1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326
327	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
328			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
329			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
330			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
331			IOMMU initialization.
332
333	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
334			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
335			remapping modes:
336			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
337			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
338			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
339			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
340			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
341
342	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
343			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
344			Format: <a>,<b>
345			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
346
347	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
348			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
349			connected to one of 16 gameports
350			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
351
352	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
353			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
354			Format: noidle
355			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
356			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
357			APC and your system crashes randomly.
358
359	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Change the output verbosity while booting
361			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
362			Change the amount of debugging information output
363			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
364			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
365			driver name.
366			Format: apic=driver_name
367			Examples: apic=bigsmp
368
369	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
370			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
371			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
372			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
373			      backup of CPU 0
374			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
375			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
376			      shot down by NMI
377
378	autoconf=	[IPV6]
379			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
380
381	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
382			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
383
384	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
385			Format: { "0" | "1" }
386			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
387			0 -- disable.
388			1 -- enable.
389			Default value is set via kernel config option.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
482			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
483			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
484			erroneous and ignored.
485			Format: integer
486
487	bootconfig	[KNL]
488			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
489			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
490
491			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
492
493	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
494	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
495			kernel args too.
496	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
497	bttv.tuner=
498
499	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
500			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
501			at a time.
502
503	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
504
505	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
506			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
507			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
508			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
509			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
510			This option provides an override for these situations.
511
512	carrier_timeout=
513			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
514			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
515			it waits 120 seconds.
516
517	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
518			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
519			trust validation.
520			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
521
522	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
523			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
524			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
525			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
526			others).
527
528	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
529			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
530
531	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
532			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
533			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
534			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
535			  a single hierarchy
536			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
537			  subsystem
538			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
539			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
540			  created
541			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
542			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
543			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
544			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
545			stall information accounting feature
546
547	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
548			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
549			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
550			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
551			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
552			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
553			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
554			all v1 hierarchies.
555
556	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
557			Format: <string>
558			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
559			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
560			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
561
562	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
563			Format: { "0" | "1" }
564			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
565			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
566				any implied execute protection).
567			1 -- check protection requested by application.
568			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
569			Value can be changed at runtime via
570				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
571			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
572
573	cio_ignore=	[S390]
574			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
575
576	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
577			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
578			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
579			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
580			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
581			ones should be.
582			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
583			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
584			instability issue. However, not all features have names
585			in /proc/cpuinfo.
586			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
587			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
588			or using the feature without checking anything
589			will still see it. This just prevents it from
590			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
591			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
592			some critical bits.
593
594	clk_ignore_unused
595			[CLK]
596			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
597			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
598			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
599			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
600			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
601			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
602			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
603			platform with proper driver support.  For more
604			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
605
606	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
607			[Deprecated]
608			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
609			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
610			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
611			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
612
613	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
614			Format: <string>
615			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
616			with the name specified.
617			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
618			the platform:
619			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
620			[ACPI] acpi_pm
621			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
622				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
623			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
624				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
625			[MIPS] MIPS
626			[PARISC] cr16
627			[S390] tod
628			[SH] SuperH
629			[SPARC64] tick
630			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
631
632	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
633			[ARM,ARM64]
634			Format: <bool>
635			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
636			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
637			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
638			systems.
639
640	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
641			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
642			external delays before the clock will be marked
643			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
644			three attempts to read the clock under test.
645
646	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
647			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
648			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
649			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
650			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
651			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
652			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
653			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
654			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
655
656	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
657			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
658			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
659			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
660			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
661
662	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
663			[KNL,CMA]
664			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
665			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
666			placement constraint by the physical address range of
667			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
668			altogether. For more information, see
669			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
670
671	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
672			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
673			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
674			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
675			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
676			specified, the default value is 0.
677			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
678			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
679			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
680			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
681
682	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
683			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
684			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
685			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
686			a hypervisor.
687			Default: yes
688
689	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
690			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
691			allocations, by default set to 256K.
692
693	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
694			Format:
695			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
696
697	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
698			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
699
700	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
701			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
702			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
703
704	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
705	conmode=
706
707	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
708			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
709			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
710			the console buffer is full. In this case the
711			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
712			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
713			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
714			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
715			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
716			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
717
718	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
719
720		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
721
722		ttyS<n>[,options]
723		ttyUSB0[,options]
724			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
725			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
726			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
727			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
728			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
729
730			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
731			information.  See
732			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
733			alternative.
734
735		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
736		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
737		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
738		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
739		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
740			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
741			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
742			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
743			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
744			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
745			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
746			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
747			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
748			the h/w is not re-initialized.
749
750		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
751			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
752
753		{ null | "" }
754			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
755			console messages discarded.
756			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
757			kernel command line.
758
759		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
760		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
761			console=brl,ttyS0
762		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
763
764	console_msg_format=
765			[KNL] Change console messages format
766		default
767			By default we print messages on consoles in
768			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
769			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
770			`printk_time' param).
771		syslog
772			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
773			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
774			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
775			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
776			from /proc/kmsg.
777
778	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
779			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
780			Defaults to 0.
781
782	coredump_filter=
783			[KNL] Change the default value for
784			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
785			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
786
787	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
788			[ARM,ARM64]
789			Format: <bool>
790			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
791			0: default value, disable debugging
792			1: enable debugging at boot time
793
794	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
795			Format:
796			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
797
798	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
799			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
800			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
801			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
802			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
803			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
804			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
805			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
806			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
807			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
808			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
809			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
810			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
811
812	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
813			disable the cpuidle sub-system
814
815	cpuidle.governor=
816			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
817
818	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
819			disable the cpufreq sub-system
820
821	cpufreq.default_governor=
822			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
823			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
824			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
825
826	cpu_init_udelay=N
827			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
828			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
829			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
830			Default: 10000
831
832	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
833			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
834			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
835			succeeds in any situation.
836			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
837			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
838			kernel more unstable.
839
840	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
841			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
842			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
843			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
844			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
845			is selected automatically.
846			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and
847			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
848			hasn't been specified.
849			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
850
851	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
852			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
853			in the running system. The syntax of range is
854			start-[end] where start and end are both
855			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
856			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
857
858	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
859			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
860			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
861			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
862			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
863			available.
864			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
865	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
866			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
867			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
868			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
869			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
870			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
871			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
872			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
873			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
874			size is	platform dependent.
875			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
876			  --> arm64: 128MiB
877			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
878			for second kernel instead.
879			0: to disable low allocation.
880			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
881			or memory reserved is below 4G.
882
883	cryptomgr.notests
884			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
885
886	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
887			Format: <dma>
888
889	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
890			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
891
892	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
893			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
894			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
895			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
896			to resolve the hang situation.
897			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
898			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
899			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
900			     but more data)
901
902	dasd=		[HW,NET]
903			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
904
905	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
906			(one device per port)
907			Format: <port#>,<type>
908			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
909
910	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
911
912	debug_boot_weak_hash
913			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
914			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
915			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
916			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
917			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
918			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
919
920	debug_locks_verbose=
921			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
922			Format: <int>
923			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
924			self-tests.
925			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
926			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
927			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
928			useful to lockdep developers.
929
930	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
931
932	no_debug_objects
933			[KNL] Disable object debugging
934
935	debug_guardpage_minorder=
936			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
937			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
938			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
939			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
940			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
941			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
942			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
943			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
944			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
945			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
946			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
947			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
948			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
949			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
950			bypassed) which are not detectable by
951			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
952			tracking down these problems.
953
954	debug_pagealloc=
955			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
956			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
957			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
958			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
959			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
960			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
961			on: enable the feature
962
963	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
964			and debugfs internal clients.
965			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
966			on: 	All functions are enabled.
967			no-mount:
968				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
969			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
970				its content. There is nothing to mount.
971			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
972			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
973				or directories within debugfs.
974				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
975				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
976			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
977
978	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
979
980	default_hugepagesz=
981			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
982			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
983			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
984			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
985			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
986			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
987			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
988			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
989			Format: size[KMG]
990
991	deferred_probe_timeout=
992			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
993			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
994			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
995			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
996			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
997			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
998			successful driver registration. This option will also
999			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1000			retrying.
1001
1002	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1003
1004	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1005			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1006			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1007			hardware.
1008
1009	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1010			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1011			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1012			blacklisted features.
1013
1014	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1015			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1016			(disabled by default).
1017
1018	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1019			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1020			capability is set.
1021
1022	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1023			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1024
1025	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1026			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1027
1028	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1029			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1030			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1031			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1032			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1033			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1034			          only (compression on level 1)
1035			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1036			          only (decompression)
1037			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1038			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1039
1040	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1041			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1042
1043	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1044			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1045			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1046			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1047			miss to occur.
1048
1049	disable=	[IPV6]
1050			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1051
1052	disable_radix	[PPC]
1053			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1054
1055	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1056			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1057			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1058
1059	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1060			Format: <int>
1061			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1062			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1063			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1064			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1065			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1066			INIT from AP to BSP.
1067
1068	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1069			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1070			to workaround buggy firmware.
1071
1072	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1073			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1074
1075	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1076			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1077			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1078			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1079
1080	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1081			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1082			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1083			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1084			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1085
1086	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1087			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1088			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1089
1090	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1091
1092	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1093			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1094
1095	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1096			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1097			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1098			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1099			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1100			architectural default is too low.
1101
1102	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1103			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1104			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1105			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1106			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1107			driver later using sysfs.
1108
1109	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1110			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1111			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1112			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1113			match the *.
1114			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1115
1116	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1117			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1118			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1119			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1120			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1121			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1122			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1123			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1124			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1125			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1126			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1127			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1128			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1129			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1130			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1131			data set with no connector name will be used for
1132			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1133
1134	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1135
1136	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1137			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1138			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1139			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1140			exists).
1141			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1142			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1143			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1144
1145	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1146			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1147			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1148			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1149
1150	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1151	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1152			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1153			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1154			for details.
1155
1156	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1157			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1158			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1159			which are not unmapped.
1160
1161	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1162
1163			When used with no options, the early console is
1164			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1165			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1166			the platform.
1167
1168		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1169			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1170			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1171			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1172			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1173			configured.
1174
1175		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1176		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1177		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1178		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1179		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1180			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1181			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1182			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1183			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1184			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1185			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1186			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1187			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1188			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1189			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1190
1191		pl011,<addr>
1192		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1193			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1194			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1195			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1196			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1197			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1198			the device registers.
1199
1200		liteuart,<addr>
1201			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1202			specified address. The serial port must already be
1203			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1204
1205		meson,<addr>
1206			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1207			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1208			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1209			supported.
1210
1211		msm_serial,<addr>
1212			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1213			port at the specified address. The serial port
1214			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1215			yet supported.
1216
1217		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1218			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1219			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1220			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1221			yet supported.
1222
1223		owl,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1225			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1226			specified address. The serial port must already be
1227			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1228
1229		rda,<addr>
1230			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1231			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1232			specified address. The serial port must already be
1233			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1234
1235		sbi
1236			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1237			console.
