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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=  [HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112                        GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113                        the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117			Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
120			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123			auto-serialization feature.
124			This feature is enabled by default.
125			This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
128			   kernels.
129
130	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
131			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133			installed automatically and they will appear under
134			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135			This option turns off this feature.
136			Note that specifying this option does not affect
137			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143			second kernel for kdump.
144
145	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
148	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
154	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
155			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
156			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
157			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
158			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
159						  strings
160			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
161						  strings
162			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
163
164			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
167			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
171			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
172			care about the state of the feature group strings which
173			should be controlled by the OSPM.
174			Examples:
175			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
182			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183			multiple times through kernel command line is also
184			meaningless.
185			Examples:
186			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187			     FALSE.
188
189			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
192			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
195			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
197			is useful when one want to control the state of the
198			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199			the OSPM features.
200			Examples:
201			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206			     equivalent to
207			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208			     and
209			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
212	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
213			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215			and always returns good values.
216
217	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
220	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
226				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
227			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228			s3_bios and s3_mode.
229			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232			used during resume from hibernation.
233			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234			control method, with respect to putting devices into
235			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236			of _PTS is used by default).
237			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
239			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241			but some broken systems don't work without it).
242
243	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
247	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
250	agp=		[AGP]
251			{ off | try_unsupported }
252			off: disable AGP support
253			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
256	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
257			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
259	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
260			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
262			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
264	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
265			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
272			32: only for 32-bit processes
273			64: only for 64-bit processes
274			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
277	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
278			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
284	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
285			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286			Possible values are:
287			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289				    flushed before they will be reused, which
290				    is a lot of faster
291			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292				    the system
293			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
296					  requirements as needed. This option
297					  does not override iommu=pt
298
299	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
300			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303			IOMMU initialization.
304
305	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307			remapping modes:
308			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
314	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316			Format: <a>,<b>
317			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
318
319	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321			connected to one of 16 gameports
322			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
324	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
325			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
326			Format: noidle
327			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329			APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
331	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
332			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
333			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334			Change the amount of debugging information output
335			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
336			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
337			driver name.
338			Format: apic=driver_name
339			Examples: apic=bigsmp
340
341	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
342			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
343			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
344			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
345			      backup of CPU 0
346			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
347			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
348			      shot down by NMI
349
350	autoconf=	[IPV6]
351			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
352
353	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
354			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
355			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
356			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
357			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
358			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
359			apic=verbose is specified.
360			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
361
362	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
363			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
364
365	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
366			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
367
368	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
369
370	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
371
372	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
373			EzKey and similar keyboards
374
375	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
376
377	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
378			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
379
380	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
381			keyboards
382
383	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
384			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
385
386	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
387			Use software keyboard repeat
388
389	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
390			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
391			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
392			    until the next reboot
393			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
394			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
395			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
396			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
397			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
398			    auditd.
399			Default: unset
400
401	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
402			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
403			Default: 64
404
405	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
406			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
407			Format: { "0" | "1" }
408			0 - Disable the BAU.
409			1 - Enable the BAU.
410			unset - Disable the BAU.
411
412	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
413			Format: <io>,<mode>
414
415	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
416			Format: <io>,<mode>
417			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
418
419	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
420			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
421			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
422			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
423
424	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
425			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
426			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
427			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
428
429	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
430			embedded devices based on command line input.
431			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
432
433	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
434			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
435			no delay (0).
436			Format: integer
437
438	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
439
440	bert_disable	[ACPI]
441			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
442
443	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
444	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
445			kernel args too.
446	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
447	bttv.tuner=
448
449	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
450			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
451			at a time.
452
453	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
454
455	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
456			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
457			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
458			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
459			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
460			This option provides an override for these situations.
461
462	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
463			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
464			trust validation.
465			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
466
467	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
468			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
469			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
470			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
471			others).
472
473	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
474			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
475
476	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
477			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
478			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
479			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
480			  a single hierarchy
481			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
482			  subsystem
483			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
484			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
485			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
486
487	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
488			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
489			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
490			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
491
492	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
493			Format: <string>
494			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
495			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
496
497	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
500			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
501				any implied execute protection).
502			1 -- check protection requested by application.
503			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
504			Value can be changed at runtime via
505				/selinux/checkreqprot.
506
507	cio_ignore=	[S390]
508			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
509	clk_ignore_unused
510			[CLK]
511			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
512			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
513			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
514			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
515			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
516			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
517			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
518			platform with proper driver support.  For more
519			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
520
521	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
522			[Deprecated]
523			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
524			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
525			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
526			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
527
528	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
529			Format: <string>
530			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
531			with the name specified.
532			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
533			the platform:
534			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
535			[ACPI] acpi_pm
536			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
537				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
538			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
539				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
540			[MIPS] MIPS
541			[PARISC] cr16
542			[S390] tod
543			[SH] SuperH
544			[SPARC64] tick
545			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
546
547	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
548			[ARM,ARM64]
549			Format: <bool>
550			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
551			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
552			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
553			systems.
554
555	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
556			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
557			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
558			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
559			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
560			ones should be.
561			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
562			or using the feature without checking anything
563			will still see it. This just prevents it from
564			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
565			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
566			some critical bits.
567
568	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
569			[ARM,X86,KNL]
570			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
571			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
572			placement constraint by the physical address range of
573			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
574			altogether. For more information, see
575			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
576
577	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
578			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
579			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
580			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
581			a hypervisor.
582			Default: yes
583
584	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
585			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
586			allocations, by default set to 256K.
587
588	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
589			in an oops report.
590			Range: 0 - 8192
591			Default: 64
592
593	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
594			Format:
595			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
596
597	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
599
600	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
601			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
602			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
603
604	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
605	conmode=
606
607	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
608
609		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
610
611		ttyS<n>[,options]
612		ttyUSB0[,options]
613			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
614			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
615			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
616			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
617			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
618
619			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
620			information.  See
621			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
622			alternative.
623
624		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
625		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
626		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
627		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
628		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
629			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
630			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
631			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
632			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
633			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
634			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
635			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
636			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
637			the h/w is not re-initialized.
638
639		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
640			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
641
642                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
643                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
644			console=brl,ttyS0
645		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
646
647	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
648			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
649                       Defaults to 0.
650
651	coredump_filter=
652			[KNL] Change the default value for
653			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
654			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
655
656	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
657			[ARM,ARM64]
658			Format: <bool>
659			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
660			0: default value, disable debugging
661			1: enable debugging at boot time
662
663	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
664			disable the cpuidle sub-system
665
666	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
667			disable the cpufreq sub-system
668
669	cpu_init_udelay=N
670			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
671			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
672			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
673			Default: 10000
674
675	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
676			Format:
677			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
678
679	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
680			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
681			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
682			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
683			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
684			is selected automatically. Check
685			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
686
687	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
688			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
689			in the running system. The syntax of range is
690			start-[end] where start and end are both
691			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
692			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
693
694	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
695			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
696			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
697			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
698			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
699			available.
700			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
701	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
702			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
703			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
704			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
705			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
706			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
707			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
708			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
709			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
710			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
711			for second kernel instead.
712			0: to disable low allocation.
713			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
714			or memory reserved is below 4G.
