1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
25				default _serial_ console on ARM64
26			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
27			"acpi=nospcr" are available
28			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
29			are available
30
31			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
32
33	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
34			Format: <int>
35			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
36			1,0: use 1st APIC table
37			default: 0
38
39	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
40			{ vendor | video | native | none }
41			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
42			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
43			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
44			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
45			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
46			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
47
48	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
49			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
50			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
51			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
52			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
53
54	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
55			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
56			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
57			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
58			This option is useful for developers to identify the
59			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
60			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
61
62	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
63	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
64			Format: <int>
65			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
66			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
67			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
68			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
69			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
70			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
71			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
72			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
73			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
74			debug layers and levels.
75
76			Enable processor driver info messages:
77			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
78			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
79			object while interpreting AML:
80			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
81			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
82			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
83
84			Some values produce so much output that the system is
85			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
86			if you need to capture more output.
87
88	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
89			{ strict | lax | no }
90			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
91			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
92			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
93			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
94			can interfere with legacy drivers.
95			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
96			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
97			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
98			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
99			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
100			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
101			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
102			no further checks are performed.
103
104	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
105			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
106			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
107			size limitation.
108
109	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
110			ACPI will balance active IRQs
111			default in APIC mode
112
113	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
115			default in PIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
118			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
119
120	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
121			use by PCI
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
125			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
126			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
127			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
128			the GPE dispatcher.
129			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
130			GPE floodings.
131			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
132
133	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
134			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
135			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
136			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
137			auto-serialization feature.
138			This feature is enabled by default.
139			This option allows to turn off the feature.
140
141	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
142			   kernels.
143
144	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
145			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
146			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
147			installed automatically and they will appear under
148			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
149			This option turns off this feature.
150			Note that specifying this option does not affect
151			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
152			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
153
154	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
155			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
156			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
157
158	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
159			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
160			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
161			second kernel for kdump.
162
163	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
164			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
165
166	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
167			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
168			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
169			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
170			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
171
172	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
173			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
174			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
175			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
176			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
177						  strings
178			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
179						  strings
180			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
181
182			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
183			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
184			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
185			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
186			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
187			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
188			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
189			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
190			care about the state of the feature group strings which
191			should be controlled by the OSPM.
192			Examples:
193			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
194			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
195			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
196
197			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
198			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
199			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
200			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
201			multiple times through kernel command line is also
202			meaningless.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
205			     FALSE.
206
207			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
208			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
209			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
210			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
211			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
212			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
213			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
214			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
215			is useful when one want to control the state of the
216			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
217			the OSPM features.
218			Examples:
219			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
220			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
221			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
222			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
223			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
224			     equivalent to
225			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
226			     and
227			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
228			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
229
230	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
231			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
232			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
233			and always returns good values.
234
235	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
236			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
237
238	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
239			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
240			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
241
242	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
243			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
244				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
245				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
246			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
247			s3_bios and s3_mode.
248			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
249			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
250			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
251			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
252			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
253			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
254			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
255			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
256			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
257			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
258			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
259			used (or even warned about) during resume.
260			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
261			control method, with respect to putting devices into
262			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
263			of _PTS is used by default).
264			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
265			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
266			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
267			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
268			but some broken systems don't work without it).
269			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
270			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
271			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
272
273	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
274			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
275			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
276
277	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
278			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
279
280	agp=		[AGP]
281			{ off | try_unsupported }
282			off: disable AGP support
283			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
284				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
285
286	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
287			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
288
289	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
290			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
291			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
292			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
293
294	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
295			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
296			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
297			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
298			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
299			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
300			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
301
302			32: only for 32-bit processes
303			64: only for 64-bit processes
304			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
305			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
306
307	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
308			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
309			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
310			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
311			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
312			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
313
314	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
315			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
316			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
317			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
318			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
319			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
320			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
321
322			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
323			information.
324
325	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
327			Possible values are:
328			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
329			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
330				    the system
331			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
332					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
333					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
334					  requirements as needed. This option
335					  does not override iommu=pt
336			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
337				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
338				       option with care.
339			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
340			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
341			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
342
343	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
344			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
345			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
346			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
347			IOMMU initialization.
348
349	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
350			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
351			remapping modes:
352			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
353			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
354			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
355			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
356			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
357
358	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
359			disable
360			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
361			  scaling driver for the supported processors
362			passive
363			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
364			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
365			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
366			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
367			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
368			active
369			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
370			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
371			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
372			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
373			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
374			  frequency.
375			guided
376			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
377			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
378			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
379			  to the current workload.
380
381	amd_prefcore=
382			[X86]
383			disable
384			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
385
386	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
387			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
388			Format: <a>,<b>
389			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
390
391	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
392			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
393			connected to one of 16 gameports
394			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
395
396	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
397			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
398			Format: noidle
399			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
400			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
401			APC and your system crashes randomly.
402
403	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
404			Change the output verbosity while booting
405			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
406			Change the amount of debugging information output
407			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
408			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
409			driver name.
410			Format: apic=driver_name
411			Examples: apic=bigsmp
412
413	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
414			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
415			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
416			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
417			      backup of CPU 0
418			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
419			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
420			      shot down by NMI
421
422	autoconf=	[IPV6]
423			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
424
425	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
426			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
427
428	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
429			Format: { "0" | "1" }
430			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
431			0 -- disable.
432			1 -- enable.
433			Default value is set via kernel config option.
434
435	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
436			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
437
438	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
439			32 bit applications.
440
441	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
442			Identification support
443
444	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
445			Set instructions support
446
447	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
448			support
449
450	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
451			support
452
453	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
454			Extension support
455
456	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
457			Extension support
458
459	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
460
461	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
462
463	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
464			EzKey and similar keyboards
465
466	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
467
468	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
469			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
470
471	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
472			keyboards
473
474	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
475			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
476
477	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
478			Use software keyboard repeat
479
480	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
481			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
482			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
483			    enabled until the next reboot
484			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
485			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
486			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
487			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
488			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
489			    userspace auditd.
490			Default: unset
491
492	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
493			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
494			Default: 64
495
496	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
497			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			0 - Disable the BAU.
500			1 - Enable the BAU.
501			unset - Disable the BAU.
502
503	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
504			Format: <io>,<mode>
505
506	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
507			Format: <io>,<mode>
508			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
509
510	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
511			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
512			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
513			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
514
515	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
516			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
517			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
518			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
519
520	bert_disable	[ACPI]
521			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
522
523	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
524			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
525
526	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
527			embedded devices based on command line input.
528			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
529
530	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
531			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
532			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
533			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
534			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
535			erroneous and ignored.
536			Format: integer
537
538	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
539			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
540			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
541
542			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
543
544	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
545	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
546			kernel args too.
547	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
548	bttv.tuner=
549
550	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
551			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
552			at a time.
553
554	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
555
556	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
557			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
558			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
559			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
560			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
561			This option provides an override for these situations.
562
563	carrier_timeout=
564			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
565			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
566			it waits 120 seconds.
567
568	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
569			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
570			trust validation.
571			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
572
573	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
574			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
575			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
576			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
577			others).
578
579	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
580			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
581
582	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
583			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
584			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
585			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
586			  a single hierarchy
587			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
588			  subsystem
589			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
590			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
591			  created
592			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
593			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
594			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
595			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
596			stall information accounting feature
597
598	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
599			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
600			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
601			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
602			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
603			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
604			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
605			all v1 hierarchies.
606
607	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
608			Format: { "true" | "false" }
609			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
610
611	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
612			Format: <string>
613			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
614			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
615			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
616
617	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
618			Format: { "0" | "1" }
619			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
620			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
621				any implied execute protection).
622			1 -- check protection requested by application.
623			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
624			Value can be changed at runtime via
625				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
626			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
627
628	cio_ignore=	[S390]
629			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
630
631	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
632			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
633			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
634			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
635			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
636			ones should be.
637			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
638			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
639			instability issue. However, not all features have names
640			in /proc/cpuinfo.
641			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
642			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
643			or using the feature without checking anything
644			will still see it. This just prevents it from
645			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
646			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
647			some critical bits.
648
649	clk_ignore_unused
650			[CLK]
651			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
652			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
653			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
654			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
655			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
656			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
657			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
658			platform with proper driver support.  For more
659			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
660
661	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
662			[Deprecated]
663			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
664			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
665			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
666			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
667
668	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
669			Format: <string>
670			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
671			with the name specified.
672			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
673			the platform:
674			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
675			[ACPI] acpi_pm
676			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
677				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
678			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
679				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
680			[MIPS] MIPS
681			[PARISC] cr16
682			[S390] tod
683			[SH] SuperH
684			[SPARC64] tick
685			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
686
687	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
688			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
689			Format: <bool>
690			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
691			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
692			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
693			systems.
694
695	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
696			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
697			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
698			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
699			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
700			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
701			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
702			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
703			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
704
705	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
706			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
707			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
708			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
709			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
710
711	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
712			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
713			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
714			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
715			placement constraint by the physical address range of
716			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
717			altogether. For more information, see
718			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
719
720	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
721			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
722			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
723			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
724			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
725			specified, the default value is 0.
726			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
727			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
728			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
729			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
730
731	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
732			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
733			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
734			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
735			area for the specified node.
736
737			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
738			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
739			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
740			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
741
742	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
743			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
744			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
745			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
746			a hypervisor.
747			Default: yes
748
749	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
751			allocations, by default set to 256K.
752
753	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
754			Format:
755			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
756
757	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
758			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
759
760	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
761			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
762			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
763
764	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
765	conmode=
766
767	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
768			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
769			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
770			the console buffer is full. In this case the
771			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
772			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
773			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
774			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
775			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
776			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
777
778	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
779
780		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
781
782		ttyS<n>[,options]
783		ttyUSB0[,options]
784			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
785			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
786			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
787			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
788			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
789
790			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
791			information.  See
792			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
793			alternative.
794
795		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
796			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
797			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
798			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
799			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
800			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
801
802			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
803			can be viewed with:
804
805			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
806			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
807
808			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
809			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
810			way will only get added when the related device driver
811			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
812			the console may be desired for console output early on.
813
814		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
815		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
816		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
817		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
818		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
819			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
820			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
821			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
822			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
823			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
824			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
825			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
826			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
827			the h/w is not re-initialized.
828
829		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
830			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
831
832		{ null | "" }
833			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
834			console messages discarded.
835			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
836			kernel command line.
837
838		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
839		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
840			console=brl,ttyS0
841		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
842
843	console_msg_format=
844			[KNL] Change console messages format
845		default
846			By default we print messages on consoles in
847			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
848			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
849			`printk_time' param).
850		syslog
851			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
852			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
853			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
854			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
855			from /proc/kmsg.
856
857	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
858			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
859			Defaults to 0.
860
861	coredump_filter=
862			[KNL] Change the default value for
863			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
864			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
865
866	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
867			[ARM,ARM64]
868			Format: <bool>
869			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
870			0: default value, disable debugging
871			1: enable debugging at boot time
872
873	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
874			Format:
875			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
876
877	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
878			disable the cpuidle sub-system
879
880	cpuidle.governor=
881			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
882
883	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
884			disable the cpufreq sub-system
885
886	cpufreq.default_governor=
887			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
888			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
889			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
890
891	cpu_init_udelay=N
892			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
893			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
894			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
895			Default: 10000
896
897	cpuhp.parallel=
898			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
899			Format: <bool>
900			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
901			the parameter has no effect.
902
903	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
904			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
905			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
906			succeeds in any situation.
907			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
908			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
909			kernel more unstable.
910
911	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
912			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
913			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
914			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
915			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
916			is selected automatically.
917			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
918			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
919			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
920			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
921
922	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
923			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
924			in the running system. The syntax of range is
925			start-[end] where start and end are both
926			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
927			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
928
929	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
930			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
931			above 4G.
932			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
933			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
934			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
935			below 4G, if available.
936			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
937	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
938			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
939			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
940			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
941			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
942			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
943			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
944			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
945			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
946			size is	platform dependent.
947			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
948			  --> arm64: 128MiB
949			  --> riscv: 128MiB
950			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
951			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
952			for second kernel instead.
953			0: to disable low allocation.
954			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
955			or memory reserved is below 4G.