1238
1239		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1240
1241		s3c2410,<addr>
1242		s3c2412,<addr>
1243		s3c2440,<addr>
1244		s3c6400,<addr>
1245		s5pv210,<addr>
1246		exynos4210,<addr>
1247			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1248			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1249			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1250			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1251			Options are not yet supported.
1252
1253		lantiq,<addr>
1254			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1255			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1256			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1257			yet supported.
1258
1259		lpuart,<addr>
1260		lpuart32,<addr>
1261			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1262			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1263			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1264			port must already be setup and configured.
1265
1266		ec_imx21,<addr>
1267		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1269			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1270			must already be setup and configured.
1271
1272		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1273			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1274			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1275			address. The serial port must already be setup
1276			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1277
1278		qcom_geni,<addr>
1279			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1280			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1281			specified address. The serial port must already be
1282			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		efifb,[options]
1285			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1286			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1287			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1288			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1289			mapped with the correct attributes.
1290
1291		linflex,<addr>
1292			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1293			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1294			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1295			already be setup and configured.
1296
1297	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1298			earlyprintk=vga
1299			earlyprintk=sclp
1300			earlyprintk=xen
1301			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1302			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1303			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1304			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1305			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1306			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1307
1308			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1309			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1310			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1311
1312			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1313			takes over.
1314
1315			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1316			be used at a time.
1317
1318			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1319			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1320			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1321			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1322				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1323			You can find the port for a given device in
1324			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1325				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1326
1327			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1328			very good.
1329
1330			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1331			the real console.
1332
1333			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1334
1335			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1336
1337			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1338			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1339			UART class.
1340
1341	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1342			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1343			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1344			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1345			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1346			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1347			default: on.
1348
1349	edd=		[EDD]
1350			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1351
1352	efi=		[EFI]
1353			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1354				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1355				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1356			debug: enable misc debug output.
1357			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1358			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1359			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1360			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1361			firmware implementations.
1362			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1363			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1364			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1365			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1366			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1367			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1368			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1369			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1370			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1371			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1372
1373	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1374			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1375			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1376			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1377			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1378
1379	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1380			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1381			updating original EFI memory map.
1382			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1383			from ss to ss+nn.
1384
1385			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1386			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1387			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1388			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1389
1390			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1391			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1392			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1393
1394			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1395			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1396			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1397			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1398			"soft reserved".
1399
1400	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1401			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1402			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1403			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1404			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1405
1406
1407	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1408			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1409
1410	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1411			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1412
1413			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1414			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1415
1416			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1417			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1418			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1419			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1420
1421	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1422			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1423			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1424
1425	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1426			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1427			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1428			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1429			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1430
1431	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1432			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1433			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1434			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1435
1436	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1437			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1438			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1439			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1440			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1441
1442	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1443			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1444			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1445			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1446			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1447			Default value is 0.
1448			Value can be changed at runtime via
1449			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1450
1451	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1452			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1453			support.
1454
1455	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1456			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1457			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1458
1459	evm=		[EVM]
1460			Format: { "fix" }
1461			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1462			current integrity status.
1463
1464	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1465			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1466			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1467			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1468			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1469			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1470			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1471
1472	failslab=
1473	fail_usercopy=
1474	fail_page_alloc=
1475	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1476			General fault injection mechanism.
1477			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1478			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1479
1480	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1481			Format: { initns | none }
1482			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1483			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1484
1485	floppy=		[HW]
1486			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1487
1488	force_pal_cache_flush
1489			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1490			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1491			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1492			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1493
1494	forcepae	[X86-32]
1495			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1496			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1497			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1498			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1499			and may cause unknown problems.
1500
1501	ftrace=[tracer]
1502			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1503			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1504			boot debugging.
1505
1506	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1507			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1508			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1509			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1510			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1511			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1512			start up functionality.
1513
1514			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1515			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1516			line parameter.
1517
1518			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1519
1520			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1521			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1522
1523	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1524			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1525			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1526			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1527			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1528			oops.
1529
1530	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1531			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1532			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1533			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1534			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1535			tracing directory.
1536
1537	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1538			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1539			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1540			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1541			tracing directory.
1542
1543	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1544			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1545			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1546			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1547			that can be changed at run time by the
1548			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1549
1550	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1551			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1552			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1553			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1554			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1555
1556	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1557			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1558			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1559			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1560			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1561
1562	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1563			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1564			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1565			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1566			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1567			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1568			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1569			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1570			suppliers).
1571			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1572			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1573			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1574				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1575				up (sync_state() calls).
1576			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1577				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1578			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1579
1580	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1581			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1582			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1583			Format: <bool>
1584
1585	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1586			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1587			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1588			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1589			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1590
1591	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1592
1593	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1594			Format: off | on
1595			default: on
1596
1597	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1598			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1599			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1600			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1601			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1602
1603	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1604			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1605			android emulator
1606
1607	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1608			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1609			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1610	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1611			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1612
1613	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1614			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1615			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1616			GPT to be used instead.
1617
1618	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1619			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1620			Format: 0 | 1
1621			Default: 0
1622	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1623			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1624			Format: 0 | 1
1625			Default: 0
1626	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1627			Format: 0 | 1
1628			Default: 0
1629	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1630			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1631			Default: 1024
1632	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1633			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1634			Default: 1024
1635
1636	hardened_usercopy=
1637			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1638			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1639			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1640			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1641			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1642			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1643			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1644		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1645		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1646
1647	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1648			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1649			backtraces on all cpus.
1650			Format: 0 | 1
1651
1652	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1653			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1654			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1655			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1656
1657	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1658
1659	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1660			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1661
1662	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1663			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1664			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1665			logic will be disabled.
1666
1667	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1668		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1669				present during boot.
1670		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1671		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1672		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1673				(that will set all pages holding image data
1674				during restoration read-only).
1675
1676	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1677			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1678			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1679			size on bigger boxes.
1680
1681	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1682			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1683			Default: "on"
1684
1685	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1686
1687	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1688			Format: <string>
1689			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1690			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1691			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1692			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1693			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1694			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1695			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1696			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1697			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1698			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1699
1700	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1701			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1702				verbose }
1703			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1704			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1705				VIA, nVidia)
1706			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1707
1708	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1709			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1710
1711	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1712			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1713			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1714			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1715			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1716			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1717			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1718			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1719			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1720				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1721
1722	hugepagesz=
1723			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1724			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1725			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1726			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1727			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1728			architecture dependent.  See also
1729			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1730			Format: size[KMG]
1731
1732	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1733			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1734			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1735			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1736				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1737
1738			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1739			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1740			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1741
1742	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1743			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1744			enabled.
1745			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1746			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1747			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1748			Format: { on | off (default) }
1749
1750			on: enable HVO
1751			off: disable HVO
1752
1753			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1754			the default is on.
1755
1756			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1757			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1758			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1759			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1760			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1761
1762	hung_task_panic=
1763			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1764			Format: 0 | 1
1765
1766			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1767			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1768			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1769			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1770			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1771
1772	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1773				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1774	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1775				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1776				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1777
1778	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1779				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1780				      guest on lock contention.
1781
1782	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1783				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1784				registered from board initialization code.
1785				Format:
1786				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1787
1788	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1789	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1790			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1791			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1792			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1793	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1794	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1795			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1796			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1797	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1798	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1799	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1800			     for the AUX port
1801	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1802			     controller
1803	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1804			     controllers
1805	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1806	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1807			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1808			     transitions, or never reset
1809			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1810			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1811			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1812			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1813			architectures force reset to be always executed
1814	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1815	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1816	i8042.probe_defer
1817			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1818
1819	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1820
1821	i915.invert_brightness=
1822			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1823			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1824			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1825			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1826			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1827			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1828			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1829			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1830			value switches the backlight off.
1831			-1 -- never invert brightness
1832			 0 -- machine default
1833			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1834
1835	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1836			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1837
1838
1839	idle=		[X86]
1840			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1841			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1842			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1843			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1844			Not recommended.
1845			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1846			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1847			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1848
1849	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1850			Format: <bool>
1851			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1852			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1853			true (1).
1854
1855	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1856			Format: <bool>
1857			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1858			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1859
1860	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1861			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1862			Default: strict
1863
1864			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1865			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1866			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1867			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1868			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1869			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1870			encoding mode.
1871
1872			Available settings are as follows:
1873			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1874				supported by the FPU
1875			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1876				by the FPU
1877			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1878				by the FPU
1879			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1880				supported by the FPU
1881
1882			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1883			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1884			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1885			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1886			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1887			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1888			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1889			MIPS64 CPUs.
1890
1891			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1892			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1893			except where unsupported by hardware.
1894
1895	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1896			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1897			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1898			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1899			could change it dynamically, usually by
1900			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1901
1902	ignore_rlimit_data
1903			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1904			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1905			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1906
1907	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1908			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1909
1910	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1911			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1912			default: "enforce"
1913
1914	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1915			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1916			owned by uid=0.
1917
1918	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1919			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1920			measurements, instead of host native format.
1921
1922	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1923			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1924				   | sha512 | ... }
1925			default: "sha1"
1926
1927			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1928			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1929
1930	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1931			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1932			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1933				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1934
1935			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1936			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1937			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1938			uid=0.
1939
1940			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1941			all files owned by root.
1942
1943			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1944			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1945			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1946
1947			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1948			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1949			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1950			flag.
1951
1952			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1953			critical data.
1954
1955	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1956			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1957			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1958			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1959			opened for read by uid=0.
1960
1961	ima_template=	[IMA]
1962			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1963			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1964				   "ima-sigv2" }
1965			Default: "ima-ng"
1966
1967	ima_template_fmt=
1968			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1969			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1970
1971	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1972			Format: <min_file_size>
1973			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1974			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1975
1976			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1977			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1978			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1979
1980	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1981			Format: <bufsize>
1982			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1983
1984			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1985			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1986			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1987
1988	init=		[KNL]
1989			Format: <full_path>
1990			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1991			process.
1992
1993	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1994			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1995			startup.
1996
1997	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1998			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1999			modules and initcalls.
2000
2001	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2002			Format: <bool>
2003			Default: 1
2004			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2005			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2006			with devices being probed and
2007			initialized. This should normally just work,
2008			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2009			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2010			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2011			late_ initcalls.
2012
2013	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2014
2015	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2016			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2017			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2018			setting.
2019			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2020			Default is 0, 0
2021
2022	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2023			zeroes.
2024			Format: 0 | 1
2025			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2026
2027	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2028			Format: 0 | 1
2029			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2030
2031	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2032			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2033			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2034			override in debugfs after boot.
2035
2036	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2037			Format: <irq>
2038
2039	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2040
2041	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2042			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2043			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2044			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2045
2046	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2047		on
2048			Enable intel iommu driver.
2049		off
2050			Disable intel iommu driver.
2051		igfx_off [Default Off]
2052			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2053			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2054			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2055			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2056			DMA.