715
716	crossrelease_fullstack
717			[KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
718
719	cryptomgr.notests
720                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
721
722	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
723			Format: <dma>
724
725	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
726			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
727
728	dasd=		[HW,NET]
729			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
730
731	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
732			(one device per port)
733			Format: <port#>,<type>
734			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
735
736	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
737			time. See
738			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
739			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
740
741	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
742
743	debug_locks_verbose=
744			[KNL] verbose self-tests
745			Format=<0|1>
746			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
747			self-tests.
748			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
749			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
750			only useful to kernel developers.
751
752	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
753
754	no_debug_objects
755			[KNL] Disable object debugging
756
757	debug_guardpage_minorder=
758			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
759			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
760			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
761			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
762			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
763			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
764			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
765			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
766			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
767			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
768			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
769			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
770			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
771			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
772			bypassed) which are not detectable by
773			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
774			tracking down these problems.
775
776	debug_pagealloc=
777			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
778			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
779			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
780			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
781			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
782			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
783			on: enable the feature
784
785	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
786
787	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
788			Format: <area>[,<node>]
789			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
790
791	default_hugepagesz=
792			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
793			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
794			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
795			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
796			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
797			if not specified.
798
799	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
800			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
801
802	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
803			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
804			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
805			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
806			miss to occur.
807
808	disable=	[IPV6]
809			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
810
811	disable_radix	[PPC]
812			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
813
814	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
815			Format: <int>
816			The number of initial APIC ID for the
817			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
818			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
819			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
820			causing system reset or hang due to sending
821			INIT from AP to BSP.
822
823	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
824			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
825			to workaround buggy firmware.
826
827	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
828			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
829
830	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
831			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
832			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
833			entry later. This parameter disables that.
834
835	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
836			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
837			memory out of your available memory pool based on
838			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
839			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
840
841	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
842			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
843			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
844
845	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
846
847	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
848			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
849
850	dma_debug_entries=<number>
851			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
852			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
853			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
854			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
855			architectural default is too low.
856
857	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
858			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
859			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
860			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
861			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
862			driver later using sysfs.
863
864	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
865			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
866			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
867			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
868			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
869			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
870			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
871			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
872			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
873			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
874			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
875			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
876			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
877			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
878			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
879			data set with no connector name will be used for
880			any connectors not explicitly specified.
881
882	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
883
884	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
885			Format: {"off" | "known"}
886			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
887			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
888			exists).
889			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
890			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
891			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
892
893	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
894			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
895			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
896			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
897
898	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
899	module.dyndbg[="val"]
900			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
901			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
902			for details.
903
904	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
905			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
906			information about the feature.
907
908	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
909			in some Intel CPUs.
910
911	module.async_probe [KNL]
912			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
913
914	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
915			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
916			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
917			which are not unmapped.
918
919	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
920
921			When used with no options, the early console is
922			determined by the stdout-path property in device
923			tree's chosen node.
924
925		cdns,<addr>[,options]
926			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
927			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
928			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
929			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
930			configured.
931
932		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
933		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
934		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
935		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
936		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
937			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
938			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
939			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
940			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
941			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
942			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
943			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
944			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
945
946		pl011,<addr>
947		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
948			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
949			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
950			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
951			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
952			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
953			the device registers.
954
955		meson,<addr>
956			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
957			port at the specified address. The serial port must
958			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
959			supported.
960
961		msm_serial,<addr>
962			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
963			port at the specified address. The serial port
964			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
965			yet supported.
966
967		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
968			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
969			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
970			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
971			yet supported.
972
973		owl,<addr>
974			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
975			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
976			specified address. The serial port must already be
977			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
978
979		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
980
981		s3c2410,<addr>
982		s3c2412,<addr>
983		s3c2440,<addr>
984		s3c6400,<addr>
985		s5pv210,<addr>
986		exynos4210,<addr>
987			Use early console provided by serial driver available
988			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
989			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
990			serial port must already be setup and configured.
991			Options are not yet supported.
992
993		lantiq,<addr>
994			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
995			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
996			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
997			yet supported.
998
999		lpuart,<addr>
1000		lpuart32,<addr>
1001			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1002			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1003			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1004			port must already be setup and configured.
1005
1006		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1007			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1008			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1009			address. The serial port must already be setup
1010			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1011
1012	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1013			earlyprintk=vga
1014			earlyprintk=efi
1015			earlyprintk=sclp
1016			earlyprintk=xen
1017			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1018			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1019			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1020			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1021			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1022			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1023
1024			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1025			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1026			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1027
1028			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1029			takes over.
1030
1031			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1032			be used at a time.
1033
1034			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1035			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1036			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1037			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1038				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1039			You can find the port for a given device in
1040			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1041				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1042
1043			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1044			very good.
1045
1046			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1047			the real console.
1048
1049			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1050
1051			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1052
1053	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1054			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1055			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1056			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1057			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1058			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1059			default: on.
1060
1061	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1062			ekgdboc=kbd
1063
1064			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1065			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1066
1067	edd=		[EDD]
1068			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1069
1070	efi=		[EFI]
1071			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1072			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1073			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1074			default.
1075			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1076			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1077			firmware implementations.
1078			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1079			debug: enable misc debug output
1080
1081	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1082			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1083			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1084			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1085			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1086
1087	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1088			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1089			updating original EFI memory map.
1090			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1091			from ss to ss+nn.
1092			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1093			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1094			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1095			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1096
1097			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1098			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1099			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1100			doesn't support it.
1101
1102	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1103			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1104			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1105			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1106			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1107
1108
1109	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1110			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1111
1112	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1113			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1114			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1115
1116	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1117			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1118			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1119			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1120
1121	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1122			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1123			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1124			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1125			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1126
1127	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1128			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1129			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1130			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1131
1132	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1133			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1134			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1135			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1136			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1137
1138	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1139			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1140			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1141			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1142			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1143			Default value is 0.
1144			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1145
1146	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1147			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1148			support.
1149
1150	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1151			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1152			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1153
1154	evm=		[EVM]
1155			Format: { "fix" }
1156			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1157			current integrity status.
1158
1159	failslab=
1160	fail_page_alloc=
1161	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1162			General fault injection mechanism.
1163			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1164			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1165
1166	floppy=		[HW]
1167			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1168
1169	force_pal_cache_flush
1170			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1171			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1172			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1173			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1174
1175	forcepae [X86-32]
1176			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1177			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1178			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1179			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1180			and may cause unknown problems.
1181
1182	ftrace=[tracer]
1183			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1184			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1185			boot debugging.
1186
1187	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1188			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1189			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1190			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1191			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1192			oops.
1193
1194	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1195			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1196			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1197			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1198			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1199			tracing directory.
1200
1201	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1202			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1203			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1204			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1205			tracing directory.
1206
1207	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1208			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1209			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1210			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1211			that can be changed at run time by the
1212			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1213
1214	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1215			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1216			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1217			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1218			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1219
1220	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1221			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1222			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1223			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1224			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1225
1226	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1227			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1228			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1229			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1230			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1231
1232	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1233
1234	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1235			Format: off | on
1236			default: on
1237
1238	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1239			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1240			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1241			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1242			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1243
1244	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1245			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1246			android emulator
1247
1248	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1249			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1250			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1251			GPT to be used instead.
1252
1253	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1254			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1255			Format: 0 | 1
1256			Default: 0
1257	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1258			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1259			Format: 0 | 1
1260			Default: 0
1261	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1262			Format: 0 | 1
1263			Default: 0
1264	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1265			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1266			Default: 1024
1267	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1268			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1269			Default: 1024
1270
1271	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1272			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1273			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1274
1275	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1276			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1277			backtraces on all cpus.
