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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.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442	bert_disable	[ACPI]
443			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
447			kernel args too.
448	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449	bttv.tuner=
450
451	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453			at a time.
454
455	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462			This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466			trust validation.
467			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473			others).
474
475	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
476			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
479			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482			  a single hierarchy
483			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484			  subsystem
485			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495			Format: <string>
496			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500			Format: { "0" | "1" }
501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503				any implied execute protection).
504			1 -- check protection requested by application.
505			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506			Value can be changed at runtime via
507				/selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509	cio_ignore=	[S390]
510			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511	clk_ignore_unused
512			[CLK]
513			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520			platform with proper driver support.  For more
521			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
522
523	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524			[Deprecated]
525			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
531			Format: <string>
532			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533			with the name specified.
534			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535			the platform:
536			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537			[ACPI] acpi_pm
538			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542			[MIPS] MIPS
543			[PARISC] cr16
544			[S390] tod
545			[SH] SuperH
546			[SPARC64] tick
547			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550			[ARM,ARM64]
551			Format: <bool>
552			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555			systems.
556
557	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562			ones should be.
563			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564			or using the feature without checking anything
565			will still see it. This just prevents it from
566			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568			some critical bits.
569
570	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571			[ARM,X86,KNL]
572			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574			placement constraint by the physical address range of
575			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576			altogether. For more information, see
577			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
582			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583			a hypervisor.
584			Default: yes
585
586	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
587			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588			allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
591			Format:
592			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
593
594	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
597	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
598			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
599			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
602	conmode=
603
604	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608		ttyS<n>[,options]
609		ttyUSB0[,options]
610			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
611			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
615
616			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
617			information.  See
618			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619			alternative.
620
621		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
626			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
628			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
630			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
634			the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
636		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
638
639		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
641			console=brl,ttyS0
642		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
644	console_msg_format=
645			[KNL] Change console messages format
646		default
647			By default we print messages on consoles in
648			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650			`printk_time' param).
651		syslog
652			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656			from /proc/kmsg.
657
658	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
659			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
660			Defaults to 0.
661
662	coredump_filter=
663			[KNL] Change the default value for
664			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
667	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668			[ARM,ARM64]
669			Format: <bool>
670			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671			0: default value, disable debugging
672			1: enable debugging at boot time
673
674	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
675			disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
677	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
678			disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
680	cpu_init_udelay=N
681			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
683			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684			Default: 10000
685
686	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
687			Format:
688			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
689
690	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695			is selected automatically. Check
696			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
697
698	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700			in the running system. The syntax of range is
701			start-[end] where start and end are both
702			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
703			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
704
705	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
706			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710			available.
711			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
712	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
715			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
717			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
721			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722			for second kernel instead.
723			0: to disable low allocation.
724			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
725			or memory reserved is below 4G.
726
727	cryptomgr.notests
728			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
729
730	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
731			Format: <dma>
732
733	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
734			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
735
736	dasd=		[HW,NET]
737			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740			(one device per port)
741			Format: <port#>,<type>
742			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
743
744	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
745			time. See
746			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
747			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
748
749	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
751	debug_boot_weak_hash
752			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
753			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
754			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
755			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
756			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
757			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
758
759	debug_locks_verbose=
760			[KNL] verbose self-tests
761			Format=<0|1>
762			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
763			self-tests.
764			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
765			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
766			only useful to kernel developers.
767
768	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
769
770	no_debug_objects
771			[KNL] Disable object debugging
772
773	debug_guardpage_minorder=
774			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
776			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
777			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
778			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
779			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
780			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
781			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
782			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
783			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
784			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
785			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
786			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
787			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
788			bypassed) which are not detectable by
789			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
790			tracking down these problems.
791
792	debug_pagealloc=
793			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
795			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
796			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
797			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
798			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
799			on: enable the feature
800
801	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
802
803	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
804			Format: <area>[,<node>]
805			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
806
807	default_hugepagesz=
808			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
809			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
810			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
811			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
812			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
813			if not specified.
814
815	deferred_probe_timeout=
816			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
817			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
818			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
819			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
820			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
821			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
822			retrying.
823
824	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
825			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
826
827	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
828			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
829			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
830			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
831			miss to occur.
832
833	disable=	[IPV6]
834			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
835
836	hardened_usercopy=
837                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
838                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
839                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
840                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
841                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
842                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
843                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
844                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
845                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
846
847	disable_radix	[PPC]
848			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
849
850	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
851			Format: <int>
852			The number of initial APIC ID for the
853			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
854			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
855			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
856			causing system reset or hang due to sending
857			INIT from AP to BSP.
858
859	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
860			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
861			to workaround buggy firmware.
862
863	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
864			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
865
866	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
867			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
868			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
869			entry later. This parameter disables that.
870
871	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
872			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
873			memory out of your available memory pool based on
874			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
875			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
876
877	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
878			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
879			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
880
881	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
882
883	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
884			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
885
886	dma_debug_entries=<number>
887			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
888			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
889			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
890			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
891			architectural default is too low.
892
893	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
894			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
895			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
896			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
897			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
898			driver later using sysfs.
899
900	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
901			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
902			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
903			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
904			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
905			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
906			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
907			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
908			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
909			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
910			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
911			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
912			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
913			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
914			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
915			data set with no connector name will be used for
916			any connectors not explicitly specified.
917
918	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
919
920	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
921			Format: {"off" | "known"}
922			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
923			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
924			exists).
925			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
926			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
927			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
928
929	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
930			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
931			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
932			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
933
934	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
935	module.dyndbg[="val"]
936			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
937			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
938			for details.
939
940	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
941			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
942			information about the feature.
943
944	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
945			in some Intel CPUs.
946
947	module.async_probe [KNL]
948			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
949
950	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
951			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
952			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
953			which are not unmapped.
954
955	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
956
957			[ARM64] The early console is determined by the
958			stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
959			or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
960
961			[X86] When used with no options the early console is
962			determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
963
964		cdns,<addr>[,options]
965			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
966			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
967			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
968			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
969			configured.
970
971		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
972		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
973		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
974		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
975		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
976			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
977			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
978			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
979			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
980			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
981			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
982			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
983			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
984
985		pl011,<addr>
986		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
987			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
988			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
989			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
991			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
992			the device registers.
993
994		meson,<addr>
995			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
996			port at the specified address. The serial port must
997			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
998			supported.
999
1000		msm_serial,<addr>
1001			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1002			port at the specified address. The serial port
1003			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1004			yet supported.
1005
1006		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1007			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1008			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1009			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1010			yet supported.
1011
1012		owl,<addr>
1013			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1014			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1015			specified address. The serial port must already be
1016			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1017
1018		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1019
1020		s3c2410,<addr>
1021		s3c2412,<addr>
1022		s3c2440,<addr>
1023		s3c6400,<addr>
1024		s5pv210,<addr>
1025		exynos4210,<addr>
1026			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1027			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1028			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1029			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1030			Options are not yet supported.
1031
1032		lantiq,<addr>
1033			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1034			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1035			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1036			yet supported.
1037
1038		lpuart,<addr>
1039		lpuart32,<addr>
1040			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1041			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1042			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1043			port must already be setup and configured.
1044
1045		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1046			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1047			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1048			address. The serial port must already be setup
1049			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1050
1051		qcom_geni,<addr>
1052			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1053			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1054			specified address. The serial port must already be
1055			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1056
1057	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1058			earlyprintk=vga
1059			earlyprintk=efi
1060			earlyprintk=sclp
1061			earlyprintk=xen
1062			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1063			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1064			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1065			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1066			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1067			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1068
1069			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1070			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1071			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1072
1073			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1074			takes over.
