1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
25			"acpi=force" are available
26
27			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
28
29	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
30			Format: <int>
31			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
32			1,0: use 1st APIC table
33			default: 0
34
35	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
36			{ vendor | video | native | none }
37			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
38			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
39			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
40			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
41			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
42			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
43
44	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
45			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
46			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
47			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
48			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
49
50	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
51			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
52			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
53			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
54			This option is useful for developers to identify the
55			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
56			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
57
58	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
59	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
60			Format: <int>
61			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
62			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
63			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
64			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
65			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
66			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
67			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
68			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
69			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
70			debug layers and levels.
71
72			Enable processor driver info messages:
73			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
74			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
75			object while interpreting AML:
76			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
77			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
78			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
79
80			Some values produce so much output that the system is
81			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
82			if you need to capture more output.
83
84	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
85			{ strict | lax | no }
86			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
87			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
88			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
89			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
90			can interfere with legacy drivers.
91			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
92			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
93			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
94			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
95			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
96			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
97			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
98			no further checks are performed.
99
100	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
101			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
102			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
103			size limitation.
104
105	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
106			ACPI will balance active IRQs
107			default in APIC mode
108
109	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
110			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
111			default in PIC mode
112
113	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
114			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
115
116	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
117			use by PCI
118			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
119
120	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
121			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
122			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
123			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
124			the GPE dispatcher.
125			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
126			GPE floodings.
127			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
128
129	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
131			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
132			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
133			auto-serialization feature.
134			This feature is enabled by default.
135			This option allows to turn off the feature.
136
137	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
138			   kernels.
139
140	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
141			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
142			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
143			installed automatically and they will appear under
144			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
145			This option turns off this feature.
146			Note that specifying this option does not affect
147			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
148			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
149
150	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
151			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
152			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
153
154	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
155			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
156			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
157			second kernel for kdump.
158
159	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
160			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
161
162	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
163			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
164			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
165			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
166			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
167
168	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
169			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
170			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
171			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
172			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
173						  strings
174			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
175						  strings
176			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
177
178			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
179			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
180			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
181			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
182			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
183			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
184			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
185			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
186			care about the state of the feature group strings which
187			should be controlled by the OSPM.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
190			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
191			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
192
193			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
194			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
195			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
196			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
197			multiple times through kernel command line is also
198			meaningless.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
201			     FALSE.
202
203			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
204			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
205			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
206			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
207			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
208			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
209			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
210			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
211			is useful when one want to control the state of the
212			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
213			the OSPM features.
214			Examples:
215			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
216			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
217			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
218			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
219			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
220			     equivalent to
221			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
222			     and
223			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
224			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
225
226	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
227			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
228			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
229			and always returns good values.
230
231	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
232			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
233
234	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
235			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
236			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
237
238	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
239			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
240				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
241				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
242			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
243			s3_bios and s3_mode.
244			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
245			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
246			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
247			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
248			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
249			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
250			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
251			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
252			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
253			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
254			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
255			used (or even warned about) during resume.
256			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
257			control method, with respect to putting devices into
258			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
259			of _PTS is used by default).
260			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
261			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
262			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
263			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
264			but some broken systems don't work without it).
265			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
266			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
267			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
268
269	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
270			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
271			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
272
273	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
274			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
275
276	agp=		[AGP]
277			{ off | try_unsupported }
278			off: disable AGP support
279			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
280				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
281
282	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
283			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
284
285	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
286			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
287			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
288			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
289
290	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
291			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
292			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
293			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
294			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
295			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
296			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
297
298			32: only for 32-bit processes
299			64: only for 64-bit processes
300			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
301			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
302
303	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
304			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
305			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
306			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
307			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
308			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
309
310	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
311			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
312			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
313			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
314			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
315			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
316			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
317
318			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
319			information.
320
321	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
322			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
323			Possible values are:
324			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
325			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
326				    the system
327			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
328					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
329					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
330					  requirements as needed. This option
331					  does not override iommu=pt
332			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
333				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
334				       option with care.
335			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
336			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
337			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
338
339	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
340			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
341			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
342			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
343			IOMMU initialization.
344
345	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
346			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
347			remapping modes:
348			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
349			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
350			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
351			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
352			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
353
354	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
355			disable
356			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
357			  scaling driver for the supported processors
358			passive
359			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
360			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
361			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
362			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
363			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
364			active
365			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
366			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
367			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
368			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
369			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
370			  frequency.
371			guided
372			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
373			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
374			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
375			  to the current workload.
376
377	amd_prefcore=
378			[X86]
379			disable
380			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
381
382	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
383			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
384			Format: <a>,<b>
385			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
386
387	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
388			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
389			connected to one of 16 gameports
390			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
391
392	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
393			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
394			Format: noidle
395			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
396			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
397			APC and your system crashes randomly.
398
399	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
400			Change the output verbosity while booting
401			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
402			Change the amount of debugging information output
403			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
404			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
405			driver name.
406			Format: apic=driver_name
407			Examples: apic=bigsmp
408
409	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
410			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
411			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
412			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
413			      backup of CPU 0
414			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
415			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
416			      shot down by NMI
417
418	autoconf=	[IPV6]
419			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
420
421	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
422			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
423
424	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
425			Format: { "0" | "1" }
426			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
427			0 -- disable.
428			1 -- enable.
429			Default value is set via kernel config option.
430
431	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
432			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
433
434	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
435			Identification support
436
437	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
438			Set instructions support
439
440	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
441			support
442
443	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
444			support
445
446	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
447			Extension support
448
449	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
450			Extension support
451
452	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
453
454	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
455
456	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
457			EzKey and similar keyboards
458
459	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
460
461	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
462			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
463
464	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
465			keyboards
466
467	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
468			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
469
470	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
471			Use software keyboard repeat
472
473	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
474			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
475			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
476			    enabled until the next reboot
477			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
478			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
479			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
480			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
481			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
482			    userspace auditd.
483			Default: unset
484
485	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
486			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
487			Default: 64
488
489	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
490			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
491			Format: { "0" | "1" }
492			0 - Disable the BAU.
493			1 - Enable the BAU.
494			unset - Disable the BAU.
495
496	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
497			Format: <io>,<mode>
498
499	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
500			Format: <io>,<mode>
501			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
502
503	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
504			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
505			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
506			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
507
508	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
509			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
510			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
511			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
512
513	bert_disable	[ACPI]
514			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
515
516	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
517			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
518
519	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
520			embedded devices based on command line input.
521			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
522
523	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
524			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
525			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
526			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
527			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
528			erroneous and ignored.
529			Format: integer
530
531	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
532			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
533			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
534
535			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
536
537	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
538	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
539			kernel args too.
540	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
541	bttv.tuner=
542
543	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
544			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
545			at a time.
546
547	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
548
549	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
550			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
551			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
552			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
553			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
554			This option provides an override for these situations.
555
556	carrier_timeout=
557			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
558			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
559			it waits 120 seconds.
560
561	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
562			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
563			trust validation.
564			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
565
566	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
567			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
568			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
569			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
570			others).
571
572	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
573			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
574
575	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
576			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
577			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
578			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
579			  a single hierarchy
580			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
581			  subsystem
582			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
583			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
584			  created
585			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
586			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
587			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
588			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
589			stall information accounting feature
590
591	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
592			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
593			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
594			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
595			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
596			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
597			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
598			all v1 hierarchies.
599
600	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
601			Format: { "true" | "false" }
602			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
603
604	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
605			Format: <string>
606			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
607			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
608			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
609
610	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
611			Format: { "0" | "1" }
612			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
613			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
614				any implied execute protection).
615			1 -- check protection requested by application.
616			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
617			Value can be changed at runtime via
618				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
619			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
620
621	cio_ignore=	[S390]
622			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
623
624	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
625			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
626			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
627			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
628			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
629			ones should be.
630			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
631			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
632			instability issue. However, not all features have names
633			in /proc/cpuinfo.
634			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
635			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
636			or using the feature without checking anything
637			will still see it. This just prevents it from
638			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
639			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
640			some critical bits.
641
642	clk_ignore_unused
643			[CLK]
644			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
645			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
646			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
647			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
648			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
649			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
650			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
651			platform with proper driver support.  For more
652			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
653
654	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
655			[Deprecated]
656			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
657			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
658			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
659			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
660
661	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
662			Format: <string>
663			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
664			with the name specified.
665			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
666			the platform:
667			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
668			[ACPI] acpi_pm
669			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
670				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
671			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
672				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
673			[MIPS] MIPS
674			[PARISC] cr16
675			[S390] tod
676			[SH] SuperH
677			[SPARC64] tick
678			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
679
680	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
681			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
682			Format: <bool>
683			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
684			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
685			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
686			systems.
687
688	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
689			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
690			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
691			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
692			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
693			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
694			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
695			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
696			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
697
698	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
699			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
700			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
701			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
702			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
703
704	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
705			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
706			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
707			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
708			placement constraint by the physical address range of
709			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
710			altogether. For more information, see
711			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
712
713	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
714			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
715			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
716			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
717			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
718			specified, the default value is 0.
719			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
720			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
721			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
722			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
723
724	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
725			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
726			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
727			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
728			area for the specified node.
729
730			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
731			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
732			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
733			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
734
735	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
736			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
737			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
738			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
739			a hypervisor.
740			Default: yes
741
742	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
743			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
744			allocations, by default set to 256K.
745
746	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
747			Format:
748			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
749
750	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
751			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
752
753	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
754			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
755			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
756
757	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
758	conmode=
759
760	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
761			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
762			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
763			the console buffer is full. In this case the
764			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
765			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
766			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
767			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
768			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
769			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
770
771	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
772
773		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
774
775		ttyS<n>[,options]
776		ttyUSB0[,options]
777			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
778			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
779			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
780			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
781			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
782
783			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
784			information.  See
785			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
786			alternative.
787
788		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
789		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
790		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
791		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
792		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
793			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
794			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
795			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
796			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
797			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
798			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
799			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
800			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
801			the h/w is not re-initialized.
802
803		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
804			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
805
806		{ null | "" }
807			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
808			console messages discarded.
809			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
810			kernel command line.
811
812		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
813		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
814			console=brl,ttyS0
815		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
816
817	console_msg_format=
818			[KNL] Change console messages format
819		default
820			By default we print messages on consoles in
821			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
822			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
823			`printk_time' param).
824		syslog
825			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
826			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
827			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
828			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
829			from /proc/kmsg.
830
831	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
832			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
833			Defaults to 0.
834
835	coredump_filter=
836			[KNL] Change the default value for
837			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
838			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
839
840	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
841			[ARM,ARM64]
842			Format: <bool>
843			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
844			0: default value, disable debugging
845			1: enable debugging at boot time
846
847	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
848			Format:
849			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
850
851	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
852			disable the cpuidle sub-system
853
854	cpuidle.governor=
855			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
856
857	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
858			disable the cpufreq sub-system
859
860	cpufreq.default_governor=
861			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
862			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
863			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
864
865	cpu_init_udelay=N
866			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
867			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
868			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
869			Default: 10000
870
871	cpuhp.parallel=
872			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
873			Format: <bool>
874			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
875			the parameter has no effect.
876
877	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
878			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
879			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
880			succeeds in any situation.
881			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
882			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
883			kernel more unstable.
884
885	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
886			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
887			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
888			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
889			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
890			is selected automatically.
891			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
892			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
893			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
894			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
895
896	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
897			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
898			in the running system. The syntax of range is
899			start-[end] where start and end are both
900			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
901			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
902
903	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
904			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
905			above 4G.
906			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
907			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
908			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
909			below 4G, if available.
910			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
911	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
912			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
913			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
914			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
915			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
916			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
917			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
918			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
919			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
920			size is	platform dependent.
921			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
922			  --> arm64: 128MiB
923			  --> riscv: 128MiB
924			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
925			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
926			for second kernel instead.
927			0: to disable low allocation.
928			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
929			or memory reserved is below 4G.
