1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235			used during resume from hibernation.
236			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239			of _PTS is used by default).
240			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244			but some broken systems don't work without it).
245			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256	agp=		[AGP]
257			{ off | try_unsupported }
258			off: disable AGP support
259			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
263			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278			32: only for 32-bit processes
279			64: only for 64-bit processes
280			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
291			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292			Possible values are:
293			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295				    flushed before they will be reused, which
296				    is a lot of faster
297			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298				    the system
299			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
302					  requirements as needed. This option
303					  does not override iommu=pt
304
305	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309			IOMMU initialization.
310
311	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
312			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313			remapping modes:
314			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322			Format: <a>,<b>
323			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327			connected to one of 16 gameports
328			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
331			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332			Format: noidle
333			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335			APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338			Change the output verbosity while booting
339			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340			Change the amount of debugging information output
341			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343			driver name.
344			Format: apic=driver_name
345			Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351			      backup of CPU 0
352			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354			      shot down by NMI
355
356	autoconf=	[IPV6]
357			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
358
359	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365			apic=verbose is specified.
366			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
369			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
375
376	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
377
378	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
379			EzKey and similar keyboards
380
381	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
382
383	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
384			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
385
386	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
387			keyboards
388
389	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
390			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
391
392	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
393			Use software keyboard repeat
394
395	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
396			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
397			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
398			    enabled until the next reboot
399			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
400			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
401			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
402			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
403			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
404			    userspace auditd.
405			Default: unset
406
407	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
408			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
409			Default: 64
410
411	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
412			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
413			Format: { "0" | "1" }
414			0 - Disable the BAU.
415			1 - Enable the BAU.
416			unset - Disable the BAU.
417
418	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
419			Format: <io>,<mode>
420
421	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
422			Format: <io>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
424
425	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
426			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
427			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
428			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
429
430	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
431			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
432			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
433			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
434
435	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
436			embedded devices based on command line input.
437			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
438
439	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
440			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
441			no delay (0).
442			Format: integer
443
444	bootconfig	[KNL]
445			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
446			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
447
448			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
449
450	bert_disable	[ACPI]
451			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
452
453	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
454	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
455			kernel args too.
456	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
457	bttv.tuner=
458
459	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
460			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
461			at a time.
462
463	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
464
465	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
466			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
467			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
468			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
469			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
470			This option provides an override for these situations.
471
472	carrier_timeout=
473			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
474			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
475			it waits 120 seconds.
476
477	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
478			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
479			trust validation.
480			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
481
482	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
483			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
484			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
485			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
486			others).
487
488	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
489			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
490
491	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
492			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
493			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
494			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
495			  a single hierarchy
496			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
497			  subsystem
498			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
499			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
500			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
501
502	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
503			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
504			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
505			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
506			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
507			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
508			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
509			all v1 hierarchies.
510
511	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
512			Format: <string>
513			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
514			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
515
516	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
517			Format: { "0" | "1" }
518			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
519			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
520				any implied execute protection).
521			1 -- check protection requested by application.
522			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
523			Value can be changed at runtime via
524				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
525
526	cio_ignore=	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528	clk_ignore_unused
529			[CLK]
530			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
531			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
532			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
533			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
534			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
535			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
536			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
537			platform with proper driver support.  For more
538			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
539
540	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
541			[Deprecated]
542			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
543			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
544			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
545			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
546
547	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
548			Format: <string>
549			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
550			with the name specified.
551			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
552			the platform:
553			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
554			[ACPI] acpi_pm
555			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
556				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
557			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
558				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
559			[MIPS] MIPS
560			[PARISC] cr16
561			[S390] tod
562			[SH] SuperH
563			[SPARC64] tick
564			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
565
566	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
567			[ARM,ARM64]
568			Format: <bool>
569			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
570			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
571			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
572			systems.
573
574	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
575			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
576			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
577			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
578			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
579			ones should be.
580			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
581			or using the feature without checking anything
582			will still see it. This just prevents it from
583			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
584			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
585			some critical bits.
586
587	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
588			[ARM,X86,KNL]
589			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
590			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
591			placement constraint by the physical address range of
592			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
593			altogether. For more information, see
594			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
595
596	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
597			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
598			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
599			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
600			a hypervisor.
601			Default: yes
602
603	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
604			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
605			allocations, by default set to 256K.
606
607	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
608			Format:
609			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
610
611	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
612			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
613
614	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
615			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
616			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
617
618	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
619	conmode=
620
621	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
622
623		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
624
625		ttyS<n>[,options]
626		ttyUSB0[,options]
627			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
628			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
629			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
630			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
631			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
632
633			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
634			information.  See
635			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
636			alternative.
637
638		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
639		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
640		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
641		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
642		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
643			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
644			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
645			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
646			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
647			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
648			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
649			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
650			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
651			the h/w is not re-initialized.
652
653		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
654			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
655
656		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
657		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
658			console=brl,ttyS0
659		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
660
661	console_msg_format=
662			[KNL] Change console messages format
663		default
664			By default we print messages on consoles in
665			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
666			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
667			`printk_time' param).
668		syslog
669			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
670			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
671			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
672			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
673			from /proc/kmsg.
674
675	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
676			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
677			Defaults to 0.
678
679	coredump_filter=
680			[KNL] Change the default value for
681			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
682			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
683
684	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
685			[ARM,ARM64]
686			Format: <bool>
687			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
688			0: default value, disable debugging
689			1: enable debugging at boot time
690
691	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
692			disable the cpuidle sub-system
693
694	cpuidle.governor=
695			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
696
697	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
698			disable the cpufreq sub-system
699
700	cpu_init_udelay=N
701			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
702			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
703			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
704			Default: 10000
705
706	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
707			Format:
708			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
709
710	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
711			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
712			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
713			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
714			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
715			is selected automatically.
716			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
717			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
718			hasn't been specified.
719			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
720
721	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
722			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
723			in the running system. The syntax of range is
724			start-[end] where start and end are both
725			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
726			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
727
728	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
729			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
730			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
731			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
732			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
733			available.
734			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
735	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
736			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
737			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
738			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
739			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
740			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
741			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
742			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
743			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
744			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
745			for second kernel instead.
746			0: to disable low allocation.
747			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
748			or memory reserved is below 4G.
749
750	cryptomgr.notests
751			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
752
753	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
754			Format: <dma>
755
756	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
757			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
758
759	dasd=		[HW,NET]
760			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
761
762	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
763			(one device per port)
764			Format: <port#>,<type>
765			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
766
767	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
768			time. See
769			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
770			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
771
772	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
773
774	debug_boot_weak_hash
775			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
776			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
777			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
778			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
779			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
780			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
781
782	debug_locks_verbose=
783			[KNL] verbose self-tests
784			Format=<0|1>
785			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
786			self-tests.
787			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
788			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
789			only useful to kernel developers.
790
791	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
792
793	no_debug_objects
794			[KNL] Disable object debugging
795
796	debug_guardpage_minorder=
797			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
798			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
799			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
800			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
801			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
802			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
803			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
804			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
805			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
806			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
807			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
808			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
809			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
810			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
811			bypassed) which are not detectable by
812			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
813			tracking down these problems.
814
815	debug_pagealloc=
816			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
817			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
818			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
819			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
820			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
821			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
822			on: enable the feature
823
824	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
825
826	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
827			Format: <area>[,<node>]
828			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
829
830	default_hugepagesz=
831			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
832			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
833			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
834			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
835			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
836			if not specified.
837
838	deferred_probe_timeout=
839			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
840			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
841			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
842			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
843			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
844			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
845			retrying.
846
847	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
848			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
849			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
850			          level 1 and decompression (default)
851			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
852			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
853			          only (compression on level 1)
854			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
855			          only (decompression)
856			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
857			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
858
859	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
860			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
861
862	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
863			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
864			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
865			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
866			miss to occur.
867
868	disable=	[IPV6]
869			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
870
871	hardened_usercopy=
872                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
873                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
874                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
875                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
876                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
877                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
878                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
879                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
880                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
881
882	disable_radix	[PPC]
883			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
884
885	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
886			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
887			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
888
889	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
890			Format: <int>
891			The number of initial APIC ID for the
892			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
893			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
894			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
895			causing system reset or hang due to sending
896			INIT from AP to BSP.
897
898	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
899			Format: <bool>
900			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
901			The feature only exists starting from
902			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
903
904	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
905			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
906			to workaround buggy firmware.
907
908	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
909			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
910
911	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
912			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
913			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
914			entry later. This parameter disables that.
915
916	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
917			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
918			memory out of your available memory pool based on
919			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
920			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
921
922	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
923			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
924			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
925
926	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
927
928	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
929			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
930
931	dma_debug_entries=<number>
932			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
933			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
934			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
935			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
936			architectural default is too low.
