			match the *.
1155			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1156
1157	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1158			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1159			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1160			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1161			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1162			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1163			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1164			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1165			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1166			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1167			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1168			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1169			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1170			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1171			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1172			data set with no connector name will be used for
1173			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1174
1175	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1176
1177	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1178			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1179			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1180			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1181			exists).
1182			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1183			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1184			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1185
1186	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1187			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1188			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1189			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1190
1191	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1192	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1193			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1194			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1195			for details.
1196
1197	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1198			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1199			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1200			which are not unmapped.
1201
1202	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1203
1204			When used with no options, the early console is
1205			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1206			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1207			the platform.
1208
1209		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1210			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1211			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1212			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1213			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1214			configured.
1215
1216		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1217		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1218		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1219		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1220		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1221			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1222			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1223			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1224			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1225			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1226			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1227			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1228			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1229			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1230			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1231
1232		pl011,<addr>
1233		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1234			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1235			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1236			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1237			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1238			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1239			the device registers.
1240
1241		liteuart,<addr>
1242			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1243			specified address. The serial port must already be
1244			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1245
1246		meson,<addr>
1247			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1248			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1249			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1250			supported.
1251
1252		msm_serial,<addr>
1253			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1254			port at the specified address. The serial port
1255			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1256			yet supported.
1257
1258		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1259			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1260			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1261			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1262			yet supported.
1263
1264		owl,<addr>
1265			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1266			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1267			specified address. The serial port must already be
1268			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1269
1270		rda,<addr>
1271			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1272			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1273			specified address. The serial port must already be
1274			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1275
1276		sbi
1277			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1278			console.
1279
1280		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1281
1282		s3c2410,<addr>
1283		s3c2412,<addr>
1284		s3c2440,<addr>
1285		s3c6400,<addr>
1286		s5pv210,<addr>
1287		exynos4210,<addr>
1288			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1289			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1290			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1291			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1292			Options are not yet supported.
1293
1294		lantiq,<addr>
1295			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1296			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1297			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1298			yet supported.
1299
1300		lpuart,<addr>
1301		lpuart32,<addr>
1302			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1303			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1304			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1305			port must already be setup and configured.
1306
1307		ec_imx21,<addr>
1308		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1309			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1310			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1311			must already be setup and configured.
1312
1313		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1314			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1315			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1316			address. The serial port must already be setup
1317			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1318
1319		qcom_geni,<addr>
1320			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1321			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1322			specified address. The serial port must already be
1323			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1324
1325		efifb,[options]
1326			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1327			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1328			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1329			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1330			mapped with the correct attributes.
1331
1332		linflex,<addr>
1333			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1334			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1335			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1336			already be setup and configured.
1337
1338	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1339			earlyprintk=vga
1340			earlyprintk=sclp
1341			earlyprintk=xen
1342			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1343			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1344			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1345			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1346			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1347			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1348
1349			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1350			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1351			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1352
1353			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1354			takes over.
1355
1356			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1357			be used at a time.
1358
1359			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1360			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1361			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1362			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1363				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1364			You can find the port for a given device in
1365			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1366				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1367
1368			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1369			very good.
1370
1371			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1372			the real console.
1373
1374			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1375
1376			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1377
1378			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1379			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1380			UART class.
1381
1382	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1383			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1384			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1385			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1386			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1387			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1388			default: on.
1389
1390	edd=		[EDD]
1391			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1392
1393	efi=		[EFI]
1394			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1395				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1396				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1397			debug: enable misc debug output.
1398			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1399			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1400			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1401			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1402			firmware implementations.
1403			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1404			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1405			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1406			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1407			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1408			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1409			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1410			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1411			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1412			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1413
1414	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1415			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1416			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1417			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1418			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1419
1420	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1421			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1422			updating original EFI memory map.
1423			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1424			from ss to ss+nn.
1425
1426			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1427			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1428			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1429			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1430
1431			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1432			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1433			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1434
1435			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1436			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1437			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1438			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1439			"soft reserved".
1440
1441	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1442			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1443			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1444			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1445			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1446
1447
1448	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1449			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1450
1451	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1452			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1453
1454			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1455			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1456
1457			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1458			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1459			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1460			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1461
1462	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1463			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1464			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1465
1466	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1467			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1468			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1469			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1470			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1471
1472	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1473			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1474			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1475			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1476
1477	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1478			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1479			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1480			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1481			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1482
1483	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1484			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1485			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1486			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1487			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1488			Default value is 0.
1489			Value can be changed at runtime via
1490			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1491
1492	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1493			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1494			support.
1495
1496	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1497			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1498			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1499
1500	evm=		[EVM]
1501			Format: { "fix" }
1502			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1503			current integrity status.
1504
1505	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1506			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1507			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1508			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1509			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1510			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1511			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1512
1513	failslab=
1514	fail_usercopy=
1515	fail_page_alloc=
1516	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1517			General fault injection mechanism.
1518			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1519			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1520
1521	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1522			Format: { initns | none }
1523			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1524			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1525
1526	floppy=		[HW]
1527			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1528
1529	force_pal_cache_flush
1530			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1531			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1532			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1533			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1534
1535	forcepae	[X86-32]
1536			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1537			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1538			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1539			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1540			and may cause unknown problems.
1541
1542	ftrace=[tracer]
1543			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1544			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1545			boot debugging.
1546
1547	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1548			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1549			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1550			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1551			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1552			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1553			start up functionality.
1554
1555			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1556			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1557			line parameter.
1558
1559			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1560
1561			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1562			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1563
1564	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1565			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1566			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1567			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1568			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1569			oops.
1570
1571	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1572			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1573			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1574			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1575			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1576			tracing directory.
1577
1578	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1579			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1580			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1581			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1582			tracing directory.
1583
1584	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1585			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1586			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1587			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1588			that can be changed at run time by the
1589			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1590
1591	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1592			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1593			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1594			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1595			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1596
1597	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1598			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1599			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1600			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1601			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1602
1603	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1604			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1605			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1606			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1607			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1608			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1609			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1610			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1611			suppliers).
1612			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1613			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1614			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1615				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1616				up (sync_state() calls).
1617			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1618				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1619			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1620
1621	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1622			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1623			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1624			Format: <bool>
1625
1626	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1627			[KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished
1628			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1629			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1630			calls.
1631			Format: { strict | timeout }
1632			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1633				probe successfully.
1634			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1635				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1636				received their sync_state() calls after
1637				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1638				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1639
1640	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1641			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1642			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1643			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1644			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1645
1646	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1647
1648	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1649			Format: off | on
1650			default: on
1651
1652	gather_data_sampling=
1653			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1654			mitigation.
1655
1656			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1657			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1658			previously stored in vector registers.
1659
1660			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1661			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1662			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1663			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1664
1665			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1666				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1667				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1668				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1669
1670			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1671
1672	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1673			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1674			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1675			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1676			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1677
1678	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1679			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1680			android emulator
1681
1682	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1683			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1684			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1685	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1686			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1687
1688	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1689			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1690			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1691			GPT to be used instead.
1692
1693	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1694			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1695			Format: 0 | 1
1696			Default: 0
1697	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1698			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1699			Format: 0 | 1
1700			Default: 0
1701	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1702			Format: 0 | 1
1703			Default: 0
1704	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1705			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1706			Default: 1024
1707	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1708			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1709			Default: 1024
1710
1711	hardened_usercopy=
1712			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1713			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1714			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1715			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1716			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1717			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1718			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1719		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1720		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1721
1722	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1723			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1724			backtraces on all cpus.
1725			Format: 0 | 1
1726
1727	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1728			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1729			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1730			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1731
1732	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1733
1734	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1735			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1736
1737	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1738			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1739			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1740			logic will be disabled.
1741
1742	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1743		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1744				present during boot.
1745		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1746		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1747		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1748				(that will set all pages holding image data
1749				during restoration read-only).
1750
1751	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1752			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1753			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1754			size on bigger boxes.
1755
1756	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1757			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1758			Default: "on"
1759
1760	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1761
1762	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1763			Format: <string>
1764			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1765			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1766			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1767			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1768			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1769			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1770			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1771			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1772			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1773			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1774
1775	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1776			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1777				verbose }
1778			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1779			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1780				VIA, nVidia)
1781			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1782
1783	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1784			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1785
1786	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1787			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1788			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1789			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1790			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1791			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1792			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1793			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1794			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1795				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1796
1797	hugepagesz=
1798			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1799			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1800			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1801			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1802			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1803			architecture dependent.  See also
1804			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1805			Format: size[KMG]
1806
1807	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1808			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1809			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1810			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1811				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1812
1813			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1814			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1815			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1816
1817	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1818			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1819			enabled.
1820			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1821			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1822			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1823			Format: { on | off (default) }
1824
1825			on: enable HVO
1826			off: disable HVO
1827
1828			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1829			the default is on.
1830
1831			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1832			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1833			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1834			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1835			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1836
1837	hung_task_panic=
1838			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1839			Format: 0 | 1
1840
1841			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1842			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1843			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1844			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1845			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1846
1847	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1848				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1849	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1850				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1851				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1852
1853	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1854				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1855				      guest on lock contention.
1856
1857	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1858				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1859				registered from board initialization code.
1860				Format:
1861				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1862
1863	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1864	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1865			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1866			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1867			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1868	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1869	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1870			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1871			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1872	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1873	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1874	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1875			     for the AUX port
1876	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1877			     controller
1878	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1879			     controllers
1880	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1881	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1882			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1883			     transitions, or never reset
1884			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1885			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1886			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1887			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1888			architectures force reset to be always executed
1889	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1890	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1891	i8042.probe_defer
1892			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1893
1894	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1895
1896	i915.invert_brightness=
1897			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1898			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1899			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1900			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1901			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1902			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1903			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1904			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1905			value switches the backlight off.
1906			-1 -- never invert brightness
1907			 0 -- machine default
1908			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1909
1910	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1911			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1912
1913
1914	idle=		[X86]
1915			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1916			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1917			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1918			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1919			Not recommended.