956
957	cryptomgr.notests
958			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
959
960	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
961			Format: <dma>
962
963	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
964			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
965
966	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
967			function call handling. When switched on,
968			additional debug data is printed to the console
969			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
970			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
971			the hang situation.  The default value of this
972			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
973			Kconfig option.
974
975	dasd=		[HW,NET]
976			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
977
978	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
979			(one device per port)
980			Format: <port#>,<type>
981			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
982
983	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
984
985	debug_boot_weak_hash
986			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
987			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
988			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
989			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
990			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
991			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
992
993	debug_locks_verbose=
994			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
995			Format: <int>
996			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
997			self-tests.
998			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
999			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1000			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1001			useful to lockdep developers.
1002
1003	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1004
1005	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1006			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1007			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1008			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1009			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1010			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1011			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1012			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1013			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1014			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1015			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1016			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1017			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1018			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1019			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1020			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1021			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1022			help tracking down these problems.
1023
1024	debug_pagealloc=
1025			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1026			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1027			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1028			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1029			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1030			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1031			on: enable the feature
1032
1033	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1034			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1035			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1036			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1037			no-mount:
1038				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1039			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1040				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1041			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1042			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1043				or directories within debugfs.
1044				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1045				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1046			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1047
1048	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1049
1050	default_hugepagesz=
1051			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1052			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1053			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1054			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1055			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1056			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1057			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1058			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1059			Format: size[KMG]
1060
1061	deferred_probe_timeout=
1062			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1063			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1064			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1065			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1066			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1067			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1068			successful driver registration. This option will also
1069			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1070			retrying.
1071
1072	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1073
1074	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1075			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1076			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1077			hardware.
1078
1079	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1080			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1081			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1082			blacklisted features.
1083
1084	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1085			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1086			(disabled by default).
1087
1088	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1089			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1090			capability is set.
1091
1092	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1093			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1094
1095	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1096			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1097
1098	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1099			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1100			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1101			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1102			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1103			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1104			          only (compression on level 1)
1105			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1106			          only (decompression)
1107			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1108			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1109
1110	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1111			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1112
1113	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1114			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1115			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1116			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1117			miss to occur.
1118
1119	disable=	[IPV6]
1120			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1121
1122	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1123			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1124
1125	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1126			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1127			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1128
1129	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1130			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1131			to workaround buggy firmware.
1132
1133	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1134			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1135
1136	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1137			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1138			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1139			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1140
1141	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1142			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1143			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1144			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1145			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1146
1147	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1148			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1149			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1150
1151	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1152
1153	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1154			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1155
1156	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1157			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1158			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1159			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1160			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1161			architectural default is too low.
1162
1163	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1164			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1165			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1166			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1167			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1168			driver later using sysfs.
1169
1170	reg_file_data_sampling=
1171			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1172			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1173			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1174			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1175			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1176			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1177
1178			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1179			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1180
1181			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1182			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1183			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1184			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1185			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1186
1187			For details see:
1188			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1189
1190	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1191			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1192			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1193			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1194			match the *.
1195			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1196
1197	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1198			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1199			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1200			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1201			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1202			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1203			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1204			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1205			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1206			data set with no connector name will be used for
1207			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1208
1209	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1210
1211	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1212			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1213			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1214			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1215			exists).
1216			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1217			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1218			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1219
1220	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1221			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1222			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1223			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1224
1225	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1226	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1227			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1228			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1229			for details.
1230
1231	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1232			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1233			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1234			which are not unmapped.
1235
1236	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1237
1238			When used with no options, the early console is
1239			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1240			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1241			the platform.
1242
1243		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1244			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1245			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1246			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1247			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1248			configured.
1249
1250		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1251		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1252		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1253		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1254		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1255			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1256			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1257			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1258			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1259			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1260			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1261			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1262			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1263			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1264			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1265
1266		pl011,<addr>
1267		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1269			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1270			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1271			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1272			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1273			the device registers.
1274
1275		liteuart,<addr>
1276			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1277			specified address. The serial port must already be
1278			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1279
1280		meson,<addr>
1281			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1282			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1283			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1284			supported.
1285
1286		msm_serial,<addr>
1287			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1288			port at the specified address. The serial port
1289			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1290			yet supported.
1291
1292		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1293			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1294			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1295			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1296			yet supported.
1297
1298		owl,<addr>
1299			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1300			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1301			specified address. The serial port must already be
1302			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1303
1304		rda,<addr>
1305			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1306			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1307			specified address. The serial port must already be
1308			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1309
1310		sbi
1311			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1312			console.
1313
1314		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1315
1316		s3c2410,<addr>
1317		s3c2412,<addr>
1318		s3c2440,<addr>
1319		s3c6400,<addr>
1320		s5pv210,<addr>
1321		exynos4210,<addr>
1322			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1323			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1324			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1325			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1326			Options are not yet supported.
1327
1328		lantiq,<addr>
1329			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1330			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1331			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1332			yet supported.
1333
1334		lpuart,<addr>
1335		lpuart32,<addr>
1336			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1337			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1338			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1339			port must already be setup and configured.
1340
1341		ec_imx21,<addr>
1342		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1343			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1344			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1345			must already be setup and configured.
1346
1347		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1348			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1349			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1350			address. The serial port must already be setup
1351			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1352
1353		qcom_geni,<addr>
1354			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1355			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1356			specified address. The serial port must already be
1357			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1358
1359		efifb,[options]
1360			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1361			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1362			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1363			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1364			mapped with the correct attributes.
1365
1366		linflex,<addr>
1367			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1368			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1369			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1370			already be setup and configured.
1371
1372	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1373			earlyprintk=vga
1374			earlyprintk=sclp
1375			earlyprintk=xen
1376			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1377			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1378			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1379			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1380			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1381			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1382			earlyprintk=bios
1383
1384			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1385			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1386			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1387
1388			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1389			takes over.
1390
1391			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1392			be used at a time.
1393
1394			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1395			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1396			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1397			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1398				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1399			You can find the port for a given device in
1400			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1401				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1402
1403			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1404			very good.
1405
1406			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1407			the real console.
1408
1409			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1410
1411			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1412
1413			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1414
1415			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1416			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1417			UART class.
1418
1419	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1420			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1421			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1422			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1423			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1424			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1425			default: on.
1426
1427	edd=		[EDD]
1428			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1429
1430	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1431			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1432				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1433				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1434			debug: enable misc debug output.
1435			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1436			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1437			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1438			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1439			firmware implementations.
1440			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1441			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1442			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1443			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1444			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1445			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1446			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1447			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1448			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1449			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1450
1451	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1452			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1453			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1454			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1455			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1456
1457	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1458			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1459			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1460			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1461			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1462
1463
1464	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1465			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1466
1467	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1468			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1469
1470			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1471			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1472
1473			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1474			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1475			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1476			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1477
1478	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1479			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1480			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1481
1482	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1483			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1484			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1485			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1486			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1487
1488	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1489			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1490			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1491			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1492
1493	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1494			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1495			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1496			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1497			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1498
1499	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1500			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1502			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1503			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1504			Default value is 0.
1505			Value can be changed at runtime via
1506			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1507
1508	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1509			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1510			support.
1511
1512	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1513			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1514			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1515
1516	evm=		[EVM]
1517			Format: { "fix" }
1518			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1519			current integrity status.
1520
1521	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1522			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1523			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1524			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1525			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1526			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1527			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1528
1529	failslab=
1530	fail_usercopy=
1531	fail_page_alloc=
1532	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1533			General fault injection mechanism.
1534			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1535			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1536
1537	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1538			Format: { initns | none }
1539			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1540			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1541
1542	floppy=		[HW]
1543			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1544
1545	forcepae	[X86-32]
1546			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1547			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1548			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1549			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1550			and may cause unknown problems.
1551
1552	fred=		[X86-64]
1553			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1554			Format: { on | off }
1555			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1556			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1557
1558	ftrace=[tracer]
1559			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1560			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1561			boot debugging.
1562
1563	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1564			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1565			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1566			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1567			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1568			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1569			start up functionality.
1570
1571			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1572			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1573			line parameter.
1574
1575			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1576
1577			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1578			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1579
1580	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1581			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1582			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1583			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1584			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1585			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1586			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1587			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1588			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1589			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1590			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1591
1592			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1593
1594			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1595			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1596
1597			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1598
1599			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1600			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1601			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1602
1603	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1604			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1605			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1606			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1607			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1608			tracing directory.
1609
1610	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1611			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1612			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1613			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1614			tracing directory.
1615
1616	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1617			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1618			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1619			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1620			that can be changed at run time by the
1621			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1622
1623	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1624			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1625			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1626			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1627			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1628
1629	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1630			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1631			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1632			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1633			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1634
1635	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1636			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1637			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1638			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1639			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1640			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1641			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1642			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1643			suppliers).
1644			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1645			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1646			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1647				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1648				up (sync_state() calls).
1649			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1650				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1651			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1652
1653	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1654			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1655			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1656			Format: <bool>
1657
1658	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1659			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1660			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1661			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1662			calls.
1663			Format: { strict | timeout }
1664			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1665				probe successfully.
1666			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1667				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1668				received their sync_state() calls after
1669				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1670				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1671
1672	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1673			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1674			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1675			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1676			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1677
1678	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1679
1680	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1681			Format: off | on
1682			default: on
1683
1684	gather_data_sampling=
1685			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1686			mitigation.
1687
1688			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1689			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1690			previously stored in vector registers.
1691
1692			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1693			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1694			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1695			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1696
1697			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1698				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1699				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1700				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1701
1702			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1703
1704	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1705			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1706			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1707			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1708			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1709
1710	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1711			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1712			android emulator
1713
1714	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1715			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1716			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1717	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1718			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1719
1720	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1721			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1722			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1723			GPT to be used instead.
1724
1725	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1726			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1727			Format: 0 | 1
1728			Default: 0
1729	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1730			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1731			Format: 0 | 1
1732			Default: 0
1733	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1734			Format: 0 | 1
1735			Default: 0
1736	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1737			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1738			Default: 1024
1739	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1740			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1741			Default: 1024
1742
1743	hardened_usercopy=
1744			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1745			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1746			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1747			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1748			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1749			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1750			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1751		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1752		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1753
1754	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1755			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1756			backtraces on all cpus.
1757			Format: 0 | 1
1758
1759	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1760			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1761			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1762			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1763
1764	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1765			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1766
1767	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1768			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1769			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1770			logic will be disabled.
1771
1772	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1773		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1774				present during boot.
1775		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1776		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1777		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1778				(that will set all pages holding image data
1779				during restoration read-only).
1780
1781	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1782				used with hibernation.
1783				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1784				Default: lzo
1785
1786				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1787				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1788
1789				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1790				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1791
1792	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1793			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1794			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1795			size on bigger boxes.
1796
1797	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1798			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1799			Default: "on"
1800
1801	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1802
1803	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1804			Format: <string>
1805			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1806			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1807			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1808			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1809			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1810			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1811			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1812			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1813			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1814			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1815
1816	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1817			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1818				verbose }
1819			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1820			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1821				VIA, nVidia)
1822			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1823
1824	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1825			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1826
1827	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1828			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1829			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1830			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1831			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1832			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1833			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1834			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1835			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1836				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1837
1838	hugepagesz=
1839			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1840			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1841			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1842			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1843			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1844			architecture dependent.  See also
1845			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1846			Format: size[KMG]
1847
1848	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1849			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1850			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1851			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1852				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1853
1854			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1855			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1856			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1857
1858	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1859			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1860			enabled.
1861			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1862			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1863			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1864			Format: { on | off (default) }
1865
1866			on: enable HVO
1867			off: disable HVO
1868
1869			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1870			the default is on.
1871
1872			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1873			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1874			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1875			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1876			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1877
1878	hung_task_panic=
1879			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1880			Format: 0 | 1
1881
1882			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1883			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1884			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1885			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1886			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1887
1888	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1889				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1890	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1891				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1892				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1893
1894	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1895			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1896			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1897			on lock contention.
1898
1899	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1900				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1901				registered from board initialization code.
1902				Format:
1903				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1904
1905	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1906			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1907			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1908			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
1909			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
1910			adding a DMI quirk for this.