930
931	cryptomgr.notests
932			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
933
934	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
935			Format: <dma>
936
937	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
938			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
939
940	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
941			function call handling. When switched on,
942			additional debug data is printed to the console
943			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
944			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
945			the hang situation.  The default value of this
946			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
947			Kconfig option.
948
949	dasd=		[HW,NET]
950			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
951
952	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
953			(one device per port)
954			Format: <port#>,<type>
955			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
956
957	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
958
959	debug_boot_weak_hash
960			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
961			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
962			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
963			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
964			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
965			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
966
967	debug_locks_verbose=
968			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
969			Format: <int>
970			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
971			self-tests.
972			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
973			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
974			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
975			useful to lockdep developers.
976
977	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
978
979	debug_guardpage_minorder=
980			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
981			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
982			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
983			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
984			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
985			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
986			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
987			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
988			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
989			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
990			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
991			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
992			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
993			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
994			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
995			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
996			help tracking down these problems.
997
998	debug_pagealloc=
999			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1000			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1001			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1002			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1003			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1004			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1005			on: enable the feature
1006
1007	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1008			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1009			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1010			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1011			no-mount:
1012				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1013			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1014				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1015			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1016			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1017				or directories within debugfs.
1018				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1019				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1020			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1021
1022	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1023
1024	default_hugepagesz=
1025			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1026			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1027			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1028			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1029			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1030			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1031			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1032			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1033			Format: size[KMG]
1034
1035	deferred_probe_timeout=
1036			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1037			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1038			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1039			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1040			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1041			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1042			successful driver registration. This option will also
1043			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1044			retrying.
1045
1046	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1047
1048	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1049			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1050			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1051			hardware.
1052
1053	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1054			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1055			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1056			blacklisted features.
1057
1058	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1059			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1060			(disabled by default).
1061
1062	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1063			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1064			capability is set.
1065
1066	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1067			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1068
1069	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1070			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1071
1072	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1073			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1074			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1075			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1076			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1077			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1078			          only (compression on level 1)
1079			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1080			          only (decompression)
1081			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1082			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1083
1084	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1085			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1086
1087	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1088			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1089			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1090			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1091			miss to occur.
1092
1093	disable=	[IPV6]
1094			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1095
1096	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1097			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1098
1099	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1100			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1101			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1102
1103	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1104			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1105			to workaround buggy firmware.
1106
1107	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1108			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1109
1110	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1111			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1112			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1113			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1114
1115	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1116			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1117			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1118			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1119			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1120
1121	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1122			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1123			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1124
1125	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1126
1127	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1128			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1129
1130	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1131			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1132			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1133			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1134			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1135			architectural default is too low.
1136
1137	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1138			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1139			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1140			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1141			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1142			driver later using sysfs.
1143
1144	reg_file_data_sampling=
1145			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1146			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1147			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1148			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1149			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1150			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1151
1152			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1153			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1154
1155			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1156			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1157			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1158			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1159			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1160
1161			For details see:
1162			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1163
1164	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1165			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1166			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1167			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1168			match the *.
1169			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1170
1171	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1172			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1173			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1174			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1175			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1176			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1177			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1178			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1179			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1180			data set with no connector name will be used for
1181			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1182
1183	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1184
1185	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1186			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1187			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1188			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1189			exists).
1190			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1191			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1192			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1193
1194	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1195			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1196			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1197			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1198
1199	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1200	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1201			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1202			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1203			for details.
1204
1205	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1206			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1207			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1208			which are not unmapped.
1209
1210	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1211
1212			When used with no options, the early console is
1213			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1214			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1215			the platform.
1216
1217		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1218			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1219			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1220			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1221			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1222			configured.
1223
1224		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1225		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1226		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1227		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1228		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1229			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1230			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1231			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1232			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1233			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1234			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1235			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1236			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1237			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1238			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1239
1240		pl011,<addr>
1241		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1242			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1243			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1244			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1245			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1246			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1247			the device registers.
1248
1249		liteuart,<addr>
1250			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1251			specified address. The serial port must already be
1252			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1253
1254		meson,<addr>
1255			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1256			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1257			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1258			supported.
1259
1260		msm_serial,<addr>
1261			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1262			port at the specified address. The serial port
1263			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1264			yet supported.
1265
1266		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1267			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1268			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1269			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1270			yet supported.
1271
1272		owl,<addr>
1273			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1274			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1275			specified address. The serial port must already be
1276			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1277
1278		rda,<addr>
1279			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1280			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1281			specified address. The serial port must already be
1282			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		sbi
1285			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1286			console.
1287
1288		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1289
1290		s3c2410,<addr>
1291		s3c2412,<addr>
1292		s3c2440,<addr>
1293		s3c6400,<addr>
1294		s5pv210,<addr>
1295		exynos4210,<addr>
1296			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1297			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1298			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1299			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1300			Options are not yet supported.
1301
1302		lantiq,<addr>
1303			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1304			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1305			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1306			yet supported.
1307
1308		lpuart,<addr>
1309		lpuart32,<addr>
1310			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1311			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1312			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1313			port must already be setup and configured.
1314
1315		ec_imx21,<addr>
1316		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1317			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1318			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1319			must already be setup and configured.
1320
1321		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1322			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1323			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1324			address. The serial port must already be setup
1325			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1326
1327		qcom_geni,<addr>
1328			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1329			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1330			specified address. The serial port must already be
1331			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1332
1333		efifb,[options]
1334			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1335			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1336			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1337			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1338			mapped with the correct attributes.
1339
1340		linflex,<addr>
1341			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1342			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1343			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1344			already be setup and configured.
1345
1346	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1347			earlyprintk=vga
1348			earlyprintk=sclp
1349			earlyprintk=xen
1350			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1351			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1352			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1353			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1354			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1355			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1356			earlyprintk=bios
1357
1358			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1359			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1360			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1361
1362			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1363			takes over.
1364
1365			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1366			be used at a time.
1367
1368			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1369			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1370			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1371			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1372				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1373			You can find the port for a given device in
1374			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1375				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1376
1377			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1378			very good.
1379
1380			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1381			the real console.
1382
1383			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1384
1385			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1386
1387			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1388
1389			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1390			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1391			UART class.
1392
1393	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1394			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1395			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1396			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1397			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1398			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1399			default: on.
1400
1401	edd=		[EDD]
1402			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1403
1404	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1405			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1406				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1407				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1408			debug: enable misc debug output.
1409			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1410			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1411			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1412			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1413			firmware implementations.
1414			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1415			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1416			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1417			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1418			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1419			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1420			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1421			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1422			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1423			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1424
1425	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1426			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1427			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1428			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1429			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1430
1431	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1432			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1433			updating original EFI memory map.
1434			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1435			from ss to ss+nn.
1436
1437			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1438			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1439			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1440			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1441
1442			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1443			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1444			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1445
1446			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1447			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1448			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1449			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1450			"soft reserved".
1451
1452	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1453			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1454			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1455			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1456			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1457
1458
1459	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1460			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1461
1462	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1463			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1464
1465			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1466			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1467
1468			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1469			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1470			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1471			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1472
1473	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1474			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1475			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1476
1477	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1478			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1479			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1480			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1481			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1482
1483	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1484			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1485			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1486			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1487
1488	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1489			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1490			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1491			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1492			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1493
1494	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1495			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1496			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1497			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1498			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1499			Default value is 0.
1500			Value can be changed at runtime via
1501			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1502
1503	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1504			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1505			support.
1506
1507	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1508			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1509			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1510
1511	evm=		[EVM]
1512			Format: { "fix" }
1513			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1514			current integrity status.
1515
1516	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1517			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1518			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1519			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1520			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1521			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1522			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1523
1524	failslab=
1525	fail_usercopy=
1526	fail_page_alloc=
1527	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1528			General fault injection mechanism.
1529			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1530			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1531
1532	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1533			Format: { initns | none }
1534			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1535			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1536
1537	floppy=		[HW]
1538			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1539
1540	forcepae	[X86-32]
1541			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1542			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1543			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1544			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1545			and may cause unknown problems.
1546
1547	fred=		[X86-64]
1548			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1549			Format: { on | off }
1550			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1551			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1552
1553	ftrace=[tracer]
1554			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1555			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1556			boot debugging.
1557
1558	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1559			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1560			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1561			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1562			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1563			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1564			start up functionality.
1565
1566			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1567			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1568			line parameter.
1569
1570			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1571
1572			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1573			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1574
1575	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1576			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1577			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1578			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1579			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1580			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1581			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1582			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1583			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1584			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1585			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1586
1587			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1588
1589			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1590			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1591
1592			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1593
1594			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1595			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1596			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1597
1598	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1599			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1600			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1601			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1602			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1603			tracing directory.
1604
1605	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1606			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1607			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1608			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1609			tracing directory.
1610
1611	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1612			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1613			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1614			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1615			that can be changed at run time by the
1616			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1617
1618	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1619			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1620			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1621			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1622			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1623
1624	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1625			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1626			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1627			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1628			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1629
1630	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1631			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1632			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1633			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1634			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1635			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1636			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1637			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1638			suppliers).
1639			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1640			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1641			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1642				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1643				up (sync_state() calls).
1644			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1645				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1646			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1647
1648	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1649			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1650			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1651			Format: <bool>
1652
1653	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1654			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1655			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1656			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1657			calls.
1658			Format: { strict | timeout }
1659			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1660				probe successfully.
1661			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1662				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1663				received their sync_state() calls after
1664				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1665				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1666
1667	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1668			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1669			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1670			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1671			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1672
1673	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1674
1675	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1676			Format: off | on
1677			default: on
1678
1679	gather_data_sampling=
1680			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1681			mitigation.
1682
1683			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1684			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1685			previously stored in vector registers.
1686
1687			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1688			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1689			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1690			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1691
1692			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1693				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1694				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1695				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1696
1697			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1698
1699	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1700			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1701			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1702			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1703			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1704
1705	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1706			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1707			android emulator
1708
1709	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1710			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1711			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1712	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1713			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1714
1715	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1716			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1717			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1718			GPT to be used instead.
1719
1720	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1721			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1722			Format: 0 | 1
1723			Default: 0
1724	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1725			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1726			Format: 0 | 1
1727			Default: 0
1728	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1729			Format: 0 | 1
1730			Default: 0
1731	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1732			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1733			Default: 1024
1734	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1735			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1736			Default: 1024
1737
1738	hardened_usercopy=
1739			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1740			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1741			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1742			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1743			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1744			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1745			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1746		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1747		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1748
1749	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1750			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1751			backtraces on all cpus.
1752			Format: 0 | 1
1753
1754	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1755			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1756			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1757			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1758
1759	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1760
1761	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1762			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1763
1764	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1765			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1766			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1767			logic will be disabled.
1768
1769	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1770		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1771				present during boot.
1772		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1773		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1774		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1775				(that will set all pages holding image data
1776				during restoration read-only).
1777
1778	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1779				used with hibernation.
1780				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1781				Default: lzo
1782
1783				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1784				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1785
1786				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1787				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1788
1789	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1790			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1791			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1792			size on bigger boxes.
1793
1794	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1795			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1796			Default: "on"
1797
1798	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1799
1800	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1801			Format: <string>
1802			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1803			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1804			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1805			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1806			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1807			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1808			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1809			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1810			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1811			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1812
1813	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1814			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1815				verbose }
1816			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1817			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1818				VIA, nVidia)
1819			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1820
1821	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1822			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1823
1824	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1825			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1826			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1827			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1828			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1829			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1830			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1831			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1832			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1833				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1834
1835	hugepagesz=
1836			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1837			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1838			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1839			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1840			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1841			architecture dependent.  See also
1842			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1843			Format: size[KMG]
1844
1845	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1846			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1847			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1848			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1849				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1850
1851			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1852			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1853			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1854
1855	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1856			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1857			enabled.
1858			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1859			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1860			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1861			Format: { on | off (default) }
1862
1863			on: enable HVO
1864			off: disable HVO
1865
1866			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1867			the default is on.
1868
1869			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1870			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1871			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1872			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1873			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1874
1875	hung_task_panic=
1876			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1877			Format: 0 | 1
1878
1879			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1880			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1881			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1882			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1883			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1884
1885	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1886				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1887	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1888				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1889				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1890
1891	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1892			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1893			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1894			on lock contention.
