1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
65			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66			object while interpreting AML:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
68			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
70
71			Some values produce so much output that the system is
72			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73			if you need to capture more output.
74
75	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
76			{ strict | lax | no }
77			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81			can interfere with legacy drivers.
82			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89			no further checks are performed.
90
91	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
92			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
94			size limitation.
95
96	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97			ACPI will balance active IRQs
98			default in APIC mode
99
100	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
102			default in PIC mode
103
104	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
106
107	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
108			use by PCI
109			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
110
111	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
112			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
113			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
114			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
115			the GPE dispatcher.
116			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
117			GPE floodings.
118			Format: <byte>
119
120	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
121			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
122			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124			auto-serialization feature.
125			This feature is enabled by default.
126			This option allows to turn off the feature.
127
128	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
129			   kernels.
130
131	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
132			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134			installed automatically and they will appear under
135			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136			This option turns off this feature.
137			Note that specifying this option does not affect
138			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
140
141	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
142			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
143			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
144
145	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148			second kernel for kdump.
149
150	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
152
153	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
158
159	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
160			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
161			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
162			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
163			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
166						  strings
167			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
168
169			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
172			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
176			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
177			care about the state of the feature group strings which
178			should be controlled by the OSPM.
179			Examples:
180			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
183
184			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
187			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188			multiple times through kernel command line is also
189			meaningless.
190			Examples:
191			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
192			     FALSE.
193
194			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
197			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
200			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
202			is useful when one want to control the state of the
203			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
204			the OSPM features.
205			Examples:
206			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
211			     equivalent to
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
213			     and
214			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
216
217	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
218			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220			and always returns good values.
221
222	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
224
225	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
228
229	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
231				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
232			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
233			s3_bios and s3_mode.
234			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237			used during resume from hibernation.
238			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239			control method, with respect to putting devices into
240			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241			of _PTS is used by default).
242			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
244			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246			but some broken systems don't work without it).
247			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
248			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
249			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
250
251	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
254
255	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
257
258	agp=		[AGP]
259			{ off | try_unsupported }
260			off: disable AGP support
261			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
263
264	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
265			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
266
267	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
268			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
270			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
271
272	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
273			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
279
280			32: only for 32-bit processes
281			64: only for 64-bit processes
282			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
284
285	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
286			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
291
292	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
293			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
294			Possible values are:
295			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297				    flushed before they will be reused, which
298				    is a lot of faster
299			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
300				    the system
301			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
304					  requirements as needed. This option
305					  does not override iommu=pt
306
307	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311			IOMMU initialization.
312
313	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
314			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
315			remapping modes:
316			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
321
322	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
324			Format: <a>,<b>
325			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
326
327	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329			connected to one of 16 gameports
330			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
331
332	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
333			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
334			Format: noidle
335			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337			APC and your system crashes randomly.
338
339	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340			Change the output verbosity while booting
341			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342			Change the amount of debugging information output
343			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
344			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
345			driver name.
346			Format: apic=driver_name
347			Examples: apic=bigsmp
348
349	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
353			      backup of CPU 0
354			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
356			      shot down by NMI
357
358	autoconf=	[IPV6]
359			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
360
361	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367			apic=verbose is specified.
368			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
369
370	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
371			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
372
373	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
375
376	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
377			Identification support
378
379	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
380			support
381
382	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
383
384	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
385
386	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
387			EzKey and similar keyboards
388
389	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
390
391	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
392			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
393
394	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
395			keyboards
396
397	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
398			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
399
400	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
401			Use software keyboard repeat
402
403	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
404			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
405			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
406			    enabled until the next reboot
407			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
408			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
409			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
410			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
411			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
412			    userspace auditd.
413			Default: unset
414
415	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
416			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
417			Default: 64
418
419	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
420			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
421			Format: { "0" | "1" }
422			0 - Disable the BAU.
423			1 - Enable the BAU.
424			unset - Disable the BAU.
425
426	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
427			Format: <io>,<mode>
428
429	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
430			Format: <io>,<mode>
431			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
432
433	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
434			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
435			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
436			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
437
438	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
439			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
440			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
441			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
442
443	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
444			embedded devices based on command line input.
445			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
446
447	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
448			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
449			no delay (0).
450			Format: integer
451
452	bootconfig	[KNL]
453			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
454			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
455
456			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
457
458	bert_disable	[ACPI]
459			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
460
461	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
462			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
463
464	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
465	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
466			kernel args too.
467	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
468	bttv.tuner=
469
470	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
471			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
472			at a time.
473
474	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
475
476	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
477			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
478			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
479			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
480			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
481			This option provides an override for these situations.
482
483	carrier_timeout=
484			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
485			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
486			it waits 120 seconds.
487
488	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
489			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
490			trust validation.
491			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
492
493	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
494			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
495			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
496			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
497			others).
498
499	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
500			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
501
502	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
503			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
504			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
505			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
506			  a single hierarchy
507			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
508			  subsystem
509			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
510			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
511			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
512
513	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
514			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
515			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
516			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
517			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
518			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
519			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
520			all v1 hierarchies.
521
522	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
523			Format: <string>
524			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
525			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
526
527	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
528			Format: { "0" | "1" }
529			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
530			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
531				any implied execute protection).
532			1 -- check protection requested by application.
533			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
534			Value can be changed at runtime via
535				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
536			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
537
538	cio_ignore=	[S390]
539			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
540	clk_ignore_unused
541			[CLK]
542			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
543			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
544			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
545			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
546			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
547			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
548			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
549			platform with proper driver support.  For more
550			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
551
552	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
553			[Deprecated]
554			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
555			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
556			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
557			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
558
559	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
560			Format: <string>
561			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
562			with the name specified.
563			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
564			the platform:
565			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
566			[ACPI] acpi_pm
567			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
568				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
569			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
570				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
571			[MIPS] MIPS
572			[PARISC] cr16
573			[S390] tod
574			[SH] SuperH
575			[SPARC64] tick
576			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
577
578	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
579			[ARM,ARM64]
580			Format: <bool>
581			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
582			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
583			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
584			systems.
585
586	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
587			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
588			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
589			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
590			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
591			ones should be.
592			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
593			or using the feature without checking anything
594			will still see it. This just prevents it from
595			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
596			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
597			some critical bits.
598
599	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
600			[KNL,CMA]
601			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
602			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
603			placement constraint by the physical address range of
604			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
605			altogether. For more information, see
606			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
607
608	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
609			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
610			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
611			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
612			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
613			specificed, the default value is 0.
614			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
615			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
616			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
617			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
618
619	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
620			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
621			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
622			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
623			a hypervisor.
624			Default: yes
625
626	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
627			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
628			allocations, by default set to 256K.
629
630	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
631			Format:
632			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
633
634	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
635			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
636
637	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
638			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
639			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
640
641	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
642	conmode=
643
644	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
645
646		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
647
648		ttyS<n>[,options]
649		ttyUSB0[,options]
650			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
651			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
652			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
653			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
654			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
655
656			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
657			information.  See
658			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
659			alternative.
660
661		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
662		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
663		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
664		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
665		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
666			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
667			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
668			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
669			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
670			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
671			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
672			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
673			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
674			the h/w is not re-initialized.
675
676		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
677			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
678
679		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
680		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
681			console=brl,ttyS0
682		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
683
684	console_msg_format=
685			[KNL] Change console messages format
686		default
687			By default we print messages on consoles in
688			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
689			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
690			`printk_time' param).
691		syslog
692			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
693			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
694			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
695			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
696			from /proc/kmsg.
697
698	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
699			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
700			Defaults to 0.
701
702	coredump_filter=
703			[KNL] Change the default value for
704			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
705			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
706
707	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
708			[ARM,ARM64]
709			Format: <bool>
710			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
711			0: default value, disable debugging
712			1: enable debugging at boot time
713
714	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
715			disable the cpuidle sub-system
716
717	cpuidle.governor=
718			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
719
720	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
721			disable the cpufreq sub-system
722
723	cpufreq.default_governor=
724			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
725			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
726			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
727
728	cpu_init_udelay=N
729			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
730			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
731			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
732			Default: 10000
733
734	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
735			Format:
736			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
737
738	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
739			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
740			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
741			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
742			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
743			is selected automatically.
744			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
745			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
746			hasn't been specified.
747			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
748
749	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
750			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
751			in the running system. The syntax of range is
752			start-[end] where start and end are both
753			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
754			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
755
756	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
757			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
758			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
759			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
760			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
761			available.
762			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
763	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
764			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
765			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
766			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
767			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
768			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
769			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
770			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
771			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
772			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
773			for second kernel instead.
774			0: to disable low allocation.
775			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
776			or memory reserved is below 4G.
777
778	cryptomgr.notests
779			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
780
781	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
782			Format: <dma>
783
784	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
785			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
786
787	dasd=		[HW,NET]
788			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
789
790	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
791			(one device per port)
792			Format: <port#>,<type>
793			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
794
795	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
796			time. See
797			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
798			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
799
800	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
801
802	debug_boot_weak_hash
803			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
804			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
805			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
806			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
807			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
808			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
809
810	debug_locks_verbose=
811			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
812			Format: <int>
813			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
814			self-tests.
815			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
816			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
817			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
818			useful to lockdep developers.
819
820	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
821
822	no_debug_objects
823			[KNL] Disable object debugging
824
825	debug_guardpage_minorder=
826			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
827			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
828			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
829			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
830			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
831			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
832			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
833			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
834			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
835			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
836			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
837			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
838			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
839			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
840			bypassed) which are not detectable by
841			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
842			tracking down these problems.
843
844	debug_pagealloc=
845			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
846			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
847			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
848			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
849			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
850			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
851			on: enable the feature
852
853	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
854			and debugfs internal clients.
855			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
856			on: 	All functions are enabled.
857			no-mount:
858				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
859			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
860				its content. There is nothing to mount.
861			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
862			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
863				or directories within debugfs.
