1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
65			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66			object while interpreting AML:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
68			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
70
71			Some values produce so much output that the system is
72			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73			if you need to capture more output.
74
75	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
76			{ strict | lax | no }
77			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81			can interfere with legacy drivers.
82			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89			no further checks are performed.
90
91	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
92			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
94			size limitation.
95
96	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97			ACPI will balance active IRQs
98			default in APIC mode
99
100	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
102			default in PIC mode
103
104	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
106
107	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
108			use by PCI
109			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
110
111	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
112			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
113			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
114			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
115			the GPE dispatcher.
116			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
117			GPE floodings.
118			Format: <byte>
119
120	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
121			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
122			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124			auto-serialization feature.
125			This feature is enabled by default.
126			This option allows to turn off the feature.
127
128	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
129			   kernels.
130
131	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
132			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134			installed automatically and they will appear under
135			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136			This option turns off this feature.
137			Note that specifying this option does not affect
138			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
140
141	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
142			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
143			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
144
145	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148			second kernel for kdump.
149
150	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
152
153	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
158
159	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
160			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
161			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
162			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
163			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
166						  strings
167			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
168
169			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
172			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
176			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
177			care about the state of the feature group strings which
178			should be controlled by the OSPM.
179			Examples:
180			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
183
184			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
187			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188			multiple times through kernel command line is also
189			meaningless.
190			Examples:
191			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
192			     FALSE.
193
194			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
197			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
200			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
202			is useful when one want to control the state of the
203			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
204			the OSPM features.
205			Examples:
206			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
211			     equivalent to
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
213			     and
214			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
216
217	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
218			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220			and always returns good values.
221
222	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
224
225	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
228
229	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
231				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
232			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
233			s3_bios and s3_mode.
234			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237			used during resume from hibernation.
238			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239			control method, with respect to putting devices into
240			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241			of _PTS is used by default).
242			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
244			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246			but some broken systems don't work without it).
247			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
248			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
249			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
250
251	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
254
255	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
257
258	agp=		[AGP]
259			{ off | try_unsupported }
260			off: disable AGP support
261			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
263
264	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
265			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
266
267	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
268			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
270			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
271
272	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
273			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
279
280			32: only for 32-bit processes
281			64: only for 64-bit processes
282			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
284
285	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
286			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
291
292	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
293			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
294			Possible values are:
295			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297				    flushed before they will be reused, which
298				    is a lot of faster
299			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
300				    the system
301			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
304					  requirements as needed. This option
305					  does not override iommu=pt
306
307	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311			IOMMU initialization.
312
313	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
314			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
315			remapping modes:
316			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
321
322	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
324			Format: <a>,<b>
325			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
326
327	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329			connected to one of 16 gameports
330			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
331
332	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
333			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
334			Format: noidle
335			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337			APC and your system crashes randomly.
338
339	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340			Change the output verbosity while booting
341			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342			Change the amount of debugging information output
343			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
344			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
345			driver name.
346			Format: apic=driver_name
347			Examples: apic=bigsmp
348
349	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
353			      backup of CPU 0
354			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
356			      shot down by NMI
357
358	autoconf=	[IPV6]
359			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
360
361	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367			apic=verbose is specified.
368			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
369
370	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
371			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
372
373	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
375
376	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
377
378	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
379
380	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
381			EzKey and similar keyboards
382
383	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
384
385	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
386			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
387
388	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
389			keyboards
390
391	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
392			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
393
394	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
395			Use software keyboard repeat
396
397	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
398			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
399			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
400			    enabled until the next reboot
401			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
402			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
403			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
404			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
405			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
406			    userspace auditd.
407			Default: unset
408
409	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
410			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
411			Default: 64
412
413	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
414			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
415			Format: { "0" | "1" }
416			0 - Disable the BAU.
417			1 - Enable the BAU.
418			unset - Disable the BAU.
419
420	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
421			Format: <io>,<mode>
422
423	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
424			Format: <io>,<mode>
425			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
426
427	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
428			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
429			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
430			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
431
432	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
433			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
434			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
435			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
436
437	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
438			embedded devices based on command line input.
439			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
440
441	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
442			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
443			no delay (0).
444			Format: integer
445
446	bootconfig	[KNL]
447			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
448			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
449
450			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
451
452	bert_disable	[ACPI]
453			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
454
455	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
456			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
457
458	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
459	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
460			kernel args too.
461	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
462	bttv.tuner=
463
464	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
465			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
466			at a time.
467
468	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
469
470	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
471			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
472			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
473			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
474			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
475			This option provides an override for these situations.
476
477	carrier_timeout=
478			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
479			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
480			it waits 120 seconds.
481
482	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
483			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
484			trust validation.
485			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
486
487	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
488			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
489			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
490			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
491			others).
492
493	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
494			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
495
496	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
497			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
498			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
499			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
500			  a single hierarchy
501			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
502			  subsystem
503			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
504			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
505			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
506
507	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
508			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
509			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
510			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
511			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
512			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
513			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
514			all v1 hierarchies.
515
516	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
517			Format: <string>
518			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
519			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
520			kmem -- Enable kernel memory accounting.
521
522	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
523			Format: { "0" | "1" }
524			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
525			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
526				any implied execute protection).
527			1 -- check protection requested by application.
528			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
529			Value can be changed at runtime via
530				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
531			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
532
533	cio_ignore=	[S390]
534			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
535	clk_ignore_unused
536			[CLK]
537			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
538			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
539			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
540			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
541			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
542			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
543			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
544			platform with proper driver support.  For more
545			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
546
547	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
548			[Deprecated]
549			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
550			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
551			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
552			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
553
554	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
555			Format: <string>
556			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
557			with the name specified.
558			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
559			the platform:
560			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
561			[ACPI] acpi_pm
562			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
563				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
564			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
565				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
566			[MIPS] MIPS
567			[PARISC] cr16
568			[S390] tod
569			[SH] SuperH
570			[SPARC64] tick
571			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
572
573	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
574			[ARM,ARM64]
575			Format: <bool>
576			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
577			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
578			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
579			systems.
580
581	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
582			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
583			external delays before the clock will be marked
584			unstable.  Defaults to three retries, that is,
585			four attempts to read the clock under test.
586
587	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
588			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
589			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
590			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
591			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
592			ones should be.
593			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
594			or using the feature without checking anything
595			will still see it. This just prevents it from
596			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
597			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
598			some critical bits.
599
600	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
601			[KNL,CMA]
602			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
603			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
604			placement constraint by the physical address range of
605			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
606			altogether. For more information, see
607			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
608
609	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
610			[ARM64,KNL]
611			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
612			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
613			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
614			specificed, the default value is 0.
615			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
616			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
617			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
618			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
619
620	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
621			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
622			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
623			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
624			a hypervisor.
625			Default: yes
626
627	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
628			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
629			allocations, by default set to 256K.
630
631	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
632			Format:
633			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
634
635	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
636			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
637
638	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
639			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
640			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
641
642	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
643	conmode=
644
645	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
646
647		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
648
649		ttyS<n>[,options]
650		ttyUSB0[,options]
651			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
652			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
653			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
654			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
655			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
656
657			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
658			information.  See
659			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
660			alternative.
661
662		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
663		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
664		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
665		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
666		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
667			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
668			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
669			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
670			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
671			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
672			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
673			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
674			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
675			the h/w is not re-initialized.
676
677		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
678			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
679
680		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
681		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
682			console=brl,ttyS0
683		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
684
685	console_msg_format=
686			[KNL] Change console messages format
687		default
688			By default we print messages on consoles in
689			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
690			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
691			`printk_time' param).
692		syslog
693			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
694			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
695			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
696			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
697			from /proc/kmsg.
698
699	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
700			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
701			Defaults to 0.
702
703	coredump_filter=
704			[KNL] Change the default value for
705			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
706			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
707
708	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
709			[ARM,ARM64]
710			Format: <bool>
711			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
712			0: default value, disable debugging
713			1: enable debugging at boot time
714
715	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
716			disable the cpuidle sub-system
717
718	cpuidle.governor=
719			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
720
721	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
722			disable the cpufreq sub-system
723
724	cpufreq.default_governor=
725			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
726			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
727			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
728
729	cpu_init_udelay=N
730			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
731			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
732			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
733			Default: 10000
734
735	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
736			Format:
737			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
738
739	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
740			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
741			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
742			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
743			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
744			is selected automatically.
745			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
746			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
747			hasn't been specified.
748			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
749
750	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
751			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
752			in the running system. The syntax of range is
753			start-[end] where start and end are both
754			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
755			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
756
757	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
758			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
759			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
760			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
761			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
762			available.
763			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
764	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
765			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
766			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
767			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
768			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
769			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
770			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
771			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
772			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
773			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
774			for second kernel instead.
775			0: to disable low allocation.
776			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
777			or memory reserved is below 4G.
778
779	cryptomgr.notests
780			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
781
782	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
783			Format: <dma>
784
785	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
786			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
787
788	dasd=		[HW,NET]
789			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
790
791	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
792			(one device per port)
793			Format: <port#>,<type>
794			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
795
796	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
797			time. See
798			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
799			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
800
801	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
802
803	debug_boot_weak_hash
804			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
805			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
806			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
807			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
808			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
809			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
810
811	debug_locks_verbose=
812			[KNL] verbose self-tests
813			Format=<0|1>
814			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
815			self-tests.
816			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
817			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
818			only useful to kernel developers.
819
820	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
821
822	no_debug_objects
823			[KNL] Disable object debugging
824
825	debug_guardpage_minorder=
826			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
827			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
828			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
829			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
830			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
831			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
832			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
833			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
834			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
835			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
836			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
837			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
838			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
839			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
840			bypassed) which are not detectable by
841			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
842			tracking down these problems.
843
844	debug_pagealloc=
845			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
846			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
847			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
848			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
849			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
850			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
851			on: enable the feature
852
853	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
854			and debugfs internal clients.
855			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
856			on: 	All functions are enabled.
857			no-mount:
858				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
859			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
860				its content. There is nothing to mount.
861			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
862			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
863				or directories within debugfs.
864				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
865				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
866			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
867
868	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
869
870	default_hugepagesz=
871			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
872			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
873			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
874			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
875			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
876			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
877			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
878			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
879			Format: size[KMG]
880
881	deferred_probe_timeout=
882			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
883			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
884			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
885			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
886			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
887			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
888			retrying.