1278			Format: <integer>
1279
1280	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1281			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1282			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1283			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1284
1285	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1286
1287	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1288			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1289
1290	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1291			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1292			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1293			logic will be disabled.
1294
1295	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1296			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1297			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1298			size on bigger boxes.
1299
1300	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1301			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1302			Default: "on"
1303
1304	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1305			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1306
1307	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1308
1309	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1310			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1311				verbose }
1312			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1313			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1314				VIA, nVidia)
1315			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1316
1317	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1318			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1319
1320	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1321	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1322			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1323			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1324			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1325			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1326			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1327
1328	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1329			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1330	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1331			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1332			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1333
1334	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1335			        hardware thread id mappings.
1336				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1337
1338	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1339			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1340			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1341			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1342			the real console.
1343
1344	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1345			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1346			     registered from board initialization code.
1347			     Format:
1348			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1349
1350	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1351	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1352			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1353			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1354			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1355	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1356	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1357			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1358			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1359	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1360	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1361	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1362			     for the AUX port
1363	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1364			     controller
1365	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1366			     controllers
1367	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1368	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1369			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1370			     transitions, or never reset
1371			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1372			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1373			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1374			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1375			architectures force reset to be always executed
1376	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1377	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1378
1379	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1380
1381	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1382			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1383			hardware.
1384	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1385			does not match list of supported models.
1386	i8k.power_status
1387			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1388			(disabled by default)
1389	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1390			capability is set.
1391
1392	i915.invert_brightness=
1393			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1394			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1395			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1396			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1397			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1398			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1399			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1400			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1401			value switches the backlight off.
1402			-1 -- never invert brightness
1403			 0 -- machine default
1404			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1405
1406	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1407			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1408
1409	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1410			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1411			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1412			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1413			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1414
1415	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1416			Format: <int>
1417			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1418			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1419			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1420			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1421			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1422			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1423			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1424			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1425			was 0x3.
1426
1427	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1428			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1429
1430	idle=		[X86]
1431			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1432			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1433			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1434			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1435			Not recommended.
1436			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1437			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1438			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1439
1440	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1441			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1442			Default: strict
1443
1444			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1445			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1446			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1447			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1448			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1449			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1450			encoding mode.
1451
1452			Available settings are as follows:
1453			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1454				supported by the FPU
1455			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1456				by the FPU
1457			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1458				by the FPU
1459			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1460				supported by the FPU
1461
1462			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1463			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1464			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1465			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1466			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1467			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1468			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1469			MIPS64 CPUs.
1470
1471			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1472			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1473			except where unsupported by hardware.
1474
1475	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1476			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1477			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1478			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1479			could change it dynamically, usually by
1480			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1481
1482	ignore_rlimit_data
1483			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1484			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1485			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1486
1487	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1488			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1489
1490	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1491			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1492			default: "enforce"
1493
1494	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1495			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1496			owned by uid=0.
1497
1498	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1499			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1500			measurements, instead of host native format.
1501
1502	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1503			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1504				   | sha512 | ... }
1505			default: "sha1"
1506
1507			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1508			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1509
1510	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1511			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1512			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1513
1514			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1515			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1516			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1517			uid=0.
1518
1519			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1520			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1521			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1522
1523			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1524			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1525			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1526
1527	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1528			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1529			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1530			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1531			opened for read by uid=0.
1532
1533	ima_template=   [IMA]
1534			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1535			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1536			Default: "ima-ng"
1537
1538	ima_template_fmt=
1539	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1540			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1541
1542	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1543			Format: <min_file_size>
1544			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1545			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1546
1547			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1548			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1549			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1550
1551	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1552			Format: <bufsize>
1553			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1554
1555			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1556			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1557			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1558
1559	init=		[KNL]
1560			Format: <full_path>
1561			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1562			process.
1563
1564	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1565			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1566			startup.
1567
1568	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1569			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1570			modules and initcalls.
1571
1572	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1573
1574	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1575			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1576			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1577			override in debugfs after boot.
1578
1579	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1580			Format: <irq>
1581
1582	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1583
1584	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1585			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1586			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1587			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1588
1589	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1590		on
1591			Enable intel iommu driver.
1592		off
1593			Disable intel iommu driver.
1594		igfx_off [Default Off]
1595			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1596			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1597			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1598			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1599			DMA.
1600		forcedac [x86_64]
1601			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1602			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1603			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1604			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1605			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1606			then look in the higher range.
1607		strict [Default Off]
1608			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1609			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1610			to batching them for performance.
1611		sp_off [Default Off]
1612			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1613			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1614			not be supported.
1615		ecs_off [Default Off]
1616			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1617			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1618			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1619			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1620			on hardware which claims to support them.
1621		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1622			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1623			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1624			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1625			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1626			mapping is enabled.
1627			Note that using this option lowers the security
1628			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1629			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1630
1631	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1632			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1633			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1634
1635	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1636		       disable
1637		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1638		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1639		       passive
1640			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1641			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1642			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1643			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1644			 feature.
1645		       force
1646			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1647			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1648			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1649			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1650			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1651			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1652			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1653			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1654		       no_hwp
1655		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1656			 if available.
1657		hwp_only
1658			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1659			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1660		support_acpi_ppc
1661			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1662			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1663			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1664			then this feature is turned on by default.
1665		per_cpu_perf_limits
1666			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1667			cpufreq sysfs interface
1668
1669	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1670			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1671			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1672			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1673			no_x2apic_optout
1674				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1675			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1676
1677	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1678		strict	regions from userspace.
1679		relaxed
1680
1681	iommu=		[x86]
1682		off
1683		force
1684		noforce
1685		biomerge
1686		panic
1687		nopanic
1688		merge
1689		nomerge
1690		forcesac
1691		soft
1692		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1693		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1694			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1695
1696	iommu.passthrough=
1697			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1698			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1699			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1700			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1701			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1702
1703	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1704			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1705			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1706
1707	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1708		0x80
1709			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1710		0xed
1711			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1712		udelay
1713			Simple two microseconds delay
1714		none
1715			No delay
1716
1717	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1718			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1719
1720	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1721			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1722
1723	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1724			[ARM, ARM64]
1725			Format: <bool>
1726			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1727			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1728			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1729
1730	irqfixup	[HW]
1731			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1732			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1733			firmware running.
1734
1735	irqpoll		[HW]
1736			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1737			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1738			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1739			firmware running.
1740
1741	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1742			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1743
1744	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1745			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1746			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1747
1748			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1749			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1750
1751			nohz
1752			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1753			domain
1754			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1755			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1756			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1757			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1758			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1759			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1760			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1761			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1762
1763			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1764			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1765			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1766			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1767
1768			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1769
1770
1771
1772	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1773
1774	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1775			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1776			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1777			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1778			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1779				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1780
1781	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1782			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1783			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1784			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1785			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1786				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1787
1788	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1789			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1790			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1791			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1792			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1793				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1794
1795	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1796			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1797
1798	nokaslr		[KNL]
1799			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1800			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1801			Layout Randomization).
1802
1803	kasan_multi_shot
1804			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1805			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1806			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1807			invalid access.
1808
1809	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1810
1811	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1812			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1813			This parameter
1814			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1815			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1816			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1817			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1818			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1819			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1820			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1821			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1822			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1823			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1824			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1825			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1826			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1827			zone if it does not.
