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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=  [HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112                        GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113                        the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117			Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
120			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123			auto-serialization feature.
124			This feature is enabled by default.
125			This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
128			   kernels.
129
130	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
131			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133			installed automatically and they will appear under
134			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135			This option turns off this feature.
136			Note that specifying this option does not affect
137			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
141			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
142			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
143
144	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
145			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
146			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
147			second kernel for kdump.
148
149	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
150			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
151
152	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
153			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
154			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
155			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
156			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
157
158	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
159			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
160			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
161			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
162			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
163						  strings
164			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
165						  strings
166			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
167
168			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
169			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
170			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
171			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
172			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
173			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
174			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
175			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
176			care about the state of the feature group strings which
177			should be controlled by the OSPM.
178			Examples:
179			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
180			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
181			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
182
183			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
184			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
185			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
186			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
187			multiple times through kernel command line is also
188			meaningless.
189			Examples:
190			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
191			     FALSE.
192
193			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
194			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
195			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
196			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
197			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
198			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
199			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
200			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
201			is useful when one want to control the state of the
202			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
203			the OSPM features.
204			Examples:
205			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
206			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
207			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
208			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
209			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
210			     equivalent to
211			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
212			     and
213			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
214			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
215
216	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
217			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
218			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
219			and always returns good values.
220
221	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
222			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
223
224	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
225			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
226			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
227
228	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
229			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
230				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
231			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
236			used during resume from hibernation.
237			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
238			control method, with respect to putting devices into
239			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
240			of _PTS is used by default).
241			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
242			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
243			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
244			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
245			but some broken systems don't work without it).
246
247	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
248			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
249			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
250
251	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
252			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
253
254	agp=		[AGP]
255			{ off | try_unsupported }
256			off: disable AGP support
257			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
258				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
259
260	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
261			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
262
263	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
264			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
265			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
266			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
267
268	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
269			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
270			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
271			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
272			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
273			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
274			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
275
276			32: only for 32-bit processes
277			64: only for 64-bit processes
278			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
279			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
280
281	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
282			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
283			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
284			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
285			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
286			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
287
288	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
289			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
290			Possible values are:
291			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
292				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
293				    flushed before they will be reused, which
294				    is a lot of faster
295			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
296				    the system
297			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
298					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
299					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
300					  requirements as needed. This option
301					  does not override iommu=pt
302
303	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
304			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
305			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
306			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
307			IOMMU initialization.
308
309	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
310			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
311			remapping modes:
312			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
313			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
314			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
315			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
316			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
317
318	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
319			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
320			Format: <a>,<b>
321			See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
322
323	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
324			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
325			connected to one of 16 gameports
326			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
327
328	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
329			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
330			Format: noidle
331			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
332			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
333			APC and your system crashes randomly.
334
335	apic=		[APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
336			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
337			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
338			Change the amount of debugging information output
339			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
340
341	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
342			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
343			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
344			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
345			      backup of CPU 0
346			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
347			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
348			      shot down by NMI
349
350	autoconf=	[IPV6]
351			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
352
353	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
354			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
355			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
356			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
357			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
358			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
359			apic=verbose is specified.
360			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
361
362	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
363			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
364
365	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
366			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
367
368	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
369
370	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
371
372	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
373			EzKey and similar keyboards
374
375	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
376
377	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
378			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
379
380	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
381			keyboards
382
383	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
384			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
385
386	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
387			Use software keyboard repeat
388
389	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
390			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
391			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
392			    until the next reboot
393			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
394			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
395			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
396			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
397			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
398			    auditd.
399			Default: unset
400
401	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
402			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
403			Default: 64
404
405	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
406			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
407			Format: { "0" | "1" }
408			0 - Disable the BAU.
409			1 - Enable the BAU.
410			unset - Disable the BAU.
411
412	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
413			Format: <io>,<mode>
414
415	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
416			Format: <io>,<mode>
417			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
418
419	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
420			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
421			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
422			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
423
424	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
425			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
426			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
427			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
428
429	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
430			embedded devices based on command line input.
431			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
432
433	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
434			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
435			no delay (0).
436			Format: integer
437
438	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
439
440	bert_disable	[ACPI]
441			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
442
443	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
444	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
445			kernel args too.
446	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
447	bttv.tuner=
448
449	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
450			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
451			at a time.
452
453	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
454
455	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
456			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
457			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
458			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
459			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
460			This option provides an override for these situations.
461
462	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
463			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
464			trust validation.
465			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
466
467	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
468			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
469			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
470			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
471			others).
472
473	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
474			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
475
476	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
477			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
478			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
479			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
480			  a single hierarchy
481			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
482			  subsystem
483			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
484			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
485			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
486
487	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
488			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
489			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
490			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
491
492	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
493			Format: <string>
494			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
495			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
496
497	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
500			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
501				any implied execute protection).
502			1 -- check protection requested by application.