889
890	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
891			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
892			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
893			          level 1 and decompression (default)
894			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
895			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
896			          only (compression on level 1)
897			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
898			          only (decompression)
899			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
900			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
901
902	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
903			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
904
905	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
906			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
907			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
908			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
909			miss to occur.
910
911	stress_slb	[PPC]
912			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
913			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
914			on kernel addresses.
915
916	disable=	[IPV6]
917			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
918
919	hardened_usercopy=
920                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
921                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
922                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
923                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
924                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
925                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
926                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
927                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
928                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
929
930	disable_radix	[PPC]
931			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
932
933	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
934			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
935			invalidate.
936
937	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
938			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
939			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
940
941	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
942			Format: <int>
943			The number of initial APIC ID for the
944			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
945			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
946			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
947			causing system reset or hang due to sending
948			INIT from AP to BSP.
949
950	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
951			Format: <bool>
952			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
953			The feature only exists starting from
954			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
955
956	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
957			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
958			to workaround buggy firmware.
959
960	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
961			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
962
963	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
964			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
965			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
966			entry later. This parameter disables that.
967
968	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
969			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
970			memory out of your available memory pool based on
971			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
972			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
973
974	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
975			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
976			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
977
978	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
979
980	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
981			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
982
983	dma_debug_entries=<number>
984			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
985			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
986			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
987			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
988			architectural default is too low.
989
990	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
991			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
992			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
993			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
994			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
995			driver later using sysfs.
996
997	reg_file_data_sampling=
998			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
999			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1000			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1001			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1002			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1003			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1004
1005			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1006			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1007
1008			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1009			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1010			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1011			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1012			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1013
1014			For details see:
1015			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1016
1017	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1018			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1019			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1020
1021	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1022			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1023			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1024			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1025			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1026			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1027			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1028			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1029			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1030			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1031			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1032			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1033			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1034			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1035			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1036			data set with no connector name will be used for
1037			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1038
1039	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1040
1041	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1042			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1043			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1044			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1045			exists).
1046			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1047			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1048			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1049
1050	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1051			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1052			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1053			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1054
1055	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1056	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1057			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1058			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1059			for details.
1060
1061	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1062			in some Intel CPUs.
1063
1064	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1065			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1066
1067	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1068			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1069			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1070			which are not unmapped.
1071
1072	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1073
1074			When used with no options, the early console is
1075			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1076			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1077			the platform.
1078
1079		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1080			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1081			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1082			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1083			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1084			configured.
1085
1086		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1087		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1088		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1089		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1090		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1091			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1092			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1093			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1094			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1095			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1096			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1097			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1098			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1099
1100		pl011,<addr>
1101		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1102			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1103			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1104			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1105			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1106			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1107			the device registers.
1108
1109		meson,<addr>
1110			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1111			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1112			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1113			supported.
1114
1115		msm_serial,<addr>
1116			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1117			port at the specified address. The serial port
1118			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1119			yet supported.
1120
1121		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1122			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1123			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1124			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1125			yet supported.
1126
1127		owl,<addr>
1128			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1129			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1130			specified address. The serial port must already be
1131			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1132
1133		rda,<addr>
1134			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1135			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1136			specified address. The serial port must already be
1137			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1138
1139		sbi
1140			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1141			console.
1142
1143		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1144
1145		s3c2410,<addr>
1146		s3c2412,<addr>
1147		s3c2440,<addr>
1148		s3c6400,<addr>
1149		s5pv210,<addr>
1150		exynos4210,<addr>
1151			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1152			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1153			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1154			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1155			Options are not yet supported.
1156
1157		lantiq,<addr>
1158			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1159			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1160			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1161			yet supported.
1162
1163		lpuart,<addr>
1164		lpuart32,<addr>
1165			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1166			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1167			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1168			port must already be setup and configured.
1169
1170		ec_imx21,<addr>
1171		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1172			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1173			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1174			must already be setup and configured.
1175
1176		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1177			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1178			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1179			address. The serial port must already be setup
1180			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1181
1182		qcom_geni,<addr>
1183			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1184			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1185			specified address. The serial port must already be
1186			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1187
1188		efifb,[options]
1189			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1190			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1191			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1192			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1193			mapped with the correct attributes.
1194
1195		linflex,<addr>
1196			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1197			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1198			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1199			already be setup and configured.
1200
1201	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1202			earlyprintk=vga
1203			earlyprintk=sclp
1204			earlyprintk=xen
1205			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1206			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1207			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1208			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1209			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1210			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1211
1212			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1213			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1214			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1215
1216			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1217			takes over.
1218
1219			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1220			be used at a time.
1221
1222			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1223			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1224			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1225			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1226				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1227			You can find the port for a given device in
1228			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1229				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1230
1231			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1232			very good.
1233
1234			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1235			the real console.
1236
1237			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1238
1239			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1240
1241			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1242			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1243			UART class.
1244
1245	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1246			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1247			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1248			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1249			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1250			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1251			default: on.
1252
1253	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1254			ekgdboc=kbd
1255
1256			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1257			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1258
1259			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1260			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1261			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1262			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1263
1264	edd=		[EDD]
1265			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1266
1267	efi=		[EFI]
1268			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1269				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1270				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1271			debug: enable misc debug output.
1272			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1273			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1274			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1275			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1276			firmware implementations.
1277			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1278			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1279			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1280			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1281			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1282			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1283			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1284			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1285			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1286			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1287
1288	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1289			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1290			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1291			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1292			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1293
1294	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1295			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1296			updating original EFI memory map.
1297			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1298			from ss to ss+nn.
1299
1300			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1301			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1302			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1303			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1304
1305			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1306			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1307			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1308
1309			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1310			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1311			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1312			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1313			"soft reserved".
1314
1315	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1316			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1317			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1318			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1319			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1320
1321
1322	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1323			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1324
1325	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1326			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1327			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1328
1329	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1330			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1331			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1332			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1333			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1334
1335	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1336			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1337			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1338			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1339
1340	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1341			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1342			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1343			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1344			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1345
1346	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1347			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1348			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1349			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1350			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1351			Default value is 0.
1352			Value can be changed at runtime via
1353			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1354
1355	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1356			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1357			support.
1358
1359	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1360			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1361			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1362
1363	evm=		[EVM]
1364			Format: { "fix" }
1365			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1366			current integrity status.
1367
1368	failslab=
1369	fail_usercopy=
1370	fail_page_alloc=
1371	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1372			General fault injection mechanism.
1373			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1374			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1375
1376	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1377			Format: { initns | none }
1378			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1379			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1380
1381	floppy=		[HW]
1382			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1383
1384	force_pal_cache_flush
1385			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1386			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1387			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1388			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1389
1390	forcepae	[X86-32]
1391			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1392			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1393			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1394			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1395			and may cause unknown problems.
1396
1397	ftrace=[tracer]
1398			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1399			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1400			boot debugging.
1401
1402	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1403			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1404			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1405			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1406			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1407			oops.
1408
1409	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1410			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1411			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1412			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1413			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1414			tracing directory.
1415
1416	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1417			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1418			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1419			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1420			tracing directory.
1421
1422	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1423			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1424			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1425			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1426			that can be changed at run time by the
1427			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1428
1429	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1430			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1431			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1432			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1433			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1434
1435	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1436			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1437			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1438			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1439			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1440
1441	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1442			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1443			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1444			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1445			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1446			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1447			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1448			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1449			suppliers).
1450			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1451			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1452			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1453				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1454				up (sync_state() calls).
1455			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1456				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1457			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1458
1459	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1460			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1461			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1462			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1463			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1464
1465	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1466
1467	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1468			Format: off | on
1469			default: on
1470
1471	gather_data_sampling=
1472			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1473			mitigation.
1474
1475			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1476			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1477			previously stored in vector registers.
1478
1479			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1480			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1481			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1482			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1483
1484			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1485				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1486				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1487				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1488
1489			off:    Disable GDS mitigation.
1490
1491	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1492			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1493			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1494			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1495			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1496
1497	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1498			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1499			android emulator
1500
1501	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1502			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1503			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1504			GPT to be used instead.
1505
1506	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1507			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1508			Format: 0 | 1
1509			Default: 0
1510	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1511			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1512			Format: 0 | 1
1513			Default: 0
1514	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1515			Format: 0 | 1
1516			Default: 0
1517	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1518			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1519			Default: 1024
1520	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1521			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1522			Default: 1024
1523
1524	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1525			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1526			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1527
1528	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1529			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1530			backtraces on all cpus.
1531			Format: 0 | 1
1532
1533	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1534			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1535			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1536			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1537
1538	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1539
1540	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1541			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1542
1543	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1544			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1545			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1546			logic will be disabled.
1547
1548	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1549			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1550			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1551			size on bigger boxes.
1552
1553	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1554			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1555			Default: "on"
1556
1557	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1558
1559	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1560			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1561				verbose }
1562			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1563			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1564				VIA, nVidia)
1565			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1566
1567	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1568			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1569
1570	hugetlb_cma=	[HW] The size of a cma area used for allocation
1571			of gigantic hugepages.
1572			Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1573
1574			Reserve a cma area of given size and allocate gigantic
1575			hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the
1576			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1577
1578	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1579			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1580			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1581			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1582			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1583			the default huge page size.  See also
1584			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1585			Format: <integer>
1586
1587	hugepagesz=
1588			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1589			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1590			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1591			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1592			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1593			architecture dependent.  See also
1594			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1595			Format: size[KMG]
1596
1597	hung_task_panic=
1598			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1599			Format: 0 | 1
1600
1601			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1602			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1603			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1604			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1605			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1606
1607	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1608				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1609	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1610				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1611				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1612
1613	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1614				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1615				      guest on lock contention.
1616
1617	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1618			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1619			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1620			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1621			the real console.
1622
1623	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1624				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1625				registered from board initialization code.
1626				Format:
1627				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1628
1629	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1630	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1631			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1632			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1633			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1634	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1635	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1636			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1637			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1638	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1639	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1640	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1641			     for the AUX port
1642	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1643			     controller
1644	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1645			     controllers
1646	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1647	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1648			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1649			     transitions, or never reset
1650			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1651			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1652			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1653			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1654			architectures force reset to be always executed
1655	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1656	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1657	i8042.probe_defer
1658			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1659
1660	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1661
1662	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1663			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1664			hardware.