937
938	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
939			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
940			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
941			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
942			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
943			driver later using sysfs.
944
945	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
946			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
947			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
948
949	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
950			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
951			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
952			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
953			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
954			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
955			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
956			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
957			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
958			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
959			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
960			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
961			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
962			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
963			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
964			data set with no connector name will be used for
965			any connectors not explicitly specified.
966
967	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
968
969	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
970			Format: {"off" | "known"}
971			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
972			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
973			exists).
974			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
975			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
976			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
977
978	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
979			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
980			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
981			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
982
983	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
984	module.dyndbg[="val"]
985			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
986			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
987			for details.
988
989	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
990			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
991			information about the feature.
992
993	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
994			in some Intel CPUs.
995
996	module.async_probe [KNL]
997			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
998
999	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1000			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1001			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1002			which are not unmapped.
1003
1004	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1005
1006			When used with no options, the early console is
1007			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1008			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1009			the platform.
1010
1011		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1012			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1013			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1014			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1015			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1016			configured.
1017
1018		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1019		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1020		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1021		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1022		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1023			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1024			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1025			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1026			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1027			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1028			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1029			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1030			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1031
1032		pl011,<addr>
1033		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1034			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1035			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1036			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1038			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1039			the device registers.
1040
1041		meson,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1043			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1044			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1045			supported.
1046
1047		msm_serial,<addr>
1048			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1049			port at the specified address. The serial port
1050			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1051			yet supported.
1052
1053		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1054			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1055			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1056			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1057			yet supported.
1058
1059		owl,<addr>
1060			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1061			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1062			specified address. The serial port must already be
1063			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1064
1065		rda,<addr>
1066			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1067			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1068			specified address. The serial port must already be
1069			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1070
1071		sbi
1072			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1073			console.
1074
1075		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1076
1077		s3c2410,<addr>
1078		s3c2412,<addr>
1079		s3c2440,<addr>
1080		s3c6400,<addr>
1081		s5pv210,<addr>
1082		exynos4210,<addr>
1083			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1084			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1085			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1086			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1087			Options are not yet supported.
1088
1089		lantiq,<addr>
1090			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1091			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1092			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1093			yet supported.
1094
1095		lpuart,<addr>
1096		lpuart32,<addr>
1097			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1098			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1099			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1100			port must already be setup and configured.
1101
1102		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1103			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1104			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1105			address. The serial port must already be setup
1106			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1107
1108		qcom_geni,<addr>
1109			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1110			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1111			specified address. The serial port must already be
1112			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1113
1114		efifb,[options]
1115			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1116			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1117			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1118			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1119			mapped with the correct attributes.
1120
1121		linflex,<addr>
1122			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1123			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1124			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1125			already be setup and configured.
1126
1127	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1128			earlyprintk=vga
1129			earlyprintk=sclp
1130			earlyprintk=xen
1131			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1132			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1133			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1134			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1135			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1136			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1137
1138			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1139			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1140			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1141
1142			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1143			takes over.
1144
1145			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1146			be used at a time.
1147
1148			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1149			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1150			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1151			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1152				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1153			You can find the port for a given device in
1154			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1155				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1156
1157			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1158			very good.
1159
1160			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1161			the real console.
1162
1163			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1164
1165			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1166
1167			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1168			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1169			UART class.
1170
1171	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1172			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1173			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1174			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1175			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1176			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1177			default: on.
1178
1179	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1180			ekgdboc=kbd
1181
1182			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1183			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1184
1185	edd=		[EDD]
1186			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1187
1188	efi=		[EFI]
1189			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
1190				  "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1191				  "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1192			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1193			runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
1194			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1195			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1196			firmware implementations.
1197			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1198			debug: enable misc debug output
1199			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1200			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1201			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1202			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1203			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1204			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1205			disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1206			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1207			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1208			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1209
1210	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1211			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1212			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1213			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1214			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1215
1216	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1217			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1218			updating original EFI memory map.
1219			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1220			from ss to ss+nn.
1221
1222			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1223			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1224			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1225			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1226
1227			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1228			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1229			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1230
1231			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1232			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1233			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1234			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1235			"soft reserved".
1236
1237	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1238			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1239			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1240			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1241			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1242
1243
1244	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1245			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1246
1247	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1248			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1249			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1250
1251	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1252			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1253			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1254			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1255			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1256
1257	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1258			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1259			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1260			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1261
1262	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1263			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1264			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1265			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1266			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1267
1268	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1269			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1270			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1271			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1272			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1273			Default value is 0.
1274			Value can be changed at runtime via
1275			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1276
1277	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1278			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1279			support.
1280
1281	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1282			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1283			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1284
1285	evm=		[EVM]
1286			Format: { "fix" }
1287			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1288			current integrity status.
1289
1290	failslab=
1291	fail_page_alloc=
1292	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1293			General fault injection mechanism.
1294			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1295			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1296
1297	floppy=		[HW]
1298			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1299
1300	force_pal_cache_flush
1301			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1302			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1303			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1304			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1305
1306	forcepae	[X86-32]
1307			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1308			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1309			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1310			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1311			and may cause unknown problems.
1312
1313	ftrace=[tracer]
1314			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1315			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1316			boot debugging.
1317
1318	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1319			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1320			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1321			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1322			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1323			oops.
1324
1325	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1326			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1327			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1328			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1329			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1330			tracing directory.
1331
1332	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1333			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1334			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1335			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1336			tracing directory.
1337
1338	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1339			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1340			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1341			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1342			that can be changed at run time by the
1343			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1344
1345	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1346			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1347			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1348			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1349			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1350
1351	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1352			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1353			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1354			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1355			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1356
1357	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1358			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1359			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1360			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1361			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1362			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1363			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1364			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1365			suppliers).
1366			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1367			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1368			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1369				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1370				up (sync_state() calls).
1371			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1372				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1373			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1374
1375	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1376			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1377			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1378			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1379			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1380
1381	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1382
1383	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1384			Format: off | on
1385			default: on
1386
1387	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1388			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1389			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1390			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1391			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1392
1393	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1394			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1395			android emulator
1396
1397	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1398			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1399			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1400			GPT to be used instead.
1401
1402	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1403			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1404			Format: 0 | 1
1405			Default: 0
1406	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1407			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1408			Format: 0 | 1
1409			Default: 0
1410	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1411			Format: 0 | 1
1412			Default: 0
1413	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1414			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1415			Default: 1024
1416	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1417			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1418			Default: 1024
1419
1420	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1421			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1422			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1423
1424	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1425			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1426			backtraces on all cpus.
1427			Format: <integer>
1428
1429	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1430			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1431			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1432			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1433
1434	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1435
1436	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1437			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1438
1439	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1440			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1441			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1442			logic will be disabled.
1443
1444	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1445			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1446			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1447			size on bigger boxes.
1448
1449	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1450			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1451			Default: "on"
1452
1453	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1454
1455	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1456			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1457				verbose }
1458			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1459			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1460				VIA, nVidia)
1461			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1462
1463	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1464			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1465
1466	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1467	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1468			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1469			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1470			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1471			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1472			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1473
1474	hung_task_panic=
1475			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1476			Format: <integer>
1477
1478			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1479			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1480			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1481			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1482			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1483
1484	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1485				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1486	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1487				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1488				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1489
1490	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1491				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1492				      guest on lock contention.
1493
1494	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1495			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1496			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1497			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1498			the real console.
1499
1500	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1501				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1502				registered from board initialization code.
1503				Format:
1504				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1505
1506	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1507	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1508			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1509			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1510			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1511	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1512	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1513			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1514			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1515	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1516	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1517	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1518			     for the AUX port
1519	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1520			     controller
1521	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1522			     controllers
1523	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1524	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1525			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1526			     transitions, or never reset
1527			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1528			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1529			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1530			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1531			architectures force reset to be always executed
1532	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1533	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1534
1535	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1536
1537	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1538			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1539			hardware.
1540	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1541			does not match list of supported models.
1542	i8k.power_status
1543			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1544			(disabled by default)
1545	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1546			capability is set.
1547
1548	i915.invert_brightness=
1549			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1550			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1551			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1552			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1553			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1554			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1555			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1556			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1557			value switches the backlight off.
1558			-1 -- never invert brightness
1559			 0 -- machine default
1560			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1561
1562	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1563			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1564
1565	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1566			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1567			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1568			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1569			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1570
1571	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1572			Format: <int>
1573			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1574			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1575			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1576			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1577			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1578			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1579			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1580			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1581			was 0x3.
1582
1583	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1584			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1585
1586	idle=		[X86]
1587			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1588			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1589			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1590			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1591			Not recommended.
1592			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1593			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1594			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1595
1596	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1597			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1598			Default: strict
1599
1600			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1601			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1602			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1603			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1604			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1605			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1606			encoding mode.