503			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
504			Value can be changed at runtime via
505				/selinux/checkreqprot.
506
507	cio_ignore=	[S390]
508			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
509	clk_ignore_unused
510			[CLK]
511			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
512			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
513			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
514			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
515			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
516			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
517			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
518			platform with proper driver support.  For more
519			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
520
521	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
522			[Deprecated]
523			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
524			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
525			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
526			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
527
528	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
529			Format: <string>
530			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
531			with the name specified.
532			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
533			the platform:
534			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
535			[ACPI] acpi_pm
536			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
537				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
538			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
539				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
540			[MIPS] MIPS
541			[PARISC] cr16
542			[S390] tod
543			[SH] SuperH
544			[SPARC64] tick
545			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
546
547	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
548			[ARM,ARM64]
549			Format: <bool>
550			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
551			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
552			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
553			systems.
554
555	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
556			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
557			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
558			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
559			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
560			ones should be.
561			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
562			or using the feature without checking anything
563			will still see it. This just prevents it from
564			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
565			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
566			some critical bits.
567
568	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
569			[ARM,X86,KNL]
570			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
571			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
572			placement constraint by the physical address range of
573			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
574			altogether. For more information, see
575			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
576
577	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
578			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
579			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
580			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
581			a hypervisor.
582			Default: yes
583
584	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
585			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
586			allocations, by default set to 256K.
587
588	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
589			in an oops report.
590			Range: 0 - 8192
591			Default: 64
592
593	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
594			Format:
595			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
596
597	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
599
600	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
601			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
602			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
603
604	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
605	conmode=
606
607	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
608
609		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
610
611		ttyS<n>[,options]
612		ttyUSB0[,options]
613			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
614			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
615			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
616			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
617			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
618
619			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
620			information.  See
621			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
622			alternative.
623
624		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
625		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
626		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
627		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
628		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
629			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
630			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
631			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
632			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
633			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
634			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
635			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
636			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
637			the h/w is not re-initialized.
638
639		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
640			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
641
642                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
643                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
644			console=brl,ttyS0
645		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
646
647	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
648			seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
649			disables the blank timer.
650
651	coredump_filter=
652			[KNL] Change the default value for
653			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
654			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
655
656	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
657			[ARM,ARM64]
658			Format: <bool>
659			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
660			0: default value, disable debugging
661			1: enable debugging at boot time
662
663	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
664			disable the cpuidle sub-system
665
666	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
667			disable the cpufreq sub-system
668
669	cpu_init_udelay=N
670			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
671			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
672			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
673			Default: 10000
674
675	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
676			Format:
677			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
678
679	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
680			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
681			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
682			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
683			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
684			is selected automatically. Check
685			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
686
687	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
688			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
689			in the running system. The syntax of range is
690			start-[end] where start and end are both
691			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
692			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
693
694	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
695			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
696			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
697			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
698			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
699			available.
700			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
701	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
702			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
703			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
704			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
705			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
706			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
707			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
708			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
709			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
710			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
711			for second kernel instead.
712			0: to disable low allocation.
713			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
714			or memory reserved is below 4G.
715
716	cryptomgr.notests
717                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
718
719	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
720			Format: <dma>
721
722	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
723			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
724
725	dasd=		[HW,NET]
726			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
727
728	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
729			(one device per port)
730			Format: <port#>,<type>
731			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
732
733	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
734			time. See
735			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
736			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
737
738	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
739
740	debug_locks_verbose=
741			[KNL] verbose self-tests
742			Format=<0|1>
743			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
744			self-tests.
745			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
746			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
747			only useful to kernel developers.
748
749	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
750
751	no_debug_objects
752			[KNL] Disable object debugging
753
754	debug_guardpage_minorder=
755			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
756			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
757			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
758			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
759			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
760			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
761			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
762			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
763			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
764			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
765			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
766			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
767			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
768			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
769			bypassed) which are not detectable by
770			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
771			tracking down these problems.
772
773	debug_pagealloc=
774			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
776			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
777			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
778			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
779			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
780			on: enable the feature
781
782	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
783
784	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
785			Format: <area>[,<node>]
786			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
787
788	default_hugepagesz=
789			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
790			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
791			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
792			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
793			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
794			if not specified.
795
796	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
797			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
798
799	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
800			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
801			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
802			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
803			miss to occur.
804
805	disable=	[IPV6]
806			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
807
808	disable_radix	[PPC]
809			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
810
811	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
812			Format: <int>
813			The number of initial APIC ID for the
814			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
815			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
816			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
817			causing system reset or hang due to sending
818			INIT from AP to BSP.
819
820	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
821			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
822			to workaround buggy firmware.
823
824	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
825			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
826
827	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
828			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
829			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
830			entry later. This parameter disables that.
831
832	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
833			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
834			memory out of your available memory pool based on
835			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
836			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
837
838	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
839			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
840			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
841
842	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
843
844	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
845			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
846
847	dma_debug_entries=<number>
848			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
849			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
850			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
851			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
852			architectural default is too low.
