1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
482			no delay (0).
483			Format: integer
484
485	bootconfig	[KNL]
486			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
487			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
488
489			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
490
491	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
492	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
493			kernel args too.
494	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
495	bttv.tuner=
496
497	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
498			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
499			at a time.
500
501	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
502
503	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
504			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
505			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
506			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
507			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
508			This option provides an override for these situations.
509
510	carrier_timeout=
511			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
512			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
513			it waits 120 seconds.
514
515	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
516			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
517			trust validation.
518			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
519
520	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
521			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
522			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
523			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
524			others).
525
526	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528
529	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
530			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
531			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
532			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
533			  a single hierarchy
534			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
535			  subsystem
536			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
537			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
538			  created
539			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
540			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
541			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
542			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
543			stall information accounting feature
544
545	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
546			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
547			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
548			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
549			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
550			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
551			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
552			all v1 hierarchies.
553
554	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
555			Format: <string>
556			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
557			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
558
559	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
560			Format: { "0" | "1" }
561			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
562			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
563				any implied execute protection).
564			1 -- check protection requested by application.
565			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
566			Value can be changed at runtime via
567				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
568			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
569
570	cio_ignore=	[S390]
571			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
572
573	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
574			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
575			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
576			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
577			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
578			ones should be.
579			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
580			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
581			instability issue. However, not all features have names
582			in /proc/cpuinfo.
583			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
584			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
585			or using the feature without checking anything
586			will still see it. This just prevents it from
587			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
588			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
589			some critical bits.
590
591	clk_ignore_unused
592			[CLK]
593			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
594			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
595			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
596			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
597			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
598			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
599			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
600			platform with proper driver support.  For more
601			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
602
603	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
604			[Deprecated]
605			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
606			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
607			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
608			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
609
610	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
611			Format: <string>
612			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
613			with the name specified.
614			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
615			the platform:
616			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
617			[ACPI] acpi_pm
618			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
619				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
620			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
621				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
622			[MIPS] MIPS
623			[PARISC] cr16
624			[S390] tod
625			[SH] SuperH
626			[SPARC64] tick
627			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
628
629	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
630			[ARM,ARM64]
631			Format: <bool>
632			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
633			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
634			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
635			systems.
636
637	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
638			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
639			external delays before the clock will be marked
640			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
641			three attempts to read the clock under test.
642
643	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
644			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
645			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
646			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
647			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
648			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
649			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
650			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
651			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
652
653	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
654			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
655			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
656			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
657			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
658
659	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
660			[KNL,CMA]
661			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
662			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
663			placement constraint by the physical address range of
664			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
665			altogether. For more information, see
666			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
667
668	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
669			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
670			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
671			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
672			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
673			specificed, the default value is 0.
674			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
675			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
676			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
677			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
678
679	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
680			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
681			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
682			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
683			a hypervisor.
684			Default: yes
685
686	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
687			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
688			allocations, by default set to 256K.
689
690	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
691			Format:
692			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
693
694	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
695			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
696
697	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
698			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
699			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
700
701	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
702	conmode=
703
704	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
705
706		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
707
708		ttyS<n>[,options]
709		ttyUSB0[,options]
710			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
711			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
712			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
713			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
714			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
715
716			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
717			information.  See
718			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
719			alternative.
720
721		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
722		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
723		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
724		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
725		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
726			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
727			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
728			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
729			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
730			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
731			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
732			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
733			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
734			the h/w is not re-initialized.
735
736		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
737			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
738
739		{ null | "" }
740			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
741			console messages discarded.
742			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
743			kernel command line.
744
745		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
746		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
747			console=brl,ttyS0
748		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
749
750	console_msg_format=
751			[KNL] Change console messages format
752		default
753			By default we print messages on consoles in
754			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
755			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
756			`printk_time' param).
757		syslog
758			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
759			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
760			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
761			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
762			from /proc/kmsg.
763
764	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
765			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
766			Defaults to 0.
767
768	coredump_filter=
769			[KNL] Change the default value for
770			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
771			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
772
773	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
774			[ARM,ARM64]
775			Format: <bool>
776			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
777			0: default value, disable debugging
778			1: enable debugging at boot time
779
780	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
781			Format:
782			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
783
784	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
785			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
786			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
787			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
788			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
789			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
790			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
791			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
792			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
793			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
794			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
795			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
796			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
797
798	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
799			disable the cpuidle sub-system
800
801	cpuidle.governor=
802			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
803
804	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
805			disable the cpufreq sub-system
806
807	cpufreq.default_governor=
808			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
809			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
810			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
811
812	cpu_init_udelay=N
813			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
814			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
815			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
816			Default: 10000
817
818	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
819			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
820			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
821			succeeds in any situation.
822			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
823			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
824			kernel more unstable.
825
826	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
827			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
828			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
829			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
830			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
831			is selected automatically.
832			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
833			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
834			hasn't been specified.
835			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
836
837	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
838			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
839			in the running system. The syntax of range is
840			start-[end] where start and end are both
841			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
842			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
843
844	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
845			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
846			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
847			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
848			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
849			available.
850			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
851	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
852			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
853			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
854			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
855			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
856			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
857			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
858			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
859			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
860			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
861			for second kernel instead.
862			0: to disable low allocation.
863			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
864			or memory reserved is below 4G.
865
866			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
867			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
868			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
869			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
870			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
871
872	cryptomgr.notests
873			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
874
875	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
876			Format: <dma>
877
878	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
879			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
880
881	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
882			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
883			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
884			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
885			to resolve the hang situation.
886			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
887			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
888			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
889			     but more data)
890
891	dasd=		[HW,NET]
892			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
893
894	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
895			(one device per port)
896			Format: <port#>,<type>
897			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
898
899	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
900
901	debug_boot_weak_hash
902			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
903			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
904			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
905			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
906			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
907			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
908
909	debug_locks_verbose=
910			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
911			Format: <int>
912			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
913			self-tests.
914			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
915			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
916			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
917			useful to lockdep developers.
918
919	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
920
921	no_debug_objects
922			[KNL] Disable object debugging
923
924	debug_guardpage_minorder=
925			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
926			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
927			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
928			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
929			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
930			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
931			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
932			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
933			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
934			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
935			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
936			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
937			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
938			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
939			bypassed) which are not detectable by
940			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
941			tracking down these problems.
942
943	debug_pagealloc=
944			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
945			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
946			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
947			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
948			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
949			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
950			on: enable the feature
951
952	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
953			and debugfs internal clients.
954			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
955			on: 	All functions are enabled.
956			no-mount:
957				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
958			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
959				its content. There is nothing to mount.
960			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
961			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
962				or directories within debugfs.
963				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
964				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
965			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
966
967	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
968
969	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
970			Format: <area>[,<node>]
971			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
972
973	default_hugepagesz=
974			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
975			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
976			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
977			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
978			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
979			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
980			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
981			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
982			Format: size[KMG]
983
984	deferred_probe_timeout=
985			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
986			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
987			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
988			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
989			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
990			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
991			successful driver registration. This option will also
992			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
993			retrying.
994
995	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
996
997	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
998			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
999			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1000			hardware.
1001
1002	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1003			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1004			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1005			blacklisted features.
1006
1007	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1008			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1009			(disabled by default).
1010
1011	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1012			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1013			capability is set.
1014
1015	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1016			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1017
1018	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1019			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1020
1021	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1022			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1023			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1024			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1025			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1026			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1027			          only (compression on level 1)
1028			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1029			          only (decompression)
1030			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1031			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1032
1033	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1034			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1035
1036	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1037			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1038			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1039			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1040			miss to occur.
1041
1042	stress_slb	[PPC]
1043			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1044			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1045			on kernel addresses.
1046
1047	disable=	[IPV6]
1048			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1049
1050	disable_radix	[PPC]
1051			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1052
1053	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1054			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1055			invalidate.
1056
1057	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1058			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1059			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1060
1061	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1062			Format: <int>
1063			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1064			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1065			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1066			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1067			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1068			INIT from AP to BSP.
1069
1070	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1071			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1072			to workaround buggy firmware.
1073
1074	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1075			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1076
1077	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1078			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1079			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1080			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1081
1082	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1083			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1084			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1085			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1086			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1087
1088	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1089			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1090			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1091
1092	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1093
1094	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1095			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1096
1097	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1098			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1099			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1100			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1101			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1102			architectural default is too low.
1103
1104	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1105			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1106			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1107			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1108			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1109			driver later using sysfs.
1110
1111	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1112			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1113			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1114			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1115			match the *.
1116			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1117
1118	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1119			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1120			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1121			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1122			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1123			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1124			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1125			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1126			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1127			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1128			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1129			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1130			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1131			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1132			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1133			data set with no connector name will be used for
1134			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1135
1136	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1137
1138	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1139			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1140			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1141			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1142			exists).
1143			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1144			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1145			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1146
1147	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1148			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1149			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1150			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1151
1152	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1153	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1154			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1155			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1156			for details.
1157
1158	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1159			in some Intel CPUs.
1160
1161	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
1162			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
1163			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
1164			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
1165			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
1166			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
1167
1168	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1169			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1170			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1171			which are not unmapped.
1172
1173	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1174
1175			When used with no options, the early console is
1176			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1177			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1178			the platform.
1179
1180		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1181			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1182			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1183			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1184			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1185			configured.
1186
1187		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1188		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1189		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1190		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1191		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1192			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1193			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1194			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1195			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1196			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1197			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1198			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1199			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1200
1201		pl011,<addr>
1202		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1203			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1204			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1205			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1206			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1207			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1208			the device registers.
1209
1210		liteuart,<addr>
1211			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1212			specified address. The serial port must already be
1213			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1214
1215		meson,<addr>
1216			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1217			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1218			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1219			supported.
1220
1221		msm_serial,<addr>
1222			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1223			port at the specified address. The serial port
1224			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1225			yet supported.
1226
1227		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1228			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1229			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1230			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1231			yet supported.
1232
1233		owl,<addr>
1234			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1235			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1236			specified address. The serial port must already be
1237			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1238
1239		rda,<addr>
1240			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1241			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1242			specified address. The serial port must already be
1243			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1244
1245		sbi
1246			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1247			console.
1248
1249		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1250
1251		s3c2410,<addr>
1252		s3c2412,<addr>
1253		s3c2440,<addr>
1254		s3c6400,<addr>
1255		s5pv210,<addr>
1256		exynos4210,<addr>
1257			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1258			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1259			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1260			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1261			Options are not yet supported.
1262
1263		lantiq,<addr>
1264			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1265			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1266			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1267			yet supported.