1665	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1666			does not match list of supported models.
1667	i8k.power_status
1668			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1669			(disabled by default)
1670	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1671			capability is set.
1672
1673	i915.invert_brightness=
1674			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1675			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1676			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1677			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1678			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1679			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1680			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1681			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1682			value switches the backlight off.
1683			-1 -- never invert brightness
1684			 0 -- machine default
1685			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1686
1687	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1688			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1689
1690	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1691			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1692			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1693			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1694			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1695
1696	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1697			Format: <int>
1698			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1699			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1700			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1701			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1702			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1703			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1704			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1705			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1706			was 0x3.
1707
1708	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1709			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1710
1711	idle=		[X86]
1712			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1713			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1714			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1715			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1716			Not recommended.
1717			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1718			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1719			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1720
1721	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1722			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1723			Default: strict
1724
1725			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1726			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1727			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1728			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1729			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1730			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1731			encoding mode.
1732
1733			Available settings are as follows:
1734			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1735				supported by the FPU
1736			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1737				by the FPU
1738			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1739				by the FPU
1740			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1741				supported by the FPU
1742
1743			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1744			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1745			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1746			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1747			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1748			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1749			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1750			MIPS64 CPUs.
1751
1752			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1753			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1754			except where unsupported by hardware.
1755
1756	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1757			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1758			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1759			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1760			could change it dynamically, usually by
1761			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1762
1763	ignore_rlimit_data
1764			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1765			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1766			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1767
1768	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1769			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1770
1771	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1772			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1773			default: "enforce"
1774
1775	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1776			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1777			owned by uid=0.
1778
1779	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1780			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1781			measurements, instead of host native format.
1782
1783	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1784			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1785				   | sha512 | ... }
1786			default: "sha1"
1787
1788			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1789			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1790
1791	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1792			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1793			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1794				 fail_securely"
1795
1796			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1797			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1798			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1799			uid=0.
1800
1801			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1802			all files owned by root.
1803
1804			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1805			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1806			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1807
1808			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1809			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1810			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1811			flag.
1812
1813	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1814			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1815			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1816			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1817			opened for read by uid=0.
1818
1819	ima_template=	[IMA]
1820			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1821			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1822			Default: "ima-ng"
1823
1824	ima_template_fmt=
1825			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1826			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1827
1828	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1829			Format: <min_file_size>
1830			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1831			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1832
1833			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1834			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1835			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1836
1837	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1838			Format: <bufsize>
1839			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1840
1841			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1842			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1843			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1844
1845	init=		[KNL]
1846			Format: <full_path>
1847			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1848			process.
1849
1850	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1851			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1852			startup.
1853
1854	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1855			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1856			modules and initcalls.
1857
1858	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1859
1860	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1861			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1862			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1863			setting.
1864			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1865			Default is 0, 0
1866
1867	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1868			zeroes.
1869			Format: 0 | 1
1870			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1871
1872	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1873			Format: 0 | 1
1874			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1875
1876	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1877			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1878			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1879			override in debugfs after boot.
1880
1881	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1882			Format: <irq>
1883
1884	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1885
1886	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1887			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1888			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1889			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1890
1891	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1892		on
1893			Enable intel iommu driver.
1894		off
1895			Disable intel iommu driver.
1896		igfx_off [Default Off]
1897			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1898			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1899			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1900			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1901			DMA.
1902		forcedac [X86-64]
1903			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1904			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1905			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1906			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1907			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1908			then look in the higher range.
1909		strict [Default Off]
1910			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1911			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1912			to batching them for performance.
1913		sp_off [Default Off]
1914			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1915			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1916			not be supported.
1917		sm_on [Default Off]
1918			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1919			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1920			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1921			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1922		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1923			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1924			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1925			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1926			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1927			mapping is enabled.
1928			Note that using this option lowers the security
1929			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1930			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1931		nobounce [Default off]
1932			Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
1933			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1934			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1935			risks of DMA attacks.
1936
1937	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1938			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1939			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1940
1941	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1942			disable
1943			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1944			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1945			passive
1946			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1947			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1948			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1949			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1950			  feature.
1951			force
1952			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1953			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1954			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1955			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1956			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1957			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1958			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1959			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1960			no_hwp
1961			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1962			  if available.
1963			hwp_only
1964			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1965			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1966			support_acpi_ppc
1967			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1968			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1969			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1970			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1971			per_cpu_perf_limits
1972			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1973			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1974
1975	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1976			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1977			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1978			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1979			no_x2apic_optout
1980				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1981			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1982
1983	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1984		strict	regions from userspace.
1985		relaxed
1986
1987	iommu=		[X86]
1988		off
1989		force
1990		noforce
1991		biomerge
1992		panic
1993		nopanic
1994		merge
1995		nomerge
1996		soft
1997		pt		[X86]
1998		nopt		[X86]
1999		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2000			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2001
2002	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2003			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2004			0 - Lazy mode.
2005			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2006			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2007			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2008			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2009			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2010			1 - Strict mode (default).
2011			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2012			  synchronously.
2013
2014	iommu.passthrough=
2015			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2016			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2017			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2018			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2019			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2020
2021	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2022			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2023			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2024
2025	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2026		0x80
2027			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2028		0xed
2029			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2030		udelay
2031			Simple two microseconds delay
2032		none
2033			No delay
2034
2035	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2036			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2037
2038	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2039			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2040
2041	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2042			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2043
2044	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2045			[ARM, ARM64]
2046			Format: <bool>
2047			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2048			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2049			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2050
2051	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2052			[ARM, ARM64]
2053			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2054			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2055			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2056			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2057			LPIs.
2058
2059	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2060			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2061			requires the kernel to be built with
2062			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2063
2064	irqfixup	[HW]
2065			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2066			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2067			firmware running.
2068
2069	irqpoll		[HW]
2070			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2071			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2072			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2073			firmware running.
2074
2075	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2076			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2077
2078	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2079			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2080			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2081
2082			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2083			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2084
2085			nohz
2086			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2087
2088			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2089			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2090			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2091			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2092			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2093
2094			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2095			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2096			  be configured manually after bootup.
2097
2098			domain
2099			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2100			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2101			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2102			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2103			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2104			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2105			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2106			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2107
2108			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2109			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2110			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2111			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2112
2113			managed_irq
2114
2115			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2116			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2117			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2118			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2119			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2120
2121			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2122			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2123			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2124			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2125			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2126			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2127			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2128
2129			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2130			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2131			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2132			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2133			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2134			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2135			  queues.
2136
2137			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2138
2139	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2140
2141	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2142			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2143			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2144			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2145
2146			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2147			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2148			write the parameter as:
2149				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2150
2151			Deprecated formats:
2152			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2153			  write the parameter as:
2154				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2155			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2156			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2157				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2158
2159	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2160			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2161			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2162			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2163
2164			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2165			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2166			write the parameter as:
2167				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2168
2169			Deprecated formats:
2170			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2171			  write the parameter as:
2172				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2173			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2174			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2175				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2176
2177	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2178			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2179			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2180			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2181
2182			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2183			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2184			write the parameter as:
2185				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2186
2187			Deprecated formats:
2188			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2189			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2190				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2191			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2192			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2193				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2194
2195	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2196			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2197
2198	nokaslr		[KNL]
2199			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2200			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2201			Layout Randomization).
2202
2203	kasan_multi_shot
2204			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2205			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2206			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2207			invalid access.
2208
2209	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2210
2211	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2212			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2213			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2214			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2215			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2216			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2217			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2218			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2219			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2220			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2221
2222			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2223			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2224			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2225			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2226			zone if it does not.
2227
2228			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2229			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2230			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2231			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2232			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2233			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2234			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2235
2236	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2237			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2238			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2239			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2240			optional and is the number seconds in between
2241			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2242			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2243			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2244			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2245			the kernel debugger.
2246
2247	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2248			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2249			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2250			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2251			 keyboard only format: kbd
2252			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2253			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2254			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2255			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2256
2257	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2258			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2259			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2260			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2261			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2262			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2263			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2264
2265			The name of the early console should be specified
2266			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2267			the early console might be different than the tty
2268			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2269			blank and the first boot console that implements
2270			read() will be picked.
2271
2272	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2273			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2274
2275	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2276			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2277			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2278
2279	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2280			Valid arguments: on, off
2281			Default: on
2282			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2283			the default is off.
2284
2285	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2286			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2287			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2288			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2289			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2290			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2291			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2292
2293			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2294
2295			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2296			Boot Parameter" section.
2297
2298	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2299			and kernel address spaces.
2300			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2301			0: force disabled
2302			1: force enabled
2303
2304	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2305			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2306
2307	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2308				   Default is false (don't support).
2309
2310	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2311			KVM MMU at runtime.
2312			Default is 0 (off)
2313
2314	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2315			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2316			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2317			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2318			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2319			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2320				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2321
2322			Default is 'auto'.
2323
2324			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2325			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2326
2327	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2328			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2329			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2330			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2331			minute.  The default is 60.
2332
2333	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2334			Default is 1 (enabled)
2335
2336	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2337			for all guests.
2338			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2339
2340	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2341			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2342			system registers
2343
2344	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2345			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2346			system registers
2347
2348	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2349			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2350			system registers
2351
2352	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2353			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2354			LPIs.
2355
2356	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2357			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2358			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2359			allocation.
2360			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2361			Format: <integer>
2362			Default: 5
2363
2364	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2365			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2366			Default is 1 (enabled)
2367
2368	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2369			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2370			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2371			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2372			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2373			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2374			Default is 1 (enabled)
2375
2376	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2377			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2378			Default is 1 (enabled)
2379
2380	kvm-intel.nested=
2381			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2382			Default is 0 (disabled)
2383
2384	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2385			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2386			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2387			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2388
2389	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2390			CVE-2018-3620.