1920			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1921			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1922			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1923
1924	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1925			Format: <bool>
1926			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1927			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1928			true (1).
1929
1930	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1931			Format: <bool>
1932			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1933			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1934
1935	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1936			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1937			Default: strict
1938
1939			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1940			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1941			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1942			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1943			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1944			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1945			encoding mode.
1946
1947			Available settings are as follows:
1948			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1949				supported by the FPU
1950			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1951				by the FPU
1952			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1953				by the FPU
1954			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1955				supported by the FPU
1956
1957			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1958			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1959			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1960			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1961			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1962			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1963			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1964			MIPS64 CPUs.
1965
1966			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1967			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1968			except where unsupported by hardware.
1969
1970	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1971			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1972			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1973			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1974			could change it dynamically, usually by
1975			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1976
1977	ignore_rlimit_data
1978			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1979			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1980			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1981
1982	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1983			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1984
1985	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1986			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1987			default: "enforce"
1988
1989	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1990			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1991			owned by uid=0.
1992
1993	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1994			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1995			measurements, instead of host native format.
1996
1997	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1998			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1999				   | sha512 | ... }
2000			default: "sha1"
2001
2002			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2003			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2004
2005	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2006			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2007			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2008				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2009
2010			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2011			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2012			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2013			uid=0.
2014
2015			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2016			all files owned by root.
2017
2018			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2019			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2020			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2021
2022			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2023			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2024			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2025			flag.
2026
2027			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2028			critical data.
2029
2030	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2031			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2032			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2033			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2034			opened for read by uid=0.
2035
2036	ima_template=	[IMA]
2037			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2038			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2039				   "ima-sigv2" }
2040			Default: "ima-ng"
2041
2042	ima_template_fmt=
2043			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2044			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2045
2046	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2047			Format: <min_file_size>
2048			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2049			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2050
2051			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2052			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2053			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2054
2055	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2056			Format: <bufsize>
2057			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2058
2059			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2060			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2061			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2062
2063	init=		[KNL]
2064			Format: <full_path>
2065			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2066			process.
2067
2068	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2069			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2070			startup.
2071
2072	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2073			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2074			modules and initcalls.
2075
2076	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2077			Format: <bool>
2078			Default: 1
2079			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2080			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2081			with devices being probed and
2082			initialized. This should normally just work,
2083			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2084			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2085			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2086			late_ initcalls.
2087
2088	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2089
2090	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2091			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2092			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2093			setting.
2094			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2095			Default is 0, 0
2096
2097	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2098			zeroes.
2099			Format: 0 | 1
2100			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2101
2102	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2103			Format: 0 | 1
2104			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2105
2106	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2107			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2108			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2109			override in debugfs after boot.
2110
2111	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2112			Format: <irq>
2113
2114	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2115
2116	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2117			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2118			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2119			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2120
2121	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2122		on
2123			Enable intel iommu driver.
2124		off
2125			Disable intel iommu driver.
2126		igfx_off [Default Off]
2127			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2128			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2129			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2130			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2131			DMA.
2132		strict [Default Off]
2133			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2134		sp_off [Default Off]
2135			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2136			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2137			not be supported.
2138		sm_on
2139			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2140			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2141			translation.
2142		sm_off
2143			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2144		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2145			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2146			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2147			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2148			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2149			mapping is enabled.
2150			Note that using this option lowers the security
2151			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2152			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2153
2154	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2155			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2156			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2157
2158	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2159			disable
2160			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2161			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2162                        active
2163                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2164                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2165                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2166                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2167                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2168                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2169                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2170                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2171                          and possibly on the processor model.
2172			passive
2173			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2174			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2175			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2176			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2177			  feature.
2178			force
2179			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2180			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2181			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2182			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2183			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2184			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2185			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2186			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2187			no_hwp
2188			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2189			  if available.
2190			hwp_only
2191			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2192			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2193			support_acpi_ppc
2194			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2195			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2196			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2197			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2198			per_cpu_perf_limits
2199			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2200			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2201
2202	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2203			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2204			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2205			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2206			no_x2apic_optout
2207				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2208			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2209
2210	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2211		strict	regions from userspace.
2212		relaxed
2213
2214	iommu=		[X86]
2215		off
2216		force
2217		noforce
2218		biomerge
2219		panic
2220		nopanic
2221		merge
2222		nomerge
2223		soft
2224		pt		[X86]
2225		nopt		[X86]
2226		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2227			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2228
2229	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2230			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2231			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2232			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2233			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2234			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2235			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2236
2237	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2238			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2239			0 - Lazy mode.
2240			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2241			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2242			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2243			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2244			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2245			1 - Strict mode.
2246			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2247			  synchronously.
2248			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2249			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2250			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2251
2252	iommu.passthrough=
2253			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2254			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2255			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2256			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2257			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2258
2259	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2260			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2261			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2262
2263	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2264		0x80
2265			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2266		0xed
2267			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2268		udelay
2269			Simple two microseconds delay
2270		none
2271			No delay
2272
2273	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2274			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2275
2276	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2277			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2278
2279	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2280			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2281
2282	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2283			[ARM, ARM64]
2284			Format: <bool>
2285			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2286			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2287			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2288
2289	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2290			[ARM, ARM64]
2291			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2292			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2293			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2294			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2295			LPIs.
2296
2297	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2298			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2299			requires the kernel to be built with
2300			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2301
2302	irqfixup	[HW]
2303			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2304			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2305			firmware running.
2306
2307	irqpoll		[HW]
2308			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2309			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2310			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2311			firmware running.
2312
2313	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2314			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2315
2316	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2317			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2318			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2319
2320			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2321			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2322
2323			nohz
2324			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2325
2326			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2327			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2328			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2329			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2330			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2331
2332			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2333			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2334			  be configured manually after bootup.
2335
2336			domain
2337			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2338			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2339			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2340			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2341			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2342			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2343			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2344			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2345
2346			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2347			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2348			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2349			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2350
2351			managed_irq
2352
2353			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2354			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2355			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2356			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2357			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2358
2359			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2360			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2361			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2362			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2363			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2364			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2365			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2366
2367			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2368			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2369			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2370			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2371			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2372			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2373			  queues.
2374
2375			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2376
2377	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2378
2379	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2380			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2381			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2382			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2383
2384			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2385			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2386			write the parameter as:
2387				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2388
2389			Deprecated formats:
2390			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2391			  write the parameter as:
2392				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2393			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2394			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2395				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2396
2397	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2398			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2399			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2400			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2401
2402			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2403			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2404			write the parameter as:
2405				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2406
2407			Deprecated formats:
2408			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2409			  write the parameter as:
2410				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2411			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2412			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2413				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2414
2415	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2416			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2417			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2418			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2419
2420			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2421			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2422			write the parameter as:
2423				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2424
2425			Deprecated formats:
2426			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2427			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2428				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2429			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2430			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2431				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2432
2433	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2434			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2435
2436	kasan_multi_shot
2437			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2438			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2439			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2440			invalid access.
2441
2442	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2443			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2444			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2445			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2446			the real console.
2447
2448	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2449
2450	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2451			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2452			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2453			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2454			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2455			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2456			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2457			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2458			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2459			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2460
2461			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2462			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2463			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2464			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2465			zone if it does not.
2466
2467			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2468			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2469			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2470			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2471			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2472			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2473			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2474
2475	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2476			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2477			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2478			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2479			optional and is the number seconds in between
2480			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2481			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2482			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2483			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2484			the kernel debugger.
2485
2486	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2487			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2488			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2489			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2490			 keyboard only format: kbd
2491			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2492			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2493			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2494			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2495
2496	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2497			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2498			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2499			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2500			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2501			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2502			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2503
2504			The name of the early console should be specified
2505			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2506			the early console might be different than the tty
2507			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2508			blank and the first boot console that implements
2509			read() will be picked.
2510
2511	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2512			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2513
2514	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2515			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2516			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2517
2518	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2519			Valid arguments: on, off
2520			Default: on
2521			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2522			the default is off.
2523
2524	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2525			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2526			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2527			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2528			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2529			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2530			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2531
2532			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2533
2534			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2535			Boot Parameter" section.
2536
2537	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2538			and kernel address spaces.
2539			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2540			0: force disabled
2541			1: force enabled
2542
2543	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2544			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2545			default value can be overridden via
2546			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2547			Default is 1 (enabled)
2548
2549	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2550			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2551
2552	kvm.eager_page_split=
2553			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2554			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2555			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2556			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2557			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2558			required to split huge pages lazily.
2559
2560			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2561			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2562			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2563			still be used for reads.
2564
2565			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2566			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2567			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2568			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2569			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2570			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2571			cleared.
2572
2573			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2574
2575			Default is Y (on).
2576
2577	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2578				   Default is false (don't support).
2579
2580	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2581			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2582			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2583			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2584			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2585			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2586				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2587
2588			Default is 'auto'.
2589
2590			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2591			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2592
2593	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2594			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2595			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2596			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2597			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2598
2599	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2600			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2601			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2602			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2603			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2604			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2605
2606	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2607			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2608
2609	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2610			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2611			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2612			for NPT.
2613
2614	kvm-arm.mode=
2615			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2616
2617			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2618
2619			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2620			      protected guests.
2621
2622			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2623				   state is kept private from the host.
2624
2625			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2626				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2627				hardware.
2628
2629			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2630			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2631			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2632			used with extreme caution.
2633
2634	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2635			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2636			system registers
2637
2638	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2639			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2640			system registers
2641
2642	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2643			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2644			system registers
2645
2646	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2647			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2648			LPIs.
2649
2650	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2651			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2652			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2653			allocation.
2654			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2655			Format: <integer>
2656			Default: 5
2657
2658	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2659			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2660			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2661			for EPT.
2662
2663	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2664			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2665			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2666			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2667			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2668			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2669			Default is 1 (enabled).
2670
2671	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2672			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2673			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2674			hardware lacks support for it.
2675
2676	kvm-intel.nested=
2677			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2678			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2679
2680	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2681			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2682			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2683			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2684			hardware lacks support for it.
2685
2686	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2687			CVE-2018-3620.