1268
1269		lpuart,<addr>
1270		lpuart32,<addr>
1271			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1272			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1273			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1274			port must already be setup and configured.
1275
1276		ec_imx21,<addr>
1277		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1278			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1279			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1280			must already be setup and configured.
1281
1282		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1283			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1284			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1285			address. The serial port must already be setup
1286			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1287
1288		qcom_geni,<addr>
1289			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1290			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1291			specified address. The serial port must already be
1292			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1293
1294		efifb,[options]
1295			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1296			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1297			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1298			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1299			mapped with the correct attributes.
1300
1301		linflex,<addr>
1302			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1303			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1304			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1305			already be setup and configured.
1306
1307	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1308			earlyprintk=vga
1309			earlyprintk=sclp
1310			earlyprintk=xen
1311			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1312			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1313			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1314			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1315			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1316			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1317
1318			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1319			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1320			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1321
1322			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1323			takes over.
1324
1325			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1326			be used at a time.
1327
1328			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1329			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1330			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1331			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1332				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1333			You can find the port for a given device in
1334			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1335				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1336
1337			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1338			very good.
1339
1340			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1341			the real console.
1342
1343			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1344
1345			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1346
1347			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1348			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1349			UART class.
1350
1351	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1352			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1353			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1354			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1355			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1356			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1357			default: on.
1358
1359	edd=		[EDD]
1360			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1361
1362	efi=		[EFI]
1363			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1364				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1365				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1366			debug: enable misc debug output.
1367			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1368			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1369			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1370			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1371			firmware implementations.
1372			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1373			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1374			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1375			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1376			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1377			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1378			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1379			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1380			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1381			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1382
1383	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1384			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1385			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1386			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1387			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1388
1389	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1390			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1391			updating original EFI memory map.
1392			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1393			from ss to ss+nn.
1394
1395			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1396			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1397			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1398			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1399
1400			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1401			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1402			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1403
1404			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1405			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1406			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1407			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1408			"soft reserved".
1409
1410	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1411			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1412			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1413			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1414			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1415
1416
1417	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1418			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1419
1420	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1421			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1422
1423			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1424			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1425
1426			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1427			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1428			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1429			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1430
1431	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1432			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1433			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1434
1435	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1436			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1437			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1438			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1439			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1440
1441	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1442			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1443			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1444			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1445
1446	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1447			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1448			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1449			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1450			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1451
1452	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1453			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1454			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1455			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1456			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1457			Default value is 0.
1458			Value can be changed at runtime via
1459			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1460
1461	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1462			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1463			support.
1464
1465	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1466			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1467			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1468
1469	evm=		[EVM]
1470			Format: { "fix" }
1471			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1472			current integrity status.
1473
1474	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1475			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1476			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1477			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1478			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1479			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1480			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1481
1482	failslab=
1483	fail_usercopy=
1484	fail_page_alloc=
1485	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1486			General fault injection mechanism.
1487			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1488			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1489
1490	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1491			Format: { initns | none }
1492			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1493			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1494
1495	floppy=		[HW]
1496			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1497
1498	force_pal_cache_flush
1499			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1500			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1501			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1502			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1503
1504	forcepae	[X86-32]
1505			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1506			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1507			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1508			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1509			and may cause unknown problems.
1510
1511	ftrace=[tracer]
1512			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1513			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1514			boot debugging.
1515
1516	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1517			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1518			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1519			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1520			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1521			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1522			start up functionality.
1523
1524	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1525			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1526			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1527			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1528			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1529			oops.
1530
1531	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1532			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1533			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1534			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1535			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1536			tracing directory.
1537
1538	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1539			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1540			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1541			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1542			tracing directory.
1543
1544	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1545			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1546			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1547			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1548			that can be changed at run time by the
1549			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1550
1551	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1552			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1553			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1554			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1555			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1556
1557	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1558			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1559			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1560			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1561			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1562
1563	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1564			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1565			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1566			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1567			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1568			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1569			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1570			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1571			suppliers).
1572			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1573			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1574			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1575				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1576				up (sync_state() calls).
1577			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1578				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1579			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1580
1581	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1582			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1583			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1584			Format: <bool>
1585
1586	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1587			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1588			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1589			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1590			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1591
1592	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1593
1594	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1595			Format: off | on
1596			default: on
1597
1598	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1599			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1600			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1601			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1602			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1603
1604	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1605			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1606			android emulator
1607
1608	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1609			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1610			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1611	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1612			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1613
1614	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1615			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1616			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1617			GPT to be used instead.
1618
1619	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1620			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1621			Format: 0 | 1
1622			Default: 0
1623	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1624			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1625			Format: 0 | 1
1626			Default: 0
1627	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1628			Format: 0 | 1
1629			Default: 0
1630	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1631			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1632			Default: 1024
1633	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1634			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1635			Default: 1024
1636
1637	hardened_usercopy=
1638			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1639			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1640			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1641			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1642			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1643			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1644			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1645		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1646		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1647
1648	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1649			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1650			backtraces on all cpus.
1651			Format: 0 | 1
1652
1653	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1654			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1655			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1656			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1657
1658	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1659
1660	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1661			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1662
1663	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1664			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1665			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1666			logic will be disabled.
1667
1668	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1669		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1670				present during boot.
1671		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1672		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1673		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1674				(that will set all pages holding image data
1675				during restoration read-only).
1676
1677	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1678			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1679			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1680			size on bigger boxes.
1681
1682	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1683			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1684			Default: "on"
1685
1686	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1687
1688	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1689			Format: <string>
1690			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1691			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1692			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1693			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1694			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1695			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1696			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1697			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1698			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1699			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1700
1701	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1702			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1703				verbose }
1704			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1705			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1706				VIA, nVidia)
1707			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1708
1709	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1710			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1711
1712	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1713			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1714			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1715			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1716			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1717			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1718			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1719			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1720			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1721				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1722
1723	hugepagesz=
1724			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1725			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1726			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1727			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1728			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1729			architecture dependent.  See also
1730			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1731			Format: size[KMG]
1732
1733	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1734			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1735			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1736			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1737				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1738
1739			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1740			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1741			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1742
1743	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1744			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1745			enabled.
1746			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1747			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1748			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1749			Format: { on | off (default) }
1750
1751			on: enable HVO
1752			off: disable HVO
1753
1754			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1755			the default is on.
1756
1757			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1758			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1759			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1760			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1761			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1762
1763	hung_task_panic=
1764			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1765			Format: 0 | 1
1766
1767			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1768			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1769			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1770			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1771			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1772
1773	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1774				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1775	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1776				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1777				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1778
1779	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1780				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1781				      guest on lock contention.
1782
1783	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1784			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1785			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1786			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1787			the real console.
1788
1789	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1790				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1791				registered from board initialization code.
1792				Format:
1793				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1794
1795	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1796	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1797			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1798			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1799			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1800	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1801	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1802			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1803			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1804	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1805	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1806	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1807			     for the AUX port
1808	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1809			     controller
1810	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1811			     controllers
1812	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1813	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1814			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1815			     transitions, or never reset
1816			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1817			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1818			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1819			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1820			architectures force reset to be always executed
1821	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1822	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1823	i8042.probe_defer
1824			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1825
1826	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1827
1828	i915.invert_brightness=
1829			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1830			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1831			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1832			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1833			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1834			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1835			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1836			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1837			value switches the backlight off.
1838			-1 -- never invert brightness
1839			 0 -- machine default
1840			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1841
1842	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1843			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1844
1845
1846	idle=		[X86]
1847			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1848			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1849			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1850			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1851			Not recommended.
1852			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1853			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1854			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1855
1856	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1857			Format: <bool>
1858			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1859			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1860			true (1).
1861
1862	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1863			Format: <bool>
1864			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1865			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1866
1867	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1868			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1869			Default: strict
1870
1871			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1872			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1873			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1874			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1875			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1876			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1877			encoding mode.
1878
1879			Available settings are as follows:
1880			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1881				supported by the FPU
1882			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1883				by the FPU
1884			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1885				by the FPU
1886			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1887				supported by the FPU
1888
1889			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1890			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1891			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1892			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1893			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1894			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1895			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1896			MIPS64 CPUs.
1897
1898			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1899			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1900			except where unsupported by hardware.
1901
1902	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1903			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1904			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1905			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1906			could change it dynamically, usually by
1907			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1908
1909	ignore_rlimit_data
1910			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1911			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1912			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1913
1914	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1915			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1916
1917	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1918			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1919			default: "enforce"
1920
1921	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1922			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1923			owned by uid=0.
1924
1925	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1926			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1927			measurements, instead of host native format.
1928
1929	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1930			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1931				   | sha512 | ... }
1932			default: "sha1"
1933
1934			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1935			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1936
1937	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1938			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1939			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1940				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1941
1942			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1943			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1944			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1945			uid=0.
1946
1947			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1948			all files owned by root.
1949
1950			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1951			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1952			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1953
1954			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1955			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1956			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1957			flag.
1958
1959			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1960			critical data.
1961
1962	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1963			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1964			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1965			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1966			opened for read by uid=0.
1967
1968	ima_template=	[IMA]
1969			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1970			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1971				   "ima-sigv2" }
1972			Default: "ima-ng"
1973
1974	ima_template_fmt=
1975			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1976			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1977
1978	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1979			Format: <min_file_size>
1980			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1981			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1982
1983			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1984			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1985			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1986
1987	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1988			Format: <bufsize>
1989			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1990
1991			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1992			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1993			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1994
1995	init=		[KNL]
1996			Format: <full_path>
1997			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1998			process.
1999
2000	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2001			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2002			startup.
2003
2004	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2005			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2006			modules and initcalls.
2007
2008	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2009			Format: <bool>
2010			Default: 1
2011			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2012			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2013			with devices being probed and
2014			initialized. This should normally just work,
2015			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2016			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2017			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2018			late_ initcalls.
2019
2020	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2021
2022	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2023			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2024			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2025			setting.
2026			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2027			Default is 0, 0
2028
2029	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2030			zeroes.
2031			Format: 0 | 1
2032			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2033
2034	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2035			Format: 0 | 1
2036			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2037
2038	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2039			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2040			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2041			override in debugfs after boot.
2042
2043	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2044			Format: <irq>
2045
2046	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2047
2048	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2049			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2050			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2051			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2052
2053	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2054		on
2055			Enable intel iommu driver.
2056		off
2057			Disable intel iommu driver.
2058		igfx_off [Default Off]
2059			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2060			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2061			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2062			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2063			DMA.
2064		strict [Default Off]
2065			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2066		sp_off [Default Off]
2067			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2068			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2069			not be supported.
2070		sm_on
2071			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2072			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2073			translation.