1828
1829			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1830			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1831			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1832			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1833			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1834			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1835			time.
1836
1837	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1838			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1839			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1840			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1841			optional and is the number seconds in between
1842			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1843			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1844			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1845			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1846			the kernel debugger.
1847
1848	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1849			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1850			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1851			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1852			 keyboard only format: kbd
1853			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1854			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1855			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1856			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1857
1858	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1859			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1860
1861	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1862			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1863			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1864
1865	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1866			Valid arguments: on, off
1867			Default: on
1868			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1869			the default is off.
1870
1871	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1872			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1873
1874	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1875			KVM MMU at runtime.
1876			Default is 0 (off)
1877
1878	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1879			Default is 1 (enabled)
1880
1881	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1882			for all guests.
1883			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1884
1885	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1886			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1887			system registers
1888
1889	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1890			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1891			system registers
1892
1893	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1894			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1895			system registers
1896
1897	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1898			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1899			LPIs.
1900
1901	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1902			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1903			Default is 1 (enabled)
1904
1905	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1906			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1907			Default is 0 (disabled)
1908
1909	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1910			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1911			Default is 1 (enabled)
1912
1913	kvm-intel.nested=
1914			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1915			Default is 0 (disabled)
1916
1917	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1918			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1919			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1920			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1921
1922	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1923			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1924			Default is 1 (enabled)
1925
1926	l2cr=		[PPC]
1927
1928	l3cr=		[PPC]
1929
1930	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1931			disabled it.
1932
1933	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1934			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1935			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1936
1937	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1938			in C2 power state.
1939
1940	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1941			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1942			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1943			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1944			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1945			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1946			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1947
1948	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1949			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1950			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1951
1952	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1953			when set.
1954			Format: <int>
1955
1956	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1957			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1958			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1959			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1960			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1961			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1962			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1963			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1964
1965			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1966			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1967			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1968			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1969			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1970			host link and device attached to it.
1971
1972			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1973			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1974			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1975			The following configurations can be forced.
1976
1977			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1978			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1979
1980			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1981
1982			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1983			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1984			  allowed.
1985
1986			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1987
1988			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1989
1990			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1991                          and both resets.
1992
1993			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1994			  hot-unplug link recovery
1995
1996			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1997
1998			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1999
2000			* disable: Disable this device.
2001
2002			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2003			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2004
2005	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2006
2007	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2008			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2009
2010	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2011			Format: <integer>
2012
2013	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2014			Format: <integer>
2015
2016	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2017			Format: <integer>
2018
2019	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2020			Format: <integer>
2021
2022	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2023			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2024			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2025			number of online CPUs.
2026
2027	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2028			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2029
2030	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2031			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2032
2033	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2034			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2035			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2036
2037	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2038			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2039			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2040			mode during the locktorture test.
2041
2042	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2043			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2044			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2045
2046	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2047			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2048
2049	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2050			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2051			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2052			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2053			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2054			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2055
2056	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2057			Start locktorture running at boot time.
2058
2059	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2060			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2061
2062	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2063			Enable additional printk() statements.
2064
2065	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2066			Format: <irq>
2067
2068	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2069			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2070			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2071			loglevels are defined as follows:
2072
2073			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2074			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2075			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2076			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2077			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2078			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2079			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2080			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2081
2082	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2083			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2084			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2085			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2086			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2087			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2088			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2089
2090	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2091			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2092			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2093			kernel boot problems.
2094
2095	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2096	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2097	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2098	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2099				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2100				attached printers to be reset. Using
2101				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2102				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2103				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2104				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2105				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2106				port specification list means that device IDs
2107				from each port should be examined, to see if
2108				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2109				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2110				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2111
2112	lpj=n		[KNL]
2113			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2114			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2115			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2116			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2117			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2118			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2119			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2120			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2121			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2122			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2123			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2124			hardware.
2125
2126	ltpc=		[NET]
2127			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2128
2129	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2130			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2131			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2132
2133	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2134			 yeeloong laptop.
2135			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2136
2137	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2138			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2139
2140	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2141			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2142			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2143			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2144			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2145			only takes effect during system bootup.
2146			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2147			which also disables the IO APIC.
2148
2149	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2150	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2151			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2152			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2153			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2154			/dev/loop-control interface.
2155
2156	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2157
2158	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2159
2160	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2161			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2162
2163	mdacon=		[MDA]
2164			Format: <first>,<last>
2165			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2166
2167	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2168			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2169			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2170			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2171			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2172			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2173			belonging to unused RAM.
2174
2175	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2176			memory.
2177
2178	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2179			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2180			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2181
2182        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2183			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2184			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2185			set according to the
2186			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2187			option.
2188			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2189
2190	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2191			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2192			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2193			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2194			option description.
2195
2196	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2197			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2198			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2199			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2200			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2201			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2202			comma delimited.
2203			Example:
2204				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2205
2206	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2207			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2208			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2209
2210	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2211			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2212			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2213			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2214			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2215			         or
2216			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2217			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2218			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2219			will be eaten.
2220
2221	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2222			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2223			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2224			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2225			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2226
2227	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2228			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2229			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2230			Setting this option will scan the memory
2231			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2232			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2233			from using the memory being corrupted.
2234			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2235			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2236			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2237			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2238
2239	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2240			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2241			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2242			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2243			corruption in more or less memory.
2244
2245	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2246			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2247			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2248			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2249
2250	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2251			Format: <integer>
2252			default : 0 <disable>
2253			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2254			performed. Each pass selects another test
2255			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2256			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2257			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2258			regions that are detected.
2259
2260	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2261			Valid arguments: on, off
2262			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2263			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2264			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2265			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2266			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2267
2268			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2269			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2270
2271	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2272			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2273			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2274			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2275			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2276
2277	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2278			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2279
2280	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2281			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2282			platforms.
2283
2284	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2285			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2286			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2287			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2288
2289	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2290
2291	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2292			physical address is ignored.
2293
2294	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2295			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2296			Default: "0tb"
2297			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2298			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2299			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2300			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2301			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2302			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2303			unconfigured.
2304			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2305			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2306			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2307			VGA shield.
2308			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2309			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2310			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2311			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2312			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2313			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2314
2315	mminit_loglevel=
2316			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2317			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2318			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2319			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2320			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2321			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2322
2323	module.sig_enforce
2324			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2325			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2326			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2327			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2328
2329	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2330			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2331
2332	mousedev.tap_time=
2333			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2334			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2335			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2336			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2337			Format: <msecs>
2338	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2339			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2340	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2341			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2342
2343	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2344			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2345			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2346			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2347			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2348			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2349			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2350			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2351			is not too small.
2352
2353	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2354			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2355			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2356			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2357			allocations. Use with caution!
2358
2359	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2360			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2361
2362	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2363			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2364
2365	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2366			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2367
2368	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2369			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2370			at a time.
2371
2372	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2373
2374			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2375
2376			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2377				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2378			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2379				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2380				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2381
2382	mtdset=		[ARM]
2383			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2384
2385			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2386
2387	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2388			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2389			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2390
2391	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2392			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2393			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2394
2395	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2396			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2397			Default is 1.
2398			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2399			using up MTRRs.
2400
2401	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2402			Format: <integer>
2403			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2404			Default : 1
2405			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2406			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2407
2408	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2409
2410	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2411			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2412			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2413			something different and driver-specific.