2057		strict [Default Off]
2058			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2059		sp_off [Default Off]
2060			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2061			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2062			not be supported.
2063		sm_on
2064			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2065			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2066			translation.
2067		sm_off
2068			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2069		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2070			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2071			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2072			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2073			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2074			mapping is enabled.
2075			Note that using this option lowers the security
2076			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2077			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2078
2079	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2080			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2081			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2082
2083	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2084			disable
2085			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2086			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2087			passive
2088			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2089			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2090			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2091			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2092			  feature.
2093			force
2094			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2095			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2096			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2097			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2098			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2099			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2100			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2101			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2102			no_hwp
2103			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2104			  if available.
2105			hwp_only
2106			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2107			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2108			support_acpi_ppc
2109			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2110			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2111			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2112			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2113			per_cpu_perf_limits
2114			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2115			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2116
2117	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2118			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2119			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2120			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2121			no_x2apic_optout
2122				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2123			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2124
2125	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2126		strict	regions from userspace.
2127		relaxed
2128
2129	iommu=		[X86]
2130		off
2131		force
2132		noforce
2133		biomerge
2134		panic
2135		nopanic
2136		merge
2137		nomerge
2138		soft
2139		pt		[X86]
2140		nopt		[X86]
2141		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2142			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2143
2144	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2145			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2146			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2147			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2148			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2149			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2150			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2151
2152	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2153			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2154			0 - Lazy mode.
2155			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2156			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2157			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2158			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2159			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2160			1 - Strict mode.
2161			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2162			  synchronously.
2163			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2164			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2165			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2166
2167	iommu.passthrough=
2168			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2169			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2170			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2171			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2172			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2173
2174	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2175			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2176			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2177
2178	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2179		0x80
2180			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2181		0xed
2182			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2183		udelay
2184			Simple two microseconds delay
2185		none
2186			No delay
2187
2188	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2189			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2190
2191	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2192			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2193
2194	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2195			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2196
2197	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2198			[ARM, ARM64]
2199			Format: <bool>
2200			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2201			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2202			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2203
2204	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2205			[ARM, ARM64]
2206			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2207			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2208			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2209			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2210			LPIs.
2211
2212	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2213			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2214			requires the kernel to be built with
2215			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2216
2217	irqfixup	[HW]
2218			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2219			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2220			firmware running.
2221
2222	irqpoll		[HW]
2223			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2224			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2225			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2226			firmware running.
2227
2228	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2229			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2230
2231	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2232			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2233			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2234
2235			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2236			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2237
2238			nohz
2239			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2240
2241			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2242			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2243			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2244			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2245			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2246
2247			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2248			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2249			  be configured manually after bootup.
2250
2251			domain
2252			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2253			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2254			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2255			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2256			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2257			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2258			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2259			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2260
2261			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2262			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2263			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2264			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2265
2266			managed_irq
2267
2268			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2269			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2270			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2271			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2272			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2273
2274			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2275			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2276			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2277			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2278			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2279			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2280			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2281
2282			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2283			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2284			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2285			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2286			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2287			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2288			  queues.
2289
2290			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2291
2292	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2293
2294	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2295			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2296			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2297			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2298
2299			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2300			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2301			write the parameter as:
2302				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2303
2304			Deprecated formats:
2305			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2306			  write the parameter as:
2307				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2308			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2309			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2310				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2311
2312	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2313			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2314			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2315			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2316
2317			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2318			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2319			write the parameter as:
2320				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2321
2322			Deprecated formats:
2323			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2324			  write the parameter as:
2325				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2326			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2327			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2328				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2329
2330	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2331			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2332			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2333			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2334
2335			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2336			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2337			write the parameter as:
2338				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2339
2340			Deprecated formats:
2341			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2342			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2343				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2344			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2345			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2346				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2347
2348	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2349			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2350
2351	kasan_multi_shot
2352			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2353			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2354			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2355			invalid access.
2356
2357	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2358			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2359			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2360			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2361			the real console.
2362
2363	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2364
2365	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2366			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2367			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2368			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2369			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2370			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2371			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2372			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2373			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2374			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2375
2376			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2377			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2378			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2379			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2380			zone if it does not.
2381
2382			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2383			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2384			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2385			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2386			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2387			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2388			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2389
2390	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2391			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2392			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2393			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2394			optional and is the number seconds in between
2395			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2396			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2397			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2398			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2399			the kernel debugger.
2400
2401	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2402			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2403			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2404			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2405			 keyboard only format: kbd
2406			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2407			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2408			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2409			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2410
2411	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2412			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2413			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2414			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2415			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2416			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2417			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2418
2419			The name of the early console should be specified
2420			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2421			the early console might be different than the tty
2422			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2423			blank and the first boot console that implements
2424			read() will be picked.
2425
2426	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2427			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2428
2429	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2430			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2431			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2432
2433	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2434			Valid arguments: on, off
2435			Default: on
2436			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2437			the default is off.
2438
2439	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2440			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2441			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2442			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2443			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2444			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2445			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2446
2447			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2448
2449			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2450			Boot Parameter" section.
2451
2452	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2453			and kernel address spaces.
2454			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2455			0: force disabled
2456			1: force enabled
2457
2458	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2459			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2460			default value can be overridden via
2461			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2462			Default is 1 (enabled)
2463
2464	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2465			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2466
2467	kvm.eager_page_split=
2468			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2469			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2470			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2471			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2472			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2473			required to split huge pages lazily.
2474
2475			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2476			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2477			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2478			still be used for reads.
2479
2480			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2481			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2482			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2483			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2484			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2485			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2486			cleared.
2487
2488			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2489
2490			Default is Y (on).
2491
2492	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2493				   Default is false (don't support).
2494
2495	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2496			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2497			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2498			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2499			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2500			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2501				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2502
2503			Default is 'auto'.
2504
2505			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2506			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2507
2508	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2509			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2510			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2511			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2512			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2513
2514	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2515			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2516			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2517			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2518			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2519			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2520
2521	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2522			Default is 1 (enabled)
2523
2524	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2525			for all guests.
2526			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2527
2528	kvm-arm.mode=
2529			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2530
2531			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2532
2533			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2534			      protected guests.
2535
2536			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2537				   state is kept private from the host.
2538
2539			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2540				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2541				hardware.
2542
2543			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2544			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2545			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2546			used with extreme caution.
2547
2548	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2549			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2550			system registers
2551
2552	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2553			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2554			system registers
2555
2556	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2557			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2558			system registers
2559
2560	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2561			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2562			LPIs.
2563
2564	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2565			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2566			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2567			allocation.
2568			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2569			Format: <integer>
2570			Default: 5
2571
2572	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2573			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2574			Default is 1 (enabled)
2575
2576	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2577			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2578			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2579			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2580			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2581			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2582			Default is 1 (enabled)
2583
2584	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2585			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2586			Default is 1 (enabled)
2587
2588	kvm-intel.nested=
2589			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2590			Default is 0 (disabled)
2591
2592	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2593			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2594			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2595			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2596
2597	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2598			CVE-2018-3620.
2599
2600			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2601
2602			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2603			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2604				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2605			never:	Disables the mitigation
2606
2607			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2608
2609	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2610			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2611			Default is 1 (enabled)
2612
2613	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2614			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2615
2616			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2617			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2618			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2619
2620			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2621			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2622			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2623			not have direct access.
2624
2625			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2626			options are:
2627
2628			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2629
2630	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2631			      affected CPUs
2632
2633			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2634			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2635
2636			full
2637				Provides all available mitigations for the
2638				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2639				enables all mitigations in the
2640				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2641
2642				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2643				sysfs interface is still possible after
2644				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2645				when the first VM is started in a
2646				potentially insecure configuration,
2647				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2648
2649			full,force
2650				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2651				flush runtime control. Implies the
2652				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2653				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2654
2655			flush
2656				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2657				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2658				L1D flush.
2659
2660				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2661				sysfs interface is still possible after
2662				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2663				when the first VM is started in a
2664				potentially insecure configuration,
2665				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2666
2667			flush,nosmt
2668
2669				Disables SMT and enables the default
2670				hypervisor mitigation.
2671
2672				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2673				sysfs interface is still possible after
2674				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2675				when the first VM is started in a
2676				potentially insecure configuration,
2677				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2678
2679			flush,nowarn
2680				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2681				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2682				insecure configuration.
2683
2684			off
2685				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2686				emit any warnings.
2687				It also drops the swap size and available
2688				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2689				bare metal.
2690
2691			Default is 'flush'.
2692
2693			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2694
2695	l2cr=		[PPC]
2696
2697	l3cr=		[PPC]
2698
2699	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2700			disabled it.
2701
2702	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2703			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2704			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2705			Format: notscdeadline
2706
2707	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2708			in C2 power state.
2709
2710	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2711			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2712			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2713			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2714			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2715			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2716			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2717
2718	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2719			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2720			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2721
2722	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2723			when set.
2724			Format: <int>
2725
2726	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2727			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2728			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2729			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2730			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2731			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2732			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2733			to all ports, links and devices.
2734
2735			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2736			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2737			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2738			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2739			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2740			host link and device attached to it.
2741
2742			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2743			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2744			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2745			The following configurations can be forced.
2746
2747			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2748			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2749
2750			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2751
2752			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2753			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2754			  allowed.
2755
2756			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2757			  resets.
2758
2759			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2760			  link recovery.
2761
2762			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2763			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2764			  detection.
2765
2766			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2767
2768			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2769
2770			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2771
2772			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2773
2774			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2775
2776			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2777
2778			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2779
2780			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2781
2782			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2783			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2784
2785			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2786			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2787
2788			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2789			  identify device data log.
2790
2791			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2792			  purpose log directory.
2793
2794			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2795
2796			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2797			  1024 sectors.
2798
2799			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2800			  65535 sectors.
2801
2802			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2803
2804			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2805			  should be skipped.
2806
2807			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2808			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2809
2810			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2811
2812			* disable: Disable this device.
2813
2814			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2815			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2816
2817	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2818
2819	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2820			Format: <integer>
2821
2822	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2823			Format: <integer>
2824
2825	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2826			Format: <integer>
2827
2828	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2829			Format: <integer>
2830
2831	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2832			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2833			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2834			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2835			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2836			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2837			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2838			are also disabled.
2839
2840	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2841			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2842			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2843			number of online CPUs.
2844
2845	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2846			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2847
2848	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2849			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2850
2851	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2852			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2853			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2854
2855	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2856			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2857			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2858			mode during the locktorture test.
2859
2860	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2861			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2862			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2863
2864	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2865			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2866
2867	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2868			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2869			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2870			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2871			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2872			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2873
2874	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2875			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2876
2877	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2878			Enable additional printk() statements.
2879
2880	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2881			Format: <irq>
2882
2883	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2884			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2885			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2886			loglevels are defined as follows:
2887
2888			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2889			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2890			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2891			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2892			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2893			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2894			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2895			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2896
2897	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2898			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2899			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2900			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2901			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2902			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2903			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2904
2905	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2906			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2907			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2908			kernel boot problems.