1607
1608			Available settings are as follows:
1609			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1610				supported by the FPU
1611			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1612				by the FPU
1613			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1614				by the FPU
1615			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1616				supported by the FPU
1617
1618			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1619			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1620			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1621			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1622			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1623			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1624			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1625			MIPS64 CPUs.
1626
1627			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1628			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1629			except where unsupported by hardware.
1630
1631	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1632			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1633			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1634			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1635			could change it dynamically, usually by
1636			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1637
1638	ignore_rlimit_data
1639			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1640			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1641			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1642
1643	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1644			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1645
1646	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1647			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1648			default: "enforce"
1649
1650	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1651			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1652			owned by uid=0.
1653
1654	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1655			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1656			measurements, instead of host native format.
1657
1658	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1659			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1660				   | sha512 | ... }
1661			default: "sha1"
1662
1663			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1664			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1665
1666	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1667			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1668			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1669				 fail_securely"
1670
1671			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1672			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1673			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1674			uid=0.
1675
1676			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1677			all files owned by root.
1678
1679			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1680			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1681			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1682
1683			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1684			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1685			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1686			flag.
1687
1688	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1689			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1690			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1691			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1692			opened for read by uid=0.
1693
1694	ima_template=	[IMA]
1695			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1696			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1697			Default: "ima-ng"
1698
1699	ima_template_fmt=
1700			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1701			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1702
1703	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1704			Format: <min_file_size>
1705			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1706			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1707
1708			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1709			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1710			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1711
1712	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1713			Format: <bufsize>
1714			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1715
1716			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1717			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1718			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1719
1720	init=		[KNL]
1721			Format: <full_path>
1722			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1723			process.
1724
1725	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1726			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1727			startup.
1728
1729	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1730			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1731			modules and initcalls.
1732
1733	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1734
1735	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1736			zeroes.
1737			Format: 0 | 1
1738			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1739
1740	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1741			Format: 0 | 1
1742			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1743
1744	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1745			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1746			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1747			override in debugfs after boot.
1748
1749	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1750			Format: <irq>
1751
1752	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1753
1754	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1755			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1756			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1757			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1758
1759	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1760		on
1761			Enable intel iommu driver.
1762		off
1763			Disable intel iommu driver.
1764		igfx_off [Default Off]
1765			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1766			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1767			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1768			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1769			DMA.
1770		forcedac [x86_64]
1771			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1772			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1773			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1774			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1775			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1776			then look in the higher range.
1777		strict [Default Off]
1778			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1779			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1780			to batching them for performance.
1781		sp_off [Default Off]
1782			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1783			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1784			not be supported.
1785		sm_on [Default Off]
1786			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1787			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1788			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1789			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1790		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1791			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1792			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1793			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1794			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1795			mapping is enabled.
1796			Note that using this option lowers the security
1797			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1798			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1799		nobounce [Default off]
1800			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1801			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1802			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1803			risks of DMA attacks.
1804
1805	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1806			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1807			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1808
1809	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1810			disable
1811			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1812			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1813			passive
1814			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1815			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1816			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1817			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1818			  feature.
1819			force
1820			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1821			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1822			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1823			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1824			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1825			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1826			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1827			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1828			no_hwp
1829			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1830			  if available.
1831			hwp_only
1832			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1833			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1834			support_acpi_ppc
1835			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1836			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1837			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1838			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1839			per_cpu_perf_limits
1840			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1841			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1842
1843	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1844			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1845			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1846			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1847			no_x2apic_optout
1848				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1849			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1850
1851	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1852		strict	regions from userspace.
1853		relaxed
1854
1855	iommu=		[x86]
1856		off
1857		force
1858		noforce
1859		biomerge
1860		panic
1861		nopanic
1862		merge
1863		nomerge
1864		soft
1865		pt		[x86]
1866		nopt		[x86]
1867		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1868			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1869
1870	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1871			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1872			0 - Lazy mode.
1873			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1874			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1875			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1876			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1877			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1878			1 - Strict mode (default).
1879			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1880			  synchronously.
1881
1882	iommu.passthrough=
1883			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1884			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1885			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1886			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1887			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1888
1889	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1890			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1891			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1892
1893	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1894		0x80
1895			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1896		0xed
1897			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1898		udelay
1899			Simple two microseconds delay
1900		none
1901			No delay
1902
1903	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1904			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1905
1906	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1907			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1908
1909	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1910			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1911
1912	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1913			[ARM, ARM64]
1914			Format: <bool>
1915			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1916			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1917			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1918
1919	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1920			[ARM, ARM64]
1921			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1922			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1923			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1924			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1925			LPIs.
1926
1927	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1928			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1929			requires the kernel to be built with
1930			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1931
1932	irqfixup	[HW]
1933			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1934			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1935			firmware running.
1936
1937	irqpoll		[HW]
1938			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1939			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1940			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1941			firmware running.
1942
1943	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1944			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1945
1946	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1947			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1948			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1949
1950			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1951			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1952
1953			nohz
1954			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1955
1956			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1957			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1958			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1959			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1960			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1961
1962			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1963			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1964			  be configured manually after bootup.
1965
1966			domain
1967			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1968			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1969			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1970			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1971			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1972			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1973			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1974			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1975
1976			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1977			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1978			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1979			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1980
1981			managed_irq
1982
1983			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1984			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1985			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1986			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1987			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1988
1989			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
1990			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1991			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1992			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1993			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
1994			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
1995			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
1996
1997			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
1998			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
1999			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2000			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2001			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2002			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2003			  queues.
2004
2005			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2006
2007	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2008
2009	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
2010			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2011			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2012			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2013			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2014				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2015
2016	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
2017			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2018			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2019			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2020			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2021				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2022
2023	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
2024			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2025			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2026			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2027			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2028				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2029
2030	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2031			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2032
2033	nokaslr		[KNL]
2034			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2035			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2036			Layout Randomization).
2037
2038	kasan_multi_shot
2039			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2040			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2041			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2042			invalid access.
2043
2044	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2045
2046	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2047			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2048			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2049			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2050			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2051			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2052			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2053			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2054			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2055			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2056
2057			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2058			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2059			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2060			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2061			zone if it does not.
2062
2063			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2064			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2065			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2066			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2067			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2068			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2069			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2070
2071	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2072			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2073			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2074			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2075			optional and is the number seconds in between
2076			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2077			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2078			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2079			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2080			the kernel debugger.
2081
2082	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2083			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2084			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2085			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2086			 keyboard only format: kbd
2087			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2088			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2089			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2090			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2091
2092	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2093			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2094
2095	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2096			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2097			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2098
2099	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2100			Valid arguments: on, off
2101			Default: on
2102			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2103			the default is off.
2104
2105	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2106			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2107			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2108			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2109			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2110			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2111			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2112
2113			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2114
2115			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2116			Boot Parameter" section.
2117
2118	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2119			and kernel address spaces.
2120			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2121			0: force disabled
2122			1: force enabled
2123
2124	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2125			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2126
2127	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2128				   Default is false (don't support).
2129
2130	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2131			KVM MMU at runtime.
2132			Default is 0 (off)
2133
2134	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2135			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2136			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2137			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2138			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2139			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2140				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2141
2142			Default is 'auto'.
2143
2144			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2145			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2146
2147	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2148			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2149			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2150			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2151			minute.  The default is 60.
2152
2153	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2154			Default is 1 (enabled)
2155
2156	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2157			for all guests.
2158			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2159
2160	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2161			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2162			system registers
2163
2164	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2165			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2166			system registers
2167
2168	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2169			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2170			system registers
2171
2172	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2173			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2174			LPIs.
2175
2176	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2177			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2178			Default is 1 (enabled)
2179
2180	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2181			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2182			Default is 0 (disabled)
2183
2184	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2185			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2186			Default is 1 (enabled)
2187
2188	kvm-intel.nested=
2189			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2190			Default is 0 (disabled)
2191
2192	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2193			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2194			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2195			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2196
2197	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2198			CVE-2018-3620.
2199
2200			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2201
2202			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2203			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2204				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2205			never:	Disables the mitigation
2206
2207			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2208
2209	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2210			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2211			Default is 1 (enabled)
2212
2213	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2214			      affected CPUs
2215
2216			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2217			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2218
2219			full
2220				Provides all available mitigations for the
2221				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2222				enables all mitigations in the
2223				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2224
2225				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2226				sysfs interface is still possible after
2227				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2228				when the first VM is started in a
2229				potentially insecure configuration,
2230				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2231
2232			full,force
2233				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2234				flush runtime control. Implies the
2235				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2236				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2237
2238			flush
2239				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2240				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2241				L1D flush.
2242
2243				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2244				sysfs interface is still possible after
2245				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2246				when the first VM is started in a
2247				potentially insecure configuration,
2248				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2249
2250			flush,nosmt
2251
2252				Disables SMT and enables the default
2253				hypervisor mitigation.