1075
1076			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1077			be used at a time.
1078
1079			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1080			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1081			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1082			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1083				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1084			You can find the port for a given device in
1085			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1086				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1087
1088			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1089			very good.
1090
1091			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1092			the real console.
1093
1094			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1095
1096			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1097
1098	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1099			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1100			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1101			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1102			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1103			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1104			default: on.
1105
1106	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1107			ekgdboc=kbd
1108
1109			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1110			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1111
1112	edd=		[EDD]
1113			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1114
1115	efi=		[EFI]
1116			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1117			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1118			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1119			default.
1120			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1121			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1122			firmware implementations.
1123			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1124			debug: enable misc debug output
1125
1126	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1127			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1128			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1129			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1130			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1131
1132	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1133			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1134			updating original EFI memory map.
1135			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1136			from ss to ss+nn.
1137			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1138			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1139			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1140			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1141
1142			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1143			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1144			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1145			doesn't support it.
1146
1147	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1148			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1149			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1150			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1151			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1152
1153
1154	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1155			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1156
1157	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1158			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1159			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1160
1161	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1162			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1163			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1164			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1165
1166	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1167			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1168			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1169			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1170			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1171
1172	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1173			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1174			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1175			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1176
1177	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1178			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1179			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1180			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1181			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1182
1183	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1184			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1185			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1186			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1187			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1188			Default value is 0.
1189			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1190
1191	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1192			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1193			support.
1194
1195	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1196			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1197			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1198
1199	evm=		[EVM]
1200			Format: { "fix" }
1201			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1202			current integrity status.
1203
1204	failslab=
1205	fail_page_alloc=
1206	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1207			General fault injection mechanism.
1208			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1209			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1210
1211	floppy=		[HW]
1212			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1213
1214	force_pal_cache_flush
1215			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1216			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1217			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1218			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1219
1220	forcepae	[X86-32]
1221			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1222			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1223			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1224			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1225			and may cause unknown problems.
1226
1227	ftrace=[tracer]
1228			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1229			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1230			boot debugging.
1231
1232	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1233			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1234			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1235			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1236			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1237			oops.
1238
1239	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1240			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1241			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1242			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1243			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1244			tracing directory.
1245
1246	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1247			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1248			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1249			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1250			tracing directory.
1251
1252	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1253			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1254			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1255			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1256			that can be changed at run time by the
1257			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1258
1259	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1260			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1261			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1262			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1263			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1264
1265	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1266			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1267			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1268			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1269			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1270
1271	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1272			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1273			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1274			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1275			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1276
1277	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1278
1279	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1280			Format: off | on
1281			default: on
1282
1283	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1284			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1285			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1286			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1287			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1288
1289	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1290			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1291			android emulator
1292
1293	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1294			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1295			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1296			GPT to be used instead.
1297
1298	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1299			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1300			Format: 0 | 1
1301			Default: 0
1302	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1303			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1304			Format: 0 | 1
1305			Default: 0
1306	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1307			Format: 0 | 1
1308			Default: 0
1309	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1310			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1311			Default: 1024
1312	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1313			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1314			Default: 1024
1315
1316	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1317			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1318			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1319
1320	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1321			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1322			backtraces on all cpus.
1323			Format: <integer>
1324
1325	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1326			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1327			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1328			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1329
1330	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1331
1332	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1333			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1334
1335	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1336			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1337			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1338			logic will be disabled.
1339
1340	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1341			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1342			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1343			size on bigger boxes.
1344
1345	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1346			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1347			Default: "on"
1348
1349	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1350			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1351
1352	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1353
1354	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1355			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1356				verbose }
1357			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1358			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1359				VIA, nVidia)
1360			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1361
1362	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1363			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1364
1365	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1366	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1367			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1368			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1369			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1370			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1371			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1372
1373	hung_task_panic=
1374			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1375			Format: <integer>
1376
1377			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1378			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1379			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1380			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1381			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1382
1383	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1384				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1385	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1386				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1387				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1388	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1389			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1390			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1391			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1392			the real console.
1393
1394	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1395				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1396				registered from board initialization code.
1397				Format:
1398				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1399
1400	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1401	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1402			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1403			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1404			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1405	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1406	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1407			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1408			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1409	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1410	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1411	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1412			     for the AUX port
1413	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1414			     controller
1415	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1416			     controllers
1417	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1418	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1419			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1420			     transitions, or never reset
1421			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1422			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1423			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1424			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1425			architectures force reset to be always executed
1426	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1427	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1428
1429	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1430
1431	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1432			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1433			hardware.
1434	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1435			does not match list of supported models.
1436	i8k.power_status
1437			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1438			(disabled by default)
1439	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1440			capability is set.
1441
1442	i915.invert_brightness=
1443			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1444			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1445			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1446			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1447			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1448			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1449			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1450			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1451			value switches the backlight off.
1452			-1 -- never invert brightness
1453			 0 -- machine default
1454			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1455
1456	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1457			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1458
1459	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1460			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1461			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1462			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1463			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1464
1465	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1466			Format: <int>
1467			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1468			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1469			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1470			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1471			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1472			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1473			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1474			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1475			was 0x3.
1476
1477	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1478			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1479
1480	idle=		[X86]
1481			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1482			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1483			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1484			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1485			Not recommended.
1486			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1487			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1488			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1489
1490	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1491			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1492			Default: strict
1493
1494			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1495			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1496			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1497			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1498			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1499			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1500			encoding mode.
1501
1502			Available settings are as follows:
1503			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1504				supported by the FPU
1505			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1506				by the FPU
1507			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1508				by the FPU
1509			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1510				supported by the FPU
1511
1512			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1513			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1514			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1515			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1516			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1517			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1518			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1519			MIPS64 CPUs.
1520
1521			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1522			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1523			except where unsupported by hardware.
1524
1525	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1526			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1527			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1528			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1529			could change it dynamically, usually by
1530			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1531
1532	ignore_rlimit_data
1533			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1534			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1535			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1536
1537	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1538			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1539
1540	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1541			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1542			default: "enforce"
1543
1544	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1545			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1546			owned by uid=0.
1547
1548	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1549			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1550			measurements, instead of host native format.
1551
1552	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1553			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1554				   | sha512 | ... }
1555			default: "sha1"
1556
1557			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1558			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1559
1560	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1561			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1562			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1563				 fail_securely"
1564
1565			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1566			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1567			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1568			uid=0.
1569
1570			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1571			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1572			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1573
1574			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1575			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1576			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1577
1578			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1579			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1580			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1581			flag.
1582
1583	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1584			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1585			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1586			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1587			opened for read by uid=0.
1588
1589	ima_template=	[IMA]
1590			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1591			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1592			Default: "ima-ng"
1593
1594	ima_template_fmt=
1595			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1596			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1597
1598	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1599			Format: <min_file_size>
1600			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1601			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1602
1603			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1604			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1605			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1606
1607	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1608			Format: <bufsize>
1609			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1610
1611			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1612			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1613			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1614
1615	init=		[KNL]
1616			Format: <full_path>
1617			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1618			process.
1619
1620	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1621			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1622			startup.
1623
1624	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1625			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1626			modules and initcalls.
1627
1628	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1629
1630	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1631			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1632			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1633			override in debugfs after boot.