2414			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2415			file if at all.
2416
2417	nf_conntrack.acct=
2418			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2419			0 to disable accounting
2420			1 to enable accounting
2421			Default value is 0.
2422
2423	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2424			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2425
2426	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2427			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2428
2429	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2430			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2431
2432	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2433			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2434			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2435			requests.
2436
2437	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2438			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2439			channel should listen.
2440
2441	nfs.cache_getent=
2442			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2443			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2444
2445	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2446			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2447			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2448
2449	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2450			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2451			entries.
2452
2453	nfs.enable_ino64=
2454			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2455			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2456			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2457			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2458			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2459
2460	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2461			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2462			slots the client will assign to the callback
2463			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2464			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2465			a particular server.
2466
2467	nfs.max_session_slots=
2468			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2469			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2470			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2471			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2472			Note that there is little point in setting this
2473			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2474
2475	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2476			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2477			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2478			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2479			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2480			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2481			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2482			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2483			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2484			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2485			back to using the idmapper.
2486			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2487	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2488			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2489			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2490			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2491			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2492
2493	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2494			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2495			information in exchange_id requests.
2496			If zero, no implementation identification information
2497			will be sent.
2498			The default is to send the implementation identification
2499			information.
2500
2501	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2502			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2503			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2504			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2505			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2506			after the locks are lost.
2507			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2508			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2509			parameter to '1'.
2510			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2511			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2512
2513	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2514			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2515			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2516
2517			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2518			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2519			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2520			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2521
2522	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2523			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2524			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2525			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2526			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2527			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2528
2529	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2530			when a NMI is triggered.
2531			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2532
2533	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2534			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2535			Valid num: 0 or 1
2536			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2537			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2538			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2539			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2540			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2541			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2542			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2543			need the box quickly up again.
2544
2545	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2546			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2547			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2548			waits 4 seconds.
2549
2550	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2551			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2552			is present.
2553
2554	no_console_suspend
2555			[HW] Never suspend the console
2556			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2557			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2558			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2559			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2560			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2561			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2562			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2563			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2564			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2565			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2566			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2567			turn on/off it dynamically.
2568
2569	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2570			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2571			but will impact performance.
2572
2573	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2574
2575	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2576			(CPU alternatives feature).
2577
2578	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2579			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2580
2581	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2582
2583	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2584			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2585
2586	nocache		[ARM]
2587
2588	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2589
2590	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2591
2592	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2593
2594	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2595
2596	noexec		[IA-64]
2597
2598	noexec		[X86]
2599			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2600			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2601			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2602
2603	nosmap		[X86]
2604			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2605			even if it is supported by processor.
2606
2607	nosmep		[X86]
2608			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2609			even if it is supported by processor.
2610
2611	noexec32	[X86-64]
2612			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2613			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2614				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2615			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2616				read implies executable mappings
2617
2618	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2619
2620	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2621			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2622			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2623
2624	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2625
2626	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2627			Equivalent to smt=1.
2628
2629	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2630			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2631			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2632
2633	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2634			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2635			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2636			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2637			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2638			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2639
2640	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2641			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2642			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2643			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2644			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2645			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2646			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2647
2648	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2649			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2650			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2651
2652	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2653			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2654			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2655
2656	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2657			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2658			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2659			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2660			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2661			real-time systems.
2662
2663	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2664
2665	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2666			Valid arguments: on, off
2667			Default: on
2668
2669	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2670			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2671			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2672			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2673			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2674			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2675			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2676			just as if they had also been called out in the
2677			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2678
2679	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2680
2681	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2682			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2683
2684	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2685			broken timer IRQ sources.
2686
2687	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2688
2689	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2690			initial RAM disk.
2691
2692	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2693			remapping.
2694			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2695
2696	nointroute	[IA-64]
2697
2698	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2699
2700	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2701
2702	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2703
2704	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2705			fault handling.
2706
2707	no-vmw-sched-clock
2708			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2709			clock and use the default one.
2710
2711	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2712			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2713			behaviour
2714
2715	nopti		[X86-64] Disable kernel page table isolation
2716
2717	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2718
2719	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2720
2721	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2722			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2723
2724	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2725
2726	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2727
2728	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2729			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2730
2731	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2732			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2733			irq.
2734
2735	nomodule	Disable module load
2736
2737	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2738			pagetables) support.
2739
2740	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2741
2742	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2743			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2744
2745	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2746
2747	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2748			with UP alternatives
2749
2750	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2751			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2752			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2753			available to user space applications.
2754
2755	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2756			space.
2757
2758	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2759			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2760			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2761
2762	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2763
2764	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2765
2766	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2767			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2768
2769	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2770
2771	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2772
2773	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2774
2775	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2776                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2777
2778	nowb		[ARM]
2779
2780	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2781
2782	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2783			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2784			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2785			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2786			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2787			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2788			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2789			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2790			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2791			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2792			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2793			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2794			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2795
2796	nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2797			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2798			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2799			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2800			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2801			parameter's value.
2802			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2803			Default: 255
2804
2805	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2806			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2807			SAL PALO.
2808
2809	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2810			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2811			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2812			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2813			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2814			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2815			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2816			hot plugging.
2817
2818	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2819
2820	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2821			Allowed values are enable and disable
2822
2823	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2824			'node', 'default' can be specified
2825			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2826			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2827
2828	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2829			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2830			info.
2831
2832	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2833			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2834			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2835			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2836			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2837			interrupts *may* be lost!
2838
2839	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2840			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2841			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2842			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2843
2844	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2845			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2846
2847	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2848			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2849			userland or if you want common events.
2850			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2851			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2852				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2853				CPU specific event set.
2854			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2855				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2856				for generic hr timer mode)
2857
2858	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2859			process, but there is a small probability of
2860			deadlocking the machine.
2861			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2862			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2863
2864	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2865			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2866
2867	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2868			Storage of the information about who allocated
2869			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2870			we can turn it on.
2871			on: enable the feature
2872
2873	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2874			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2875			off: turn off poisoning
2876			on: turn on poisoning
2877
2878	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2879			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2880			timeout = 0: wait forever
2881			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2882			Format: <timeout>
2883
2884	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2885			on a WARN().
2886
2887	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2888			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2889			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2890			succeeds in any situation.
2891			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2892			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2893			kernel more unstable.
2894
2895	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2896			connected to, default is 0.
2897			Format: <parport#>
2898	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2899			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2900			Format: <mode>
2901
2902	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2903			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2904			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2905			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2906			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2907			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2908			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2909			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2910			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2911			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2912			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2913			are specified on the command line, starting
2914			with parport0.
2915
2916	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2917			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2918			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2919			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2920			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2921			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2922			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2923
2924	pause_on_oops=
2925			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2926			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2927			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2928
2929	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2930
2931	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2932			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2933			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2934
2935	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2936		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2937			        changes anything
2938		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2939		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2940				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2941				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2942		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2943				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2944				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2945				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2946		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2947				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2948				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2949		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2950				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2951				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2952				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2953				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2954				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2955				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2956		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2957				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2958				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2959		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2960				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2961		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2962				Configuration
2963		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2964				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2965				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2966		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2967				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2968				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2969		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2970				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2971				should never be necessary.
2972		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2973				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2974				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2975				when the system masks IRQs.