2074		sm_off
2075			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2076		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2077			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2078			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2079			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2080			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2081			mapping is enabled.
2082			Note that using this option lowers the security
2083			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2084			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2085
2086	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2087			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2088			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2089
2090	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2091			disable
2092			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2093			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2094			passive
2095			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2096			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2097			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2098			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2099			  feature.
2100			force
2101			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2102			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2103			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2104			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2105			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2106			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2107			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2108			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2109			no_hwp
2110			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2111			  if available.
2112			hwp_only
2113			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2114			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2115			support_acpi_ppc
2116			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2117			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2118			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2119			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2120			per_cpu_perf_limits
2121			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2122			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2123
2124	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2125			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2126			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2127			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2128			no_x2apic_optout
2129				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2130			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2131
2132	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2133		strict	regions from userspace.
2134		relaxed
2135
2136	iommu=		[X86]
2137		off
2138		force
2139		noforce
2140		biomerge
2141		panic
2142		nopanic
2143		merge
2144		nomerge
2145		soft
2146		pt		[X86]
2147		nopt		[X86]
2148		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2149			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2150
2151	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2152			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2153			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2154			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2155			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2156			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2157			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2158
2159	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2160			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2161			0 - Lazy mode.
2162			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2163			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2164			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2165			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2166			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2167			1 - Strict mode.
2168			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2169			  synchronously.
2170			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2171			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2172			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2173
2174	iommu.passthrough=
2175			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2176			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2177			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2178			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2179			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2180
2181	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2182			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2183			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2184
2185	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2186		0x80
2187			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2188		0xed
2189			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2190		udelay
2191			Simple two microseconds delay
2192		none
2193			No delay
2194
2195	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2196			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2197
2198	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2199			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2200
2201	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2202			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2203
2204	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2205			[ARM, ARM64]
2206			Format: <bool>
2207			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2208			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2209			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2210
2211	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2212			[ARM, ARM64]
2213			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2214			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2215			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2216			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2217			LPIs.
2218
2219	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2220			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2221			requires the kernel to be built with
2222			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2223
2224	irqfixup	[HW]
2225			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2226			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2227			firmware running.
2228
2229	irqpoll		[HW]
2230			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2231			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2232			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2233			firmware running.
2234
2235	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2236			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2237
2238	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2239			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2240			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2241
2242			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2243			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2244
2245			nohz
2246			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2247
2248			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2249			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2250			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2251			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2252			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2253
2254			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2255			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2256			  be configured manually after bootup.
2257
2258			domain
2259			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2260			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2261			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2262			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2263			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2264			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2265			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2266			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2267
2268			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2269			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2270			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2271			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2272
2273			managed_irq
2274
2275			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2276			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2277			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2278			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2279			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2280
2281			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2282			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2283			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2284			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2285			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2286			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2287			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2288
2289			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2290			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2291			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2292			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2293			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2294			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2295			  queues.
2296
2297			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2298
2299	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2300
2301	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2302			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2303			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2304			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2305			For example:
2306			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2307			  write the parameter as:
2308				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2309			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2310			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2311				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2312
2313	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2314			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2315			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2316			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2317			For example:
2318			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2319			  write the parameter as:
2320				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2321			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2322			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2323				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2324
2325	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2326			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2327			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2328
2329			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2330			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2331			write the parameter as:
2332				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2333
2334			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2335			For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2336				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2337
2338	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2339			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2340
2341	nokaslr		[KNL]
2342			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2343			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2344			Layout Randomization).
2345
2346	kasan_multi_shot
2347			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2348			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2349			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2350			invalid access.
2351
2352	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2353
2354	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2355			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2356			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2357			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2358			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2359			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2360			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2361			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2362			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2363			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2364
2365			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2366			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2367			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2368			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2369			zone if it does not.
2370
2371			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2372			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2373			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2374			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2375			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2376			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2377			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2378
2379	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2380			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2381			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2382			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2383			optional and is the number seconds in between
2384			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2385			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2386			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2387			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2388			the kernel debugger.
2389
2390	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2391			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2392			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2393			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2394			 keyboard only format: kbd
2395			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2396			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2397			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2398			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2399
2400	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2401			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2402			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2403			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2404			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2405			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2406			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2407
2408			The name of the early console should be specified
2409			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2410			the early console might be different than the tty
2411			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2412			blank and the first boot console that implements
2413			read() will be picked.
2414
2415	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2416			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2417
2418	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2419			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2420			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2421
2422	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2423			Valid arguments: on, off
2424			Default: on
2425			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2426			the default is off.
2427
2428	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2429			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2430			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2431			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2432			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2433			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2434			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2435
2436			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2437
2438			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2439			Boot Parameter" section.
2440
2441	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2442			and kernel address spaces.
2443			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2444			0: force disabled
2445			1: force enabled
2446
2447	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2448			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2449
2450	kvm.eager_page_split=
2451			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2452			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2453			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2454			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2455			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2456			required to split huge pages lazily.
2457
2458			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2459			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2460			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2461			still be used for reads.
2462
2463			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2464			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2465			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2466			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2467			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2468			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2469			cleared.
2470
2471			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2472
2473			Default is Y (on).
2474
2475	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2476				   Default is false (don't support).
2477
2478	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2479			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2480			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2481			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2482			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2483			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2484				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2485
2486			Default is 'auto'.
2487
2488			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2489			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2490
2491	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2492			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2493			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2494			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2495			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2496
2497	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2498			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2499			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2500			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2501			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2502			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2503
2504	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2505			Default is 1 (enabled)
2506
2507	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2508			for all guests.
2509			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2510
2511	kvm-arm.mode=
2512			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2513
2514			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2515
2516			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2517			      protected guests.
2518
2519			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2520				   state is kept private from the host.
2521
2522			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2523			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2524			for the host.
2525
2526	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2527			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2528			system registers
2529
2530	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2531			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2532			system registers
2533
2534	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2535			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2536			system registers
2537
2538	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2539			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2540			LPIs.
2541
2542	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2543			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2544			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2545			allocation.
2546			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2547			Format: <integer>
2548			Default: 5
2549
2550	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2551			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2552			Default is 1 (enabled)
2553
2554	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2555			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2556			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2557			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2558			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2559			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2560			Default is 1 (enabled)
2561
2562	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2563			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2564			Default is 1 (enabled)
2565
2566	kvm-intel.nested=
2567			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2568			Default is 0 (disabled)
2569
2570	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2571			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2572			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2573			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2574
2575	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2576			CVE-2018-3620.
2577
2578			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2579
2580			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2581			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2582				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2583			never:	Disables the mitigation
2584
2585			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2586
2587	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2588			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2589			Default is 1 (enabled)
2590
2591	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2592			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2593
2594			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2595			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2596			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2597
2598			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2599			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2600			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2601			not have direct access.
2602
2603			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2604			options are:
2605
2606			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2607
2608	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2609			      affected CPUs
2610
2611			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2612			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2613
2614			full
2615				Provides all available mitigations for the
2616				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2617				enables all mitigations in the
2618				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2619
2620				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2621				sysfs interface is still possible after
2622				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2623				when the first VM is started in a
2624				potentially insecure configuration,
2625				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2626
2627			full,force
2628				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2629				flush runtime control. Implies the
2630				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2631				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2632
2633			flush
2634				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2635				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2636				L1D flush.
2637
2638				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2639				sysfs interface is still possible after
2640				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2641				when the first VM is started in a
2642				potentially insecure configuration,
2643				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2644
2645			flush,nosmt
2646
2647				Disables SMT and enables the default
2648				hypervisor mitigation.
2649
2650				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2651				sysfs interface is still possible after
2652				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2653				when the first VM is started in a
2654				potentially insecure configuration,
2655				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2656
2657			flush,nowarn
2658				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2659				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2660				insecure configuration.
2661
2662			off
2663				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2664				emit any warnings.
2665				It also drops the swap size and available
2666				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2667				bare metal.
2668
2669			Default is 'flush'.
2670
2671			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2672
2673	l2cr=		[PPC]
2674
2675	l3cr=		[PPC]
2676
2677	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2678			disabled it.
2679
2680	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2681			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2682			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2683			Format: notscdeadline
2684
2685	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2686			in C2 power state.
2687
2688	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2689			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2690			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2691			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2692			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2693			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2694			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2695
2696	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2697			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2698			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2699
2700	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2701			when set.
2702			Format: <int>
2703
2704	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2705			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2706			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2707			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2708			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2709			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2710			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2711			to all ports, links and devices.
2712
2713			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2714			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2715			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2716			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2717			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2718			host link and device attached to it.
2719
2720			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2721			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2722			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2723			The following configurations can be forced.
2724
2725			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2726			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2727
2728			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2729
2730			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2731			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2732			  allowed.
2733
2734			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2735			  resets.
2736
2737			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2738			  link recovery.
2739
2740			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2741			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2742			  detection.
2743
2744			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2745
2746			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2747
2748			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2749
2750			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2751
2752			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2753
2754			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2755
2756			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2757
2758			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2759
2760			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2761			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2762
2763			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2764			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2765
2766			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2767			  identify device data log.
2768
2769			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2770			  purpose log directory.
2771
2772			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2773
2774			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2775			  1024 sectors.
2776
2777			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2778			  65535 sectors.
2779
2780			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2781
2782			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2783			  should be skipped.
2784
2785			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2786
2787			* disable: Disable this device.
2788
2789			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2790			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2791
2792	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2793
2794	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2795			Format: <integer>
2796
2797	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2798			Format: <integer>
2799
2800	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2801			Format: <integer>
2802
2803	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2804			Format: <integer>
2805
2806	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2807			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2808			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2809			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2810			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2811			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2812			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2813			are also disabled.
2814
2815	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2816			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2817			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2818			number of online CPUs.
2819
2820	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2821			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2822
2823	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2824			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2825
2826	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2827			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2828			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2829
2830	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2831			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2832			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2833			mode during the locktorture test.
2834
2835	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2836			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2837			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2838
2839	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2840			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2841
2842	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2843			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2844			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2845			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2846			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2847			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2848
2849	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2850			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2851
2852	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2853			Enable additional printk() statements.
2854
2855	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2856			Format: <irq>
2857
2858	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2859			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2860			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2861			loglevels are defined as follows:
2862
2863			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2864			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2865			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2866			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2867			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2868			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2869			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2870			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2871
2872	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2873			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2874			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2875			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2876			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2877			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2878			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2879
2880	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2881			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2882			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2883			kernel boot problems.