853
854	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
855			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
856			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
857			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
858			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
859			driver later using sysfs.
860
861	drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
862			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
863			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
864			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
865			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
866			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
867			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
868			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
869			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
870			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
871			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
872			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
873			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
874			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
875			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
876			data set with no connector name will be used for
877			any connectors not explicitly specified.
878
879	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
880
881	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
882			Format: {"off" | "known"}
883			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
884			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
885			exists).
886			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
887			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
888			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
889
890	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
891			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
892			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
893			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
894
895	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
896	module.dyndbg[="val"]
897			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
898			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
899			for details.
900
901	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
902			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
903			information about the feature.
904
905	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
906			in some Intel CPUs.
907
908	module.async_probe [KNL]
909			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
910
911	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
912			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
913			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
914			which are not unmapped.
915
916	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
917
918			When used with no options, the early console is
919			determined by the stdout-path property in device
920			tree's chosen node.
921
922		cdns,<addr>[,options]
923			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
924			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
925			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
926			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
927			configured.
928
929		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
930		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
931		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
932		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
933		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
934			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
935			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
936			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
937			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
938			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
939			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
940			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
941			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
942
943		pl011,<addr>
944		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
945			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
946			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
947			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
948			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
949			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
950			the device registers.
951
952		meson,<addr>
953			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
954			port at the specified address. The serial port must
955			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
956			supported.
957
958		msm_serial,<addr>
959			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
960			port at the specified address. The serial port
961			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
962			yet supported.
963
964		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
965			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
966			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
967			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
968			yet supported.
969
970		owl,<addr>
971			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
972			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
973			specified address. The serial port must already be
974			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
975
976		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
977
978		s3c2410,<addr>
979		s3c2412,<addr>
980		s3c2440,<addr>
981		s3c6400,<addr>
982		s5pv210,<addr>
983		exynos4210,<addr>
984			Use early console provided by serial driver available
985			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
986			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
987			serial port must already be setup and configured.
988			Options are not yet supported.
989
990		lantiq,<addr>
991			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
992			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
993			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
994			yet supported.
995
996		lpuart,<addr>
997		lpuart32,<addr>
998			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
999			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1000			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1001			port must already be setup and configured.
1002
1003		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1004			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1005			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1006			address. The serial port must already be setup
1007			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1008
1009	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1010			earlyprintk=vga
1011			earlyprintk=efi
1012			earlyprintk=sclp
1013			earlyprintk=xen
1014			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1015			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1016			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1017			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1018			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1019			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1020
1021			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1022			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1023			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1024
1025			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1026			takes over.
1027
1028			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1029			be used at a time.
1030
1031			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1032			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1033			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1034			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1035				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1036			You can find the port for a given device in
1037			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1038				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1039
1040			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1041			very good.
1042
1043			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1044			the real console.
1045
1046			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1047
1048			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1049
1050			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1051			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1052			UART class.
1053
1054	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1055			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1056			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1057			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1058			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1059			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1060			default: on.
1061
1062	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1063			ekgdboc=kbd
1064
1065			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1066			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1067
1068	edd=		[EDD]
1069			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1070
1071	efi=		[EFI]
1072			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1073			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1074			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1075			default.
1076			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1077			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1078			firmware implementations.
1079			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1080			debug: enable misc debug output
1081
1082	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1083			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1084			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1085			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1086			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1087
1088	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1089			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1090			updating original EFI memory map.
1091			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1092			from ss to ss+nn.
1093			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1094			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1095			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1096			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1097
1098			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1099			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1100			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1101			doesn't support it.
1102
1103	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1104			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1105			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1106			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1107			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1108
1109
1110	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1111			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1112
1113	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1114			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1115			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1116
1117	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1118			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1119			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1120			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1121
1122	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1123			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1124			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1125			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1126			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1127
1128	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1129			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1130			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1131			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1132
1133	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1134			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1135			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1136			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1137			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1138
1139	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1140			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1141			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1142			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1143			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1144			Default value is 0.
1145			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1146
1147	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1148			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1149			support.
1150
1151	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1152			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1153			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1154
1155	evm=		[EVM]
1156			Format: { "fix" }
1157			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1158			current integrity status.
1159
1160	failslab=
1161	fail_page_alloc=
1162	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1163			General fault injection mechanism.
1164			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1165			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1166
1167	floppy=		[HW]
1168			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1169
1170	force_pal_cache_flush
1171			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1172			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1173			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1174			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1175
1176	forcepae [X86-32]
1177			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1178			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1179			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1180			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1181			and may cause unknown problems.
1182
1183	ftrace=[tracer]
1184			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1185			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1186			boot debugging.
1187
1188	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1189			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1190			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1191			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1192			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1193			oops.
1194
1195	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1196			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1197			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1198			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1199			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1200			tracing directory.