1911
1912			Format:
1913			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
1914			Where <val> is one of:
1915			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
1916			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
1917			Anything else		Set a string device-property
1918
1919			Examples (split over multiple lines):
1920			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
1921			touchscreen-inverted-y
1922
1923			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
1924			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
1925			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
1926
1927	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1928	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1929			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1930			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1931			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1932	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1933	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1934			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1935			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1936	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1937	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1938	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1939			     for the AUX port
1940	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1941			     controller
1942	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1943			     controllers
1944	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1945	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1946			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1947			     transitions, or never reset
1948			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1949			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1950			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1951			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1952			architectures force reset to be always executed
1953	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1954	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1955	i8042.probe_defer
1956			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1957
1958	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1959
1960	i915.invert_brightness=
1961			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1962			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1963			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1964			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1965			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1966			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1967			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1968			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1969			value switches the backlight off.
1970			-1 -- never invert brightness
1971			 0 -- machine default
1972			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1973
1974	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1975			Format: <bool>
1976			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1977			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1978			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1979
1980	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1981			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1982
1983
1984	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
1985			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1986			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1987			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1988			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1989			Not recommended.
1990			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1991			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1992			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1993
1994	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1995			Format: <bool>
1996			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1997			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1998			true (1).
1999
2000	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2001			Format: <bool>
2002			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2003			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2004
2005	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2006			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2007			Default: strict
2008
2009			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2010			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2011			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2012			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2013			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2014			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2015			encoding mode.
2016
2017			Available settings are as follows:
2018			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2019				supported by the FPU
2020			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2021				by the FPU
2022			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2023				by the FPU
2024			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2025				supported by the FPU
2026			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2027				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2028
2029			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2030			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2031			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2032			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2033			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2034			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2035			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2036			MIPS64 CPUs.
2037
2038			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2039			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2040			except where unsupported by hardware.
2041
2042	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2043			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2044			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2045			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2046			could change it dynamically, usually by
2047			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2048
2049	ignore_rlimit_data
2050			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2051			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2052			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2053
2054	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2055			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2056
2057	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2058			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2059			default: "enforce"
2060
2061	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2062			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2063			owned by uid=0.
2064
2065	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2066			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2067			measurements, instead of host native format.
2068
2069	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2070			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2071				   | sha512 | ... }
2072			default: "sha1"
2073
2074			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2075			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2076
2077	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2078			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2079			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2080				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2081
2082			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2083			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2084			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2085			uid=0.
2086
2087			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2088			all files owned by root.
2089
2090			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2091			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2092			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2093
2094			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2095			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2096			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2097			flag.
2098
2099			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2100			critical data.
2101
2102	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2103			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2104			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2105			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2106			opened for read by uid=0.
2107
2108	ima_template=	[IMA]
2109			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2110			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2111				   "ima-sigv2" }
2112			Default: "ima-ng"
2113
2114	ima_template_fmt=
2115			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2116			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2117
2118	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2119			Format: <min_file_size>
2120			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2121			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2122
2123			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2124			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2125			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2126
2127	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2128			Format: <bufsize>
2129			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2130
2131			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2132			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2133			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2134
2135	init=		[KNL]
2136			Format: <full_path>
2137			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2138			process.
2139
2140	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2141			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2142			startup.
2143
2144	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2145			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2146			modules and initcalls.
2147
2148	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2149			Format: <bool>
2150			Default: 1
2151			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2152			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2153			with devices being probed and
2154			initialized. This should normally just work,
2155			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2156			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2157			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2158			late_ initcalls.
2159
2160	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2161
2162	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2163			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2164			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2165			setting.
2166			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2167			Default is 0, 0
2168
2169	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2170			zeroes.
2171			Format: 0 | 1
2172			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2173
2174	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2175			Format: 0 | 1
2176			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2177
2178	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2179			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2180			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2181			override in debugfs after boot.
2182
2183	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2184			Format: <irq>
2185
2186	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2187
2188	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2189			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2190			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2191			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2192
2193	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2194		on
2195			Enable intel iommu driver.
2196		off
2197			Disable intel iommu driver.
2198		igfx_off [Default Off]
2199			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2200			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2201			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2202			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2203			DMA.
2204		strict [Default Off]
2205			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2206		sp_off [Default Off]
2207			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2208			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2209			not be supported.
2210		sm_on
2211			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2212			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2213			translation.
2214		sm_off
2215			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2216		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2217			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2218			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2219			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2220			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2221			mapping is enabled.
2222			Note that using this option lowers the security
2223			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2224			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2225
2226	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2227			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2228			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2229
2230	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2231			disable
2232			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2233			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2234                        active
2235                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2236                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2237                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2238                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2239                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2240                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2241                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2242                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2243                          and possibly on the processor model.
2244			passive
2245			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2246			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2247			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2248			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2249			  feature.
2250			force
2251			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2252			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2253			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2254			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2255			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2256			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2257			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2258			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2259			no_hwp
2260			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2261			  if available.
2262			hwp_only
2263			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2264			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2265			support_acpi_ppc
2266			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2267			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2268			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2269			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2270			per_cpu_perf_limits
2271			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2272			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2273
2274	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2275			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2276			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2277			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2278			no_x2apic_optout
2279				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2280			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2281			posted_msi
2282				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2283
2284	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2285		strict	regions from userspace.
2286		relaxed
2287
2288	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2289		off
2290		force
2291		noforce
2292		biomerge
2293		panic
2294		nopanic
2295		merge
2296		nomerge
2297		soft
2298		pt		[X86]
2299		nopt		[X86]
2300		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2301			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2302
2303	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2304			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2305			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2306			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2307			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2308			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2309			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2310
2311	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2312			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2313			0 - Lazy mode.
2314			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2315			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2316			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2317			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2318			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2319			1 - Strict mode.
2320			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2321			  synchronously.
2322			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2323			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2324			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2325
2326	iommu.passthrough=
2327			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2328			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2329			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2330			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2331			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2332
2333	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2334			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2335			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2336
2337	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2338		0x80
2339			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2340		0xed
2341			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2342		udelay
2343			Simple two microseconds delay
2344		none
2345			No delay
2346
2347	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2348			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2349
2350	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2351			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2352
2353	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2354			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2355
2356	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2357			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2358			Format: <bool>
2359			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2360			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2361			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2362
2363	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2364			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2365			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2366			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2367			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2368			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2369			LPIs.
2370
2371	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2372			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2373			requires the kernel to be built with
2374			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2375
2376	irqfixup	[HW]
2377			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2378			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2379			firmware running.
2380
2381	irqpoll		[HW]
2382			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2383			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2384			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2385			firmware running.
2386
2387	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2388			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2389
2390	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2391			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2392			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2393
2394			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2395			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2396
2397			nohz
2398			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2399
2400			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2401			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2402			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2403			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2404			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2405
2406			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2407			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2408			  be configured manually after bootup.
2409
2410			domain
2411			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2412			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2413			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2414			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2415			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2416			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2417			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2418			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2419
2420			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2421			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2422			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2423			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2424
2425			managed_irq
2426
2427			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2428			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2429			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2430			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2431			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2432
2433			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2434			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2435			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2436			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2437			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2438			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2439			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2440
2441			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2442			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2443			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2444			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2445			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2446			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2447			  queues.
2448
2449			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2450
2451	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2452
2453	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2454			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2455			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2456			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2457
2458			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2459			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2460			write the parameter as:
2461				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2462
2463			Deprecated formats:
2464			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2465			  write the parameter as:
2466				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2467			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2468			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2469				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2470
2471	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2472			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2473			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2474			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2475
2476			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2477			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2478			write the parameter as:
2479				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2480
2481			Deprecated formats:
2482			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2483			  write the parameter as:
2484				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2485			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2486			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2487				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2488
2489	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2490			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2491			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2492			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2493
2494			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2495			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2496			write the parameter as:
2497				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2498
2499			Deprecated formats:
2500			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2501			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2502				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2503			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2504			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2505				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2506
2507	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2508			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2509
2510	kasan_multi_shot
2511			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2512			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2513			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2514			invalid access.
2515
2516	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2517			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2518			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2519			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2520			the real console.
2521
2522	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2523
2524	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2525			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2526			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2527			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2528			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2529			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2530			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2531			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2532			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2533			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2534
2535			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2536			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2537			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2538			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2539			zone if it does not.
2540
2541			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2542			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2543			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2544			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2545			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2546			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2547			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2548
2549	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2550			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2551			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2552			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2553			optional and is the number seconds in between
2554			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2555			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2556			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2557			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2558			the kernel debugger.
2559
2560	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2561			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2562			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2563			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2564			 keyboard only format: kbd
2565			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2566			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2567			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2568			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2569
2570	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2571			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2572			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2573			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2574			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2575			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2576			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2577
2578			The name of the early console should be specified
2579			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2580			the early console might be different than the tty
2581			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2582			blank and the first boot console that implements
2583			read() will be picked.
2584
2585	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2586			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2587
2588	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2589			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2590			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2591
2592	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2593			Valid arguments: on, off
2594			Default: on
2595			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2596			the default is off.
2597
2598	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2599			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2600			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2601			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2602			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2603			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2604			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2605
2606			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2607
2608			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2609			Boot Parameter" section.
2610
2611	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2612			user and kernel address spaces.
2613			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2614			0: force disabled
2615			1: force enabled
2616
2617	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2618			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2619			default value can be overridden via
2620			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2621			Default is 1 (enabled)
2622
2623	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2624			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2625
2626	kvm.eager_page_split=
2627			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2628			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2629			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2630			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2631			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2632			required to split huge pages lazily.
2633
2634			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2635			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2636			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2637			still be used for reads.
2638
2639			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2640			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2641			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2642			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2643			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2644			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2645			cleared.
2646
2647			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2648
2649			Default is Y (on).
2650
2651	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2652				   Default is false (don't support).
2653
2654	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2655			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2656			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2657			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2658			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2659			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2660				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2661
2662			Default is 'auto'.
2663
2664			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2665			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2666
2667	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2668			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2669			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2670			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2671			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2672
2673	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2674			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2675			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2676			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2677			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2678			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2679
2680	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2681			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2682
2683	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2684			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2685			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2686			for NPT.
2687
2688	kvm-arm.mode=
2689			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2690			operation.
2691
2692			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2693
2694			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2695			      protected guests.
2696
2697			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2698				   state is kept private from the host.
2699
2700			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2701				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2702				hardware.
2703
2704			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2705			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2706			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2707			used with extreme caution.
2708
2709	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2710			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2711			system registers
2712
2713	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2714			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2715			system registers
2716
2717	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2718			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2719			system registers
2720
2721	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2722			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2723			injection of LPIs.
2724
2725	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2726			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2727			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2728			CPU architecture.
2729
2730			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2731
2732			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2733
2734	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2735			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2736			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2737			CPU architecture.
2738
2739			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2740
2741			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2742
2743	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2744			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2745			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2746			allocation.
2747			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2748			Format: <integer>
2749			Default: 5
2750
2751	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2752			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2753			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2754			for EPT.
2755
2756	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2757			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2758			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2759			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2760			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2761			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2762			Default is 1 (enabled).
2763
2764	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2765			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2766			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2767			hardware lacks support for it.
2768
2769	kvm-intel.nested=
2770			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2771			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2772
2773	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2774			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2775			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2776			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2777			hardware lacks support for it.
2778
2779	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2780			CVE-2018-3620.
2781
2782			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2783
2784			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2785			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2786				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2787			never:	Disables the mitigation
2788
2789			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2790
2791	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2792			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2793			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2794			for it.
2795
2796	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
2797			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2798
2799			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2800			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2801			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2802
2803			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2804			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2805			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2806			not have direct access.
2807
2808			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2809			options are:
2810
2811			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2812
2813	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2814			      affected CPUs
2815
2816			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2817			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2818
2819			full
2820				Provides all available mitigations for the
2821				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2822				enables all mitigations in the
2823				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2824
2825				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2826				sysfs interface is still possible after
2827				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2828				when the first VM is started in a
2829				potentially insecure configuration,
2830				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2831
2832			full,force
2833				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2834				flush runtime control. Implies the
2835				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2836				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2837
2838			flush
2839				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2840				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2841				L1D flush.