864				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
865				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
866			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
867
868	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
869
870	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
871			Format: <area>[,<node>]
872			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
873
874	default_hugepagesz=
875			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
876			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
877			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
878			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
879			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
880			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
881			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
882			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
883			Format: size[KMG]
884
885	deferred_probe_timeout=
886			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
887			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
888			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
889			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
890			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
891			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
892			retrying.
893
894	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
895			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
896			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
897			          level 1 and decompression (default)
898			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
899			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
900			          only (compression on level 1)
901			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
902			          only (decompression)
903			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
904			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
905
906	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
907			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
908
909	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
910			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
911			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
912			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
913			miss to occur.
914
915	stress_slb	[PPC]
916			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
917			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
918			on kernel addresses.
919
920	disable=	[IPV6]
921			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
922
923	hardened_usercopy=
924                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
925                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
926                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
927                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
928                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
929                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
930                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
931                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
932                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
933
934	disable_radix	[PPC]
935			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
936
937	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
938			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
939			invalidate.
940
941	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
942			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
943			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
944
945	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
946			Format: <int>
947			The number of initial APIC ID for the
948			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
949			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
950			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
951			causing system reset or hang due to sending
952			INIT from AP to BSP.
953
954	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
955			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
956			to workaround buggy firmware.
957
958	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
959			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
960
961	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
962			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
963			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
964			entry later. This parameter disables that.
965
966	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
967			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
968			memory out of your available memory pool based on
969			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
970			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
971
972	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
973			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
974			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
975
976	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
977
978	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
979			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
980
981	dma_debug_entries=<number>
982			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
983			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
984			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
985			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
986			architectural default is too low.
987
988	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
989			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
990			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
991			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
992			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
993			driver later using sysfs.
994
995	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
996			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
997			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
998
999	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1000			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1001			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1002			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1003			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1004			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1005			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1006			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1007			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1008			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1009			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1010			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1011			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1012			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1013			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1014			data set with no connector name will be used for
1015			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1016
1017	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1018
1019	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1020			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1021			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1022			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1023			exists).
1024			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1025			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1026			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1027
1028	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1029			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1030			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1031			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1032
1033	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1034	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1035			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1036			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1037			for details.
1038
1039	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1040			in some Intel CPUs.
1041
1042	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1043			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1044
1045	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1046			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1047			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1048			which are not unmapped.
1049
1050	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1051
1052			When used with no options, the early console is
1053			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1054			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1055			the platform.
1056
1057		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1058			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1059			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1060			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1061			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1062			configured.
1063
1064		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1065		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1066		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1067		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1068		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1069			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1070			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1071			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1072			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1073			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1074			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1075			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1076			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1077
1078		pl011,<addr>
1079		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1080			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1081			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1082			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1083			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1084			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1085			the device registers.
1086
1087		meson,<addr>
1088			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1089			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1090			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1091			supported.
1092
1093		msm_serial,<addr>
1094			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1095			port at the specified address. The serial port
1096			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1097			yet supported.
1098
1099		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1100			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1101			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1102			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1103			yet supported.
1104
1105		owl,<addr>
1106			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1107			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1108			specified address. The serial port must already be
1109			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1110
1111		rda,<addr>
1112			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1113			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1114			specified address. The serial port must already be
1115			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1116
1117		sbi
1118			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1119			console.
1120
1121		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1122
1123		s3c2410,<addr>
1124		s3c2412,<addr>
1125		s3c2440,<addr>
1126		s3c6400,<addr>
1127		s5pv210,<addr>
1128		exynos4210,<addr>
1129			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1130			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1131			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1132			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1133			Options are not yet supported.
1134
1135		lantiq,<addr>
1136			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1137			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1138			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1139			yet supported.
1140
1141		lpuart,<addr>
1142		lpuart32,<addr>
1143			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1144			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1145			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1146			port must already be setup and configured.
1147
1148		ec_imx21,<addr>
1149		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1150			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1151			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1152			must already be setup and configured.
1153
1154		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1155			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1156			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1157			address. The serial port must already be setup
1158			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1159
1160		qcom_geni,<addr>
1161			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1162			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1163			specified address. The serial port must already be
1164			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1165
1166		efifb,[options]
1167			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1168			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1169			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1170			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1171			mapped with the correct attributes.
1172
1173		linflex,<addr>
1174			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1175			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1176			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1177			already be setup and configured.
1178
1179	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1180			earlyprintk=vga
1181			earlyprintk=sclp
1182			earlyprintk=xen
1183			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1184			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1185			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1186			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1187			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1188			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1189
1190			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1191			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1192			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1193
1194			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1195			takes over.
1196
1197			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1198			be used at a time.
1199
1200			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1201			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1202			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1203			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1204				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1205			You can find the port for a given device in
1206			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1207				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1208
1209			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1210			very good.
1211
1212			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1213			the real console.
1214
1215			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1216
1217			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1218
1219			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1220			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1221			UART class.
1222
1223	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1224			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1225			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1226			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1227			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1228			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1229			default: on.
1230
1231	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1232			ekgdboc=kbd
1233
1234			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1235			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1236
1237			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1238			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1239			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1240			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1241
1242	edd=		[EDD]
1243			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1244
1245	efi=		[EFI]
1246			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1247				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1248				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1249			debug: enable misc debug output.
1250			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1251			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1252			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1253			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1254			firmware implementations.
1255			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1256			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1257			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1258			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1259			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1260			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1261			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1262			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1263			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1264			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1265
1266	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1267			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1268			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1269			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1270			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1271
1272	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1273			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1274			updating original EFI memory map.
1275			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1276			from ss to ss+nn.
1277
1278			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1279			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1280			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1281			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1282
1283			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1284			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1285			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1286
1287			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1288			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1289			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1290			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1291			"soft reserved".
1292
1293	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1294			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1295			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1296			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1297			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1298
1299
1300	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1301			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1302
1303	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1304			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1305			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1306
1307	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1308			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1309			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1310			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1311			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1312
1313	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1314			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1315			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1316			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1317
1318	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1319			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1320			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1321			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1322			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1323
1324	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1325			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1326			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1327			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1328			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1329			Default value is 0.
1330			Value can be changed at runtime via
1331			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1332
1333	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1334			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1335			support.
1336
1337	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1338			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1339			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1340
1341	evm=		[EVM]
1342			Format: { "fix" }
1343			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1344			current integrity status.
1345
1346	failslab=
1347	fail_usercopy=
1348	fail_page_alloc=
1349	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1350			General fault injection mechanism.
1351			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1352			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1353
1354	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1355			Format: { initns | none }
1356			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1357			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1358
1359	floppy=		[HW]
1360			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1361
1362	force_pal_cache_flush
1363			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1364			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1365			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1366			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1367
1368	forcepae	[X86-32]
1369			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1370			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1371			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1372			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1373			and may cause unknown problems.
1374
1375	ftrace=[tracer]
1376			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1377			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1378			boot debugging.
1379
1380	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1381			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1382			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1383			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1384			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1385			oops.
1386
1387	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1388			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1389			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1390			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1391			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1392			tracing directory.
1393
1394	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1395			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1396			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1397			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1398			tracing directory.
1399
1400	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1401			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1402			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1403			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1404			that can be changed at run time by the
1405			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1406
1407	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1408			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1409			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1410			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1411			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1412
1413	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1414			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1415			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1416			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1417			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1418
1419	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1420			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1421			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1422			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1423			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1424			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1425			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1426			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1427			suppliers).
1428			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1429			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1430			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1431				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1432				up (sync_state() calls).
1433			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1434				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1435			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1436
1437	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1438			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1439			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1440			Format: <bool>
1441
1442	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1443			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1444			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1445			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1446			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1447
1448	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1449
1450	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1451			Format: off | on
1452			default: on
1453
1454	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1455			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1456			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1457			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1458			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1459
1460	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1461			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1462			android emulator
1463
1464	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1465			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1466			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1467			GPT to be used instead.
1468
1469	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1470			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1471			Format: 0 | 1
1472			Default: 0
1473	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1474			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1475			Format: 0 | 1
1476			Default: 0
1477	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1478			Format: 0 | 1
1479			Default: 0
1480	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1481			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1482			Default: 1024
1483	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1484			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1485			Default: 1024
1486
1487	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1488			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1489			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1490
1491	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1492			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1493			backtraces on all cpus.
1494			Format: 0 | 1
1495
1496	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1497			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1498			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1499			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1500
1501	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1502
1503	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1504			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1505
1506	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1507			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1508			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1509			logic will be disabled.
1510
1511	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1512			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1513			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1514			size on bigger boxes.
1515
1516	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1517			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1518			Default: "on"
1519
1520	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1521
1522	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1523			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1524				verbose }
1525			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1526			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1527				VIA, nVidia)
1528			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1529
1530	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1531			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1532
1533	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1534			of gigantic hugepages.
1535			Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1536
1537			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1538			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1539			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1540
1541	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1542			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1543			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1544			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1545			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1546			the default huge page size.  See also
1547			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1548			Format: <integer>
1549
1550	hugepagesz=
1551			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1552			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1553			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1554			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1555			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1556			architecture dependent.  See also
1557			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1558			Format: size[KMG]
1559
1560	hung_task_panic=
1561			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1562			Format: 0 | 1
1563
1564			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1565			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1566			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1567			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1568			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1569
1570	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1571				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1572	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1573				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1574				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1575
1576	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1577				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1578				      guest on lock contention.
1579
1580	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1581			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1582			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1583			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1584			the real console.
1585
1586	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1587				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1588				registered from board initialization code.
1589				Format:
1590				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1591
1592	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1593	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1594			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1595			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1596			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1597	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1598	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1599			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1600			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1601	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1602	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1603	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1604			     for the AUX port
1605	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1606			     controller
1607	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1608			     controllers
1609	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1610	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1611			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1612			     transitions, or never reset
1613			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1614			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1615			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1616			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1617			architectures force reset to be always executed
1618	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1619	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1620
1621	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1622
1623	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1624			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1625			hardware.
