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