1634
1635	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1636			Format: <irq>
1637
1638	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1639
1640	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1641			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1642			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1643			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1644
1645	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1646		on
1647			Enable intel iommu driver.
1648		off
1649			Disable intel iommu driver.
1650		igfx_off [Default Off]
1651			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1652			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1653			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1654			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1655			DMA.
1656		forcedac [x86_64]
1657			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1658			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1659			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1660			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1661			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1662			then look in the higher range.
1663		strict [Default Off]
1664			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1665			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1666			to batching them for performance.
1667		sp_off [Default Off]
1668			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1669			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1670			not be supported.
1671		ecs_off [Default Off]
1672			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1673			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1674			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1675			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1676			on hardware which claims to support them.
1677		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1678			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1679			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1680			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1681			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1682			mapping is enabled.
1683			Note that using this option lowers the security
1684			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1685			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1686
1687	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1688			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1689			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1690
1691	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1692			disable
1693			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1694			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1695			passive
1696			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1697			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1698			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1699			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1700			  feature.
1701			force
1702			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1703			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1704			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1705			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1706			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1707			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1708			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1709			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1710			no_hwp
1711			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1712			  if available.
1713			hwp_only
1714			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1715			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1716			support_acpi_ppc
1717			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1718			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1719			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1720			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1721			per_cpu_perf_limits
1722			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1723			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1724
1725	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1726			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1727			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1728			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1729			no_x2apic_optout
1730				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1731			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1732
1733	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1734		strict	regions from userspace.
1735		relaxed
1736
1737	iommu=		[x86]
1738		off
1739		force
1740		noforce
1741		biomerge
1742		panic
1743		nopanic
1744		merge
1745		nomerge
1746		soft
1747		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1748		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1749			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1750
1751	iommu.passthrough=
1752			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1753			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1754			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1755			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1756			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1757
1758	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1759			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1760			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1761
1762	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1763		0x80
1764			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1765		0xed
1766			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1767		udelay
1768			Simple two microseconds delay
1769		none
1770			No delay
1771
1772	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1773			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1774
1775	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1776			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1777
1778	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1779			[ARM, ARM64]
1780			Format: <bool>
1781			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1782			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1783			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1784
1785	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1786			[ARM, ARM64]
1787			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1788			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1789			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1790			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1791			LPIs.
1792
1793	irqfixup	[HW]
1794			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1795			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1796			firmware running.
1797
1798	irqpoll		[HW]
1799			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1800			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1801			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1802			firmware running.
1803
1804	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1805			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1806
1807	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1808			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1809			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1810
1811			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1812			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1813
1814			nohz
1815			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1816
1817			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1818			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1819			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1820			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1821			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1822
1823			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1824			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1825			  be configured manually after bootup.
1826
1827			domain
1828			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1829			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1830			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1831			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1832			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1833			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1834			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1835			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1836
1837			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1838			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1839			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1840			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1841
1842			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1843
1844
1845
1846	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1847
1848	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1849			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1850			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1851			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1852			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1853				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1854
1855	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1856			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1857			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1858			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1859			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1860				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1861
1862	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1863			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1864			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1865			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1866			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1867				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1868
1869	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1870			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1871
1872	nokaslr		[KNL]
1873			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1874			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1875			Layout Randomization).
1876
1877	kasan_multi_shot
1878			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1879			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1880			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1881			invalid access.
1882
1883	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1884
1885	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1886			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1887			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1888			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1889			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1890			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1891			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1892			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1893			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1894			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1895
1896			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1897			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1898			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1899			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1900			zone if it does not.
1901
1902			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1903			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1904			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1905			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1906			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1907			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1908			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1909
1910	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1911			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1912			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1913			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1914			optional and is the number seconds in between
1915			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1916			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1917			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1918			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1919			the kernel debugger.
1920
1921	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1922			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1923			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1924			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1925			 keyboard only format: kbd
1926			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1927			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1928			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1929			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1930
1931	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1932			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1933
1934	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1935			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1936			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1937
1938	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1939			Valid arguments: on, off
1940			Default: on
1941			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1942			the default is off.
1943
1944	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1945			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1946
1947	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1948				   Default is false (don't support).
1949
1950	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1951			KVM MMU at runtime.
1952			Default is 0 (off)
1953
1954	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1955			Default is 1 (enabled)
1956
1957	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1958			for all guests.
1959			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1960
1961	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1962			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1963			system registers
1964
1965	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1966			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1967			system registers
1968
1969	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1970			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1971			system registers
1972
1973	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1974			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1975			LPIs.
1976
1977	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1978			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1979			Default is 1 (enabled)
1980
1981	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1982			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1983			Default is 0 (disabled)
1984
1985	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1986			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1987			Default is 1 (enabled)
1988
1989	kvm-intel.nested=
1990			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1991			Default is 0 (disabled)
1992
1993	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1994			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1995			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1996			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1997
1998	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
1999			CVE-2018-3620.
2000
2001			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2002
2003			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2004			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2005				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2006			never:	Disables the mitigation
2007
2008			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2009
2010	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2011			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2012			Default is 1 (enabled)
2013
2014	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2015			      affected CPUs
2016
2017			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2018			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2019
2020			full
2021				Provides all available mitigations for the
2022				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2023				enables all mitigations in the
2024				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2025
2026				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2027				sysfs interface is still possible after
2028				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2029				when the first VM is started in a
2030				potentially insecure configuration,
2031				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2032
2033			full,force
2034				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2035				flush runtime control. Implies the
2036				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2037				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2038
2039			flush
2040				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2041				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2042				L1D flush.
2043
2044				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2045				sysfs interface is still possible after
2046				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2047				when the first VM is started in a
2048				potentially insecure configuration,
2049				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2050
2051			flush,nosmt
2052
2053				Disables SMT and enables the default
2054				hypervisor mitigation.
2055
2056				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2057				sysfs interface is still possible after
2058				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2059				when the first VM is started in a
2060				potentially insecure configuration,
2061				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2062
2063			flush,nowarn
2064				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2065				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2066				insecure configuration.
2067
2068			off
2069				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2070				emit any warnings.
2071
2072			Default is 'flush'.
2073
2074			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2075
2076	l2cr=		[PPC]
2077
2078	l3cr=		[PPC]
2079
2080	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2081			disabled it.
2082
2083	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2084			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2085			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2086
2087	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2088			in C2 power state.
2089
2090	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2091			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2092			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2093			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2094			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2095			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2096			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2097
2098	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2099			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2100			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2101
2102	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2103			when set.
2104			Format: <int>
2105
2106	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2107			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2108			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2109			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2110			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2111			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2112			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2113			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2114
2115			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2116			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2117			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2118			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2119			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2120			host link and device attached to it.
2121
2122			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2123			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2124			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2125			The following configurations can be forced.
2126
2127			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2128			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2129
2130			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2131
2132			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2133			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2134			  allowed.
2135
2136			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2137
2138			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2139
2140			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2141			  and both resets.
2142
2143			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2144			  hot-unplug link recovery
2145
2146			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2147
2148			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2149
2150			* disable: Disable this device.
2151
2152			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2153			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2154
2155	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2156
2157	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2158			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2159
2160	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2161			Format: <integer>
2162
2163	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2164			Format: <integer>
2165
2166	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2167			Format: <integer>
2168
2169	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2170			Format: <integer>
2171
2172	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2173			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2174			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2175			number of online CPUs.
2176
2177	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2178			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2179
2180	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2181			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2182
2183	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2184			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2185			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2186
2187	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2188			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2189			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2190			mode during the locktorture test.