1626	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1627			does not match list of supported models.
1628	i8k.power_status
1629			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1630			(disabled by default)
1631	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1632			capability is set.
1633
1634	i915.invert_brightness=
1635			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1636			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1637			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1638			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1639			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1640			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1641			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1642			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1643			value switches the backlight off.
1644			-1 -- never invert brightness
1645			 0 -- machine default
1646			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1647
1648	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1649			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1650
1651	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1652			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1653			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1654			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1655			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1656
1657	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1658			Format: <int>
1659			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1660			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1661			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1662			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1663			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1664			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1665			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1666			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1667			was 0x3.
1668
1669	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1670			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1671
1672	idle=		[X86]
1673			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1674			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1675			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1676			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1677			Not recommended.
1678			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1679			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1680			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1681
1682	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1683			Format: <bool>
1684			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1685			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1686			true (1).
1687
1688	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1689			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1690			Default: strict
1691
1692			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1693			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1694			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1695			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1696			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1697			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1698			encoding mode.
1699
1700			Available settings are as follows:
1701			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1702				supported by the FPU
1703			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1704				by the FPU
1705			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1706				by the FPU
1707			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1708				supported by the FPU
1709
1710			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1711			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1712			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1713			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1714			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1715			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1716			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1717			MIPS64 CPUs.
1718
1719			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1720			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1721			except where unsupported by hardware.
1722
1723	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1724			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1725			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1726			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1727			could change it dynamically, usually by
1728			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1729
1730	ignore_rlimit_data
1731			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1732			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1733			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1734
1735	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1736			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1737
1738	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1739			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1740			default: "enforce"
1741
1742	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1743			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1744			owned by uid=0.
1745
1746	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1747			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1748			measurements, instead of host native format.
1749
1750	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1751			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1752				   | sha512 | ... }
1753			default: "sha1"
1754
1755			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1756			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1757
1758	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1759			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1760			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1761				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1762
1763			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1764			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1765			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1766			uid=0.
1767
1768			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1769			all files owned by root.
1770
1771			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1772			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1773			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1774
1775			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1776			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1777			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1778			flag.
1779
1780			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1781			critical data.
1782
1783	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1784			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1785			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1786			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1787			opened for read by uid=0.
1788
1789	ima_template=	[IMA]
1790			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1791			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1792			Default: "ima-ng"
1793
1794	ima_template_fmt=
1795			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1796			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1797
1798	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1799			Format: <min_file_size>
1800			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1801			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1802
1803			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1804			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1805			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1806
1807	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1808			Format: <bufsize>
1809			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1810
1811			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1812			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1813			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1814
1815	init=		[KNL]
1816			Format: <full_path>
1817			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1818			process.
1819
1820	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1821			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1822			startup.
1823
1824	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1825			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1826			modules and initcalls.
1827
1828	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1829
1830	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1831			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1832			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1833			setting.
1834			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1835			Default is 0, 0
1836
1837	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1838			zeroes.
1839			Format: 0 | 1
1840			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1841
1842	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1843			Format: 0 | 1
1844			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1845
1846	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1847			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1848			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1849			override in debugfs after boot.
1850
1851	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1852			Format: <irq>
1853
1854	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1855
1856	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1857			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1858			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1859			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1860
1861	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1862		on
1863			Enable intel iommu driver.
1864		off
1865			Disable intel iommu driver.
1866		igfx_off [Default Off]
1867			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1868			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1869			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1870			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1871			DMA.
1872		forcedac [X86-64]
1873			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1874			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1875			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1876			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1877			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1878			then look in the higher range.
1879		strict [Default Off]
1880			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1881			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1882			to batching them for performance.
1883		sp_off [Default Off]
1884			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1885			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1886			not be supported.
1887		sm_on [Default Off]
1888			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1889			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1890			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1891			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1892		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1893			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1894			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1895			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1896			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1897			mapping is enabled.
1898			Note that using this option lowers the security
1899			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1900			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1901
1902	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1903			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1904			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1905
1906	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1907			disable
1908			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1909			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1910			passive
1911			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1912			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1913			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1914			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1915			  feature.
1916			force
1917			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1918			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1919			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1920			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1921			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1922			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1923			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1924			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1925			no_hwp
1926			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1927			  if available.
1928			hwp_only
1929			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1930			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1931			support_acpi_ppc
1932			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1933			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1934			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1935			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1936			per_cpu_perf_limits
1937			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1938			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1939
1940	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1941			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1942			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1943			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1944			no_x2apic_optout
1945				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1946			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1947
1948	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1949		strict	regions from userspace.
1950		relaxed
1951
1952	iommu=		[X86]
1953		off
1954		force
1955		noforce
1956		biomerge
1957		panic
1958		nopanic
1959		merge
1960		nomerge
1961		soft
1962		pt		[X86]
1963		nopt		[X86]
1964		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1965			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1966
1967	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1968			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1969			0 - Lazy mode.
1970			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1971			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1972			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1973			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1974			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1975			1 - Strict mode (default).
1976			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1977			  synchronously.
1978
1979	iommu.passthrough=
1980			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1981			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1982			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1983			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1984			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1985
1986	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
1987			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1988			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1989
1990	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1991		0x80
1992			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1993		0xed
1994			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1995		udelay
1996			Simple two microseconds delay
1997		none
1998			No delay
1999
2000	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2001			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2002
2003	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2004			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2005
2006	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2007			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2008
2009	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2010			[ARM, ARM64]
2011			Format: <bool>
2012			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2013			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2014			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2015
2016	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2017			[ARM, ARM64]
2018			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2019			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2020			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2021			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2022			LPIs.
2023
2024	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2025			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2026			requires the kernel to be built with
2027			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2028
2029	irqfixup	[HW]
2030			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2031			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2032			firmware running.
2033
2034	irqpoll		[HW]
2035			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2036			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2037			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2038			firmware running.
2039
2040	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2041			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2042
2043	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2044			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2045			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2046
2047			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2048			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2049
2050			nohz
2051			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2052
2053			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2054			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2055			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2056			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2057			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2058
2059			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2060			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2061			  be configured manually after bootup.
2062
2063			domain
2064			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2065			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2066			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2067			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2068			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2069			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2070			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2071			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2072
2073			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2074			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2075			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2076			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2077
2078			managed_irq
2079
2080			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2081			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2082			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2083			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2084			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2085
2086			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2087			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2088			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2089			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2090			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2091			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2092			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2093
2094			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2095			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2096			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2097			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2098			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2099			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2100			  queues.
2101
2102			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2103
2104	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2105
2106	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2107			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2108			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2109			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2110			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2111				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2112
2113	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2114			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2115			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2116			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2117			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2118				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2119
2120	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2121			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2122			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2123			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2124			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2125				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2126
2127	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2128			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2129
2130	nokaslr		[KNL]
2131			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2132			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2133			Layout Randomization).
2134
2135	kasan_multi_shot
2136			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2137			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2138			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2139			invalid access.
2140
2141	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2142
2143	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2144			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2145			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2146			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2147			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2148			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2149			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2150			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2151			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2152			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2153
2154			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2155			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2156			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2157			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2158			zone if it does not.
2159
2160			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2161			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2162			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2163			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2164			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2165			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2166			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2167
2168	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2169			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2170			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2171			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2172			optional and is the number seconds in between
2173			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2174			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2175			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2176			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2177			the kernel debugger.
2178
2179	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2180			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2181			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2182			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2183			 keyboard only format: kbd
2184			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2185			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2186			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2187			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2188
2189	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2190			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2191			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2192			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2193			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2194			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2195			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2196
2197			The name of the early console should be specified
2198			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2199			the early console might be different than the tty
2200			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2201			blank and the first boot console that implements
2202			read() will be picked.
2203
2204	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2205			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2206
2207	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2208			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2209			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2210
2211	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2212			Valid arguments: on, off
2213			Default: on
2214			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2215			the default is off.
2216
2217	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2218			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2219			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2220			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2221			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2222			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2223			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2224
2225			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2226
2227			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2228			Boot Parameter" section.
2229
2230	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2231			and kernel address spaces.
2232			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2233			0: force disabled
2234			1: force enabled
2235
2236	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2237			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2238
2239	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2240				   Default is false (don't support).
2241
2242	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2243			KVM MMU at runtime.
2244			Default is 0 (off)
2245
2246	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2247			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2248			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2249			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2250			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2251			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2252				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2253
2254			Default is 'auto'.
2255
2256			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2257			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2258
2259	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2260			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2261			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2262			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2263			minute.  The default is 60.
2264
2265	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2266			Default is 1 (enabled)
2267
2268	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2269			for all guests.
2270			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2271
2272	kvm-arm.mode=
2273			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2274
2275			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2276			      protected guests.
2277
2278			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2279				   state is kept private from the host.
2280				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2281
2282			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and
2283			the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE.
2284
2285	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2286			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2287			system registers
2288
2289	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2290			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2291			system registers
2292
2293	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2294			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2295			system registers
2296
2297	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2298			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2299			LPIs.
2300
2301	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2302			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2303			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2304			allocation.
2305			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2306			Format: <integer>
2307			Default: 5
2308
2309	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2310			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2311			Default is 1 (enabled)
2312
2313	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2314			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2315			Default is 0 (disabled)
2316
2317	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2318			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2319			Default is 1 (enabled)
2320
2321	kvm-intel.nested=
2322			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2323			Default is 0 (disabled)
2324
2325	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2326			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2327			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2328			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2329
2330	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2331			CVE-2018-3620.
2332
2333			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2334
2335			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2336			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2337				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2338			never:	Disables the mitigation
2339
2340			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2341
2342	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2343			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2344			Default is 1 (enabled)
2345
2346	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2347			      affected CPUs
2348
2349			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2350			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2351
2352			full
2353				Provides all available mitigations for the
2354				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2355				enables all mitigations in the
2356				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2357
2358				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2359				sysfs interface is still possible after
2360				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2361				when the first VM is started in a
2362				potentially insecure configuration,
2363				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2364
2365			full,force
2366				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2367				flush runtime control. Implies the
2368				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2369				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2370
2371			flush
2372				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2373				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2374				L1D flush.