2884
2885	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2886	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2887	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2888	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2889				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2890				attached printers to be reset. Using
2891				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2892				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2893				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2894				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2895				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2896				port specification list means that device IDs
2897				from each port should be examined, to see if
2898				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2899				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2900				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2901
2902	lpj=n		[KNL]
2903			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2904			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2905			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2906			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2907			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2908			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2909			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2910			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2911			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2912			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2913			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2914			hardware.
2915
2916	ltpc=		[NET]
2917			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2918
2919	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2920
2921	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2922			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2923			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2924
2925	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2926			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2927			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2928
2929	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2930			different yeeloong laptops.
2931			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2932
2933	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2934			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2935
2936	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2937			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2938			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2939			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2940			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2941			only takes effect during system bootup.
2942			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2943			which also disables the IO APIC.
2944
2945	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2946	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2947			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2948			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2949			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2950			/dev/loop-control interface.
2951
2952	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2953
2954	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2955
2956	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2957			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2958
2959	mdacon=		[MDA]
2960			Format: <first>,<last>
2961			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2962
2963	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2964			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2965			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2966
2967			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2968			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2969			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2970
2971			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2972			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2973			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2974			not have direct access.
2975
2976			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2977			options are:
2978
2979			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2980			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2981				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2982			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2983
2984			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2985			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2986			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2987			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2988			too.
2989
2990			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2991			mds=full.
2992
2993			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2994
2995	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2996			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2997
2998	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2999			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3000
3001			1 for test;
3002			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3003			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3004			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3005			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3006
3007			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3008			high memory is not affected.
3009
3010			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3011			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3012
3013			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3014			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3015			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3016			belonging to unused RAM.
3017
3018			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3019			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3020			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3021
3022	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3023			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3024			firmware.
3025			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3026			ss[KMG].
3027			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3028			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3029
3030	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3031			memory.
3032
3033	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3034
3035	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3036			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3037			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3038
3039	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3040			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3041			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3042			set according to the
3043			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3044			option.
3045			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3046
3047	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3048			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3049			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3050			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3051			option description.
3052
3053	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3054			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3055			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3056			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3057			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3058			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3059			comma delimited.
3060			Example:
3061				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3062
3063	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3064			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3065			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3066
3067	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3068			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3069			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3070			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3071			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3072			         or
3073			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3074			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3075			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3076			will be eaten.
3077
3078	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3079			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3080			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3081			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3082			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3083
3084	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3085			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3086			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3087			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3088			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3089			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3090			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3091			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3092
3093	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3094			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3095			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3096			Setting this option will scan the memory
3097			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3098			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3099			from using the memory being corrupted.
3100			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3101			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3102			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3103			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3104
3105	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3106			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3107			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3108			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3109			corruption in more or less memory.
3110
3111	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3112			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3113			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3114			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3115
3116	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3117			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3118			Format: {on | off (default)}
3119			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3120			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3121			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3122			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3123			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3124			lot of memory without requiring additional
3125			memory to do so.
3126			This feature is disabled by default because it
3127			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3128			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3129			memory blocks).
3130			The state of the flag can be read in
3131			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3132			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3133			the feature is not effective.
3134
3135	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3136			Format: <integer>
3137			default : 0 <disable>
3138			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3139			performed. Each pass selects another test
3140			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3141			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3142			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3143			regions that are detected.
3144
3145	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3146			Valid arguments: on, off
3147			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3148			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3149			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3150			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3151			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3152
3153			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3154			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3155
3156	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3157			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3158			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3159			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3160			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3161
3162	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3163			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3164
3165	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3166			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3167			platforms.
3168
3169	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3170			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3171			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3172			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3173
3174	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3175
3176	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3177			physical address is ignored.
3178
3179	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3180			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3181			Default: "0tb"
3182			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3183			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3184			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3185			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3186			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3187			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3188			unconfigured.
3189			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3190			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3191			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3192			VGA shield.
3193			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3194			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3195			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3196			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3197			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3198			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3199
3200	mitigations=
3201			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3202			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3203			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3204			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3205
3206			off
3207				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3208				improves system performance, but it may also
3209				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3210				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3211					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3212					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3213					       nobp=0 [S390]
3214					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3215					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3216					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3217					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3218					       l1tf=off [X86]
3219					       mds=off [X86]
3220					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3221					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3222					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3223					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3224					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3225					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3226					       retbleed=off [X86]
3227
3228				Exceptions:
3229					       This does not have any effect on
3230					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3231					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3232
3233			auto (default)
3234				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3235				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3236				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3237				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3238				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3239				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3240
3241			auto,nosmt
3242				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3243				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3244				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3245				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3246					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3247					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3248					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3249					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3250
3251	mminit_loglevel=
3252			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3253			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3254			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3255			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3256			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3257			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3258
3259	mmio_stale_data=
3260			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3261			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3262
3263			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3264			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3265			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3266			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3267			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3268			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3269
3270			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3271			options are:
3272
3273			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3274
3275			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3276				     vulnerable CPUs.
3277
3278			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3279
3280			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3281			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3282			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3283			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3284			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3285			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3286
3287			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3288			mmio_stale_data=full.
3289
3290			For details see:
3291			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3292
3293	module.async_probe=<bool>
3294			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3295			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3296			specific module, use the module specific control that
3297			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3298			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3299			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3300			the specific module.
3301
3302	module.sig_enforce
3303			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3304			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3305			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3306			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3307
3308	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3309			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3310
3311	mousedev.tap_time=
3312			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3313			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3314			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3315			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3316			Format: <msecs>
3317	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3318			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3319	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3320			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3321
3322	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3323			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3324			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3325			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3326			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3327			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3328			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3329			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3330			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3331			is not too small.
3332
3333	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3334			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3335			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3336			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3337			allocations. Use with caution!
3338
3339	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3340			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3341
3342	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3343			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3344
3345	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3346			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3347
3348	mtdset=		[ARM]
3349			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3350
3351			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3352
3353	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3354			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3355			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3356
3357	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3358			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3359			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3360
3361	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3362			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3363			Default is 1.
3364			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3365			using up MTRRs.
3366
3367	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3368			Format: <integer>
3369			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3370			Default : 1
3371			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3372			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3373
3374	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3375			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3376			at a time.
3377
3378	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3379
3380	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3381			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3382			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3383			something different and driver-specific.
3384			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3385			file if at all.
3386
3387	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3388			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3389			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3390			waits 4 seconds.
3391
3392	nf_conntrack.acct=
3393			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3394			0 to disable accounting
3395			1 to enable accounting
3396			Default value is 0.
3397
3398	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3399			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3400
3401	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3402			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3403
3404	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3405			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3406
3407	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3408			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3409			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3410			requests.
3411
3412	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3413			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3414			channel should listen.
3415
3416	nfs.cache_getent=
3417			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3418			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3419
3420	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3421			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3422			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3423
3424	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3425			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3426			entries.
3427
3428	nfs.enable_ino64=
3429			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3430			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3431			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3432			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3433			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3434
3435	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3436			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3437			slots the client will assign to the callback
3438			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3439			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3440			a particular server.
3441
3442	nfs.max_session_slots=
3443			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3444			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3445			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3446			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3447			Note that there is little point in setting this
3448			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3449
3450	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3451			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3452			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3453			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3454			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3455			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3456			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3457			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3458			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3459			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3460			back to using the idmapper.
3461			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3462	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3463			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3464			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3465			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3466			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3467
3468	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3469			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3470			information in exchange_id requests.
3471			If zero, no implementation identification information
3472			will be sent.
3473			The default is to send the implementation identification
3474			information.
3475
3476	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3477			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3478			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3479			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3480			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3481			after the locks are lost.
3482			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3483			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3484			parameter to '1'.
3485			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3486			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3487
3488	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3489			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3490			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3491
3492			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3493			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3494			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3495			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3496
3497	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3498			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3499			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3500			the destination of the copy.
3501
3502	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3503			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3504			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3505			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3506			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3507			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3508			this parameter.
3509
3510	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3511			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3512			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3513			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3514			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3515			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3516
3517
3518	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3519			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3520			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3521
3522	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3523			when a NMI is triggered.
3524			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3525
3526	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3527			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3528			Valid num: 0 or 1
3529			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3530			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3531			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3532			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3533			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3534			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3535			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3536			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3537			need the box quickly up again.
3538
3539			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3540			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3541
3542	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3543			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3544			is present.
3545
3546	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3547			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3548
3549	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3550
3551	no_console_suspend
3552			[HW] Never suspend the console
3553			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3554			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3555			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3556			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3557			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3558			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3559			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3560			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3561			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3562			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3563			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3564			turn on/off it dynamically.
3565
3566	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3567			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3568			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3569			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3570			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3571			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3572			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3573			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3574			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3575			is set.
3576
3577	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3578			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3579			but will impact performance.
3580
3581	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3582
3583	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3584			(CPU alternatives feature).
3585
3586	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3587			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3588
3589	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3590
3591	nocache		[ARM]
3592
3593	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3594
3595	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3596
3597	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3598
3599	noexec		[IA-64]
3600
3601	nosmap		[PPC]
3602			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3603			even if it is supported by processor.
3604
3605	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3606			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3607			even if it is supported by processor.
3608
3609	noexec32	[X86-64]
3610			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3611			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3612				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3613			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3614				read implies executable mappings
3615
3616	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3617
3618	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3619			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3620			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3621
3622	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3623
3624	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3625
3626	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3627			Equivalent to smt=1.
3628
3629			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3630			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3631				     via the sysfs control file.
3632
3633	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3634			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3635			possible in the system.
3636
3637	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3638			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3639			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3640			option.
3641
3642	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3643			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3644
3645	no_uaccess_flush
3646	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3647
3648	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3649			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3650			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3651
3652	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3653			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3654			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3655			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3656			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3657			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3658
3659	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3660			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3661			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3662			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3663			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3664			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3665			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3666
3667	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3668			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3669			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3670			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3671			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3672			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3673			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3674			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3675
3676	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3677			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3678			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3679
3680	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3681			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3682			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3683			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3684			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3685			real-time systems.
3686
3687	no_hash_pointers
3688			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3689			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3690			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3691			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3692			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3693			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3694			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3695			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3696			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3697			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3698			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3699			kernels.
3700
3701	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3702
3703	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3704			Valid arguments: on, off
3705			Default: on
3706
3707	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3708			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3709			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3710			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3711			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3712			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3713			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3714			just as if they had also been called out in the
3715			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3716
3717			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3718			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3719
3720	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3721
3722	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3723			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3724
3725	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3726			broken timer IRQ sources.
3727
3728	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3729
3730	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3731			initial RAM disk.
3732
3733	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3734			remapping.
3735			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3736
3737	nointroute	[IA-64]
3738
3739	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3740
3741	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3742
3743	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3744
3745	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3746			fault handling.
