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