1895
1896	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1897				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1898				registered from board initialization code.
1899				Format:
1900				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1901
1902	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1903	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1904			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1905			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1906			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1907	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1908	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1909			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1910			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1911	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1912	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1913	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1914			     for the AUX port
1915	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1916			     controller
1917	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1918			     controllers
1919	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1920	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1921			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1922			     transitions, or never reset
1923			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1924			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1925			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1926			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1927			architectures force reset to be always executed
1928	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1929	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1930	i8042.probe_defer
1931			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1932
1933	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1934
1935	i915.invert_brightness=
1936			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1937			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1938			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1939			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1940			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1941			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1942			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1943			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1944			value switches the backlight off.
1945			-1 -- never invert brightness
1946			 0 -- machine default
1947			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1948
1949	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1950			Format: <bool>
1951			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1952			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1953			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1954
1955	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1956			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1957
1958
1959	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
1960			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1961			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1962			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1963			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1964			Not recommended.
1965			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1966			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1967			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1968
1969	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1970			Format: <bool>
1971			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1972			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1973			true (1).
1974
1975	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1976			Format: <bool>
1977			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1978			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1979
1980	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1981			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1982			Default: strict
1983
1984			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1985			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1986			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1987			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1988			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1989			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1990			encoding mode.
1991
1992			Available settings are as follows:
1993			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1994				supported by the FPU
1995			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1996				by the FPU
1997			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1998				by the FPU
1999			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2000				supported by the FPU
2001
2002			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2003			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2004			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2005			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2006			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2007			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2008			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2009			MIPS64 CPUs.
2010
2011			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2012			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2013			except where unsupported by hardware.
2014
2015	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2016			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2017			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2018			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2019			could change it dynamically, usually by
2020			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2021
2022	ignore_rlimit_data
2023			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2024			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2025			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2026
2027	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2028			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2029
2030	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2031			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2032			default: "enforce"
2033
2034	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2035			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2036			owned by uid=0.
2037
2038	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2039			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2040			measurements, instead of host native format.
2041
2042	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2043			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2044				   | sha512 | ... }
2045			default: "sha1"
2046
2047			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2048			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2049
2050	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2051			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2052			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2053				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2054
2055			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2056			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2057			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2058			uid=0.
2059
2060			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2061			all files owned by root.
2062
2063			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2064			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2065			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2066
2067			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2068			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2069			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2070			flag.
2071
2072			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2073			critical data.
2074
2075	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2076			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2077			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2078			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2079			opened for read by uid=0.
2080
2081	ima_template=	[IMA]
2082			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2083			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2084				   "ima-sigv2" }
2085			Default: "ima-ng"
2086
2087	ima_template_fmt=
2088			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2089			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2090
2091	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2092			Format: <min_file_size>
2093			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2094			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2095
2096			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2097			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2098			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2099
2100	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2101			Format: <bufsize>
2102			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2103
2104			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2105			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2106			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2107
2108	init=		[KNL]
2109			Format: <full_path>
2110			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2111			process.
2112
2113	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2114			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2115			startup.
2116
2117	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2118			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2119			modules and initcalls.
2120
2121	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2122			Format: <bool>
2123			Default: 1
2124			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2125			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2126			with devices being probed and
2127			initialized. This should normally just work,
2128			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2129			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2130			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2131			late_ initcalls.
2132
2133	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2134
2135	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2136			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2137			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2138			setting.
2139			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2140			Default is 0, 0
2141
2142	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2143			zeroes.
2144			Format: 0 | 1
2145			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2146
2147	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2148			Format: 0 | 1
2149			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2150
2151	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2152			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2153			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2154			override in debugfs after boot.
2155
2156	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2157			Format: <irq>
2158
2159	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2160
2161	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2162			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2163			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2164			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2165
2166	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2167		on
2168			Enable intel iommu driver.
2169		off
2170			Disable intel iommu driver.
2171		igfx_off [Default Off]
2172			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2173			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2174			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2175			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2176			DMA.
2177		strict [Default Off]
2178			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2179		sp_off [Default Off]
2180			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2181			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2182			not be supported.
2183		sm_on
2184			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2185			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2186			translation.
2187		sm_off
2188			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2189		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2190			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2191			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2192			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2193			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2194			mapping is enabled.
2195			Note that using this option lowers the security
2196			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2197			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2198
2199	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2200			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2201			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2202
2203	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2204			disable
2205			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2206			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2207                        active
2208                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2209                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2210                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2211                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2212                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2213                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2214                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2215                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2216                          and possibly on the processor model.
2217			passive
2218			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2219			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2220			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2221			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2222			  feature.
2223			force
2224			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2225			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2226			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2227			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2228			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2229			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2230			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2231			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2232			no_hwp
2233			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2234			  if available.
2235			hwp_only
2236			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2237			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2238			support_acpi_ppc
2239			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2240			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2241			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2242			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2243			per_cpu_perf_limits
2244			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2245			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2246
2247	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2248			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2249			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2250			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2251			no_x2apic_optout
2252				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2253			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2254
2255	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2256		strict	regions from userspace.
2257		relaxed
2258
2259	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2260		off
2261		force
2262		noforce
2263		biomerge
2264		panic
2265		nopanic
2266		merge
2267		nomerge
2268		soft
2269		pt		[X86]
2270		nopt		[X86]
2271		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2272			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2273
2274	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2275			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2276			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2277			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2278			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2279			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2280			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2281
2282	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2283			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2284			0 - Lazy mode.
2285			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2286			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2287			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2288			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2289			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2290			1 - Strict mode.
2291			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2292			  synchronously.
2293			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2294			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2295			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2296
2297	iommu.passthrough=
2298			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2299			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2300			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2301			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2302			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2303
2304	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2305			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2306			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2307
2308	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2309		0x80
2310			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2311		0xed
2312			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2313		udelay
2314			Simple two microseconds delay
2315		none
2316			No delay
2317
2318	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2319			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2320
2321	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2322			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2323
2324	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2325			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2326
2327	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2328			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2329			Format: <bool>
2330			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2331			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2332			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2333
2334	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2335			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2336			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2337			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2338			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2339			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2340			LPIs.
2341
2342	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2343			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2344			requires the kernel to be built with
2345			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2346
2347	irqfixup	[HW]
2348			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2349			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2350			firmware running.
2351
2352	irqpoll		[HW]
2353			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2354			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2355			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2356			firmware running.
2357
2358	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2359			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2360
2361	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2362			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2363			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2364
2365			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2366			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2367
2368			nohz
2369			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2370
2371			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2372			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2373			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2374			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2375			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2376
2377			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2378			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2379			  be configured manually after bootup.
2380
2381			domain
2382			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2383			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2384			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2385			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2386			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2387			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2388			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2389			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2390
2391			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2392			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2393			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2394			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2395
2396			managed_irq
2397
2398			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2399			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2400			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2401			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2402			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2403
2404			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2405			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2406			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2407			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2408			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2409			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2410			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2411
2412			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2413			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2414			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2415			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2416			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2417			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2418			  queues.
2419
2420			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2421
2422	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2423
2424	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2425			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2426			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2427			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2428
2429			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2430			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2431			write the parameter as:
2432				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2433
2434			Deprecated formats:
2435			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2436			  write the parameter as:
2437				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2438			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2439			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2440				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2441
2442	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2443			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2444			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2445			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2446
2447			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2448			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2449			write the parameter as:
2450				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2451
2452			Deprecated formats:
2453			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2454			  write the parameter as:
2455				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2456			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2457			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2458				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2459
2460	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2461			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2462			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2463			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2464
2465			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2466			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2467			write the parameter as:
2468				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2469
2470			Deprecated formats:
2471			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2472			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2473				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2474			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2475			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2476				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2477
2478	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2479			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2480
2481	kasan_multi_shot
2482			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2483			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2484			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2485			invalid access.
2486
2487	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2488			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2489			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2490			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2491			the real console.
2492
2493	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2494
2495	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY]
2496			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2497			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2498			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2499			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2500			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2501			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2502			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2503			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2504			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2505
2506			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2507			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2508			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2509			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2510			zone if it does not.
2511
2512			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2513			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2514			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2515			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2516			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2517			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2518			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2519
2520	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2521			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2522			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2523			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2524			optional and is the number seconds in between
2525			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2526			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2527			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2528			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2529			the kernel debugger.
2530
2531	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2532			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2533			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2534			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2535			 keyboard only format: kbd
2536			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2537			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2538			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2539			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2540
2541	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2542			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2543			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2544			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2545			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2546			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2547			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2548
2549			The name of the early console should be specified
2550			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2551			the early console might be different than the tty
2552			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2553			blank and the first boot console that implements
2554			read() will be picked.
2555
2556	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2557			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2558
2559	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2560			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2561			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2562
2563	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2564			Valid arguments: on, off
2565			Default: on
2566			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2567			the default is off.
2568
2569	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2570			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2571			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2572			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2573			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2574			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2575			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2576
2577			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2578
2579			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2580			Boot Parameter" section.
2581
2582	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2583			user and kernel address spaces.
2584			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2585			0: force disabled
2586			1: force enabled
2587
2588	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2589			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2590			default value can be overridden via
2591			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2592			Default is 1 (enabled)
2593
2594	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2595			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2596
2597	kvm.eager_page_split=
2598			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2599			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2600			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2601			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2602			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2603			required to split huge pages lazily.
2604
2605			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2606			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2607			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2608			still be used for reads.
2609
2610			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2611			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2612			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2613			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2614			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2615			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2616			cleared.
2617
2618			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2619
2620			Default is Y (on).
2621
2622	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2623				   Default is false (don't support).
2624
2625	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2626			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2627			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2628			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2629			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2630			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2631				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2632
2633			Default is 'auto'.
2634
2635			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2636			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2637
2638	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2639			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2640			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2641			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2642			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2643
2644	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2645			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2646			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2647			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2648			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2649			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2650
2651	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2652			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2653
2654	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2655			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2656			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2657			for NPT.
2658
2659	kvm-arm.mode=
2660			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2661			operation.
2662
2663			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2664
2665			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2666			      protected guests.
2667
2668			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2669				   state is kept private from the host.
2670
2671			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2672				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2673				hardware.
2674
2675			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2676			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2677			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2678			used with extreme caution.
2679
2680	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2681			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2682			system registers
2683
2684	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2685			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2686			system registers
2687
2688	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2689			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2690			system registers
2691
2692	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2693			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2694			injection of LPIs.
2695
2696	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2697			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2698			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2699			allocation.
2700			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2701			Format: <integer>
2702			Default: 5
2703
2704	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2705			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2706			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2707			for EPT.
2708
2709	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2710			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2711			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2712			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2713			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2714			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2715			Default is 1 (enabled).
2716
2717	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2718			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2719			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2720			hardware lacks support for it.
2721
2722	kvm-intel.nested=
2723			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2724			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2725
2726	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2727			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2728			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2729			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2730			hardware lacks support for it.
2731
2732	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2733			CVE-2018-3620.
2734
2735			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2736
2737			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2738			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2739				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2740			never:	Disables the mitigation
2741
2742			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2743
2744	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2745			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2746			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2747			for it.
2748
2749	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
2750			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2751
2752			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2753			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2754			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2755
2756			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2757			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2758			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2759			not have direct access.
2760
2761			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2762			options are:
2763
2764			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2765
2766	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2767			      affected CPUs
2768
2769			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2770			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2771
2772			full
2773				Provides all available mitigations for the
2774				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2775				enables all mitigations in the
2776				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2777
2778				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2779				sysfs interface is still possible after
2780				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2781				when the first VM is started in a
2782				potentially insecure configuration,
2783				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2784
2785			full,force
2786				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2787				flush runtime control. Implies the
2788				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2789				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2790
2791			flush
2792				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2793				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2794				L1D flush.
2795
2796				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2797				sysfs interface is still possible after
2798				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2799				when the first VM is started in a
2800				potentially insecure configuration,
2801				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2802
2803			flush,nosmt
2804
2805				Disables SMT and enables the default
2806				hypervisor mitigation.