2191
2192	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2193			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2194			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2195
2196	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2197			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2198
2199	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2200			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2201			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2202			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2203			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2204			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2205
2206	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2207			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2208
2209	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2210			Enable additional printk() statements.
2211
2212	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2213			Format: <irq>
2214
2215	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2216			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2217			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2218			loglevels are defined as follows:
2219
2220			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2221			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2222			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2223			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2224			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2225			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2226			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2227			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2228
2229	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2230			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2231			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2232			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2233			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2234			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2235			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2236
2237	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2238			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2239			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2240			kernel boot problems.
2241
2242	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2243	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2244	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2245	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2246				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2247				attached printers to be reset. Using
2248				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2249				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2250				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2251				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2252				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2253				port specification list means that device IDs
2254				from each port should be examined, to see if
2255				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2256				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2257				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2258
2259	lpj=n		[KNL]
2260			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2261			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2262			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2263			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2264			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2265			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2266			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2267			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2268			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2269			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2270			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2271			hardware.
2272
2273	ltpc=		[NET]
2274			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2275
2276	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2277			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2278			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2279
2280	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2281			 yeeloong laptop.
2282			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2283
2284	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2285			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2286
2287	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2288			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2289			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2290			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2291			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2292			only takes effect during system bootup.
2293			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2294			which also disables the IO APIC.
2295
2296	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2297	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2298			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2299			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2300			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2301			/dev/loop-control interface.
2302
2303	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2304
2305	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2306
2307	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2308			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2309
2310	mdacon=		[MDA]
2311			Format: <first>,<last>
2312			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2313
2314	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2315			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2316			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2317			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2318			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2319			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2320			belonging to unused RAM.
2321
2322	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2323			memory.
2324
2325	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2326			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2327			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2328
2329	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2330			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2331			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2332			set according to the
2333			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2334			option.
2335			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2336
2337	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2338			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2339			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2340			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2341			option description.
2342
2343	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2344			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2345			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2346			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2347			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2348			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2349			comma delimited.
2350			Example:
2351				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2352
2353	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2354			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2355			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2356
2357	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2358			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2359			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2360			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2361			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2362			         or
2363			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2364			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2365			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2366			will be eaten.
2367
2368	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2369			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2370			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2371			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2372			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2373
2374	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2375			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2376			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2377			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2378			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2379			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2380			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2381			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2382
2383	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2384			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2385			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2386			Setting this option will scan the memory
2387			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2388			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2389			from using the memory being corrupted.
2390			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2391			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2392			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2393			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2394
2395	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2396			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2397			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2398			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2399			corruption in more or less memory.
2400
2401	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2402			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2403			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2404			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2405
2406	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2407			Format: <integer>
2408			default : 0 <disable>
2409			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2410			performed. Each pass selects another test
2411			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2412			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2413			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2414			regions that are detected.
2415
2416	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2417			Valid arguments: on, off
2418			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2419			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2420			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2421			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2422			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2423
2424			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2425			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2426
2427	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2428			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2429			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2430			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2431			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2432
2433	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2434			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2435
2436	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2437			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2438			platforms.
2439
2440	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2441			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2442			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2443			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2444
2445	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2446
2447	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2448			physical address is ignored.
2449
2450	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2451			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2452			Default: "0tb"
2453			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2454			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2455			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2456			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2457			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2458			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2459			unconfigured.
2460			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2461			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2462			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2463			VGA shield.
2464			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2465			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2466			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2467			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2468			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2469			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2470
2471	mminit_loglevel=
2472			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2473			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2474			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2475			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2476			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2477			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2478
2479	module.sig_enforce
2480			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2481			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2482			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2483			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2484
2485	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2486			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2487
2488	mousedev.tap_time=
2489			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2490			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2491			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2492			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2493			Format: <msecs>
2494	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2495			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2496	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2497			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2498
2499	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2500			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2501			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2502			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2503			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2504			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2505			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2506			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2507			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2508			is not too small.
2509
2510	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2511			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2512			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2513			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2514			allocations. Use with caution!
2515
2516	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2517			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2518
2519	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2520			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2521
2522	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2523			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2524
2525	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2526			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2527			at a time.
2528
2529	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2530
2531			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2532
2533			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2534				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2535			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2536				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2537				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2538
2539	mtdset=		[ARM]
2540			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2541
2542			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2543
2544	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2545			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2546			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2547
2548	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2549			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2550			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2551
2552	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2553			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2554			Default is 1.
2555			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2556			using up MTRRs.
2557
2558	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2559			Format: <integer>
2560			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2561			Default : 1
2562			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2563			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2564
2565	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2566
2567	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2568			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2569			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2570			something different and driver-specific.
2571			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2572			file if at all.
2573
2574	nf_conntrack.acct=
2575			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2576			0 to disable accounting
2577			1 to enable accounting
2578			Default value is 0.
2579
2580	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2581			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2582
2583	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2584			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2585
2586	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2587			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2588
2589	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2590			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2591			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2592			requests.
2593
2594	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2595			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2596			channel should listen.
2597
2598	nfs.cache_getent=
2599			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2600			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2601
2602	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2603			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2604			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2605
2606	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2607			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2608			entries.
2609
2610	nfs.enable_ino64=
2611			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2612			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2613			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2614			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2615			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2616
2617	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2618			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2619			slots the client will assign to the callback
2620			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2621			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2622			a particular server.
2623
2624	nfs.max_session_slots=
2625			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2626			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2627			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2628			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2629			Note that there is little point in setting this
2630			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2631
2632	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2633			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2634			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2635			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2636			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2637			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2638			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2639			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2640			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2641			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2642			back to using the idmapper.
2643			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2644	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2645			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2646			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2647			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2648			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2649
2650	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2651			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2652			information in exchange_id requests.
2653			If zero, no implementation identification information
2654			will be sent.
2655			The default is to send the implementation identification
2656			information.
2657
2658	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2659			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2660			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2661			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2662			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2663			after the locks are lost.
2664			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2665			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2666			parameter to '1'.
2667			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2668			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2669
2670	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2671			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2672			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2673
2674			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2675			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2676			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2677			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2678
2679	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2680			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2681			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2682			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2683			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2684			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2685
2686	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2687			when a NMI is triggered.
2688			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2689
2690	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2691			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2692			Valid num: 0 or 1
2693			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2694			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2695			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2696			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2697			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2698			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2699			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2700			need the box quickly up again.
2701
2702			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2703			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2704
2705	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2706			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2707			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2708			waits 4 seconds.
2709
2710	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2711			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2712			is present.
2713
2714	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2715			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2716
2717	no_console_suspend
2718			[HW] Never suspend the console
2719			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2720			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2721			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2722			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2723			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2724			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2725			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2726			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2727			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2728			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2729			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2730			turn on/off it dynamically.
2731
2732	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2733			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2734			but will impact performance.
2735
2736	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2737
2738	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2739			(CPU alternatives feature).
2740
2741	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2742			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2743
2744	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2745
2746	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2747			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2748
2749	nocache		[ARM]
2750
2751	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2752
2753	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2754
2755	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2756
2757	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2758
2759	noexec		[IA-64]
2760
2761	noexec		[X86]
2762			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2763			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2764			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2765
2766	nosmap		[X86]
2767			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2768			even if it is supported by processor.
2769
2770	nosmep		[X86]
2771			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2772			even if it is supported by processor.