2688
2689			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2690
2691			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2692			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2693				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2694			never:	Disables the mitigation
2695
2696			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2697
2698	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2699			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2700			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2701			for it.
2702
2703	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2704			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2705
2706			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2707			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2708			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2709
2710			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2711			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2712			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2713			not have direct access.
2714
2715			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2716			options are:
2717
2718			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2719
2720	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2721			      affected CPUs
2722
2723			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2724			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2725
2726			full
2727				Provides all available mitigations for the
2728				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2729				enables all mitigations in the
2730				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2731
2732				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2733				sysfs interface is still possible after
2734				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2735				when the first VM is started in a
2736				potentially insecure configuration,
2737				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2738
2739			full,force
2740				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2741				flush runtime control. Implies the
2742				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2743				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2744
2745			flush
2746				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2747				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2748				L1D flush.
2749
2750				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2751				sysfs interface is still possible after
2752				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2753				when the first VM is started in a
2754				potentially insecure configuration,
2755				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2756
2757			flush,nosmt
2758
2759				Disables SMT and enables the default
2760				hypervisor mitigation.
2761
2762				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2763				sysfs interface is still possible after
2764				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2765				when the first VM is started in a
2766				potentially insecure configuration,
2767				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2768
2769			flush,nowarn
2770				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2771				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2772				insecure configuration.
2773
2774			off
2775				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2776				emit any warnings.
2777				It also drops the swap size and available
2778				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2779				bare metal.
2780
2781			Default is 'flush'.
2782
2783			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2784
2785	l2cr=		[PPC]
2786
2787	l3cr=		[PPC]
2788
2789	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2790			disabled it.
2791
2792	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2793			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2794			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2795			Format: notscdeadline
2796
2797	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2798			in C2 power state.
2799
2800	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2801			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2802			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2803			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2804			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2805			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2806			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2807
2808	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2809			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2810			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2811
2812	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2813			when set.
2814			Format: <int>
2815
2816	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2817			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2818			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2819			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2820			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2821			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2822			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2823			to all ports, links and devices.
2824
2825			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2826			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2827			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2828			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2829			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2830			host link and device attached to it.
2831
2832			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2833			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2834			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2835			The following configurations can be forced.
2836
2837			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2838			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2839
2840			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2841
2842			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2843			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2844			  allowed.
2845
2846			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2847			  resets.
2848
2849			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2850			  link recovery.
2851
2852			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2853			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2854			  detection.
2855
2856			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2857
2858			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2859
2860			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2861
2862			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2863
2864			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2865
2866			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2867
2868			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2869
2870			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2871
2872			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2873			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2874
2875			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2876			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2877
2878			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2879			  identify device data log.
2880
2881			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2882			  purpose log directory.
2883
2884			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2885
2886			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2887			  1024 sectors.
2888
2889			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2890			  65535 sectors.
2891
2892			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2893
2894			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2895			  should be skipped.
2896
2897			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2898			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2899
2900			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2901
2902			* disable: Disable this device.
2903
2904			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2905			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2906
2907	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2908
2909	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2910			Format: <integer>
2911
2912	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2913			Format: <integer>
2914
2915	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2916			Format: <integer>
2917
2918	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2919			Format: <integer>
2920
2921	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2922			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2923			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2924			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2925			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2926			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2927			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2928			are also disabled.
2929
2930	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2931			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2932			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2933			number of online CPUs.
2934
2935	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2936			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2937
2938	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2939			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2940
2941	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2942			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2943			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2944
2945	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2946			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2947			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2948			mode during the locktorture test.
2949
2950	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2951			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2952			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2953
2954	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2955			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2956
2957	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2958			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2959			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2960			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2961			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2962			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2963
2964	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2965			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2966
2967	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
2968			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
2969			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
2970
2971	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2972			Enable additional printk() statements.
2973
2974	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2975			Format: <irq>
2976
2977	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2978			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2979			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2980			loglevels are defined as follows:
2981
2982			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2983			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2984			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2985			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2986			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2987			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2988			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2989			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2990
2991	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2992			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2993			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2994			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2995			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2996			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2997			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2998
2999	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3000			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3001			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3002			kernel boot problems.
3003
3004	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3005	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3006	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3007	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3008				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3009				attached printers to be reset. Using
3010				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3011				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3012				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3013				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3014				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3015				port specification list means that device IDs
3016				from each port should be examined, to see if
3017				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3018				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3019				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3020
3021	lpj=n		[KNL]
3022			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3023			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3024			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3025			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3026			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3027			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3028			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3029			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3030			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3031			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3032			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3033			hardware.
3034
3035	ltpc=		[NET]
3036			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3037
3038	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3039
3040	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3041			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3042			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3043
3044	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3045			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3046			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3047
3048	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3049			different yeeloong laptops.
3050			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3051
3052	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3053			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3054
3055	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3056			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3057			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3058			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3059			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3060			only takes effect during system bootup.
3061			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3062			which also disables the IO APIC.
3063
3064	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3065	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3066			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3067			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3068			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3069			/dev/loop-control interface.
3070
3071	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3072
3073	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3074
3075	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3076			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3077
3078	mdacon=		[MDA]
3079			Format: <first>,<last>
3080			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3081
3082	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
3083			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3084			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3085
3086			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3087			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3088			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3089
3090			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3091			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3092			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3093			not have direct access.
3094
3095			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3096			options are:
3097
3098			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3099			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3100				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3101			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3102
3103			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3104			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3105			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3106			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3107			too.
3108
3109			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3110			mds=full.
3111
3112			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3113
3114	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3115			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3116
3117	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3118			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3119
3120			1 for test;
3121			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3122			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3123			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3124			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3125
3126			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3127			high memory is not affected.
3128
3129			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3130			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3131
3132			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3133			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3134			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3135			belonging to unused RAM.
3136
3137			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3138			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3139			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3140
3141	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3142			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3143			firmware.
3144			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3145			ss[KMG].
3146			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3147			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3148
3149	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3150			memory.
3151
3152	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3153
3154	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3155			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3156			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3157
3158	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3159			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3160			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3161			set according to the
3162			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3163			option.
3164			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3165
3166	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3167			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3168			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3169			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3170			option description.
3171
3172	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3173			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3174			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3175			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3176			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3177			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3178			comma delimited.
3179			Example:
3180				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3181
3182	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3183			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3184			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3185
3186	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3187			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3188			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3189			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3190			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3191			         or
3192			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3193			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3194			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3195			will be eaten.
3196
3197	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3198			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3199			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3200			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3201			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3202
3203	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3204			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3205			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3206			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3207			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3208			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3209			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3210			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3211
3212	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3213			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3214			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3215			Setting this option will scan the memory
3216			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3217			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3218			from using the memory being corrupted.
3219			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3220			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3221			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3222			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3223
3224	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3225			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3226			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3227			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3228			corruption in more or less memory.
3229
3230	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3231			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3232			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3233			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3234
3235	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3236			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3237			Format: {on | off (default)}
3238			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3239			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3240			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3241			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3242			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3243			lot of memory without requiring additional
3244			memory to do so.
3245			This feature is disabled by default because it
3246			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3247			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3248			memory blocks).
3249			The state of the flag can be read in
3250			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3251			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3252			the feature is not effective.
3253
3254	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3255			Format: <integer>
3256			default : 0 <disable>
3257			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3258			performed. Each pass selects another test
3259			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3260			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3261			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3262			regions that are detected.
3263
3264	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3265			Valid arguments: on, off
3266			Default: off
3267			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3268			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3269
3270			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3271			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3272
3273	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3274			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3275			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3276			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3277			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3278
3279	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3280			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3281			platforms.
3282
3283	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3284			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3285			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3286			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3287
3288	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3289
3290	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3291			physical address is ignored.
3292
3293	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3294			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3295			Default: "0tb"
3296			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3297			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3298			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3299			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3300			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3301			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3302			unconfigured.
3303			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3304			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3305			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3306			VGA shield.
3307			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3308			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3309			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3310			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3311			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3312			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3313
3314	mitigations=
3315			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3316			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3317			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3318			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3319
3320			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3321			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3322
3323			off
3324				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3325				improves system performance, but it may also
3326				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3327				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3328					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3329					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3330					       l1tf=off [X86]
3331					       mds=off [X86]
3332					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3333					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3334					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3335					       nobp=0 [S390]
3336					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3337					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3338					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3339					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3340					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3341					       retbleed=off [X86]
3342					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3343					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3344					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3345					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3346					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3347					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3348
3349				Exceptions:
3350					       This does not have any effect on
3351					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3352					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3353
3354			auto (default)
3355				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3356				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3357				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3358				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3359				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3360				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3361
3362			auto,nosmt
3363				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3364				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3365				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3366				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3367					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3368					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3369					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3370					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3371
3372	mminit_loglevel=
3373			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3374			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3375			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3376			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3377			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3378			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3379
3380	mmio_stale_data=
3381			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3382			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3383
3384			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3385			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3386			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3387			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3388			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3389			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3390
3391			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3392			options are:
3393
3394			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3395
3396			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3397				     vulnerable CPUs.
3398
3399			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3400
3401			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3402			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3403			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3404			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3405			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3406			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3407
3408			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3409			mmio_stale_data=full.
3410
3411			For details see:
3412			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3413
3414	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3415			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3416			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3417			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3418			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3419			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3420
3421	module.async_probe=<bool>
3422			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3423			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3424			specific module, use the module specific control that
3425			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3426			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3427			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3428			the specific module.
3429
3430	module.enable_dups_trace
3431			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3432			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3433			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3434			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3435			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3436	module.sig_enforce
3437			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3438			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3439			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3440			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3441
3442	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3443			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3444
3445	mousedev.tap_time=
3446			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3447			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3448			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3449			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3450			Format: <msecs>
3451	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3452			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3453	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3454			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3455
3456	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3457			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3458			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3459			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3460			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3461			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3462			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3463			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3464			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3465			is not too small.
3466
3467	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3468			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3469			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3470			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3471			allocations. Use with caution!