2375
2376				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2377				sysfs interface is still possible after
2378				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2379				when the first VM is started in a
2380				potentially insecure configuration,
2381				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2382
2383			flush,nosmt
2384
2385				Disables SMT and enables the default
2386				hypervisor mitigation.
2387
2388				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2389				sysfs interface is still possible after
2390				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2391				when the first VM is started in a
2392				potentially insecure configuration,
2393				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2394
2395			flush,nowarn
2396				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2397				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2398				insecure configuration.
2399
2400			off
2401				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2402				emit any warnings.
2403				It also drops the swap size and available
2404				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2405				bare metal.
2406
2407			Default is 'flush'.
2408
2409			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2410
2411	l2cr=		[PPC]
2412
2413	l3cr=		[PPC]
2414
2415	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2416			disabled it.
2417
2418	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2419			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2420			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2421			Format: notscdeadline
2422
2423	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2424			in C2 power state.
2425
2426	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2427			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2428			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2429			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2430			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2431			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2432			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2433
2434	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2435			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2436			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2437
2438	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2439			when set.
2440			Format: <int>
2441
2442	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2443			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2444			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2445			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2446			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2447			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2448			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2449			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2450
2451			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2452			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2453			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2454			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2455			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2456			host link and device attached to it.
2457
2458			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2459			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2460			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2461			The following configurations can be forced.
2462
2463			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2464			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2465
2466			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2467
2468			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2469			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2470			  allowed.
2471
2472			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2473
2474			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2475
2476			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2477			  and both resets.
2478
2479			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2480			  hot-unplug link recovery
2481
2482			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2483
2484			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2485
2486			* disable: Disable this device.
2487
2488			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2489			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2490
2491	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2492
2493	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2494
2495	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2496			Format: <integer>
2497
2498	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2499			Format: <integer>
2500
2501	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2502			Format: <integer>
2503
2504	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2505			Format: <integer>
2506
2507	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2508			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2509			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2510			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2511			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2512			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2513			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2514			are also disabled.
2515
2516	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2517			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2518			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2519			number of online CPUs.
2520
2521	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2522			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2523
2524	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2525			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2526
2527	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2528			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2529			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2530
2531	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2532			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2533			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2534			mode during the locktorture test.
2535
2536	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2537			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2538			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2539
2540	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2541			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2542
2543	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2544			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2545			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2546			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2547			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2548			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2549
2550	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2551			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2552
2553	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2554			Enable additional printk() statements.
2555
2556	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2557			Format: <irq>
2558
2559	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2560			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2561			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2562			loglevels are defined as follows:
2563
2564			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2565			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2566			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2567			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2568			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2569			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2570			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2571			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2572
2573	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2574			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2575			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2576			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2577			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2578			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2579			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2580
2581	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2582			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2583			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2584			kernel boot problems.
2585
2586	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2587	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2588	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2589	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2590				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2591				attached printers to be reset. Using
2592				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2593				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2594				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2595				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2596				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2597				port specification list means that device IDs
2598				from each port should be examined, to see if
2599				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2600				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2601				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2602
2603	lpj=n		[KNL]
2604			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2605			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2606			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2607			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2608			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2609			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2610			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2611			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2612			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2613			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2614			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2615			hardware.
2616
2617	ltpc=		[NET]
2618			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2619
2620	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2621
2622	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2623			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2624			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2625
2626	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2627			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2628			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2629
2630	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2631			different yeeloong laptops.
2632			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2633
2634	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2635			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2636
2637	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2638			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2639			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2640			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2641			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2642			only takes effect during system bootup.
2643			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2644			which also disables the IO APIC.
2645
2646	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2647	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2648			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2649			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2650			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2651			/dev/loop-control interface.
2652
2653	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2654
2655	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2656
2657	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2658			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2659
2660	mdacon=		[MDA]
2661			Format: <first>,<last>
2662			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2663
2664	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2665			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2666			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2667
2668			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2669			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2670			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2671
2672			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2673			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2674			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2675			not have direct access.
2676
2677			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2678			options are:
2679
2680			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2681			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2682				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2683			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2684
2685			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2686			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2687			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2688			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2689			too.
2690
2691			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2692			mds=full.
2693
2694			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2695
2696	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2697			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2698
2699			1 for test;
2700			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2701			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2702			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2703
2704			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2705			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2706			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2707			belonging to unused RAM.
2708
2709			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2710			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2711			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2712
2713	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2714			memory.
2715
2716	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2717			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2718			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2719
2720	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2721			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2722			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2723			set according to the
2724			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2725			option.
2726			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2727
2728	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2729			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2730			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2731			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2732			option description.
2733
2734	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2735			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2736			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2737			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2738			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2739			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2740			comma delimited.
2741			Example:
2742				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2743
2744	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2745			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2746			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2747
2748	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2749			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2750			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2751			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2752			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2753			         or
2754			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2755			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2756			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2757			will be eaten.
2758
2759	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2760			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2761			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2762			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2763			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2764
2765	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2766			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2767			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2768			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2769			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2770			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2771			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2772			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2773
2774	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2775			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2776			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2777			Setting this option will scan the memory
2778			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2779			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2780			from using the memory being corrupted.
2781			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2782			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2783			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2784			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2785
2786	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2787			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2788			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2789			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2790			corruption in more or less memory.
2791
2792	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2793			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2794			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2795			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2796
2797	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2798			Format: <integer>
2799			default : 0 <disable>
2800			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2801			performed. Each pass selects another test
2802			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2803			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2804			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2805			regions that are detected.
2806
2807	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2808			Valid arguments: on, off
2809			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2810			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2811			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2812			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2813			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2814
2815			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2816			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2817
2818	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2819			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2820			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2821			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2822			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2823
2824	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2825			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2826
2827	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2828			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2829			platforms.
2830
2831	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2832			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2833			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2834			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2835
2836	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2837
2838	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2839			physical address is ignored.
2840
2841	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2842			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2843			Default: "0tb"
2844			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2845			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2846			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2847			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2848			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2849			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2850			unconfigured.
2851			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2852			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2853			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2854			VGA shield.
2855			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2856			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2857			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2858			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2859			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2860			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2861
2862	mitigations=
2863			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2864			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2865			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2866			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2867
2868			off
2869				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2870				improves system performance, but it may also
2871				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2872				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2873					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2874					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2875					       nobp=0 [S390]
2876					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2877					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2878					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2879					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2880					       l1tf=off [X86]
2881					       mds=off [X86]
2882					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2883					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2884					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
2885					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
2886
2887				Exceptions:
2888					       This does not have any effect on
2889					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2890					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2891
2892			auto (default)
2893				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2894				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2895				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2896				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2897				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2898				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2899
2900			auto,nosmt
2901				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2902				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2903				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2904				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2905					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2906					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2907
2908	mminit_loglevel=
2909			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2910			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2911			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2912			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2913			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2914			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2915
2916	module.sig_enforce
2917			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2918			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2919			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2920			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2921
2922	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2923			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2924
2925	mousedev.tap_time=
2926			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2927			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2928			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2929			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2930			Format: <msecs>
2931	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2932			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2933	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2934			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2935
2936	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2937			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2938			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2939			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2940			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2941			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2942			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2943			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2944			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2945			is not too small.
2946
2947	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2948			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2949			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2950			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2951			allocations. Use with caution!
2952
2953	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2954			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2955
2956	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2957			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2958
2959	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2960			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2961
2962	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2963			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2964			at a time.
2965
2966	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2967
2968			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2969
2970			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2971				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2972			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2973				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2974				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2975
2976	mtdset=		[ARM]
2977			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2978
2979			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
2980
2981	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2982			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2983			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2984
2985	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2986			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2987			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2988
2989	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2990			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2991			Default is 1.
2992			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2993			using up MTRRs.
2994
2995	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2996			Format: <integer>
2997			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2998			Default : 1
2999			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3000			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3001
3002	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3003
3004	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3005			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3006			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3007			something different and driver-specific.
3008			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3009			file if at all.
3010
3011	nf_conntrack.acct=
3012			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3013			0 to disable accounting
3014			1 to enable accounting
3015			Default value is 0.
3016
3017	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3018			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3019
3020	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3021			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3022
3023	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3024			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3025
3026	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3027			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3028			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3029			requests.
3030
3031	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3032			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3033			channel should listen.
3034
3035	nfs.cache_getent=
3036			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3037			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3038
3039	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3040			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3041			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3042
3043	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3044			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3045			entries.
3046
3047	nfs.enable_ino64=
3048			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3049			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3050			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3051			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3052			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3053
3054	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3055			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3056			slots the client will assign to the callback
3057			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3058			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3059			a particular server.
3060
3061	nfs.max_session_slots=
3062			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3063			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3064			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3065			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3066			Note that there is little point in setting this
3067			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3068
3069	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3070			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3071			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3072			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3073			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3074			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3075			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3076			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3077			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3078			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3079			back to using the idmapper.
3080			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3081	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3082			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3083			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3084			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3085			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3086
3087	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3088			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3089			information in exchange_id requests.
3090			If zero, no implementation identification information
3091			will be sent.
3092			The default is to send the implementation identification
3093			information.
3094
3095	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3096			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3097			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3098			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3099			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3100			after the locks are lost.
3101			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3102			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3103			parameter to '1'.
3104			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3105			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3106
3107	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3108			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3109			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3110
3111			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3112			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3113			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3114			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3115
3116	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3117			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3118			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3119			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3120			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3121			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3122
3123	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3124			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3125			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3126
3127	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3128			when a NMI is triggered.
3129			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3130
3131	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3132			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3133			Valid num: 0 or 1
3134			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3135			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3136			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3137			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3138			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3139			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3140			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3141			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3142			need the box quickly up again.