2254
2255				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2256				sysfs interface is still possible after
2257				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2258				when the first VM is started in a
2259				potentially insecure configuration,
2260				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2261
2262			flush,nowarn
2263				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2264				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2265				insecure configuration.
2266
2267			off
2268				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2269				emit any warnings.
2270				It also drops the swap size and available
2271				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2272				bare metal.
2273
2274			Default is 'flush'.
2275
2276			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2277
2278	l2cr=		[PPC]
2279
2280	l3cr=		[PPC]
2281
2282	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2283			disabled it.
2284
2285	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2286			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2287			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2288
2289	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2290			in C2 power state.
2291
2292	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2293			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2294			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2295			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2296			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2297			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2298			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2299
2300	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2301			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2302			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2303
2304	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2305			when set.
2306			Format: <int>
2307
2308	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2309			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2310			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2311			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2312			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2313			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2314			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2315			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2316
2317			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2318			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2319			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2320			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2321			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2322			host link and device attached to it.
2323
2324			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2325			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2326			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2327			The following configurations can be forced.
2328
2329			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2330			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2331
2332			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2333
2334			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2335			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2336			  allowed.
2337
2338			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2339
2340			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2341
2342			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2343			  and both resets.
2344
2345			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2346			  hot-unplug link recovery
2347
2348			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2349
2350			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2351
2352			* disable: Disable this device.
2353
2354			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2355			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2356
2357	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2358
2359	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2360			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2361
2362	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2363			Format: <integer>
2364
2365	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2366			Format: <integer>
2367
2368	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2369			Format: <integer>
2370
2371	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2372			Format: <integer>
2373
2374	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2375			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2376			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2377			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2378			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2379			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2380			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2381			are also disabled.
2382
2383	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2384			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2385			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2386			number of online CPUs.
2387
2388	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2389			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2390
2391	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2392			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2393
2394	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2395			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2396			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2397
2398	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2399			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2400			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2401			mode during the locktorture test.
2402
2403	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2404			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2405			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2406
2407	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2408			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2409
2410	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2411			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2412			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2413			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2414			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2415			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2416
2417	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2418			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2419
2420	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2421			Enable additional printk() statements.
2422
2423	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2424			Format: <irq>
2425
2426	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2427			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2428			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2429			loglevels are defined as follows:
2430
2431			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2432			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2433			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2434			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2435			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2436			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2437			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2438			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2439
2440	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2441			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2442			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2443			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2444			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2445			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2446			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2447
2448	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2449			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2450			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2451			kernel boot problems.
2452
2453	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2454	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2455	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2456	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2457				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2458				attached printers to be reset. Using
2459				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2460				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2461				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2462				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2463				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2464				port specification list means that device IDs
2465				from each port should be examined, to see if
2466				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2467				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2468				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2469
2470	lpj=n		[KNL]
2471			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2472			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2473			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2474			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2475			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2476			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2477			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2478			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2479			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2480			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2481			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2482			hardware.
2483
2484	ltpc=		[NET]
2485			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2486
2487	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2488
2489	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2490			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2491			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2492
2493	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2494			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2495			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2496
2497	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2498			 yeeloong laptop.
2499			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2500
2501	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2502			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2503
2504	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2505			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2506			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2507			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2508			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2509			only takes effect during system bootup.
2510			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2511			which also disables the IO APIC.
2512
2513	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2514	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2515			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2516			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2517			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2518			/dev/loop-control interface.
2519
2520	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2521
2522	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2523
2524	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2525			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2526
2527	mdacon=		[MDA]
2528			Format: <first>,<last>
2529			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2530
2531	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2532			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2533			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2534
2535			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2536			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2537			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2538
2539			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2540			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2541			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2542			not have direct access.
2543
2544			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2545			options are:
2546
2547			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2548			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2549				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2550			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2551
2552			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2553			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2554			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2555			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2556			too.
2557
2558			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2559			mds=full.
2560
2561			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2562
2563	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2564			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2565			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2566			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2567			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2568			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2569			belonging to unused RAM.
2570
2571	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2572			memory.
2573
2574	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2575			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2576			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2577
2578	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2579			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2580			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2581			set according to the
2582			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2583			option.
2584			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2585
2586	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2587			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2588			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2589			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2590			option description.
2591
2592	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2593			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2594			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2595			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2596			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2597			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2598			comma delimited.
2599			Example:
2600				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2601
2602	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2603			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2604			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2605
2606	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2607			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2608			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2609			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2610			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2611			         or
2612			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2613			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2614			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2615			will be eaten.
2616
2617	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2618			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2619			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2620			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2621			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2622
2623	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2624			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2625			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2626			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2627			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2628			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2629			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2630			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2631
2632	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2633			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2634			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2635			Setting this option will scan the memory
2636			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2637			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2638			from using the memory being corrupted.
2639			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2640			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2641			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2642			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2643
2644	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2645			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2646			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2647			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2648			corruption in more or less memory.
2649
2650	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2651			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2652			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2653			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2654
2655	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2656			Format: <integer>
2657			default : 0 <disable>
2658			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2659			performed. Each pass selects another test
2660			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2661			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2662			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2663			regions that are detected.
2664
2665	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2666			Valid arguments: on, off
2667			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2668			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2669			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2670			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2671			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2672
2673			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2674			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2675
2676	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2677			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2678			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2679			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2680			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2681
2682	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2683			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2684
2685	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2686			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2687			platforms.
2688
2689	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2690			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2691			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2692			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2693
2694	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2695
2696	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2697			physical address is ignored.
2698
2699	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2700			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2701			Default: "0tb"
2702			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2703			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2704			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2705			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2706			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2707			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2708			unconfigured.
2709			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2710			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2711			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2712			VGA shield.
2713			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2714			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2715			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2716			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2717			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2718			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2719
2720	mitigations=
2721			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2722			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2723			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2724			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2725
2726			off
2727				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2728				improves system performance, but it may also
2729				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2730				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2731					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2732					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2733					       nobp=0 [S390]
2734					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2735					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2736					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2737					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2738					       l1tf=off [X86]
2739					       mds=off [X86]
2740					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2741					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2742
2743				Exceptions:
2744					       This does not have any effect on
2745					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2746					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2747
2748			auto (default)
2749				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2750				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2751				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2752				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2753				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2754				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2755
2756			auto,nosmt
2757				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2758				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2759				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2760				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2761					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2762					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2763
2764	mminit_loglevel=
2765			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2766			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2767			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2768			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2769			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2770			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2771
2772	module.sig_enforce
2773			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2774			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2775			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2776			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2777
2778	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2779			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2780
2781	mousedev.tap_time=
2782			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2783			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2784			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2785			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2786			Format: <msecs>
2787	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2788			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2789	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2790			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2791
2792	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2793			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2794			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2795			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2796			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2797			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2798			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2799			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2800			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2801			is not too small.
2802
2803	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2804			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2805			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2806			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2807			allocations. Use with caution!
2808
2809	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2810			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2811
2812	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2813			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2814
2815	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2816			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2817
2818	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2819			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2820			at a time.
2821
2822	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2823
2824			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2825
2826			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2827				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2828			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2829				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2830				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2831
2832	mtdset=		[ARM]
2833			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2834
2835			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2836
2837	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2838			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2839			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2840
2841	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2842			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2843			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2844
2845	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2846			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2847			Default is 1.
2848			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2849			using up MTRRs.
2850
2851	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2852			Format: <integer>
2853			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2854			Default : 1
2855			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2856			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2857
2858	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2859
2860	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2861			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2862			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2863			something different and driver-specific.
2864			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2865			file if at all.
2866
2867	nf_conntrack.acct=
2868			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2869			0 to disable accounting
2870			1 to enable accounting
2871			Default value is 0.
2872
2873	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2874			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2875
2876	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2877			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2878
2879	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2880			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2881
2882	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2883			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2884			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2885			requests.
2886
2887	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2888			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2889			channel should listen.
2890
2891	nfs.cache_getent=
2892			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2893			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2894
2895	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2896			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2897			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2898
2899	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2900			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2901			entries.
2902
2903	nfs.enable_ino64=
2904			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2905			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2906			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2907			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2908			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2909
2910	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2911			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2912			slots the client will assign to the callback
2913			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2914			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2915			a particular server.
2916
2917	nfs.max_session_slots=
2918			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2919			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2920			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2921			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2922			Note that there is little point in setting this
2923			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2924
2925	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2926			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2927			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2928			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2929			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2930			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2931			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2932			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2933			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2934			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2935			back to using the idmapper.
2936			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2937	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2938			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2939			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2940			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2941			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2942
2943	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2944			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2945			information in exchange_id requests.
2946			If zero, no implementation identification information
2947			will be sent.