2976		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2977				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2978				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2979				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2980		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2981				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2982				on several machines and they hang the machine
2983				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2984				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2985				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2986				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2987				motherboard.
2988		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2989				Use with caution as certain devices share
2990				address decoders between ROMs and other
2991				resources.
2992		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2993				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2994				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2995		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2996				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2997		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2998				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2999				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3000				this way.
3001		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3002				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3003				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3004				F0000h-100000h range.
3005		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3006				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3007				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3008				explicitly which ones they are.
3009		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3010				numbers ourselves, overriding
3011				whatever the firmware may have done.
3012		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3013				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3014				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3015				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3016				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3017				IRQ routing is enabled.
3018		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3019				or for PCI scanning.
3020		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3021				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3022				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3023				please report a bug.
3024		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3025			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3026		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3027				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3028				so this option is a temporary workaround
3029				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3030		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3031				handle more pci cards
3032		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3033				This might help on some broken boards which
3034				machine check when some devices' config space
3035				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3036				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3037		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3038				This sorting is done to get a device
3039				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3040		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3041		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3042				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3043		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3044				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3045		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3046				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3047				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3048				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3049				or bus can support) for best performance.
3050		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3051				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3052				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3053				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3054				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3055				that hot-added devices will work.
3056		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3057				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3058				The default value is 256 bytes.
3059		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3060				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3061				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3062		resource_alignment=
3063				Format:
3064				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3065				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3066						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3067				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3068				aligned memory resources.
3069				If <order of align> is not specified,
3070				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3071				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3072				windows need to be expanded.
3073				To specify the alignment for several
3074				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3075				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3076				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3077		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3078				end-to-end CRC checking).
3079				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3080				the default.
3081				off: Turn ECRC off
3082				on: Turn ECRC on.
3083		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3084				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3085				Default size is 256 bytes.
3086		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3087				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3088				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3089		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3090				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3091				Default is 1.
3092		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3093				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3094				accommodate resources required by all child
3095				devices.
3096				off: Turn realloc off
3097				on: Turn realloc on
3098		realloc		same as realloc=on
3099		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3100		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3101				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3102				port.
3103
3104	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3105			Management.
3106		off	Disable ASPM.
3107		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3108			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3109
3110	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3111		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3112			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3113
3114	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3115		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3116			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3117			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3118		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3119			unconditionally.
3120		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3121			ports driver.
3122
3123	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3124		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3125		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3126
3127	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3128		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3129			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3130
3131	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3132
3133	pd_ignore_unused
3134			[PM]
3135			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3136			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3137			for debug and development, but should not be
3138			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3139
3140	pd.		[PARIDE]
3141			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3142
3143	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3144			boot time.
3145			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3146			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3147
3148	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3149			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3150			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3151			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3152			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3153			and performance comparison.
3154
3155	pf.		[PARIDE]
3156			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3157
3158	pg.		[PARIDE]
3159			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3160
3161	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3162			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3163
3164	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3165			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3166			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3167
3168	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3169			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3170			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3171
3172	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3173			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3174			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3175			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3176			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3177			possible settings and some assignment information.
3178
3179	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3180			{ off }
3181
3182	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3183			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3184
3185	pnp_reserve_irq=
3186			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3187
3188	pnp_reserve_dma=
3189			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3190
3191	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3192			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3193
3194	pnp_reserve_mem=
3195			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3196			autoconfiguration.
3197			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3198
3199	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3200			Default is 21.
3201			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3202			may be specified.
3203			Format: <port>,<port>....
3204
3205	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3206			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3207			platform machine description specific power_save
3208			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3209			execution priority.
3210
3211	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3212			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3213			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3214			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3215			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3216
3217	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3218			Format: {"off"}
3219			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3220
3221	print-fatal-signals=
3222			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3223
3224			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3225			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3226			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3227			coredump - etc.
3228
3229			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3230			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3231
3232			default: off.
3233
3234	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3235			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3236			panics
3237			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3238			default: disabled
3239
3240	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3241			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3242			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3243			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3244			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3245			Default: ratelimit
3246
3247	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3248			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3249
3250	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3251			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3252			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3253
3254	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3255			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3256			instead using the legacy FADT method
3257
3258	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3259			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3260			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3261				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3262			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3263			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3264				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3265			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3266			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3267				statistical time based profiling.
3268
3269	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3270			before loading.
3271			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3272
3273	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3274			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3275	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3276			per second.
3277	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3278			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3279			(0 = never).
3280	psmouse.resolution=
3281			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3282	psmouse.smartscroll=
3283			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3284			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3285
3286	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3287
3288	pt.		[PARIDE]
3289			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3290
3291	pti=		[X86_64]
3292			Control user/kernel address space isolation:
3293			on - enable
3294			off - disable
3295			auto - default setting
3296
3297	pty.legacy_count=
3298			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3299			default number.
3300
3301	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3302
3303	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3304
3305	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3306			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3307
3308	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3309			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3310
3311	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3312
3313		cec_disable	[X86]
3314				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3315				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3316
3317	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3318			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3319
3320			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3321			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3322			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3323			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3324			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3325			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3326			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3327			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3328			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3329			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3330
3331	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3332			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3333			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3334			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3335			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3336			This improves the real-time response for the
3337			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3338			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3339			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3340			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3341
3342	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3343			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3344			process in one batch.
3345
3346	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3347			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3348			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3349			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3350
3351	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3352			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3353			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3354
3355	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3356			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3357			RCU grace-period initialization.
3358
3359	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3360			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3361			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3362			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3363			the rcu_node combining tree.
3364
3365	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3366			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3367			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3368			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3369			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3370
3371	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3372			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3373			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3374			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3375			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3376			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3377			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3378
3379	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3380			Set required age in jiffies for a
3381			given grace period before RCU starts
3382			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3383			rcu_note_context_switch().
3384
3385	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3386			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3387			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3388			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3389			and maximum value is HZ.
3390
3391	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3392			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3393			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3394			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3395
3396	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3397			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3398			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3399			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3400			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3401			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3402			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3403			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3404			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3405			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3406
3407	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3408			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3409			defaults to the square root of the number of
3410			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3411			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3412			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3413
3414	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3415			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3416			batch limiting is disabled.
3417
3418	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3419			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3420			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3421
3422	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3423			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3424			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3425
3426	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3427			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3428			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3429			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3430			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3431
3432	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3433			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3434			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3435			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3436			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3437			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3438
3439	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3440			Measure performance of asynchronous
3441			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3442
3443	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3444			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3445			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3446			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3447			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3448			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3449
3450	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3451			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3452			grace-period primitives.
3453
3454	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3455			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3456			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3457			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3458			interference.
3459
3460	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3461			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3462			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3463			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3464			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3465			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3466			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3467			a single reader.
3468
3469	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3470			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3471			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3472			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3473
3474	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3475			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3476
3477	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3478			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3479
3480	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3481			Shut the system down after performance tests
3482			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3483			testing.
3484
3485	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3486			Enable additional printk() statements.
3487
3488	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3489			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3490			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3491			no holdoff.
3492
3493	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3494			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3495			callback-flood tests.
3496
3497	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3498			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3499			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3500			test.
3501
3502	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3503			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3504			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3505			disable callback-flood testing.
3506
3507	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3508			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3509			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3510
3511	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3512			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3513			in microseconds.
3514
3515	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3516			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3517			in microseconds.
3518
3519	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3520			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3521			in seconds.