3472
3473	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3474			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3475
3476	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3477			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3478
3479	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3480			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3481
3482	mtdset=		[ARM]
3483			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3484
3485			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3486
3487	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3488			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3489			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3490
3491	mtrr=debug	[X86]
3492			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3493			registers at boot time.
3494
3495	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3496			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3497			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3498
3499	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3500			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3501			Default is 1.
3502			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3503			using up MTRRs.
3504
3505	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3506			Format: <integer>
3507			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3508			Default : 1
3509			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3510			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3511
3512	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3513			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3514			at a time.
3515
3516	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3517
3518	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3519			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3520			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3521			something different and driver-specific.
3522			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3523			file if at all.
3524
3525	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3526			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3527			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3528			waits 4 seconds.
3529
3530	nf_conntrack.acct=
3531			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3532			0 to disable accounting
3533			1 to enable accounting
3534			Default value is 0.
3535
3536	nfs.cache_getent=
3537			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3538			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3539
3540	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3541			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3542			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3543
3544	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3545			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3546			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3547			requests.
3548
3549	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3550			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3551			channel should listen.
3552
3553	nfs.enable_ino64=
3554			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3555			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3556			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3557			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3558			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3559
3560	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3561			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3562			entries.
3563
3564	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3565			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3566			slots the client will assign to the callback
3567			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3568			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3569			a particular server.
3570
3571	nfs.max_session_slots=
3572			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3573			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3574			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3575			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3576			Note that there is little point in setting this
3577			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3578
3579	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3580			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3581			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3582			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3583			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3584			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3585			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3586			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3587			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3588			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3589			back to using the idmapper.
3590			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3591
3592	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3593			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3594			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3595			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3596			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3597
3598	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3599			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3600			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3601			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3602			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3603			after the locks are lost.
3604			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3605			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3606			parameter to '1'.
3607			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3608			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3609
3610	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3611			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3612			information in exchange_id requests.
3613			If zero, no implementation identification information
3614			will be sent.
3615			The default is to send the implementation identification
3616			information.
3617
3618	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3619			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3620			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3621
3622			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3623			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3624			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3625			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3626
3627	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3628			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3629			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3630			the destination of the copy.
3631
3632	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3633			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3634			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3635			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3636			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3637			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3638
3639	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3640			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3641			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3642			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3643			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3644			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3645			this parameter.
3646
3647	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3648			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3649
3650	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3651			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3652
3653	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3654			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3655
3656	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3657			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3658			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3659
3660	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3661			when a NMI is triggered.
3662			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3663
3664	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3665			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3666			Valid num: 0 or 1
3667			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3668			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3669			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3670			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3671			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3672			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3673			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3674			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3675			need the box quickly up again.
3676
3677			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3678			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3679
3680	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3681			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3682			is present.
3683
3684	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3685			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3686
3687	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3688			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3689
3690	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3691			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3692			but will impact performance.
3693
3694	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3695
3696	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3697			(CPU alternatives feature).
3698
3699	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3700			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3701
3702	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3703
3704	nocache		[ARM]
3705
3706	no_console_suspend
3707			[HW] Never suspend the console
3708			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3709			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3710			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3711			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3712			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3713			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3714			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3715			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3716			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3717			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3718			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3719			turn on/off it dynamically.
3720
3721	no_debug_objects
3722			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3723
3724	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3725
3726	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3727
3728	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3729
3730	noexec		[IA-64]
3731
3732	noexec32	[X86-64]
3733			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3734			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3735				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3736			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3737				read implies executable mappings
3738
3739	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3740			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3741			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3742
3743	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3744
3745	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3746
3747	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3748			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3749			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3750
3751	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3752			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3753			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3754			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3755			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3756			real-time systems.
3757
3758	no_hash_pointers
3759			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3760			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3761			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3762			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3763			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3764			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3765			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3766			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3767			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3768			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3769			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3770			kernels.
3771
3772	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3773
3774	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3775			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3776			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3777			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3778			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3779			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3780			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3781			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3782
3783	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3784
3785	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3786
3787	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3788			Valid arguments: on, off
3789			Default: on
3790
3791	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3792			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3793			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3794			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3795			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3796			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3797			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3798			just as if they had also been called out in the
3799			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3800
3801			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3802			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3803
3804	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3805			initial RAM disk.
3806
3807	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3808			remapping.
3809			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3810
3811	nointroute	[IA-64]
3812
3813	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3814
3815	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3816
3817	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3818			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3819
3820	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3821
3822	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3823
3824	nokaslr		[KNL]
3825			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3826			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3827			Layout Randomization).
3828
3829	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3830			fault handling.
3831
3832	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3833
3834	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3835
3836	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3837
3838	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3839
3840	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3841
3842	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3843			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3844
3845	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3846			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3847			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3848			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3849			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3850			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3851			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3852
3853			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3854
3855	nomodule	Disable module load
3856
3857	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3858			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3859			irq.
3860
3861	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3862			pagetables) support.
3863
3864	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3865
3866	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3867			in some Intel CPUs.
3868
3869	nopti		[X86-64]
3870			Equivalent to pti=off
3871
3872	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3873			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3874			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3875			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3876
3877	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3878			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3879			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3880			contention.
3881
3882	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3883			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3884
3885	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3886			with UP alternatives
3887
3888	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3889			space.
3890
3891	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3892
3893	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3894			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3895			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3896
3897	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3898
3899	nosmap		[PPC]
3900			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3901			even if it is supported by processor.
3902
3903	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3904			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3905			even if it is supported by processor.
3906
3907	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3908			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3909
3910	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3911			Equivalent to smt=1.
3912
3913			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3914			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3915				     via the sysfs control file.
3916
3917	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3918
3919	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3920			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3921
3922	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3923			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3924			with this option.
3925
3926	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3927			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3928			possible in the system.
3929
3930	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3931			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3932			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3933			option.
3934
3935	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3936			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3937			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3938
3939	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3940
3941	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3942			broken timer IRQ sources.
3943
3944	no_uaccess_flush
3945	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3946
3947	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3948			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3949			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3950			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3951			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3952			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3953			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3954			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3955			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3956			is set.
3957
3958	no-vmw-sched-clock
3959			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3960			clock and use the default one.
3961
3962	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3963			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3964
3965	nowb		[ARM]
3966
3967	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3968
3969			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3970			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3971			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3972
3973	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3974			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3975			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3976
3977	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3978			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3979			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3980			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3981			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3982			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3983
3984	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3985			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3986			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3987			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3988			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3989			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3990			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3991
3992	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3993			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3994			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3995			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3996			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3997			parameter's value.
3998			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3999			Default: 255
4000
4001	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4002			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4003			SAL PALO.
4004
4005	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
4006			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4007			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4008			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4009			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4010			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4011			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4012			hot plugging.
4013
4014	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4015
4016	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
4017			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
4018
4019	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4020			NUMA balancing.
4021			Allowed values are enable and disable
4022
4023	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4024			'node', 'default' can be specified
4025			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4026			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4027
4028	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4029			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4030			info.
4031
4032	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4033			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4034			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4035			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4036			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4037			interrupts *may* be lost!
4038
4039	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4040			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4041			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4042			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4043
4044	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4045
4046			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4047
4048			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4049				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4050			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4051				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4052				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4053
4054	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4055			process, but there is a small probability of
4056			deadlocking the machine.
4057			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4058			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4059
4060	page_alloc.shuffle=
4061			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4062			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
4063			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
4064			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
4065			cache, and this parameter can be used to
4066			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
4067			can be read from sysfs at:
4068			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4069
4070	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4071			Storage of the information about who allocated
4072			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4073			we can turn it on.
4074			on: enable the feature
4075
4076	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4077			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4078			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4079			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4080			on: turn on poisoning
4081
4082	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4083			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4084			Format: <integer>
4085			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4086			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER.
4087
4088	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4089			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4090			timeout = 0: wait forever
4091			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4092			Format: <timeout>
4093
4094	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4095			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4096			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4097			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4098			called with any of the flags in this set.
4099			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4100			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4101			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4102			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4103			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4104			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4105			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4106
4107	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4108			on a WARN().
4109
4110	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4111			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4112			bit 0: print all tasks info
4113			bit 1: print system memory info
4114			bit 2: print timer info
4115			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4116			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4117			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4118			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4119			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4120			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4121			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4122			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4123
4124	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4125			connected to, default is 0.
4126			Format: <parport#>
4127	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4128			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4129			Format: <mode>
4130
4131	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4132			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4133			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4134			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4135			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4136			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4137			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4138			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4139			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4140			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4141			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4142			are specified on the command line, starting
4143			with parport0.
4144
4145	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4146			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4147			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4148			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4149			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4150			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4151			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4152
4153	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4154			Format: <int>
4155			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4156			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4157			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4158
4159	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4160			Format: <int>
4161			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4162			changes.  Disabled by default.
4163
4164	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4165			Format: <int>
4166			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4167			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4168			Disabled by default.
4169
4170	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4171			Format: <int>
4172			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4173			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4174			Disabled by default.
4175
4176	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4177			Format: <int>
4178			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4179			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4180			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4181			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4182			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4183			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4184			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4185			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4186			all channels.
4187
4188	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4189			Format: <int>
4190			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4191			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4192			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4193
4194	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4195			Format: <int>
4196			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4197			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4198			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4199
4200	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4201			Format: <int>
4202			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4203			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4204			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4205			All modes allowed by default.
4206
4207	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4208			Format: <int>
4209			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4210			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4211
4212	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4213			Format: <int>
4214			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4215			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4216			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4217			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4218			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4219			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4220			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4221			By default all supported ports are probed.
4222
4223	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4224			Format: <int>
4225			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4226			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4227
4228	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4229			Format: <int>
4230			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4231			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4232			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4233			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4234			0 otherwise.
4235
4236	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4237			Format: <int>
4238			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4239			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4240			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4241			allowed by default.