2391
2392			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2393
2394			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2395			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2396				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2397			never:	Disables the mitigation
2398
2399			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2400
2401	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2402			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2403			Default is 1 (enabled)
2404
2405	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2406			      affected CPUs
2407
2408			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2409			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2410
2411			full
2412				Provides all available mitigations for the
2413				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2414				enables all mitigations in the
2415				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2416
2417				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2418				sysfs interface is still possible after
2419				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2420				when the first VM is started in a
2421				potentially insecure configuration,
2422				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2423
2424			full,force
2425				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2426				flush runtime control. Implies the
2427				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2428				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2429
2430			flush
2431				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2432				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2433				L1D flush.
2434
2435				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2436				sysfs interface is still possible after
2437				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2438				when the first VM is started in a
2439				potentially insecure configuration,
2440				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2441
2442			flush,nosmt
2443
2444				Disables SMT and enables the default
2445				hypervisor mitigation.
2446
2447				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2448				sysfs interface is still possible after
2449				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2450				when the first VM is started in a
2451				potentially insecure configuration,
2452				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2453
2454			flush,nowarn
2455				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2456				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2457				insecure configuration.
2458
2459			off
2460				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2461				emit any warnings.
2462				It also drops the swap size and available
2463				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2464				bare metal.
2465
2466			Default is 'flush'.
2467
2468			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2469
2470	l2cr=		[PPC]
2471
2472	l3cr=		[PPC]
2473
2474	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2475			disabled it.
2476
2477	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2478			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2479			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2480			Format: notscdeadline
2481
2482	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2483			in C2 power state.
2484
2485	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2486			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2487			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2488			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2489			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2490			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2491			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2492
2493	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2494			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2495			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2496
2497	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2498			when set.
2499			Format: <int>
2500
2501	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2502			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2503			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2504			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2505			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2506			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2507			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2508			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2509
2510			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2511			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2512			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2513			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2514			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2515			host link and device attached to it.
2516
2517			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2518			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2519			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2520			The following configurations can be forced.
2521
2522			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2523			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2524
2525			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2526
2527			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2528			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2529			  allowed.
2530
2531			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2532
2533			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2534
2535			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2536			  and both resets.
2537
2538			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2539			  hot-unplug link recovery
2540
2541			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2542
2543			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2544
2545			* disable: Disable this device.
2546
2547			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2548			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2549
2550	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2551
2552	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2553
2554	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2555			Format: <integer>
2556
2557	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2558			Format: <integer>
2559
2560	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2561			Format: <integer>
2562
2563	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2564			Format: <integer>
2565
2566	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2567			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2568			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2569			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2570			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2571			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2572			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2573			are also disabled.
2574
2575	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2576			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2577			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2578			number of online CPUs.
2579
2580	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2581			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2582
2583	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2584			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2585
2586	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2587			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2588			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2589
2590	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2591			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2592			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2593			mode during the locktorture test.
2594
2595	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2596			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2597			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2598
2599	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2600			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2601
2602	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2603			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2604			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2605			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2606			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2607			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2608
2609	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2610			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2611
2612	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2613			Enable additional printk() statements.
2614
2615	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2616			Format: <irq>
2617
2618	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2619			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2620			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2621			loglevels are defined as follows:
2622
2623			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2624			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2625			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2626			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2627			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2628			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2629			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2630			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2631
2632	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2633			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2634			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2635			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2636			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2637			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2638			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2639
2640	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2641			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2642			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2643			kernel boot problems.
2644
2645	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2646	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2647	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2648	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2649				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2650				attached printers to be reset. Using
2651				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2652				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2653				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2654				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2655				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2656				port specification list means that device IDs
2657				from each port should be examined, to see if
2658				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2659				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2660				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2661
2662	lpj=n		[KNL]
2663			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2664			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2665			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2666			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2667			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2668			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2669			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2670			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2671			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2672			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2673			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2674			hardware.
2675
2676	ltpc=		[NET]
2677			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2678
2679	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2680
2681	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2682			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2683			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2684
2685	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2686			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2687			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2688
2689	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2690			different yeeloong laptops.
2691			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2692
2693	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2694			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2695
2696	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2697			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2698			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2699			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2700			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2701			only takes effect during system bootup.
2702			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2703			which also disables the IO APIC.
2704
2705	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2706	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2707			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2708			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2709			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2710			/dev/loop-control interface.
2711
2712	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2713
2714	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2715
2716	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2717			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2718
2719	mdacon=		[MDA]
2720			Format: <first>,<last>
2721			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2722
2723	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2724			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2725			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2726
2727			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2728			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2729			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2730
2731			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2732			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2733			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2734			not have direct access.
2735
2736			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2737			options are:
2738
2739			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2740			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2741				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2742			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2743
2744			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2745			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2746			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2747			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2748			too.
2749
2750			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2751			mds=full.
2752
2753			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2754
2755	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2756			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2757
2758			1 for test;
2759			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2760			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2761			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2762
2763			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2764			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2765			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2766			belonging to unused RAM.
2767
2768			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2769			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2770			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2771
2772	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2773			memory.
2774
2775	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2776			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2777			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2778
2779	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2780			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2781			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2782			set according to the
2783			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2784			option.
2785			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2786
2787	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2788			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2789			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2790			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2791			option description.
2792
2793	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2794			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2795			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2796			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2797			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2798			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2799			comma delimited.
2800			Example:
2801				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2802
2803	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2804			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2805			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2806
2807	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2808			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2809			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2810			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2811			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2812			         or
2813			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2814			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2815			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2816			will be eaten.
2817
2818	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2819			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2820			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2821			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2822			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2823
2824	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2825			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2826			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2827			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2828			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2829			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2830			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2831			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2832
2833	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2834			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2835			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2836			Setting this option will scan the memory
2837			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2838			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2839			from using the memory being corrupted.
2840			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2841			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2842			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2843			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2844
2845	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2846			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2847			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2848			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2849			corruption in more or less memory.
2850
2851	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2852			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2853			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2854			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2855
2856	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2857			Format: <integer>
2858			default : 0 <disable>
2859			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2860			performed. Each pass selects another test
2861			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2862			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2863			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2864			regions that are detected.
2865
2866	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2867			Valid arguments: on, off
2868			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2869			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2870			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2871			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2872			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2873
2874			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2875			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2876
2877	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2878			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2879			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2880			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2881			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2882
2883	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2884			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2885
2886	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2887			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2888			platforms.
2889
2890	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2891			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2892			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2893			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2894
2895	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2896
2897	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2898			physical address is ignored.
2899
2900	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2901			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2902			Default: "0tb"
2903			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2904			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2905			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2906			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2907			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2908			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2909			unconfigured.
2910			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2911			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2912			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2913			VGA shield.
2914			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2915			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2916			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2917			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2918			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2919			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2920
2921	mitigations=
2922			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2923			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2924			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2925			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2926
2927			off
2928				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2929				improves system performance, but it may also
2930				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2931				Equivalent to: gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
2932					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2933					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2934					       l1tf=off [X86]
2935					       mds=off [X86]
2936					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
2937					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
2938					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
2939					       nobp=0 [S390]
2940					       nopti [X86,PPC]
2941					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2942					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2943					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
2944					       retbleed=off [X86]
2945					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2946					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2947					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2948					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2949
2950				Exceptions:
2951					       This does not have any effect on
2952					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2953					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2954
2955			auto (default)
2956				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2957				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2958				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2959				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2960				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2961				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2962
2963			auto,nosmt
2964				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2965				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2966				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2967				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2968					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2969					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2970					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
2971					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
2972
2973	mminit_loglevel=
2974			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2975			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2976			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2977			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2978			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2979			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2980
2981	mmio_stale_data=
2982			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
2983			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
2984
2985			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
2986			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
2987			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
2988			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
2989			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
2990			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
2991
2992			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2993			options are:
2994
2995			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2996
2997			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
2998				     vulnerable CPUs.
2999
3000			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3001
3002			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3003			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3004			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3005			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3006			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3007			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3008
3009			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3010			mmio_stale_data=full.
3011
3012			For details see:
3013			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3014
3015	module.sig_enforce
3016			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3017			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3018			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3019			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3020
3021	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3022			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3023
3024	mousedev.tap_time=
3025			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3026			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3027			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3028			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3029			Format: <msecs>
3030	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3031			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3032	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3033			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3034
3035	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3036			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3037			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3038			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3039			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3040			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3041			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3042			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3043			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3044			is not too small.
3045
3046	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3047			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3048			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3049			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3050			allocations. Use with caution!
3051
3052	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3053			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3054
3055	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3056			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3057
3058	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3059			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3060
3061	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3062			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3063			at a time.
3064
3065	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3066
3067			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3068
3069			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3070				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3071			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3072				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3073				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3074
3075	mtdset=		[ARM]
3076			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3077
3078			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
3079
3080	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3081			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3082			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3083
3084	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3085			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3086			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3087
3088	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3089			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3090			Default is 1.
3091			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3092			using up MTRRs.
3093
3094	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3095			Format: <integer>
3096			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3097			Default : 1
3098			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3099			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3100
3101	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3102
3103	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3104			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3105			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3106			something different and driver-specific.
3107			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3108			file if at all.
3109
3110	nf_conntrack.acct=
3111			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3112			0 to disable accounting
3113			1 to enable accounting
3114			Default value is 0.
3115
3116	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3117			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3118
3119	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3120			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3121
3122	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3123			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3124
3125	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3126			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3127			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3128			requests.
3129
3130	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3131			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3132			channel should listen.
3133
3134	nfs.cache_getent=
3135			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3136			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3137
3138	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3139			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3140			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3141
3142	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3143			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3144			entries.
3145
3146	nfs.enable_ino64=
3147			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3148			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3149			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3150			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3151			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3152
3153	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3154			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3155			slots the client will assign to the callback
3156			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3157			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3158			a particular server.
3159
3160	nfs.max_session_slots=
3161			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3162			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3163			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3164			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3165			Note that there is little point in setting this
3166			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3167
3168	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3169			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3170			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3171			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3172			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3173			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3174			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3175			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3176			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3177			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3178			back to using the idmapper.
3179			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3180	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3181			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3182			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3183			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3184			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3185
3186	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3187			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3188			information in exchange_id requests.
3189			If zero, no implementation identification information
3190			will be sent.
3191			The default is to send the implementation identification
3192			information.
3193
3194	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3195			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3196			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3197			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3198			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3199			after the locks are lost.
3200			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3201			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3202			parameter to '1'.