1201
1202	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1203			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1204			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1205			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1206			tracing directory.
1207
1208	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1209			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1210			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1211			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1212			that can be changed at run time by the
1213			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1214
1215	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1216			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1217			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1218			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1219			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1220
1221	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1222			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1223			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1224			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1225			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1226
1227	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1228			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1229			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1230			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1231			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1232
1233	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1234
1235	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1236			Format: off | on
1237			default: on
1238
1239	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1240			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1241			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1242			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1243			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1244
1245	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1246			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1247			android emulator
1248
1249	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1250			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1251			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1252			GPT to be used instead.
1253
1254	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1255			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1256			Format: 0 | 1
1257			Default: 0
1258	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1259			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1260			Format: 0 | 1
1261			Default: 0
1262	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1263			Format: 0 | 1
1264			Default: 0
1265	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1266			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1267			Default: 1024
1268	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1269			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1270			Default: 1024
1271
1272	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1273			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1274			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1275
1276	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1277			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1278			backtraces on all cpus.
1279			Format: <integer>
1280
1281	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1282			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1283			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1284			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1285
1286	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1287
1288	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1289			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1290
1291	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1292			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1293			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1294			logic will be disabled.
1295
1296	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1297			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1298			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1299			size on bigger boxes.
1300
1301	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1302			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1303			Default: "on"
1304
1305	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1306			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1307
1308	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1309
1310	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1311			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1312				verbose }
1313			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1314			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1315				VIA, nVidia)
1316			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1317
1318	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1319			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1320
1321	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1322	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1323			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1324			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1325			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1326			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1327			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1328
1329	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1330			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1331	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1332			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1333			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1334
1335	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1336			        hardware thread id mappings.
1337				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1338
1339	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1340			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1341			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1342			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1343			the real console.
1344
1345	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1346			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1347			     registered from board initialization code.
1348			     Format:
1349			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1350
1351	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1352	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1353			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1354			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1355			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1356	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1357	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1358			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1359			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1360	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1361	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1362	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1363			     for the AUX port
1364	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1365			     controller
1366	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1367			     controllers
1368	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1369	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1370			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1371			     transitions, or never reset
1372			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1373			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1374			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1375			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1376			architectures force reset to be always executed
1377	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1378	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1379
1380	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1381
1382	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1383			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1384			hardware.
1385	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1386			does not match list of supported models.
1387	i8k.power_status
1388			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1389			(disabled by default)
1390	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1391			capability is set.
1392
1393	i915.invert_brightness=
1394			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1395			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1396			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1397			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1398			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1399			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1400			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1401			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1402			value switches the backlight off.
1403			-1 -- never invert brightness
1404			 0 -- machine default
1405			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1406
1407	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1408			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1409
1410	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1411			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1412			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1413			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1414			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1415
1416	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1417			Format: <int>
1418			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1419			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1420			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1421			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1422			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1423			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1424			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1425			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1426			was 0x3.
1427
1428	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1429			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1430
1431	idle=		[X86]
1432			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1433			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1434			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1435			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1436			Not recommended.
1437			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1438			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1439			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1440
1441	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1442			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1443			Default: strict
1444
1445			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1446			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1447			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1448			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1449			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1450			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1451			encoding mode.
1452
1453			Available settings are as follows:
1454			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1455				supported by the FPU
1456			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1457				by the FPU
1458			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1459				by the FPU
1460			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1461				supported by the FPU
1462
1463			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1464			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1465			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1466			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1467			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1468			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1469			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1470			MIPS64 CPUs.
1471
1472			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1473			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1474			except where unsupported by hardware.
1475
1476	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1477			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1478			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1479			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1480			could change it dynamically, usually by
1481			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1482
1483	ignore_rlimit_data
1484			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1485			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1486			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1487
1488	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1489			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1490
1491	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1492			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1493			default: "enforce"
1494
1495	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1496			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1497			owned by uid=0.
1498
1499	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1500			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1501			measurements, instead of host native format.
1502
1503	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1504			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1505				   | sha512 | ... }
1506			default: "sha1"
1507
1508			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1509			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1510
1511	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1512			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1513			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1514
1515			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1516			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1517			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1518			uid=0.
1519
1520			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1521			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1522			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1523
1524			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1525			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1526			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1527
1528	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1529			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1530			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1531			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1532			opened for read by uid=0.
1533
1534	ima_template=   [IMA]
1535			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1536			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1537			Default: "ima-ng"
1538
1539	ima_template_fmt=
1540	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1541			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1542
1543	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1544			Format: <min_file_size>
1545			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1546			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1547
1548			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1549			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1550			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1551
1552	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1553			Format: <bufsize>
1554			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1555
1556			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1557			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1558			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1559
1560	init=		[KNL]
1561			Format: <full_path>
1562			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1563			process.
1564
1565	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1566			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1567			startup.
1568
1569	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1570			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1571			modules and initcalls.