2909
2910	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2911	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2912	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2913	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2914				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2915				attached printers to be reset. Using
2916				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2917				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2918				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2919				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2920				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2921				port specification list means that device IDs
2922				from each port should be examined, to see if
2923				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2924				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2925				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2926
2927	lpj=n		[KNL]
2928			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2929			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2930			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2931			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2932			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2933			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2934			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2935			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2936			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2937			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2938			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2939			hardware.
2940
2941	ltpc=		[NET]
2942			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2943
2944	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2945
2946	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2947			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2948			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2949
2950	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2951			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2952			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2953
2954	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2955			different yeeloong laptops.
2956			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2957
2958	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2959			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2960
2961	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2962			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2963			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2964			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2965			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2966			only takes effect during system bootup.
2967			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2968			which also disables the IO APIC.
2969
2970	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2971	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2972			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2973			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2974			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2975			/dev/loop-control interface.
2976
2977	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2978
2979	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2980
2981	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2982			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2983
2984	mdacon=		[MDA]
2985			Format: <first>,<last>
2986			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2987
2988	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2989			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2990			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2991
2992			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2993			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2994			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2995
2996			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2997			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2998			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2999			not have direct access.
3000
3001			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3002			options are:
3003
3004			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3005			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3006				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3007			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3008
3009			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3010			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3011			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3012			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3013			too.
3014
3015			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3016			mds=full.
3017
3018			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3019
3020	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3021			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3022
3023	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3024			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3025
3026			1 for test;
3027			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3028			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3029			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3030			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3031
3032			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3033			high memory is not affected.
3034
3035			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3036			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3037
3038			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3039			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3040			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3041			belonging to unused RAM.
3042
3043			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3044			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3045			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3046
3047	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3048			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3049			firmware.
3050			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3051			ss[KMG].
3052			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3053			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3054
3055	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3056			memory.
3057
3058	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3059
3060	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3061			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3062			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3063
3064	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3065			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3066			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3067			set according to the
3068			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3069			option.
3070			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3071
3072	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3073			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3074			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3075			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3076			option description.
3077
3078	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3079			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3080			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3081			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3082			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3083			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3084			comma delimited.
3085			Example:
3086				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3087
3088	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3089			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3090			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3091
3092	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3093			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3094			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3095			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3096			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3097			         or
3098			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3099			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3100			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3101			will be eaten.
3102
3103	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3104			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3105			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3106			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3107			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3108
3109	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3110			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3111			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3112			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3113			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3114			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3115			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3116			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3117
3118	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3119			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3120			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3121			Setting this option will scan the memory
3122			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3123			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3124			from using the memory being corrupted.
3125			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3126			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3127			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3128			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3129
3130	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3131			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3132			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3133			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3134			corruption in more or less memory.
3135
3136	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3137			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3138			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3139			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3140
3141	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3142			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3143			Format: {on | off (default)}
3144			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3145			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3146			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3147			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3148			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3149			lot of memory without requiring additional
3150			memory to do so.
3151			This feature is disabled by default because it
3152			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3153			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3154			memory blocks).
3155			The state of the flag can be read in
3156			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3157			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3158			the feature is not effective.
3159
3160	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3161			Format: <integer>
3162			default : 0 <disable>
3163			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3164			performed. Each pass selects another test
3165			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3166			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3167			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3168			regions that are detected.
3169
3170	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3171			Valid arguments: on, off
3172			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3173			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3174			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3175			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3176			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3177
3178			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3179			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3180
3181	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3182			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3183			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3184			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3185			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3186
3187	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3188			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3189
3190	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3191			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3192			platforms.
3193
3194	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3195			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3196			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3197			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3198
3199	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3200
3201	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3202			physical address is ignored.
3203
3204	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3205			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3206			Default: "0tb"
3207			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3208			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3209			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3210			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3211			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3212			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3213			unconfigured.
3214			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3215			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3216			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3217			VGA shield.
3218			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3219			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3220			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3221			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3222			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3223			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3224
3225	mitigations=
3226			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3227			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3228			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3229			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3230
3231			off
3232				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3233				improves system performance, but it may also
3234				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3235				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3236					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3237					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3238					       nobp=0 [S390]
3239					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3240					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3241					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3242					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3243					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3244					       l1tf=off [X86]
3245					       mds=off [X86]
3246					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3247					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3248					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3249					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3250					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3251					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3252					       retbleed=off [X86]
3253
3254				Exceptions:
3255					       This does not have any effect on
3256					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3257					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3258
3259			auto (default)
3260				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3261				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3262				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3263				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3264				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3265				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3266
3267			auto,nosmt
3268				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3269				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3270				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3271				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3272					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3273					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3274					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3275					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3276
3277	mminit_loglevel=
3278			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3279			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3280			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3281			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3282			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3283			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3284
3285	mmio_stale_data=
3286			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3287			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3288
3289			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3290			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3291			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3292			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3293			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3294			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3295
3296			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3297			options are:
3298
3299			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3300
3301			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3302				     vulnerable CPUs.
3303
3304			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3305
3306			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3307			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3308			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3309			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3310			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3311			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3312
3313			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3314			mmio_stale_data=full.
3315
3316			For details see:
3317			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3318
3319	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3320			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3321			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3322			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3323			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3324			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3325
3326	module.async_probe=<bool>
3327			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3328			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3329			specific module, use the module specific control that
3330			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3331			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3332			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3333			the specific module.
3334
3335	module.sig_enforce
3336			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3337			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3338			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3339			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3340
3341	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3342			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3343
3344	mousedev.tap_time=
3345			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3346			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3347			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3348			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3349			Format: <msecs>
3350	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3351			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3352	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3353			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3354
3355	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3356			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3357			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3358			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3359			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3360			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3361			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3362			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3363			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3364			is not too small.
3365
3366	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3367			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3368			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3369			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3370			allocations. Use with caution!
3371
3372	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3373			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3374
3375	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3376			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3377
3378	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3379			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3380
3381	mtdset=		[ARM]
3382			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3383
3384			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3385
3386	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3387			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3388			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3389
3390	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3391			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3392			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3393
3394	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3395			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3396			Default is 1.
3397			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3398			using up MTRRs.
3399
3400	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3401			Format: <integer>
3402			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3403			Default : 1
3404			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3405			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3406
3407	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3408			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3409			at a time.
3410
3411	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3412
3413	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3414			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3415			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3416			something different and driver-specific.
3417			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3418			file if at all.
3419
3420	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3421			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3422			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3423			waits 4 seconds.
3424
3425	nf_conntrack.acct=
3426			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3427			0 to disable accounting
3428			1 to enable accounting
3429			Default value is 0.
3430
3431	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3432			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3433
3434	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3435			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3436
3437	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3438			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3439
3440	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3441			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3442			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3443			requests.
3444
3445	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3446			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3447			channel should listen.
3448
3449	nfs.cache_getent=
3450			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3451			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3452
3453	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3454			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3455			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3456
3457	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3458			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3459			entries.
3460
3461	nfs.enable_ino64=
3462			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3463			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3464			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3465			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3466			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3467
3468	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3469			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3470			slots the client will assign to the callback
3471			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3472			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3473			a particular server.
3474
3475	nfs.max_session_slots=
3476			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3477			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3478			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3479			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3480			Note that there is little point in setting this
3481			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3482
3483	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3484			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3485			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3486			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3487			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3488			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3489			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3490			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3491			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3492			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3493			back to using the idmapper.
3494			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3495	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3496			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3497			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3498			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3499			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3500
3501	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3502			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3503			information in exchange_id requests.
3504			If zero, no implementation identification information
3505			will be sent.
3506			The default is to send the implementation identification
3507			information.
3508
3509	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3510			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3511			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3512			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3513			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3514			after the locks are lost.
3515			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3516			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3517			parameter to '1'.
3518			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3519			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3520
3521	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3522			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3523			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3524
3525			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3526			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3527			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3528			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3529
3530	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3531			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3532			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3533			the destination of the copy.
3534
3535	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3536			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3537			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3538			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3539			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3540			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3541			this parameter.
3542
3543	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3544			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3545			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3546			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3547			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3548			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3549
3550
3551	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3552			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3553			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3554
3555	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3556			when a NMI is triggered.
3557			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3558
3559	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3560			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3561			Valid num: 0 or 1
3562			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3563			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3564			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3565			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3566			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3567			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3568			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3569			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3570			need the box quickly up again.
3571
3572			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3573			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3574
3575	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3576			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3577			is present.
3578
3579	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3580			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3581
3582	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3583			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3584
3585	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3586
3587	no_console_suspend
3588			[HW] Never suspend the console
3589			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3590			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3591			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3592			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3593			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3594			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3595			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3596			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3597			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3598			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3599			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3600			turn on/off it dynamically.
3601
3602	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3603			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3604			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3605			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3606			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3607			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3608			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3609			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3610			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3611			is set.
3612
3613	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3614			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3615			but will impact performance.
3616
3617	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3618
3619	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3620			(CPU alternatives feature).
3621
3622	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3623			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3624
3625	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3626
3627	nocache		[ARM]
3628
3629	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3630
3631	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3632
3633	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3634
3635	noexec		[IA-64]
3636
3637	nosmap		[PPC]
3638			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3639			even if it is supported by processor.
3640
3641	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3642			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3643			even if it is supported by processor.
3644
3645	noexec32	[X86-64]
3646			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3647			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3648				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3649			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3650				read implies executable mappings
3651
3652	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3653
3654	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3655			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3656			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3657
3658	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3659
3660	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3661
3662	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3663			Equivalent to smt=1.
3664
3665			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3666			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3667				     via the sysfs control file.
3668
3669	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3670			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3671			possible in the system.
3672
3673	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3674			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3675			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3676			option.
3677
3678	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3679			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3680			with this option.
3681
3682	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3683			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3684
3685	no_uaccess_flush
3686	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3687
3688	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3689			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3690			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3691
3692	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3693			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3694			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3695			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3696			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3697			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3698
3699	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3700			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3701			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3702			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3703			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3704			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3705			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3706
3707	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3708			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3709			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3710			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3711			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3712			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3713			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3714			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3715
3716	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3717			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3718			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3719
3720	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3721			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3722			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3723			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3724			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3725			real-time systems.
3726
3727	no_hash_pointers
3728			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3729			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3730			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3731			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3732			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3733			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3734			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3735			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3736			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3737			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3738			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3739			kernels.
3740
3741	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3742
3743	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3744			Valid arguments: on, off
3745			Default: on
3746
3747	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3748			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3749			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3750			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3751			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3752			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3753			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3754			just as if they had also been called out in the
3755			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3756
3757			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3758			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3759
3760	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3761
3762	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3763			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3764
3765	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3766			broken timer IRQ sources.
3767
3768	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3769
3770	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3771			initial RAM disk.
3772
3773	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3774			remapping.