3747
3748	no-vmw-sched-clock
3749			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3750			clock and use the default one.
3751
3752	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3753			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3754			influence scheduler behaviour
3755
3756	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3757
3758	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3759
3760	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3761
3762	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3763
3764	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3765			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3766
3767	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3768			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3769			irq.
3770
3771	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3772			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3773			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3774			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3775
3776			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3777
3778	nomodule	Disable module load
3779
3780	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3781			pagetables) support.
3782
3783	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3784
3785	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3786			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3787
3788	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3789			with UP alternatives
3790
3791	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3792			space.
3793
3794	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3795			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3796			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3797
3798	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3799
3800	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3801
3802	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3803			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3804
3805	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3806
3807	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3808
3809	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3810			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3811
3812	nowb		[ARM]
3813
3814	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3815
3816	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3817			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3818			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3819			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3820			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3821			parameter's value.
3822			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3823			Default: 255
3824
3825	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3826			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3827			SAL PALO.
3828
3829	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3830			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3831			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3832			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3833			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3834			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3835			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3836			hot plugging.
3837
3838	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3839
3840	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3841			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3842
3843	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3844			NUMA balancing.
3845			Allowed values are enable and disable
3846
3847	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3848			'node', 'default' can be specified
3849			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3850			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3851
3852	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3853			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3854			info.
3855
3856	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3857			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3858			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3859			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3860			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3861			interrupts *may* be lost!
3862
3863	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3864			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3865			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3866			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3867
3868	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3869
3870			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3871
3872			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3873				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3874			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3875				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3876				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3877
3878	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3879			process, but there is a small probability of
3880			deadlocking the machine.
3881			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3882			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3883
3884	page_alloc.shuffle=
3885			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3886			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3887			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3888			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3889			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3890			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3891			can be read from sysfs at:
3892			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3893
3894	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3895			Storage of the information about who allocated
3896			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3897			we can turn it on.
3898			on: enable the feature
3899
3900	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3901			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3902			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3903			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3904			on: turn on poisoning
3905
3906	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3907			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3908			Format: <integer>
3909			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3910			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3911
3912	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3913			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3914			timeout = 0: wait forever
3915			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3916			Format: <timeout>
3917
3918	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3919			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3920			bit 0: print all tasks info
3921			bit 1: print system memory info
3922			bit 2: print timer info
3923			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3924			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3925			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3926			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3927			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3928			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3929			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3930			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3931
3932	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3933			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3934			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3935			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3936			called with any of the flags in this set.
3937			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3938			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3939			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3940			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3941			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3942			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3943			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3944
3945	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3946			on a WARN().
3947
3948	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3949			connected to, default is 0.
3950			Format: <parport#>
3951	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3952			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3953			Format: <mode>
3954
3955	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3956			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3957			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3958			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3959			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3960			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3961			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3962			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3963			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3964			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3965			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3966			are specified on the command line, starting
3967			with parport0.
3968
3969	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3970			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3971			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3972			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3973			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3974			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3975			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3976
3977	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3978			Format: <int>
3979			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3980			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3981			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3982
3983	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3984			Format: <int>
3985			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3986			changes.  Disabled by default.
3987
3988	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3989			Format: <int>
3990			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3991			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3992			Disabled by default.
3993
3994	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3995			Format: <int>
3996			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3997			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3998			Disabled by default.
3999
4000	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4001			Format: <int>
4002			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4003			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4004			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4005			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4006			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4007			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4008			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4009			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4010			all channels.
4011
4012	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4013			Format: <int>
4014			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4015			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4016			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4017
4018	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4019			Format: <int>
4020			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4021			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4022			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4023
4024	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4025			Format: <int>
4026			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4027			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4028			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4029			All modes allowed by default.
4030
4031	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4032			Format: <int>
4033			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4034			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4035
4036	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4037			Format: <int>
4038			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4039			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4040			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4041			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4042			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4043			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4044			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4045			By default all supported ports are probed.
4046
4047	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4048			Format: <int>
4049			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4050			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4051
4052	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4053			Format: <int>
4054			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4055			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4056			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4057			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4058			0 otherwise.
4059
4060	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4061			Format: <int>
4062			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4063			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4064			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4065			allowed by default.
4066
4067	pause_on_oops=
4068			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4069			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4070			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4071
4072	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4073
4074	pcd.		[PARIDE]
4075			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
4076			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4077
4078	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4079
4080				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4081				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4082				specified in one of the following formats:
4083
4084				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4085				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4086
4087				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4088				bus/device/function address which may change
4089				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4090				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4091				by other kernel parameters. If the
4092				domain is left unspecified, it is
4093				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4094				to a device through multiple device/function
4095				addresses can be specified after the base
4096				address (this is more robust against
4097				renumbering issues).  The second format
4098				selects devices using IDs from the
4099				configuration space which may match multiple
4100				devices in the system.
4101
4102		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4103				changes anything
4104		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4105		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4106				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4107				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4108		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4109				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4110				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4111				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4112		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4113				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4114				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4115		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4116				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4117				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4118				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4119				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4120				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4121				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4122		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4123				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4124				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4125		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4126				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4127		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4128				Configuration
4129		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4130				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4131				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4132		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4133				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4134				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4135		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4136				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4137				should never be necessary.
4138		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4139				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4140				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4141				when the system masks IRQs.
4142		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4143				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4144				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4145				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4146		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4147				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4148				on several machines and they hang the machine
4149				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4150				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4151				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4152				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4153				motherboard.
4154		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4155				Use with caution as certain devices share
4156				address decoders between ROMs and other
4157				resources.
4158		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4159				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4160				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4161		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4162				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4163		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4164				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4165				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4166				this way.
4167		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4168				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4169				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4170				F0000h-100000h range.
4171		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4172				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4173				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4174				explicitly which ones they are.
4175		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4176				numbers ourselves, overriding
4177				whatever the firmware may have done.
4178		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4179				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4180				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4181				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4182				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4183				IRQ routing is enabled.
4184		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4185				or for PCI scanning.
4186		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4187				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4188				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4189				please report a bug.
4190		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4191				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4192		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4193				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4194				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4195				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4196				<[email protected]>.
4197		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4198				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4199				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4200				a bug to <[email protected]>.
4201		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4202				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4203				so this option is a temporary workaround
4204				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4205		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4206				handle more pci cards
4207		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4208				This might help on some broken boards which
4209				machine check when some devices' config space
4210				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4211				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4212		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4213				This sorting is done to get a device
4214				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4215		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4216		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4217				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4218		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4219				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4220		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4221				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4222				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4223				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4224				or bus can support) for best performance.
4225		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4226				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4227				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4228				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4229				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4230				that hot-added devices will work.
4231		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4232				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4233				The default value is 256 bytes.
4234		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4235				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4236				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4237		resource_alignment=
4238				Format:
4239				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4240				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4241				aligned memory resources. How to
4242				specify the device is described above.
4243				If <order of align> is not specified,
4244				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4245				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4246				windows need to be expanded.
4247				To specify the alignment for several
4248				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4249				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4250				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4251				for 4096-byte alignment.
4252		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4253				end-to-end CRC checking).
4254				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4255				the default.
4256				off: Turn ECRC off
4257				on: Turn ECRC on.
4258		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4259				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4260				Default size is 256 bytes.
4261		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4262				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4263				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4264		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4265				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4266				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4267		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4268				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4269				MMIO_PREF window.
4270				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4271		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4272				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4273				Default is 1.
4274		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4275				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4276				accommodate resources required by all child
4277				devices.
4278				off: Turn realloc off
4279				on: Turn realloc on
4280		realloc		same as realloc=on
4281		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4282		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4283				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4284		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4285				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4286				port.
4287		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4288				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4289				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4290				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4291				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4292				taints the kernel.
4293		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4294				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4295				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4296				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4297				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4298				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4299				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4300				this removes isolation between devices and
4301				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4302		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4303		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4304		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4305				one PCI domain per PCI function
4306
4307	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4308			Management.
4309		off	Disable ASPM.
4310		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4311			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4312
4313	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4314		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4315			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4316			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4317			also tries to use these services.
4318		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4319				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4320		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4321			hotplug).
4322
4323	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4324		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4325		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4326
4327	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4328		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4329			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4330
4331	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4332
4333	pd_ignore_unused
4334			[PM]
4335			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4336			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4337			for debug and development, but should not be
4338			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4339
4340	pd.		[PARIDE]
4341			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4342
4343	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4344			boot time.
4345			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4346			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4347
4348	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4349			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4350			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4351			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4352			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4353			and performance comparison.
4354
4355	pf.		[PARIDE]
4356			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4357
4358	pg.		[PARIDE]
4359			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4360
4361	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4362			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4363
4364	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4365			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4366			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4367
4368	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4369			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4370			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4371
4372	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4373			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4374			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4375			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4376			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4377			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4378			remains 0.
4379
4380	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4381			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4382
4383	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4384			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4385			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4386			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4387			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4388			possible settings and some assignment information.
4389
4390	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4391			{ off }
4392
4393	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4394			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4395
4396	pnp_reserve_irq=
4397			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4398
4399	pnp_reserve_dma=
4400			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4401
4402	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4403			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4404
4405	pnp_reserve_mem=
4406			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4407			autoconfiguration.
4408			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4409
4410	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4411			Default is 21.
4412			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4413			may be specified.
4414			Format: <port>,<port>....
4415
4416	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4417			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4418			platform machine description specific power_save
4419			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4420			execution priority.
4421
4422	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4423			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4424			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4425			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4426			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4427
4428	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4429			Format: {"off"}
4430			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4431
4432	preempt=	[KNL]
4433			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4434			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4435			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4436			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4437			       can be preempted anytime.
4438
4439	print-fatal-signals=
4440			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4441
4442			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4443			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4444			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4445			coredump - etc.
4446
4447			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4448			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4449
4450			default: off.
4451
4452	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4453			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4454			panics
4455			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4456			default: disabled
4457
4458	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4459			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4460			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4461			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4462			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4463			in order to provide more debug information.
4464			Format: <bool>
4465			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4466
4467	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4468			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4469			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4470			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4471			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4472			Default: ratelimit
4473
4474	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4475			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4476
4477	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4478			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4479			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4480
4481	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4482			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4483			instead using the legacy FADT method
4484
4485	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4486			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4487			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4488				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4489			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4490			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4491				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4492			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4493			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4494				statistical time based profiling.
4495
4496	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4497
4498	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4499			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4500			that).
4501			Format: <bool>
4502
4503	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4504			tracking.
4505			Format: <bool>
4506
4507	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4508			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4509	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4510			per second.