2773
2774	noexec32	[X86-64]
2775			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2776			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2777				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2778			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2779				read implies executable mappings
2780
2781	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2782
2783	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2784			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2785			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2786
2787	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2788
2789	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2790			Equivalent to smt=1.
2791
2792			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2793			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2794				     via the sysfs control file.
2795
2796	nospectre_v1	[PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2797			check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2798			in the system.
2799
2800	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2801			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2802			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2803			to spectre_v2=off.
2804
2805	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2806			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2807
2808	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2809			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2810			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2811
2812	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2813			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2814			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2815			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2816			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2817			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2818
2819	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2820			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2821			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2822			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2823			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2824			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2825			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2826
2827	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2828			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2829			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2830
2831	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2832			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2833			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2834
2835	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2836			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2837			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2838			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2839			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2840			real-time systems.
2841
2842	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2843
2844	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2845			Valid arguments: on, off
2846			Default: on
2847
2848	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2849			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2850			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2851			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2852			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2853			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2854			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2855			just as if they had also been called out in the
2856			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2857
2858	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2859
2860	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2861			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2862
2863	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2864			broken timer IRQ sources.
2865
2866	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2867
2868	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2869			initial RAM disk.
2870
2871	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2872			remapping.
2873			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2874
2875	nointroute	[IA-64]
2876
2877	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2878
2879	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2880
2881	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2882
2883	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2884			fault handling.
2885
2886	no-vmw-sched-clock
2887			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2888			clock and use the default one.
2889
2890	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2891			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2892			behaviour
2893
2894	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2895
2896	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2897
2898	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2899			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2900
2901	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2902
2903	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2904
2905	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2906			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2907
2908	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2909			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2910			irq.
2911
2912	nomodule	Disable module load
2913
2914	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2915			pagetables) support.
2916
2917	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2918
2919	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2920			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2921
2922	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2923			with UP alternatives
2924
2925	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2926			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2927			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2928			available to user space applications.
2929
2930	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2931			space.
2932
2933	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2934			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2935			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2936
2937	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2938
2939	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2940
2941	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2942			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2943
2944	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2945
2946	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2947
2948	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2949			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2950
2951	nowb		[ARM]
2952
2953	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2954
2955	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2956			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2957			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2958			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2959			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2960			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2961			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2962			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2963			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2964			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2965			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2966			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2967			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2968
2969	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
2970			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2971			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2972			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2973			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2974			parameter's value.
2975			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2976			Default: 255
2977
2978	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2979			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2980			SAL PALO.
2981
2982	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2983			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2984			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2985			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2986			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2987			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2988			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2989			hot plugging.
2990
2991	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2992
2993	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2994			Allowed values are enable and disable
2995
2996	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2997			'node', 'default' can be specified
2998			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2999			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3000
3001	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3002			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3003			info.
3004
3005	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3006			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3007			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3008			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3009			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3010			interrupts *may* be lost!
3011
3012	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3013			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3014			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3015			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3016
3017	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3018			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3019
3020	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3021			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3022			userland or if you want common events.
3023			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3024			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3025				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3026				CPU specific event set.
3027			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3028				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3029				for generic hr timer mode)
3030
3031	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3032			process, but there is a small probability of
3033			deadlocking the machine.
3034			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3035			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3036
3037	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3038			Storage of the information about who allocated
3039			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3040			we can turn it on.
3041			on: enable the feature
3042
3043	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3044			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
3045			off: turn off poisoning
3046			on: turn on poisoning
3047
3048	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3049			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3050			timeout = 0: wait forever
3051			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3052			Format: <timeout>
3053
3054	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3055			on a WARN().
3056
3057	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3058			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3059			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3060			succeeds in any situation.
3061			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3062			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3063			kernel more unstable.
3064
3065	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3066			connected to, default is 0.
3067			Format: <parport#>
3068	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3069			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3070			Format: <mode>
3071
3072	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3073			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3074			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3075			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3076			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3077			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3078			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3079			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3080			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3081			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3082			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3083			are specified on the command line, starting
3084			with parport0.
3085
3086	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3087			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3088			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3089			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3090			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3091			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3092			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3093
3094	pause_on_oops=
3095			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3096			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3097			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3098
3099	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3100
3101	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3102			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3103			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3104
3105	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3106
3107				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3108				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3109				specified in one of the following formats:
3110
3111				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3112				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3113
3114				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3115				bus/device/function address which may change
3116				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3117				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3118				by other kernel parameters. If the
3119				domain is left unspecified, it is
3120				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3121				to a device through multiple device/function
3122				addresses can be specified after the base
3123				address (this is more robust against
3124				renumbering issues).  The second format
3125				selects devices using IDs from the
3126				configuration space which may match multiple
3127				devices in the system.
3128
3129		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3130				changes anything
3131		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3132		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3133				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3134				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3135		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3136				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3137				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3138				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3139		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3140				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3141				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3142		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3143				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3144				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3145				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3146				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3147				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3148				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3149		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3150				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3151				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3152		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3153				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3154		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3155				Configuration
3156		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3157				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3158				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3159		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3160				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3161				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3162		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3163				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3164				should never be necessary.
3165		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3166				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3167				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3168				when the system masks IRQs.
3169		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3170				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3171				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3172				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3173		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3174				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3175				on several machines and they hang the machine
3176				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3177				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3178				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3179				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3180				motherboard.
3181		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3182				Use with caution as certain devices share
3183				address decoders between ROMs and other
3184				resources.
3185		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3186				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3187				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3188		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3189				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3190		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3191				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3192				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3193				this way.
3194		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3195				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3196				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3197				F0000h-100000h range.
3198		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3199				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3200				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3201				explicitly which ones they are.
3202		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3203				numbers ourselves, overriding
3204				whatever the firmware may have done.
3205		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3206				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3207				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3208				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3209				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3210				IRQ routing is enabled.
3211		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3212				or for PCI scanning.
3213		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3214				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3215				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3216				please report a bug.
3217		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3218				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3219		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3220				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3221				so this option is a temporary workaround
3222				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3223		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3224				handle more pci cards
3225		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3226				This might help on some broken boards which
3227				machine check when some devices' config space
3228				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3229				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3230		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3231				This sorting is done to get a device
3232				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3233		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3234		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3235				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3236		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3237				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3238		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3239				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3240				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3241				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3242				or bus can support) for best performance.
3243		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3244				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3245				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3246				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3247				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3248				that hot-added devices will work.
3249		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3250				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3251				The default value is 256 bytes.
3252		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3253				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3254				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3255		resource_alignment=
3256				Format:
3257				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3258				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3259				aligned memory resources. How to
3260				specify the device is described above.
3261				If <order of align> is not specified,
3262				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3263				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3264				windows need to be expanded.
3265				To specify the alignment for several
3266				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3267				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3268				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3269		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3270				end-to-end CRC checking).
3271				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3272				the default.
3273				off: Turn ECRC off
3274				on: Turn ECRC on.
3275		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3276				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3277				Default size is 256 bytes.
3278		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3279				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3280				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3281		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3282				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3283				Default is 1.
3284		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3285				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3286				accommodate resources required by all child
3287				devices.
3288				off: Turn realloc off
3289				on: Turn realloc on
3290		realloc		same as realloc=on
3291		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3292		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3293				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3294		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3295				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3296				port.
3297		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3298				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3299				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3300				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3301				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3302				taints the kernel.
3303		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3304				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3305				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3306				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3307				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3308				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3309				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3310				this removes isolation between devices and
3311				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3312
3313	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3314			Management.
3315		off	Disable ASPM.