2948			The default is to send the implementation identification
2949			information.
2950
2951	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2952			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2953			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2954			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2955			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2956			after the locks are lost.
2957			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2958			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2959			parameter to '1'.
2960			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2961			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2962
2963	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2964			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2965			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2966
2967			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2968			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2969			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2970			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2971
2972	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2973			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2974			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2975			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2976			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2977			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2978
2979	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2980			when a NMI is triggered.
2981			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2982
2983	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2984			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2985			Valid num: 0 or 1
2986			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2987			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2988			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2989			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2990			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2991			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2992			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2993			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2994			need the box quickly up again.
2995
2996			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2997			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2998
2999	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3000			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3001			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3002			waits 4 seconds.
3003
3004	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3005			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3006			is present.
3007
3008	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3009			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3010
3011	no_console_suspend
3012			[HW] Never suspend the console
3013			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3014			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3015			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3016			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3017			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3018			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3019			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3020			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3021			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3022			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3023			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3024			turn on/off it dynamically.
3025
3026	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3027			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3028			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3029			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3030			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3031			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3032			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3033			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3034			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3035			is set.
3036
3037	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3038			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3039			but will impact performance.
3040
3041	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3042
3043	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3044			(CPU alternatives feature).
3045
3046	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3047			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3048
3049	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3050
3051	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3052			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3053
3054	nocache		[ARM]
3055
3056	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3057
3058	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3059
3060	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3061
3062	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3063
3064	noexec		[IA-64]
3065
3066	noexec		[X86]
3067			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3068			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3069			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3070
3071	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3072			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3073			even if it is supported by processor.
3074
3075	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3076			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3077			even if it is supported by processor.
3078
3079	noexec32	[X86-64]
3080			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3081			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3082				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3083			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3084				read implies executable mappings
3085
3086	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3087
3088	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3089			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3090			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3091
3092	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3093
3094	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3095			Equivalent to smt=1.
3096
3097			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3098			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3099				     via the sysfs control file.
3100
3101	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3102			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3103			possible in the system.
3104
3105	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3106			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3107			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3108			option.
3109
3110	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3111			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3112
3113	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3114			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3115			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3116
3117	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3118			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3119			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3120			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3121			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3122			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3123
3124	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3125			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3126			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3127			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3128			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3129			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3130			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3131
3132	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3133			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3134			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3135
3136	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3137			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3138			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3139
3140	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3141			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3142			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3143			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3144			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3145			real-time systems.
3146
3147	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3148
3149	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3150			Valid arguments: on, off
3151			Default: on
3152
3153	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3154			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3155			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3156			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3157			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3158			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3159			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3160			just as if they had also been called out in the
3161			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3162
3163	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3164
3165	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3166			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3167
3168	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3169			broken timer IRQ sources.
3170
3171	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3172
3173	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3174			initial RAM disk.
3175
3176	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3177			remapping.
3178			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3179
3180	nointroute	[IA-64]
3181
3182	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3183
3184	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3185
3186	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3187
3188	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3189			fault handling.
3190
3191	no-vmw-sched-clock
3192			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3193			clock and use the default one.
3194
3195	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3196			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3197			influence scheduler behaviour
3198
3199	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3200
3201	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3202
3203	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3204			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3205
3206	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3207
3208	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3209
3210	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3211			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3212
3213	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3214			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3215			irq.
3216
3217	nomodule	Disable module load
3218
3219	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3220			pagetables) support.
3221
3222	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3223
3224	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3225			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3226
3227	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3228			with UP alternatives
3229
3230	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3231			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3232			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3233			available to user space applications.
3234
3235	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3236			space.
3237
3238	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3239			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3240			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3241
3242	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3243
3244	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3245
3246	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3247			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3248
3249	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3250
3251	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3252
3253	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3254			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3255
3256	nowb		[ARM]
3257
3258	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3259
3260	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3261			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3262			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3263			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3264			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3265			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3266			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3267			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3268			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3269			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3270			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3271			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3272			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3273
3274	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3275			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3276			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3277			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3278			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3279			parameter's value.
3280			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3281			Default: 255
3282
3283	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3284			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3285			SAL PALO.
3286
3287	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3288			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3289			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3290			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3291			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3292			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3293			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3294			hot plugging.
3295
3296	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3297
3298	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3299			Allowed values are enable and disable
3300
3301	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3302			'node', 'default' can be specified
3303			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3304			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3305
3306	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3307			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3308			info.
3309
3310	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3311			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3312			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3313			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3314			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3315			interrupts *may* be lost!
3316
3317	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3318			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3319			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3320			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3321
3322	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3323			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3324
3325	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3326			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3327			userland or if you want common events.
3328			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3329			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3330				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3331				CPU specific event set.
3332			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3333				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3334				for generic hr timer mode)
3335
3336	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3337			process, but there is a small probability of
3338			deadlocking the machine.
3339			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3340			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3341
3342	page_alloc.shuffle=
3343			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3344			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3345			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3346			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3347			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3348			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3349			can be read from sysfs at:
3350			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3351
3352	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3353			Storage of the information about who allocated
3354			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3355			we can turn it on.
3356			on: enable the feature
3357
3358	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3359			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3360			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3361			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3362			on: turn on poisoning
3363
3364	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3365			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3366			timeout = 0: wait forever
3367			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3368			Format: <timeout>
3369
3370	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3371			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3372			bit 0: print all tasks info
3373			bit 1: print system memory info
3374			bit 2: print timer info
3375			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3376			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3377			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3378
3379	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3380			on a WARN().
3381
3382	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3383			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3384			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3385			succeeds in any situation.
3386			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3387			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3388			kernel more unstable.
3389
3390	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3391			connected to, default is 0.
3392			Format: <parport#>
3393	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3394			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3395			Format: <mode>
3396
3397	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3398			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3399			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3400			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3401			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3402			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3403			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3404			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3405			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3406			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3407			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3408			are specified on the command line, starting
3409			with parport0.
3410
3411	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3412			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3413			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3414			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3415			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3416			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3417			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3418
3419	pause_on_oops=
3420			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3421			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3422			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3423
3424	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3425
3426	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3427			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3428			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3429
3430	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3431
3432				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3433				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3434				specified in one of the following formats:
3435
3436				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3437				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3438
3439				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3440				bus/device/function address which may change
3441				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3442				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3443				by other kernel parameters. If the
3444				domain is left unspecified, it is
3445				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3446				to a device through multiple device/function
3447				addresses can be specified after the base
3448				address (this is more robust against
3449				renumbering issues).  The second format
3450				selects devices using IDs from the
3451				configuration space which may match multiple
3452				devices in the system.
3453
3454		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3455				changes anything
3456		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3457		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3458				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3459				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3460		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3461				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3462				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3463				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3464		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3465				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3466				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3467		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3468				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3469				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3470				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3471				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3472				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3473				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3474		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3475				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3476				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3477		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3478				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3479		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3480				Configuration
3481		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3482				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3483				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3484		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3485				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3486				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3487		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3488				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3489				should never be necessary.
3490		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3491				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3492				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3493				when the system masks IRQs.
3494		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3495				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3496				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3497				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3498		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3499				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3500				on several machines and they hang the machine
3501				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3502				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3503				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3504				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3505				motherboard.
3506		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3507				Use with caution as certain devices share
3508				address decoders between ROMs and other
3509				resources.
3510		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3511				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3512				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3513		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3514				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3515		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3516				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3517				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3518				this way.
3519		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3520				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3521				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3522				F0000h-100000h range.
3523		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3524				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3525				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3526				explicitly which ones they are.
3527		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3528				numbers ourselves, overriding
3529				whatever the firmware may have done.
3530		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3531				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3532				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3533				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3534				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3535				IRQ routing is enabled.
3536		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3537				or for PCI scanning.
3538		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3539				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3540				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3541				please report a bug.
3542		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3543				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3544		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3545				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3546				so this option is a temporary workaround
3547				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3548		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3549				handle more pci cards
3550		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3551				This might help on some broken boards which
3552				machine check when some devices' config space
3553				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3554				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3555		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3556				This sorting is done to get a device
3557				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3558		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3559		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3560				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3561		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3562				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3563		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3564				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3565				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3566				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3567				or bus can support) for best performance.
3568		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3569				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3570				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3571				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3572				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3573				that hot-added devices will work.
3574		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3575				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3576				The default value is 256 bytes.
3577		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3578				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3579				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3580		resource_alignment=
3581				Format:
3582				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3583				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3584				aligned memory resources. How to
3585				specify the device is described above.
3586				If <order of align> is not specified,
3587				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3588				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3589				windows need to be expanded.
3590				To specify the alignment for several
3591				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3592				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3593				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3594				for 4096-byte alignment.
3595		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3596				end-to-end CRC checking).
3597				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3598				the default.