4511	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4512			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4513			(0 = never).
4514	psmouse.resolution=
4515			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4516	psmouse.smartscroll=
4517			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4518			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4519
4520	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4521
4522	pt.		[PARIDE]
4523			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4524
4525	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4526			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4527			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4528			system calls and interrupts.
4529
4530			on   - unconditionally enable
4531			off  - unconditionally disable
4532			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4533			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4534
4535			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4536
4537	nopti		[X86-64]
4538			Equivalent to pti=off
4539
4540	pty.legacy_count=
4541			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4542			default number.
4543
4544	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4545
4546	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4547
4548	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4549			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4550
4551	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4552			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4553
4554	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4555
4556	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4557			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4558			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4559			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4560			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4561
4562	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4563			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4564			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4565			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4566			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4567
4568	randomize_kstack_offset=
4569			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4570			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4571			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4572			that depend on stack address determinism or
4573			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4574			available on architectures that have defined
4575			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4576			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4577			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4578
4579	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4580
4581		cec_disable	[X86]
4582				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4583				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4584
4585	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4586			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4587			as described above.
4588
4589			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4590			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4591			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4592			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4593			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4594			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4595			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4596			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4597			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4598			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4599			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4600			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4601
4602			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4603			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4604
4605			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4606			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4607			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4608			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4609
4610			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4611			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4612
4613	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4614			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4615			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4616			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4617			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4618			This improves the real-time response for the
4619			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4620			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4621			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4622			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4623
4624	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4625			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4626			process in one batch.
4627
4628	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4629			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4630			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4631			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4632
4633	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4634			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4635			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4636
4637	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4638			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4639			RCU grace-period initialization.
4640
4641	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4642			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4643			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4644			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4645			the rcu_node combining tree.
4646
4647	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4648			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4649			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4650			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4651			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4652
4653			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4654			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4655			to zero.
4656
4657	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4658			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4659			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4660			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4661			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4662
4663	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4664			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4665			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4666			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4667			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4668			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4669			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4670
4671	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4672			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4673			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4674			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4675			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4676			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4677			condition.
4678
4679	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4680			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4681			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4682			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4683
4684	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4685			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4686			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4687			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4688			and maximum value is HZ.
4689
4690	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4691			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4692			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4693			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4694
4695	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4696			Set required age in jiffies for a
4697			given grace period before RCU starts
4698			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4699			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4700			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4701			a value based on the most recent settings
4702			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4703			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4704			This calculated value may be viewed in
4705			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4706			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4707			overwritten.
4708
4709	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4710			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4711			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4712			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4713			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4714			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4715			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4716			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4717			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4718			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4719			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4720			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4721
4722	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4723			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4724			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4725			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4726			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4727			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4728			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4729			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4730
4731			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4732			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4733			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4734			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4735			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4736
4737	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4738			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4739			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4740			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4741			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4742			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4743			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4744			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4745			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4746			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4747			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4748			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4749
4750	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4751			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4752			each group, which defaults to the square root
4753			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4754			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4755			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4756			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4757
4758	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4759			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4760			batch limiting is disabled.
4761
4762	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4763			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4764			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4765
4766	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4767			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4768			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4769			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4770			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4771			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4772			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4773			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4774
4775	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4776			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4777			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4778			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4779			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4780			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4781
4782	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4783			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4784			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4785			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4786			Larger delays increase the probability of
4787			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4788			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4789			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4790
4791	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4792			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4793			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4794			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4795
4796	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4797			Measure performance of asynchronous
4798			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4799
4800	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4801			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4802			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4803			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4804			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4805			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4806
4807	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4808			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4809			grace-period primitives.
4810
4811	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4812			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4813			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4814			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4815			interference.
4816
4817	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4818			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4819
4820	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4821			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4822			If this parameter has the same value as
4823			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4824			and double-argument variants are tested.
4825
4826	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4827			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4828			If this parameter has the same value as
4829			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4830			and double-argument variants are tested.
4831
4832	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4833			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4834
4835	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4836			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4837
4838	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4839			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4840			of allocations and frees.
4841
4842	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4843			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4844			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4845			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4846			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4847			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4848			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4849			a single reader.
4850
4851	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4852			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4853			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4854			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4855
4856	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4857			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4858
4859	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4860			Shut the system down after performance tests
4861			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4862			testing.
4863
4864	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4865			Enable additional printk() statements.
4866
4867	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4868			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4869			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4870			no holdoff.
4871
4872	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4873			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4874			in microseconds.
4875
4876	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4877			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4878			in microseconds.
4879
4880	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4881			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4882			in seconds.
4883
4884	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4885			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4886			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4887			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4888			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4889			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4890			of CPUs to be used.
4891
4892	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4893			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4894			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4895
4896	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4897			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4898			forward-progress tests.
4899
4900	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4901			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4902			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4903			testing.
4904
4905	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4906			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4907			primitives, if available.
4908
4909	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4910			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4911
4912	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4913			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4914			update-side primitives, if available.
4915
4916	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4917			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4918			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4919			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4920			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4921			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4922			they are all non-zero.
4923
4924	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4925			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4926			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4927			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4928
4929	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4930			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4931			This can of course result in splats, and is
4932			intended to test the ability of things like
4933			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4934			such leaks.
4935
4936	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4937			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4938
4939	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4940			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4941			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4942			test, hence the "fake".
4943
4944	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4945			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4946			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4947
4948	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4949			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4950			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4951
4952	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4953			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4954			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4955			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4956			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4957			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4958
4959	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4960			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4961
4962	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4963			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4964
4965	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4966			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4967			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4968
4969	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4970			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4971			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4972			task-exit processing.
4973
4974	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4975			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4976			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4977			is spawned.
4978
4979	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4980			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4981			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4982
4983	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4984			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4985			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4986			during the rcutorture test.
4987
4988	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4989			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4990			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4991
4992	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4993			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4994			warnings, zero to disable.
4995
4996	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4997			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4998			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4999			to any other stall-related activity.
5000
5001	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5002			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5003
5004	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5005			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5006
5007	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5008			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5009			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5010			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5011			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5012			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5013
5014	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5015			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5016
5017	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5018			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5019			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5020			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5021			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5022
5023	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5024			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5025			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5026			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5027
5028	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5029			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5030
5031	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5032			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5033
5034	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5035			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5036			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5037
5038	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5039			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5040
5041	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5042			Enable additional printk() statements.
5043
5044	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5045			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5046			stall warning.
5047
5048	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5049			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5050
5051	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5052			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5053			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5054			during early boot, that is, during the time
5055			before the init task is spawned.
5056
5057	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5058			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5059			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5060			value is 300 seconds.
5061
5062	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5063			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5064			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5065			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5066			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5067			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5068			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5069			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5070			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5071
5072	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5073			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5074			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5075			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5076			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5077			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5078			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5079
5080	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5081			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5082			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5083			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5084			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5085			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5086			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5087			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5088			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5089
5090	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5091			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5092			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5093			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5094			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5095
5096			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5097			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5098			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5099			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5100			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5101			grace-period processing.
5102
5103	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5104			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5105			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5106			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5107			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5108			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5109			set to the default value of -1.
5110
5111	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5112			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5113			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5114			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5115			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5116			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5117			the default value of -1.
5118
5119	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5120			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5121			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5122			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5123			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5124			for use in testing.
5125
5126	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5127			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5128			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5129			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5130			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5131			but lengthens grace periods.
5132
5133	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5134			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5135			informational messages, which give some indication
5136			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5137			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5138			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5139			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5140			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5141			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5142			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5143
5144	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5145			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5146			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5147			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5148			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5149			the value three, so that the first informational
5150			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5151			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5152			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5153			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5154
5155	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5156			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5157			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5158			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5159			A change in value does not take effect until
5160			the beginning of the next grace period.
5161
5162	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5163			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5164
5165	rdinit=		[KNL]
5166			Format: <full_path>
5167			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5168			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5169
5170	rdrand=		[X86]
5171			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5172				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5173				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5174				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5175				path).
5176
5177	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5178			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5179			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5180			mba.
5181			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5182				rdt=cmt,!mba
5183
5184	reboot=		[KNL]
5185			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5186				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5187				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5188				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5189				[[,]f[orce]
5190			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5191					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5192					reboot only),
5193			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5194			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5195			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5196					to be used for rebooting.
5197
5198	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5199			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5200			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5201			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5202			interference.
5203
5204	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5205			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5206			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5207			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5208			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5209			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5210			x86 laptops.
5211
5212	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5213			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5214			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5215			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5216
5217	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5218			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5219			the console log.
5220
5221	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5222			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5223			measured in microseconds.
5224
5225	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5226			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5227
5228	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5229			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5230			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5231			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5232			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5233
5234	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5235			Enable additional printk() statements.
5236
5237	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5238			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5239			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5240			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5241			specified.
5242
5243	relax_domain_level=
5244			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5245			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5246
5247	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5248			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5249			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5250			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5251			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5252
5253	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5254			Format: nn[KMG]
5255			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5256			address space.
5257
5258	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5259			during initialization.
5260
5261	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5262			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5263			Format:
5264			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5265
5266	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5267			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5268			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5269			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5270			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5271
5272	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5273			read the resume files
5274
5275	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5276			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5277			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5278
5279	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5280
5281	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5282			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5283			vulnerability.
5284
5285			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5286			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5287			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5288			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5289			that don't.
5290
5291			off          - no mitigation
5292			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5293			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5294				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5295				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5296				       and older without STIBP).
5297			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5298				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5299				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5300				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5301				       on Intel.
5302			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5303				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5304				       the alternative for systems which do not
5305				       have STIBP.
5306			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5307				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5308				       systems.
5309			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5310				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5311				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5312
5313			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5314			time according to the CPU.
5315
5316			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5317
5318	rfkill.default_state=
5319		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5320			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5321		1	Unblocked.
5322
5323	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5324		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5325		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5326			blocked and the previous configuration.
5327		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5328			blocked and everything unblocked.
5329
5330	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5331			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5332
5333	ring3mwait=disable
5334			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5335			CPUs.
5336
5337	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5338
5339	rodata=		[KNL]
5340		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5341		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5342		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5343		        [arm64]
5344
5345	rockchip.usb_uart
5346			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5347			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5348			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5349			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5350
5351	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5352			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5353
5354	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5355			mount the root filesystem
5356
5357	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5358
5359	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5360
5361	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5362			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5363			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5364
5365	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5366			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5367			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5368			managed by CMA.
5369
5370	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5371
5372	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5373
5374	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5375			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5376		strict
5377			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5378			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5379			which is faster.
5380
5381	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5382			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5383			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5384			factor of the size of main memory.