3775			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3776
3777	nointroute	[IA-64]
3778
3779	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3780
3781	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3782
3783	nokaslr		[KNL]
3784			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3785			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3786			Layout Randomization).
3787
3788	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3789
3790	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3791			fault handling.
3792
3793	no-vmw-sched-clock
3794			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3795			clock and use the default one.
3796
3797	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3798			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3799			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3800
3801	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3802
3803	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3804
3805	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3806
3807	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3808
3809	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3810			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3811
3812	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3813			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3814			irq.
3815
3816	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3817			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3818			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3819			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3820			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3821			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3822			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3823
3824			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3825
3826	nomodule	Disable module load
3827
3828	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3829			pagetables) support.
3830
3831	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3832
3833	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3834			in some Intel CPUs.
3835
3836	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3837			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3838			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3839			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3840
3841	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3842			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3843			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3844			contention.
3845
3846	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3847			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3848
3849	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3850			with UP alternatives
3851
3852	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3853			space.
3854
3855	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3856			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3857			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3858
3859	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3860
3861	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3862
3863	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3864			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3865
3866	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3867
3868	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3869
3870	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3871			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3872
3873	nowb		[ARM]
3874
3875	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3876
3877			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3878			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3879			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3880
3881	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3882			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3883			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3884			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3885			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3886			parameter's value.
3887			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3888			Default: 255
3889
3890	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3891			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3892			SAL PALO.
3893
3894	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3895			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3896			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3897			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3898			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3899			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3900			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3901			hot plugging.
3902
3903	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3904
3905	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3906			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3907
3908	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3909			NUMA balancing.
3910			Allowed values are enable and disable
3911
3912	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3913			'node', 'default' can be specified
3914			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3915			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3916
3917	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3918			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3919			info.
3920
3921	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3922			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3923			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3924			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3925			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3926			interrupts *may* be lost!
3927
3928	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3929			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3930			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3931			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3932
3933	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3934
3935			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3936
3937			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3938				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3939			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3940				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3941				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3942
3943	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3944			process, but there is a small probability of
3945			deadlocking the machine.
3946			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3947			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3948
3949	page_alloc.shuffle=
3950			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3951			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3952			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3953			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3954			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3955			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3956			can be read from sysfs at:
3957			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3958
3959	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3960			Storage of the information about who allocated
3961			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3962			we can turn it on.
3963			on: enable the feature
3964
3965	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3966			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3967			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3968			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3969			on: turn on poisoning
3970
3971	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3972			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3973			Format: <integer>
3974			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3975			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3976
3977	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3978			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3979			timeout = 0: wait forever
3980			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3981			Format: <timeout>
3982
3983	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3984			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3985			bit 0: print all tasks info
3986			bit 1: print system memory info
3987			bit 2: print timer info
3988			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3989			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3990			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3991			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3992			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3993			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3994			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3995			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3996
3997	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3998			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3999			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4000			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4001			called with any of the flags in this set.
4002			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4003			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4004			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4005			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4006			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4007			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4008			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4009
4010	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4011			on a WARN().
4012
4013	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4014			connected to, default is 0.
4015			Format: <parport#>
4016	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4017			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4018			Format: <mode>
4019
4020	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4021			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4022			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4023			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4024			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4025			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4026			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4027			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4028			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4029			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4030			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4031			are specified on the command line, starting
4032			with parport0.
4033
4034	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4035			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4036			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4037			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4038			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4039			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4040			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4041
4042	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4043			Format: <int>
4044			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4045			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4046			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4047
4048	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4049			Format: <int>
4050			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4051			changes.  Disabled by default.
4052
4053	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4054			Format: <int>
4055			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4056			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4057			Disabled by default.
4058
4059	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4060			Format: <int>
4061			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4062			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4063			Disabled by default.
4064
4065	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4066			Format: <int>
4067			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4068			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4069			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4070			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4071			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4072			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4073			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4074			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4075			all channels.
4076
4077	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4078			Format: <int>
4079			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4080			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4081			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4082
4083	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4084			Format: <int>
4085			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4086			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4087			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4088
4089	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4090			Format: <int>
4091			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4092			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4093			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4094			All modes allowed by default.
4095
4096	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4097			Format: <int>
4098			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4099			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4100
4101	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4102			Format: <int>
4103			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4104			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4105			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4106			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4107			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4108			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4109			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4110			By default all supported ports are probed.
4111
4112	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4113			Format: <int>
4114			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4115			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4116
4117	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4118			Format: <int>
4119			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4120			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4121			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4122			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4123			0 otherwise.
4124
4125	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4126			Format: <int>
4127			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4128			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4129			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4130			allowed by default.
4131
4132	pause_on_oops=
4133			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4134			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4135			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4136
4137	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4138
4139	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4140
4141				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4142				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4143				specified in one of the following formats:
4144
4145				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4146				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4147
4148				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4149				bus/device/function address which may change
4150				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4151				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4152				by other kernel parameters. If the
4153				domain is left unspecified, it is
4154				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4155				to a device through multiple device/function
4156				addresses can be specified after the base
4157				address (this is more robust against
4158				renumbering issues).  The second format
4159				selects devices using IDs from the
4160				configuration space which may match multiple
4161				devices in the system.
4162
4163		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4164				changes anything
4165		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4166		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4167				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4168				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4169		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4170				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4171				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4172				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4173		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4174				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4175				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4176		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4177				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4178				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4179				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4180				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4181				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4182				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4183		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4184				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4185				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4186		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4187				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4188		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4189				Configuration
4190		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4191				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4192				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4193		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4194				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4195				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4196		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4197				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4198				should never be necessary.
4199		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4200				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4201				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4202				when the system masks IRQs.
4203		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4204				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4205				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4206				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4207		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4208				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4209				on several machines and they hang the machine
4210				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4211				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4212				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4213				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4214				motherboard.
4215		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4216				Use with caution as certain devices share
4217				address decoders between ROMs and other
4218				resources.
4219		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4220				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4221				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4222		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4223				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4224		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4225				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4226				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4227				this way.
4228		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4229				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4230				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4231				F0000h-100000h range.
4232		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4233				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4234				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4235				explicitly which ones they are.
4236		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4237				numbers ourselves, overriding
4238				whatever the firmware may have done.
4239		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4240				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4241				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4242				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4243				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4244				IRQ routing is enabled.
4245		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4246				or for PCI scanning.
4247		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4248				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4249				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4250				please report a bug.
4251		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4252				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4253		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4254				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4255				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4256				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4257				<[email protected]>.
4258		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4259				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4260				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4261				a bug to <[email protected]>.
4262		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4263				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4264				so this option is a temporary workaround
4265				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4266		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4267				handle more pci cards
4268		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4269				This might help on some broken boards which
4270				machine check when some devices' config space
4271				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4272				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4273		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4274				This sorting is done to get a device
4275				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4276		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4277		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4278				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4279		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4280				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4281		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4282				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4283				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4284				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4285				or bus can support) for best performance.
4286		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4287				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4288				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4289				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4290				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4291				that hot-added devices will work.
4292		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4293				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4294				The default value is 256 bytes.
4295		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4296				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4297				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4298		resource_alignment=
4299				Format:
4300				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4301				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4302				aligned memory resources. How to
4303				specify the device is described above.
4304				If <order of align> is not specified,
4305				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4306				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4307				windows need to be expanded.
4308				To specify the alignment for several
4309				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4310				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4311				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4312				for 4096-byte alignment.
4313		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4314				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4315				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4316				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4317				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4318				the default.
4319				off: Turn ECRC off
4320				on: Turn ECRC on.
4321		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4322				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4323				Default size is 256 bytes.
4324		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4325				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4326				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4327		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4328				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4329				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4330		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4331				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4332				MMIO_PREF window.
4333				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4334		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4335				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4336				Default is 1.
4337		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4338				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4339				accommodate resources required by all child
4340				devices.
4341				off: Turn realloc off
4342				on: Turn realloc on
4343		realloc		same as realloc=on
4344		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4345		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4346				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4347		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4348				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4349				port.
4350		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4351				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4352				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4353				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4354				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4355				taints the kernel.
4356		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4357				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4358				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4359				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4360				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4361				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4362				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4363				this removes isolation between devices and
4364				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4365		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4366		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4367		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4368				one PCI domain per PCI function
4369
4370	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4371			Management.
4372		off	Disable ASPM.
4373		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4374			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4375
4376	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4377		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4378			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4379			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4380			also tries to use these services.
4381		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4382				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4383		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4384			hotplug).
4385
4386	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4387		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4388		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4389
4390	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4391		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4392			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4393
4394	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4395
4396	pd_ignore_unused
4397			[PM]
4398			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4399			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4400			for debug and development, but should not be
4401			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4402
4403	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4404			boot time.
4405			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4406			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4407
4408	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4409			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4410			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4411			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4412			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4413			and performance comparison.
4414
4415	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4416			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4417
4418	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4419			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4420			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4421
4422	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4423			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4424			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4425
4426	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4427			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4428			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4429			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4430			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4431			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4432			remains 0.
4433
4434	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4435			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4436
4437	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4438			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4439			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4440			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4441			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4442			possible settings and some assignment information.
4443
4444	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4445			{ off }
4446
4447	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4448			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4449
4450	pnp_reserve_irq=
4451			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4452
4453	pnp_reserve_dma=
4454			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4455
4456	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4457			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4458
4459	pnp_reserve_mem=
4460			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4461			autoconfiguration.
4462			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4463
4464	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4465			Default is 21.
4466			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4467			may be specified.
4468			Format: <port>,<port>....
4469
4470	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4471			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4472			platform machine description specific power_save
4473			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4474			execution priority.
4475
4476	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4477			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4478			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4479			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4480			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4481
4482	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4483			Format: {"off"}
4484			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4485
4486	preempt=	[KNL]
4487			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4488			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4489			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4490			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4491			       can be preempted anytime.
4492
4493	print-fatal-signals=
4494			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4495
4496			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4497			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4498			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4499			coredump - etc.
4500
4501			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4502			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4503
4504			default: off.
4505
4506	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4507			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4508			panics
4509			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4510			default: disabled
4511
4512	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4513			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4514			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4515			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4516			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4517			in order to provide more debug information.
4518			Format: <bool>
4519			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4520
4521	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4522			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4523			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4524			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4525			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4526			Default: ratelimit
4527
4528	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4529			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4530
4531	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4532			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4533			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4534
4535	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4536			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4537			instead using the legacy FADT method
4538
4539	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4540			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4541			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4542				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4543			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4544			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4545				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4546			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4547			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4548				statistical time based profiling.
4549
4550	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4551
4552	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4553			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4554			that).
4555			Format: <bool>
4556
4557	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4558			tracking.
4559			Format: <bool>
4560
4561	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4562			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4563	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4564			per second.
4565	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4566			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4567			(0 = never).
4568	psmouse.resolution=
4569			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4570	psmouse.smartscroll=
4571			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4572			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4573
4574	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4575
4576	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4577			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4578			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4579			system calls and interrupts.