3599				off: Turn ECRC off
3600				on: Turn ECRC on.
3601		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3602				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3603				Default size is 256 bytes.
3604		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3605				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3606				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3607		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3608				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3609				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3610		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3611				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3612				MMIO_PREF window.
3613				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3614		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3615				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3616				Default is 1.
3617		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3618				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3619				accommodate resources required by all child
3620				devices.
3621				off: Turn realloc off
3622				on: Turn realloc on
3623		realloc		same as realloc=on
3624		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3625		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3626				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3627		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3628				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3629				port.
3630		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3631				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3632				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3633				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3634				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3635				taints the kernel.
3636		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3637				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3638				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3639				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3640				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3641				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3642				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3643				this removes isolation between devices and
3644				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3645		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3646		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3647
3648	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3649			Management.
3650		off	Disable ASPM.
3651		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3652			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3653
3654	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3655		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3656			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3657			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3658			also tries to use these services.
3659		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3660				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3661		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3662			hotplug).
3663
3664	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3665		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3666		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3667
3668	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3669		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3670			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3671
3672	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3673
3674	pd_ignore_unused
3675			[PM]
3676			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3677			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3678			for debug and development, but should not be
3679			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3680
3681	pd.		[PARIDE]
3682			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3683
3684	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3685			boot time.
3686			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3687			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3688
3689	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3690			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3691			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3692			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3693			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3694			and performance comparison.
3695
3696	pf.		[PARIDE]
3697			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3698
3699	pg.		[PARIDE]
3700			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3701
3702	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3703			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3704
3705	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3706			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3707			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3708
3709	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3710			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3711			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3712
3713	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3714			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3715			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3716			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3717			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3718			possible settings and some assignment information.
3719
3720	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3721			{ off }
3722
3723	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3724			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3725
3726	pnp_reserve_irq=
3727			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3728
3729	pnp_reserve_dma=
3730			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3731
3732	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3733			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3734
3735	pnp_reserve_mem=
3736			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3737			autoconfiguration.
3738			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3739
3740	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3741			Default is 21.
3742			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3743			may be specified.
3744			Format: <port>,<port>....
3745
3746	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3747			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3748			platform machine description specific power_save
3749			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3750			execution priority.
3751
3752	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3753			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3754			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3755			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3756			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3757
3758	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3759			Format: {"off"}
3760			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3761
3762	print-fatal-signals=
3763			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3764
3765			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3766			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3767			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3768			coredump - etc.
3769
3770			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3771			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3772
3773			default: off.
3774
3775	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3776			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3777			panics
3778			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3779			default: disabled
3780
3781	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3782			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3783			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3784			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3785			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3786			Default: ratelimit
3787
3788	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3789			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3790
3791	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3792			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3793			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3794
3795	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3796			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3797			instead using the legacy FADT method
3798
3799	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3800			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3801			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3802				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3803			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3804			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3805				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3806			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3807			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3808				statistical time based profiling.
3809
3810	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3811			before loading.
3812			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3813
3814	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3815			tracking.
3816			Format: <bool>
3817
3818	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3819			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3820	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3821			per second.
3822	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3823			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3824			(0 = never).
3825	psmouse.resolution=
3826			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3827	psmouse.smartscroll=
3828			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3829			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3830
3831	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3832
3833	pt.		[PARIDE]
3834			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3835
3836	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3837			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3838			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3839			system calls and interrupts.
3840
3841			on   - unconditionally enable
3842			off  - unconditionally disable
3843			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3844			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3845
3846			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3847
3848	nopti		[X86_64]
3849			Equivalent to pti=off
3850
3851	pty.legacy_count=
3852			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3853			default number.
3854
3855	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3856
3857	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3858
3859	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3860			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3861
3862	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3863			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3864
3865	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3866			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3867			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3868			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3869			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3870
3871	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3872
3873		cec_disable	[X86]
3874				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3875				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3876
3877	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3878			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3879			except that the string "all" can be used to
3880			specify every CPU on the system.
3881
3882			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3883			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3884			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3885			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3886			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3887			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3888			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3889			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3890			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3891			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3892
3893	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3894			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3895			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3896			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3897			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3898			This improves the real-time response for the
3899			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3900			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3901			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3902			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3903
3904	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3905			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3906			process in one batch.
3907
3908	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3909			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3910			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3911			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3912
3913	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3914			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3915			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3916
3917	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3918			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3919			RCU grace-period initialization.
3920
3921	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3922			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3923			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3924			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3925			the rcu_node combining tree.
3926
3927	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3928			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3929			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3930			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3931			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3932
3933	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3934			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3935			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3936			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3937			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3938
3939	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3940			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3941			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3942			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3943			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3944			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3945			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3946
3947	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3948			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3949			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3950			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3951			and maximum value is HZ.
3952
3953	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3954			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3955			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3956			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3957
3958	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3959			Set required age in jiffies for a
3960			given grace period before RCU starts
3961			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3962			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3963			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3964			a value based on the most recent settings
3965			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3966			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3967			This calculated value may be viewed in
3968			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3969			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3970			overwritten.
3971
3972	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3973			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3974			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3975			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3976			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3977			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3978			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3979			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3980			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3981			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3982
3983	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3984			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3985			each group, which defaults to the square root
3986			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3987			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3988			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3989			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3990
3991	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3992			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3993			batch limiting is disabled.
3994
3995	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3996			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3997			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3998
3999	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4000			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4001			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4002
4003	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
4004			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4005			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4006			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4007			prove do nothing more than free memory.
4008
4009	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4010			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4011			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4012			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4013			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4014			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4015
4016	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4017			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4018			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4019			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4020
4021	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4022			Measure performance of asynchronous
4023			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4024
4025	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4026			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4027			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4028			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4029			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4030			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4031
4032	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4033			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4034			grace-period primitives.
4035
4036	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4037			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4038			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4039			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4040			interference.
4041
4042	rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4043			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4044
4045	rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4046			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4047
4048	rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4049			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4050
4051	rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4052			Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4053			of allocations and frees.
4054
4055	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4056			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4057			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4058			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4059			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4060			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4061			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4062			a single reader.
4063
4064	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4065			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4066			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4067			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4068
4069	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4070			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4071
4072	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4073			Shut the system down after performance tests
4074			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4075			testing.
4076
4077	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4078			Enable additional printk() statements.
4079
4080	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4081			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4082			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4083			no holdoff.
4084
4085	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4086			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4087			in microseconds.
4088
4089	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4090			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4091			in microseconds.
4092
4093	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4094			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4095			in seconds.
4096
4097	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4098			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4099			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4100
4101	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4102			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4103			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4104
4105	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4106			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4107			forward-progress tests.
4108
4109	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4110			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4111			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4112			testing.
4113
4114	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4115			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4116			primitives, if available.
4117
4118	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4119			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4120
4121	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4122			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4123			update-side primitives, if available.
4124
4125	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4126			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4127			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4128			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4129			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4130			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4131			they are all non-zero.
4132
4133	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4134			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4135
4136	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4137			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4138			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4139			test, hence the "fake".
4140
4141	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4142			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4143			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4144			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4145			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4146			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4147
4148	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4149			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4150
4151	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4152			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4153
4154	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4155			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4156			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4157
4158	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4159			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4160			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4161			during the rcutorture test.
4162
4163	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4164			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4165			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4166
4167	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4168			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4169			warnings, zero to disable.
4170
4171	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4172			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4173
4174	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4175			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4176
4177	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4178			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4179
4180	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4181			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4182			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4183			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4184			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4185
4186	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4187			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4188			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4189			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4190
4191	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4192			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4193
4194	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4195			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4196
4197	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4198			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4199			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4200
4201	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4202			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4203
4204	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4205			Enable additional printk() statements.
4206
4207	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4208			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4209			stall warning.
4210
4211	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4212			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4213
4214	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4215			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4216
4217	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4218			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4219			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4220			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4221			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4222			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4223			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4224
4225	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4226			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4227			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4228			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4229			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4230			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4231			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4232			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4233			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4234
4235	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4236			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4237			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4238			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4239			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4240
4241	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4242			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4243			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4244			to zero.
4245
4246	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4247			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4248
4249	rdinit=		[KNL]
4250			Format: <full_path>
4251			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4252			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4253
4254	rdrand=		[X86]
4255			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4256				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4257				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4258				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4259				path).
4260
4261	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4262			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4263			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4264			mba.
4265			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4266				rdt=cmt,!mba
4267
4268	reboot=		[KNL]
4269			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4270				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4271				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4272				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4273				[[,]f[orce]
4274			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4275					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4276					reboot only),
4277			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4278			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4279			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4280					to be used for rebooting.
4281
4282	relax_domain_level=
4283			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4284			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4285
4286	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4287			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4288			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4289			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4290			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4291
4292	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4293			Format: nn[KMG]
4294			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4295			address space.