2807
2808				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2809				sysfs interface is still possible after
2810				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2811				when the first VM is started in a
2812				potentially insecure configuration,
2813				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2814
2815			flush,nowarn
2816				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2817				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2818				insecure configuration.
2819
2820			off
2821				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2822				emit any warnings.
2823				It also drops the swap size and available
2824				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2825				bare metal.
2826
2827			Default is 'flush'.
2828
2829			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2830
2831	l2cr=		[PPC]
2832
2833	l3cr=		[PPC]
2834
2835	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2836			disabled it.
2837
2838	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2839			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2840			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2841			Format: notscdeadline
2842
2843	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
2844			in C2 power state.
2845
2846	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2847			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2848			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2849			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2850			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2851			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2852			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2853
2854	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2855			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2856			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2857
2858	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2859			when set.
2860			Format: <int>
2861
2862	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2863			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2864			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2865			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2866			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2867			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2868			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2869			to all ports, links and devices.
2870
2871			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2872			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2873			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2874			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2875			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2876			host link and device attached to it.
2877
2878			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2879			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2880			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2881			The following configurations can be forced.
2882
2883			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2884			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2885
2886			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2887
2888			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2889			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2890			  allowed.
2891
2892			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2893			  resets.
2894
2895			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2896			  link recovery.
2897
2898			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2899			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2900			  detection.
2901
2902			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2903
2904			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2905
2906			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2907
2908			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2909
2910			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2911
2912			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2913
2914			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2915
2916			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2917
2918			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2919			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2920
2921			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2922			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2923
2924			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2925			  identify device data log.
2926
2927			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2928			  purpose log directory.
2929
2930			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2931
2932			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2933			  1024 sectors.
2934
2935			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2936			  65535 sectors.
2937
2938			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2939
2940			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2941			  should be skipped.
2942
2943			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2944			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2945
2946			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2947
2948			* disable: Disable this device.
2949
2950			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2951			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2952
2953	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2954
2955	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2956			Format: <integer>
2957
2958	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2959			Format: <integer>
2960
2961	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2962			Format: <integer>
2963
2964	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2965			Format: <integer>
2966
2967	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
2968			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2969			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2970			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2971			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2972			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2973			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2974			are also disabled.
2975
2976	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
2977			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
2978			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
2979			will result in a splat once they do complete.
2980
2981	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
2982			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
2983			to be bound.
2984
2985	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
2986			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
2987			to be bound.
2988
2989	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
2990			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
2991			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
2992			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
2993			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
2994			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
2995
2996	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
2997			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
2998			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
2999			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3000
3001	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3002			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3003			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3004			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3005			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3006			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3007
3008	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3009			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3010			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3011			number of online CPUs.
3012
3013	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3014			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3015
3016	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3017			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3018
3019	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3020			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3021			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3022
3023	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3024			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3025			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3026			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3027			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3028			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3029			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3030			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3031			disable boosting.
3032
3033	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3034			Number that determines how often and for how
3035			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3036			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3037			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3038			constant as the number of writers increases.
3039			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3040			increases with the number of writers.
3041
3042	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3043			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3044			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3045			mode during the locktorture test.
3046
3047	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3048			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3049			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3050
3051	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3052			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3053
3054	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3055			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3056			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3057			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3058			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3059			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3060
3061	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3062			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3063
3064	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3065			Enable additional printk() statements.
3066
3067	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3068			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3069			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3070
3071	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3072			Format: <irq>
3073
3074	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3075			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3076			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3077			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3078			loglevels are defined as follows:
3079
3080			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3081			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3082			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3083			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3084			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3085			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3086			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3087			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3088
3089	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3090			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3091			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3092			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3093			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3094			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3095			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3096			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3097			for more details.
3098
3099	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3100			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3101			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3102			kernel boot problems.
3103
3104	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3105	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3106	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3107	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3108				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3109				attached printers to be reset. Using
3110				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3111				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3112				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3113				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3114				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3115				port specification list means that device IDs
3116				from each port should be examined, to see if
3117				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3118				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3119				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3120
3121	lpj=n		[KNL]
3122			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3123			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3124			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3125			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3126			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3127			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3128			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3129			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3130			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3131			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3132			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3133			hardware.
3134
3135	ltpc=		[NET]
3136			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3137
3138	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3139
3140	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3141			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3142			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3143
3144	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3145			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3146			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3147
3148	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3149			different yeeloong laptops.
3150			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3151
3152	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3153			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3154
3155	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3156			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3157			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3158			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3159			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3160			only takes effect during system bootup.
3161			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3162			which also disables the IO APIC.
3163
3164	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3165	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3166			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3167			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3168			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3169			/dev/loop-control interface.
3170
3171	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3172
3173	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3174
3175	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3176			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3177
3178	mdacon=		[MDA]
3179			Format: <first>,<last>
3180			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3181
3182	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3183			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3184			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3185
3186			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3187			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3188			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3189
3190			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3191			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3192			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3193			not have direct access.
3194
3195			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3196			options are:
3197
3198			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3199			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3200				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3201			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3202
3203			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3204			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3205			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3206			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3207			too.
3208
3209			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3210			mds=full.
3211
3212			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3213
3214	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3215			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3216
3217	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3218			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3219			as follows:
3220
3221			1 for test;
3222			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3223			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3224			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3225			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3226
3227			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3228			high memory is not affected.
3229
3230			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3231			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3232
3233			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3234			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3235			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3236			belonging to unused RAM.
3237
3238			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3239			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3240			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3241
3242	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3243			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3244			reported by firmware.
3245			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3246			ss[KMG].
3247			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3248			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3249
3250	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3251			memory.
3252
3253	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3254
3255	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3256			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3257			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3258
3259	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3260			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3261			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3262			set according to the
3263			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3264			option.
3265			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3266
3267	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3268			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3269			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3270			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3271			option description.
3272
3273	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3274			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3275			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3276			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3277			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3278			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3279			comma delimited.
3280			Example:
3281				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3282
3283	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3284			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3285			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3286
3287	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3288			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3289			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3290			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3291			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3292			         or
3293			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3294			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3295			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3296			will be eaten.
3297
3298	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3299			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3300			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3301			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3302			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3303
3304	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3305			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3306			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3307			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3308			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3309			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3310			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3311			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3312
3313	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3314			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3315			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3316			Setting this option will scan the memory
3317			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3318			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3319			from using the memory being corrupted.
3320			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3321			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3322			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3323			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3324
3325	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3326			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3327			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3328			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3329			corruption in more or less memory.
3330
3331	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3332			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3333			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3334			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3335
3336	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3337			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3338			Format: {on | off (default)}
3339			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3340			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3341			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3342			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3343			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3344			lot of memory without requiring additional
3345			memory to do so.
3346			This feature is disabled by default because it
3347			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3348			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3349			memory blocks).
3350			The state of the flag can be read in
3351			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3352			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3353			the feature is not effective.
3354
3355	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3356			Format: <integer>
3357			default : 0 <disable>
3358			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3359			performed. Each pass selects another test
3360			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3361			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3362			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3363			regions that are detected.
3364
3365	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3366			Valid arguments: on, off
3367			Default: off
3368			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3369			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3370
3371			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3372			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3373
3374	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3375			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3376			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3377			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3378			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3379
3380	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3381			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3382			platforms.
3383
3384	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3385			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3386			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3387			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3388
3389	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3390
3391	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3392			Format: <bool>
3393			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3394			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3395
3396	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3397			physical address is ignored.
3398
3399	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3400			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3401			Default: "0tb"
3402			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3403			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3404			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3405			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3406			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3407			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3408			unconfigured.
3409			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3410			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3411			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3412			VGA shield.
3413			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3414			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3415			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3416			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3417			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3418			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3419
3420	mitigations=
3421			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3422			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3423			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3424			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3425
3426			off
3427				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3428				improves system performance, but it may also
3429				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3430				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3431					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3432					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3433					       l1tf=off [X86]
3434					       mds=off [X86]
3435					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3436					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3437					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3438					       nobp=0 [S390]
3439					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3440					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3441					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3442					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3443					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3444					       retbleed=off [X86]
3445					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3446					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3447					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3448					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3449					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3450					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3451					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3452
3453				Exceptions:
3454					       This does not have any effect on
3455					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3456					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3457
3458			auto (default)
3459				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3460				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3461				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3462				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3463				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3464				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3465
3466			auto,nosmt
3467				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3468				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3469				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3470				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3471					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3472					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3473					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3474					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3475
3476	mminit_loglevel=
3477			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3478			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3479			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3480			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3481			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3482			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3483
3484	mmio_stale_data=
3485			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3486			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3487
3488			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3489			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3490			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3491			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3492			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3493			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3494
3495			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3496			options are:
3497
3498			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3499
3500			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3501				     vulnerable CPUs.
3502
3503			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3504
3505			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3506			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3507			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3508			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3509			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3510			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3511
3512			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3513			mmio_stale_data=full.
3514
3515			For details see:
3516			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3517
3518	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3519			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3520			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3521			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3522			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3523			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3524
3525	module.async_probe=<bool>
3526			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3527			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3528			specific module, use the module specific control that
3529			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3530			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3531			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3532			the specific module.
3533
3534	module.enable_dups_trace
3535			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3536			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3537			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3538			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3539			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3540	module.sig_enforce
3541			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3542			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3543			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3544			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3545
3546	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3547			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3548
3549	mousedev.tap_time=
3550			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3551			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3552			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3553			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3554			Format: <msecs>
3555	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3556			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3557	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3558			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3559
3560	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY]
3561			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3562			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3563			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3564			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3565			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3566			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3567			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3568			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3569			is not too small.
3570
3571	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3572			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3573			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3574			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3575			allocations. Use with caution!
3576
3577	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3578			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3579
3580	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3581			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3582
3583	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3584			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3585
3586	mtdset=		[ARM]
3587			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3588
3589			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3590
3591	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3592			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3593			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3594
3595	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3596			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3597			registers at boot time.
3598
3599	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3600			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3601			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3602
3603	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3604			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3605			Default is 1.
3606			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3607			using up MTRRs.
3608
3609	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3610			Format: <integer>
3611			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3612			Default : 1
3613			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3614			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3615
3616	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3617			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3618			at a time.
3619
3620	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3621
3622	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3623			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3624			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3625			something different and driver-specific.
3626			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3627			file if at all.
3628
3629	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3630			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3631			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3632			waits 4 seconds.
3633
3634	nf_conntrack.acct=
3635			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3636			0 to disable accounting
3637			1 to enable accounting
3638			Default value is 0.
3639
3640	nfs.cache_getent=
3641			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3642			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3643
3644	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3645			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3646			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3647
3648	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3649			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3650			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3651			requests.
3652
3653	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3654			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3655			channel should listen.
3656
3657	nfs.delay_retrans=
3658			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3659			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3660			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3661			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3662			and the specified value is >= 0.
3663
3664	nfs.enable_ino64=
3665			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3666			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3667			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3668			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3669			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3670
3671	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3672			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3673			entries.
3674
3675	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3676			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3677			slots the client will assign to the callback
3678			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3679			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3680			a particular server.
3681
3682	nfs.max_session_slots=
3683			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3684			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3685			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3686			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3687			Note that there is little point in setting this
3688			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3689
3690	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3691			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3692			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3693			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3694			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3695			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3696			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3697			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3698			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3699			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3700			back to using the idmapper.
3701			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3702
3703	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3704			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3705			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3706			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3707			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3708
3709	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3710			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3711			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3712			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3713			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3714			after the locks are lost.
3715			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3716			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3717			parameter to '1'.
3718			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3719			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3720
3721	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3722			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3723			information in exchange_id requests.
3724			If zero, no implementation identification information
3725			will be sent.
3726			The default is to send the implementation identification
3727			information.
3728
3729	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3730			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3731			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3732
3733			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3734			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3735			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3736			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3737
3738	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3739			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3740			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3741			the destination of the copy.
3742
3743	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3744			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3745			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3746			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3747			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3748			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3749
3750	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3751			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3752			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3753			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3754			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3755			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3756			this parameter.