4242
4243	pause_on_oops=<int>
4244			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4245			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4246			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4247
4248	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4249
4250	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4251
4252				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4253				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4254				specified in one of the following formats:
4255
4256				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4257				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4258
4259				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4260				bus/device/function address which may change
4261				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4262				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4263				by other kernel parameters. If the
4264				domain is left unspecified, it is
4265				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4266				to a device through multiple device/function
4267				addresses can be specified after the base
4268				address (this is more robust against
4269				renumbering issues).  The second format
4270				selects devices using IDs from the
4271				configuration space which may match multiple
4272				devices in the system.
4273
4274		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4275				changes anything
4276		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4277		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4278				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4279				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4280		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4281				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4282				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4283				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4284		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4285				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4286				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4287		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4288				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4289				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4290				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4291				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4292				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4293				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4294		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4295				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4296				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4297		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4298				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4299		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4300				Configuration
4301		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4302				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4303				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4304		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4305				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4306				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4307		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4308				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4309				should never be necessary.
4310		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4311				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4312				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4313				when the system masks IRQs.
4314		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4315				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4316				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4317				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4318		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4319				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4320				on several machines and they hang the machine
4321				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4322				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4323				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4324				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4325				motherboard.
4326		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4327				Use with caution as certain devices share
4328				address decoders between ROMs and other
4329				resources.
4330		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4331				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4332				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4333		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4334				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4335		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4336				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4337				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4338				this way.
4339		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4340				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4341				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4342				F0000h-100000h range.
4343		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4344				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4345				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4346				explicitly which ones they are.
4347		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4348				numbers ourselves, overriding
4349				whatever the firmware may have done.
4350		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4351				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4352				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4353				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4354				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4355				IRQ routing is enabled.
4356		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4357				or for PCI scanning.
4358		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4359				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4360				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4361				please report a bug.
4362		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4363				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4364		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4365				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4366				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4367				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4368				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4369		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4370				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4371				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4372				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4373		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4374				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4375				so this option is a temporary workaround
4376				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4377		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4378				handle more pci cards
4379		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4380				This might help on some broken boards which
4381				machine check when some devices' config space
4382				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4383				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4384		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4385				This sorting is done to get a device
4386				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4387		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4388		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4389				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4390		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4391				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4392		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4393				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4394				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4395				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4396				or bus can support) for best performance.
4397		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4398				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4399				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4400				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4401				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4402				that hot-added devices will work.
4403		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4404				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4405				The default value is 256 bytes.
4406		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4407				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4408				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4409		resource_alignment=
4410				Format:
4411				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4412				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4413				aligned memory resources. How to
4414				specify the device is described above.
4415				If <order of align> is not specified,
4416				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4417				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4418				windows need to be expanded.
4419				To specify the alignment for several
4420				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4421				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4422				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4423				for 4096-byte alignment.
4424		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4425				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4426				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4427				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4428				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4429				the default.
4430				off: Turn ECRC off
4431				on: Turn ECRC on.
4432		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4433				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4434				Default size is 256 bytes.
4435		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4436				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4437				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4438		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4439				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4440				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4441		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4442				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4443				MMIO_PREF window.
4444				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4445		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4446				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4447				Default is 1.
4448		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4449				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4450				accommodate resources required by all child
4451				devices.
4452				off: Turn realloc off
4453				on: Turn realloc on
4454		realloc		same as realloc=on
4455		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4456		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4457				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4458		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4459				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4460				port.
4461		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4462				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4463				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4464				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4465				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4466				taints the kernel.
4467		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4468				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4469				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4470				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4471				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4472				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4473				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4474				this removes isolation between devices and
4475				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4476		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4477		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4478		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4479				one PCI domain per PCI function
4480
4481	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4482			Management.
4483		off	Disable ASPM.
4484		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4485			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4486
4487	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4488		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4489			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4490			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4491			also tries to use these services.
4492		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4493				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4494		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4495			hotplug).
4496
4497	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4498		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4499		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4500
4501	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4502		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4503			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4504
4505	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4506
4507	pd_ignore_unused
4508			[PM]
4509			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4510			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4511			for debug and development, but should not be
4512			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4513
4514	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4515			boot time.
4516			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4517			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4518
4519	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4520			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4521			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4522			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4523			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4524			and performance comparison.
4525
4526	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4527			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4528
4529	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4530			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4531			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4532
4533	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4534			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4535			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4536
4537	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4538			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4539			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4540			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4541			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4542			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4543			remains 0.
4544
4545	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4546			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4547
4548	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4549			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4550			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4551			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4552			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4553			possible settings and some assignment information.
4554
4555	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4556			{ off }
4557
4558	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4559			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4560
4561	pnp_reserve_irq=
4562			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4563
4564	pnp_reserve_dma=
4565			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4566
4567	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4568			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4569
4570	pnp_reserve_mem=
4571			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4572			autoconfiguration.
4573			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4574
4575	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4576			Default is 21.
4577			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4578			may be specified.
4579			Format: <port>,<port>....
4580
4581	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4582			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4583			platform machine description specific power_save
4584			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4585			execution priority.
4586
4587	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4588			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4589			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4590			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4591			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4592
4593	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4594			Format: {"off"}
4595			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4596
4597	preempt=	[KNL]
4598			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4599			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4600			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4601			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4602			       can be preempted anytime.
4603
4604	print-fatal-signals=
4605			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4606
4607			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4608			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4609			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4610			coredump - etc.
4611
4612			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4613			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4614
4615			default: off.
4616
4617	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4618			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4619			panics
4620			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4621			default: disabled
4622
4623	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4624			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4625			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4626			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4627			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4628			in order to provide more debug information.
4629			Format: <bool>
4630			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4631
4632	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4633			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4634			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4635			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4636			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4637			Default: ratelimit
4638
4639	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4640			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4641
4642	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4643			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4644			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4645
4646	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4647			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4648			instead using the legacy FADT method
4649
4650	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4651			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4652			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
4653				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4654			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4655			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4656			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4657				statistical time based profiling.
4658
4659	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4660
4661	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4662			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4663			that).
4664			Format: <bool>
4665
4666	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4667			tracking.
4668			Format: <bool>
4669
4670	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4671			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4672	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4673			per second.
4674	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4675			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4676			(0 = never).
4677	psmouse.resolution=
4678			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4679	psmouse.smartscroll=
4680			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4681			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4682
4683	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4684
4685	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4686			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4687			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4688			system calls and interrupts.
4689
4690			on   - unconditionally enable
4691			off  - unconditionally disable
4692			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4693			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4694
4695			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4696
4697	pty.legacy_count=
4698			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4699			default number.
4700
4701	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4702
4703	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4704
4705	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4706			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4707			invalidate.
4708
4709	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4710			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4711
4712	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4713			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4714
4715	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4716
4717	random.trust_cpu=off
4718			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4719			random number generator (if available) to
4720			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4721
4722	random.trust_bootloader=off
4723			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4724			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4725			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4726
4727	randomize_kstack_offset=
4728			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4729			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4730			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4731			that depend on stack address determinism or
4732			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4733			available on architectures that have defined
4734			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4735			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4736			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4737
4738	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4739
4740		cec_disable	[X86]
4741				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4742				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4743
4744	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4745			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4746			as described above.
4747
4748			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4749			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4750			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4751			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4752			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4753			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4754			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4755			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4756			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4757			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4758			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4759			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4760
4761			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4762			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4763
4764			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4765			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4766			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4767			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4768
4769			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4770			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4771
4772	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4773			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4774			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4775			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4776			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4777			This improves the real-time response for the
4778			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4779			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4780			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4781			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4782
4783	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4784			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4785			process in one batch.
4786
4787	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4788			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4789			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4790			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4791
4792	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4793			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4794			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4795
4796	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4797			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4798			RCU grace-period initialization.
4799
4800	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4801			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4802			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4803			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4804			the rcu_node combining tree.
4805
4806	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4807			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4808			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4809			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4810			and maximum value is HZ.
4811
4812	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4813			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4814			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4815			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4816
4817	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4818			Set required age in jiffies for a
4819			given grace period before RCU starts
4820			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4821			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4822			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4823			a value based on the most recent settings
4824			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4825			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4826			This calculated value may be viewed in
4827			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4828			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4829			overwritten.
4830
4831	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4832			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4833			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4834			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4835			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4836			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4837			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4838			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4839			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4840			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4841			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4842			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4843
4844	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4845			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4846			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4847			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4848			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4849			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4850			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4851			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4852			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4853			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4854			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4855			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4856
4857	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4858			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4859			batch limiting is disabled.
4860
4861	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4862			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4863			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4864
4865	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4866			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4867			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4868			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4869			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4870			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4871			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4872			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4873
4874	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4875			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4876			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4877			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4878
4879	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4880			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4881			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4882			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4883			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4884			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4885			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4886			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4887
4888			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4889			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4890			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4891			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4892			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4893
4894	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4895			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4896			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4897			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4898			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4899
4900	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4901			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4902			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4903			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4904			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4905			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4906			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4907
4908	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4909			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4910			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4911			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4912			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4913			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4914			condition.
4915
4916	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4917			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4918			each group, which defaults to the square root
4919			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4920			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4921			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4922			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4923
4924	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4925			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4926			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4927			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4928			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4929			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4930
4931	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
4932			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
4933			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
4934			By default, this limit is checked only once
4935			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
4936			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
4937
4938	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4939			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4940			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4941			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4942			Larger delays increase the probability of
4943			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4944			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4945			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4946
4947	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4948			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4949			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4950			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4951
4952	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4953			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4954			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4955			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4956			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4957
4958			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4959			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4960			to zero.
4961
4962	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4963			Measure performance of asynchronous
4964			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4965
4966	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4967			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4968			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4969			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4970			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4971			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4972
4973	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4974			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4975			grace-period primitives.
4976
4977	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4978			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4979			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4980			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4981			interference.
4982
4983	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
4984			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
4985			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
4986
4987	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
4988			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
4989			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
4990			Defaults to 1.
4991
4992	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4993			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4994
4995	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4996			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4997			If this parameter has the same value as
4998			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4999			and double-argument variants are tested.
5000
5001	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5002			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5003			If this parameter has the same value as
5004			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5005			and double-argument variants are tested.