2842
2843				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2844				sysfs interface is still possible after
2845				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2846				when the first VM is started in a
2847				potentially insecure configuration,
2848				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2849
2850			flush,nosmt
2851
2852				Disables SMT and enables the default
2853				hypervisor mitigation.
2854
2855				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2856				sysfs interface is still possible after
2857				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2858				when the first VM is started in a
2859				potentially insecure configuration,
2860				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2861
2862			flush,nowarn
2863				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2864				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2865				insecure configuration.
2866
2867			off
2868				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2869				emit any warnings.
2870				It also drops the swap size and available
2871				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2872				bare metal.
2873
2874			Default is 'flush'.
2875
2876			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2877
2878	l2cr=		[PPC]
2879
2880	l3cr=		[PPC]
2881
2882	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2883			disabled it.
2884
2885	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2886			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2887			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2888			Format: notscdeadline
2889
2890	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
2891			in C2 power state.
2892
2893	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2894			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2895			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2896			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2897			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2898			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2899			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2900
2901	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2902			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2903			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2904
2905	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2906			when set.
2907			Format: <int>
2908
2909	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2910			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2911			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2912			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2913			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2914			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2915			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2916			to all ports, links and devices.
2917
2918			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2919			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2920			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2921			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2922			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2923			host link and device attached to it.
2924
2925			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2926			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2927			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2928			The following configurations can be forced.
2929
2930			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2931			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2932
2933			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2934
2935			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2936			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2937			  allowed.
2938
2939			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2940			  resets.
2941
2942			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2943			  link recovery.
2944
2945			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2946			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2947			  detection.
2948
2949			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2950
2951			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2952
2953			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2954
2955			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2956
2957			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2958
2959			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2960
2961			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2962
2963			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2964
2965			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2966			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2967
2968			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2969			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2970
2971			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2972			  identify device data log.
2973
2974			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2975			  purpose log directory.
2976
2977			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2978
2979			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2980			  1024 sectors.
2981
2982			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2983			  65535 sectors.
2984
2985			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2986
2987			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2988			  should be skipped.
2989
2990			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2991			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2992
2993			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2994
2995			* disable: Disable this device.
2996
2997			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2998			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2999
3000	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3001
3002	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3003			Format: <integer>
3004
3005	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3006			Format: <integer>
3007
3008	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3009			Format: <integer>
3010
3011	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3012			Format: <integer>
3013
3014	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3015			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3016			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3017			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3018			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3019			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3020			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3021			are also disabled.
3022
3023	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3024			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3025			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3026			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3027
3028	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3029			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3030			to be bound.
3031
3032	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3033			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3034			to be bound.
3035
3036	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3037			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3038			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3039			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3040			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3041			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3042
3043	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3044			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3045			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3046			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3047
3048	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3049			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3050			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3051			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3052			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3053			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3054
3055	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3056			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3057			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3058			number of online CPUs.
3059
3060	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3061			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3062
3063	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3064			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3065
3066	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3067			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3068			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3069
3070	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3071			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3072			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3073			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3074			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3075			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3076			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3077			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3078			disable boosting.
3079
3080	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3081			Number that determines how often and for how
3082			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3083			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3084			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3085			constant as the number of writers increases.
3086			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3087			increases with the number of writers.
3088
3089	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3090			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3091			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3092			mode during the locktorture test.
3093
3094	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3095			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3096			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3097
3098	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3099			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3100
3101	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3102			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3103			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3104			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3105			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3106			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3107
3108	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3109			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3110
3111	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3112			Enable additional printk() statements.
3113
3114	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3115			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3116			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3117
3118	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3119			Format: <irq>
3120
3121	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3122			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3123			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3124			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3125			loglevels are defined as follows:
3126
3127			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3128			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3129			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3130			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3131			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3132			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3133			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3134			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3135
3136	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3137			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3138			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3139			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3140			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3141			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3142			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3143			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3144			for more details.
3145
3146	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3147			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3148			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3149			kernel boot problems.
3150
3151	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3152	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3153	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3154	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3155				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3156				attached printers to be reset. Using
3157				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3158				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3159				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3160				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3161				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3162				port specification list means that device IDs
3163				from each port should be examined, to see if
3164				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3165				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3166				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3167
3168	lpj=n		[KNL]
3169			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3170			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3171			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3172			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3173			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3174			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3175			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3176			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3177			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3178			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3179			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3180			hardware.
3181
3182	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3183
3184	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3185			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3186			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3187
3188	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3189			different yeeloong laptops.
3190			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3191
3192	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3193			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3194			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3195			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3196			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3197			only takes effect during system bootup.
3198			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3199			which also disables the IO APIC.
3200
3201	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3202	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3203			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3204			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3205			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3206			/dev/loop-control interface.
3207
3208	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3209
3210	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3211
3212	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3213			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3214
3215	mdacon=		[MDA]
3216			Format: <first>,<last>
3217			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3218
3219	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3220			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3221			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3222
3223			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3224			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3225			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3226
3227			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3228			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3229			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3230			not have direct access.
3231
3232			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3233			options are:
3234
3235			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3236			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3237				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3238			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3239
3240			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3241			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3242			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3243			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3244			too.
3245
3246			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3247			mds=full.
3248
3249			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3250
3251	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3252			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3253
3254	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3255			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3256			as follows:
3257
3258			1 for test;
3259			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3260			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3261			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3262			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3263
3264			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3265			high memory is not affected.
3266
3267			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3268			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3269
3270			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3271			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3272			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3273			belonging to unused RAM.
3274
3275			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3276			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3277			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3278
3279	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3280			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3281			reported by firmware.
3282			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3283			ss[KMG].
3284			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3285			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3286
3287	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3288			memory.
3289
3290	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3291
3292	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3293			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3294			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3295
3296	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3297			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3298			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3299			set according to the
3300			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3301			option.
3302			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3303
3304	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3305			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3306			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3307			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3308			option description.
3309
3310	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3311			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3312			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3313			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3314			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3315			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3316			comma delimited.
3317			Example:
3318				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3319
3320	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3321			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3322			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3323
3324	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3325			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3326			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3327			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3328			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3329			         or
3330			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3331			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3332			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3333			will be eaten.
3334
3335	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3336			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3337			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3338			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3339			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3340
3341	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3342			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3343			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3344			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3345			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3346			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3347			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3348			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3349
3350	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3351			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3352			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3353			Setting this option will scan the memory
3354			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3355			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3356			from using the memory being corrupted.
3357			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3358			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3359			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3360			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3361
3362	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3363			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3364			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3365			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3366			corruption in more or less memory.
3367
3368	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3369			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3370			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3371			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3372
3373	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3374			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3375			Format: {on | off (default)}
3376			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3377			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3378			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3379			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3380			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3381			lot of memory without requiring additional
3382			memory to do so.
3383			This feature is disabled by default because it
3384			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3385			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3386			memory blocks).
3387			The state of the flag can be read in
3388			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3389			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3390			the feature is not effective.
3391
3392	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3393			Format: <integer>
3394			default : 0 <disable>
3395			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3396			performed. Each pass selects another test
3397			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3398			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3399			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3400			regions that are detected.
3401
3402	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3403			Valid arguments: on, off
3404			Default: off
3405			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3406			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3407
3408			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3409			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3410
3411	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3412			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3413			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3414			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3415			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3416
3417	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3418			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3419			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3420			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3421
3422	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3423
3424	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3425			Format: <bool>
3426			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3427			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3428
3429	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3430			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3431			Default: "0tb"
3432			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3433			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3434			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3435			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3436			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3437			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3438			unconfigured.
3439			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3440			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3441			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3442			VGA shield.
3443			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3444			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3445			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3446			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3447			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3448			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3449
3450	mitigations=
3451			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3452			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3453			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3454			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3455
3456			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3457			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3458
3459			off
3460				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3461				improves system performance, but it may also
3462				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3463				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3464					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3465					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3466					       l1tf=off [X86]
3467					       mds=off [X86]
3468					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3469					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3470					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3471					       nobp=0 [S390]
3472					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3473					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3474					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3475					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3476					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3477					       retbleed=off [X86]
3478					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3479					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3480					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3481					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3482					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3483					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3484					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3485
3486				Exceptions:
3487					       This does not have any effect on
3488					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3489					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3490
3491			auto (default)
3492				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3493				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3494				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3495				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3496				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3497				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3498
3499			auto,nosmt
3500				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3501				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3502				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3503				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3504					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3505					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3506					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3507					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3508
3509	mminit_loglevel=
3510			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3511			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3512			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3513			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3514			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3515			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3516
3517	mmio_stale_data=
3518			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3519			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3520
3521			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3522			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3523			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3524			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3525			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3526			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3527
3528			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3529			options are:
3530
3531			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3532
3533			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3534				     vulnerable CPUs.
3535
3536			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3537
3538			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3539			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3540			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3541			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3542			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3543			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3544
3545			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3546			mmio_stale_data=full.
3547
3548			For details see:
3549			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3550
3551	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3552			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3553			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3554			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3555			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3556			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3557
3558	module.async_probe=<bool>
3559			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3560			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3561			specific module, use the module specific control that
3562			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3563			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3564			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3565			the specific module.
3566
3567	module.enable_dups_trace
3568			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3569			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3570			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3571			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3572			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3573	module.sig_enforce
3574			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3575			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3576			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3577			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3578
3579	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3580			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3581
3582	mousedev.tap_time=
3583			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3584			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3585			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3586			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3587			Format: <msecs>
3588	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3589			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3590	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3591			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3592
3593	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3594			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3595			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3596			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3597			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3598			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3599			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3600			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3601			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3602			is not too small.
3603
3604	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3605			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3606			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3607			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3608			allocations. Use with caution!
3609
3610	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3611			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3612
3613	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3614			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3615
3616	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3617			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3618
3619	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3620			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3621			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3622
3623	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3624			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3625			registers at boot time.
3626
3627	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3628			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3629			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3630
3631	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3632			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3633			Default is 1.
3634			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3635			using up MTRRs.
3636
3637	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3638			Format: <integer>
3639			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3640			Default : 1
3641			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3642			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3643
3644	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3645			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3646			at a time.
3647
3648	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3649
3650	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3651			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3652			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3653			something different and driver-specific.
3654			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3655			file if at all.
3656
3657	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3658			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3659			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3660			waits 4 seconds.
3661
3662	nf_conntrack.acct=
3663			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3664			0 to disable accounting
3665			1 to enable accounting
3666			Default value is 0.
3667
3668	nfs.cache_getent=
3669			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3670			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3671
3672	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3673			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3674			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3675
3676	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3677			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3678			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3679			requests.
3680
3681	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3682			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3683			channel should listen.
3684
3685	nfs.delay_retrans=
3686			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3687			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3688			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3689			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3690			and the specified value is >= 0.
3691
3692	nfs.enable_ino64=
3693			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3694			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3695			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3696			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3697			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3698
3699	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3700			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3701			entries.
3702
3703	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3704			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3705			slots the client will assign to the callback
3706			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3707			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3708			a particular server.
3709
3710	nfs.max_session_slots=
3711			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3712			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3713			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3714			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3715			Note that there is little point in setting this
3716			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3717
3718	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3719			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3720			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3721			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3722			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3723			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3724			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3725			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3726			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3727			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3728			back to using the idmapper.
3729			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3730
3731	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3732			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3733			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3734			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3735			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3736
3737	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3738			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3739			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3740			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3741			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3742			after the locks are lost.
3743			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3744			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3745			parameter to '1'.
3746			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3747			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3748
3749	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3750			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3751			information in exchange_id requests.
3752			If zero, no implementation identification information
3753			will be sent.
3754			The default is to send the implementation identification
3755			information.
3756
3757	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3758			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3759			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3760
3761			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3762			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3763			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3764			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3765
3766	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3767			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3768			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3769			the destination of the copy.
3770
3771	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3772			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3773			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3774			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3775			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3776			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3777
3778	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3779			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3780			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3781			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3782			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3783			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3784			this parameter.
3785
3786	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3787			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3788
3789	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3790			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3791
3792	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3793			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3794
3795	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3796			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3797			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3798
3799	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3800			when a NMI is triggered.