3757
3758	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3759			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3760
3761	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3762			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3763
3764	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3765			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3766
3767	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3768			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3769			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3770
3771	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3772			when a NMI is triggered.
3773			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3774
3775	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3776			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3777			Valid num: 0 or 1
3778			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3779			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3780			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3781			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3782			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3783			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3784			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3785			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3786			need the box quickly up again.
3787
3788			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3789			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3790
3791	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3792			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3793			is present.
3794
3795	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3796			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3797
3798	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3799			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3800
3801	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3802
3803	noaltinstr	[S390,EARLY] Disables alternative instructions
3804			patching (CPU alternatives feature).
3805
3806	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3807			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3808
3809	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3810
3811	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
3812
3813	no_console_suspend
3814			[HW] Never suspend the console
3815			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3816			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3817			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3818			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3819			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3820			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3821			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3822			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3823			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3824			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3825			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3826			turn on/off it dynamically.
3827
3828	no_debug_objects
3829			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
3830
3831	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3832
3833	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
3834
3835	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3836
3837	noexec		[IA-64]
3838
3839	noexec32	[X86-64]
3840			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3841			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3842				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3843			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3844				read implies executable mappings
3845
3846	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3847			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3848			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3849
3850	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3851
3852	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3853
3854	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3855			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3856			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3857
3858	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3859			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3860			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3861			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3862			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3863			real-time systems.
3864
3865	no_hash_pointers
3866			[KNL,EARLY]
3867			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3868			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3869			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3870			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3871			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3872			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3873			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3874			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3875			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3876			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3877			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3878			kernels.
3879
3880	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3881
3882	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3883			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3884			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3885			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3886			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3887			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3888			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3889			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3890
3891	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3892
3893	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3894
3895	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3896			Valid arguments: on, off
3897			Default: on
3898
3899	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3900			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3901			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3902			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3903			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3904			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3905			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3906			just as if they had also been called out in the
3907			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3908
3909			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3910			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3911
3912	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3913			initial RAM disk.
3914
3915	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
3916			remapping.
3917			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3918
3919	nointroute	[IA-64]
3920
3921	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3922
3923	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3924
3925	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3926			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3927
3928	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3929
3930	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3931
3932	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
3933			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3934			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3935			Layout Randomization).
3936
3937	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3938			fault handling.
3939
3940	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3941
3942	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3943
3944	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3945
3946	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3947
3948	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3949
3950	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3951			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3952
3953	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3954			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3955			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3956			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3957			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3958			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3959			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3960
3961			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3962
3963	nomodule	Disable module load
3964
3965	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3966			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3967			irq.
3968
3969	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3970			pagetables) support.
3971
3972	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3973
3974	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3975			in some Intel CPUs.
3976
3977	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
3978			Equivalent to pti=off
3979
3980	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
3981			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3982			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3983			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3984
3985	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
3986			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3987			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3988			contention.
3989
3990	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3991			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3992
3993	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3994			with UP alternatives
3995
3996	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3997			space.
3998
3999	nosbagart	[IA-64]
4000
4001	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4002			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4003			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4004
4005	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4006
4007	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4008			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4009			even if it is supported by processor.
4010
4011	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4012			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4013			even if it is supported by processor.
4014
4015	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4016			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4017
4018	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4019			Equivalent to smt=1.
4020
4021			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4022			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4023				     via the sysfs control file.
4024
4025	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4026
4027	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4028			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4029			Store Bypass vulnerability
4030
4031	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4032			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4033			with this option.
4034
4035	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4036			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4037			possible in the system.
4038
4039	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4040			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4041			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4042			leaks with this option.
4043
4044	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,EARLY] Disable
4045			paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time is
4046			computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4047
4048	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4049
4050	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4051			broken timer IRQ sources.
4052
4053	no_uaccess_flush
4054	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4055
4056	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4057			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4058			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4059			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4060			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4061			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4062			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4063			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4064			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4065			is set.
4066
4067	no-vmw-sched-clock
4068			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4069			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4070
4071	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4072			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4073
4074	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4075
4076	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4077
4078			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4079			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4080			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4081
4082	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4083			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4084			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4085
4086	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4087			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4088			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4089			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4090			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4091			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4092
4093	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4094			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4095			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4096			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4097			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4098			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4099			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4100
4101	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
4102			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
4103			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
4104			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
4105			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
4106			parameter's value.
4107			Format: integer between 1 and 255
4108			Default: 255
4109
4110	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4111			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4112			SAL PALO.
4113
4114	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4115			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4116			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4117			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4118			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4119			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4120			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4121			hot plugging.
4122
4123	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4124
4125	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4126			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4127			spanning all memory.
4128
4129	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4130			NUMA balancing.
4131			Allowed values are enable and disable
4132
4133	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4134			'node', 'default' can be specified
4135			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4136			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4137
4138	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4139			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4140			info.
4141
4142	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4143			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4144			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4145			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4146			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4147			interrupts *may* be lost!
4148
4149	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4150			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4151			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4152			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4153
4154	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4155
4156			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4157
4158			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4159				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4160			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4161				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4162				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4163
4164	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4165			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4166			process, but there is a small probability of
4167			deadlocking the machine.
4168			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4169			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4170
4171	page_alloc.shuffle=
4172			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4173			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
4174			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
4175			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
4176			cache, and this parameter can be used to
4177			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
4178			can be read from sysfs at:
4179			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4180
4181	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4182			Storage of the information about who allocated
4183			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4184			we can turn it on.
4185			on: enable the feature
4186
4187	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4188			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4189			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4190			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4191			on: turn on poisoning
4192
4193	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4194			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4195			Format: <integer>
4196			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4197			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4198
4199	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4200			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4201			timeout = 0: wait forever
4202			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4203			Format: <timeout>
4204
4205	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4206			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4207			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4208			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4209			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4210			called with any of the flags in this set.
4211			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4212			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4213			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4214			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4215			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4216			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4217			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4218
4219	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4220			on a WARN().
4221
4222	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4223			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4224			bit 0: print all tasks info
4225			bit 1: print system memory info
4226			bit 2: print timer info
4227			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4228			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4229			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4230			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4231			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4232			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4233			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4234			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4235			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4236
4237	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4238			connected to, default is 0.
4239			Format: <parport#>
4240	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4241			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4242			Format: <mode>
4243
4244	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4245			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4246			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4247			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4248			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4249			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4250			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4251			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4252			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4253			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4254			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4255			are specified on the command line, starting
4256			with parport0.
4257
4258	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4259			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4260			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4261			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4262			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4263			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4264			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4265
4266	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4267			Format: <int>
4268			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4269			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4270			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4271
4272	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4273			Format: <int>
4274			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4275			changes.  Disabled by default.
4276
4277	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4278			Format: <int>
4279			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4280			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4281			Disabled by default.
4282
4283	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4284			Format: <int>
4285			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4286			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4287			Disabled by default.
4288
4289	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4290			Format: <int>
4291			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4292			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4293			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4294			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4295			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4296			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4297			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4298			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4299			all channels.
4300
4301	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4302			Format: <int>
4303			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4304			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4305			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4306
4307	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4308			Format: <int>
4309			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4310			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4311			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4312
4313	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4314			Format: <int>
4315			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4316			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4317			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4318			All modes allowed by default.
4319
4320	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4321			Format: <int>
4322			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4323			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4324
4325	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4326			Format: <int>
4327			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4328			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4329			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4330			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4331			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4332			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4333			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4334			By default all supported ports are probed.
4335
4336	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4337			Format: <int>
4338			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4339			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4340
4341	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4342			Format: <int>
4343			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4344			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4345			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4346			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4347			0 otherwise.
4348
4349	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4350			Format: <int>
4351			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4352			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4353			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4354			allowed by default.
4355
4356	pause_on_oops=<int>
4357			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4358			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4359			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4360
4361	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4362
4363	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4364
4365				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4366				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4367				specified in one of the following formats:
4368
4369				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4370				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4371
4372				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4373				bus/device/function address which may change
4374				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4375				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4376				by other kernel parameters. If the
4377				domain is left unspecified, it is
4378				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4379				to a device through multiple device/function
4380				addresses can be specified after the base
4381				address (this is more robust against
4382				renumbering issues).  The second format
4383				selects devices using IDs from the
4384				configuration space which may match multiple
4385				devices in the system.
4386
4387		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4388				changes anything
4389		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4390		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4391				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4392				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4393		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4394				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4395				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4396				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4397		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4398				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4399				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4400		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4401				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4402				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4403				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4404				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4405				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4406				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4407		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4408				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4409				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4410		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4411				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4412		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4413				Configuration
4414		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4415				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4416				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4417		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4418				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4419				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4420		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4421				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4422				should never be necessary.
4423		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4424				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4425				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4426				when the system masks IRQs.
4427		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4428				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4429				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4430				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4431		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4432				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4433				on several machines and they hang the machine
4434				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4435				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4436				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4437				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4438				motherboard.
4439		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4440				Use with caution as certain devices share
4441				address decoders between ROMs and other
4442				resources.
4443		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4444				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4445				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4446		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4447				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4448		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4449				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4450				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4451				this way.
4452		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4453				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4454				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4455				F0000h-100000h range.
4456		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4457				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4458				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4459				explicitly which ones they are.
4460		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4461				numbers ourselves, overriding
4462				whatever the firmware may have done.
4463		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4464				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4465				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4466				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4467				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4468				IRQ routing is enabled.
4469		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4470				or for PCI scanning.
4471		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4472				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4473				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4474				please report a bug.
4475		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4476				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4477		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4478				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4479				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4480				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4481				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4482		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4483				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4484				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4485				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4486		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4487				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4488				so this option is a temporary workaround
4489				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4490		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4491				handle more pci cards
4492		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4493				This might help on some broken boards which
4494				machine check when some devices' config space
4495				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4496				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4497		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4498				This sorting is done to get a device
4499				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4500		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4501		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4502				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4503		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4504				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4505		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4506				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4507				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4508				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4509				or bus can support) for best performance.
4510		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4511				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4512				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4513				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4514				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4515				that hot-added devices will work.
4516		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4517				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4518				The default value is 256 bytes.
4519		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4520				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4521				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4522		resource_alignment=
4523				Format:
4524				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4525				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4526				aligned memory resources. How to
4527				specify the device is described above.
4528				If <order of align> is not specified,
4529				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4530				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4531				windows need to be expanded.
4532				To specify the alignment for several
4533				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4534				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4535				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4536				for 4096-byte alignment.
4537		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4538				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4539				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4540				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4541				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4542				the default.
4543				off: Turn ECRC off
4544				on: Turn ECRC on.
4545		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4546				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4547				Default size is 256 bytes.
4548		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4549				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4550				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4551		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4552				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4553				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4554		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4555				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4556				MMIO_PREF window.
4557				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4558		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4559				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4560				Default is 1.
4561		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4562				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4563				accommodate resources required by all child
4564				devices.
4565				off: Turn realloc off
4566				on: Turn realloc on
4567		realloc		same as realloc=on
4568		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4569		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4570				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4571		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4572				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4573				port.
4574		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4575				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4576				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4577				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4578				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4579				taints the kernel.
4580		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4581				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4582				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4583				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4584				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4585				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4586				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4587				this removes isolation between devices and
4588				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4589		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4590		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4591		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4592				one PCI domain per PCI function
4593
4594	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4595			Management.
4596		off	Disable ASPM.
4597		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4598			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4599
4600	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4601		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4602			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4603			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4604			also tries to use these services.
4605		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4606				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4607		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4608			hotplug).
4609
4610	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4611		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4612		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4613
4614	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4615		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4616			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4617
4618	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4619
4620	pd_ignore_unused
4621			[PM]
4622			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4623			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4624			for debug and development, but should not be
4625			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4626
4627	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4628			boot time.
4629			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4630			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4631
4632	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
4633			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4634			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4635			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4636			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4637			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4638			and performance comparison.
4639
4640	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4641			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4642
4643	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4644			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4645			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4646
4647	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4648			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4649			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4650
4651	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4652			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4653			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4654			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4655			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4656			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4657			remains 0.
4658
4659	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4660			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4661
4662	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4663			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4664			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4665			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4666			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4667			possible settings and some assignment information.