5006
5007	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5008			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5009
5010	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5011			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5012
5013	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5014			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5015			of allocations and frees.
5016
5017	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5018			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5019			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5020			but instead allows better measurement of things
5021			like CPU consumption.
5022
5023	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5024			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5025			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5026			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5027			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5028			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5029			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5030			a single reader.
5031
5032	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5033			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5034			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5035			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5036
5037	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5038			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5039
5040	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5041			Shut the system down after performance tests
5042			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5043			testing.
5044
5045	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5046			Enable additional printk() statements.
5047
5048	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5049			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5050			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5051			no holdoff.
5052
5053	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5054			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5055			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5056			says no holdoff.
5057
5058	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5059			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5060			in microseconds.
5061
5062	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5063			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5064			in microseconds.
5065
5066	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5067			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5068			in seconds.
5069
5070	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5071			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5072			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5073			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5074			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5075			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5076			of CPUs to be used.
5077
5078	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5079			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5080			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5081
5082	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5083			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5084			forward-progress tests.
5085
5086	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5087			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5088			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5089			testing.
5090
5091	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5092			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5093			primitives, if available.
5094
5095	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5096			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5097
5098	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5099			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5100			update-side primitives, if available.
5101
5102	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5103			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5104			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5105			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5106			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5107			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5108			they are all non-zero.
5109
5110	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5111			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5112			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5113			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5114
5115	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5116			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5117			This can of course result in splats, and is
5118			intended to test the ability of things like
5119			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5120			such leaks.
5121
5122	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5123			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5124
5125	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5126			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5127			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5128			test, hence the "fake".
5129
5130	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5131			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5132			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5133
5134	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5135			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5136			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5137
5138	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5139			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5140			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5141			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5142			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5143			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5144
5145	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5146			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5147
5148	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5149			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5150
5151	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5152			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5153			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5154
5155	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5156			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5157			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5158			task-exit processing.
5159
5160	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5161			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5162			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5163			is spawned.
5164
5165	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5166			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5167			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5168
5169	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5170			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5171			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5172			during the rcutorture test.
5173
5174	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5175			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5176			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5177
5178	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5179			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5180			warnings, zero to disable.
5181
5182	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5183			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5184			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5185			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5186			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5187			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5188			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5189			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5190			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5191			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5192
5193			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5194
5195
5196	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5197			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5198
5199	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5200			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5201
5202	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5203			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5204			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5205			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5206			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5207			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5208
5209	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5210			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5211
5212	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5213			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5214			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5215			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5216			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5217
5218	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5219			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5220			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5221			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5222
5223	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5224			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5225
5226	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5227			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5228
5229	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5230			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5231			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5232
5233	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5234			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5235
5236	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5237			Enable additional printk() statements.
5238
5239	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5240			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5241			stall warning.
5242
5243	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5244			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5245
5246	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5247			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5248			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5249			during early boot, that is, during the time
5250			before the init task is spawned.
5251
5252	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5253			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5254			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5255			value is 300 seconds.
5256
5257	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5258			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5259			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5260			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5261			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5262			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5263			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5264			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5265			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5266
5267	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5268			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5269			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5270			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5271			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5272
5273	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5274			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5275			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5276			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5277
5278	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5279			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5280			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5281			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5282			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5283			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5284			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5285
5286	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5287			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5288			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5289			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5290			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5291			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5292			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5293			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5294			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5295
5296	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5297			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5298			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5299			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5300			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5301
5302			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5303			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5304			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5305			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5306			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5307			grace-period processing.
5308
5309	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5310			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5311			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5312			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5313			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5314			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5315			set to the default value of -1.
5316
5317	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5318			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5319			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5320			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5321			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5322			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5323			the default value of -1.
5324
5325	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5326			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5327			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5328			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5329			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5330			for use in testing.
5331
5332	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5333			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5334			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5335			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5336			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5337			but lengthens grace periods.
5338
5339	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5340			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5341			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5342			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5343			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5344			callback flooding.
5345
5346	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5347			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5348			informational messages, which give some indication
5349			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5350			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5351			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5352			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5353			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5354			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5355			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5356
5357	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5358			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5359			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5360			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5361			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5362			the value three, so that the first informational
5363			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5364			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5365			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5366			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5367
5368	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5369			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5370			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5371			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5372			A change in value does not take effect until
5373			the beginning of the next grace period.
5374
5375	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5376			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5377			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5378			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5379			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5380			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5381
5382	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5383			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5384			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5385			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5386			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5387			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5388			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5389
5390	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5391			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5392			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5393			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5394			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5395			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5396			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5397
5398	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5399			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5400
5401	rdinit=		[KNL]
5402			Format: <full_path>
5403			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5404			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5405
5406	rdrand=		[X86]
5407			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5408				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5409				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5410				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5411				path).
5412
5413	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5414			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5415			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5416			mba, smba, bmec.
5417			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5418				rdt=cmt,!mba
5419
5420	reboot=		[KNL]
5421			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5422				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5423				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5424				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5425				[[,]f[orce]
5426			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5427					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5428					reboot only),
5429			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5430			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5431			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5432					to be used for rebooting.
5433
5434	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5435			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5436			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5437			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5438			interference.
5439
5440	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5441			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5442			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5443			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5444			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5445			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5446			x86 laptops.
5447
5448	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5449			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5450			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5451			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5452
5453	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5454			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5455			the console log.
5456
5457	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5458			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5459			measured in microseconds.
5460
5461	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5462			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5463
5464	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5465			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5466			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5467			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5468			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5469
5470	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5471			Enable additional printk() statements.
5472
5473	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5474			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5475			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5476			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5477			specified.
5478
5479	relax_domain_level=
5480			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5481			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5482
5483	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5484			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5485			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5486			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5487			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5488
5489	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5490			Format: nn[KMG]
5491			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5492			address space.
5493
5494	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5495			during initialization.
5496
5497	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5498			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5499			Format:
5500			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5501
5502	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5503			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5504			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5505			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5506			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5507
5508	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5509			read the resume files
5510
5511	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5512			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5513			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5514
5515	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5516
5517	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5518			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5519			vulnerability.
5520
5521			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5522			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5523			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5524			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5525			that don't.
5526
5527			off          - no mitigation
5528			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5529			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5530				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5531				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5532				       and older without STIBP).
5533			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5534				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5535				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5536				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5537				       on Intel.
5538			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5539				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5540				       the alternative for systems which do not
5541				       have STIBP.
5542			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5543				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5544				       systems.
5545			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5546				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5547				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5548
5549			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5550			time according to the CPU.
5551
5552			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5553
5554	rfkill.default_state=
5555		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5556			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5557		1	Unblocked.
5558
5559	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5560		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5561		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5562			blocked and the previous configuration.
5563		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5564			blocked and everything unblocked.
5565
5566	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5567			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5568
5569	ring3mwait=disable
5570			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5571			CPUs.
5572
5573	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV]
5574			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5575			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5576			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5577			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5578			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5579
5580	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5581
5582	rodata=		[KNL]
5583		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5584		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5585		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5586		        [arm64]
5587
5588	rockchip.usb_uart
5589			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5590			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5591			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5592			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5593
5594	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5595			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5596			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5597			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5598			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5599			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5600			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5601
5602	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5603			mount the root filesystem
5604
5605	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5606
5607	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5608
5609	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5610			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5611			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5612
5613	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5614			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5615			filesystem.
5616
5617	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5618			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5619			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5620			managed by CMA.
5621
5622	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5623
5624	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5625
5626	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5627			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5628		strict
5629			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5630			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5631			which is faster.
5632
5633	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5634			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5635			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5636			factor of the size of main memory.
5637			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5638			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5639			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5640			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5641			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5642			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5643			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5644
5645	sa1100ir	[NET]
5646			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5647
5648	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5649
5650	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5651			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5652			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5653			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5654
5655	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5656			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5657			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5658			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5659			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5660			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5661			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5662			value.
5663			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5664			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5665				1			64 ms
5666				2			128 ms
5667			and so on.
5668			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5669			Default is 0.
5670
5671	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5672			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5673			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5674			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5675			tests.
5676
5677	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5678			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5679			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5680			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5681			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5682			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5683			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5684
5685	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5686			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5687			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5688			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5689			equal to the number of CPUs.
5690
5691	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5692			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5693			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5694
5695	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5696			Number seconds to wait between successive
5697			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5698			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5699
5700	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5701			The number of seconds following the start of the
5702			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5703			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5704			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5705
5706	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5707			The number of seconds between outputting the
5708			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5709			of zero disables statistics output.
5710
5711	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5712			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5713			to the set of CPUs under test.
5714
5715	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5716			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5717			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5718			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5719			functions.
5720
5721	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5722			Enable additional printk() statements.
5723
5724	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5725			The probability weighting to use for the
5726			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5727			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5728			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5729			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5730			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5731
5732	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5733			The probability weighting to use for the
5734			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5735			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5736
5737	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5738			The probability weighting to use for the
5739			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5740			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5741			Note well that setting a high probability for
5742			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5743			on the system.
5744
5745	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5746			The probability weighting to use for the
5747			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5748			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5749			and weight_many.
5750
5751	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5752			The probability weighting to use for the
5753			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5754			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5755			weight_many.
5756
5757	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5758			The probability weighting to use for the
5759			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5760			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5761			and weight_many.
5762
5763	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5764			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5765			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5766			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5767			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5768			1 -- enable.
5769			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5770			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5771
5772	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5773			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5774			"lsm=" parameter.
5775
5776	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5777			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5778			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5779			0 -- disable.
5780			1 -- enable.
5781			Default value is 1.
5782
5783	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5784
5785	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5786
5787	shapers=	[NET]
5788			Maximal number of shapers.
5789
5790	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5791			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5792			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5793			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5794			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5795			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5796			apic=verbose is specified.
5797			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5798
5799	simeth=		[IA-64]
5800	simscsi=
5801
5802	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5803
5804	slab_merge	[MM]
5805			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5806			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5807
5808	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5809			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5810			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5811			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5812			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5813			layout control by attackers can usually be
5814			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5815			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5816			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5817			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5818			own.