4296
4297	reservelow=	[X86]
4298			Format: nn[K]
4299			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4300			the bottom of the address space.
4301
4302	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4303			during initialization.
4304
4305	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4306			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4307			Format:
4308			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4309
4310	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4311			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4312			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4313			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4314			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4315
4316	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4317			read the resume files
4318
4319	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4320			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4321			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4322
4323	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4324		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4325				present during boot.
4326		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4327		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4328		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4329				(that will set all pages holding image data
4330				during restoration read-only).
4331
4332	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4333
4334	rfkill.default_state=
4335		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4336			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4337		1	Unblocked.
4338
4339	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4340		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4341		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4342			blocked and the previous configuration.
4343		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4344			blocked and everything unblocked.
4345
4346	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4347			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4348
4349	ring3mwait=disable
4350			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4351			CPUs.
4352
4353	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4354
4355	rodata=		[KNL]
4356		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4357		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4358
4359	rockchip.usb_uart
4360			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4361			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4362			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4363			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4364
4365	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4366			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4367
4368	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4369			mount the root filesystem
4370
4371	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4372
4373	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4374
4375	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4376			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4377			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4378
4379	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4380			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4381			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4382			managed by CMA.
4383
4384	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4385
4386	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4387
4388	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4389			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4390		strict
4391			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4392			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4393			which is faster.
4394
4395	sa1100ir	[NET]
4396			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4397
4398	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4399
4400	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4401
4402	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4403			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4404			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4405			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4406
4407	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4408			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4409			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4410			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4411			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4412			1 -- enable.
4413			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4414			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4415
4416	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4417			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4418			"lsm=" parameter.
4419
4420	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4421			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4422			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4423			0 -- disable.
4424			1 -- enable.
4425			Default value is 1.
4426
4427	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4428			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4429			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4430			0 -- disable.
4431			1 -- enable.
4432			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4433
4434	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4435
4436	shapers=	[NET]
4437			Maximal number of shapers.
4438
4439	simeth=		[IA-64]
4440	simscsi=
4441
4442	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4443
4444	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4445			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4446			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4447			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4448			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4449			layout control by attackers can usually be
4450			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4451			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4452			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4453			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4454			own.
4455			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4456
4457	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4458			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4459			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4460			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4461			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4462
4463	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4464			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4465			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4466			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4467			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4468			last alloc / free. For more information see
4469			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4470
4471	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4472			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4473			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4474			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4475			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4476			directories and files being created under
4477			/sys/kernel/slub.
4478
4479	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4480			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4481			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4482			fragmentation. For more information see
4483			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4484
4485	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4486			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4487			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4488			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4489			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4490			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4491			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4492			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4493
4494	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4495			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4496			lower than slub_max_order.
4497			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4498
4499	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4500			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4501			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4502
4503	smart2=		[HW]
4504			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4505
4506	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4507	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4508	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4509	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4510	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4511	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4512	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4513				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4514				1: Fast pin select (default)
4515				2: ATC IRMode
4516
4517	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4518			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4519			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4520			actual hardware limit.
4521			Format: <integer>
4522			Default: -1 (no limit)
4523
4524	softlockup_panic=
4525			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4526			Format: <integer>
4527
4528			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4529			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4530			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4531			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4532			functionality.
4533
4534	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4535			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4536			backtraces on all cpus.
4537			Format: <integer>
4538
4539	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4540			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4541
4542	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4543			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4544			The default operation protects the kernel from
4545			user space attacks.
4546
4547			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4548			       spectre_v2_user=on
4549			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4550			       spectre_v2_user=off
4551			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4552			       vulnerable
4553
4554			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4555			mitigation method at run time according to the
4556			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4557			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4558			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4559
4560			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4561			against user space to user space task attacks.
4562
4563			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4564			the user space protections.
4565
4566			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4567
4568			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4569			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4570			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4571
4572			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4573			spectre_v2=auto.
4574
4575	spectre_v2_user=
4576			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4577		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4578		        user space tasks
4579
4580			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4581				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4582
4583			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4584				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4585
4586			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4587				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4588				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4589				  is inherited on fork.
4590
4591			prctl,ibpb
4592				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4593				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4594				  always when switching between different user
4595				  space processes.
4596
4597			seccomp
4598				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4599				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4600				  they explicitly opt out.
4601
4602			seccomp,ibpb
4603				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4604				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4605				  always when switching between different
4606				  user space processes.
4607
4608			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4609				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4610
4611			Default mitigation:
4612			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4613
4614			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4615			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4616
4617	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4618			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4619			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4620
4621			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4622			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4623			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4624			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4625			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4626			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4627			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4628			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4629
4630			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4631			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4632			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4633			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4634
4635			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4636			Bypass optimization is used.
4637
4638			On x86 the options are:
4639
4640			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4641			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4642			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4643				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4644				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4645				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4646				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4647				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4648			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4649				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4650				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4651				  is inherited on fork.
4652			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4653				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4654
4655			Default mitigations:
4656			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4657
4658			On powerpc the options are:
4659
4660			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4661				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4662				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4663				  exit.
4664			off	- No action.
4665
4666			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4667			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4668
4669	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4670	spia_fio_base=
4671	spia_pedr=
4672	spia_peddr=
4673
4674	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4675			Specifies how frequently to check for
4676			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4677			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4678			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4679			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4680			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4681			are ignored.
4682
4683	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4684			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4685			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4686			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4687			grace period will be considered for automatic
4688			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4689			expediting.
4690
4691	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4692			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4693
4694			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4695			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4696			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4697			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4698
4699			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4700				   for both kernel and userspace
4701			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4702				   for both kernel and userspace
4703			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4704				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4705				   to allow userspace to register its
4706				   interest in being mitigated too.
4707
4708	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4709			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4710			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4711			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4712			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4713			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4714
4715	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4716			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4717
4718	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4719			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4720			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4721			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4722			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4723			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4724			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4725
4726	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4727			Format: <num>
4728			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4729			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4730			as the initial boot-console.
4731			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4732
4733	sti_font=	[HW]
4734			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4735
4736	stifb=		[HW]
4737			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4738
4739	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4740	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4741			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4742			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4743			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4744			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4745			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4746			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4747			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4748			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4749			maximum port values.
4750
4751	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4752			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4753			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4754			process in parallel from a single connection.
4755			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4756
4757	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4758			[NFS]
4759			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4760			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4761			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4762			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4763			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4764			NFS server is running.
4765
4766			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4767				    automatically using heuristics
4768			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4769			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4770			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4771				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4772
4773	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4774	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4775			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4776			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4777			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4778			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4779			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4780			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4781
4782	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4783			[SUSPEND]
4784			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4785			mode before resuming the system (see
4786			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4787			is set. Default value is 5.
4788
4789	svm=		[PPC]
4790			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4791			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4792			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4793
4794	swapaccount=[0|1]
4795			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4796			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4797			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4798
4799	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4800			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4801			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4802			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4803			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4804			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4805
4806	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4807
4808	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4809			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4810			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4811			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4812			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4813			in older udev will not work anymore.
4814			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4815			the kernel configuration.
4816
4817	sysrq_always_enabled
4818			[KNL]
4819			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4820			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4821			Useful for debugging.
4822
4823	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4824			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4825			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4826			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4827			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4828			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4829
4830	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4831
4832	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4833			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4834			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4835			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4836			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4837			The system is woken from this state using a
4838			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4839
4840	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4841			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4842
4843	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4844			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4845			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4846
4847	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4848			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4849			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4850
4851	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4852			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4853			critical and hot trip points.
4854
4855	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4856			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4857
4858	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4859			-1: disable all passive trip points
4860			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4861			value
4862
4863	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4864			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4865			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4866			0: no polling (default)
4867
4868	threadirqs	[KNL]
4869			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4870			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4871
4872	topology=	[S390]
4873			Format: {off | on}
4874			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4875			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4876			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4877			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4878			Default is on.
4879
4880	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4881			Format: {off}
4882			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4883			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4884			LPAR.
4885
4886	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4887
4888	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4889			Format: integer pcr id
4890			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4891			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4892			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4893			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4894			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4895			are saved.
4896
4897	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4898			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4899
4900	trace_event=[event-list]
4901			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4902			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4903			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4904			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4905
4906	trace_options=[option-list]
4907			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4908			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4909			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4910			to echo the option name into
4911
4912			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4913
4914			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4915			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4916
4917			      trace_options=stacktrace
4918
4919			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4920			section.
4921
4922	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4923			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4924			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4925			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4926			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4927			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4928
4929			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4930			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4931			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4932			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4933
4934			** CAUTION **
4935
4936			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4937			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4938			the system to live lock.