3316		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3317			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3318
3319	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3320		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3321			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3322			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3323			also tries to use these services.
3324		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3325			hotplug).
3326
3327	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3328		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3329		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3330
3331	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3332		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3333			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3334
3335	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3336
3337	pd_ignore_unused
3338			[PM]
3339			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3340			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3341			for debug and development, but should not be
3342			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3343
3344	pd.		[PARIDE]
3345			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3346
3347	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3348			boot time.
3349			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3350			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3351
3352	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3353			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3354			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3355			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3356			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3357			and performance comparison.
3358
3359	pf.		[PARIDE]
3360			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3361
3362	pg.		[PARIDE]
3363			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3364
3365	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3366			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3367
3368	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3369			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3370			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3371
3372	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3373			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3374			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3375
3376	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3377			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3378			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3379			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3380			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3381			possible settings and some assignment information.
3382
3383	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3384			{ off }
3385
3386	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3387			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3388
3389	pnp_reserve_irq=
3390			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3391
3392	pnp_reserve_dma=
3393			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3394
3395	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3396			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3397
3398	pnp_reserve_mem=
3399			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3400			autoconfiguration.
3401			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3402
3403	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3404			Default is 21.
3405			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3406			may be specified.
3407			Format: <port>,<port>....
3408
3409	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3410			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3411			platform machine description specific power_save
3412			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3413			execution priority.
3414
3415	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3416			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3417			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3418			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3419			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3420
3421	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3422			Format: {"off"}
3423			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3424
3425	print-fatal-signals=
3426			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3427
3428			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3429			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3430			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3431			coredump - etc.
3432
3433			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3434			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3435
3436			default: off.
3437
3438	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3439			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3440			panics
3441			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3442			default: disabled
3443
3444	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3445			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3446			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3447			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3448			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3449			Default: ratelimit
3450
3451	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3452			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3453
3454	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3455			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3456			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3457
3458	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3459			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3460			instead using the legacy FADT method
3461
3462	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3463			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3464			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3465				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3466			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3467			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3468				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3469			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3470			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3471				statistical time based profiling.
3472
3473	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3474			before loading.
3475			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3476
3477	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3478			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3479	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3480			per second.
3481	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3482			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3483			(0 = never).
3484	psmouse.resolution=
3485			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3486	psmouse.smartscroll=
3487			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3488			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3489
3490	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3491
3492	pt.		[PARIDE]
3493			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3494
3495	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3496			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3497			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3498			system calls and interrupts.
3499
3500			on   - unconditionally enable
3501			off  - unconditionally disable
3502			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3503			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3504
3505			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3506
3507	nopti		[X86_64]
3508			Equivalent to pti=off
3509
3510	pty.legacy_count=
3511			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3512			default number.
3513
3514	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3515
3516	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3517
3518	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3519			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3520
3521	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3522			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3523
3524	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3525
3526		cec_disable	[X86]
3527				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3528				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3529
3530	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3531			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3532
3533			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3534			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3535			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3536			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3537			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3538			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3539			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3540			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3541			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3542			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3543
3544	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3545			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3546			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3547			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3548			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3549			This improves the real-time response for the
3550			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3551			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3552			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3553			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3554
3555	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3556			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3557			process in one batch.
3558
3559	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3560			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3561			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3562			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3563
3564	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3565			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3566			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3567
3568	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3569			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3570			RCU grace-period initialization.
3571
3572	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3573			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3574			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3575			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3576			the rcu_node combining tree.
3577
3578	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3579			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3580			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3581			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3582			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3583
3584	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3585			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3586			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3587			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3588			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3589			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3590			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3591
3592	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3593			Set required age in jiffies for a
3594			given grace period before RCU starts
3595			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3596			rcu_note_context_switch().
3597
3598	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3599			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3600			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3601			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3602			and maximum value is HZ.
3603
3604	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3605			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3606			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3607			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3608
3609	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3610			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3611			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3612			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3613			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3614			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3615			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3616			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3617			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3618			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3619
3620	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3621			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3622			defaults to the square root of the number of
3623			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3624			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3625			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3626
3627	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3628			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3629			batch limiting is disabled.
3630
3631	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3632			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3633			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3634
3635	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3636			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3637			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3638
3639	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3640			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3641			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3642			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3643			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3644
3645	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3646			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3647			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3648			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3649			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3650			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3651
3652	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3653			Measure performance of asynchronous
3654			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3655
3656	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3657			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3658			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3659			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3660			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3661			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3662
3663	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3664			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3665			grace-period primitives.
3666
3667	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3668			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3669			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3670			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3671			interference.
3672
3673	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3674			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3675			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3676			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3677			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3678			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3679			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3680			a single reader.
3681
3682	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3683			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3684			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3685			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3686
3687	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3688			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3689
3690	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3691			Shut the system down after performance tests
3692			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3693			testing.
3694
3695	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3696			Enable additional printk() statements.
3697
3698	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3699			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3700			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3701			no holdoff.
3702
3703	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3704			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3705			callback-flood tests.
3706
3707	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3708			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3709			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3710			test.
3711
3712	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3713			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3714			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3715			disable callback-flood testing.
3716
3717	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3718			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3719			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3720
3721	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3722			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3723			in microseconds.
3724
3725	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3726			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3727			in microseconds.
3728
3729	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3730			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3731			in seconds.
3732
3733	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3734			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3735			primitives, if available.
3736
3737	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3738			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3739
3740	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3741			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3742			update-side primitives, if available.
3743
3744	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3745			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3746			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3747			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3748			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3749			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3750			they are all non-zero.
3751
3752	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3753			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3754
3755	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3756			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3757			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3758			test, hence the "fake".
3759
3760	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3761			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3762			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3763			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3764			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3765			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3766
3767	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3768			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3769
3770	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3771			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3772
3773	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3774			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3775			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3776
3777	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3778			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3779			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3780			during the rcutorture test.
3781
3782	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3783			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3784			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3785
3786	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3787			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3788			warnings, zero to disable.
3789
3790	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3791			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3792
3793	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3794			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3795
3796	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3797			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3798
3799	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3800			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3801			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3802			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3803			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3804
3805	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3806			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3807			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3808			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3809
3810	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3811			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3812
3813	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3814			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3815
3816	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3817			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3818			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3819
3820	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3821			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3822
3823	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3824			Enable additional printk() statements.
3825
3826	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3827			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3828
3829	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3830			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3831
3832	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3833			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3834			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3835			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3836			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3837			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3838			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3839
3840	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3841			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3842			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3843			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3844			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3845			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3846			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3847			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3848			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3849
3850	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3851			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3852			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3853			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3854			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3855
3856	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3857			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3858			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3859			to zero.
3860
3861	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3862			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3863
3864	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3865			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3866
3867	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3868			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3869
3870	rdinit=		[KNL]
3871			Format: <full_path>
3872			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3873			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3874
3875	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3876			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3877			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3878			mba.
3879			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3880				rdt=cmt,!mba
3881
3882	reboot=		[KNL]
3883			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3884				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3885				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3886				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3887				[[,]f[orce]
3888			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3889			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3890			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3891			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3892					to be used for rebooting.
3893
3894	relax_domain_level=
3895			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3896			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3897
3898	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3899			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3900			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3901			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3902			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
3903
3904	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3905			Format: nn[KMG]
3906			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3907			address space.
3908
3909	reservelow=	[X86]
3910			Format: nn[K]
3911			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3912			the bottom of the address space.
3913
3914	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3915			during initialization.