3203			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3204			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3205
3206	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3207			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3208			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3209
3210			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3211			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3212			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3213			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3214
3215	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3216			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3217			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3218			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3219			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3220			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3221
3222	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3223			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3224			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3225
3226	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3227			when a NMI is triggered.
3228			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3229
3230	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3231			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3232			Valid num: 0 or 1
3233			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3234			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3235			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3236			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3237			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3238			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3239			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3240			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3241			need the box quickly up again.
3242
3243			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3244			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3245
3246	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3247			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3248			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3249			waits 4 seconds.
3250
3251	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3252			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3253			is present.
3254
3255	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3256			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3257
3258	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3259
3260	no_console_suspend
3261			[HW] Never suspend the console
3262			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3263			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3264			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3265			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3266			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3267			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3268			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3269			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3270			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3271			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3272			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3273			turn on/off it dynamically.
3274
3275	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3276			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3277			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3278			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3279			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3280			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3281			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3282			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3283			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3284			is set.
3285
3286	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3287			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3288			but will impact performance.
3289
3290	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3291
3292	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3293			(CPU alternatives feature).
3294
3295	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3296			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3297
3298	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3299
3300	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3301			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3302
3303	nocache		[ARM]
3304
3305	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3306
3307	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3308
3309	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3310
3311	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3312
3313	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3314
3315	noexec		[IA-64]
3316
3317	noexec		[X86]
3318			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3319			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3320			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3321
3322	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3323			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3324			even if it is supported by processor.
3325
3326	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3327			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3328			even if it is supported by processor.
3329
3330	noexec32	[X86-64]
3331			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3332			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3333				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3334			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3335				read implies executable mappings
3336
3337	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3338
3339	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3340			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3341			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3342
3343	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3344
3345	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3346			Equivalent to smt=1.
3347
3348			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3349			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3350				     via the sysfs control file.
3351
3352	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3353			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3354			possible in the system.
3355
3356	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3357			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3358			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3359			option.
3360
3361	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3362			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3363
3364	no_uaccess_flush
3365	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3366
3367	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3368			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3369			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3370
3371	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3372			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3373			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3374			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3375			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3376			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3377
3378	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3379			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3380			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3381			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3382			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3383			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3384			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3385
3386	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3387			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3388			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3389
3390	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3391			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3392			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3393
3394	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3395			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3396			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3397			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3398			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3399			real-time systems.
3400
3401	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3402
3403	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3404			Valid arguments: on, off
3405			Default: on
3406
3407	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3408			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3409			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3410			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3411			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3412			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3413			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3414			just as if they had also been called out in the
3415			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3416
3417	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3418
3419	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3420			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3421
3422	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3423			broken timer IRQ sources.
3424
3425	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3426
3427	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3428			initial RAM disk.
3429
3430	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3431			remapping.
3432			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3433
3434	nointroute	[IA-64]
3435
3436	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3437
3438	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3439
3440	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3441
3442	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3443			fault handling.
3444
3445	no-vmw-sched-clock
3446			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3447			clock and use the default one.
3448
3449	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3450			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3451			influence scheduler behaviour
3452
3453	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3454
3455	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3456
3457	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3458			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3459
3460	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3461
3462	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3463
3464	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3465			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3466
3467	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3468			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3469			irq.
3470
3471	nomodule	Disable module load
3472
3473	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3474			pagetables) support.
3475
3476	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3477
3478	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3479			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3480
3481	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3482			with UP alternatives
3483
3484	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3485			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3486			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3487			available to user space applications.
3488
3489	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3490			space.
3491
3492	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3493			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3494			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3495
3496	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3497
3498	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3499
3500	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3501			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3502
3503	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3504
3505	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3506
3507	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3508			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3509
3510	nowb		[ARM]
3511
3512	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3513
3514	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3515			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3516			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3517			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3518			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3519			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3520			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3521			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3522			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3523			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3524			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3525			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3526			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3527
3528	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3529			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3530			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3531			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3532			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3533			parameter's value.
3534			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3535			Default: 255
3536
3537	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3538			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3539			SAL PALO.
3540
3541	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3542			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3543			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3544			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3545			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3546			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3547			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3548			hot plugging.
3549
3550	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3551
3552	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3553			Allowed values are enable and disable
3554
3555	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3556			'node', 'default' can be specified
3557			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3558			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3559
3560	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3561			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3562			info.
3563
3564	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3565			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3566			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3567			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3568			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3569			interrupts *may* be lost!
3570
3571	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3572			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3573			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3574			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3575
3576	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3577			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3578
3579	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3580			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3581			userland or if you want common events.
3582			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3583			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3584				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3585				CPU specific event set.
3586			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3587				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3588				for generic hr timer mode)
3589
3590	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3591			process, but there is a small probability of
3592			deadlocking the machine.
3593			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3594			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3595
3596	page_alloc.shuffle=
3597			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3598			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3599			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3600			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3601			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3602			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3603			can be read from sysfs at:
3604			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3605
3606	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3607			Storage of the information about who allocated
3608			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3609			we can turn it on.
3610			on: enable the feature
3611
3612	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3613			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3614			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3615			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3616			on: turn on poisoning
3617
3618	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3619			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3620			timeout = 0: wait forever
3621			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3622			Format: <timeout>
3623
3624	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3625			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3626			bit 0: print all tasks info
3627			bit 1: print system memory info
3628			bit 2: print timer info
3629			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3630			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3631			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3632
3633	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3634			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3635			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3636			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3637			called with any of the flags in this set.
3638			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3639			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3640			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3641			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3642			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3643			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3644			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3645
3646	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3647			on a WARN().
3648
3649	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3650			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3651			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3652			succeeds in any situation.
3653			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3654			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3655			kernel more unstable.
3656
3657	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3658			connected to, default is 0.
3659			Format: <parport#>
3660	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3661			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3662			Format: <mode>
3663
3664	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3665			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3666			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3667			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3668			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3669			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3670			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3671			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3672			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3673			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3674			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3675			are specified on the command line, starting
3676			with parport0.
3677
3678	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3679			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3680			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3681			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3682			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3683			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3684			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3685
3686	pause_on_oops=
3687			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3688			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3689			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3690
3691	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3692
3693	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3694			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3695			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3696
3697	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3698
3699				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3700				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3701				specified in one of the following formats:
3702
3703				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3704				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3705
3706				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3707				bus/device/function address which may change
3708				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3709				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3710				by other kernel parameters. If the
3711				domain is left unspecified, it is
3712				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3713				to a device through multiple device/function
3714				addresses can be specified after the base
3715				address (this is more robust against
3716				renumbering issues).  The second format
3717				selects devices using IDs from the
3718				configuration space which may match multiple
3719				devices in the system.
3720
3721		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3722				changes anything
3723		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3724		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3725				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3726				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3727		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3728				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3729				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3730				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3731		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3732				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3733				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3734		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3735				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3736				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3737				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3738				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3739				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3740				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3741		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3742				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3743				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3744		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3745				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3746		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3747				Configuration
3748		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3749				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3750				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3751		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3752				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3753				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3754		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3755				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3756				should never be necessary.
3757		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3758				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3759				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3760				when the system masks IRQs.
3761		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3762				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3763				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3764				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3765		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3766				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3767				on several machines and they hang the machine
3768				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3769				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3770				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3771				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3772				motherboard.
3773		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3774				Use with caution as certain devices share
3775				address decoders between ROMs and other
3776				resources.
3777		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3778				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3779				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3780		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3781				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3782		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3783				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3784				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3785				this way.
3786		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3787				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3788				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3789				F0000h-100000h range.
3790		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3791				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3792				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3793				explicitly which ones they are.
3794		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3795				numbers ourselves, overriding
3796				whatever the firmware may have done.
3797		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3798				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3799				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3800				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3801				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3802				IRQ routing is enabled.
3803		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3804				or for PCI scanning.
3805		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3806				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3807				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3808				please report a bug.
3809		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3810				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3811		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3812				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3813				so this option is a temporary workaround
3814				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3815		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3816				handle more pci cards
3817		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3818				This might help on some broken boards which
3819				machine check when some devices' config space
3820				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3821				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3822		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3823				This sorting is done to get a device
3824				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3825		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3826		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3827				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3828		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3829				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3830		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3831				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3832				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3833				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3834				or bus can support) for best performance.
3835		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3836				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3837				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3838				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3839				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3840				that hot-added devices will work.
3841		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3842				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3843				The default value is 256 bytes.
3844		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3845				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3846				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3847		resource_alignment=
3848				Format:
3849				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3850				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3851				aligned memory resources. How to
3852				specify the device is described above.
3853				If <order of align> is not specified,
3854				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3855				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3856				windows need to be expanded.
3857				To specify the alignment for several
3858				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3859				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3860				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3861				for 4096-byte alignment.
3862		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3863				end-to-end CRC checking).
3864				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3865				the default.
3866				off: Turn ECRC off
3867				on: Turn ECRC on.
3868		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3869				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3870				Default size is 256 bytes.
3871		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3872				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3873				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3874		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3875				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3876				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3877		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3878				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3879				MMIO_PREF window.
3880				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3881		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3882				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3883				Default is 1.
3884		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3885				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3886				accommodate resources required by all child
3887				devices.
3888				off: Turn realloc off
3889				on: Turn realloc on
3890		realloc		same as realloc=on
3891		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3892		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3893				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3894		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3895				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3896				port.
3897		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3898				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3899				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3900				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3901				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3902				taints the kernel.
3903		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3904				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3905				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3906				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3907				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3908				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3909				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3910				this removes isolation between devices and
3911				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3912		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3913		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3914		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3915				one PCI domain per PCI function
3916
3917	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3918			Management.
3919		off	Disable ASPM.
3920		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3921			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3922
3923	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3924		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3925			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3926			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3927			also tries to use these services.
3928		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3929				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3930		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3931			hotplug).
3932
3933	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3934		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3935		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3936
3937	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3938		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3939			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3940
3941	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3942
3943	pd_ignore_unused
3944			[PM]
3945			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3946			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3947			for debug and development, but should not be
3948			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3949
3950	pd.		[PARIDE]
3951			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3952
3953	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3954			boot time.
3955			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3956			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3957
3958	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3959			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3960			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3961			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3962			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3963			and performance comparison.