4668
4669	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4670			{ off }
4671
4672	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4673			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4674
4675	pnp_reserve_irq=
4676			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4677
4678	pnp_reserve_dma=
4679			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4680
4681	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4682			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4683
4684	pnp_reserve_mem=
4685			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4686			autoconfiguration.
4687			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4688
4689	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4690			Default is 21.
4691			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4692			may be specified.
4693			Format: <port>,<port>....
4694
4695	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
4696			Format: <unsigned int>
4697			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
4698			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
4699
4700	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4701			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4702			platform machine description specific power_save
4703			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4704			execution priority.
4705
4706	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4707			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4708			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4709			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4710			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4711
4712	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
4713			Format: {"off"}
4714			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4715
4716	preempt=	[KNL]
4717			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4718			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4719			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4720			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4721			       can be preempted anytime.
4722
4723	print-fatal-signals=
4724			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4725
4726			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4727			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4728			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4729			coredump - etc.
4730
4731			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4732			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4733
4734			default: off.
4735
4736	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4737			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4738			panics
4739			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4740			default: disabled
4741
4742	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4743			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4744			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4745			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4746			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4747			in order to provide more debug information.
4748			Format: <bool>
4749			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4750
4751	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4752			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4753			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4754			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4755			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4756			Default: ratelimit
4757
4758	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4759			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4760
4761	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4762			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4763			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4764
4765	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4766			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4767			instead using the legacy FADT method
4768
4769	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4770			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4771			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4772				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4773			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4774			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4775				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4776			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4777			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4778				statistical time based profiling.
4779
4780	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4781
4782	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4783			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4784			that).
4785			Format: <bool>
4786
4787	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4788			tracking.
4789			Format: <bool>
4790
4791	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4792			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4793	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4794			per second.
4795	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4796			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4797			(0 = never).
4798	psmouse.resolution=
4799			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4800	psmouse.smartscroll=
4801			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4802			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4803
4804	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4805
4806	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4807			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4808			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4809			system calls and interrupts.
4810
4811			on   - unconditionally enable
4812			off  - unconditionally disable
4813			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4814			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4815
4816			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4817
4818	pty.legacy_count=
4819			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4820			default number.
4821
4822	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
4823
4824	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4825
4826	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4827			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4828			invalidate.
4829
4830	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4831			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4832
4833	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4834			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4835
4836	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4837
4838	random.trust_cpu=off
4839			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4840			random number generator (if available) to
4841			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4842
4843	random.trust_bootloader=off
4844			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4845			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4846			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4847
4848	randomize_kstack_offset=
4849			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4850			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4851			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4852			that depend on stack address determinism or
4853			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4854			available on architectures that have defined
4855			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4856			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4857			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4858
4859	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4860
4861		cec_disable	[X86]
4862				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4863				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4864
4865	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4866			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4867			as described above.
4868
4869			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4870			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4871			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4872			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4873			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4874			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4875			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4876			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4877			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4878			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4879			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4880			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4881
4882			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4883			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4884
4885			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4886			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4887			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4888			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4889
4890			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4891			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4892
4893	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4894			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4895			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4896			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4897			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4898			This improves the real-time response for the
4899			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4900			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4901			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4902			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4903
4904	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4905			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4906			process in one batch.
4907
4908	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4909			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4910			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4911			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4912			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4913			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4914
4915	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4916			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4917			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4918			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4919
4920	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4921			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4922			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4923
4924	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4925			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4926			RCU grace-period initialization.
4927
4928	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4929			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4930			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4931			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4932			the rcu_node combining tree.
4933
4934	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4935			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4936			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4937			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4938			and maximum value is HZ.
4939
4940	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4941			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4942			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4943			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4944
4945	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4946			Set required age in jiffies for a
4947			given grace period before RCU starts
4948			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4949			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4950			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4951			a value based on the most recent settings
4952			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4953			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4954			This calculated value may be viewed in
4955			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4956			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4957			overwritten.
4958
4959	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4960			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4961			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4962			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4963			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4964			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4965			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4966			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4967			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4968			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4969			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4970			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4971
4972	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4973			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4974			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4975			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4976			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4977			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4978			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4979			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4980			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4981			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4982			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4983			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4984
4985	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4986			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4987			batch limiting is disabled.
4988
4989	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4990			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4991			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4992
4993	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4994			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4995			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4996			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4997			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4998			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4999			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5000			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5001
5002	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5003			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5004			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5005			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5006
5007	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5008			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5009			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5010			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5011			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5012			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5013			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5014			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5015
5016			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5017			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5018			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5019			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5020			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5021
5022	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5023			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5024			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5025			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5026			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5027
5028	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5029			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5030			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5031			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5032			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5033			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5034			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5035
5036	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5037			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5038			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5039			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5040			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5041			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5042			condition.
5043
5044	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5045			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5046			each group, which defaults to the square root
5047			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5048			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5049			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5050			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5051
5052	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5053			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5054			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5055			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5056			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5057			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5058
5059	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5060			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5061			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5062			By default, this limit is checked only once
5063			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5064			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5065
5066	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5067			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5068			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5069			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5070			Larger delays increase the probability of
5071			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5072			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5073			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5074
5075	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5076			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5077			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5078			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5079
5080	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5081			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5082			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5083			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5084			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5085
5086			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5087			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5088			to zero.
5089
5090	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5091			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5092			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5093			big.
5094
5095	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5096			Measure performance of asynchronous
5097			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5098
5099	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5100			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5101			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5102			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5103			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5104			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5105
5106	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5107			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5108			grace-period primitives.
5109
5110	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5111			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5112			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5113			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5114			interference.
5115
5116	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5117			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5118			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5119
5120	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5121			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5122			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5123			Defaults to 1.
5124
5125	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5126			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5127
5128	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5129			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5130			If this parameter has the same value as
5131			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5132			and double-argument variants are tested.
5133
5134	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5135			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5136			If this parameter has the same value as
5137			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5138			and double-argument variants are tested.
5139
5140	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5141			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5142
5143	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5144			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5145
5146	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5147			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5148			of allocations and frees.
5149
5150	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5151			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5152			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5153			but instead allows better measurement of things
5154			like CPU consumption.
5155
5156	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5157			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5158			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5159			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5160			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5161			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5162			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5163			a single reader.
5164
5165	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5166			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5167			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5168			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5169
5170	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5171			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5172
5173	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5174			Shut the system down after performance tests
5175			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5176			testing.
5177
5178	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5179			Enable additional printk() statements.
5180
5181	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5182			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5183			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5184			no holdoff.
5185
5186	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5187			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5188			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5189			says no holdoff.
5190
5191	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5192			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5193			in microseconds.
5194
5195	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5196			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5197			in microseconds.
5198
5199	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5200			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5201			in seconds.
5202
5203	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5204			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5205			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5206			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5207			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5208			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5209			of CPUs to be used.
5210
5211	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5212			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5213			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5214
5215	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5216			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5217			forward-progress tests.
5218
5219	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5220			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5221			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5222			testing.
5223
5224	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5225			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5226			primitives, if available.
5227
5228	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5229			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5230
5231	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5232			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5233			update-side primitives, if available.
5234
5235	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5236			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5237			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5238			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5239			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5240			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5241			they are all non-zero.
5242
5243	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5244			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5245			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5246			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5247
5248	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5249			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5250			This can of course result in splats, and is
5251			intended to test the ability of things like
5252			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5253			such leaks.
5254
5255	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5256			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5257
5258	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5259			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5260			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5261			test, hence the "fake".
5262
5263	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5264			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5265			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5266
5267	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5268			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5269			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5270
5271	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5272			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5273			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5274			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5275			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5276			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5277
5278	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5279			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5280
5281	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5282			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5283
5284	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5285			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5286			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5287
5288	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5289			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5290			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5291			task-exit processing.
5292
5293	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5294			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5295			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5296			is spawned.
5297
5298	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5299			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5300			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5301
5302	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5303			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5304			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5305			during the rcutorture test.
5306
5307	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5308			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5309			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5310
5311	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5312			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5313			warnings, zero to disable.
5314
5315	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5316			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5317			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5318			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5319			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5320			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5321			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5322			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5323			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5324			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5325
5326			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5327
5328
5329	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5330			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5331
5332	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5333			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5334
5335	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5336			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5337			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5338			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5339			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5340			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5341
5342	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5343			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5344
5345	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5346			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5347			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5348			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5349			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5350
5351	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5352			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5353			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5354			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5355
5356	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5357			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5358
5359	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5360			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5361
5362	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5363			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5364			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5365
5366	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5367			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5368
5369	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5370			Enable additional printk() statements.
5371
5372	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5373			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5374			stall warning.
5375
5376	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5377			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5378			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5379			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5380			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5381
5382	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5383			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5384
5385	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5386			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5387			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5388			during early boot, that is, during the time
5389			before the init task is spawned.
5390
5391	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5392			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5393			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5394			value is 300 seconds.
5395
5396	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5397			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5398			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5399			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5400			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5401			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5402			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5403			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5404			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5405
5406	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5407			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5408			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5409			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5410			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5411
5412	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5413			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5414			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5415			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5416
5417	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5418			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5419			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5420			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5421			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5422			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5423			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5424
5425	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5426			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5427			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5428			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5429			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5430			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5431			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5432			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5433			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5434
5435	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5436			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5437			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5438			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5439			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5440
5441			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5442			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5443			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5444			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5445			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5446			grace-period processing.
5447
5448	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5449			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5450			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5451			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5452			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5453			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5454			set to the default value of -1.
5455
5456	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5457			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5458			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5459			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5460			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5461			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5462			the default value of -1.
5463
5464	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5465			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5466			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5467			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5468			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5469			for use in testing.
5470
5471	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5472			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5473			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5474			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5475			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5476			but lengthens grace periods.
5477
5478	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5479			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5480			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5481			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5482			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5483			callback flooding.
5484
5485	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5486			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5487			informational messages, which give some indication
5488			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5489			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5490			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5491			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5492			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5493			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5494			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5495
5496	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5497			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5498			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5499			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5500			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5501			the value three, so that the first informational
5502			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5503			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5504			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5505			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5506
5507	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5508			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5509			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5510			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5511			A change in value does not take effect until
5512			the beginning of the next grace period.
5513
5514	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5515			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5516			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5517			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5518			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5519			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5520
5521	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5522			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5523			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5524			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5525			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5526			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5527			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5528
5529	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5530			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5531			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5532			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5533			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5534			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5535			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5536
5537	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5538			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5539
5540	rdinit=		[KNL]
5541			Format: <full_path>
5542			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5543			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5544
5545	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
5546			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5547				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5548				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5549				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5550				path).
5551
5552	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5553			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5554			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5555			mba, smba, bmec.
5556			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5557				rdt=cmt,!mba
5558
5559	reboot=		[KNL]
5560			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5561				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5562				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5563				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5564				[[,]f[orce]
5565			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5566					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5567					reboot only),
5568			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5569			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5570			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5571					to be used for rebooting.
5572
5573	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5574			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5575			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5576			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5577			interference.
5578
5579	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5580			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5581			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5582			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5583			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5584
5585	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5586			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5587			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5588			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5589			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5590			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5591			x86 laptops.
5592
5593	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5594			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5595			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5596			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5597
5598	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5599			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5600			the console log.
5601
5602	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5603			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5604			measured in microseconds.
5605
5606	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5607			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5608
5609	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5610			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5611			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5612			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5613			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5614
5615	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5616			Enable additional printk() statements.
5617
5618	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5619			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5620			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5621			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5622			specified.
5623
5624	regulator_ignore_unused
5625			[REGULATOR]
5626			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5627			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5628			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5629			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5630
5631	relax_domain_level=
5632			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5633			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5634
5635	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5636			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5637			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5638			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5639			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5640
5641	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
5642			Format: nn[KMG]
5643			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5644			address space.
5645
5646	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5647			during initialization.
5648
5649	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5650			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5651			Format:
5652			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5653
5654	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5655			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5656			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5657			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5658			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5659
5660	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5661			read the resume files
5662
5663	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5664			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5665			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5666
5667	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
5668			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
5669
5670	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5671			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5672			vulnerability.