3801			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3802
3803	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3804			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
3805			Valid num: 0 or 1
3806			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3807			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3808			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
3809
3810			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3811			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3812			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3813			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3814			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3815			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3816			need the box quickly up again.
3817
3818			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3819			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3820
3821	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3822			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3823			is present.
3824
3825	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3826			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3827
3828	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3829			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3830
3831	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3832
3833	noaltinstr	[S390,EARLY] Disables alternative instructions
3834			patching (CPU alternatives feature).
3835
3836	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3837			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3838
3839	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3840
3841	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
3842
3843	no_console_suspend
3844			[HW] Never suspend the console
3845			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3846			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3847			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3848			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3849			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3850			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3851			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3852			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3853			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3854			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3855			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3856			turn on/off it dynamically.
3857
3858	no_debug_objects
3859			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
3860
3861	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3862
3863	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
3864
3865	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3866
3867	noexec32	[X86-64]
3868			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3869			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3870				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3871			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3872				read implies executable mappings
3873
3874	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3875			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3876			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3877
3878	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3879
3880	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3881
3882	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3883			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3884			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3885
3886	no_hash_pointers
3887			[KNL,EARLY]
3888			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3889			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3890			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3891			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3892			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3893			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3894			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3895			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3896			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3897			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3898			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3899			kernels.
3900
3901	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3902
3903	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
3904			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3905			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3906			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3907			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3908			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3909			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3910			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3911
3912	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3913
3914	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3915
3916	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3917			Valid arguments: on, off
3918			Default: on
3919
3920	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3921			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3922			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3923			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3924			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3925			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3926			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3927			just as if they had also been called out in the
3928			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3929
3930			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3931			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3932
3933	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3934			initial RAM disk.
3935
3936	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
3937			remapping.
3938			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3939
3940	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3941
3942	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3943
3944	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3945			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3946
3947	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3948
3949	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
3950			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3951			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3952			Layout Randomization).
3953
3954	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3955			fault handling.
3956
3957	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3958
3959	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3960
3961	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3962
3963	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3964
3965	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3966			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3967
3968	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3969			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3970			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3971			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3972			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3973			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3974			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3975
3976			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3977
3978	nomodule	Disable module load
3979
3980	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3981			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3982			irq.
3983
3984	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3985			pagetables) support.
3986
3987	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3988
3989	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3990			in some Intel CPUs.
3991
3992	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
3993			Equivalent to pti=off
3994
3995	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
3996			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3997			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3998			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3999
4000	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4001			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4002			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4003			contention.
4004
4005	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4006			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4007
4008	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4009			with UP alternatives
4010
4011	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4012			space.
4013
4014	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4015			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4016			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4017
4018	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4019
4020	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4021			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4022			even if it is supported by processor.
4023
4024	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4025			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4026			even if it is supported by processor.
4027
4028	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4029			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4030
4031	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4032			Equivalent to smt=1.
4033
4034			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4035			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4036				     via the sysfs control file.
4037
4038	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4039
4040	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4041			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4042			Store Bypass vulnerability
4043
4044	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4045			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4046			with this option.
4047
4048	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4049			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4050			possible in the system.
4051
4052	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4053			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4054			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4055			leaks with this option.
4056
4057	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4058			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4059			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4060
4061	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4062
4063	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4064			broken timer IRQ sources.
4065
4066	no_uaccess_flush
4067	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4068
4069	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4070			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4071			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4072			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4073			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4074			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4075			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4076			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4077			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4078			is set.
4079
4080	no-vmw-sched-clock
4081			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4082			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4083
4084	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4085			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4086
4087	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4088
4089	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4090
4091			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4092			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4093			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4094
4095	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4096			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4097			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4098
4099	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4100			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4101			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4102			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4103			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4104			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4105
4106	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4107			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4108			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4109			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4110			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4111			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4112			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4113
4114	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4115			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4116			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4117			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4118			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4119			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4120			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4121			hot plugging.
4122
4123	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4124
4125	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4126			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4127			spanning all memory.
4128
4129	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4130			NUMA balancing.
4131			Allowed values are enable and disable
4132
4133	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4134			'node', 'default' can be specified
4135			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4136			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4137
4138	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4139			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4140			info.
4141
4142	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4143			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4144			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4145			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4146			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4147			interrupts *may* be lost!
4148
4149	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4150			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4151			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4152			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4153
4154	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4155
4156			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4157
4158			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4159				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4160			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4161				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4162				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4163
4164	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4165			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4166			process, but there is a small probability of
4167			deadlocking the machine.
4168			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4169			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4170
4171	page_alloc.shuffle=
4172			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4173			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4174			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4175			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4176			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4177			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4178
4179	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4180			Storage of the information about who allocated
4181			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4182			we can turn it on.
4183			on: enable the feature
4184
4185	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4186			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4187			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4188			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4189			on: turn on poisoning
4190
4191	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4192			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4193			Format: <integer>
4194			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4195			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4196
4197	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4198			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4199			timeout = 0: wait forever
4200			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4201			Format: <timeout>
4202
4203	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4204			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4205			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4206			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4207			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4208			called with any of the flags in this set.
4209			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4210			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4211			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4212			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4213			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4214			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4215			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4216
4217	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4218			on a WARN().
4219
4220	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4221			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4222			bit 0: print all tasks info
4223			bit 1: print system memory info
4224			bit 2: print timer info
4225			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4226			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4227			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4228			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4229			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4230			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4231			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4232			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4233			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4234
4235	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4236			connected to, default is 0.
4237			Format: <parport#>
4238	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4239			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4240			Format: <mode>
4241
4242	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4243			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4244			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4245			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4246			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4247			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4248			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4249			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4250			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4251			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4252			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4253			are specified on the command line, starting
4254			with parport0.
4255
4256	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4257			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4258			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4259			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4260			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4261			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4262			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4263
4264	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4265			Format: <int>
4266			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4267			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4268			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4269
4270	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4271			Format: <int>
4272			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4273			changes.  Disabled by default.
4274
4275	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4276			Format: <int>
4277			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4278			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4279			Disabled by default.
4280
4281	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4282			Format: <int>
4283			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4284			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4285			Disabled by default.
4286
4287	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4288			Format: <int>
4289			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4290			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4291			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4292			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4293			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4294			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4295			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4296			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4297			all channels.
4298
4299	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4300			Format: <int>
4301			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4302			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4303			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4304
4305	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4306			Format: <int>
4307			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4308			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4309			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4310
4311	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4312			Format: <int>
4313			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4314			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4315			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4316			All modes allowed by default.
4317
4318	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4319			Format: <int>
4320			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4321			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4322
4323	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4324			Format: <int>
4325			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4326			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4327			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4328			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4329			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4330			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4331			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4332			By default all supported ports are probed.
4333
4334	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4335			Format: <int>
4336			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4337			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4338
4339	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4340			Format: <int>
4341			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4342			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4343			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4344			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4345			0 otherwise.
4346
4347	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4348			Format: <int>
4349			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4350			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4351			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4352			allowed by default.
4353
4354	pause_on_oops=<int>
4355			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4356			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4357			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4358
4359	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4360
4361	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4362
4363				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4364				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4365				specified in one of the following formats:
4366
4367				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4368				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4369
4370				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4371				bus/device/function address which may change
4372				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4373				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4374				by other kernel parameters. If the
4375				domain is left unspecified, it is
4376				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4377				to a device through multiple device/function
4378				addresses can be specified after the base
4379				address (this is more robust against
4380				renumbering issues).  The second format
4381				selects devices using IDs from the
4382				configuration space which may match multiple
4383				devices in the system.
4384
4385		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4386				changes anything
4387		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4388		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4389				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4390				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4391		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4392				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4393				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4394				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4395		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4396				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4397				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4398		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4399				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4400				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4401				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4402				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4403				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4404				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4405		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4406				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4407				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4408		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4409				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4410		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4411				Configuration
4412		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4413				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4414				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4415		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4416				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4417				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4418		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4419				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4420				should never be necessary.
4421		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4422				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4423				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4424				when the system masks IRQs.
4425		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4426				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4427				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4428				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4429		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4430				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4431				on several machines and they hang the machine
4432				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4433				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4434				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4435				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4436				motherboard.
4437		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4438				Use with caution as certain devices share
4439				address decoders between ROMs and other
4440				resources.
4441		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4442				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4443				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4444		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4445				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4446		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4447				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4448				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4449				this way.
4450		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4451				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4452				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4453				F0000h-100000h range.
4454		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4455				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4456				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4457				explicitly which ones they are.
4458		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4459				numbers ourselves, overriding
4460				whatever the firmware may have done.
4461		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4462				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4463				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4464				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4465				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4466				IRQ routing is enabled.
4467		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4468				or for PCI scanning.
4469		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4470				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4471				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4472				please report a bug.
4473		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4474				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4475		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4476				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4477				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4478				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4479				<[email protected]>.
4480		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4481				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4482				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4483				a bug to <[email protected]>.
4484		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4485				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4486				so this option is a temporary workaround
4487				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4488		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4489				handle more pci cards
4490		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4491				This might help on some broken boards which
4492				machine check when some devices' config space
4493				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4494				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4495		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4496				This sorting is done to get a device
4497				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4498		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4499		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4500				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4501		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4502				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4503		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4504				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4505				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4506				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4507				or bus can support) for best performance.
4508		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4509				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4510				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4511				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4512				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4513				that hot-added devices will work.
4514		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4515				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4516				The default value is 256 bytes.
4517		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4518				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4519				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4520		resource_alignment=
4521				Format:
4522				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4523				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4524				aligned memory resources. How to
4525				specify the device is described above.
4526				If <order of align> is not specified,
4527				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4528				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4529				windows need to be expanded.
4530				To specify the alignment for several
4531				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4532				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4533				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4534				for 4096-byte alignment.
4535		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4536				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4537				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4538				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4539				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4540				the default.
4541				off: Turn ECRC off
4542				on: Turn ECRC on.
4543		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4544				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4545				Default size is 256 bytes.
4546		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4547				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4548				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4549		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4550				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4551				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4552		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4553				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4554				MMIO_PREF window.
4555				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4556		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4557				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4558				Default is 1.
4559		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4560				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4561				accommodate resources required by all child
4562				devices.
4563				off: Turn realloc off
4564				on: Turn realloc on
4565		realloc		same as realloc=on
4566		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4567		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4568				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4569		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4570				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4571				port.
4572		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4573				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4574				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4575				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4576				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4577				taints the kernel.
4578		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4579				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4580				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4581				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4582				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4583				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4584				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4585				this removes isolation between devices and
4586				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4587		config_acs=
4588				Format:
4589				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4590				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4591				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4592				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4593				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4594				unchanged based on what is specified in
4595				flags.
4596
4597				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4598				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4599				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4600				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4601				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4602				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4603				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4604				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4605				Each bit can be marked as:
4606				  '0' – force disabled
4607				  '1' – force enabled
4608				  'x' – unchanged
4609				For example,
4610				  pci=config_acs=10x
4611				would configure all devices that support
4612				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4613				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4614				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4615				or firmware set it to.
4616
4617				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4618				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4619		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4620		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4621		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4622				one PCI domain per PCI function
4623
4624	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4625			Management.
4626		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4627			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4628		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4629			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4630
4631	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4632		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4633			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4634			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4635			also tries to use these services.
4636		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4637				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4638		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4639			hotplug).
4640
4641	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4642		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4643		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4644
4645	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4646		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4647			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4648
4649	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4650
4651	pd_ignore_unused
4652			[PM]
4653			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4654			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4655			for debug and development, but should not be
4656			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4657
4658	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4659			boot time.
4660			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4661			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4662
4663	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
4664			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4665			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4666			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4667			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4668			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4669			and performance comparison.
4670
4671	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4672			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4673
4674	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4675			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4676			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4677
4678	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4679			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4680			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4681
4682	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4683			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4684			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4685			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4686			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4687			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4688			remains 0.
4689
4690	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4691			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4692
4693	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4694			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4695			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4696			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4697			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4698			possible settings and some assignment information.
4699
4700	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4701			{ off }
4702
4703	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4704			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4705
4706	pnp_reserve_irq=
4707			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4708
4709	pnp_reserve_dma=
4710			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4711
4712	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4713			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4714
4715	pnp_reserve_mem=
4716			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4717			autoconfiguration.