5819			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5820
5821	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5822			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5823			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5824			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5825			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5826
5827	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5828			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5829			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5830			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5831			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5832			last alloc / free. For more information see
5833			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5834
5835	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5836			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5837			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5838			fragmentation. For more information see
5839			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5840
5841	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5842			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5843			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5844			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5845			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5846			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5847			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5848			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5849
5850	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5851			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5852			lower than slub_max_order.
5853			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5854
5855	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5856			Same with slab_merge.
5857
5858	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5859			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5860			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5861
5862	smart2=		[HW]
5863			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5864
5865	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5866			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5867			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5868			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5869			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5870			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5871			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5872			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5873			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5874			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5875
5876	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
5877			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
5878			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
5879			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
5880			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
5881			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
5882
5883	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5884	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5885	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5886	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5887	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5888	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5889	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5890				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5891				1: Fast pin select (default)
5892				2: ATC IRMode
5893
5894	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5895			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5896			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5897			actual hardware limit.
5898			Format: <integer>
5899			Default: -1 (no limit)
5900
5901	softlockup_panic=
5902			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5903			Format: 0 | 1
5904
5905			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5906			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5907			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5908			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5909			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5910
5911	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5912			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5913			backtraces on all cpus.
5914			Format: 0 | 1
5915
5916	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5917			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5918
5919	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
5920			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
5921			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
5922			clearing sequence.
5923
5924			on   - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation
5925			       as needed.
5926			off  - Disable the mitigation.
5927
5928	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5929			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5930			The default operation protects the kernel from
5931			user space attacks.
5932
5933			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5934			       spectre_v2_user=on
5935			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5936			       spectre_v2_user=off
5937			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5938			       vulnerable
5939
5940			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5941			mitigation method at run time according to the
5942			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5943			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5944			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5945
5946			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5947			against user space to user space task attacks.
5948
5949			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5950			the user space protections.
5951
5952			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5953
5954			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5955			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5956			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5957			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5958			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5959			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5960			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5961			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5962
5963			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5964			spectre_v2=auto.
5965
5966	spectre_v2_user=
5967			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5968		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5969		        user space tasks
5970
5971			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5972				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5973
5974			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5975				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5976
5977			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5978				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5979				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5980				  is inherited on fork.
5981
5982			prctl,ibpb
5983				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5984				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5985				  always when switching between different user
5986				  space processes.
5987
5988			seccomp
5989				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5990				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5991				  they explicitly opt out.
5992
5993			seccomp,ibpb
5994				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5995				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5996				  always when switching between different
5997				  user space processes.
5998
5999			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6000				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6001
6002			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6003
6004			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6005			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6006
6007	spec_rstack_overflow=
6008			[X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6009
6010			off		- Disable mitigation
6011			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6012			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6013			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6014					  kernel entry
6015			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6016					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6017
6018	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6019			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6020			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6021
6022			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6023			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6024			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6025			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6026			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6027			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6028			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6029			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6030
6031			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6032			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6033			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6034			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6035
6036			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6037			Bypass optimization is used.
6038
6039			On x86 the options are:
6040
6041			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6042			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6043			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6044				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6045				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6046				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6047				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6048				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6049			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6050				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6051				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6052				  is inherited on fork.
6053			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6054				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6055
6056			Default mitigations:
6057			X86:	"prctl"
6058
6059			On powerpc the options are:
6060
6061			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6062				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6063				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6064				  exit.
6065			off	- No action.
6066
6067			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6068			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6069
6070	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6071	spia_fio_base=
6072	spia_pedr=
6073	spia_peddr=
6074
6075	split_lock_detect=
6076			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6077
6078			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6079			instructions that access data across cache line
6080			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6081			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6082			bus lock detection.
6083
6084			off	- not enabled
6085
6086			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6087				  about applications triggering the #AC
6088				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6089				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6090				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6091				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6092				  enabled in hardware.
6093
6094			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6095				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6096				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6097				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6098
6099			ratelimit:N -
6100				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6101				  per second for bus lock detection.
6102				  0 < N <= 1000.
6103
6104				  N/A for split lock detection.
6105
6106
6107			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6108			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6109			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6110			mode.
6111
6112			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6113			CPL > 0.
6114
6115	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
6116			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6117			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6118
6119			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6120			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6121			number generator.
6122
6123			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6124			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6125			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6126			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6127			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6128
6129			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6130			the following option:
6131
6132			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6133				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6134
6135	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6136			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6137			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6138			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6139			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6140			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6141			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6142			(decide at boot).
6143
6144	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6145			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6146			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6147			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6148
6149				   0:  Never.
6150				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6151				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6152				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6153				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6154
6155			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6156			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6157			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6158
6159	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6160			Specifies how frequently to check for
6161			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6162			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6163			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6164			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6165			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6166			are ignored.
6167
6168	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6169			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6170			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6171			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6172			grace period will be considered for automatic
6173			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6174			expediting.
6175
6176	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6177			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6178			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6179			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6180			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6181			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6182
6183	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6184			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6185			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6186			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6187			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6188			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6189
6190	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6191			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6192			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6193
6194	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6195			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6196			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6197			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6198			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6199			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6200			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6201
6202	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
6203			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6204
6205			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6206			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6207			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6208			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6209
6210			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6211				   for both kernel and userspace
6212			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6213				   for both kernel and userspace
6214			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6215				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6216				   to allow userspace to register its
6217				   interest in being mitigated too.
6218
6219	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6220			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6221			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6222			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6223			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6224			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6225
6226	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6227			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6228			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6229			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6230			to false.
6231
6232	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6233			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6234
6235	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6236			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6237			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6238			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6239			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6240			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6241			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6242
6243	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6244			Format: <num>
6245			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6246			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6247			as the initial boot-console.
6248			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6249
6250	sti_font=	[HW]
6251			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6252
6253	stifb=		[HW]
6254			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6255
6256        strict_sas_size=
6257			[X86]
6258			Format: <bool>
6259			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6260			against the required signal frame size which
6261			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6262			be used to filter out binaries which have
6263			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6264
6265	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6266			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6267			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6268			faults on kernel addresses.
6269
6270	stress_slb	[PPC]
6271			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6272			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6273			on kernel addresses.
6274
6275	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6276	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6277			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6278			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6279			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6280			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6281			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6282			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6283			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6284			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6285			maximum port values.
6286
6287	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6288			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6289			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6290			process in parallel from a single connection.
6291			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6292
6293	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6294			[NFS]
6295			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6296			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6297			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6298			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6299			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6300			NFS server is running.
6301
6302			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6303				    automatically using heuristics
6304			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6305			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6306			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6307				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6308
6309	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6310	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6311			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6312			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6313			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6314			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6315			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6316			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6317
6318	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6319			[SUSPEND]
6320			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6321			mode before resuming the system (see
6322			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6323			is set. Default value is 5.
6324
6325	svm=		[PPC]
6326			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6327			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6328			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6329
6330	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6331			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6332			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6333			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6334				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6335				 to a power of 2.
6336			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6337			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6338			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6339
6340	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6341
6342	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6343			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6344			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6345			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6346			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6347			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6348			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6349			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6350
6351	sysrq_always_enabled
6352			[KNL]
6353			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6354			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6355			Useful for debugging.
6356
6357	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6358			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6359			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6360			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6361			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6362			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6363
6364	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6365
6366	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6367			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6368			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6369			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6370			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6371			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6372			The system is woken from this state using a
6373			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6374
6375	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6376			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6377
6378	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6379			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6380			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6381
6382	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6383			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6384			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6385
6386	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6387			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6388
6389	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6390			-1: disable all passive trip points
6391			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6392			value
6393
6394	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6395			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6396			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6397			0: no polling (default)
6398
6399	threadirqs	[KNL]
6400			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6401			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6402
6403	topology=	[S390]
6404			Format: {off | on}
6405			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6406			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6407			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6408			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6409			Default is on.
6410
6411	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6412			Format: {off}
6413			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6414			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6415			LPAR.
6416
6417	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6418			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6419			until after init has spawned.
6420
6421	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6422			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6423			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6424			very costly operation when many torture tests
6425			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6426			with rotating-rust storage.
6427
6428	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6429			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6430			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6431			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6432
6433	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6434			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6435
6436	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6437
6438	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6439			Format: integer pcr id
6440			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6441			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6442			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6443			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6444			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6445			are saved.
6446
6447	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6448			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6449			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6450			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6451			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6452			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6453
6454	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6455			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6456			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6457			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6458			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6459			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6460
6461			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6462			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6463			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6464			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6465
6466			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6467			to stop the printing of events to console at
6468			late_initcall_sync.
6469
6470			** CAUTION **
6471
6472			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6473			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6474			the system to live lock.
6475
6476	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6477			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6478			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6479			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6480			make the system inoperable.
6481
6482			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6483			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6484
6485	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6486			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6487
6488	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6489			at boot up.
6490			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6491				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6492				depending on the architecture, may not be
6493				in sync between CPUs.
6494			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6495				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6496				but better for some race conditions.
6497			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6498				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6499				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6500				once per event.
6501			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6502			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6503			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6504			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6505				stamps.
6506			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6507			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6508			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6509
6510	trace_event=[event-list]
6511			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6512			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6513			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6514			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6515
6516	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6517			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6518			This will be listed in:
6519
6520				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6521
6522			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6523			via:
6524
6525				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6526
6527			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6528			unique.
6529
6530				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6531
6532			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6533			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6534			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6535
6536	trace_options=[option-list]
6537			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6538			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6539			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6540			to echo the option name into
6541
6542			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6543
6544			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6545			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6546
6547			      trace_options=stacktrace
6548
6549			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6550			section.
6551
6552	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6553			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6554			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6555			filter.
6556
6557			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6558			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6559
6560			For example:
6561
6562			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6563
6564			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6565			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6566			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6567
6568			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6569
6570
6571	traceoff_on_warning
6572			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6573			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6574			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6575			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6576
6577			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6578			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6579			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6580
6581			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6582			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6583
6584	transparent_hugepage=
6585			[KNL]
6586			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6587			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6588			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6589			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6590			for more details.