5673
5674			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5675			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5676			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5677			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5678			that don't.
5679
5680			off          - no mitigation
5681			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5682			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5683				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5684				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5685				       and older without STIBP).
5686			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5687				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5688				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5689				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5690				       on Intel.
5691			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5692				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5693				       the alternative for systems which do not
5694				       have STIBP.
5695			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5696				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5697				       systems.
5698			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5699				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5700				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5701
5702			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5703			time according to the CPU.
5704
5705			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5706
5707	rfkill.default_state=
5708		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5709			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5710		1	Unblocked.
5711
5712	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5713		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5714		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5715			blocked and the previous configuration.
5716		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5717			blocked and everything unblocked.
5718
5719	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5720			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5721
5722	ring3mwait=disable
5723			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5724			CPUs.
5725
5726	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
5727			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5728			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5729			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5730			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5731			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5732
5733	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5734
5735	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
5736		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5737		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5738		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5739		        [arm64]
5740
5741	rockchip.usb_uart
5742			[EARLY]
5743			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5744			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5745			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5746			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5747
5748	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5749			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5750			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5751			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5752			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5753			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5754			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5755
5756	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5757			mount the root filesystem
5758
5759	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5760
5761	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5762
5763	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5764			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5765			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5766
5767	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5768			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5769			filesystem.
5770
5771	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5772			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5773			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5774			managed by CMA.
5775
5776	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5777
5778	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5779
5780	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5781			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5782		strict
5783			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5784			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5785			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5786			iommu.strict=1.
5787
5788	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5789			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5790			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5791			factor of the size of main memory.
5792			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5793			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5794			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5795			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5796			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5797			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5798			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5799
5800	sa1100ir	[NET]
5801			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5802
5803	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5804
5805	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5806			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5807			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5808			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5809
5810	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5811			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5812			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5813			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5814			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5815			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5816			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5817			value.
5818			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5819			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5820				1			64 ms
5821				2			128 ms
5822			and so on.
5823			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5824			Default is 0.
5825
5826	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5827			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5828			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5829			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5830			tests.
5831
5832	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5833			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5834			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5835			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5836			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5837			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5838			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5839
5840	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5841			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5842			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5843			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5844			equal to the number of CPUs.
5845
5846	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5847			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5848			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5849
5850	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5851			Number seconds to wait between successive
5852			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5853			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5854
5855	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5856			The number of seconds following the start of the
5857			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5858			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5859			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5860
5861	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5862			The number of seconds between outputting the
5863			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5864			of zero disables statistics output.
5865
5866	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5867			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5868			to the set of CPUs under test.
5869
5870	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5871			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5872			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5873			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5874			functions.
5875
5876	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5877			Enable additional printk() statements.
5878
5879	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5880			The probability weighting to use for the
5881			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5882			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5883			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5884			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5885			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5886
5887	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5888			The probability weighting to use for the
5889			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5890			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5891
5892	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5893			The probability weighting to use for the
5894			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5895			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5896			Note well that setting a high probability for
5897			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5898			on the system.
5899
5900	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5901			The probability weighting to use for the
5902			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5903			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5904			and weight_many.
5905
5906	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5907			The probability weighting to use for the
5908			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5909			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5910			weight_many.
5911
5912	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5913			The probability weighting to use for the
5914			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5915			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5916			and weight_many.
5917
5918	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5919			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5920			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5921			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5922			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5923			1 -- enable.
5924			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5925			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5926
5927	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5928			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5929			"lsm=" parameter.
5930
5931	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5932			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5933			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5934			0 -- disable.
5935			1 -- enable.
5936			Default value is 1.
5937
5938	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5939
5940	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5941
5942	shapers=	[NET]
5943			Maximal number of shapers.
5944
5945	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5946			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5947			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5948			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5949			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5950			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5951			apic=verbose is specified.
5952			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5953
5954	simeth=		[IA-64]
5955	simscsi=
5956
5957	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
5958			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
5959			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5960			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5961			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5962			last alloc / free. For more information see
5963			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5964			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
5965
5966	slab_max_order= [MM]
5967			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5968			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5969			fragmentation. For more information see
5970			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5971			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
5972
5973	slab_merge	[MM]
5974			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5975			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5976			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
5977
5978	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
5979			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5980			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
5981			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5982			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5983			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5984			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5985			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5986			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
5987
5988	slab_min_order=	[MM]
5989			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5990			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
5991			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5992			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
5993
5994	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5995			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5996			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5997			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5998			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5999			layout control by attackers can usually be
6000			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6001			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6002			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6003			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6004			own.
6005			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6006			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6007
6008	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6009
6010	smart2=		[HW]
6011			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6012
6013	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6014			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6015			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6016			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6017			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6018			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6019			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6020			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6021			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6022			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6023
6024	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6025			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6026			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6027			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6028			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6029			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6030
6031	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6032	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6033	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6034	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6035	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6036	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6037	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6038				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6039				1: Fast pin select (default)
6040				2: ATC IRMode
6041
6042	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6043			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6044			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6045			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6046			Format: <integer>
6047			Default: -1 (no limit)
6048
6049	softlockup_panic=
6050			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6051			Format: 0 | 1
6052
6053			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6054			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6055			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6056			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6057			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6058
6059	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6060			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6061			backtraces on all cpus.
6062			Format: 0 | 1
6063
6064	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6065			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6066
6067	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6068			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6069			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6070			clearing sequence.
6071
6072			on   - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation
6073			       as needed.
6074			off  - Disable the mitigation.
6075
6076	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6077			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6078			The default operation protects the kernel from
6079			user space attacks.
6080
6081			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6082			       spectre_v2_user=on
6083			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6084			       spectre_v2_user=off
6085			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6086			       vulnerable
6087
6088			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6089			mitigation method at run time according to the
6090			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6091			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6092			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6093
6094			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6095			against user space to user space task attacks.
6096
6097			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6098			the user space protections.
6099
6100			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6101
6102			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6103			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6104			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6105			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6106			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6107			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6108			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6109			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6110
6111			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6112			spectre_v2=auto.
6113
6114	spectre_v2_user=
6115			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6116		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6117		        user space tasks
6118
6119			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6120				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6121
6122			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6123				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6124
6125			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6126				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6127				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6128				  is inherited on fork.
6129
6130			prctl,ibpb
6131				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6132				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6133				  always when switching between different user
6134				  space processes.
6135
6136			seccomp
6137				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6138				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6139				  they explicitly opt out.
6140
6141			seccomp,ibpb
6142				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6143				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6144				  always when switching between different
6145				  user space processes.
6146
6147			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6148				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6149
6150			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6151
6152			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6153			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6154
6155	spec_rstack_overflow=
6156			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6157
6158			off		- Disable mitigation
6159			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6160			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6161			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6162					  kernel entry
6163			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6164					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6165
6166	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6167			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6168			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6169
6170			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6171			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6172			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6173			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6174			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6175			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6176			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6177			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6178
6179			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6180			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6181			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6182			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6183
6184			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6185			Bypass optimization is used.
6186
6187			On x86 the options are:
6188
6189			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6190			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6191			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6192				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6193				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6194				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6195				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6196				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6197			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6198				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6199				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6200				  is inherited on fork.
6201			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6202				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6203
6204			Default mitigations:
6205			X86:	"prctl"
6206
6207			On powerpc the options are:
6208
6209			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6210				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6211				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6212				  exit.
6213			off	- No action.
6214
6215			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6216			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6217
6218	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6219	spia_fio_base=
6220	spia_pedr=
6221	spia_peddr=
6222
6223	split_lock_detect=
6224			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6225
6226			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6227			instructions that access data across cache line
6228			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6229			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6230			bus lock detection.
6231
6232			off	- not enabled
6233
6234			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6235				  about applications triggering the #AC
6236				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6237				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6238				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6239				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6240				  enabled in hardware.
6241
6242			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6243				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6244				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6245				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6246
6247			ratelimit:N -
6248				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6249				  per second for bus lock detection.
6250				  0 < N <= 1000.
6251
6252				  N/A for split lock detection.
6253
6254
6255			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6256			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6257			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6258			mode.
6259
6260			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6261			CPL > 0.
6262
6263	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6264			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6265			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6266
6267			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6268			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6269			number generator.
6270
6271			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6272			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6273			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6274			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6275			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6276
6277			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6278			the following option:
6279
6280			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6281				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6282
6283	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6284			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6285			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6286			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6287			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6288			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6289			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6290			(decide at boot).
6291
6292	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6293			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6294			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6295			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6296
6297				   0:  Never.
6298				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6299				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6300				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6301				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6302
6303			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6304			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6305			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6306
6307	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6308			Specifies how frequently to check for
6309			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6310			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6311			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6312			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6313			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6314			are ignored.
6315
6316	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6317			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6318			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6319			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6320			grace period will be considered for automatic
6321			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6322			expediting.
6323
6324	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6325			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6326			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6327			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6328			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6329			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6330
6331	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6332			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6333			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6334			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6335			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6336			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6337
6338	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6339			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6340			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6341
6342	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6343			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6344			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6345			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6346			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6347			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6348			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6349
6350	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
6351			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6352
6353			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6354			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6355			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6356			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6357
6358			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6359				   for both kernel and userspace
6360			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6361				   for both kernel and userspace
6362			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6363				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6364				   to allow userspace to register its
6365				   interest in being mitigated too.
6366
6367	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6368			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6369			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6370			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6371			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6372			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6373
6374	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
6375			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6376			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6377			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6378			to false.
6379
6380	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6381			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6382
6383	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6384			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6385			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6386			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6387			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6388			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6389			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6390
6391	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6392			Format: <num>
6393			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6394			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6395			as the initial boot-console.
6396			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6397
6398	sti_font=	[HW]
6399			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6400
6401	stifb=		[HW]
6402			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6403
6404        strict_sas_size=
6405			[X86]
6406			Format: <bool>
6407			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6408			against the required signal frame size which
6409			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6410			be used to filter out binaries which have
6411			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6412
6413	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
6414			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6415			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6416			faults on kernel addresses.
6417
6418	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
6419			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6420			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6421			on kernel addresses.
6422
6423	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6424	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6425			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6426			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6427			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6428			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6429			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6430			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6431			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6432			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6433			maximum port values.
6434
6435	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6436			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6437			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6438			process in parallel from a single connection.
6439			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6440
6441	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6442			[NFS]
6443			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6444			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6445			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6446			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6447			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6448			NFS server is running.
6449
6450			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6451				    automatically using heuristics
6452			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6453			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6454			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6455				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6456
6457	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6458	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6459			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6460			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6461			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6462			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6463			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6464			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6465
6466	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6467			[SUSPEND]
6468			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6469			mode before resuming the system (see
6470			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6471			is set. Default value is 5.
6472
6473	svm=		[PPC]
6474			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6475			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6476			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6477
6478	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86,EARLY]
6479			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6480			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6481			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6482				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6483				 to a power of 2.
6484			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6485			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6486			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6487
6488	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
6489
6490	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6491			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6492			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6493			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6494			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6495			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6496			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6497			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6498
6499	sysrq_always_enabled
6500			[KNL]
6501			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6502			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6503			Useful for debugging.
6504
6505	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6506			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6507			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6508			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6509			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6510			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6511
6512	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6513
6514	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6515			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6516			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6517			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6518			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6519			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6520			The system is woken from this state using a
6521			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6522
6523	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6524			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6525
6526	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6527			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6528			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6529
6530	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6531			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6532			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6533
6534	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6535			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6536
6537	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6538			-1: disable all passive trip points
6539			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6540			value
6541
6542	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6543			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6544			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6545			0: no polling (default)
6546
6547	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
6548			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6549			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6550
6551	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
6552			Format: {off | on}
6553			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6554			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6555			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6556			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6557			Default is on.
6558
6559	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6560			Format: {off}
6561			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6562			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6563			LPAR.
6564
6565	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6566			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6567			until after init has spawned.
6568
6569	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6570			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6571			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6572			very costly operation when many torture tests
6573			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6574			with rotating-rust storage.