4718			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4719
4720	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4721			Default is 21.
4722			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4723			may be specified.
4724			Format: <port>,<port>....
4725
4726	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
4727			Format: <unsigned int>
4728			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
4729			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
4730
4731	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4732			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4733			platform machine description specific power_save
4734			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4735			execution priority.
4736
4737	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4738			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4739			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4740			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4741			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4742
4743	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
4744			Format: {"off"}
4745			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4746
4747	preempt=	[KNL]
4748			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4749			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4750			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4751			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4752			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
4753			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
4754			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
4755
4756	print-fatal-signals=
4757			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4758
4759			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4760			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4761			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4762			coredump - etc.
4763
4764			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4765			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4766
4767			default: off.
4768
4769	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4770			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4771			panics
4772			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4773			default: disabled
4774
4775	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4776			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4777			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4778			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4779			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4780			in order to provide more debug information.
4781			Format: <bool>
4782			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4783
4784	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4785			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4786			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4787			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4788			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4789			Default: ratelimit
4790
4791	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4792			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4793
4794	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4795			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4796			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4797
4798	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4799			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4800			instead using the legacy FADT method
4801
4802	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4803			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4804			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4805				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4806			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4807			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4808				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4809			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4810			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4811				statistical time based profiling.
4812
4813	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4814
4815	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4816			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4817			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
4818			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
4819			Layout Randomization is disabled.
4820			Format: <bool>
4821
4822	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4823			tracking.
4824			Format: <bool>
4825
4826	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4827			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4828	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4829			per second.
4830	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4831			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4832			(0 = never).
4833	psmouse.resolution=
4834			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4835	psmouse.smartscroll=
4836			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4837			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4838
4839	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4840
4841	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4842			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4843			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4844			system calls and interrupts.
4845
4846			on   - unconditionally enable
4847			off  - unconditionally disable
4848			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4849			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4850
4851			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4852
4853	pty.legacy_count=
4854			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4855			default number.
4856
4857	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
4858
4859	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4860
4861	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4862			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4863			invalidate.
4864
4865	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4866			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4867
4868	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4869			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4870
4871	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4872
4873	random.trust_cpu=off
4874			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4875			random number generator (if available) to
4876			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4877
4878	random.trust_bootloader=off
4879			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4880			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4881			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4882
4883	randomize_kstack_offset=
4884			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4885			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4886			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4887			that depend on stack address determinism or
4888			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4889			available on architectures that have defined
4890			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4891			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4892			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4893
4894	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4895
4896		cec_disable	[X86]
4897				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4898				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4899
4900	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4901			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4902			as described above.
4903
4904			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4905			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4906			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4907			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4908			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4909			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4910			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4911			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4912			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4913			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4914			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4915			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4916
4917			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4918			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4919
4920			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4921			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4922			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4923			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4924
4925			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4926			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4927
4928	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4929			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4930			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4931			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4932			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4933			This improves the real-time response for the
4934			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4935			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4936			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4937			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4938
4939	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4940			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4941			process in one batch.
4942
4943	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4944			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4945			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4946			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4947			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4948			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4949
4950	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4951			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4952			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4953			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4954
4955	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4956			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4957			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4958
4959	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4960			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4961			RCU grace-period initialization.
4962
4963	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4964			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4965			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4966			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4967			the rcu_node combining tree.
4968
4969	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4970			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4971			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4972			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4973			and maximum value is HZ.
4974
4975	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4976			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4977			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4978			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4979
4980	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4981			Set required age in jiffies for a
4982			given grace period before RCU starts
4983			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4984			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4985			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4986			a value based on the most recent settings
4987			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4988			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4989			This calculated value may be viewed in
4990			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4991			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4992			overwritten.
4993
4994	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4995			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4996			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4997			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4998			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4999			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5000			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5001			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5002			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5003			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5004			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5005			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5006
5007	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5008			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5009			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5010			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5011			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5012			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5013			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5014			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5015			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5016			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5017			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5018			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5019
5020	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5021			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5022			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5023			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5024			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5025			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5026			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5027
5028	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5029			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5030			batch limiting is disabled.
5031
5032	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5033			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5034			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5035
5036	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5037			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5038			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5039			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5040			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5041			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5042			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5043			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5044
5045	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5046			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5047			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5048			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5049
5050	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5051			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5052			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5053			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5054			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5055			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5056			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5057			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5058
5059			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5060			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5061			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5062			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5063			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5064
5065	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5066			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5067			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5068			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5069			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5070
5071	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5072			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5073			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5074			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5075			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5076			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5077			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5078
5079	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5080			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5081			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5082			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5083			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5084			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5085			condition.
5086
5087	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5088			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5089			each group, which defaults to the square root
5090			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5091			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5092			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5093			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5094
5095	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5096			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5097			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5098			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5099			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5100			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5101
5102	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5103			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5104			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5105			By default, this limit is checked only once
5106			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5107			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5108
5109	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5110			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5111			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5112			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5113			Larger delays increase the probability of
5114			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5115			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5116			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5117
5118	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5119			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5120			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5121			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5122
5123	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5124			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5125			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5126			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5127			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5128
5129			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5130			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5131			to zero.
5132
5133	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5134			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5135			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5136			big.
5137
5138	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5139			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5140			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5141			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5142			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5143			normal grace period.
5144
5145			How to enable it:
5146
5147			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5148			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5149
5150			Default is 0.
5151
5152	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5153			Measure performance of asynchronous
5154			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5155
5156	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5157			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5158			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5159			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5160			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5161			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5162
5163	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5164			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5165			grace-period primitives.
5166
5167	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5168			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5169			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5170			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5171			interference.
5172
5173	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5174			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5175			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5176
5177	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5178			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5179			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5180			Defaults to 1.
5181
5182	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5183			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5184
5185	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5186			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5187			If this parameter has the same value as
5188			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5189			and double-argument variants are tested.
5190
5191	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5192			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5193			If this parameter has the same value as
5194			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5195			and double-argument variants are tested.
5196
5197	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5198			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5199
5200	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5201			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5202
5203	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5204			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5205			of allocations and frees.
5206
5207	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5208			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5209			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5210			but instead allows better measurement of things
5211			like CPU consumption.
5212
5213	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5214			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5215			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5216			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5217			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5218			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5219			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5220			a single reader.
5221
5222	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5223			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5224			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5225			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5226
5227	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5228			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5229
5230	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5231			Shut the system down after performance tests
5232			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5233			testing.
5234
5235	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5236			Enable additional printk() statements.
5237
5238	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5239			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5240			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5241			no holdoff.
5242
5243	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5244			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5245			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5246			says no holdoff.
5247
5248	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5249			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5250			in microseconds.
5251
5252	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5253			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5254			in microseconds.
5255
5256	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5257			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5258			in seconds.
5259
5260	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5261			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5262			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5263			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5264			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5265			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5266			of CPUs to be used.
5267
5268	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5269			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5270			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5271
5272	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5273			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5274			forward-progress tests.
5275
5276	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5277			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5278			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5279			testing.
5280
5281	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5282			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5283			primitives, if available.
5284
5285	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5286			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5287
5288	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5289			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5290			update-side primitives, if available.
5291
5292	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5293			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5294			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5295			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5296			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5297			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5298			they are all non-zero.
5299
5300	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5301			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5302			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5303			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5304
5305	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5306			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5307			This can of course result in splats, and is
5308			intended to test the ability of things like
5309			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5310			such leaks.
5311
5312	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5313			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5314
5315	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5316			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5317			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5318			test, hence the "fake".
5319
5320	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5321			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5322			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5323
5324	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5325			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5326			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5327
5328	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5329			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5330			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5331			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5332			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5333			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5334
5335	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5336			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5337
5338	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5339			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5340
5341	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5342			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5343			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5344
5345	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5346			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5347			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5348			task-exit processing.
5349
5350	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5351			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5352			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5353			is spawned.
5354
5355	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5356			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5357			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5358
5359	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5360			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5361			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5362			during the rcutorture test.
5363
5364	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5365			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5366			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5367
5368	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5369			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5370			warnings, zero to disable.
5371
5372	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5373			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5374			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5375			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5376			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5377			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5378			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5379			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5380			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5381			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5382
5383			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5384
5385
5386	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5387			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5388
5389	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5390			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5391
5392	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5393			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5394			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5395			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5396			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5397			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5398
5399	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5400			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5401
5402	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5403			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5404			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5405			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5406			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5407
5408	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5409			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5410			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5411			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5412
5413	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5414			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5415
5416	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5417			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5418
5419	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5420			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5421			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5422
5423	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5424			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5425
5426	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5427			Enable additional printk() statements.
5428
5429	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5430			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5431			stall warning.
5432
5433	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5434			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5435			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5436			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5437			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5438
5439	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5440			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5441
5442	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5443			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5444			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5445			during early boot, that is, during the time
5446			before the init task is spawned.
5447
5448	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5449			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5450			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5451			value is 300 seconds.
5452
5453	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5454			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5455			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5456			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5457			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5458			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5459			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5460			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5461			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5462
5463	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5464			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5465			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5466			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5467			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5468
5469	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5470			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5471			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5472			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5473
5474	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5475			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5476			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5477			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5478			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5479			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5480			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5481
5482	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5483			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5484			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5485			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5486			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5487			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5488			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5489			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5490			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5491
5492	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5493			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5494			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5495			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5496			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5497
5498			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5499			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5500			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5501			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5502			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5503			grace-period processing.
5504
5505	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5506			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5507			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5508			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5509			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5510			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5511			set to the default value of -1.
5512
5513	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5514			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5515			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5516			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5517			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5518			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5519			the default value of -1.
5520
5521	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5522			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5523			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5524			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5525			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5526			for use in testing.
5527
5528	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5529			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5530			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5531			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5532			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5533			but lengthens grace periods.
5534
5535	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5536			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5537			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5538			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5539			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5540			callback flooding.
5541
5542	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5543			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5544			informational messages, which give some indication
5545			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5546			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5547			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5548			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5549			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5550			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5551			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5552
5553	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5554			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5555			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5556			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5557			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5558			the value three, so that the first informational
5559			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5560			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5561			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5562			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5563
5564	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5565			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5566			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5567			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5568			A change in value does not take effect until
5569			the beginning of the next grace period.
5570
5571	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5572			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5573			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5574			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5575			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5576			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5577
5578	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5579			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5580			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5581			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5582			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5583			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5584			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5585
5586	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5587			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5588			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5589			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5590			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5591			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5592			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5593
5594	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5595			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5596
5597	rdinit=		[KNL]
5598			Format: <full_path>
5599			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5600			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5601
5602	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
5603			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5604				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5605				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5606				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5607				path).
5608
5609	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5610			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5611			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5612			mba, smba, bmec.
5613			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5614				rdt=cmt,!mba
5615
5616	reboot=		[KNL]
5617			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5618				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5619				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5620				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5621				[[,]f[orce]
5622			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5623					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5624					reboot only),
5625			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5626			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5627			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5628					to be used for rebooting.
5629
5630	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5631			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5632			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5633			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5634			interference.
5635
5636	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5637			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5638			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5639			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5640			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5641
5642	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5643			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5644			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5645			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5646			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5647			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5648			x86 laptops.
5649
5650	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5651			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5652			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5653			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5654
5655	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5656			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5657			the console log.
5658
5659	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5660			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5661			measured in microseconds.
5662
5663	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5664			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5665
5666	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5667			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5668			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5669			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5670			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5671
5672	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5673			Enable additional printk() statements.
5674
5675	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5676			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5677			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5678			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5679			specified.
5680
5681	regulator_ignore_unused
5682			[REGULATOR]
5683			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5684			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5685			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5686			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5687
5688	relax_domain_level=
5689			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5690			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5691
5692	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5693			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5694			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5695			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5696			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5697
5698	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
5699			Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label>
5700			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
5701			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
5702			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
5703			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
5704			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
5705			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
5706			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
5707			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
5708			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
5709			different location.
5710			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
5711			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
5712			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
5713			located at the same location.
5714
5715			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
5716			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
5717
5718			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
5719
5720	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
5721			Format: nn[KMG]
5722			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5723			address space.