5385			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5386			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5387			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5388			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5389			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5390			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5391			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5392
5393	sa1100ir	[NET]
5394			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5395
5396	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5397
5398	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5399			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5400			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5401			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5402
5403	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5404			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5405			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5406			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5407			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5408			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5409			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5410			value.
5411			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5412			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5413				1			64 ms
5414				2			128 ms
5415			and so on.
5416			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5417			Default is 0.
5418
5419	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5420			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5421			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5422			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5423			tests.
5424
5425	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5426			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5427			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5428			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5429			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5430			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5431			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5432
5433	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5434			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5435			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5436			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5437			equal to the number of CPUs.
5438
5439	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5440			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5441			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5442
5443	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5444			Number seconds to wait between successive
5445			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5446			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5447
5448	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5449			The number of seconds following the start of the
5450			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5451			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5452			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5453
5454	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5455			The number of seconds between outputting the
5456			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5457			of zero disables statistics output.
5458
5459	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5460			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5461			to the set of CPUs under test.
5462
5463	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5464			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5465			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5466			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5467			functions.
5468
5469	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5470			Enable additional printk() statements.
5471
5472	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5473			The probability weighting to use for the
5474			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5475			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5476			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5477			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5478			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5479
5480	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5481			The probability weighting to use for the
5482			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5483			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5484
5485	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5486			The probability weighting to use for the
5487			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5488			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5489			Note well that setting a high probability for
5490			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5491			on the system.
5492
5493	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5494			The probability weighting to use for the
5495			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5496			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5497			and weight_many.
5498
5499	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5500			The probability weighting to use for the
5501			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5502			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5503			weight_many.
5504
5505	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5506			The probability weighting to use for the
5507			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5508			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5509			and weight_many.
5510
5511	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5512			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5513			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5514			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5515			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5516			1 -- enable.
5517			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5518			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5519
5520	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5521			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5522			"lsm=" parameter.
5523
5524	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5525			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5526			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5527			0 -- disable.
5528			1 -- enable.
5529			Default value is 1.
5530
5531	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5532			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5533			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5534			0 -- disable.
5535			1 -- enable.
5536			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5537
5538	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5539
5540	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5541
5542	shapers=	[NET]
5543			Maximal number of shapers.
5544
5545	simeth=		[IA-64]
5546	simscsi=
5547
5548	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5549
5550	slab_merge	[MM]
5551			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5552			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5553
5554	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5555			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5556			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5557			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5558			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5559			layout control by attackers can usually be
5560			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5561			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5562			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5563			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5564			own.
5565			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5566
5567	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5568			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5569			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5570			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5571			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5572
5573	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5574			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5575			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5576			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5577			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5578			last alloc / free. For more information see
5579			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5580
5581	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5582			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5583			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5584			fragmentation. For more information see
5585			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5586
5587	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5588			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5589			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5590			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5591			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5592			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5593			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5594			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5595
5596	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5597			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5598			lower than slub_max_order.
5599			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5600
5601	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5602			Same with slab_merge.
5603
5604	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5605			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5606			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5607
5608	smart2=		[HW]
5609			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5610
5611	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5612			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5613			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5614			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5615			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5616			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5617			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5618			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5619			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5620			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5621
5622	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5623	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5624	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5625	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5626	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5627	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5628	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5629				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5630				1: Fast pin select (default)
5631				2: ATC IRMode
5632
5633	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5634			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5635			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5636			actual hardware limit.
5637			Format: <integer>
5638			Default: -1 (no limit)
5639
5640	softlockup_panic=
5641			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5642			Format: 0 | 1
5643
5644			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5645			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5646			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5647			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5648			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5649
5650	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5651			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5652			backtraces on all cpus.
5653			Format: 0 | 1
5654
5655	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5656			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5657
5658	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5659			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5660			The default operation protects the kernel from
5661			user space attacks.
5662
5663			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5664			       spectre_v2_user=on
5665			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5666			       spectre_v2_user=off
5667			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5668			       vulnerable
5669
5670			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5671			mitigation method at run time according to the
5672			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5673			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5674			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5675
5676			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5677			against user space to user space task attacks.
5678
5679			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5680			the user space protections.
5681
5682			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5683
5684			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5685			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5686			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5687			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5688			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5689			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5690			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5691			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5692
5693			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5694			spectre_v2=auto.
5695
5696	spectre_v2_user=
5697			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5698		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5699		        user space tasks
5700
5701			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5702				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5703
5704			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5705				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5706
5707			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5708				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5709				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5710				  is inherited on fork.
5711
5712			prctl,ibpb
5713				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5714				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5715				  always when switching between different user
5716				  space processes.
5717
5718			seccomp
5719				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5720				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5721				  they explicitly opt out.
5722
5723			seccomp,ibpb
5724				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5725				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5726				  always when switching between different
5727				  user space processes.
5728
5729			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5730				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5731
5732			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5733
5734			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5735			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5736
5737	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5738			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5739			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5740
5741			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5742			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5743			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5744			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5745			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5746			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5747			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5748			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5749
5750			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5751			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5752			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5753			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5754
5755			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5756			Bypass optimization is used.
5757
5758			On x86 the options are:
5759
5760			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5761			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5762			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5763				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5764				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5765				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5766				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5767				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5768			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5769				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5770				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5771				  is inherited on fork.
5772			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5773				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5774
5775			Default mitigations:
5776			X86:	"prctl"
5777
5778			On powerpc the options are:
5779
5780			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5781				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5782				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5783				  exit.
5784			off	- No action.
5785
5786			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5787			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5788
5789	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5790	spia_fio_base=
5791	spia_pedr=
5792	spia_peddr=
5793
5794	split_lock_detect=
5795			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5796
5797			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5798			instructions that access data across cache line
5799			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5800			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5801			bus lock detection.
5802
5803			off	- not enabled
5804
5805			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5806				  about applications triggering the #AC
5807				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5808				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5809				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5810				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5811				  enabled in hardware.
5812
5813			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5814				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5815				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5816				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5817
5818			ratelimit:N -
5819				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5820				  per second for bus lock detection.
5821				  0 < N <= 1000.
5822
5823				  N/A for split lock detection.
5824
5825
5826			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5827			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5828			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5829			mode.
5830
5831			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5832			CPL > 0.
5833
5834	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5835			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5836			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5837
5838			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5839			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5840			number generator.
5841
5842			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5843			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5844			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5845			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5846			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5847
5848			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5849			the following option:
5850
5851			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5852				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5853
5854	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5855			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5856			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5857			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5858			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5859			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5860			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5861			(decide at boot).
5862
5863	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5864			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5865			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5866			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5867
5868				   0:  Never.
5869				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5870				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5871				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5872				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5873
5874			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5875			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5876			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5877
5878	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5879			Specifies how frequently to check for
5880			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5881			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5882			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5883			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5884			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5885			are ignored.
5886
5887	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5888			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5889			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5890			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5891			grace period will be considered for automatic
5892			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5893			expediting.
5894
5895	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5896			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5897			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5898			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5899			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5900			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5901
5902	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5903			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5904			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5905			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5906			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5907			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5908
5909	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5910			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5911			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5912
5913	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5914			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5915			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5916			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5917			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5918			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5919			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5920
5921	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5922			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5923
5924			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5925			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5926			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5927			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5928
5929			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5930				   for both kernel and userspace
5931			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5932				   for both kernel and userspace
5933			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5934				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5935				   to allow userspace to register its
5936				   interest in being mitigated too.
5937
5938	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5939			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5940			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5941			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5942			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5943			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5944
5945	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5946			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5947			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5948			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5949			to false.
5950
5951	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5952			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5953
5954	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5955			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5956			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5957			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5958			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5959			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5960			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5961
5962	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5963			Format: <num>
5964			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5965			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5966			as the initial boot-console.
5967			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5968
5969	sti_font=	[HW]
5970			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5971
5972	stifb=		[HW]
5973			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5974
5975        strict_sas_size=
5976			[X86]
5977			Format: <bool>
5978			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5979			against the required signal frame size which
5980			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5981			be used to filter out binaries which have
5982			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5983
5984	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5985	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5986			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5987			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5988			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5989			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5990			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5991			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5992			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5993			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5994			maximum port values.
5995
5996	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5997			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5998			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5999			process in parallel from a single connection.
6000			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6001
6002	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6003			[NFS]
6004			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6005			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6006			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6007			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6008			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6009			NFS server is running.
6010
6011			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6012				    automatically using heuristics
6013			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6014			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6015			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6016				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6017
6018	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6019	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6020			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6021			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6022			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6023			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6024			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6025			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6026
6027	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6028			[SUSPEND]
6029			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6030			mode before resuming the system (see
6031			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6032			is set. Default value is 5.
6033
6034	svm=		[PPC]
6035			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6036			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6037			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6038
6039	swapaccount=	[KNL]
6040			Format: [0|1]
6041			Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
6042			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
6043			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
6044
6045	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6046			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6047			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6048			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6049				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6050				 to a power of 2.
6051			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6052			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6053			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6054
6055	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6056
6057	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6058			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6059			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6060			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6061			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6062			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6063			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6064			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6065
6066	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6067			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6068			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6069			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6070			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6071			in older udev will not work anymore.
6072			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6073			the kernel configuration.
6074
6075	sysrq_always_enabled
6076			[KNL]
6077			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6078			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6079			Useful for debugging.
6080
6081	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6082			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6083			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6084			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6085			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6086			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6087
6088	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6089
6090	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6091			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6092			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6093			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6094			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6095			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6096			The system is woken from this state using a
6097			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6098
6099	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6100			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6101
6102	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6103			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6104			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6105
6106	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6107			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6108			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6109
6110	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6111			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6112			critical and hot trip points.
6113
6114	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6115			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6116
6117	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6118			-1: disable all passive trip points
6119			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6120			value
6121
6122	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6123			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6124			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6125			0: no polling (default)
6126
6127	threadirqs	[KNL]
6128			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6129			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6130
6131	topology=	[S390]
6132			Format: {off | on}
6133			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6134			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6135			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6136			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6137			Default is on.
6138
6139	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6140			Format: {off}
6141			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6142			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6143			LPAR.
6144
6145	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6146			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6147			until after init has spawned.
6148
6149	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6150			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6151			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6152			very costly operation when many torture tests
6153			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6154			with rotating-rust storage.
6155
6156	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6157			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6158			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6159			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6160
6161	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6162			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6163
6164	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6165
6166	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6167			Format: integer pcr id
6168			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6169			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6170			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6171			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6172			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6173			are saved.