3916
3917	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3918			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3919			Format:
3920			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3921
3922	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3923			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3924			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3925			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3926			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3927
3928	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3929			read the resume files
3930
3931	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3932			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3933			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3934
3935	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3936		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3937				present during boot.
3938		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3939		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3940		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3941				(that will set all pages holding image data
3942				during restoration read-only).
3943
3944	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3945
3946	rfkill.default_state=
3947		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3948			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3949		1	Unblocked.
3950
3951	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3952		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3953		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3954			blocked and the previous configuration.
3955		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3956			blocked and everything unblocked.
3957
3958	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3959			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3960
3961	ring3mwait=disable
3962			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3963			CPUs.
3964
3965	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3966
3967	rodata=		[KNL]
3968		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3969		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3970
3971	rockchip.usb_uart
3972			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3973			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3974			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3975			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3976
3977	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3978			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3979
3980	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3981			mount the root filesystem
3982
3983	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3984
3985	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3986
3987	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3988			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3989			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3990
3991	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3992			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3993			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3994			managed by CMA.
3995
3996	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3997
3998	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3999
4000	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4001			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4002		strict
4003			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4004			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4005			which is faster.
4006
4007	sa1100ir	[NET]
4008			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4009
4010	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4011
4012	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4013
4014	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4015			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4016			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4017			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4018
4019	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4020			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4021			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4022			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4023			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4024			1 -- enable.
4025			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4026			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4027
4028	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4029			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4030			security module asking for security registration will be
4031			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4032			as if no module has been chosen.
4033
4034	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4035			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4036			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4037			0 -- disable.
4038			1 -- enable.
4039			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4040			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4041			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4042
4043	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4044			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4045			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4046			0 -- disable.
4047			1 -- enable.
4048			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4049
4050	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4051
4052	shapers=	[NET]
4053			Maximal number of shapers.
4054
4055	simeth=		[IA-64]
4056	simscsi=
4057
4058	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4059
4060	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4061			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4062			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4063			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4064			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4065			layout control by attackers can usually be
4066			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4067			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4068			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4069			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4070			own.
4071			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4072
4073	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4074			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4075			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4076			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4077			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4078
4079	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4080			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4081			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4082			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4083			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4084			last alloc / free. For more information see
4085			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4086
4087	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4088			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4089			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4090			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4091			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4092			directories and files being created under
4093			/sys/kernel/slub.
4094
4095	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4096			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4097			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4098			fragmentation. For more information see
4099			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4100
4101	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4102			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4103			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4104			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4105			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4106			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4107			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4108			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4109
4110	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4111			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4112			lower than slub_max_order.
4113			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4114
4115	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4116			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4117			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4118
4119	smart2=		[HW]
4120			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4121
4122	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4123	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4124	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4125	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4126	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4127	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4128	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4129				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4130				1: Fast pin select (default)
4131				2: ATC IRMode
4132
4133	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4134			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4135			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4136			actual hardware limit.
4137			Format: <integer>
4138			Default: -1 (no limit)
4139
4140	softlockup_panic=
4141			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4142			Format: <integer>
4143
4144			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4145			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4146			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4147			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4148			functionality.
4149
4150	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4151			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4152			backtraces on all cpus.
4153			Format: <integer>
4154
4155	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4156			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4157
4158	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4159			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4160
4161			on   - unconditionally enable
4162			off  - unconditionally disable
4163			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4164			       vulnerable
4165
4166			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4167			mitigation method at run time according to the
4168			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4169			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4170			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4171
4172			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4173
4174			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4175			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4176			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4177
4178			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4179			spectre_v2=auto.
4180
4181	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4182			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4183			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4184
4185			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4186			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4187			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4188			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4189			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4190			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4191			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4192			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4193
4194			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4195			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4196			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4197			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4198
4199			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4200			Bypass optimization is used.
4201
4202			On x86 the options are:
4203
4204			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4205			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4206			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4207				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4208				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4209				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4210				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4211				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4212			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4213				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4214				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4215				  is inherited on fork.
4216			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4217				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4218
4219			Default mitigations:
4220			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4221
4222			On powerpc the options are:
4223
4224			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4225				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4226				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4227				  exit.
4228			off	- No action.
4229
4230			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4231			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4232
4233	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4234	spia_fio_base=
4235	spia_pedr=
4236	spia_peddr=
4237
4238	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4239			Specifies how frequently to check for
4240			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4241			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4242			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4243			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4244			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4245			are ignored.
4246
4247	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4248			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4249			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4250			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4251			grace period will be considered for automatic
4252			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4253			expediting.
4254
4255	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4256			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4257
4258			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4259			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4260			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4261			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4262
4263			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4264				   for both kernel and userspace
4265			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4266				   for both kernel and userspace
4267			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4268				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4269				   to allow userspace to register its
4270				   interest in being mitigated too.
4271
4272	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4273			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4274			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4275			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4276			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4277			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4278
4279	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4280			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4281
4282	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4283			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4284			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4285			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4286			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4287			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4288			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4289
4290	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4291			Format: <num>
4292			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4293			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4294			as the initial boot-console.
4295			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4296
4297	sti_font=	[HW]
4298			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4299
4300	stifb=		[HW]
4301			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4302
4303	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4304	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4305			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4306			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4307			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4308			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4309			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4310			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4311			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4312			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4313			maximum port values.
4314
4315	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4316			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4317			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4318			process in parallel from a single connection.
4319			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4320
4321	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4322			[NFS]
4323			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4324			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4325			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4326			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4327			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4328			NFS server is running.
4329
4330			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4331				    automatically using heuristics
4332			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4333			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4334			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4335				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4336
4337	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4338	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4339			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4340			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4341			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4342			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4343			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4344			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4345
4346	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4347			[SUSPEND]
4348			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4349			mode before resuming the system (see
4350			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4351			is set. Default value is 5.
4352
4353	swapaccount=[0|1]
4354			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4355			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4356			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4357
4358	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4359			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4360			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4361			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4362			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4363			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4364
4365	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4366
4367	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4368			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4369			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4370			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4371			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4372			in older udev will not work anymore.
4373			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4374			the kernel configuration.
4375
4376	sysrq_always_enabled
4377			[KNL]
4378			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4379			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4380			Useful for debugging.
4381
4382	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4383			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4384			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4385			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4386			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4387			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4388
4389	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4390
4391	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4392			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4393			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4394			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4395			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4396			The system is woken from this state using a
4397			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4398
4399	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4400			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4401
4402	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4403			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4404			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4405
4406	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4407			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4408			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4409
4410	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4411			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4412			critical and hot trip points.
4413
4414	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4415			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4416
4417	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4418			-1: disable all passive trip points
4419			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4420			value
4421
4422	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4423			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4424			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4425			0: no polling (default)
4426
4427	threadirqs	[KNL]
4428			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4429			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4430
4431	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4432			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4433
4434	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4435			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4436			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4437
4438	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4439			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4440			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4441			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4442
4443	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4444			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4445			to the hypervisor.
4446
4447	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4448			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4449			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4450			kernel based on different criteria.
4451
4452	topology=	[S390]
4453			Format: {off | on}
4454			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4455			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4456			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4457			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4458			Default is on.
4459
4460	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4461			Format: {off}
4462			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4463			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4464			LPAR.
4465
4466	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4467
4468	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4469			Format: integer pcr id
4470			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4471			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4472			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4473			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4474			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4475			are saved.