5724
5725	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5726			during initialization.
5727
5728	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5729			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5730			Format:
5731			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5732
5733	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5734			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5735			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5736			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5737			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5738
5739	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5740			read the resume files
5741
5742	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5743			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5744			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5745
5746	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
5747			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
5748
5749	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5750			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5751			vulnerability.
5752
5753			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5754			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5755			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5756			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5757			that don't.
5758
5759			off          - no mitigation
5760			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5761			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5762				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5763				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5764				       and older without STIBP).
5765			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5766				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5767				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5768				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5769				       on Intel.
5770			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5771				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5772				       the alternative for systems which do not
5773				       have STIBP.
5774			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5775				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5776				       systems.
5777			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5778				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5779				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5780
5781			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5782			time according to the CPU.
5783
5784			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5785
5786	rfkill.default_state=
5787		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5788			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5789		1	Unblocked.
5790
5791	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5792		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5793		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5794			blocked and the previous configuration.
5795		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5796			blocked and everything unblocked.
5797
5798	ring3mwait=disable
5799			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5800			CPUs.
5801
5802	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
5803			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5804			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5805			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5806			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5807			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5808
5809	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5810
5811	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
5812		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5813		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5814		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5815		        [arm64]
5816
5817	rockchip.usb_uart
5818			[EARLY]
5819			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5820			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5821			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5822			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5823
5824	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5825			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5826			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5827			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5828			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5829			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5830			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5831
5832	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5833			mount the root filesystem
5834
5835	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5836
5837	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5838
5839	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5840			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5841			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5842
5843	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5844			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5845			filesystem.
5846
5847	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5848			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5849			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5850			managed by CMA.
5851
5852	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5853
5854	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5855
5856	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5857			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5858		strict
5859			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5860			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5861			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5862			iommu.strict=1.
5863
5864	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5865			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5866			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5867			factor of the size of main memory.
5868			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5869			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5870			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5871			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5872			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5873			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5874			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5875
5876	sa1100ir	[NET]
5877			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5878
5879	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5880
5881	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5882			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5883			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5884			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5885
5886	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5887			[Deprecated]
5888			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5889			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5890			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5891			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5892			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5893			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5894			value.
5895			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5896			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5897				1			64 ms
5898				2			128 ms
5899			and so on.
5900			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5901			Default is 0.
5902
5903	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5904			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5905			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5906			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5907			tests.
5908
5909	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5910			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5911			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5912			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5913			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5914			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5915			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5916
5917	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5918			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5919			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5920			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5921			equal to the number of CPUs.
5922
5923	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5924			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5925			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5926
5927	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5928			Number seconds to wait between successive
5929			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5930			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5931
5932	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5933			The number of seconds following the start of the
5934			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5935			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5936			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5937
5938	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5939			The number of seconds between outputting the
5940			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5941			of zero disables statistics output.
5942
5943	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5944			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5945			to the set of CPUs under test.
5946
5947	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5948			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5949			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5950			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5951			functions.
5952
5953	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5954			Enable additional printk() statements.
5955
5956	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5957			The probability weighting to use for the
5958			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5959			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5960			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5961			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5962			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5963
5964	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5965			The probability weighting to use for the
5966			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5967			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5968
5969	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5970			The probability weighting to use for the
5971			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5972			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5973			Note well that setting a high probability for
5974			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5975			on the system.
5976
5977	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5978			The probability weighting to use for the
5979			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5980			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5981			and weight_many.
5982
5983	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5984			The probability weighting to use for the
5985			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5986			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5987			weight_many.
5988
5989	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5990			The probability weighting to use for the
5991			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5992			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5993			and weight_many.
5994
5995	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5996			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5997			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5998			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5999			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6000			1 -- enable.
6001			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6002			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6003
6004	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6005			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6006			"lsm=" parameter.
6007
6008	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6009			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6010			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6011			0 -- disable.
6012			1 -- enable.
6013			Default value is 1.
6014
6015	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6016
6017	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
6018
6019	shapers=	[NET]
6020			Maximal number of shapers.
6021
6022	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6023			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6024			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6025			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6026			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6027			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6028			apic=verbose is specified.
6029			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6030
6031	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6032			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6033			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6034			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6035			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6036			last alloc / free. For more information see
6037			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6038			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6039
6040	slab_max_order= [MM]
6041			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6042			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6043			fragmentation. For more information see
6044			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6045			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6046
6047	slab_merge	[MM]
6048			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6049			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6050			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6051
6052	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6053			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6054			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6055			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6056			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6057			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6058			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6059			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6060			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6061
6062	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6063			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6064			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6065			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6066			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6067
6068	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6069			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6070			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6071			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6072			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6073			layout control by attackers can usually be
6074			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6075			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6076			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6077			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6078			own.
6079			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6080			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6081
6082	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6083
6084	smart2=		[HW]
6085			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6086
6087	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6088			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6089			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6090			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6091			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6092			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6093			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6094			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6095			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6096			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6097
6098	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6099			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6100			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6101			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6102			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6103			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6104
6105	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6106	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6107	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6108	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6109	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6110	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6111	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6112				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6113				1: Fast pin select (default)
6114				2: ATC IRMode
6115
6116	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6117			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6118			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6119			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6120			Format: <integer>
6121			Default: -1 (no limit)
6122
6123	softlockup_panic=
6124			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6125			Format: 0 | 1
6126
6127			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6128			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6129			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6130			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6131			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6132
6133	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6134			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6135			backtraces on all cpus.
6136			Format: 0 | 1
6137
6138	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6139			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6140
6141	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6142			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6143			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6144			clearing sequence.
6145
6146			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6147				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6148				 both syscalls and VMs.
6149			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6150				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6151				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6152				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6153				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6154			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6155
6156	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6157			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6158			The default operation protects the kernel from
6159			user space attacks.
6160
6161			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6162			       spectre_v2_user=on
6163			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6164			       spectre_v2_user=off
6165			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6166			       vulnerable
6167
6168			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6169			mitigation method at run time according to the
6170			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6171			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6172			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6173
6174			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6175			against user space to user space task attacks.
6176
6177			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6178			the user space protections.
6179
6180			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6181
6182			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6183			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6184			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6185			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6186			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6187			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6188			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6189			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6190
6191			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6192			spectre_v2=auto.
6193
6194	spectre_v2_user=
6195			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6196		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6197		        user space tasks
6198
6199			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6200				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6201
6202			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6203				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6204
6205			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6206				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6207				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6208				  is inherited on fork.
6209
6210			prctl,ibpb
6211				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6212				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6213				  always when switching between different user
6214				  space processes.
6215
6216			seccomp
6217				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6218				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6219				  they explicitly opt out.
6220
6221			seccomp,ibpb
6222				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6223				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6224				  always when switching between different
6225				  user space processes.
6226
6227			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6228				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6229
6230			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6231
6232			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6233			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6234
6235	spec_rstack_overflow=
6236			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6237
6238			off		- Disable mitigation
6239			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6240			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6241			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6242					  kernel entry
6243			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6244					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6245
6246	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6247			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6248			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6249
6250			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6251			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6252			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6253			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6254			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6255			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6256			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6257			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6258
6259			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6260			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6261			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6262			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6263
6264			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6265			Bypass optimization is used.
6266
6267			On x86 the options are:
6268
6269			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6270			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6271			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6272				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6273				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6274				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6275				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6276				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6277			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6278				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6279				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6280				  is inherited on fork.
6281			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6282				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6283
6284			Default mitigations:
6285			X86:	"prctl"
6286
6287			On powerpc the options are:
6288
6289			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6290				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6291				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6292				  exit.
6293			off	- No action.
6294
6295			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6296			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6297
6298	split_lock_detect=
6299			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6300
6301			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6302			instructions that access data across cache line
6303			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6304			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6305			bus lock detection.
6306
6307			off	- not enabled
6308
6309			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6310				  about applications triggering the #AC
6311				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6312				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6313				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6314				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6315				  enabled in hardware.
6316
6317			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6318				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6319				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6320				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6321
6322			ratelimit:N -
6323				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6324				  per second for bus lock detection.
6325				  0 < N <= 1000.
6326
6327				  N/A for split lock detection.
6328
6329
6330			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6331			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6332			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6333			mode.
6334
6335			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6336			CPL > 0.
6337
6338	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6339			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6340			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6341
6342			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6343			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6344			number generator.
6345
6346			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6347			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6348			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6349			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6350			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6351
6352			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6353			the following option:
6354
6355			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6356				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6357
6358	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6359			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6360			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6361			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6362			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6363			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6364			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6365			(decide at boot).
6366
6367	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6368			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6369			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6370			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6371
6372				   0:  Never.
6373				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6374				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6375				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6376				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6377
6378			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6379			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6380			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6381
6382	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6383			Specifies how frequently to check for
6384			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6385			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6386			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6387			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6388			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6389			are ignored.
6390
6391	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6392			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6393			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6394			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6395			grace period will be considered for automatic
6396			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6397			expediting.
6398
6399	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6400			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6401			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6402			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6403			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6404			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6405
6406	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6407			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6408			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6409			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6410			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6411			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6412
6413	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6414			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6415			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6416
6417	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6418			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6419			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6420			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6421			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6422			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6423			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6424
6425	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
6426			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6427
6428			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6429			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6430			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6431			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6432
6433			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6434				   for both kernel and userspace
6435			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6436				   for both kernel and userspace
6437			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6438				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6439				   to allow userspace to register its
6440				   interest in being mitigated too.
6441
6442	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6443			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6444			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6445			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6446			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6447			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6448
6449	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
6450			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6451			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6452			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6453			to false.
6454
6455	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6456			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6457
6458	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6459			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6460			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6461			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6462			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6463			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6464			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6465
6466	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6467			Format: <num>
6468			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6469			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6470			as the initial boot-console.
6471			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6472
6473	sti_font=	[HW]
6474			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6475
6476	stifb=		[HW]
6477			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6478
6479        strict_sas_size=
6480			[X86]
6481			Format: <bool>
6482			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6483			against the required signal frame size which
6484			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6485			be used to filter out binaries which have
6486			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6487
6488	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
6489			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6490			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6491			faults on kernel addresses.
6492
6493	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
6494			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6495			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6496			on kernel addresses.
6497
6498	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6499	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6500			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6501			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6502			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6503			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6504			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6505			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6506			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6507			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6508			maximum port values.
6509
6510	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6511			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6512			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6513			process in parallel from a single connection.
6514			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6515
6516	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6517			[NFS]
6518			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6519			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6520			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6521			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6522			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6523			NFS server is running.
6524
6525			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6526				    automatically using heuristics
6527			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6528			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6529			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6530				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6531
6532	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6533	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6534			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6535			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6536			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6537			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6538			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6539			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6540
6541	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6542			[SUSPEND]
6543			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6544			mode before resuming the system (see
6545			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6546			is set. Default value is 5.
6547
6548	svm=		[PPC]
6549			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6550			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6551			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6552
6553	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
6554			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6555			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6556			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6557				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6558				 to a power of 2.
6559			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6560			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6561			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6562
6563	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
6564
6565	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6566			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6567			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6568			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6569			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6570			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6571			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6572			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6573
6574	sysrq_always_enabled
6575			[KNL]
6576			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6577			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6578			Useful for debugging.
6579
6580	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6581			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6582			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6583			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6584			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6585			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6586
6587	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6588
6589	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6590			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6591			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6592			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6593			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6594			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6595			The system is woken from this state using a
6596			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6597
6598	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6599			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6600
6601	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6602			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6603			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6604
6605	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6606			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6607			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6608
6609	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6610			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6611
6612	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6613			-1: disable all passive trip points
6614			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6615			value
6616
6617	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6618			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6619			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6620			0: no polling (default)
6621
6622	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
6623			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6624			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6625
6626	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
6627			Format: {off | on}
6628			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6629			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6630			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6631			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6632			Default is on.
6633
6634	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6635			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6636			until after init has spawned.
6637
6638	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6639			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6640			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6641			very costly operation when many torture tests
6642			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6643			with rotating-rust storage.
6644
6645	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6646			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6647			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6648			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6649
6650	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6651			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6652
6653	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6654			Format: integer pcr id
6655			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6656			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6657			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6658			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6659			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6660			are saved.