3964
3965	pf.		[PARIDE]
3966			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3967
3968	pg.		[PARIDE]
3969			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3970
3971	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3972			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3973
3974	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3975			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3976			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3977
3978	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3979			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3980			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3981
3982	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
3983			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3984
3985	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3986			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3987			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3988			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3989			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3990			possible settings and some assignment information.
3991
3992	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3993			{ off }
3994
3995	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3996			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3997
3998	pnp_reserve_irq=
3999			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4000
4001	pnp_reserve_dma=
4002			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4003
4004	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4005			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4006
4007	pnp_reserve_mem=
4008			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4009			autoconfiguration.
4010			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4011
4012	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4013			Default is 21.
4014			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4015			may be specified.
4016			Format: <port>,<port>....
4017
4018	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4019			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4020			platform machine description specific power_save
4021			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4022			execution priority.
4023
4024	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4025			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4026			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4027			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4028			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4029
4030	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4031			Format: {"off"}
4032			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4033
4034	print-fatal-signals=
4035			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4036
4037			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4038			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4039			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4040			coredump - etc.
4041
4042			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4043			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4044
4045			default: off.
4046
4047	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4048			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4049			panics
4050			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4051			default: disabled
4052
4053	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4054			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4055			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4056			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4057			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4058			Default: ratelimit
4059
4060	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4061			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4062
4063	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4064			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4065			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4066
4067	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4068			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4069			instead using the legacy FADT method
4070
4071	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4072			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4073			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4074				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4075			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4076			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4077				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4078			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4079			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4080				statistical time based profiling.
4081
4082	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4083
4084	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4085			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4086			that).
4087			Format: <bool>
4088
4089	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4090			tracking.
4091			Format: <bool>
4092
4093	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4094			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4095	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4096			per second.
4097	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4098			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4099			(0 = never).
4100	psmouse.resolution=
4101			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4102	psmouse.smartscroll=
4103			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4104			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4105
4106	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4107
4108	pt.		[PARIDE]
4109			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4110
4111	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4112			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4113			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4114			system calls and interrupts.
4115
4116			on   - unconditionally enable
4117			off  - unconditionally disable
4118			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4119			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4120
4121			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4122
4123	nopti		[X86-64]
4124			Equivalent to pti=off
4125
4126	pty.legacy_count=
4127			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4128			default number.
4129
4130	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4131
4132	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4133
4134	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4135			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4136
4137	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4138			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4139
4140	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4141
4142	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4143			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4144			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4145			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4146			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4147
4148	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4149			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4150			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4151			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4152			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4153
4154	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4155
4156		cec_disable	[X86]
4157				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4158				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4159
4160	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4161			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4162			except that the string "all" can be used to
4163			specify every CPU on the system.
4164
4165			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4166			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4167			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4168			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4169			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4170			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4171			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4172			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4173			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
4174			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4175
4176	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4177			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4178			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4179			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4180			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4181			This improves the real-time response for the
4182			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4183			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4184			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4185			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4186
4187	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4188			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4189			process in one batch.
4190
4191	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4192			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4193			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4194			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4195
4196	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4197			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4198			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4199
4200	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4201			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4202			RCU grace-period initialization.
4203
4204	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4205			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4206			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4207			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4208			the rcu_node combining tree.
4209
4210	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4211			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4212			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4213			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4214			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4215
4216	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4217			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4218			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4219			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4220			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4221
4222	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4223			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4224			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4225			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4226			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4227			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4228			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4229
4230	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4231			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4232			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4233			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4234			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4235			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4236			condition.
4237
4238	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4239			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4240			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4241			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4242			and maximum value is HZ.
4243
4244	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4245			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4246			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4247			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4248
4249	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4250			Set required age in jiffies for a
4251			given grace period before RCU starts
4252			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4253			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4254			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4255			a value based on the most recent settings
4256			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4257			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4258			This calculated value may be viewed in
4259			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4260			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4261			overwritten.
4262
4263	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4264			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4265			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4266			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4267			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4268			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4269			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4270			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4271			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4272			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4273
4274	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4275			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4276			each group, which defaults to the square root
4277			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4278			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4279			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4280			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4281
4282	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4283			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4284			batch limiting is disabled.
4285
4286	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4287			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4288			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4289
4290	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4291			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4292			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4293			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4294			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4295			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4296			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4297			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4298
4299	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4300			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4301			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4302
4303	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
4304			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4305			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4306			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4307			prove do nothing more than free memory.
4308
4309	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4310			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4311			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4312			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4313			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4314			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4315
4316	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4317			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4318			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4319			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4320			Larger delays increase the probability of
4321			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4322			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4323			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4324
4325	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4326			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4327			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4328			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4329
4330	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4331			Measure performance of asynchronous
4332			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4333
4334	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4335			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4336			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4337			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4338			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4339			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4340
4341	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4342			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4343			grace-period primitives.
4344
4345	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4346			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4347			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4348			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4349			interference.
4350
4351	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4352			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4353
4354	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4355			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4356
4357	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4358			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4359
4360	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4361			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4362			of allocations and frees.
4363
4364	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4365			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4366			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4367			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4368			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4369			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4370			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4371			a single reader.
4372
4373	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4374			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4375			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4376			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4377
4378	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4379			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4380
4381	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4382			Shut the system down after performance tests
4383			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4384			testing.
4385
4386	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4387			Enable additional printk() statements.
4388
4389	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4390			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4391			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4392			no holdoff.
4393
4394	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4395			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4396			in microseconds.
4397
4398	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4399			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4400			in microseconds.
4401
4402	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4403			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4404			in seconds.
4405
4406	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4407			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4408			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4409
4410	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4411			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4412			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4413
4414	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4415			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4416			forward-progress tests.
4417
4418	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4419			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4420			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4421			testing.
4422
4423	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4424			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4425			primitives, if available.
4426
4427	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4428			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4429
4430	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4431			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4432			update-side primitives, if available.
4433
4434	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4435			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4436			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4437			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4438			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4439			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4440			they are all non-zero.
4441
4442	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4443			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4444			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4445			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4446
4447	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4448			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4449			This can of course result in splats, and is
4450			intended to test the ability of things like
4451			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4452			such leaks.
4453
4454	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4455			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4456
4457	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4458			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4459			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4460			test, hence the "fake".
4461
4462	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4463			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4464			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4465			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4466			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4467			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4468
4469	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4470			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4471
4472	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4473			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4474
4475	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4476			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4477			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4478
4479	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4480			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4481			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4482			task-exit processing.
4483
4484	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4485			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4486			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4487			is spawned.
4488
4489	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4490			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4491			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4492
4493	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4494			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4495			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4496			during the rcutorture test.
4497
4498	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4499			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4500			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4501
4502	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4503			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4504			warnings, zero to disable.
4505
4506	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4507			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4508			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4509			to any other stall-related activity.
4510
4511	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4512			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4513
4514	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4515			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4516
4517	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4518			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4519			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4520			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4521			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4522			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4523
4524	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4525			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4526
4527	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4528			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4529			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4530			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4531			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4532
4533	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4534			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4535			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4536			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4537
4538	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4539			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4540
4541	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4542			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4543
4544	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4545			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4546			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4547
4548	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4549			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4550
4551	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4552			Enable additional printk() statements.
4553
4554	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4555			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4556			stall warning.
4557
4558	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4559			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4560
4561	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4562			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4563			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4564			during early boot, that is, during the time
4565			before the init task is spawned.
4566
4567	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4568			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4569
4570	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4571			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4572			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4573			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4574			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4575			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4576			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4577
4578	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4579			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4580			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4581			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4582			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4583			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4584			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4585			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4586			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4587
4588	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4589			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4590			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4591			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4592			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4593
4594	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4595			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4596			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4597			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4598			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4599			but lengthens grace periods.
4600
4601	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4602			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4603			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4604			to zero.
4605
4606	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4607			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4608
4609	rdinit=		[KNL]
4610			Format: <full_path>
4611			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4612			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4613
4614	rdrand=		[X86]
4615			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4616				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4617				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4618				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4619				path).
4620
4621	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4622			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4623			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4624			mba.
4625			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4626				rdt=cmt,!mba
4627
4628	reboot=		[KNL]
4629			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4630				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4631				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4632				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4633				[[,]f[orce]
4634			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4635					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4636					reboot only),
4637			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4638			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4639			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4640					to be used for rebooting.
4641
4642	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4643			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4644			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4645			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4646			interference.
4647
4648	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4649			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4650			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4651			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4652			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4653			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4654			x86 laptops.
4655
4656	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4657			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4658			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4659			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4660
4661	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4662			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4663			the console log.
4664
4665	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4666			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4667			measured in microseconds.
4668
4669	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4670			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4671
4672	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4673			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4674			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4675			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4676			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4677
4678	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4679			Enable additional printk() statements.
4680
4681	relax_domain_level=
4682			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4683			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4684
4685	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4686			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4687			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4688			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4689			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4690
4691	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4692			Format: nn[KMG]
4693			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4694			address space.
4695
4696	reservelow=	[X86]
4697			Format: nn[K]
4698			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4699			the bottom of the address space.
4700
4701	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4702			during initialization.
4703
4704	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4705			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4706			Format:
4707			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4708
4709	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4710			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4711			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4712			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4713			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4714
4715	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4716			read the resume files
4717
4718	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4719			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4720			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4721
4722	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4723		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4724				present during boot.
4725		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4726		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4727		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4728				(that will set all pages holding image data
4729				during restoration read-only).
4730
4731	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4732
4733	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
4734			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
4735			vulnerability.
4736
4737			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
4738			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
4739			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
4740			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
4741			that don't.
4742
4743			off          - no mitigation
4744			auto         - automatically select a migitation
4745			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
4746				       disabling SMT if necessary for
4747				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
4748				       and older without STIBP).
4749			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
4750				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
4751				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
4752				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
4753				       on Intel.
4754			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
4755				       when STIBP is not available. This is
4756				       the alternative for systems which do not
4757				       have STIBP.
4758			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
4759				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
4760				       systems.
4761			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
4762				       is not available. This is the alternative for
4763				       systems which do not have STIBP.
4764
4765			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
4766			time according to the CPU.