1572
1573	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1574
1575	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1576			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1577			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1578			override in debugfs after boot.
1579
1580	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1581			Format: <irq>
1582
1583	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1584
1585	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1586			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1587			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1588			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1589
1590	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1591		on
1592			Enable intel iommu driver.
1593		off
1594			Disable intel iommu driver.
1595		igfx_off [Default Off]
1596			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1597			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1598			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1599			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1600			DMA.
1601		forcedac [x86_64]
1602			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1603			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1604			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1605			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1606			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1607			then look in the higher range.
1608		strict [Default Off]
1609			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1610			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1611			to batching them for performance.
1612		sp_off [Default Off]
1613			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1614			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1615			not be supported.
1616		ecs_off [Default Off]
1617			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1618			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1619			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1620			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1621			on hardware which claims to support them.
1622		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1623			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1624			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1625			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1626			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1627			mapping is enabled.
1628			Note that using this option lowers the security
1629			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1630			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1631
1632	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1633			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1634			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1635
1636	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1637		       disable
1638		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1639		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1640		       passive
1641			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1642			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1643			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1644			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1645			 feature.
1646		       force
1647			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1648			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1649			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1650			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1651			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1652			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1653			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1654			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1655		       no_hwp
1656		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1657			 if available.
1658		hwp_only
1659			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1660			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1661		support_acpi_ppc
1662			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1663			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1664			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1665			then this feature is turned on by default.
1666		per_cpu_perf_limits
1667			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1668			cpufreq sysfs interface
1669
1670	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1671			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1672			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1673			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1674			no_x2apic_optout
1675				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1676			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1677
1678	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1679		strict	regions from userspace.
1680		relaxed
1681
1682	iommu=		[x86]
1683		off
1684		force
1685		noforce
1686		biomerge
1687		panic
1688		nopanic
1689		merge
1690		nomerge
1691		forcesac
1692		soft
1693		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1694		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1695			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1696
1697	iommu.passthrough=
1698			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1699			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1700			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1701			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1702			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1703
1704	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1705			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1706			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1707
1708	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1709		0x80
1710			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1711		0xed
1712			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1713		udelay
1714			Simple two microseconds delay
1715		none
1716			No delay
1717
1718	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1719			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1720
1721	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1722			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1723
1724	irqfixup	[HW]
1725			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1726			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1727			firmware running.
1728
1729	irqpoll		[HW]
1730			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1731			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1732			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1733			firmware running.
1734
1735	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1736			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1737
1738	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1739			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1740
1741			This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1742			to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1743			algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1744			"isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1745			<cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1746			"number of CPUs in system - 1".
1747
1748			This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1749			alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1750			tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1751			suboptimal load balancer performance.
1752
1753	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1754
1755	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1756			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1757			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1758			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1759			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1760				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1761
1762	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1763			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1764			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1765			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1766			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1767				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1768
1769	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1770			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1771			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1772			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1773			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1774				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1775
1776	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1777			See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1778
1779	nokaslr		[KNL]
1780			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1781			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1782			Layout Randomization).
1783
1784	kasan_multi_shot
1785			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1786			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1787			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1788			invalid access.
1789
1790	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1791
1792	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1793			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1794			This parameter
1795			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1796			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1797			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1798			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1799			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1800			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1801			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1802			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1803			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1804			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1805			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1806			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1807			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1808			zone if it does not.
1809
1810			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1811			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1812			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1813			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1814			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1815			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1816			time.
1817
1818	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1819			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1820			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1821			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1822			optional and is the number seconds in between
1823			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1824			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1825			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1826			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1827			the kernel debugger.
1828
1829	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1830			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1831			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1832			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1833			 keyboard only format: kbd
1834			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1835			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1836			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1837			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1838
1839	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1840			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1841
1842	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1843			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1844			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1845
1846	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1847			Valid arguments: on, off
1848			Default: on
1849			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1850			the default is off.
1851
1852	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
1853			and kernel address spaces.
1854			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
1855			0: force disabled
1856			1: force enabled
1857
1858	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1859			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1860
1861	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1862			KVM MMU at runtime.
1863			Default is 0 (off)
1864
1865	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
1866			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
1867			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
1868			force	: Always deploy workaround.
1869			off	: Never deploy workaround.
1870			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
1871				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
1872
1873			Default is 'auto'.
1874
1875			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
1876			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
1877
1878	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
1879			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
1880			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
1881			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
1882			minute.  The default is 60.
1883
1884	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1885			Default is 1 (enabled)
1886
1887	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1888			for all guests.