4580
4581			on   - unconditionally enable
4582			off  - unconditionally disable
4583			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4584			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4585
4586			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4587
4588	nopti		[X86-64]
4589			Equivalent to pti=off
4590
4591	pty.legacy_count=
4592			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4593			default number.
4594
4595	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4596
4597	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4598
4599	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4600			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4601			invalidate.
4602
4603	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4604			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4605
4606	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4607			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4608
4609	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4610
4611	random.trust_cpu=off
4612			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4613			random number generator (if available) to
4614			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4615
4616	random.trust_bootloader=off
4617			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4618			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4619			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4620
4621	randomize_kstack_offset=
4622			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4623			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4624			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4625			that depend on stack address determinism or
4626			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4627			available on architectures that have defined
4628			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4629			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4630			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4631
4632	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4633
4634		cec_disable	[X86]
4635				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4636				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4637
4638	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4639			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4640			as described above.
4641
4642			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4643			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4644			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4645			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4646			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4647			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4648			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4649			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4650			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4651			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4652			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4653			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4654
4655			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4656			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4657
4658			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4659			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4660			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4661			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4662
4663			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4664			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4665
4666	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4667			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4668			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4669			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4670			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4671			This improves the real-time response for the
4672			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4673			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4674			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4675			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4676
4677	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4678			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4679			process in one batch.
4680
4681	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4682			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4683			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4684			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4685
4686	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4687			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4688			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4689
4690	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4691			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4692			RCU grace-period initialization.
4693
4694	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4695			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4696			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4697			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4698			the rcu_node combining tree.
4699
4700	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4701			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4702			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4703			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4704			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4705
4706			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4707			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4708			to zero.
4709
4710	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4711			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4712			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4713			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4714			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4715
4716	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4717			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4718			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4719			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4720			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4721			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4722			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4723
4724	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4725			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4726			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4727			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4728			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4729			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4730			condition.
4731
4732	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4733			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4734			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4735			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4736
4737	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4738			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4739			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4740			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4741			and maximum value is HZ.
4742
4743	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4744			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4745			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4746			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4747
4748	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4749			Set required age in jiffies for a
4750			given grace period before RCU starts
4751			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4752			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4753			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4754			a value based on the most recent settings
4755			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4756			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4757			This calculated value may be viewed in
4758			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4759			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4760			overwritten.
4761
4762	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4763			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4764			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4765			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4766			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4767			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4768			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4769			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4770			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4771			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4772			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4773			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4774
4775	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4776			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4777			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4778			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4779			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4780			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4781			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4782			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4783
4784			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4785			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4786			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4787			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4788			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4789
4790	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4791			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4792			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4793			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4794			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4795			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4796			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4797			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4798			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4799			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4800			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4801			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4802
4803	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4804			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4805			each group, which defaults to the square root
4806			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4807			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4808			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4809			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4810
4811	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4812			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4813			batch limiting is disabled.
4814
4815	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4816			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4817			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4818
4819	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4820			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4821			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4822			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4823			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4824			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4825			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4826			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4827
4828	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4829			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4830			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4831			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4832			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4833			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4834
4835	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4836			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4837			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4838			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4839			Larger delays increase the probability of
4840			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4841			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4842			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4843
4844	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4845			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4846			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4847			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4848
4849	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4850			Measure performance of asynchronous
4851			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4852
4853	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4854			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4855			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4856			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4857			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4858			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4859
4860	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4861			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4862			grace-period primitives.
4863
4864	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4865			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4866			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4867			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4868			interference.
4869
4870	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4871			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4872
4873	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4874			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4875			If this parameter has the same value as
4876			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4877			and double-argument variants are tested.
4878
4879	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4880			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4881			If this parameter has the same value as
4882			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4883			and double-argument variants are tested.
4884
4885	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4886			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4887
4888	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4889			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4890
4891	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4892			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4893			of allocations and frees.
4894
4895	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4896			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4897			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4898			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4899			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4900			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4901			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4902			a single reader.
4903
4904	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4905			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4906			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4907			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4908
4909	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4910			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4911
4912	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4913			Shut the system down after performance tests
4914			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4915			testing.
4916
4917	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4918			Enable additional printk() statements.
4919
4920	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4921			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4922			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4923			no holdoff.
4924
4925	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4926			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4927			in microseconds.
4928
4929	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4930			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4931			in microseconds.
4932
4933	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4934			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4935			in seconds.
4936
4937	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4938			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4939			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4940			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4941			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4942			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4943			of CPUs to be used.
4944
4945	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4946			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4947			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4948
4949	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4950			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4951			forward-progress tests.
4952
4953	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4954			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4955			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4956			testing.
4957
4958	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4959			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4960			primitives, if available.
4961
4962	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4963			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4964
4965	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4966			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4967			update-side primitives, if available.
4968
4969	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4970			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4971			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4972			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4973			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4974			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4975			they are all non-zero.
4976
4977	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4978			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4979			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4980			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4981
4982	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4983			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4984			This can of course result in splats, and is
4985			intended to test the ability of things like
4986			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4987			such leaks.
4988
4989	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4990			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4991
4992	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4993			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4994			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4995			test, hence the "fake".
4996
4997	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4998			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4999			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5000
5001	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5002			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5003			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5004
5005	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5006			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5007			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5008			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5009			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5010			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5011
5012	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5013			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5014
5015	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5016			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5017
5018	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5019			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5020			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5021
5022	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5023			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5024			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5025			task-exit processing.
5026
5027	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5028			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5029			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5030			is spawned.
5031
5032	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5033			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5034			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5035
5036	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5037			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5038			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5039			during the rcutorture test.
5040
5041	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5042			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5043			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5044
5045	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5046			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5047			warnings, zero to disable.
5048
5049	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5050			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5051			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
5052			to any other stall-related activity.
5053
5054	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5055			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5056
5057	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5058			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5059
5060	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5061			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5062			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5063			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5064			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5065			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5066
5067	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5068			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5069
5070	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5071			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5072			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5073			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5074			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5075
5076	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5077			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5078			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5079			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5080
5081	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5082			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5083
5084	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5085			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5086
5087	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5088			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5089			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5090
5091	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5092			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5093
5094	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5095			Enable additional printk() statements.
5096
5097	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5098			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5099			stall warning.
5100
5101	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5102			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5103
5104	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5105			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5106			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5107			during early boot, that is, during the time
5108			before the init task is spawned.
5109
5110	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5111			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5112			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5113			value is 300 seconds.
5114
5115	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5116			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5117			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5118			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5119			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5120			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5121			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5122			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5123			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5124
5125	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5126			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5127			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5128			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5129			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5130
5131	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5132			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5133			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5134			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5135
5136	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5137			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5138			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5139			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5140			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5141			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5142			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5143
5144	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5145			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5146			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5147			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5148			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5149			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5150			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5151			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5152			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5153
5154	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5155			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5156			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5157			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5158			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5159
5160			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5161			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5162			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5163			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5164			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5165			grace-period processing.
5166
5167	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5168			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5169			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5170			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5171			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5172			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5173			set to the default value of -1.
5174
5175	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5176			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5177			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5178			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5179			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5180			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5181			the default value of -1.
5182
5183	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5184			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5185			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5186			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5187			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5188			for use in testing.
5189
5190	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5191			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5192			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5193			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5194			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5195			but lengthens grace periods.
5196
5197	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5198			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5199			informational messages, which give some indication
5200			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5201			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5202			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5203			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5204			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5205			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5206			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5207
5208	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5209			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5210			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5211			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5212			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5213			the value three, so that the first informational
5214			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5215			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5216			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5217			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5218
5219	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5220			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5221			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5222			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5223			A change in value does not take effect until
5224			the beginning of the next grace period.
5225
5226	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5227			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5228
5229	rdinit=		[KNL]
5230			Format: <full_path>
5231			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5232			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5233
5234	rdrand=		[X86]
5235			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5236				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5237				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5238				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5239				path).
5240
5241	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5242			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5243			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5244			mba, smba, bmec.
5245			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5246				rdt=cmt,!mba
5247
5248	reboot=		[KNL]
5249			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5250				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5251				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5252				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5253				[[,]f[orce]
5254			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5255					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5256					reboot only),
5257			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5258			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5259			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5260					to be used for rebooting.
5261
5262	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5263			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5264			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5265			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5266			interference.
5267
5268	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5269			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5270			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5271			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5272			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5273			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5274			x86 laptops.
5275
5276	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5277			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5278			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5279			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5280
5281	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5282			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5283			the console log.
5284
5285	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5286			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5287			measured in microseconds.
5288
5289	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5290			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5291
5292	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5293			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5294			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5295			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5296			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5297
5298	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5299			Enable additional printk() statements.
5300
5301	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5302			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5303			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5304			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5305			specified.
5306
5307	relax_domain_level=
5308			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5309			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5310
5311	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5312			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5313			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5314			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5315			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5316
5317	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5318			Format: nn[KMG]
5319			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5320			address space.
5321
5322	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5323			during initialization.
5324
5325	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5326			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5327			Format:
5328			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5329
5330	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5331			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5332			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5333			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5334			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5335
5336	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5337			read the resume files
5338
5339	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5340			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5341			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5342
5343	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5344
5345	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5346			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5347			vulnerability.
5348
5349			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5350			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5351			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5352			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5353			that don't.
5354
5355			off          - no mitigation
5356			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5357			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5358				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5359				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5360				       and older without STIBP).
5361			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5362				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5363				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5364				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5365				       on Intel.
5366			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5367				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5368				       the alternative for systems which do not
5369				       have STIBP.
5370			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5371				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5372				       systems.
5373			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5374				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5375				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5376
5377			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5378			time according to the CPU.
5379
5380			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5381
5382	rfkill.default_state=
5383		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5384			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5385		1	Unblocked.
5386
5387	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5388		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5389		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5390			blocked and the previous configuration.
5391		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5392			blocked and everything unblocked.
5393
5394	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5395			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5396
5397	ring3mwait=disable
5398			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5399			CPUs.
5400
5401	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5402
5403	rodata=		[KNL]
5404		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5405		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5406		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5407		        [arm64]
5408
5409	rockchip.usb_uart
5410			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5411			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5412			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5413			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5414
5415	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5416			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5417
5418	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5419			mount the root filesystem
5420
5421	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5422
5423	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5424
5425	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5426			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5427			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5428
5429	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5430			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5431			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5432			managed by CMA.
5433
5434	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5435
5436	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5437
5438	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5439			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5440		strict
5441			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5442			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5443			which is faster.
5444
5445	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5446			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5447			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5448			factor of the size of main memory.
5449			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5450			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5451			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5452			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5453			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5454			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5455			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5456
5457	sa1100ir	[NET]
5458			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5459
5460	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5461
5462	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5463			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5464			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5465			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5466
5467	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5468			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5469			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5470			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5471			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5472			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5473			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5474			value.