3143
3144			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3145			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3146
3147	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3148			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3149			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3150			waits 4 seconds.
3151
3152	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3153			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3154			is present.
3155
3156	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3157			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3158
3159	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3160
3161	no_console_suspend
3162			[HW] Never suspend the console
3163			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3164			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3165			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3166			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3167			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3168			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3169			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3170			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3171			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3172			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3173			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3174			turn on/off it dynamically.
3175
3176	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3177			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3178			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3179			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3180			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3181			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3182			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3183			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3184			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3185			is set.
3186
3187	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3188			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3189			but will impact performance.
3190
3191	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3192
3193	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3194			(CPU alternatives feature).
3195
3196	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3197			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3198
3199	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3200
3201	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3202			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3203
3204	nocache		[ARM]
3205
3206	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3207
3208	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3209
3210	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3211
3212	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3213
3214	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3215
3216	noexec		[IA-64]
3217
3218	noexec		[X86]
3219			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3220			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3221			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3222
3223	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3224			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3225			even if it is supported by processor.
3226
3227	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3228			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3229			even if it is supported by processor.
3230
3231	noexec32	[X86-64]
3232			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3233			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3234				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3235			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3236				read implies executable mappings
3237
3238	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3239
3240	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3241			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3242			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3243
3244	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3245
3246	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3247			Equivalent to smt=1.
3248
3249			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3250			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3251				     via the sysfs control file.
3252
3253	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3254			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3255			possible in the system.
3256
3257	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3258			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3259			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3260			option.
3261
3262	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3263			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3264
3265	no_uaccess_flush
3266	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3267
3268	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3269			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3270			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3271
3272	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3273			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3274			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3275			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3276			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3277			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3278
3279	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3280			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3281			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3282			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3283			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3284			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3285			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3286
3287	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3288			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3289			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3290			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3291			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3292			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3293			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3294			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3295
3296	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3297			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3298			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3299
3300	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3301			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3302			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3303			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3304			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3305			real-time systems.
3306
3307	no_hash_pointers
3308			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3309			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3310			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3311			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3312			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3313			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3314			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3315			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3316			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3317			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3318			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
3319			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3320			kernels.
3321
3322	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3323
3324	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3325			Valid arguments: on, off
3326			Default: on
3327
3328	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3329			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3330			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3331			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3332			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3333			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3334			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3335			just as if they had also been called out in the
3336			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3337
3338	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3339
3340	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3341			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3342
3343	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3344			broken timer IRQ sources.
3345
3346	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3347
3348	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3349			initial RAM disk.
3350
3351	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3352			remapping.
3353			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3354
3355	nointroute	[IA-64]
3356
3357	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3358
3359	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3360
3361	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3362
3363	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3364			fault handling.
3365
3366	no-vmw-sched-clock
3367			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3368			clock and use the default one.
3369
3370	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3371			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3372			influence scheduler behaviour
3373
3374	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3375
3376	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3377
3378	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3379			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3380
3381	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3382
3383	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3384
3385	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3386			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3387
3388	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3389			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3390			irq.
3391
3392	nomodule	Disable module load
3393
3394	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3395			pagetables) support.
3396
3397	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3398
3399	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3400			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3401
3402	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3403			with UP alternatives
3404
3405	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3406			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3407			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3408			available to user space applications.
3409
3410	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3411			space.
3412
3413	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3414			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3415			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3416
3417	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3418
3419	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3420
3421	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3422
3423	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3424			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3425
3426	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3427
3428	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3429
3430	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3431			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3432
3433	nowb		[ARM]
3434
3435	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3436
3437	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3438			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3439			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3440			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3441			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3442			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3443			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3444			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3445			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3446			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3447			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3448			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3449			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3450
3451	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3452			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3453			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3454			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3455			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3456			parameter's value.
3457			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3458			Default: 255
3459
3460	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3461			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3462			SAL PALO.
3463
3464	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3465			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3466			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3467			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3468			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3469			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3470			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3471			hot plugging.
3472
3473	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3474
3475	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3476			Allowed values are enable and disable
3477
3478	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3479			'node', 'default' can be specified
3480			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3481			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3482
3483	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3484			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3485			info.
3486
3487	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3488			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3489			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3490			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3491			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3492			interrupts *may* be lost!
3493
3494	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3495			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3496			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3497			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3498
3499	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3500			process, but there is a small probability of
3501			deadlocking the machine.
3502			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3503			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3504
3505	page_alloc.shuffle=
3506			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3507			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3508			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3509			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3510			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3511			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3512			can be read from sysfs at:
3513			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3514
3515	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3516			Storage of the information about who allocated
3517			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3518			we can turn it on.
3519			on: enable the feature
3520
3521	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3522			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3523			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3524			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3525			on: turn on poisoning
3526
3527	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3528			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3529			timeout = 0: wait forever
3530			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3531			Format: <timeout>
3532
3533	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3534			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3535			bit 0: print all tasks info
3536			bit 1: print system memory info
3537			bit 2: print timer info
3538			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3539			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3540			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3541
3542	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3543			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3544			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3545			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3546			called with any of the flags in this set.
3547			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3548			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3549			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3550			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3551			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3552			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3553			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3554
3555	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3556			on a WARN().
3557
3558	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3559			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3560			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3561			succeeds in any situation.
3562			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3563			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3564			kernel more unstable.
3565
3566	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3567			connected to, default is 0.
3568			Format: <parport#>
3569	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3570			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3571			Format: <mode>
3572
3573	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3574			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3575			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3576			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3577			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3578			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3579			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3580			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3581			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3582			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3583			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3584			are specified on the command line, starting
3585			with parport0.
3586
3587	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3588			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3589			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3590			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3591			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3592			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3593			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3594
3595	pause_on_oops=
3596			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3597			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3598			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3599
3600	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3601
3602	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3603			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3604			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3605
3606	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3607
3608				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3609				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3610				specified in one of the following formats:
3611
3612				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3613				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3614
3615				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3616				bus/device/function address which may change
3617				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3618				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3619				by other kernel parameters. If the
3620				domain is left unspecified, it is
3621				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3622				to a device through multiple device/function
3623				addresses can be specified after the base
3624				address (this is more robust against
3625				renumbering issues).  The second format
3626				selects devices using IDs from the
3627				configuration space which may match multiple
3628				devices in the system.
3629
3630		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3631				changes anything
3632		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3633		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3634				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3635				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3636		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3637				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3638				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3639				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3640		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3641				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3642				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3643		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3644				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3645				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3646				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3647				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3648				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3649				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3650		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3651				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3652				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3653		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3654				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3655		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3656				Configuration
3657		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3658				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3659				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3660		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3661				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3662				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3663		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3664				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3665				should never be necessary.
3666		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3667				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3668				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3669				when the system masks IRQs.
3670		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3671				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3672				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3673				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3674		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3675				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3676				on several machines and they hang the machine
3677				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3678				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3679				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3680				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3681				motherboard.
3682		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3683				Use with caution as certain devices share
3684				address decoders between ROMs and other
3685				resources.
3686		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3687				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3688				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3689		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3690				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3691		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3692				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3693				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3694				this way.
3695		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3696				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3697				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3698				F0000h-100000h range.
3699		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3700				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3701				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3702				explicitly which ones they are.
3703		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3704				numbers ourselves, overriding
3705				whatever the firmware may have done.
3706		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3707				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3708				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3709				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3710				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3711				IRQ routing is enabled.
3712		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3713				or for PCI scanning.
3714		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3715				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3716				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3717				please report a bug.
3718		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3719				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3720		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3721				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3722				so this option is a temporary workaround
3723				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3724		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3725				handle more pci cards
3726		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3727				This might help on some broken boards which
3728				machine check when some devices' config space
3729				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3730				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3731		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3732				This sorting is done to get a device
3733				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3734		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3735		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3736				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3737		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3738				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3739		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3740				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3741				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3742				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3743				or bus can support) for best performance.
3744		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3745				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3746				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3747				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3748				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3749				that hot-added devices will work.
3750		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3751				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3752				The default value is 256 bytes.
3753		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3754				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3755				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3756		resource_alignment=
3757				Format:
3758				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3759				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3760				aligned memory resources. How to
3761				specify the device is described above.
3762				If <order of align> is not specified,
3763				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3764				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3765				windows need to be expanded.
3766				To specify the alignment for several
3767				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3768				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3769				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3770				for 4096-byte alignment.
3771		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3772				end-to-end CRC checking).
3773				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3774				the default.
3775				off: Turn ECRC off
3776				on: Turn ECRC on.
3777		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3778				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3779				Default size is 256 bytes.
3780		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3781				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3782				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3783		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3784				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3785				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3786		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3787				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3788				MMIO_PREF window.
3789				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3790		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3791				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3792				Default is 1.
3793		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3794				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3795				accommodate resources required by all child
3796				devices.
3797				off: Turn realloc off
3798				on: Turn realloc on
3799		realloc		same as realloc=on
3800		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3801		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3802				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3803		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3804				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3805				port.
3806		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3807				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3808				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3809				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3810				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3811				taints the kernel.
3812		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3813				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3814				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3815				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3816				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3817				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3818				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3819				this removes isolation between devices and
3820				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3821		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3822		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3823		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3824				one PCI domain per PCI function
3825
3826	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3827			Management.
3828		off	Disable ASPM.
3829		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3830			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3831
3832	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3833		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3834			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3835			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3836			also tries to use these services.
3837		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3838				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3839		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3840			hotplug).
3841
3842	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3843		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3844		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3845
3846	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3847		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3848			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3849
3850	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3851
3852	pd_ignore_unused
3853			[PM]
3854			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3855			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3856			for debug and development, but should not be
3857			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3858
3859	pd.		[PARIDE]
3860			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3861
3862	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3863			boot time.
3864			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3865			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3866
3867	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3868			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3869			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3870			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3871			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3872			and performance comparison.