6575
6576	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6577			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6578			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6579			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6580
6581	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6582			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6583
6584	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6585
6586	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6587			Format: integer pcr id
6588			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6589			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6590			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6591			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6592			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6593			are saved.
6594
6595	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6596			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6597			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6598			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6599			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6600			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6601
6602	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6603			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6604			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6605			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6606			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6607			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6608
6609			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6610			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6611			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6612			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6613
6614			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6615			to stop the printing of events to console at
6616			late_initcall_sync.
6617
6618			** CAUTION **
6619
6620			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6621			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6622			the system to live lock.
6623
6624	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6625			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6626			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6627			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6628			make the system inoperable.
6629
6630			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6631			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6632
6633	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6634			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6635
6636	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6637			at boot up.
6638			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6639				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6640				depending on the architecture, may not be
6641				in sync between CPUs.
6642			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6643				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6644				but better for some race conditions.
6645			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6646				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6647				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6648				once per event.
6649			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6650			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6651			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6652			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6653				stamps.
6654			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6655			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6656			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6657
6658	trace_event=[event-list]
6659			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6660			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6661			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6662			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6663
6664	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6665			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6666			This will be listed in:
6667
6668				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6669
6670			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6671			via:
6672
6673				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6674
6675			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6676			unique.
6677
6678				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6679
6680			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6681			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6682			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6683
6684	trace_options=[option-list]
6685			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6686			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6687			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6688			to echo the option name into
6689
6690			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6691
6692			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6693			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6694
6695			      trace_options=stacktrace
6696
6697			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6698			section.
6699
6700	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6701			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6702			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6703			filter.
6704
6705			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6706			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6707
6708			For example:
6709
6710			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6711
6712			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6713			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6714			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6715
6716			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6717
6718
6719	traceoff_on_warning
6720			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6721			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6722			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6723			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6724
6725			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6726			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6727			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6728
6729			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6730			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6731
6732	transparent_hugepage=
6733			[KNL]
6734			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6735			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6736			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6737			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6738			for more details.
6739
6740	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6741			Format: <string>
6742			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6743			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6744			sources:
6745			- "tpm"
6746			- "tee"
6747			- "caam"
6748			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6749			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6750			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6751			successfully during iteration.
6752
6753	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6754			Format: <string>
6755			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6756			Can be one of:
6757			- "kernel"
6758			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6759			- "default"
6760			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6761			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6762
6763	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6764			Format: <string>
6765			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6766			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6767			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6768			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6769			virtualized environment.
6770			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6771			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6772			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6773			can add overhead.
6774			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6775			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6776			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6777			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6778			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6779			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6780			acceptable).
6781			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6782			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6783			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6784			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6785			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6786			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6787			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6788			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6789			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6790			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6791
6792	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6793			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6794			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6795			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6796			Format: <unsigned int>
6797
6798	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6799			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6800			support TSX control.
6801
6802			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6803
6804			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6805				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6806				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6807				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6808				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6809				with leaving it enabled.
6810
6811			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6812				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6813				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6814				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6815				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6816				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6817				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6818
6819			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6820				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6821
6822			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6823
6824			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6825			for more details.
6826
6827	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6828			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6829
6830			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6831			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6832			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6833			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6834			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6835			conditions.
6836
6837			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6838			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6839			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6840			access.
6841
6842			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6843			options are:
6844
6845			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6846				     if TSX is enabled.
6847
6848			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6849				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6850				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6851				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6852			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6853
6854			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6855			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6856			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6857			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6858
6859			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6860			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6861			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6862			required and doesn't provide any additional
6863			mitigation.
6864
6865			For details see:
6866			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6867
6868	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6869			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6870			Format:
6871			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6872			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6873
6874	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6875			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6876			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6877			help "seeing" what's going on.
6878
6879	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6880			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6881
6882	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6883			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6884			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6885			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6886			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6887			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6888			reported either.
6889
6890	unknown_nmi_panic
6891			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6892
6893	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
6894			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6895			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6896			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6897			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6898
6899	usbcore.authorized_default=
6900			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6901			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6902			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6903			if device connected to internal port)
6904
6905	usbcore.autosuspend=
6906			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6907			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6908			is the time required before an idle device will be
6909			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6910			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6911
6912	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6913			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6914
6915	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6916			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6917			(default = 65536).
6918
6919	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6920			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6921
6922	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6923			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6924			scheme (default 0 = off).
6925
6926	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6927			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6928			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6929
6930	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6931			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6932			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6933
6934	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6935			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6936			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6937			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6938
6939	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6940
6941	usbcore.quirks=
6942			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6943			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6944			commas. Each entry has the form
6945			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6946			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6947			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6948			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6949			the following meanings:
6950				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6951					descriptors must not be fetched using
6952					a 255-byte read);
6953				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6954					correctly so reset it instead);
6955				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6956					Set-Interface requests);
6957				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6958					handle its Configuration or Interface
6959					strings);
6960				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6961					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6962				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6963					more interface descriptions than the
6964					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6965					talking to these interfaces);
6966				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6967					during initialization, after we read
6968					the device descriptor);
6969				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6970					high speed and super speed interrupt
6971					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6972					require the interval in microframes (1
6973					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6974					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6975					(bInterval-1).
6976					Devices with this quirk report their
6977					bInterval as the result of this
6978					calculation instead of the exponent
6979					variable used in the calculation);
6980				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6981					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6982					requests);
6983				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6984					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6985					remote wakeup capability);
6986				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6987					Power Management);
6988				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6989					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6990					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6991					calculation);
6992				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6993					to be disconnected before suspend to
6994					prevent spurious wakeup);
6995				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6996					pause after every control message);
6997				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6998					delay after resetting its port);
6999				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7000					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7001					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7002			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7003
7004	usbhid.mousepoll=
7005			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7006
7007	usbhid.jspoll=
7008			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7009
7010	usbhid.kbpoll=
7011			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7012
7013	usb-storage.delay_use=
7014			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7015			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7016
7017	usb-storage.quirks=
7018			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7019			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7020			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7021			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7022			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7023			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7024			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7025				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7026					of sense data, not on uas);
7027				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7028					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7029				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7030					device capacity by one sector);
7031				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7032					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7033				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7034					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7035				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7036					command, uas only);
7037				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7038					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7039				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7040					reported device capacity by one
7041					sector if the number is odd);
7042				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7043					device);
7044				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7045					command, uas only);
7046				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7047				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7048					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7049				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7050					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7051					not on uas);
7052				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7053					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7054				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7055					reported by the device, not on uas);
7056				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7057					by default, not on uas);
7058				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7059					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7060				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7061					Logical Unit);
7062				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7063					commands, uas only);
7064				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7065				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7066					medium is write-protected).
7067				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7068					even if the device claims no cache,
7069					not on uas)
7070			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7071
7072	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7073			Format: <int>
7074			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7075				 1 - undefined instruction events
7076				 2 - system calls
7077				 4 - invalid data aborts
7078				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7079				16 - SIGBUS faults
7080			Example: user_debug=31
7081
7082	userpte=
7083			[X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7084
7085				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7086					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7087					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7088
7089	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7090			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7091
7092			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7093			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7094
7095	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7096			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7097			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7098
7099			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7100			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7101			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7102
7103			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7104			alias for vdso32=0.
7105
7106			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7107			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7108
7109	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
7110			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
7111
7112	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7113			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7114
7115	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7116			Format: [0|1]
7117			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7118			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7119			level and then send out the event to user space through
7120			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7121			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7122			brightness level.
7123			default: 1
7124
7125	virtio_mmio.device=
7126			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7127
7128				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7129			where:
7130				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7131						like K, M and G)
7132				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7133				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7134						request_irq())
7135				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7136			example:
7137				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7138
7139			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7140
7141	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7142			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7143			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7144			Use vga=ask for menu.
7145			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7146			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7147
7148	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7149			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7150			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7151			All options are enabled by default, and this
7152			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7153			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7154			debugging features.
7155
7156			Available options are:
7157			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7158			  -	Disable all of the above options
7159
7160	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7161			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7162			the minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be
7163			used to decrease the size and leave more room
7164			for directly mapped kernel RAM.
7165
7166	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7167			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7168			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7169
7170	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7171			Format: <command>
7172
7173	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7174			Format: <command>
7175
7176	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7177			Format: <command>
7178
7179	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7180			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7181			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7182			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7183			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7184			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7185			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7186
7187			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7188			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7189				    readable.
7190
7191			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7192			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7193				    page is not readable.
7194
7195			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7196			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7197			            might break your system.
7198
7199	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7200			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7201			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7202
7203	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7204			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7205			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7206			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7207
7208	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7209			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7210			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7211			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7212			ranging from 0-255.
7213
7214	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7215			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7216			Change the default green palette of the console.
7217			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7218			ranging from 0-255.
7219
7220	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7221			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7222			Change the default red palette of the console.
7223			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7224			ranging from 0-255.
7225
7226	vt.default_utf8=
7227			[VT]
7228			Format=<0|1>
7229			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7230			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7231			newly opened terminals.
7232
7233	vt.global_cursor_default=
7234			[VT]
7235			Format=<-1|0|1>
7236			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7237			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7238			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7239			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7240			cursors, 1 will display them.
7241
7242	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7243			Default: 2 = green.
7244
7245	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7246			Default: 3 = cyan.
7247
7248	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7249			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7250			or other driver-specific files in the
7251			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7252
7253	watchdog_thresh=
7254			[KNL]
7255			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7256			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7257			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7258			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7259			seconds.
7260
7261	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7262			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7263			to use in unbound workqueues.
7264			Format: <cpu-list>
7265			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7266			unbound workqueues.
7267
7268	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7269			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7270			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7271			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7272			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7273			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7274			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7275			corresponding sysfs file.
7276
7277	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7278			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7279			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7280			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7281			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7282			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7283
7284			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7285			will report the work functions which violate this
7286			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7287			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7288
7289	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
7290			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7291			will report the work functions which violate the
7292			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
7293			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
7294			function has violated this threshold number of times.
7295
7296			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
7297
7298	workqueue.power_efficient
7299			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7300			they show better performance thanks to cache
7301			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7302			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7303
7304			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7305			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7306			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7307			power usage at the cost of small performance
7308			overhead.
7309
7310			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7311			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7312
7313        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7314			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7315			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7316			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7317			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7318			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7319
7320			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7321			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7322			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7323			updated accordignly.
7324
7325	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7326			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7327			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7328			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7329			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7330			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7331			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7332			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7333			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7334			impacted.
7335
7336	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
7337			Type) of ioremap_wc().
7338
7339			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7340			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7341
7342	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7343			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7344			supporting x2apic.
7345
7346	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7347			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7348			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7349			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7350			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7351			domains.
7352
7353	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
7354			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7355			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7356			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7357			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7358			nics -- unplug network devices
7359			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7360			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7361				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7362				the unplug protocol
7363			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7364
7365	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7366			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7367			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7368
7369	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7370			Format: <bool>
7371			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7372			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7373			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7374
7375	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7376			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7377			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7378			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7379
7380	xen_nopv	[X86]
7381			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7382			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7383			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7384			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7385
7386	xen_no_vector_callback
7387			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7388			event channel interrupts.
7389
7390	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7391			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7392			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7393			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7394			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7395
7396	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7397			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7398			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7399			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7400			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7401			more timer interrupts.
7402
7403	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7404			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7405			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7406			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7407			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7408			max. Default is 180.
7409
7410	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7411			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7412			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7413
7414	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7415			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7416			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7417
7418	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7419			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7420			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7421			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7422			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7423			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7424
7425	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7426			Format:
7427			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7428
7429	xive=		[PPC]
7430			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7431			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7432			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7433
7434			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7435				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7436				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7437
7438	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7439			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7440			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7441			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7442			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7443
7444	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7445			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7446			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7447			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7448
7449	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
7450			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7451			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7452			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7453			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7454				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7455			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7456				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7457				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7458				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7459			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7460				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7461				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7462				can be written using xmon commands.
7463			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7464				memory, and other data can't be written using
7465				xmon commands.
7466			off	xmon is disabled.
7467
7468