1889			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1890
1891	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1892			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1893			system registers
1894
1895	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1896			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1897			system registers
1898
1899	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1900			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1901			system registers
1902
1903	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1904			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1905			Default is 1 (enabled)
1906
1907	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1908			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1909			Default is 0 (disabled)
1910
1911	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1912			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1913			Default is 1 (enabled)
1914
1915	kvm-intel.nested=
1916			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1917			Default is 0 (disabled)
1918
1919	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1920			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1921			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1922			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1923
1924	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
1925			CVE-2018-3620.
1926
1927			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
1928
1929			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
1930			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
1931				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
1932			never:	Disables the mitigation
1933
1934			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
1935
1936	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1937			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1938			Default is 1 (enabled)
1939
1940	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
1941			      affected CPUs
1942
1943			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
1944			enabled and cannot be disabled.
1945
1946			full
1947				Provides all available mitigations for the
1948				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
1949				enables all mitigations in the
1950				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
1951
1952				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
1953				sysfs interface is still possible after
1954				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
1955				when the first VM is started in a
1956				potentially insecure configuration,
1957				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
1958
1959			full,force
1960				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
1961				flush runtime control. Implies the
1962				'nosmt=force' command line option.
1963				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
1964
1965			flush
1966				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
1967				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
1968				L1D flush.
1969
1970				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
1971				sysfs interface is still possible after
1972				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
1973				when the first VM is started in a
1974				potentially insecure configuration,
1975				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
1976
1977			flush,nosmt
1978
1979				Disables SMT and enables the default
1980				hypervisor mitigation.
1981
1982				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
1983				sysfs interface is still possible after
1984				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
1985				when the first VM is started in a
1986				potentially insecure configuration,
1987				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
1988
1989			flush,nowarn
1990				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
1991				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
1992				insecure configuration.
1993
1994			off
1995				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
1996				emit any warnings.
1997				It also drops the swap size and available
1998				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
1999				bare metal.
2000
2001			Default is 'flush'.
2002
2003			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2004
2005	l2cr=		[PPC]
2006
2007	l3cr=		[PPC]
2008
2009	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2010			disabled it.
2011
2012	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2013			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2014			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2015
2016	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2017			in C2 power state.
2018
2019	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2020			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2021			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2022			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2023			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2024			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2025			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2026
2027	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2028			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2029			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2030
2031	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2032			when set.
2033			Format: <int>
2034
2035	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2036			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2037			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2038			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2039			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2040			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2041			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2042			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2043
2044			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2045			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2046			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2047			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2048			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2049			host link and device attached to it.
2050
2051			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2052			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2053			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2054			The following configurations can be forced.
2055
2056			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2057			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2058
2059			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2060
2061			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2062			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2063			  allowed.
2064
2065			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2066
2067			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2068
2069			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2070                          and both resets.
2071
2072			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2073			  hot-unplug link recovery
2074
2075			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2076
2077			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2078
2079			* disable: Disable this device.
2080
2081			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2082			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2083
2084	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2085
2086	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2087			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2088
2089	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2090			Format: <integer>
2091
2092	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2093			Format: <integer>
2094
2095	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2096			Format: <integer>
2097
2098	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2099			Format: <integer>
2100
2101	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2102			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2103			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2104			number of online CPUs.
2105
2106	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2107			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2108
2109	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2110			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2111
2112	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2113			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2114			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2115
2116	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2117			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2118			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2119			mode during the locktorture test.
2120
2121	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2122			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2123			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2124
2125	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2126			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2127
2128	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2129			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2130			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2131			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2132			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2133			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2134
2135	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2136			Start locktorture running at boot time.
2137
2138	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2139			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2140
2141	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2142			Enable additional printk() statements.
2143
2144	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2145			Format: <irq>
2146
2147	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2148			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2149			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2150			loglevels are defined as follows:
2151
2152			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2153			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2154			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2155			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2156			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2157			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2158			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2159			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2160
2161	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2162			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2163			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2164			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2165			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2166			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2167			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2168
2169	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2170			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2171			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2172			kernel boot problems.
2173
2174	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2175	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2176	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2177	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2178				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2179				attached printers to be reset. Using
2180				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2181				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2182				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2183				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2184				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2185				port specification list means that device IDs
2186				from each port should be examined, to see if
2187				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2188				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2189				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2190
2191	lpj=n		[KNL]
2192			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2193			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2194			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2195			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2196			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2197			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2198			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2199			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2200			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2201			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2202			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2203			hardware.
2204
2205	ltpc=		[NET]
2206			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2207
2208	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2209			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2210			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2211
2212	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2213			 yeeloong laptop.
2214			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2215
2216	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2217			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2218
2219	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2220			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2221			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2222			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2223			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2224			only takes effect during system bootup.
2225			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2226			which also disables the IO APIC.
2227
2228	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2229	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2230			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2231			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2232			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2233			/dev/loop-control interface.
2234
2235	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2236
2237	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2238
2239	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2240			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2241
2242	mdacon=		[MDA]
2243			Format: <first>,<last>
2244			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2245
2246	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2247			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2248			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2249
2250			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2251			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2252			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2253
2254			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2255			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2256			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2257			not have direct access.
2258
2259			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2260			options are:
2261
2262			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2263			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2264				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2265			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2266
2267			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2268			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2269			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2270			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2271			too.