5475			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5476			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5477				1			64 ms
5478				2			128 ms
5479			and so on.
5480			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5481			Default is 0.
5482
5483	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5484			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5485			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5486			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5487			tests.
5488
5489	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5490			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5491			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5492			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5493			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5494			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5495			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5496
5497	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5498			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5499			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5500			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5501			equal to the number of CPUs.
5502
5503	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5504			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5505			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5506
5507	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5508			Number seconds to wait between successive
5509			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5510			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5511
5512	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5513			The number of seconds following the start of the
5514			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5515			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5516			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5517
5518	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5519			The number of seconds between outputting the
5520			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5521			of zero disables statistics output.
5522
5523	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5524			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5525			to the set of CPUs under test.
5526
5527	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5528			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5529			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5530			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5531			functions.
5532
5533	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5534			Enable additional printk() statements.
5535
5536	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5537			The probability weighting to use for the
5538			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5539			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5540			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5541			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5542			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5543
5544	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5545			The probability weighting to use for the
5546			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5547			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5548
5549	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5550			The probability weighting to use for the
5551			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5552			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5553			Note well that setting a high probability for
5554			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5555			on the system.
5556
5557	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5558			The probability weighting to use for the
5559			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5560			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5561			and weight_many.
5562
5563	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5564			The probability weighting to use for the
5565			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5566			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5567			weight_many.
5568
5569	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5570			The probability weighting to use for the
5571			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5572			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5573			and weight_many.
5574
5575	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5576			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5577			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5578			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5579			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5580			1 -- enable.
5581			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5582			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5583
5584	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5585			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5586			"lsm=" parameter.
5587
5588	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5589			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5590			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5591			0 -- disable.
5592			1 -- enable.
5593			Default value is 1.
5594
5595	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5596
5597	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5598
5599	shapers=	[NET]
5600			Maximal number of shapers.
5601
5602	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5603			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5604			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5605			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5606			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5607			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5608			apic=verbose is specified.
5609			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5610
5611	simeth=		[IA-64]
5612	simscsi=
5613
5614	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5615
5616	slab_merge	[MM]
5617			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5618			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5619
5620	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5621			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5622			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5623			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5624			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5625			layout control by attackers can usually be
5626			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5627			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5628			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5629			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5630			own.
5631			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5632
5633	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5634			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5635			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5636			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5637			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5638
5639	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5640			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5641			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5642			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5643			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5644			last alloc / free. For more information see
5645			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5646
5647	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5648			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5649			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5650			fragmentation. For more information see
5651			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5652
5653	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5654			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5655			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5656			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5657			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5658			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5659			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5660			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5661
5662	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5663			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5664			lower than slub_max_order.
5665			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5666
5667	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5668			Same with slab_merge.
5669
5670	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5671			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5672			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5673
5674	smart2=		[HW]
5675			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5676
5677	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5678			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5679			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5680			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5681			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5682			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5683			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5684			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5685			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5686			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5687
5688	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5689	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5690	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5691	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5692	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5693	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5694	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5695				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5696				1: Fast pin select (default)
5697				2: ATC IRMode
5698
5699	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5700			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5701			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5702			actual hardware limit.
5703			Format: <integer>
5704			Default: -1 (no limit)
5705
5706	softlockup_panic=
5707			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5708			Format: 0 | 1
5709
5710			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5711			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5712			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5713			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5714			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5715
5716	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5717			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5718			backtraces on all cpus.
5719			Format: 0 | 1
5720
5721	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5722			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5723
5724	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5725			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5726			The default operation protects the kernel from
5727			user space attacks.
5728
5729			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5730			       spectre_v2_user=on
5731			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5732			       spectre_v2_user=off
5733			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5734			       vulnerable
5735
5736			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5737			mitigation method at run time according to the
5738			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5739			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5740			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5741
5742			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5743			against user space to user space task attacks.
5744
5745			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5746			the user space protections.
5747
5748			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5749
5750			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5751			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5752			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5753			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5754			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5755			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5756			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5757			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5758
5759			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5760			spectre_v2=auto.
5761
5762	spectre_v2_user=
5763			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5764		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5765		        user space tasks
5766
5767			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5768				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5769
5770			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5771				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5772
5773			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5774				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5775				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5776				  is inherited on fork.
5777
5778			prctl,ibpb
5779				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5780				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5781				  always when switching between different user
5782				  space processes.
5783
5784			seccomp
5785				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5786				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5787				  they explicitly opt out.
5788
5789			seccomp,ibpb
5790				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5791				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5792				  always when switching between different
5793				  user space processes.
5794
5795			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5796				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5797
5798			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5799
5800			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5801			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5802
5803	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5804			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5805			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5806
5807			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5808			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5809			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5810			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5811			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5812			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5813			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5814			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5815
5816			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5817			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5818			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5819			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5820
5821			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5822			Bypass optimization is used.
5823
5824			On x86 the options are:
5825
5826			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5827			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5828			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5829				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5830				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5831				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5832				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5833				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5834			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5835				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5836				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5837				  is inherited on fork.
5838			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5839				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5840
5841			Default mitigations:
5842			X86:	"prctl"
5843
5844			On powerpc the options are:
5845
5846			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5847				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5848				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5849				  exit.
5850			off	- No action.
5851
5852			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5853			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5854
5855	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5856	spia_fio_base=
5857	spia_pedr=
5858	spia_peddr=
5859
5860	split_lock_detect=
5861			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5862
5863			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5864			instructions that access data across cache line
5865			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5866			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5867			bus lock detection.
5868
5869			off	- not enabled
5870
5871			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5872				  about applications triggering the #AC
5873				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5874				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5875				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5876				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5877				  enabled in hardware.
5878
5879			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5880				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5881				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5882				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5883
5884			ratelimit:N -
5885				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5886				  per second for bus lock detection.
5887				  0 < N <= 1000.
5888
5889				  N/A for split lock detection.
5890
5891
5892			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5893			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5894			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5895			mode.
5896
5897			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5898			CPL > 0.
5899
5900	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5901			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5902			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5903
5904			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5905			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5906			number generator.
5907
5908			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5909			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5910			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5911			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5912			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5913
5914			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5915			the following option:
5916
5917			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5918				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5919
5920	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5921			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5922			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5923			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5924			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5925			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5926			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5927			(decide at boot).
5928
5929	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5930			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5931			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5932			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5933
5934				   0:  Never.
5935				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5936				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5937				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5938				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5939
5940			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5941			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5942			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5943
5944	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5945			Specifies how frequently to check for
5946			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5947			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5948			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5949			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5950			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5951			are ignored.
5952
5953	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5954			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5955			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5956			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5957			grace period will be considered for automatic
5958			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5959			expediting.
5960
5961	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5962			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5963			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5964			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5965			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5966			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5967
5968	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5969			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5970			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5971			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5972			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5973			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5974
5975	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5976			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5977			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5978
5979	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5980			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5981			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5982			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5983			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5984			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5985			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5986
5987	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5988			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5989
5990			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5991			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5992			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5993			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5994
5995			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5996				   for both kernel and userspace
5997			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5998				   for both kernel and userspace
5999			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6000				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6001				   to allow userspace to register its
6002				   interest in being mitigated too.
6003
6004	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6005			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6006			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6007			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6008			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6009			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6010
6011	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6012			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6013			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6014			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6015			to false.
6016
6017	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6018			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6019
6020	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6021			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6022			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6023			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6024			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6025			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6026			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6027
6028	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6029			Format: <num>
6030			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6031			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6032			as the initial boot-console.
6033			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6034
6035	sti_font=	[HW]
6036			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6037
6038	stifb=		[HW]
6039			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6040
6041        strict_sas_size=
6042			[X86]
6043			Format: <bool>
6044			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6045			against the required signal frame size which
6046			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6047			be used to filter out binaries which have
6048			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6049
6050	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6051			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6052			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6053			faults on kernel addresses.
6054
6055	stress_slb	[PPC]
6056			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6057			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6058			on kernel addresses.
6059
6060	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6061	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6062			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6063			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6064			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6065			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6066			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6067			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6068			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6069			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6070			maximum port values.
6071
6072	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6073			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6074			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6075			process in parallel from a single connection.
6076			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6077
6078	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6079			[NFS]
6080			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6081			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6082			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6083			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6084			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6085			NFS server is running.
6086
6087			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6088				    automatically using heuristics
6089			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6090			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6091			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6092				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6093
6094	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6095	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6096			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6097			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6098			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6099			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6100			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6101			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6102
6103	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6104			[SUSPEND]
6105			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6106			mode before resuming the system (see
6107			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6108			is set. Default value is 5.
6109
6110	svm=		[PPC]
6111			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6112			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6113			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6114
6115	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6116			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6117			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6118			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6119				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6120				 to a power of 2.
6121			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6122			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6123			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6124
6125	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6126
6127	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6128			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6129			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6130			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6131			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6132			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6133			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6134			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6135
6136	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6137			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6138			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6139			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6140			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6141			in older udev will not work anymore.
6142			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6143			the kernel configuration.
6144
6145	sysrq_always_enabled
6146			[KNL]
6147			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6148			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6149			Useful for debugging.
6150
6151	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6152			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6153			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6154			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6155			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6156			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6157
6158	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6159
6160	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6161			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6162			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6163			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6164			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6165			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6166			The system is woken from this state using a
6167			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6168
6169	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6170			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6171
6172	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6173			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6174			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6175
6176	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6177			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6178			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6179
6180	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6181			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6182			critical and hot trip points.
6183
6184	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6185			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6186
6187	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6188			-1: disable all passive trip points
6189			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6190			value
6191
6192	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6193			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6194			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6195			0: no polling (default)
6196
6197	threadirqs	[KNL]
6198			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6199			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6200
6201	topology=	[S390]
6202			Format: {off | on}
6203			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6204			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6205			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6206			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6207			Default is on.
6208
6209	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6210			Format: {off}
6211			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6212			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6213			LPAR.
6214
6215	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6216			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6217			until after init has spawned.
6218
6219	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6220			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6221			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6222			very costly operation when many torture tests
6223			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6224			with rotating-rust storage.
6225
6226	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6227			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6228			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6229			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6230
6231	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6232			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6233
6234	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6235
6236	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6237			Format: integer pcr id
6238			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6239			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6240			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6241			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6242			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6243			are saved.
6244
6245	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6246			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6247			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6248			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6249			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6250			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6251
6252			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6253			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6254			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6255			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6256
6257			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6258			to stop the printing of events to console at
6259			late_initcall_sync.
6260
6261			** CAUTION **
6262
6263			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6264			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6265			the system to live lock.
6266
6267	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6268			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6269			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6270			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6271			make the system inoperable.
6272
6273			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6274			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6275
6276	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6277			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6278
6279	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6280			at boot up.
6281			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6282				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6283				depending on the architecture, may not be
6284				in sync between CPUs.
6285			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6286				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6287				but better for some race conditions.
6288			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6289				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6290				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6291				once per event.