6661
6662	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6663			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6664			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6665			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6666			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6667			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6668
6669	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6670			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6671			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6672			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6673			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6674			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6675
6676			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6677			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6678			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6679			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6680
6681			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6682			to stop the printing of events to console at
6683			late_initcall_sync.
6684
6685			** CAUTION **
6686
6687			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6688			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6689			the system to live lock.
6690
6691	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6692			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6693			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6694			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6695			make the system inoperable.
6696
6697			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6698			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6699
6700	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6701			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6702
6703	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6704			at boot up.
6705			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6706				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6707				depending on the architecture, may not be
6708				in sync between CPUs.
6709			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6710				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6711				but better for some race conditions.
6712			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6713				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6714				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6715				once per event.
6716			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6717			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6718			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6719			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6720				stamps.
6721			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6722			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6723			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6724
6725	trace_event=[event-list]
6726			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6727			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6728			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6729			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6730
6731	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6732			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6733			This will be listed in:
6734
6735				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6736
6737			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6738			via:
6739
6740				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6741
6742			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6743			unique.
6744
6745				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6746
6747			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6748			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6749			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6750
6751	trace_options=[option-list]
6752			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6753			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6754			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6755			to echo the option name into
6756
6757			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6758
6759			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6760			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6761
6762			      trace_options=stacktrace
6763
6764			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6765			section.
6766
6767	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6768			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6769			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6770			filter.
6771
6772			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6773			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6774
6775			For example:
6776
6777			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6778
6779			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6780			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6781			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6782
6783			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6784
6785
6786	traceoff_on_warning
6787			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6788			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6789			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6790			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6791
6792			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6793			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6794			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6795
6796			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6797			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6798
6799	transparent_hugepage=
6800			[KNL]
6801			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6802			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6803			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6804			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6805			for more details.
6806
6807	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6808			Format: <string>
6809			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6810			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6811			sources:
6812			- "tpm"
6813			- "tee"
6814			- "caam"
6815			- "dcp"
6816			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6817			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6818			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6819			successfully during iteration.
6820
6821	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6822			Format: <string>
6823			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6824			Can be one of:
6825			- "kernel"
6826			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6827			- "default"
6828			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6829			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6830
6831	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
6832			This is intended to be used in combination with
6833			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
6834			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
6835
6836	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
6837			This is intended to be used in combination with
6838			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
6839			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
6840			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
6841			scenarios.
6842
6843	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6844			Format: <string>
6845			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6846			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6847			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6848			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6849			virtualized environment.
6850			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6851			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6852			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6853			can add overhead.
6854			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6855			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6856			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6857			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6858			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6859			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6860			acceptable).
6861			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6862			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6863			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6864			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6865			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6866			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6867			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6868			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6869			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6870			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6871
6872	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6873			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6874			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6875			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6876			Format: <unsigned int>
6877
6878	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6879			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6880			support TSX control.
6881
6882			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6883
6884			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6885				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6886				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6887				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6888				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6889				with leaving it enabled.
6890
6891			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6892				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6893				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6894				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6895				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6896				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6897				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6898
6899			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6900				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6901
6902			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6903
6904			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6905			for more details.
6906
6907	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6908			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6909
6910			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6911			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6912			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6913			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6914			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6915			conditions.
6916
6917			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6918			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6919			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6920			access.
6921
6922			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6923			options are:
6924
6925			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6926				     if TSX is enabled.
6927
6928			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6929				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6930				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6931				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6932			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6933
6934			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6935			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6936			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6937			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6938
6939			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6940			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6941			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6942			required and doesn't provide any additional
6943			mitigation.
6944
6945			For details see:
6946			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6947
6948	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6949			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6950			Format:
6951			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6952			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6953
6954	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6955			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6956			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6957			help "seeing" what's going on.
6958
6959	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6960			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6961
6962	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6963			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6964			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6965			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6966			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6967			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6968			reported either.
6969
6970	unknown_nmi_panic
6971			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6972
6973	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
6974			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6975			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6976			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6977			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6978
6979	usbcore.authorized_default=
6980			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6981			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6982			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6983			if device connected to internal port)
6984
6985	usbcore.autosuspend=
6986			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6987			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6988			is the time required before an idle device will be
6989			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6990			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6991
6992	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6993			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6994
6995	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6996			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6997			(default = 65536).
6998
6999	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7000			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7001
7002	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7003			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7004			scheme (default 0 = off).
7005
7006	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7007			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7008			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7009
7010	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7011			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7012			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7013
7014	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7015			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7016			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7017			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7018
7019	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7020
7021	usbcore.quirks=
7022			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7023			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7024			commas. Each entry has the form
7025			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7026			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7027			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7028			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7029			the following meanings:
7030				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7031					descriptors must not be fetched using
7032					a 255-byte read);
7033				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7034					correctly so reset it instead);
7035				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7036					Set-Interface requests);
7037				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7038					handle its Configuration or Interface
7039					strings);
7040				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7041					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7042				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7043					more interface descriptions than the
7044					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7045					talking to these interfaces);
7046				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7047					during initialization, after we read
7048					the device descriptor);
7049				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7050					high speed and super speed interrupt
7051					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7052					require the interval in microframes (1
7053					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7054					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7055					(bInterval-1).
7056					Devices with this quirk report their
7057					bInterval as the result of this
7058					calculation instead of the exponent
7059					variable used in the calculation);
7060				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7061					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7062					requests);
7063				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7064					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7065					remote wakeup capability);
7066				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7067					Power Management);
7068				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7069					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7070					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7071					calculation);
7072				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7073					to be disconnected before suspend to
7074					prevent spurious wakeup);
7075				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7076					pause after every control message);
7077				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7078					delay after resetting its port);
7079				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7080					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7081					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7082			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7083
7084	usbhid.mousepoll=
7085			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7086
7087	usbhid.jspoll=
7088			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7089
7090	usbhid.kbpoll=
7091			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7092
7093	usb-storage.delay_use=
7094			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7095			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7096			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7097			suffix with "ms".
7098			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7099
7100	usb-storage.quirks=
7101			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7102			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7103			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7104			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7105			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7106			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7107			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7108				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7109					of sense data, not on uas);
7110				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7111					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7112				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7113					device capacity by one sector);
7114				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7115					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7116				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7117					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7118				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7119					command, uas only);
7120				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7121					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7122				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7123					reported device capacity by one
7124					sector if the number is odd);
7125				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7126					device);
7127				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7128					command, uas only);
7129				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7130				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7131					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7132				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7133					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7134					not on uas);
7135				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7136					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7137				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7138					reported by the device, not on uas);
7139				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7140					by default, not on uas);
7141				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7142					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7143				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7144					Logical Unit);
7145				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7146					commands, uas only);
7147				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7148				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7149					medium is write-protected).
7150				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7151					even if the device claims no cache,
7152					not on uas)
7153			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7154
7155	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7156			Format: <int>
7157			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7158				 1 - undefined instruction events
7159				 2 - system calls
7160				 4 - invalid data aborts
7161				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7162				16 - SIGBUS faults
7163			Example: user_debug=31
7164
7165	userpte=
7166			[X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7167
7168				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7169					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7170					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7171
7172	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7173			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7174
7175			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7176			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7177
7178	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7179			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7180			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7181
7182			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7183			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7184			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7185
7186			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7187			alias for vdso32=0.
7188
7189			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7190			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7191
7192	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7193			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7194
7195	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7196			Format: [0|1]
7197			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7198			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7199			level and then send out the event to user space through
7200			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7201			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7202			brightness level.
7203			default: 1
7204
7205	virtio_mmio.device=
7206			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7207
7208				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7209			where:
7210				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7211						like K, M and G)
7212				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7213				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7214						request_irq())
7215				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7216			example:
7217				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7218
7219			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7220
7221	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7222			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7223			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7224			Use vga=ask for menu.
7225			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7226			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7227
7228	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7229			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7230			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7231			All options are enabled by default, and this
7232			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7233			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7234			debugging features.
7235
7236			Available options are:
7237			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7238			  -	Disable all of the above options
7239
7240	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7241			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7242			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
7243			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
7244			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7245			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
7246			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
7247			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
7248
7249	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7250			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7251			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7252
7253	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7254			Format: <command>
7255
7256	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7257			Format: <command>
7258
7259	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7260			Format: <command>
7261
7262	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7263			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7264			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7265			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7266			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7267			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7268			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7269
7270			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7271			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7272				    readable.
7273
7274			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7275			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7276				    page is not readable.
7277
7278			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7279			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7280			            might break your system.
7281
7282	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7283			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7284			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7285
7286	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7287			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7288			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7289			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7290
7291	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7292			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7293			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7294			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7295			ranging from 0-255.
7296
7297	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7298			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7299			Change the default green palette of the console.
7300			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7301			ranging from 0-255.
7302
7303	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7304			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7305			Change the default red palette of the console.
7306			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7307			ranging from 0-255.
7308
7309	vt.default_utf8=
7310			[VT]
7311			Format=<0|1>
7312			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7313			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7314			newly opened terminals.
7315
7316	vt.global_cursor_default=
7317			[VT]
7318			Format=<-1|0|1>
7319			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7320			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7321			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7322			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7323			cursors, 1 will display them.
7324
7325	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7326			Default: 2 = green.
7327
7328	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7329			Default: 3 = cyan.
7330
7331	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7332			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7333			or other driver-specific files in the
7334			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7335
7336	watchdog_thresh=
7337			[KNL]
7338			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7339			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7340			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7341			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7342			seconds.
7343
7344	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7345			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7346			to use in unbound workqueues.
7347			Format: <cpu-list>
7348			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7349			unbound workqueues.
7350
7351	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7352			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7353			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7354			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7355			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7356			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7357			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7358			corresponding sysfs file.
7359
7360	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7361			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7362			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7363			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7364			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7365			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7366
7367			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7368			will report the work functions which violate this
7369			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7370			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7371
7372	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
7373			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7374			will report the work functions which violate the
7375			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
7376			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
7377			function has violated this threshold number of times.
7378
7379			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
7380
7381	workqueue.power_efficient
7382			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7383			they show better performance thanks to cache
7384			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7385			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7386
7387			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7388			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7389			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7390			power usage at the cost of small performance
7391			overhead.
7392
7393			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7394			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7395
7396        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7397			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7398			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7399			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7400			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7401			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7402
7403			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7404			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7405			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7406			updated accordingly.
7407
7408	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7409			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7410			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7411			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7412			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7413			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7414			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7415			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7416			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7417			impacted.
7418
7419	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
7420			Type) of ioremap_wc().
7421
7422			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7423			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7424
7425	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7426			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7427			supporting x2apic.
7428
7429	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7430			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7431			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7432			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7433			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7434			domains.
7435
7436	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
7437			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7438			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7439			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7440			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7441			nics -- unplug network devices
7442			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7443			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7444				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7445				the unplug protocol
7446			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7447
7448	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7449			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7450			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7451
7452	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7453			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
7454			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
7455			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
7456			debug data in case of multicall errors.
7457
7458	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7459			Format: <bool>
7460			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7461			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7462			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7463
7464	xen_nopv	[X86]
7465			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7466			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7467			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7468			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7469
7470	xen_no_vector_callback
7471			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7472			event channel interrupts.
7473
7474	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7475			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7476			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7477			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7478			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7479
7480	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7481			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7482			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7483			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7484			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7485			more timer interrupts.
7486
7487	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7488			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7489			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7490			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7491			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7492			max. Default is 180.
7493
7494	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7495			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7496			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7497
7498	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7499			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7500			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7501
7502	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7503			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7504			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7505			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7506			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7507			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7508
7509	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7510			Format:
7511			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7512
7513	xive=		[PPC]
7514			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7515			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7516			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7517
7518			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7519				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7520				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7521
7522	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7523			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7524			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7525			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7526			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7527
7528	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7529			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7530			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7531			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7532
7533	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
7534			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7535			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7536			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7537			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7538				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7539			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7540				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7541				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7542				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7543			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7544				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7545				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7546				can be written using xmon commands.
7547			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7548				memory, and other data can't be written using
7549				xmon commands.
7550			off	xmon is disabled.
7551