3873
3874	pf.		[PARIDE]
3875			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3876
3877	pg.		[PARIDE]
3878			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3879
3880	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3881			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3882
3883	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3884			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3885			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3886
3887	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3888			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3889			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3890
3891	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
3892			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3893
3894	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3895			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3896			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3897			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3898			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3899			possible settings and some assignment information.
3900
3901	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3902			{ off }
3903
3904	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3905			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3906
3907	pnp_reserve_irq=
3908			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3909
3910	pnp_reserve_dma=
3911			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3912
3913	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3914			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3915
3916	pnp_reserve_mem=
3917			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3918			autoconfiguration.
3919			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3920
3921	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3922			Default is 21.
3923			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3924			may be specified.
3925			Format: <port>,<port>....
3926
3927	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3928			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3929			platform machine description specific power_save
3930			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3931			execution priority.
3932
3933	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3934			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3935			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3936			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3937			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3938
3939	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3940			Format: {"off"}
3941			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3942
3943	preempt=	[KNL]
3944			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
3945			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
3946			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
3947			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
3948			       can be preempted anytime.
3949
3950	print-fatal-signals=
3951			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3952
3953			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3954			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3955			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3956			coredump - etc.
3957
3958			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3959			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3960
3961			default: off.
3962
3963	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3964			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3965			panics
3966			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3967			default: disabled
3968
3969	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3970			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3971			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3972			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3973			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3974			Default: ratelimit
3975
3976	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3977			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3978
3979	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3980			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3981			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3982
3983	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3984			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3985			instead using the legacy FADT method
3986
3987	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3988			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3989			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3990				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3991			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3992			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3993				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3994			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3995			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3996				statistical time based profiling.
3997
3998	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3999
4000	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4001			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4002			that).
4003			Format: <bool>
4004
4005	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4006			tracking.
4007			Format: <bool>
4008
4009	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4010			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4011	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4012			per second.
4013	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4014			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4015			(0 = never).
4016	psmouse.resolution=
4017			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4018	psmouse.smartscroll=
4019			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4020			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4021
4022	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4023
4024	pt.		[PARIDE]
4025			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4026
4027	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4028			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4029			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4030			system calls and interrupts.
4031
4032			on   - unconditionally enable
4033			off  - unconditionally disable
4034			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4035			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4036
4037			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4038
4039	nopti		[X86-64]
4040			Equivalent to pti=off
4041
4042	pty.legacy_count=
4043			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4044			default number.
4045
4046	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4047
4048	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4049
4050	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4051			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4052
4053	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4054			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4055
4056	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4057
4058	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4059			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4060			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4061			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4062			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4063
4064	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4065
4066		cec_disable	[X86]
4067				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4068				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4069
4070	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4071			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4072			except that the string "all" can be used to
4073			specify every CPU on the system.
4074
4075			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4076			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4077			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4078			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4079			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4080			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4081			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4082			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4083			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
4084			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4085
4086	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4087			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4088			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4089			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4090			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4091			This improves the real-time response for the
4092			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4093			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4094			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4095			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4096
4097	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4098			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4099			process in one batch.
4100
4101	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4102			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4103			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4104			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4105
4106	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4107			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4108			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4109
4110	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4111			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4112			RCU grace-period initialization.
4113
4114	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4115			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4116			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4117			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4118			the rcu_node combining tree.
4119
4120	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4121			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4122			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4123			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4124			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4125
4126			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4127			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4128			to zero.
4129
4130	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4131			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4132			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4133			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4134			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4135
4136	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4137			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4138			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4139			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4140			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4141			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4142			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4143
4144	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4145			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4146			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4147			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4148			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4149			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4150			condition.
4151
4152	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4153			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4154			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4155			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4156			and maximum value is HZ.
4157
4158	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4159			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4160			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4161			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4162
4163	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4164			Set required age in jiffies for a
4165			given grace period before RCU starts
4166			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4167			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4168			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4169			a value based on the most recent settings
4170			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4171			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4172			This calculated value may be viewed in
4173			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4174			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4175			overwritten.
4176
4177	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4178			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4179			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4180			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4181			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4182			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4183			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4184			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4185			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4186			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4187
4188	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4189			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4190			each group, which defaults to the square root
4191			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4192			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4193			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4194			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4195
4196	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4197			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4198			batch limiting is disabled.
4199
4200	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4201			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4202			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4203
4204	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4205			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4206			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4207			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4208			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4209			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4210			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4211			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4212
4213	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4214			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4215			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4216
4217	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4218			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4219			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4220			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4221			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4222			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4223
4224	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4225			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4226			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4227			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4228			Larger delays increase the probability of
4229			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4230			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4231			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4232
4233	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4234			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4235			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4236			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4237
4238	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4239			Measure performance of asynchronous
4240			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4241
4242	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4243			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4244			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4245			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4246			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4247			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4248
4249	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4250			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4251			grace-period primitives.
4252
4253	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4254			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4255			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4256			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4257			interference.
4258
4259	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4260			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4261
4262	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4263			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4264
4265	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4266			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4267
4268	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4269			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4270			of allocations and frees.
4271
4272	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4273			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4274			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4275			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4276			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4277			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4278			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4279			a single reader.
4280
4281	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4282			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4283			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4284			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4285
4286	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4287			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4288
4289	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4290			Shut the system down after performance tests
4291			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4292			testing.
4293
4294	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4295			Enable additional printk() statements.
4296
4297	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4298			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4299			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4300			no holdoff.
4301
4302	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4303			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4304			in microseconds.
4305
4306	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4307			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4308			in microseconds.
4309
4310	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4311			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4312			in seconds.
4313
4314	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4315			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4316			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4317
4318	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4319			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4320			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4321
4322	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4323			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4324			forward-progress tests.
4325
4326	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4327			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4328			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4329			testing.
4330
4331	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4332			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4333			primitives, if available.
4334
4335	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4336			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4337
4338	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4339			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4340			update-side primitives, if available.
4341
4342	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4343			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4344			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4345			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4346			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4347			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4348			they are all non-zero.
4349
4350	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4351			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4352			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4353			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4354
4355	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4356			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4357			This can of course result in splats, and is
4358			intended to test the ability of things like
4359			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4360			such leaks.
4361
4362	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4363			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4364
4365	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4366			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4367			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4368			test, hence the "fake".
4369
4370	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4371			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4372			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4373
4374	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4375			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4376			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4377
4378	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4379			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4380			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4381			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4382			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4383			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4384
4385	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4386			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4387
4388	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4389			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4390
4391	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4392			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4393			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4394
4395	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4396			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4397			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4398			task-exit processing.
4399
4400	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4401			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4402			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4403			is spawned.
4404
4405	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4406			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4407			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4408
4409	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4410			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4411			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4412			during the rcutorture test.
4413
4414	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4415			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4416			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4417
4418	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4419			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4420			warnings, zero to disable.
4421
4422	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4423			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4424			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4425			to any other stall-related activity.
4426
4427	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4428			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4429
4430	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4431			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4432
4433	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4434			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4435			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4436			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4437			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4438			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4439
4440	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4441			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4442
4443	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4444			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4445			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4446			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4447			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4448
4449	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4450			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4451			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4452			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4453
4454	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4455			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4456
4457	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4458			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4459
4460	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4461			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4462			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4463
4464	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4465			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4466
4467	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4468			Enable additional printk() statements.
4469
4470	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4471			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4472			stall warning.
4473
4474	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4475			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4476
4477	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4478			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4479			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4480			during early boot, that is, during the time
4481			before the init task is spawned.
4482
4483	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4484			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4485
4486	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4487			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4488			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4489			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4490			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4491			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4492			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4493
4494	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4495			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4496			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4497			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4498			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4499			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4500			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4501			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4502			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4503
4504	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4505			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4506			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4507			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4508			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4509
4510			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4511			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4512			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4513			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4514			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4515			grace-period processing.
4516
4517	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4518			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4519			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4520			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4521			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4522			but lengthens grace periods.
4523
4524	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4525			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4526			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4527			to zero.
4528
4529	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4530			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4531
4532	rdinit=		[KNL]
4533			Format: <full_path>
4534			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4535			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4536
4537	rdrand=		[X86]
4538			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4539				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4540				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4541				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4542				path).
4543
4544	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4545			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4546			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4547			mba.
4548			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4549				rdt=cmt,!mba
4550
4551	reboot=		[KNL]
4552			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4553				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4554				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4555				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4556				[[,]f[orce]
4557			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4558					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4559					reboot only),
4560			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4561			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4562			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4563					to be used for rebooting.
4564
4565	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4566			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4567			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4568			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4569			interference.
4570
4571	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4572			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4573			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4574			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4575			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4576			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4577			x86 laptops.
4578
4579	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4580			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4581			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4582			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4583
4584	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4585			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4586			the console log.
4587
4588	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4589			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4590			measured in microseconds.
4591
4592	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4593			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4594
4595	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4596			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4597			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4598			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4599			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4600
4601	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4602			Enable additional printk() statements.
4603
4604	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4605			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4606			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4607			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4608			specified.
4609
4610	relax_domain_level=
4611			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4612			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4613
4614	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4615			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4616			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4617			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4618			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4619
4620	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4621			Format: nn[KMG]
4622			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4623			address space.
4624
4625	reservelow=	[X86]
4626			Format: nn[K]
4627			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4628			the bottom of the address space.
4629
4630	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4631			during initialization.
4632
4633	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4634			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4635			Format:
4636			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4637
4638	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4639			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4640			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4641			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4642			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4643
4644	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4645			read the resume files
4646
4647	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4648			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4649			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4650
4651	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4652		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4653				present during boot.
4654		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4655		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4656		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4657				(that will set all pages holding image data
4658				during restoration read-only).
4659
4660	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4661
4662	rfkill.default_state=
4663		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4664			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4665		1	Unblocked.
4666
4667	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4668		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4669		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4670			blocked and the previous configuration.
4671		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4672			blocked and everything unblocked.