2272
2273			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2274			mds=full.
2275
2276			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2277
2278	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2279			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2280			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2281			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2282			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2283			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2284			belonging to unused RAM.
2285
2286	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2287			memory.
2288
2289	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2290			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2291			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2292
2293        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2294			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2295			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2296			set according to the
2297			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2298			option.
2299			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2300
2301	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2302			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2303			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2304			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2305			option description.
2306
2307	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2308			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2309			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2310			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2311			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2312			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2313			comma delimited.
2314			Example:
2315				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2316
2317	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2318			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2319			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2320
2321	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2322			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2323			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2324			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2325			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2326			         or
2327			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2328			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2329			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2330			will be eaten.
2331
2332	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2333			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2334			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2335			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2336			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2337
2338	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2339			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2340			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2341			Setting this option will scan the memory
2342			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2343			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2344			from using the memory being corrupted.
2345			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2346			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2347			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2348			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2349
2350	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2351			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2352			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2353			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2354			corruption in more or less memory.
2355
2356	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2357			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2358			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2359			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2360
2361	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2362			Format: <integer>
2363			default : 0 <disable>
2364			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2365			performed. Each pass selects another test
2366			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2367			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2368			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2369			regions that are detected.
2370
2371	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2372			Valid arguments: on, off
2373			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2374			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2375			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2376			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2377			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2378
2379			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2380			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2381
2382	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2383			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2384			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2385			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2386			See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2387
2388	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2389			See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2390
2391	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2392			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2393			platforms.
2394
2395	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2396			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2397			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2398			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2399
2400	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2401
2402	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2403			physical address is ignored.
2404
2405	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2406			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2407			Default: "0tb"
2408			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2409			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2410			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2411			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2412			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2413			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2414			unconfigured.
2415			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2416			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2417			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2418			VGA shield.
2419			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2420			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2421			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2422			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2423			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2424			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2425
2426	mitigations=
2427			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2428			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2429			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2430			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2431
2432			off
2433				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2434				improves system performance, but it may also
2435				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2436				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2437					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2438					       nospectre_v1 [PPC]
2439					       nobp=0 [S390]
2440					       nospectre_v1 [X86]
2441					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2442					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2443					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2444					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2445					       l1tf=off [X86]
2446					       mds=off [X86]
2447					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2448					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2449
2450				Exceptions:
2451					       This does not have any effect on
2452					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2453					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2454
2455			auto (default)
2456				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2457				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2458				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2459				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2460				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2461				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2462
2463			auto,nosmt
2464				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2465				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2466				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2467				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2468					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2469					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2470
2471	mminit_loglevel=
2472			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2473			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2474			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2475			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2476			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2477			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2478
2479	module.sig_enforce
2480			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2481			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2482			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2483			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2484
2485	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2486			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2487
2488	mousedev.tap_time=
2489			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2490			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2491			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2492			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2493			Format: <msecs>
2494	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2495			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2496	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2497			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2498
2499	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2500			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2501			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2502			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2503			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2504			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2505			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2506			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2507			is not too small.
2508
2509	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2510			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2511			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2512			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2513			allocations. Use with caution!
2514
2515	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2516			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2517
2518	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2519			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2520
2521	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2522			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2523
2524	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2525			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2526			at a time.
2527
2528	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2529
2530			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2531
2532			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2533				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2534			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2535				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2536				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2537
2538	mtdset=		[ARM]
2539			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2540
2541			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2542
2543	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2544			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2545			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2546
2547	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2548			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2549			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2550
2551	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2552			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2553			Default is 1.
2554			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2555			using up MTRRs.
2556
2557	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2558			Format: <integer>
2559			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2560			Default : 1
2561			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2562			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2563
2564	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2565
2566	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2567			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2568			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2569			something different and driver-specific.
2570			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2571			file if at all.
2572
2573	nf_conntrack.acct=
2574			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2575			0 to disable accounting
2576			1 to enable accounting
2577			Default value is 0.
2578
2579	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2580			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2581
2582	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2583			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2584
2585	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2586			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2587
2588	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2589			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2590			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2591			requests.
2592
2593	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2594			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2595			channel should listen.
2596
2597	nfs.cache_getent=
2598			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2599			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2600
2601	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2602			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2603			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2604
2605	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2606			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2607			entries.
2608
2609	nfs.enable_ino64=
2610			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2611			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2612			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2613			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2614			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2615
2616	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2617			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2618			slots the client will assign to the callback
2619			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2620			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2621			a particular server.
2622
2623	nfs.max_session_slots=
2624			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2625			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2626			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2627			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2628			Note that there is little point in setting this
2629			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2630
2631	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2632			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2633			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2634			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2635			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2636			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2637			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2638			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2639			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2640			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2641			back to using the idmapper.
2642			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2643	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2644			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2645			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2646			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2647			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2648
2649	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2650			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2651			information in exchange_id requests.