4476
4477	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4478			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4479
4480	trace_event=[event-list]
4481			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4482			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4483			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4484			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4485
4486	trace_options=[option-list]
4487			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4488			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4489			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4490			to echo the option name into
4491
4492			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4493
4494			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4495			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4496
4497			      trace_options=stacktrace
4498
4499			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4500			section.
4501
4502	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4503			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4504			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4505			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4506			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4507			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4508
4509			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4510			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4511			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4512			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4513
4514			** CAUTION **
4515
4516			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4517			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4518			the system to live lock.
4519
4520	traceoff_on_warning
4521			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4522			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4523			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4524			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4525
4526			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4527			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4528			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4529
4530			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4531			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4532
4533	transparent_hugepage=
4534			[KNL]
4535			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4536			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4537			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4538			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4539			for more details.
4540
4541	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4542			Format: <string>
4543			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4544			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4545			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4546			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4547			virtualized environment.
4548			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4549			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4550			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4551			can add overhead.
4552			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4553			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4554			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4555
4556	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4557			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4558			Format:
4559			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4560			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4561
4562	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4563			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4564			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4565			help "seeing" what's going on.
4566
4567	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4568			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4569
4570	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4571			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4572			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4573			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4574			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4575			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4576			reported either.
4577
4578	unknown_nmi_panic
4579			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4580
4581	usbcore.authorized_default=
4582			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4583			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4584			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4585
4586	usbcore.autosuspend=
4587			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4588			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4589			is the time required before an idle device will be
4590			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4591			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4592
4593	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4594			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4595
4596	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4597			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4598			(default = 65536).
4599
4600	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4601			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4602
4603	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4604			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4605			scheme (default 0 = off).
4606
4607	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4608			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4609			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4610
4611	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4612			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4613			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4614
4615	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4616			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4617			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4618			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4619
4620	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4621
4622	usbcore.quirks=
4623			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4624			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4625			commas. Each entry has the form
4626			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4627			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4628			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4629			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4630			the following meanings:
4631				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4632					descriptors must not be fetched using
4633					a 255-byte read);
4634				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4635					correctly so reset it instead);
4636				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4637					Set-Interface requests);
4638				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4639					handle its Configuration or Interface
4640					strings);
4641				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4642					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4643				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4644					more interface descriptions than the
4645					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4646					talking to these interfaces);
4647				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4648					during initialization, after we read
4649					the device descriptor);
4650				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4651					high speed and super speed interrupt
4652					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4653					require the interval in microframes (1
4654					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4655					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4656					(bInterval-1).
4657					Devices with this quirk report their
4658					bInterval as the result of this
4659					calculation instead of the exponent
4660					variable used in the calculation);
4661				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4662					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4663					requests);
4664				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4665					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4666					remote wakeup capability);
4667				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4668					Power Management);
4669				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4670					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4671					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4672					calculation);
4673				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4674					to be disconnected before suspend to
4675					prevent spurious wakeup);
4676				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4677					pause after every control message);
4678			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4679
4680	usbhid.mousepoll=
4681			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4682
4683	usbhid.jspoll=
4684			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4685
4686	usbhid.kbpoll=
4687			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4688
4689	usb-storage.delay_use=
4690			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4691			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4692
4693	usb-storage.quirks=
4694			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4695			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4696			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4697			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4698			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4699			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4700			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4701				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4702					of sense data);
4703				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4704					bytes of sense data);
4705				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4706					device capacity by one sector);
4707				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4708					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4709				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4710					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4711				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4712					command, uas only);
4713				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4714					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4715				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4716					reported device capacity by one
4717					sector if the number is odd);
4718				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4719					device);
4720				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4721					command, uas only);
4722				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4723					unlock ejectable media);
4724				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4725					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4726				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4727					initial READ(10) command);
4728				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4729					reported by the device);
4730				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4731					by default);
4732				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4733					bogus residue values);
4734				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4735					Logical Unit);
4736				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4737					commands, uas only);
4738				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4739				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4740					medium is write-protected).
4741				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4742					even if the device claims no cache)
4743			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4744
4745	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4746			Format: <int>
4747			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4748				 1 - undefined instruction events
4749				 2 - system calls
4750				 4 - invalid data aborts
4751				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4752				16 - SIGBUS faults
4753			Example: user_debug=31
4754
4755	userpte=
4756			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4757
4758				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4759					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4760					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4761
4762	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4763			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4764
4765			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4766			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4767
4768	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4769			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4770			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4771
4772			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4773			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4774			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4775
4776			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4777			alias for vdso32=0.
4778
4779			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4780			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4781
4782	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4783			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4784
4785	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4786			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4787
4788	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4789			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4790			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4791			level and then send out the event to user space through
4792			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4793			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4794			brightness level.
4795			default: 1
4796
4797	virtio_mmio.device=
4798			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4799
4800				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4801			where:
4802				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4803						like K, M and G)
4804				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4805				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4806						request_irq())
4807				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4808			example:
4809				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4810
4811			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4812
4813	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4814			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4815			Documentation/svga.txt.
4816			Use vga=ask for menu.
4817			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4818			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4819
4820	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4821			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4822			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4823			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4824			mapped kernel RAM.
4825
4826	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4827			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4828			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4829
4830	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4831			Format: <command>
4832
4833	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4834			Format: <command>
4835
4836	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4837			Format: <command>
4838
4839	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4840			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4841			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4842			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4843			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4844			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4845			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4846
4847			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4848			            emulated reasonably safely.
4849
4850			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4851			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4852			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4853			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4854			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4855
4856			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4857			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4858			            might break your system.
4859
4860	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4861			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4862			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4863
4864	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4865			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4866			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4867			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4868
4869	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4870			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4871			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4872			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4873			ranging from 0-255.
4874
4875	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4876			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4877			Change the default green palette of the console.
4878			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4879			ranging from 0-255.
4880
4881	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4882			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4883			Change the default red palette of the console.
4884			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4885			ranging from 0-255.
4886
4887	vt.default_utf8=
4888			[VT]
4889			Format=<0|1>
4890			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4891			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4892			newly opened terminals.
4893
4894	vt.global_cursor_default=
4895			[VT]
4896			Format=<-1|0|1>
4897			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4898			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4899			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4900			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4901			cursors, 1 will display them.
4902
4903	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4904			Default: 2 = green.
4905
4906	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4907			Default: 3 = cyan.
4908
4909	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4910			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4911			or other driver-specific files in the
4912			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4913
4914	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4915			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4916			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4917			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4918			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4919			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4920			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4921			corresponding sysfs file.
4922
4923	workqueue.disable_numa
4924			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4925			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4926			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4927			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4928			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4929			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4930			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4931
4932	workqueue.power_efficient
4933			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4934			they show better performance thanks to cache
4935			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4936			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4937
4938			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4939			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4940			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4941			power usage at the cost of small performance
4942			overhead.
4943
4944			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4945			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4946
4947	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4948			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4949			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4950			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4951			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4952			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4953			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4954			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4955			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4956			impacted.
4957
4958	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4959			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4960			supporting x2apic.
4961
4962	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4963			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4964			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4965			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4966			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4967
4968	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4969			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4970			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4971			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4972			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4973			domains.
4974
4975	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4976			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4977			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4978			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4979			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4980			nics -- unplug network devices
4981			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4982			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4983				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4984				the unplug protocol
4985			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4986
4987	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4988			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4989			optimizations.
4990
4991	xen_nopv	[X86]
4992			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4993			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4994
4995	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4996			Format:
4997			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4998
4999	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5000			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5001			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5002			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5003