3522
3523	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3524			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3525			primitives, if available.
3526
3527	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3528			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3529
3530	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3531			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3532			update-side primitives, if available.
3533
3534	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3535			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3536			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3537			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3538			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3539			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3540			they are all non-zero.
3541
3542	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3543			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3544
3545	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3546			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3547			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3548			test, hence the "fake".
3549
3550	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3551			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3552			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3553			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3554			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3555			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3556
3557	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3558			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3559
3560	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3561			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3562
3563	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3564			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3565			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3566
3567	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3568			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3569			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3570			during the rcutorture test.
3571
3572	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3573			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3574			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3575
3576	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3577			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3578			warnings, zero to disable.
3579
3580	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3581			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3582
3583	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3584			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3585
3586	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3587			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3588
3589	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3590			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3591			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3592			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3593			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3594
3595	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3596			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3597			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3598			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3599
3600	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3601			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3602
3603	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3604			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3605
3606	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3607			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3608			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3609
3610	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3611			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3612
3613	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3614			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3615
3616	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3617			Enable additional printk() statements.
3618
3619	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3620			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3621
3622	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3623			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3624
3625	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3626			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3627			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3628			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3629			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3630			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3631			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3632
3633	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3634			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3635			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3636			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3637			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3638			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3639			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3640			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3641			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3642
3643	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3644			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3645			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3646			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3647			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3648
3649	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3650			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3651			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3652			to zero.
3653
3654	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3655			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3656
3657	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3658			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3659
3660	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3661			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3662
3663	rdinit=		[KNL]
3664			Format: <full_path>
3665			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3666			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3667
3668	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3669			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3670			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3671			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3672				rdt=cmt,!mba
3673
3674	reboot=		[KNL]
3675			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3676				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3677				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3678				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3679				[[,]f[orce]
3680			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3681			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3682			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3683			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3684					to be used for rebooting.
3685
3686	relax_domain_level=
3687			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3688			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3689
3690	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3691
3692	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3693			Format: nn[KMG]
3694			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3695			address space.
3696
3697	reservelow=	[X86]
3698			Format: nn[K]
3699			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3700			the bottom of the address space.
3701
3702	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3703			during initialization.
3704
3705	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3706			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3707			Format:
3708			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3709
3710	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3711			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3712			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3713			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3714			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3715
3716	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3717			read the resume files
3718
3719	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3720			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3721			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3722
3723	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3724		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3725				present during boot.
3726		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3727		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3728		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3729				(that will set all pages holding image data
3730				during restoration read-only).
3731
3732	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3733
3734	rfkill.default_state=
3735		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3736			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3737		1	Unblocked.
3738
3739	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3740		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3741		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3742			blocked and the previous configuration.
3743		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3744			blocked and everything unblocked.
3745
3746	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3747			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3748
3749	ring3mwait=disable
3750			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3751			CPUs.
3752
3753	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3754
3755	rodata=		[KNL]
3756		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3757		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3758
3759	rockchip.usb_uart
3760			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3761			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3762			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3763			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3764
3765	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3766			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3767
3768	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3769			mount the root filesystem
3770
3771	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3772
3773	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3774
3775	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3776			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3777			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3778
3779	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3780			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3781			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3782			managed by CMA.
3783
3784	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3785
3786	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3787
3788	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3789			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3790		strict
3791			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3792			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3793			which is faster.
3794
3795	sa1100ir	[NET]
3796			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3797
3798	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3799
3800	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3801
3802	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3803			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3804			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3805			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3806
3807	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3808			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3809			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3810			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3811			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3812			1 -- enable.
3813			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3814			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3815
3816	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3817			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3818			security module asking for security registration will be
3819			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3820			as if no module has been chosen.
3821
3822	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3823			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3824			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3825			0 -- disable.
3826			1 -- enable.
3827			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3828			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3829			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3830
3831	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3832			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3833			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3834			0 -- disable.
3835			1 -- enable.
3836			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3837
3838	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3839
3840	shapers=	[NET]
3841			Maximal number of shapers.
3842
3843	simeth=		[IA-64]
3844	simscsi=
3845
3846	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3847
3848	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3849			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3850			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3851			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3852			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3853			layout control by attackers can usually be
3854			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3855			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3856			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3857			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3858			own.
3859			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3860
3861	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3862			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3863			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3864			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3865			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3866
3867	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3868			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3869			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3870			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3871			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3872			last alloc / free. For more information see
3873			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3874
3875	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3876			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3877			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3878			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3879			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3880			directories and files being created under
3881			/sys/kernel/slub.
3882
3883	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3884			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3885			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3886			fragmentation. For more information see
3887			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3888
3889	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3890			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3891			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3892			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3893			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3894			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3895			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3896			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3897
3898	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3899			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3900			lower than slub_max_order.
3901			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3902
3903	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3904			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3905			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3906
3907	smart2=		[HW]
3908			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3909
3910	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3911	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3912	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3913	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3914	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3915	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3916	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3917				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3918				1: Fast pin select (default)
3919				2: ATC IRMode
3920
3921	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3922			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3923			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3924			actual hardware limit.
3925			Format: <integer>
3926			Default: -1 (no limit)
3927
3928	softlockup_panic=
3929			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3930			Format: <integer>
3931
3932			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3933			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3934			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3935			which is the respective build-time switch to that
3936			functionality.
3937
3938	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3939			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3940			backtraces on all cpus.
3941			Format: <integer>
3942
3943	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3944			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3945
3946	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3947	spia_fio_base=
3948	spia_pedr=
3949	spia_peddr=
3950
3951	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3952			Specifies how frequently to check for
3953			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3954			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3955			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3956			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3957			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
3958			are ignored.
3959
3960	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3961			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3962			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3963			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3964			grace period will be considered for automatic
3965			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
3966			expediting.
3967
3968	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
3969			override the default stack gap protection. The value
3970			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3971			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3972			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3973			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3974
3975	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
3976			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3977
3978	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3979			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3980			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3981			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3982			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3983			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3984			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3985
3986	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
3987			Format: <num>
3988			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3989			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3990			as the initial boot-console.
3991			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3992
3993	sti_font=	[HW]
3994			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3995
3996	stifb=		[HW]
3997			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3998
3999	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4000	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4001			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4002			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4003			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4004			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4005			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4006			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4007			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4008			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4009			maximum port values.
4010
4011	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4012			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4013			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4014			process in parallel from a single connection.
4015			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4016
4017	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4018			[NFS]
4019			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4020			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4021			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4022			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4023			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4024			NFS server is running.
4025
4026			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4027				    automatically using heuristics
4028			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4029			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4030			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4031				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4032
4033	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4034	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4035			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4036			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4037			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4038			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4039			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4040			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4041
4042	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4043			[SUSPEND]
4044			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4045			mode before resuming the system (see
4046			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4047			is set. Default value is 5.
4048
4049	swapaccount=[0|1]
4050			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4051			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4052			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4053
4054	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4055			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4056			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4057			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4058			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4059			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4060
4061	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4062
4063	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4064			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4065			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4066			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4067			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4068			in older udev will not work anymore.
4069			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4070			the kernel configuration.
4071
4072	sysrq_always_enabled
4073			[KNL]
4074			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4075			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4076			Useful for debugging.