4767
4768			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
4769
4770	rfkill.default_state=
4771		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4772			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4773		1	Unblocked.
4774
4775	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4776		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4777		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4778			blocked and the previous configuration.
4779		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4780			blocked and everything unblocked.
4781
4782	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4783			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4784
4785	ring3mwait=disable
4786			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4787			CPUs.
4788
4789	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4790
4791	rodata=		[KNL]
4792		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4793		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4794
4795	rockchip.usb_uart
4796			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4797			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4798			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4799			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4800
4801	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4802			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4803
4804	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4805			mount the root filesystem
4806
4807	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4808
4809	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4810
4811	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4812			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4813			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4814
4815	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4816			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4817			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4818			managed by CMA.
4819
4820	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4821
4822	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4823
4824	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4825			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4826		strict
4827			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4828			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4829			which is faster.
4830
4831	sa1100ir	[NET]
4832			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4833
4834	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4835
4836	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4837
4838	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4839			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4840			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4841			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4842
4843	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4844			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4845			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4846			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4847			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4848			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4849			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4850			value.
4851			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4852			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
4853				1			64 ms
4854				2			128 ms
4855			and so on.
4856			Format: integer between 0 and 10
4857			Default is 0.
4858
4859	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4860			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4861			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4862			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4863			tests.
4864
4865	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4866			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4867			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
4868			default) disables this feature.  Please note
4869			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4870			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4871			softlockup complaints, and so on.
4872
4873	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4874			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4875			smp_call_function() family of functions.
4876			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4877			equal to the number of CPUs.
4878
4879	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4880			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4881			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4882
4883	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4884			Number seconds to wait between successive
4885			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
4886			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4887
4888	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4889			The number of seconds following the start of the
4890			test after which to shut down the system.  The
4891			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4892			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4893
4894	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4895			The number of seconds between outputting the
4896			current test statistics to the console.  A value
4897			of zero disables statistics output.
4898
4899	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4900			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4901			to the set of CPUs under test.
4902
4903	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4904			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4905			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4906			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4907			functions.
4908
4909	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4910			Enable additional printk() statements.
4911
4912	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4913			The probability weighting to use for the
4914			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4915			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
4916			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
4917			if at least one weight has some other value, a
4918			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4919
4920	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4921			The probability weighting to use for the
4922			smp_call_function_single() function with a
4923			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4924
4925	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4926			The probability weighting to use for the
4927			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4928			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4929			Note well that setting a high probability for
4930			this weighting can place serious IPI load
4931			on the system.
4932
4933	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4934			The probability weighting to use for the
4935			smp_call_function_many() function with a
4936			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4937			and weight_many.
4938
4939	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4940			The probability weighting to use for the
4941			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4942			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
4943			weight_many.
4944
4945	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4946			The probability weighting to use for the
4947			smp_call_function_all() function with a
4948			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4949			and weight_many.
4950
4951	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4952			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4953			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4954			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4955			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4956			1 -- enable.
4957			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4958			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4959
4960	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4961			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4962			"lsm=" parameter.
4963
4964	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4965			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4966			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4967			0 -- disable.
4968			1 -- enable.
4969			Default value is 1.
4970
4971	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4972			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4973			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4974			0 -- disable.
4975			1 -- enable.
4976			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4977
4978	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4979
4980	shapers=	[NET]
4981			Maximal number of shapers.
4982
4983	simeth=		[IA-64]
4984	simscsi=
4985
4986	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4987
4988	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4989			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4990			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4991			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4992			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4993			layout control by attackers can usually be
4994			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4995			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4996			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4997			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4998			own.
4999			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5000
5001	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5002			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5003			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5004			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5005			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5006
5007	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5008			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5009			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5010			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5011			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5012			last alloc / free. For more information see
5013			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5014
5015	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
5016			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
5017			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
5018			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
5019			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
5020			directories and files being created under
5021			/sys/kernel/slub.
5022
5023	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5024			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5025			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5026			fragmentation. For more information see
5027			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5028
5029	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5030			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5031			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5032			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5033			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5034			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5035			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5036			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5037
5038	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5039			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5040			lower than slub_max_order.
5041			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5042
5043	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5044			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5045			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5046
5047	smart2=		[HW]
5048			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5049
5050	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5051	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5052	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5053	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5054	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5055	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5056	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5057				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5058				1: Fast pin select (default)
5059				2: ATC IRMode
5060
5061	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5062			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5063			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5064			actual hardware limit.
5065			Format: <integer>
5066			Default: -1 (no limit)
5067
5068	softlockup_panic=
5069			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5070			Format: 0 | 1
5071
5072			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5073			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5074			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5075			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5076			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5077
5078	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5079			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5080			backtraces on all cpus.
5081			Format: 0 | 1
5082
5083	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5084			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5085
5086	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5087			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5088			The default operation protects the kernel from
5089			user space attacks.
5090
5091			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5092			       spectre_v2_user=on
5093			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5094			       spectre_v2_user=off
5095			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5096			       vulnerable
5097
5098			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5099			mitigation method at run time according to the
5100			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5101			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5102			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5103
5104			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5105			against user space to user space task attacks.
5106
5107			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5108			the user space protections.
5109
5110			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5111
5112			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5113			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5114			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5115			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5116			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5117			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5118			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5119			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5120
5121			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5122			spectre_v2=auto.
5123
5124	spectre_v2_user=
5125			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5126		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5127		        user space tasks
5128
5129			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5130				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5131
5132			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5133				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5134
5135			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5136				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5137				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5138				  is inherited on fork.
5139
5140			prctl,ibpb
5141				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5142				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5143				  always when switching between different user
5144				  space processes.
5145
5146			seccomp
5147				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5148				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5149				  they explicitly opt out.
5150
5151			seccomp,ibpb
5152				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5153				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5154				  always when switching between different
5155				  user space processes.
5156
5157			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5158				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5159
5160			Default mitigation:
5161			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5162
5163			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5164			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5165
5166	spec_rstack_overflow=
5167			[X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
5168
5169			off		- Disable mitigation
5170			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
5171			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
5172			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
5173					  kernel entry
5174			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
5175					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
5176
5177	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5178			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5179			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5180
5181			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5182			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5183			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5184			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5185			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5186			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5187			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5188			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5189
5190			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5191			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5192			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5193			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5194
5195			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5196			Bypass optimization is used.
5197
5198			On x86 the options are:
5199
5200			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5201			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5202			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5203				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5204				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5205				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5206				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5207				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5208			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5209				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5210				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5211				  is inherited on fork.
5212			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5213				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5214
5215			Default mitigations:
5216			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5217
5218			On powerpc the options are:
5219
5220			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5221				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5222				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5223				  exit.
5224			off	- No action.
5225
5226			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5227			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5228
5229	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5230	spia_fio_base=
5231	spia_pedr=
5232	spia_peddr=
5233
5234	split_lock_detect=
5235			[X86] Enable split lock detection
5236
5237			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5238			instructions that access data across cache line
5239			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
5240
5241			off	- not enabled
5242
5243			warn	- the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
5244				  about applications triggering the #AC
5245				  exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
5246				  that supports split lock detection.
5247
5248			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5249				  that trigger the #AC exception.
5250
5251			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5252			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5253			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5254			mode.
5255
5256	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5257			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5258			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5259
5260			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5261			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5262			number generator.
5263
5264			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5265			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5266			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5267			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5268			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5269
5270			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5271			the following option:
5272
5273			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5274				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5275
5276	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5277			Specifies how frequently to check for
5278			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5279			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5280			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5281			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5282			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5283			are ignored.
5284
5285	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5286			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5287			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5288			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5289			grace period will be considered for automatic
5290			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5291			expediting.
5292
5293	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5294			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5295
5296			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5297			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5298			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5299			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5300
5301			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5302				   for both kernel and userspace
5303			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5304				   for both kernel and userspace
5305			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5306				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5307				   to allow userspace to register its
5308				   interest in being mitigated too.
5309
5310	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5311			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5312			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5313			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5314			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5315			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5316
5317	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5318			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5319
5320	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5321			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5322			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
5323			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5324			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5325			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5326			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5327
5328	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5329			Format: <num>
5330			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5331			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5332			as the initial boot-console.
5333			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5334
5335	sti_font=	[HW]
5336			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5337
5338	stifb=		[HW]
5339			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5340
5341	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5342	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5343			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5344			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5345			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5346			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5347			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5348			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5349			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5350			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5351			maximum port values.
5352
5353	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5354			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5355			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5356			process in parallel from a single connection.
5357			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5358
5359	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5360			[NFS]
5361			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5362			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5363			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5364			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5365			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5366			NFS server is running.
5367
5368			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5369				    automatically using heuristics
5370			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5371			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5372			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5373				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5374
5375	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5376	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5377			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5378			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5379			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5380			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5381			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5382			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5383
5384	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5385			[SUSPEND]
5386			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5387			mode before resuming the system (see
5388			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5389			is set. Default value is 5.
5390
5391	svm=		[PPC]
5392			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5393			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5394			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5395
5396	swapaccount=[0|1]
5397			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5398			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5399			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5400
5401	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5402			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5403			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5404			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5405			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5406			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5407
5408	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5409
5410	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5411			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5412			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5413			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5414			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5415			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5416			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5417			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5418
5419	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5420			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5421			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5422			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5423			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5424			in older udev will not work anymore.
5425			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5426			the kernel configuration.
5427
5428	sysrq_always_enabled
5429			[KNL]
5430			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5431			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5432			Useful for debugging.
5433
5434	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5435			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5436			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5437			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5438			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5439			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5440
5441	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5442
5443	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5444			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5445			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5446			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5447			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5448			The system is woken from this state using a
5449			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5450
5451	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5452			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5453
5454	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5455			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5456			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5457
5458	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5459			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5460			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5461
5462	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5463			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5464			critical and hot trip points.
5465
5466	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5467			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5468
5469	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5470			-1: disable all passive trip points
5471			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5472			value
5473
5474	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5475			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5476			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5477			0: no polling (default)
5478
5479	threadirqs	[KNL]
5480			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5481			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5482
5483	topology=	[S390]
5484			Format: {off | on}
5485			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5486			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5487			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5488			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5489			Default is on.
5490
5491	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5492			Format: {off}
5493			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5494			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5495			LPAR.