4673
4674	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4675			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4676
4677	ring3mwait=disable
4678			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4679			CPUs.
4680
4681	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4682
4683	rodata=		[KNL]
4684		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4685		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4686
4687	rockchip.usb_uart
4688			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4689			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4690			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4691			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4692
4693	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4694			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4695
4696	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4697			mount the root filesystem
4698
4699	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4700
4701	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4702
4703	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4704			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4705			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4706
4707	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4708			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4709			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4710			managed by CMA.
4711
4712	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4713
4714	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4715
4716	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4717			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4718		strict
4719			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4720			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4721			which is faster.
4722
4723	sa1100ir	[NET]
4724			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4725
4726	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4727
4728	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4729
4730	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4731			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4732			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4733			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4734
4735	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4736			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4737			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4738			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4739			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4740			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4741			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4742			value.
4743			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4744			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
4745				1			64 ms
4746				2			128 ms
4747			and so on.
4748			Format: integer between 0 and 10
4749			Default is 0.
4750
4751	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4752			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4753			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4754			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4755			tests.
4756
4757	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4758			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4759			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
4760			default) disables this feature.  Please note
4761			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4762			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4763			softlockup complaints, and so on.
4764
4765	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4766			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4767			smp_call_function() family of functions.
4768			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4769			equal to the number of CPUs.
4770
4771	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4772			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4773			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4774
4775	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4776			Number seconds to wait between successive
4777			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
4778			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4779
4780	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4781			The number of seconds following the start of the
4782			test after which to shut down the system.  The
4783			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4784			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4785
4786	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4787			The number of seconds between outputting the
4788			current test statistics to the console.  A value
4789			of zero disables statistics output.
4790
4791	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4792			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4793			to the set of CPUs under test.
4794
4795	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4796			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4797			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4798			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4799			functions.
4800
4801	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4802			Enable additional printk() statements.
4803
4804	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4805			The probability weighting to use for the
4806			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4807			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
4808			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
4809			if at least one weight has some other value, a
4810			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4811
4812	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4813			The probability weighting to use for the
4814			smp_call_function_single() function with a
4815			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4816
4817	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4818			The probability weighting to use for the
4819			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4820			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4821			Note well that setting a high probability for
4822			this weighting can place serious IPI load
4823			on the system.
4824
4825	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4826			The probability weighting to use for the
4827			smp_call_function_many() function with a
4828			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4829			and weight_many.
4830
4831	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4832			The probability weighting to use for the
4833			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4834			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
4835			weight_many.
4836
4837	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4838			The probability weighting to use for the
4839			smp_call_function_all() function with a
4840			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4841			and weight_many.
4842
4843	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4844			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4845			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4846			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4847			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4848			1 -- enable.
4849			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4850			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4851
4852	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4853			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4854			"lsm=" parameter.
4855
4856	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4857			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4858			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4859			0 -- disable.
4860			1 -- enable.
4861			Default value is 1.
4862
4863	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4864			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4865			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4866			0 -- disable.
4867			1 -- enable.
4868			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4869
4870	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4871
4872	shapers=	[NET]
4873			Maximal number of shapers.
4874
4875	simeth=		[IA-64]
4876	simscsi=
4877
4878	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4879
4880	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4881			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4882			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4883			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4884			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4885			layout control by attackers can usually be
4886			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4887			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4888			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4889			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4890			own.
4891			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4892
4893	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4894			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4895			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4896			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4897			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4898
4899	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
4900			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4901			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4902			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4903			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4904			last alloc / free. For more information see
4905			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4906
4907	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4908			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4909			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4910			fragmentation. For more information see
4911			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4912
4913	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4914			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4915			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4916			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4917			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4918			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4919			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4920			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4921
4922	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4923			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4924			lower than slub_max_order.
4925			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4926
4927	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4928			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4929			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4930
4931	smart2=		[HW]
4932			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4933
4934	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4935	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4936	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4937	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4938	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4939	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4940	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4941				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4942				1: Fast pin select (default)
4943				2: ATC IRMode
4944
4945	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4946			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4947			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4948			actual hardware limit.
4949			Format: <integer>
4950			Default: -1 (no limit)
4951
4952	softlockup_panic=
4953			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4954			Format: 0 | 1
4955
4956			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
4957			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4958			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4959			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4960			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
4961
4962	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4963			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4964			backtraces on all cpus.
4965			Format: 0 | 1
4966
4967	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4968			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4969
4970	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4971			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4972			The default operation protects the kernel from
4973			user space attacks.
4974
4975			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4976			       spectre_v2_user=on
4977			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4978			       spectre_v2_user=off
4979			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4980			       vulnerable
4981
4982			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4983			mitigation method at run time according to the
4984			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4985			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4986			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4987
4988			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4989			against user space to user space task attacks.
4990
4991			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4992			the user space protections.
4993
4994			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4995
4996			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4997			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4998			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4999
5000			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5001			spectre_v2=auto.
5002
5003	spectre_v2_user=
5004			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5005		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5006		        user space tasks
5007
5008			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5009				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5010
5011			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5012				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5013
5014			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5015				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5016				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5017				  is inherited on fork.
5018
5019			prctl,ibpb
5020				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5021				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5022				  always when switching between different user
5023				  space processes.
5024
5025			seccomp
5026				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5027				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5028				  they explicitly opt out.
5029
5030			seccomp,ibpb
5031				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5032				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5033				  always when switching between different
5034				  user space processes.
5035
5036			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5037				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5038
5039			Default mitigation:
5040			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5041
5042			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5043			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5044
5045	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5046			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5047			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5048
5049			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5050			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5051			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5052			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5053			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5054			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5055			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5056			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5057
5058			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5059			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5060			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5061			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5062
5063			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5064			Bypass optimization is used.
5065
5066			On x86 the options are:
5067
5068			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5069			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5070			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5071				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5072				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5073				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5074				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5075				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5076			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5077				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5078				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5079				  is inherited on fork.
5080			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5081				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5082
5083			Default mitigations:
5084			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5085
5086			On powerpc the options are:
5087
5088			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5089				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5090				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5091				  exit.
5092			off	- No action.
5093
5094			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5095			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5096
5097	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5098	spia_fio_base=
5099	spia_pedr=
5100	spia_peddr=
5101
5102	split_lock_detect=
5103			[X86] Enable split lock detection
5104
5105			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5106			instructions that access data across cache line
5107			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
5108
5109			off	- not enabled
5110
5111			warn	- the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
5112				  about applications triggering the #AC
5113				  exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
5114				  that supports split lock detection.
5115
5116			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5117				  that trigger the #AC exception.
5118
5119			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5120			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5121			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5122			mode.
5123
5124	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5125			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5126			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5127
5128			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5129			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5130			number generator.
5131
5132			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5133			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5134			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5135			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5136			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5137
5138			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5139			the following option:
5140
5141			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5142				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5143
5144	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5145			Specifies how frequently to check for
5146			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5147			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5148			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5149			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5150			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5151			are ignored.
5152
5153	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5154			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5155			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5156			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5157			grace period will be considered for automatic
5158			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5159			expediting.
5160
5161	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5162			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5163
5164			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5165			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5166			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5167			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5168
5169			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5170				   for both kernel and userspace
5171			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5172				   for both kernel and userspace
5173			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5174				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5175				   to allow userspace to register its
5176				   interest in being mitigated too.
5177
5178	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5179			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5180			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5181			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5182			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5183			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5184
5185	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5186			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5187			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5188			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5189			to false.
5190
5191	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5192			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5193
5194	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5195			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5196			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5197			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5198			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5199			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5200			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5201
5202	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5203			Format: <num>
5204			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5205			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5206			as the initial boot-console.
5207			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5208
5209	sti_font=	[HW]
5210			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5211
5212	stifb=		[HW]
5213			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5214
5215	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5216	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5217			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5218			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5219			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5220			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5221			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5222			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5223			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5224			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5225			maximum port values.
5226
5227	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5228			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5229			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5230			process in parallel from a single connection.
5231			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5232
5233	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5234			[NFS]
5235			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5236			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5237			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5238			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5239			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5240			NFS server is running.
5241
5242			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5243				    automatically using heuristics
5244			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5245			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5246			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5247				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5248
5249	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5250	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5251			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5252			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5253			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5254			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5255			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5256			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5257
5258	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5259			[SUSPEND]
5260			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5261			mode before resuming the system (see
5262			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5263			is set. Default value is 5.
5264
5265	svm=		[PPC]
5266			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5267			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5268			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5269
5270	swapaccount=[0|1]
5271			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5272			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5273			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5274
5275	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5276			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5277			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5278			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5279			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5280			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5281
5282	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5283
5284	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5285			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5286			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5287			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5288			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5289			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5290			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5291			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5292
5293	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5294			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5295			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5296			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5297			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5298			in older udev will not work anymore.
5299			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5300			the kernel configuration.
5301
5302	sysrq_always_enabled
5303			[KNL]
5304			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5305			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5306			Useful for debugging.
5307
5308	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5309			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5310			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5311			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5312			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5313			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5314
5315	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5316
5317	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5318			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5319			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5320			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5321			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5322			The system is woken from this state using a
5323			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5324
5325	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5326			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5327
5328	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5329			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5330			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5331
5332	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5333			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5334			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5335
5336	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5337			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5338			critical and hot trip points.
5339
5340	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5341			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5342
5343	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5344			-1: disable all passive trip points
5345			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5346			value
5347
5348	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5349			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5350			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5351			0: no polling (default)
5352
5353	threadirqs	[KNL]
5354			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5355			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5356
5357	topology=	[S390]
5358			Format: {off | on}
5359			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5360			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5361			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5362			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5363			Default is on.
5364
5365	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5366			Format: {off}
5367			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5368			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5369			LPAR.
5370
5371	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5372			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5373			until after init has spawned.
5374
5375	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5376			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5377			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5378			very costly operation when many torture tests
5379			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5380			with rotating-rust storage.