6591
6592	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6593			Format: <string>
6594			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6595			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6596			sources:
6597			- "tpm"
6598			- "tee"
6599			- "caam"
6600			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6601			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6602			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6603			successfully during iteration.
6604
6605	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6606			Format: <string>
6607			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6608			Can be one of:
6609			- "kernel"
6610			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6611			- "default"
6612			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6613			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6614
6615	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6616			Format: <string>
6617			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6618			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6619			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6620			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6621			virtualized environment.
6622			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6623			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6624			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6625			can add overhead.
6626			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6627			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6628			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6629			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6630			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6631			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6632			acceptable).
6633			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6634			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6635			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6636			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6637			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6638			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6639			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6640			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6641			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6642			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6643
6644	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6645			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6646			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6647			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6648			Format: <unsigned int>
6649
6650	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6651			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6652			support TSX control.
6653
6654			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6655
6656			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6657				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6658				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6659				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6660				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6661				with leaving it enabled.
6662
6663			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6664				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6665				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6666				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6667				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6668				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6669				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6670
6671			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6672				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6673
6674			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6675
6676			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6677			for more details.
6678
6679	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6680			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6681
6682			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6683			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6684			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6685			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6686			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6687			conditions.
6688
6689			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6690			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6691			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6692			access.
6693
6694			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6695			options are:
6696
6697			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6698				     if TSX is enabled.
6699
6700			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6701				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6702				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6703				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6704			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6705
6706			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6707			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6708			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6709			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6710
6711			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6712			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6713			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6714			required and doesn't provide any additional
6715			mitigation.
6716
6717			For details see:
6718			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6719
6720	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6721			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6722			Format:
6723			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6724			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6725
6726	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6727			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6728			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6729			help "seeing" what's going on.
6730
6731	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6732			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6733
6734	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6735			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6736			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6737			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6738			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6739			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6740			reported either.
6741
6742	unknown_nmi_panic
6743			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6744
6745	unwind_debug	[X86-64]
6746			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6747			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6748			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6749			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6750
6751	usbcore.authorized_default=
6752			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6753			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6754			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6755			if device connected to internal port)
6756
6757	usbcore.autosuspend=
6758			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6759			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6760			is the time required before an idle device will be
6761			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6762			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6763
6764	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6765			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6766
6767	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6768			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6769			(default = 65536).
6770
6771	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6772			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6773
6774	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6775			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6776			scheme (default 0 = off).
6777
6778	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6779			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6780			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6781
6782	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6783			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6784			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6785
6786	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6787			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6788			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6789			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6790
6791	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6792
6793	usbcore.quirks=
6794			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6795			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6796			commas. Each entry has the form
6797			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6798			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6799			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6800			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6801			the following meanings:
6802				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6803					descriptors must not be fetched using
6804					a 255-byte read);
6805				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6806					correctly so reset it instead);
6807				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6808					Set-Interface requests);
6809				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6810					handle its Configuration or Interface
6811					strings);
6812				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6813					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6814				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6815					more interface descriptions than the
6816					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6817					talking to these interfaces);
6818				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6819					during initialization, after we read
6820					the device descriptor);
6821				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6822					high speed and super speed interrupt
6823					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6824					require the interval in microframes (1
6825					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6826					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6827					(bInterval-1).
6828					Devices with this quirk report their
6829					bInterval as the result of this
6830					calculation instead of the exponent
6831					variable used in the calculation);
6832				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6833					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6834					requests);
6835				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6836					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6837					remote wakeup capability);
6838				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6839					Power Management);
6840				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6841					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6842					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6843					calculation);
6844				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6845					to be disconnected before suspend to
6846					prevent spurious wakeup);
6847				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6848					pause after every control message);
6849				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6850					delay after resetting its port);
6851				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
6852					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
6853					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
6854			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6855
6856	usbhid.mousepoll=
6857			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6858
6859	usbhid.jspoll=
6860			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6861
6862	usbhid.kbpoll=
6863			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6864
6865	usb-storage.delay_use=
6866			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6867			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6868
6869	usb-storage.quirks=
6870			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6871			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6872			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6873			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6874			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6875			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6876			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6877				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6878					of sense data, not on uas);
6879				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6880					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6881				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6882					device capacity by one sector);
6883				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6884					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6885				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6886					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6887				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6888					command, uas only);
6889				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6890					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6891				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6892					reported device capacity by one
6893					sector if the number is odd);
6894				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6895					device);
6896				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6897					command, uas only);
6898				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6899				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6900					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6901				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6902					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6903					not on uas);
6904				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6905					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6906				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6907					reported by the device, not on uas);
6908				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6909					by default, not on uas);
6910				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6911					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6912				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6913					Logical Unit);
6914				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6915					commands, uas only);
6916				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6917				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6918					medium is write-protected).
6919				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6920					even if the device claims no cache,
6921					not on uas)
6922			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6923
6924	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6925			Format: <int>
6926			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6927				 1 - undefined instruction events
6928				 2 - system calls
6929				 4 - invalid data aborts
6930				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6931				16 - SIGBUS faults
6932			Example: user_debug=31
6933
6934	userpte=
6935			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6936
6937				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6938					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6939					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6940
6941	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6942			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6943
6944			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6945			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6946
6947	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6948			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6949			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6950
6951			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6952			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6953			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6954
6955			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6956			alias for vdso32=0.
6957
6958			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6959			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6960
6961	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6962			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6963
6964	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6965			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6966
6967	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6968			Format: [0|1]
6969			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6970			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6971			level and then send out the event to user space through
6972			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6973			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6974			brightness level.
6975			default: 1
6976
6977	virtio_mmio.device=
6978			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6979
6980				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6981			where:
6982				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6983						like K, M and G)
6984				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6985				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6986						request_irq())
6987				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6988			example:
6989				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6990
6991			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6992
6993	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6994			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
6995			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6996			Use vga=ask for menu.
6997			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6998			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6999
7000	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7001			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7002			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7003			All options are enabled by default, and this
7004			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7005			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7006			debugging features.
7007
7008			Available options are:
7009			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7010			  -	Disable all of the above options
7011
7012	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
7013			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
7014			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
7015			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
7016			mapped kernel RAM.
7017
7018	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
7019			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7020			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7021
7022	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7023			Format: <command>
7024
7025	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7026			Format: <command>
7027
7028	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7029			Format: <command>
7030
7031	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
7032			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7033			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7034			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7035			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7036			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7037			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7038
7039			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7040			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7041				    readable.
7042
7043			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7044			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7045				    page is not readable.
7046
7047			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7048			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7049			            might break your system.
7050
7051	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7052			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7053			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7054
7055	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7056			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7057			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7058			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7059
7060	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7061			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7062			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7063			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7064			ranging from 0-255.
7065
7066	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7067			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7068			Change the default green palette of the console.
7069			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7070			ranging from 0-255.
7071
7072	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7073			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7074			Change the default red palette of the console.
7075			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7076			ranging from 0-255.
7077
7078	vt.default_utf8=
7079			[VT]
7080			Format=<0|1>
7081			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7082			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7083			newly opened terminals.
7084
7085	vt.global_cursor_default=
7086			[VT]
7087			Format=<-1|0|1>
7088			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7089			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7090			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7091			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7092			cursors, 1 will display them.
7093
7094	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7095			Default: 2 = green.
7096
7097	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7098			Default: 3 = cyan.
7099
7100	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7101			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7102			or other driver-specific files in the
7103			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7104
7105	watchdog_thresh=
7106			[KNL]
7107			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7108			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7109			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7110			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7111			seconds.
7112
7113	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7114			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7115			to use in unbound workqueues.
7116			Format: <cpu-list>
7117			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7118			unbound workqueues.
7119
7120	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7121			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7122			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7123			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7124			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7125			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7126			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7127			corresponding sysfs file.
7128
7129	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7130			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7131			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7132			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7133			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7134			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7135
7136			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7137			will report the work functions which violate this
7138			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7139			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7140
7141	workqueue.power_efficient
7142			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7143			they show better performance thanks to cache
7144			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7145			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7146
7147			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7148			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7149			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7150			power usage at the cost of small performance
7151			overhead.
7152
7153			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7154			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7155
7156        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7157			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7158			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7159			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7160			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7161			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7162
7163			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7164			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7165			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7166			updated accordignly.
7167
7168	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7169			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7170			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7171			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7172			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7173			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7174			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7175			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7176			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7177			impacted.
7178
7179	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
7180			ioremap_wc().
7181
7182			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7183			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7184
7185	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7186			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7187			supporting x2apic.
7188
7189	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7190			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7191			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7192			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7193			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7194			domains.
7195
7196	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
7197			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7198			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7199			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7200			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7201			nics -- unplug network devices
7202			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7203			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7204				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7205				the unplug protocol
7206			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7207
7208	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
7209			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7210			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7211
7212	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
7213			Format: <bool>
7214			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7215			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7216			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7217
7218	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
7219			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7220			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7221			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7222
7223	xen_nopv	[X86]
7224			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7225			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7226			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7227			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7228
7229	xen_no_vector_callback
7230			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7231			event channel interrupts.
7232
7233	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7234			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7235			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7236			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7237			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7238
7239	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
7240			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7241			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7242			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7243			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7244			more timer interrupts.
7245
7246	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7247			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7248			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7249			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7250			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7251			max. Default is 180.
7252
7253	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7254			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7255			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7256
7257	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7258			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7259			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7260
7261	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7262			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7263			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7264			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7265			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7266			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7267
7268	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7269			Format:
7270			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7271
7272	xive=		[PPC]
7273			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7274			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7275			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7276
7277			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7278				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7279				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7280
7281	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7282			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7283			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7284			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7285			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7286
7287	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7288			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7289			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7290			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7291
7292	xmon		[PPC]
7293			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7294			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7295			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7296			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7297				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7298			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7299				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7300				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7301				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7302			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7303				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7304				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7305				can be written using xmon commands.
7306			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7307				memory, and other data can't be written using
7308				xmon commands.
7309			off	xmon is disabled.
7310
7311