4939
4940	traceoff_on_warning
4941			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4942			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4943			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4944			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4945
4946			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4947			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4948			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4949
4950			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4951			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4952
4953	transparent_hugepage=
4954			[KNL]
4955			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4956			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4957			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4958			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4959			for more details.
4960
4961	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4962			Format: <string>
4963			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4964			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4965			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4966			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4967			virtualized environment.
4968			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4969			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4970			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4971			can add overhead.
4972			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4973			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4974			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4975			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4976			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4977			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4978			acceptable).
4979
4980	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4981			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4982			support TSX control.
4983
4984			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4985
4986			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4987				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4988				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4989				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4990				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
4991				with leaving it enabled.
4992
4993			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4994				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4995				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4996				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4997				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4998				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4999				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5000
5001			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5002				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5003
5004			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5005
5006			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5007			for more details.
5008
5009	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5010			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5011
5012			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5013			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5014			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5015			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5016			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5017			conditions.
5018
5019			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5020			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5021			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5022			access.
5023
5024			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5025			options are:
5026
5027			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5028				     if TSX is enabled.
5029
5030			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5031				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5032				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5033				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5034			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5035
5036			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5037			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5038			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5039			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5040
5041			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5042			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5043			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5044			required and doesn't provide any additional
5045			mitigation.
5046
5047			For details see:
5048			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5049
5050	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5051			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5052			Format:
5053			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5054			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5055
5056	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5057			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5058			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5059			help "seeing" what's going on.
5060
5061	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5062			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5063
5064	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5065			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5066			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5067			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5068			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5069			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5070			reported either.
5071
5072	unknown_nmi_panic
5073			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5074
5075	usbcore.authorized_default=
5076			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5077			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5078			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5079			if device connected to internal port)
5080
5081	usbcore.autosuspend=
5082			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5083			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5084			is the time required before an idle device will be
5085			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5086			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5087
5088	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5089			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5090
5091	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5092			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5093			(default = 65536).
5094
5095	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5096			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5097
5098	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5099			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5100			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
5101			 (default 0 = off).
5102
5103	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5104			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5105			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5106
5107	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5108			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5109			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5110
5111	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5112			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5113			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5114			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5115
5116	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5117
5118	usbcore.quirks=
5119			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5120			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5121			commas. Each entry has the form
5122			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5123			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5124			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5125			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5126			the following meanings:
5127				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5128					descriptors must not be fetched using
5129					a 255-byte read);
5130				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5131					correctly so reset it instead);
5132				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5133					Set-Interface requests);
5134				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5135					handle its Configuration or Interface
5136					strings);
5137				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5138					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5139				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5140					more interface descriptions than the
5141					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5142					talking to these interfaces);
5143				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5144					during initialization, after we read
5145					the device descriptor);
5146				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5147					high speed and super speed interrupt
5148					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5149					require the interval in microframes (1
5150					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5151					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5152					(bInterval-1).
5153					Devices with this quirk report their
5154					bInterval as the result of this
5155					calculation instead of the exponent
5156					variable used in the calculation);
5157				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5158					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5159					requests);
5160				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5161					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5162					remote wakeup capability);
5163				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5164					Power Management);
5165				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5166					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5167					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5168					calculation);
5169				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5170					to be disconnected before suspend to
5171					prevent spurious wakeup);
5172				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5173					pause after every control message);
5174				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5175					delay after resetting its port);
5176			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5177
5178	usbhid.mousepoll=
5179			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5180
5181	usbhid.jspoll=
5182			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5183
5184	usbhid.kbpoll=
5185			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5186
5187	usb-storage.delay_use=
5188			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5189			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5190
5191	usb-storage.quirks=
5192			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5193			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5194			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5195			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5196			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5197			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5198			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5199				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5200					of sense data, not on uas);
5201				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5202					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5203				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5204					device capacity by one sector);
5205				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5206					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5207				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5208					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5209				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5210					command, uas only);
5211				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5212					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5213				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5214					reported device capacity by one
5215					sector if the number is odd);
5216				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5217					device);
5218				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5219					command, uas only);
5220				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5221					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5222				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5223					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5224					not on uas);
5225				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5226					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5227				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5228					reported by the device, not on uas);
5229				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5230					by default, not on uas);
5231				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5232					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5233				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5234					Logical Unit);
5235				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5236					commands, uas only);
5237				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5238				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5239					medium is write-protected).
5240				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5241					even if the device claims no cache,
5242					not on uas)
5243			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5244
5245	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5246			Format: <int>
5247			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5248				 1 - undefined instruction events
5249				 2 - system calls
5250				 4 - invalid data aborts
5251				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5252				16 - SIGBUS faults
5253			Example: user_debug=31
5254
5255	userpte=
5256			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5257
5258				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5259					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5260					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5261
5262	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5263			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5264
5265			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5266			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5267
5268	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5269			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5270			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5271
5272			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5273			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5274			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5275
5276			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5277			alias for vdso32=0.
5278
5279			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5280			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5281
5282	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5283			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5284
5285	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5286			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5287
5288	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5289			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5290			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5291			level and then send out the event to user space through
5292			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5293			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5294			brightness level.
5295			default: 1
5296
5297	virtio_mmio.device=
5298			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5299
5300				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5301			where:
5302				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5303						like K, M and G)
5304				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5305				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5306						request_irq())
5307				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5308			example:
5309				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5310
5311			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5312
5313	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5314			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5315			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5316			Use vga=ask for menu.
5317			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5318			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5319
5320	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5321			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5322			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5323			All options are enabled by default, and this
5324			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5325			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5326			debugging features.
5327
5328			Available options are:
5329			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5330			  -	Disable all of the above options
5331
5332	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5333			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5334			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5335			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5336			mapped kernel RAM.
5337
5338	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5339			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5340			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5341
5342	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5343			Format: <command>
5344
5345	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5346			Format: <command>
5347
5348	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5349			Format: <command>
5350
5351	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5352			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5353			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5354			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5355			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5356			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5357			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5358
5359			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5360			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5361				    page is readable.
5362
5363			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5364			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5365				    page is not readable.
5366
5367			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5368			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5369			            might break your system.
5370
5371	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5372			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5373			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5374
5375	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5376			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5377			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5378			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5379
5380	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5381			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5382			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5383			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5384			ranging from 0-255.
5385
5386	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5387			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5388			Change the default green palette of the console.
5389			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5390			ranging from 0-255.
5391
5392	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5393			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5394			Change the default red palette of the console.
5395			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5396			ranging from 0-255.
5397
5398	vt.default_utf8=
5399			[VT]
5400			Format=<0|1>
5401			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5402			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5403			newly opened terminals.
5404
5405	vt.global_cursor_default=
5406			[VT]
5407			Format=<-1|0|1>
5408			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5409			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5410			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5411			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5412			cursors, 1 will display them.
5413
5414	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5415			Default: 2 = green.
5416
5417	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5418			Default: 3 = cyan.
5419
5420	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5421			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5422			or other driver-specific files in the
5423			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5424
5425	watchdog_thresh=
5426			[KNL]
5427			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5428			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5429			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5430			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5431			seconds.
5432
5433	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5434			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5435			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5436			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5437			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5438			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5439			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5440			corresponding sysfs file.
5441
5442	workqueue.disable_numa
5443			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5444			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5445			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5446			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5447			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5448			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5449			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5450
5451	workqueue.power_efficient
5452			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5453			they show better performance thanks to cache
5454			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5455			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5456
5457			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5458			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5459			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5460			power usage at the cost of small performance
5461			overhead.
5462
5463			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5464			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5465
5466	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5467			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5468			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5469			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5470			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5471			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5472			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5473			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5474			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5475			impacted.
5476
5477	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5478			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5479			supporting x2apic.
5480
5481	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5482			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5483			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5484			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5485			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5486
5487	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5488			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5489			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5490			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5491			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5492			domains.
5493
5494	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5495			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5496			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5497			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5498			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5499			nics -- unplug network devices
5500			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5501			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5502				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5503				the unplug protocol
5504			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5505
5506	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5507			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5508			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5509
5510	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5511			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5512			optimizations.
5513
5514	xen_nopv	[X86]
5515			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5516			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5517			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5518			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5519
5520	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5521			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5522			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5523			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5524			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5525
5526	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5527			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5528			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5529			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5530			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5531			more timer interrupts.
5532
5533	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5534			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5535			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5536			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5537
5538	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5539			Format:
5540			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5541
5542	xive=		[PPC]
5543			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5544			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5545			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5546
5547			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5548				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5549				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5550
5551	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5552			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5553			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5554			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5555
5556	xmon		[PPC]
5557			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5558			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5559			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5560			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5561				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5562			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5563				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5564				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5565				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5566			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5567				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5568				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5569				can be written using xmon commands.
5570			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5571				memory, and other data can't be written using
5572				xmon commands.
5573			off	xmon is disabled.
5574