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