6174
6175	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6176			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6177			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6178			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6179			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6180			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6181
6182			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6183			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6184			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6185			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6186
6187			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6188			to stop the printing of events to console at
6189			late_initcall_sync.
6190
6191			** CAUTION **
6192
6193			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6194			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6195			the system to live lock.
6196
6197	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6198			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6199			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6200			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6201			make the system inoperable.
6202
6203			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6204			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6205
6206	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6207			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6208
6209	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6210			at boot up.
6211			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6212				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6213				depending on the architecture, may not be
6214				in sync between CPUs.
6215			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6216				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6217				but better for some race conditions.
6218			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6219				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6220				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6221				once per event.
6222			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6223			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6224			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6225			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6226				stamps.
6227			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6228			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6229			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6230
6231	trace_event=[event-list]
6232			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6233			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6234			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6235			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6236
6237	trace_options=[option-list]
6238			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6239			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6240			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6241			to echo the option name into
6242
6243			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
6244
6245			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6246			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6247
6248			      trace_options=stacktrace
6249
6250			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6251			section.
6252
6253	traceoff_on_warning
6254			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6255			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6256			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6257			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
6258
6259			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6260			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6261			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6262
6263			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6264			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6265
6266	transparent_hugepage=
6267			[KNL]
6268			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6269			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6270			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6271			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6272			for more details.
6273
6274	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6275			Format: <string>
6276			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6277			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6278			sources:
6279			- "tpm"
6280			- "tee"
6281			- "caam"
6282			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6283			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6284			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6285			successfully during iteration.
6286
6287	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6288			Format: <string>
6289			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6290			Can be one of:
6291			- "kernel"
6292			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6293			- "default"
6294			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6295			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6296
6297	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6298			Format: <string>
6299			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6300			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6301			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6302			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6303			virtualized environment.
6304			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6305			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6306			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6307			can add overhead.
6308			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6309			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6310			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6311			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6312			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6313			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6314			acceptable).
6315
6316	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6317			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6318			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6319			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6320			Format: <unsigned int>
6321
6322	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6323			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6324			support TSX control.
6325
6326			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6327
6328			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6329				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6330				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6331				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6332				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6333				with leaving it enabled.
6334
6335			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6336				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6337				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6338				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6339				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6340				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6341				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6342
6343			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6344				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6345
6346			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6347
6348			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6349			for more details.
6350
6351	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6352			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6353
6354			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6355			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6356			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6357			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6358			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6359			conditions.
6360
6361			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6362			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6363			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6364			access.
6365
6366			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6367			options are:
6368
6369			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6370				     if TSX is enabled.
6371
6372			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6373				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6374				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6375				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6376			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6377
6378			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6379			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6380			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6381			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6382
6383			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6384			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6385			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6386			required and doesn't provide any additional
6387			mitigation.
6388
6389			For details see:
6390			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6391
6392	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6393			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6394			Format:
6395			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6396			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6397
6398	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6399			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6400			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6401			help "seeing" what's going on.
6402
6403	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6404			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6405
6406	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6407			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6408			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6409			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6410			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6411			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6412			reported either.
6413
6414	unknown_nmi_panic
6415			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6416
6417	usbcore.authorized_default=
6418			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6419			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6420			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6421			if device connected to internal port)
6422
6423	usbcore.autosuspend=
6424			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6425			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6426			is the time required before an idle device will be
6427			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6428			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6429
6430	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6431			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6432
6433	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6434			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6435			(default = 65536).
6436
6437	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6438			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6439
6440	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6441			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6442			scheme (default 0 = off).
6443
6444	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6445			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6446			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6447
6448	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6449			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6450			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6451
6452	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6453			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6454			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6455			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6456
6457	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6458
6459	usbcore.quirks=
6460			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6461			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6462			commas. Each entry has the form
6463			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6464			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6465			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6466			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6467			the following meanings:
6468				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6469					descriptors must not be fetched using
6470					a 255-byte read);
6471				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6472					correctly so reset it instead);
6473				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6474					Set-Interface requests);
6475				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6476					handle its Configuration or Interface
6477					strings);
6478				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6479					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6480				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6481					more interface descriptions than the
6482					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6483					talking to these interfaces);
6484				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6485					during initialization, after we read
6486					the device descriptor);
6487				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6488					high speed and super speed interrupt
6489					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6490					require the interval in microframes (1
6491					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6492					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6493					(bInterval-1).
6494					Devices with this quirk report their
6495					bInterval as the result of this
6496					calculation instead of the exponent
6497					variable used in the calculation);
6498				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6499					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6500					requests);
6501				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6502					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6503					remote wakeup capability);
6504				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6505					Power Management);
6506				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6507					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6508					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6509					calculation);
6510				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6511					to be disconnected before suspend to
6512					prevent spurious wakeup);
6513				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6514					pause after every control message);
6515				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6516					delay after resetting its port);
6517			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6518
6519	usbhid.mousepoll=
6520			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6521
6522	usbhid.jspoll=
6523			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6524
6525	usbhid.kbpoll=
6526			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6527
6528	usb-storage.delay_use=
6529			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6530			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6531
6532	usb-storage.quirks=
6533			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6534			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6535			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6536			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6537			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6538			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6539			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6540				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6541					of sense data, not on uas);
6542				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6543					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6544				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6545					device capacity by one sector);
6546				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6547					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6548				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6549					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6550				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6551					command, uas only);
6552				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6553					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6554				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6555					reported device capacity by one
6556					sector if the number is odd);
6557				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6558					device);
6559				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6560					command, uas only);
6561				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6562				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6563					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6564				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6565					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6566					not on uas);
6567				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6568					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6569				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6570					reported by the device, not on uas);
6571				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6572					by default, not on uas);
6573				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6574					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6575				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6576					Logical Unit);
6577				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6578					commands, uas only);
6579				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6580				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6581					medium is write-protected).
6582				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6583					even if the device claims no cache,
6584					not on uas)
6585			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6586
6587	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6588			Format: <int>
6589			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6590				 1 - undefined instruction events
6591				 2 - system calls
6592				 4 - invalid data aborts
6593				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6594				16 - SIGBUS faults
6595			Example: user_debug=31
6596
6597	userpte=
6598			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6599
6600				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6601					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6602					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6603
6604	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6605			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6606
6607			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6608			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6609
6610	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6611			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6612			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6613
6614			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6615			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6616			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6617
6618			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6619			alias for vdso32=0.
6620
6621			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6622			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6623
6624	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6625			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6626
6627	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6628			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6629
6630	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6631			Format: [0|1]
6632			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6633			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6634			level and then send out the event to user space through
6635			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6636			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6637			brightness level.
6638			default: 1
6639
6640	virtio_mmio.device=
6641			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6642
6643				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6644			where:
6645				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6646						like K, M and G)
6647				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6648				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6649						request_irq())
6650				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6651			example:
6652				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6653
6654			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6655
6656	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6657			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6658			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6659			Use vga=ask for menu.
6660			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6661			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6662
6663	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6664			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6665			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6666			All options are enabled by default, and this
6667			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6668			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6669			debugging features.
6670
6671			Available options are:
6672			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6673			  -	Disable all of the above options
6674
6675	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6676			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6677			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6678			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6679			mapped kernel RAM.
6680
6681	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6682			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6683			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6684
6685	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6686			Format: <command>
6687
6688	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6689			Format: <command>
6690
6691	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6692			Format: <command>
6693
6694	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6695			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6696			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6697			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6698			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6699			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6700			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6701
6702			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6703			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6704				    page is readable.
6705
6706			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6707			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6708				    page is not readable.
6709
6710			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6711			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6712			            might break your system.
6713
6714	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6715			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6716			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6717
6718	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6719			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6720			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6721			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6722
6723	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6724			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6725			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6726			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6727			ranging from 0-255.
6728
6729	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6730			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6731			Change the default green palette of the console.
6732			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6733			ranging from 0-255.
6734
6735	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6736			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6737			Change the default red palette of the console.
6738			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6739			ranging from 0-255.
6740
6741	vt.default_utf8=
6742			[VT]
6743			Format=<0|1>
6744			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6745			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6746			newly opened terminals.
6747
6748	vt.global_cursor_default=
6749			[VT]
6750			Format=<-1|0|1>
6751			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6752			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6753			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6754			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6755			cursors, 1 will display them.
6756
6757	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6758			Default: 2 = green.
6759
6760	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6761			Default: 3 = cyan.
6762
6763	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6764			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6765			or other driver-specific files in the
6766			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6767
6768	watchdog_thresh=
6769			[KNL]
6770			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6771			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6772			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6773			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6774			seconds.
6775
6776	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6777			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6778			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6779			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6780			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6781			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6782			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6783			corresponding sysfs file.
6784
6785	workqueue.disable_numa
6786			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6787			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6788			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6789			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6790			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6791			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6792			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6793
6794	workqueue.power_efficient
6795			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6796			they show better performance thanks to cache
6797			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6798			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6799
6800			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6801			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6802			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6803			power usage at the cost of small performance
6804			overhead.
6805
6806			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6807			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6808
6809	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6810			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6811			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6812			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6813			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6814			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6815			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6816			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6817			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6818			impacted.
6819
6820	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6821			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6822			supporting x2apic.
6823
6824	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6825			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6826			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6827			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6828			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6829			domains.
6830
6831	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6832			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6833			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6834			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6835			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6836			nics -- unplug network devices
6837			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6838			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6839				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6840				the unplug protocol
6841			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6842
6843	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6844			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6845			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6846
6847	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6848			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6849			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6850			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6851
6852	xen_nopv	[X86]
6853			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6854			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6855			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6856			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6857
6858	xen_no_vector_callback
6859			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6860			event channel interrupts.
6861
6862	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6863			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6864			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6865			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6866			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6867
6868	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6869			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6870			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6871			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6872			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6873			more timer interrupts.
6874
6875	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6876			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6877			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6878			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6879			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6880			max. Default is 180.
6881
6882	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6883			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6884			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6885
6886	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6887			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6888			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6889
6890	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6891			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6892			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6893			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6894			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6895			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6896
6897	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6898			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6899			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6900			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6901
6902	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6903			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6904			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6905			contention.
6906
6907	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6908			Format:
6909			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6910
6911	xive=		[PPC]
6912			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6913			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6914			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6915
6916			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6917				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6918				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6919
6920	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6921			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6922			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6923			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6924			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6925
6926	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6927			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6928			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6929			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6930
6931	xmon		[PPC]
6932			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6933			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6934			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6935			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6936				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6937			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6938				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6939				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6940				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6941			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6942				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6943				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6944				can be written using xmon commands.
6945			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6946				memory, and other data can't be written using
6947				xmon commands.
6948			off	xmon is disabled.
6949