5381
5382	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5383			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5384			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5385			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5386
5387	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5388			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5389
5390	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5391
5392	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5393			Format: integer pcr id
5394			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5395			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5396			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5397			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5398			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5399			are saved.
5400
5401	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5402			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5403
5404	trace_event=[event-list]
5405			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5406			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5407			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5408			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5409
5410	trace_options=[option-list]
5411			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5412			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5413			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5414			to echo the option name into
5415
5416			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5417
5418			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5419			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5420
5421			      trace_options=stacktrace
5422
5423			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5424			section.
5425
5426	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5427			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5428			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5429			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5430			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5431			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5432
5433			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5434			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5435			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5436			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5437
5438			** CAUTION **
5439
5440			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5441			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5442			the system to live lock.
5443
5444	traceoff_on_warning
5445			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5446			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5447			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5448			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5449
5450			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5451			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5452			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5453
5454			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5455			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5456
5457	transparent_hugepage=
5458			[KNL]
5459			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5460			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5461			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5462			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5463			for more details.
5464
5465	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5466			Format: <string>
5467			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5468			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5469			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5470			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5471			virtualized environment.
5472			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5473			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5474			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5475			can add overhead.
5476			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5477			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5478			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5479			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5480			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5481			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5482			acceptable).
5483
5484	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5485			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5486			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5487			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5488			Format: <unsigned int>
5489
5490	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5491			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5492			support TSX control.
5493
5494			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5495
5496			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5497				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5498				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5499				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5500				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5501				with leaving it enabled.
5502
5503			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5504				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5505				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5506				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5507				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5508				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5509				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5510
5511			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5512				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5513
5514			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5515
5516			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5517			for more details.
5518
5519	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5520			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5521
5522			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5523			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5524			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5525			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5526			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5527			conditions.
5528
5529			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5530			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5531			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5532			access.
5533
5534			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5535			options are:
5536
5537			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5538				     if TSX is enabled.
5539
5540			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5541				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5542				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5543				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5544			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5545
5546			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5547			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5548			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5549			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5550
5551			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5552			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5553			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5554			required and doesn't provide any additional
5555			mitigation.
5556
5557			For details see:
5558			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5559
5560	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5561			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5562			Format:
5563			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5564			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5565
5566	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5567			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5568			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5569			help "seeing" what's going on.
5570
5571	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5572			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5573
5574	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5575			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5576			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5577			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5578			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5579			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5580			reported either.
5581
5582	unknown_nmi_panic
5583			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5584
5585	usbcore.authorized_default=
5586			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5587			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5588			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5589			if device connected to internal port)
5590
5591	usbcore.autosuspend=
5592			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5593			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5594			is the time required before an idle device will be
5595			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5596			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5597
5598	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5599			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5600
5601	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5602			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5603			(default = 65536).
5604
5605	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5606			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5607
5608	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5609			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5610			scheme (default 0 = off).
5611
5612	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5613			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5614			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5615
5616	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5617			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5618			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5619
5620	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5621			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5622			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5623			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5624
5625	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5626
5627	usbcore.quirks=
5628			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5629			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5630			commas. Each entry has the form
5631			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5632			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5633			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5634			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5635			the following meanings:
5636				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5637					descriptors must not be fetched using
5638					a 255-byte read);
5639				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5640					correctly so reset it instead);
5641				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5642					Set-Interface requests);
5643				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5644					handle its Configuration or Interface
5645					strings);
5646				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5647					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5648				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5649					more interface descriptions than the
5650					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5651					talking to these interfaces);
5652				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5653					during initialization, after we read
5654					the device descriptor);
5655				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5656					high speed and super speed interrupt
5657					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5658					require the interval in microframes (1
5659					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5660					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5661					(bInterval-1).
5662					Devices with this quirk report their
5663					bInterval as the result of this
5664					calculation instead of the exponent
5665					variable used in the calculation);
5666				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5667					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5668					requests);
5669				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5670					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5671					remote wakeup capability);
5672				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5673					Power Management);
5674				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5675					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5676					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5677					calculation);
5678				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5679					to be disconnected before suspend to
5680					prevent spurious wakeup);
5681				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5682					pause after every control message);
5683				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5684					delay after resetting its port);
5685			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5686
5687	usbhid.mousepoll=
5688			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5689
5690	usbhid.jspoll=
5691			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5692
5693	usbhid.kbpoll=
5694			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5695
5696	usb-storage.delay_use=
5697			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5698			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5699
5700	usb-storage.quirks=
5701			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5702			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5703			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5704			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5705			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5706			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5707			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5708				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5709					of sense data, not on uas);
5710				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5711					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5712				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5713					device capacity by one sector);
5714				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5715					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5716				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5717					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5718				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5719					command, uas only);
5720				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5721					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5722				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5723					reported device capacity by one
5724					sector if the number is odd);
5725				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5726					device);
5727				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5728					command, uas only);
5729				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
5730				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5731					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5732				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5733					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5734					not on uas);
5735				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5736					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5737				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5738					reported by the device, not on uas);
5739				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5740					by default, not on uas);
5741				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5742					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5743				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5744					Logical Unit);
5745				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5746					commands, uas only);
5747				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5748				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5749					medium is write-protected).
5750				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5751					even if the device claims no cache,
5752					not on uas)
5753			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5754
5755	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5756			Format: <int>
5757			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5758				 1 - undefined instruction events
5759				 2 - system calls
5760				 4 - invalid data aborts
5761				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5762				16 - SIGBUS faults
5763			Example: user_debug=31
5764
5765	userpte=
5766			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5767
5768				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5769					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5770					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5771
5772	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5773			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5774
5775			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5776			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5777
5778	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5779			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5780			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5781
5782			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5783			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5784			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5785
5786			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5787			alias for vdso32=0.
5788
5789			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5790			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5791
5792	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5793			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5794
5795	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5796			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5797
5798	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5799			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5800			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5801			level and then send out the event to user space through
5802			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5803			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5804			brightness level.
5805			default: 1
5806
5807	virtio_mmio.device=
5808			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5809
5810				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5811			where:
5812				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5813						like K, M and G)
5814				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5815				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5816						request_irq())
5817				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5818			example:
5819				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5820
5821			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5822
5823	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5824			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5825			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5826			Use vga=ask for menu.
5827			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5828			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5829
5830	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5831			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5832			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5833			All options are enabled by default, and this
5834			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5835			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5836			debugging features.
5837
5838			Available options are:
5839			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5840			  -	Disable all of the above options
5841
5842	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5843			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5844			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5845			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5846			mapped kernel RAM.
5847
5848	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5849			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5850			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5851
5852	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5853			Format: <command>
5854
5855	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5856			Format: <command>
5857
5858	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5859			Format: <command>
5860
5861	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5862			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5863			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5864			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5865			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5866			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5867			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5868
5869			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5870			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5871				    page is readable.
5872
5873			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5874			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5875				    page is not readable.
5876
5877			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5878			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5879			            might break your system.
5880
5881	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5882			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5883			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5884
5885	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5886			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5887			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5888			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5889
5890	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5891			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5892			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5893			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5894			ranging from 0-255.
5895
5896	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5897			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5898			Change the default green palette of the console.
5899			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5900			ranging from 0-255.
5901
5902	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5903			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5904			Change the default red palette of the console.
5905			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5906			ranging from 0-255.
5907
5908	vt.default_utf8=
5909			[VT]
5910			Format=<0|1>
5911			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5912			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5913			newly opened terminals.
5914
5915	vt.global_cursor_default=
5916			[VT]
5917			Format=<-1|0|1>
5918			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5919			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5920			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5921			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5922			cursors, 1 will display them.
5923
5924	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5925			Default: 2 = green.
5926
5927	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5928			Default: 3 = cyan.
5929
5930	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5931			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5932			or other driver-specific files in the
5933			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5934
5935	watchdog_thresh=
5936			[KNL]
5937			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5938			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5939			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5940			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5941			seconds.
5942
5943	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5944			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5945			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5946			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5947			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5948			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5949			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5950			corresponding sysfs file.
5951
5952	workqueue.disable_numa
5953			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5954			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5955			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5956			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5957			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5958			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5959			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5960
5961	workqueue.power_efficient
5962			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5963			they show better performance thanks to cache
5964			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5965			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5966
5967			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5968			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5969			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5970			power usage at the cost of small performance
5971			overhead.
5972
5973			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5974			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5975
5976	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5977			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5978			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5979			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5980			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5981			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5982			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5983			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5984			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5985			impacted.
5986
5987	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5988			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5989			supporting x2apic.
5990
5991	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5992			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5993			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5994			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5995			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5996			domains.
5997
5998	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5999			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6000			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6001			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6002			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6003			nics -- unplug network devices
6004			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6005			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6006				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6007				the unplug protocol
6008			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6009
6010	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6011			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6012			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6013
6014	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6015			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6016			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6017			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6018
6019	xen_nopv	[X86]
6020			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6021			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6022			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6023			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6024
6025	xen_no_vector_callback
6026			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6027			event channel interrupts.
6028
6029	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6030			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6031			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6032			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6033			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6034
6035	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6036			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6037			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6038			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6039			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6040			more timer interrupts.
6041
6042	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6043			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6044			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6045
6046	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6047			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6048			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6049
6050	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6051			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6052			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6053			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6054			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6055			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6056
6057	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6058			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6059			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6060			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6061
6062	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6063			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6064			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6065			contention.
6066
6067	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6068			Format:
6069			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6070
6071	xive=		[PPC]
6072			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6073			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6074			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6075
6076			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6077				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6078				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6079
6080	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6081			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6082			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6083			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6084
6085	xmon		[PPC]
6086			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6087			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6088			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6089			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6090				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6091			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6092				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6093				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6094				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6095			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6096				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6097				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6098				can be written using xmon commands.
6099			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6100				memory, and other data can't be written using
6101				xmon commands.
6102			off	xmon is disabled.
6103