6292			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6293			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6294			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6295			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6296				stamps.
6297			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6298			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6299			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6300
6301	trace_event=[event-list]
6302			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6303			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6304			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6305			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6306
6307	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6308			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6309			This will be listed in:
6310
6311				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6312
6313			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6314			via:
6315
6316				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6317
6318			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6319			unique.
6320
6321				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6322
6323			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6324			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6325			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6326
6327	trace_options=[option-list]
6328			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6329			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6330			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6331			to echo the option name into
6332
6333			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6334
6335			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6336			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6337
6338			      trace_options=stacktrace
6339
6340			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6341			section.
6342
6343	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6344			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6345			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6346			filter.
6347
6348			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6349			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6350
6351			For example:
6352
6353			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6354
6355			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6356			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6357			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6358
6359			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6360
6361
6362	traceoff_on_warning
6363			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6364			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6365			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6366			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6367
6368			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6369			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6370			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6371
6372			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6373			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6374
6375	transparent_hugepage=
6376			[KNL]
6377			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6378			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6379			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6380			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6381			for more details.
6382
6383	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6384			Format: <string>
6385			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6386			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6387			sources:
6388			- "tpm"
6389			- "tee"
6390			- "caam"
6391			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6392			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6393			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6394			successfully during iteration.
6395
6396	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6397			Format: <string>
6398			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6399			Can be one of:
6400			- "kernel"
6401			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6402			- "default"
6403			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6404			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6405
6406	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6407			Format: <string>
6408			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6409			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6410			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6411			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6412			virtualized environment.
6413			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6414			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6415			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6416			can add overhead.
6417			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6418			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6419			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6420			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6421			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6422			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6423			acceptable).
6424			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6425			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6426			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6427			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6428			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6429			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6430			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6431			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6432			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6433			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6434
6435	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6436			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6437			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6438			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6439			Format: <unsigned int>
6440
6441	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6442			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6443			support TSX control.
6444
6445			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6446
6447			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6448				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6449				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6450				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6451				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6452				with leaving it enabled.
6453
6454			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6455				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6456				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6457				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6458				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6459				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6460				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6461
6462			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6463				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6464
6465			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6466
6467			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6468			for more details.
6469
6470	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6471			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6472
6473			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6474			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6475			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6476			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6477			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6478			conditions.
6479
6480			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6481			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6482			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6483			access.
6484
6485			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6486			options are:
6487
6488			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6489				     if TSX is enabled.
6490
6491			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6492				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6493				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6494				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6495			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6496
6497			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6498			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6499			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6500			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6501
6502			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6503			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6504			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6505			required and doesn't provide any additional
6506			mitigation.
6507
6508			For details see:
6509			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6510
6511	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6512			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6513			Format:
6514			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6515			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6516
6517	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6518			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6519			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6520			help "seeing" what's going on.
6521
6522	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6523			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6524
6525	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6526			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6527			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6528			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6529			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6530			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6531			reported either.
6532
6533	unknown_nmi_panic
6534			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6535
6536	usbcore.authorized_default=
6537			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6538			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6539			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6540			if device connected to internal port)
6541
6542	usbcore.autosuspend=
6543			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6544			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6545			is the time required before an idle device will be
6546			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6547			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6548
6549	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6550			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6551
6552	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6553			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6554			(default = 65536).
6555
6556	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6557			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6558
6559	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6560			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6561			scheme (default 0 = off).
6562
6563	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6564			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6565			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6566
6567	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6568			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6569			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6570
6571	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6572			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6573			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6574			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6575
6576	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6577
6578	usbcore.quirks=
6579			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6580			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6581			commas. Each entry has the form
6582			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6583			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6584			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6585			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6586			the following meanings:
6587				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6588					descriptors must not be fetched using
6589					a 255-byte read);
6590				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6591					correctly so reset it instead);
6592				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6593					Set-Interface requests);
6594				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6595					handle its Configuration or Interface
6596					strings);
6597				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6598					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6599				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6600					more interface descriptions than the
6601					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6602					talking to these interfaces);
6603				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6604					during initialization, after we read
6605					the device descriptor);
6606				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6607					high speed and super speed interrupt
6608					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6609					require the interval in microframes (1
6610					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6611					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6612					(bInterval-1).
6613					Devices with this quirk report their
6614					bInterval as the result of this
6615					calculation instead of the exponent
6616					variable used in the calculation);
6617				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6618					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6619					requests);
6620				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6621					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6622					remote wakeup capability);
6623				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6624					Power Management);
6625				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6626					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6627					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6628					calculation);
6629				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6630					to be disconnected before suspend to
6631					prevent spurious wakeup);
6632				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6633					pause after every control message);
6634				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6635					delay after resetting its port);
6636			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6637
6638	usbhid.mousepoll=
6639			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6640
6641	usbhid.jspoll=
6642			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6643
6644	usbhid.kbpoll=
6645			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6646
6647	usb-storage.delay_use=
6648			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6649			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6650
6651	usb-storage.quirks=
6652			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6653			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6654			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6655			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6656			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6657			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6658			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6659				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6660					of sense data, not on uas);
6661				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6662					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6663				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6664					device capacity by one sector);
6665				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6666					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6667				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6668					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6669				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6670					command, uas only);
6671				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6672					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6673				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6674					reported device capacity by one
6675					sector if the number is odd);
6676				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6677					device);
6678				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6679					command, uas only);
6680				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6681				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6682					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6683				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6684					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6685					not on uas);
6686				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6687					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6688				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6689					reported by the device, not on uas);
6690				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6691					by default, not on uas);
6692				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6693					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6694				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6695					Logical Unit);
6696				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6697					commands, uas only);
6698				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6699				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6700					medium is write-protected).
6701				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6702					even if the device claims no cache,
6703					not on uas)
6704			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6705
6706	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6707			Format: <int>
6708			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6709				 1 - undefined instruction events
6710				 2 - system calls
6711				 4 - invalid data aborts
6712				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6713				16 - SIGBUS faults
6714			Example: user_debug=31
6715
6716	userpte=
6717			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6718
6719				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6720					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6721					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6722
6723	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6724			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6725
6726			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6727			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6728
6729	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6730			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6731			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6732
6733			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6734			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6735			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6736
6737			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6738			alias for vdso32=0.
6739
6740			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6741			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6742
6743	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6744			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6745
6746	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6747			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6748
6749	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6750			Format: [0|1]
6751			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6752			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6753			level and then send out the event to user space through
6754			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6755			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6756			brightness level.
6757			default: 1
6758
6759	virtio_mmio.device=
6760			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6761
6762				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6763			where:
6764				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6765						like K, M and G)
6766				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6767				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6768						request_irq())
6769				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6770			example:
6771				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6772
6773			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6774
6775	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6776			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6777			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6778			Use vga=ask for menu.
6779			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6780			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6781
6782	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6783			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6784			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6785			All options are enabled by default, and this
6786			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6787			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6788			debugging features.
6789
6790			Available options are:
6791			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6792			  -	Disable all of the above options
6793
6794	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6795			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6796			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6797			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6798			mapped kernel RAM.
6799
6800	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6801			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6802			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6803
6804	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6805			Format: <command>
6806
6807	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6808			Format: <command>
6809
6810	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6811			Format: <command>
6812
6813	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6814			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6815			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6816			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6817			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6818			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6819			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6820
6821			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
6822			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
6823				    readable.
6824
6825			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6826			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6827				    page is not readable.
6828
6829			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6830			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6831			            might break your system.
6832
6833	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6834			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6835			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6836
6837	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6838			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6839			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6840			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6841
6842	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6843			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6844			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6845			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6846			ranging from 0-255.
6847
6848	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6849			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6850			Change the default green palette of the console.
6851			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6852			ranging from 0-255.
6853
6854	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6855			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6856			Change the default red palette of the console.
6857			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6858			ranging from 0-255.
6859
6860	vt.default_utf8=
6861			[VT]
6862			Format=<0|1>
6863			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6864			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6865			newly opened terminals.
6866
6867	vt.global_cursor_default=
6868			[VT]
6869			Format=<-1|0|1>
6870			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6871			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6872			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6873			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6874			cursors, 1 will display them.
6875
6876	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6877			Default: 2 = green.
6878
6879	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6880			Default: 3 = cyan.
6881
6882	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6883			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6884			or other driver-specific files in the
6885			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6886
6887	watchdog_thresh=
6888			[KNL]
6889			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6890			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6891			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6892			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6893			seconds.
6894
6895	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6896			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6897			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6898			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6899			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6900			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6901			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6902			corresponding sysfs file.
6903
6904	workqueue.disable_numa
6905			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6906			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6907			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6908			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6909			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6910			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6911			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6912
6913	workqueue.power_efficient
6914			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6915			they show better performance thanks to cache
6916			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6917			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6918
6919			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6920			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6921			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6922			power usage at the cost of small performance
6923			overhead.
6924
6925			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6926			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6927
6928	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6929			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6930			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6931			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6932			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6933			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6934			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6935			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6936			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6937			impacted.
6938
6939	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6940			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6941			supporting x2apic.
6942
6943	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6944			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6945			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6946			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6947			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6948			domains.
6949
6950	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6951			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6952			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6953			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6954			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6955			nics -- unplug network devices
6956			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6957			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6958				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6959				the unplug protocol
6960			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6961
6962	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6963			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6964			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6965
6966	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
6967			Format: <bool>
6968			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
6969			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
6970			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
6971
6972	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6973			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6974			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6975			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6976
6977	xen_nopv	[X86]
6978			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6979			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6980			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6981			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6982
6983	xen_no_vector_callback
6984			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6985			event channel interrupts.
6986
6987	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6988			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6989			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6990			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6991			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6992
6993	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6994			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6995			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6996			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6997			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6998			more timer interrupts.
6999
7000	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7001			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7002			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7003			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7004			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7005			max. Default is 180.
7006
7007	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7008			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7009			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7010
7011	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7012			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7013			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7014
7015	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7016			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7017			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7018			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7019			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7020			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7021
7022	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7023			Format:
7024			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7025
7026	xive=		[PPC]
7027			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7028			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7029			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7030
7031			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7032				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7033				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7034
7035	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7036			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7037			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7038			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7039			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7040
7041	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7042			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7043			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7044			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7045
7046	xmon		[PPC]
7047			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7048			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7049			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7050			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7051				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7052			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7053				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7054				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7055				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7056			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7057				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7058				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7059				can be written using xmon commands.
7060			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7061				memory, and other data can't be written using
7062				xmon commands.
7063			off	xmon is disabled.
7064
7065	amd_pstate=	[X86]
7066			disable
7067			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
7068			  scaling driver for the supported processors
7069			passive
7070			  Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a
7071			  desired performance on this abstract scale and the power
7072			  management firmware translates the requests into actual
7073			  hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory
7074			  clocks etc.)
7075			active
7076			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
7077			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
7078			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
7079			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
7080			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
7081			  frequency.
7082