5496
5497	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5498			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5499			until after init has spawned.
5500
5501	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5502			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5503			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5504			very costly operation when many torture tests
5505			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5506			with rotating-rust storage.
5507
5508	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5509
5510	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5511			Format: integer pcr id
5512			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5513			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5514			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5515			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5516			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5517			are saved.
5518
5519	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5520			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5521
5522	trace_event=[event-list]
5523			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5524			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5525			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5526			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5527
5528	trace_options=[option-list]
5529			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5530			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5531			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5532			to echo the option name into
5533
5534			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5535
5536			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5537			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5538
5539			      trace_options=stacktrace
5540
5541			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5542			section.
5543
5544	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5545			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5546			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5547			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5548			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5549			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5550
5551			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5552			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5553			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5554			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5555
5556			** CAUTION **
5557
5558			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5559			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5560			the system to live lock.
5561
5562	traceoff_on_warning
5563			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5564			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5565			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5566			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5567
5568			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5569			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5570			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5571
5572			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5573			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5574
5575	transparent_hugepage=
5576			[KNL]
5577			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5578			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5579			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5580			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5581			for more details.
5582
5583	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5584			Format: <string>
5585			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5586			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5587			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5588			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5589			virtualized environment.
5590			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5591			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5592			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5593			can add overhead.
5594			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5595			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5596			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5597			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5598			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5599			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5600			acceptable).
5601
5602	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5603			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5604			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5605			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5606			Format: <unsigned int>
5607
5608	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5609			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5610			support TSX control.
5611
5612			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5613
5614			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5615				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5616				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5617				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5618				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5619				with leaving it enabled.
5620
5621			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5622				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5623				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5624				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5625				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5626				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5627				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5628
5629			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5630				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5631
5632			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5633
5634			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5635			for more details.
5636
5637	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5638			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5639
5640			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5641			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5642			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5643			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5644			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5645			conditions.
5646
5647			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5648			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5649			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5650			access.
5651
5652			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5653			options are:
5654
5655			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5656				     if TSX is enabled.
5657
5658			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5659				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5660				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5661				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5662			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5663
5664			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5665			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5666			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5667			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5668
5669			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5670			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5671			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5672			required and doesn't provide any additional
5673			mitigation.
5674
5675			For details see:
5676			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5677
5678	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5679			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5680			Format:
5681			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5682			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5683
5684	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5685			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5686			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5687			help "seeing" what's going on.
5688
5689	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5690			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5691
5692	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5693			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5694			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5695			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5696			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5697			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5698			reported either.
5699
5700	unknown_nmi_panic
5701			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5702
5703	usbcore.authorized_default=
5704			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5705			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5706			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5707			if device connected to internal port)
5708
5709	usbcore.autosuspend=
5710			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5711			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5712			is the time required before an idle device will be
5713			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5714			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5715
5716	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5717			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5718
5719	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5720			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5721			(default = 65536).
5722
5723	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5724			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5725
5726	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5727			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5728			scheme (default 0 = off).
5729
5730	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5731			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5732			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5733
5734	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5735			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5736			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5737
5738	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5739			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5740			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5741			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5742
5743	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5744
5745	usbcore.quirks=
5746			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5747			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5748			commas. Each entry has the form
5749			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5750			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5751			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5752			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5753			the following meanings:
5754				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5755					descriptors must not be fetched using
5756					a 255-byte read);
5757				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5758					correctly so reset it instead);
5759				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5760					Set-Interface requests);
5761				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5762					handle its Configuration or Interface
5763					strings);
5764				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5765					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5766				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5767					more interface descriptions than the
5768					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5769					talking to these interfaces);
5770				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5771					during initialization, after we read
5772					the device descriptor);
5773				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5774					high speed and super speed interrupt
5775					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5776					require the interval in microframes (1
5777					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5778					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5779					(bInterval-1).
5780					Devices with this quirk report their
5781					bInterval as the result of this
5782					calculation instead of the exponent
5783					variable used in the calculation);
5784				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5785					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5786					requests);
5787				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5788					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5789					remote wakeup capability);
5790				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5791					Power Management);
5792				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5793					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5794					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5795					calculation);
5796				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5797					to be disconnected before suspend to
5798					prevent spurious wakeup);
5799				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5800					pause after every control message);
5801				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5802					delay after resetting its port);
5803			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5804
5805	usbhid.mousepoll=
5806			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5807
5808	usbhid.jspoll=
5809			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5810
5811	usbhid.kbpoll=
5812			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5813
5814	usb-storage.delay_use=
5815			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5816			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5817
5818	usb-storage.quirks=
5819			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5820			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5821			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5822			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5823			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5824			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5825			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5826				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5827					of sense data, not on uas);
5828				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5829					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5830				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5831					device capacity by one sector);
5832				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5833					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5834				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5835					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5836				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5837					command, uas only);
5838				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5839					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5840				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5841					reported device capacity by one
5842					sector if the number is odd);
5843				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5844					device);
5845				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5846					command, uas only);
5847				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
5848				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5849					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5850				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5851					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5852					not on uas);
5853				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5854					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5855				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5856					reported by the device, not on uas);
5857				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5858					by default, not on uas);
5859				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5860					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5861				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5862					Logical Unit);
5863				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5864					commands, uas only);
5865				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5866				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5867					medium is write-protected).
5868				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5869					even if the device claims no cache,
5870					not on uas)
5871			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5872
5873	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5874			Format: <int>
5875			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5876				 1 - undefined instruction events
5877				 2 - system calls
5878				 4 - invalid data aborts
5879				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5880				16 - SIGBUS faults
5881			Example: user_debug=31
5882
5883	userpte=
5884			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5885
5886				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5887					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5888					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5889
5890	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5891			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5892
5893			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5894			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5895
5896	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5897			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5898			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5899
5900			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5901			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5902			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5903
5904			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5905			alias for vdso32=0.
5906
5907			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5908			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5909
5910	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5911			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5912
5913	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5914			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5915
5916	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5917			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5918			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5919			level and then send out the event to user space through
5920			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5921			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5922			brightness level.
5923			default: 1
5924
5925	virtio_mmio.device=
5926			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5927
5928				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5929			where:
5930				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5931						like K, M and G)
5932				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5933				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5934						request_irq())
5935				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5936			example:
5937				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5938
5939			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5940
5941	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5942			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5943			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5944			Use vga=ask for menu.
5945			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5946			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5947
5948	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5949			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5950			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5951			All options are enabled by default, and this
5952			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5953			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5954			debugging features.
5955
5956			Available options are:
5957			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5958			  -	Disable all of the above options
5959
5960	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5961			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5962			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5963			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5964			mapped kernel RAM.
5965
5966	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5967			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5968			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5969
5970	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5971			Format: <command>
5972
5973	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5974			Format: <command>
5975
5976	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5977			Format: <command>
5978
5979	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5980			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5981			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5982			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5983			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5984			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5985			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5986
5987			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5988			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5989				    page is readable.
5990
5991			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5992			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5993				    page is not readable.
5994
5995			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5996			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5997			            might break your system.
5998
5999	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6000			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6001			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6002
6003	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6004			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6005			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6006			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6007
6008	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6009			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6010			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6011			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6012			ranging from 0-255.
6013
6014	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6015			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6016			Change the default green palette of the console.
6017			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6018			ranging from 0-255.
6019
6020	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6021			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6022			Change the default red palette of the console.
6023			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6024			ranging from 0-255.
6025
6026	vt.default_utf8=
6027			[VT]
6028			Format=<0|1>
6029			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6030			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6031			newly opened terminals.
6032
6033	vt.global_cursor_default=
6034			[VT]
6035			Format=<-1|0|1>
6036			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6037			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6038			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6039			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6040			cursors, 1 will display them.
6041
6042	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6043			Default: 2 = green.
6044
6045	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6046			Default: 3 = cyan.
6047
6048	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6049			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6050			or other driver-specific files in the
6051			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6052
6053	watchdog_thresh=
6054			[KNL]
6055			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6056			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6057			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6058			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6059			seconds.
6060
6061	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6062			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6063			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6064			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6065			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6066			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6067			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6068			corresponding sysfs file.
6069
6070	workqueue.disable_numa
6071			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6072			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6073			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6074			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6075			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6076			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6077			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6078
6079	workqueue.power_efficient
6080			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6081			they show better performance thanks to cache
6082			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6083			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6084
6085			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6086			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6087			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6088			power usage at the cost of small performance
6089			overhead.
6090
6091			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6092			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6093
6094	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6095			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6096			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6097			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6098			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6099			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6100			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6101			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6102			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6103			impacted.
6104
6105	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
6106			ioremap_wc().
6107
6108			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
6109			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
6110
6111	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6112			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6113			supporting x2apic.
6114
6115	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
6116			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
6117			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
6118			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
6119			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
6120
6121	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6122			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6123			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6124			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6125			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6126			domains.
6127
6128	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6129			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6130			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6131			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6132			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6133			nics -- unplug network devices
6134			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6135			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6136				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6137				the unplug protocol
6138			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6139
6140	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6141			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6142			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6143
6144	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6145			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6146			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6147			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6148
6149	xen_nopv	[X86]
6150			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6151			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6152			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6153			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6154
6155	xen_no_vector_callback
6156			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6157			event channel interrupts.
6158
6159	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6160			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6161			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6162			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6163			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6164
6165	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6166			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6167			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6168			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6169			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6170			more timer interrupts.
6171
6172	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6173			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6174			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6175			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6176			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6177			max. Default is 180.
6178
6179	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6180			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6181			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6182
6183	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6184			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6185			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6186
6187	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6188			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6189			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6190			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6191			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6192			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6193
6194	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6195			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6196			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6197			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6198
6199	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6200			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6201			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6202			contention.
6203
6204	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6205			Format:
6206			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6207
6208	xive=		[PPC]
6209			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6210			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6211			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6212
6213			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6214				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6215				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6216
6217	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6218			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6219			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6220			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6221
6222	xmon		[PPC]
6223			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6224			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6225			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6226			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6227				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6228			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6229				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6230				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6231				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6232			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6233				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6234				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6235				can be written using xmon commands.
6236			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6237				memory, and other data can't be written using
6238				xmon commands.
6239			off	xmon is disabled.
6240