4077
4078	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4079			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4080			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4081			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4082			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4083			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4084
4085	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4086
4087	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4088			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4089			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4090			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4091			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4092			The system is woken from this state using a
4093			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4094
4095	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4096			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4097
4098	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4099			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4100			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4101
4102	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4103			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4104			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4105
4106	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4107			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4108			critical and hot trip points.
4109
4110	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4111			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4112
4113	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4114			-1: disable all passive trip points
4115			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4116			value
4117
4118	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4119			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4120			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4121			0: no polling (default)
4122
4123	threadirqs	[KNL]
4124			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4125			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4126
4127	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4128			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4129
4130	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4131			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4132			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4133
4134	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4135			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4136			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4137			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4138
4139	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4140			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4141			to the hypervisor.
4142
4143	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4144			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4145			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4146			kernel based on different criteria.
4147
4148	topology=	[S390]
4149			Format: {off | on}
4150			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4151			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4152			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4153			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4154			Default is on.
4155
4156	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4157			Format: {off}
4158			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4159			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4160			LPAR.
4161
4162	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4163
4164	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4165			Format: integer pcr id
4166			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4167			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4168			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4169			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4170			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4171			are saved.
4172
4173	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4174			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4175
4176	trace_event=[event-list]
4177			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4178			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4179			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4180			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4181
4182	trace_options=[option-list]
4183			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4184			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4185			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4186			to echo the option name into
4187
4188			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4189
4190			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4191			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4192
4193			      trace_options=stacktrace
4194
4195			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4196			section.
4197
4198	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4199			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4200			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4201			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4202			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4203			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4204
4205			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4206			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4207			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4208			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4209
4210			** CAUTION **
4211
4212			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4213			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4214			the system to live lock.
4215
4216	traceoff_on_warning
4217			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4218			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4219			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4220			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4221
4222			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4223			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4224			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4225
4226			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4227			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4228
4229	transparent_hugepage=
4230			[KNL]
4231			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4232			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4233			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4234			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4235
4236	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4237			Format: <string>
4238			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4239			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4240			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4241			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4242			virtualized environment.
4243			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4244			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4245			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4246			can add overhead.
4247			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4248			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4249			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4250
4251	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4252			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4253			Format:
4254			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4255			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4256
4257	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4258			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4259			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4260			help "seeing" what's going on.
4261
4262	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4263			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4264
4265	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4266			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4267			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4268			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4269			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4270			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4271			reported either.
4272
4273	unknown_nmi_panic
4274			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4275
4276	usbcore.authorized_default=
4277			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4278			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4279			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4280
4281	usbcore.autosuspend=
4282			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4283			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4284			is the time required before an idle device will be
4285			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4286			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4287
4288	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4289			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4290
4291	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4292			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4293			(default = 65536).
4294
4295	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4296			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4297
4298	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4299			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4300			scheme (default 0 = off).
4301
4302	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4303			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4304			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4305
4306	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4307			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4308			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4309
4310	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4311			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4312                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4313			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4314
4315	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4316
4317	usbhid.mousepoll=
4318			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4319
4320	usbhid.jspoll=
4321			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4322
4323	usb-storage.delay_use=
4324			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4325			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4326
4327	usb-storage.quirks=
4328			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4329			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4330			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4331			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4332			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4333			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4334			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4335				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4336					of sense data);
4337				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4338					bytes of sense data);
4339				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4340					device capacity by one sector);
4341				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4342					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4343				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4344					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4345				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4346					command, uas only);
4347				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4348					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4349				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4350					reported device capacity by one
4351					sector if the number is odd);
4352				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4353					device);
4354				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4355					command, uas only);
4356				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4357					unlock ejectable media);
4358				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4359					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4360				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4361					initial READ(10) command);
4362				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4363					reported by the device);
4364				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4365					by default);
4366				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4367					bogus residue values);
4368				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4369					Logical Unit);
4370				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4371					commands, uas only);
4372				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4373				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4374					medium is write-protected).
4375				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4376					even if the device claims no cache)
4377			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4378
4379	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4380			Format: <int>
4381			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4382				 1 - undefined instruction events
4383				 2 - system calls
4384				 4 - invalid data aborts
4385				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4386				16 - SIGBUS faults
4387			Example: user_debug=31
4388
4389	userpte=
4390			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4391
4392				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4393					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4394					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4395
4396	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4397			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4398
4399			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4400			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4401
4402	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4403			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4404			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4405
4406			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4407			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4408			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4409
4410			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4411			alias for vdso32=0.
4412
4413			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4414			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4415
4416	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4417			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4418
4419	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4420			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4421
4422	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4423			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4424			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4425			level and then send out the event to user space through
4426			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4427			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4428			brightness level.
4429			default: 1
4430
4431	virtio_mmio.device=
4432			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4433
4434				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4435			where:
4436				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4437						like K, M and G)
4438				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4439				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4440						request_irq())
4441				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4442			example:
4443				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4444
4445			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4446
4447	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4448			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4449			Documentation/svga.txt.
4450			Use vga=ask for menu.
4451			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4452			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4453
4454	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4455			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4456			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4457			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4458			mapped kernel RAM.
4459
4460	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4461			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4462			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4463
4464	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4465			Format: <command>
4466
4467	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4468			Format: <command>
4469
4470	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4471			Format: <command>
4472
4473	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4474			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4475			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4476			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4477			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4478			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4479			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4480
4481			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4482			            emulated reasonably safely.
4483
4484			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4485			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4486			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4487			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4488			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4489
4490			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4491			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4492			            might break your system.
4493
4494	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4495			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4496			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4497
4498	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4499			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4500			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4501			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4502
4503	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4504			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4505			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4506			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4507			ranging from 0-255.
4508
4509	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4510			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4511			Change the default green palette of the console.
4512			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4513			ranging from 0-255.
4514
4515	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4516			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4517			Change the default red palette of the console.
4518			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4519			ranging from 0-255.
4520
4521	vt.default_utf8=
4522			[VT]
4523			Format=<0|1>
4524			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4525			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4526			newly opened terminals.
4527
4528	vt.global_cursor_default=
4529			[VT]
4530			Format=<-1|0|1>
4531			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4532			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4533			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4534			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4535			cursors, 1 will display them.
4536
4537	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4538			Default: 2 = green.
4539
4540	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4541			Default: 3 = cyan.
4542
4543	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4544			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4545			or other driver-specific files in the
4546			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4547
4548	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4549			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4550			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4551			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4552			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4553			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4554			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4555			corresponding sysfs file.
4556
4557	workqueue.disable_numa
4558			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4559			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4560			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4561			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4562			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4563			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4564			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4565
4566	workqueue.power_efficient
4567			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4568			they show better performance thanks to cache
4569			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4570			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4571
4572			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4573			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4574			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4575			power usage at the cost of small performance
4576			overhead.
4577
4578			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4579			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4580
4581	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4582			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4583			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4584			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4585			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4586			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4587			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4588			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4589			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4590			impacted.
4591
4592	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4593			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4594			supporting x2apic.
4595
4596	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4597			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4598			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4599			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4600			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4601
4602	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4603			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4604			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4605			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4606			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4607			domains.
4608
4609	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4610			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4611			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4612			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4613			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4614			nics -- unplug network devices
4615			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4616			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4617				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4618				the unplug protocol
4619			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4620
4621	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4622			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4623			optimizations.
4624
4625	xen_nopv	[X86]
4626			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4627			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4628
4629	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4630			Format:
4631			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4632