2652			If zero, no implementation identification information
2653			will be sent.
2654			The default is to send the implementation identification
2655			information.
2656
2657	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2658			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2659			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2660			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2661			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2662			after the locks are lost.
2663			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2664			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2665			parameter to '1'.
2666			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2667			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2668
2669	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2670			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2671			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2672
2673			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2674			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2675			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2676			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2677
2678	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2679			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2680			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2681			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2682			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2683			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2684
2685	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2686			when a NMI is triggered.
2687			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2688
2689	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2690			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2691			Valid num: 0 or 1
2692			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2693			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2694			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2695			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2696			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2697			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2698			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2699			need the box quickly up again.
2700
2701	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2702			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2703			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2704			waits 4 seconds.
2705
2706	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2707			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2708			is present.
2709
2710	no_console_suspend
2711			[HW] Never suspend the console
2712			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2713			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2714			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2715			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2716			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2717			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2718			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2719			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2720			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2721			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2722			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2723			turn on/off it dynamically.
2724
2725	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2726			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2727			but will impact performance.
2728
2729	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2730
2731	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2732			(CPU alternatives feature).
2733
2734	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2735			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2736
2737	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2738
2739	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2740			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2741
2742	nocache		[ARM]
2743
2744	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2745
2746	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2747
2748	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2749
2750	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2751
2752	noexec		[IA-64]
2753
2754	noexec		[X86]
2755			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2756			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2757			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2758
2759	nosmap		[X86]
2760			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2761			even if it is supported by processor.
2762
2763	nosmep		[X86]
2764			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2765			even if it is supported by processor.
2766
2767	noexec32	[X86-64]
2768			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2769			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2770				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2771			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2772				read implies executable mappings
2773
2774	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2775
2776	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2777			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2778			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2779
2780	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2781
2782	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2783			Equivalent to smt=1.
2784
2785			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2786			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2787				     via the sysfs control file.
2788
2789	nospectre_v1	[X66, PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2790			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks
2791			are possible in the system.
2792
2793	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2794			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2795			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2796			option.
2797
2798	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2799			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2800
2801	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2802			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2803			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2804
2805	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2806			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2807			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2808			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2809			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2810			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2811
2812	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2813			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2814			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2815			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2816			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2817			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2818			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2819
2820	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2821			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2822			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2823
2824	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2825			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2826			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2827
2828	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2829			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2830			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2831			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2832			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2833			real-time systems.
2834
2835	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2836
2837	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2838			Valid arguments: on, off
2839			Default: on
2840
2841	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
2842			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2843			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2844			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2845			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2846			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2847			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2848			just as if they had also been called out in the
2849			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2850
2851	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2852
2853	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2854			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2855
2856	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2857			broken timer IRQ sources.
2858
2859	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2860
2861	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2862			initial RAM disk.
2863
2864	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2865			remapping.
2866			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2867
2868	nointroute	[IA-64]
2869
2870	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2871
2872	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2873
2874	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2875
2876	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2877			fault handling.
2878
2879	no-vmw-sched-clock
2880			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2881			clock and use the default one.
2882
2883	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2884			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2885			behaviour
2886
2887	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2888
2889	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2890
2891	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2892			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2893
2894	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2895
2896	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2897
2898	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2899			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2900
2901	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2902			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2903			irq.
2904
2905	nomodule	Disable module load
2906
2907	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2908			pagetables) support.
2909
2910	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2911
2912	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2913			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2914
2915	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2916			with UP alternatives
2917
2918	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2919			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2920			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2921			available to user space applications.
2922
2923	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2924			space.
2925
2926	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2927			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2928			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2929
2930	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2931
2932	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2933
2934	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2935			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2936
2937	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2938
2939	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2940
2941	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2942
2943	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2944                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2945
2946	nowb		[ARM]
2947
2948	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2949
2950	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2951			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2952			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2953			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2954			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2955			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2956			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2957			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2958			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2959			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2960			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2961			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2962			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2963
2964	nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2965			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2966			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2967			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2968			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2969			parameter's value.
2970			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2971			Default: 255
2972
2973	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2974			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2975			SAL PALO.
2976
2977	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2978			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2979			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2980			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2981			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2982			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2983			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2984			hot plugging.
2985
2986	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2987
2988	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2989			Allowed values are enable and disable
2990
2991	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2992			'node', 'default' can be specified
2993			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2994			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2995
2996	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2997			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2998			info.
2999
3000	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3001			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3002			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3003			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3004			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3005			interrupts *may* be lost!
3006
3007	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3008			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3009			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3010			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3011
3012	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3013			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3014
3015	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3016			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3017			userland or if you want common events.
3018			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3019			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3020				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3021				CPU specific event set.
3022			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3023				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3024				for generic hr timer mode)
3025
3026	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3027			process, but there is a small probability of
3028			deadlocking the machine.
3029			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3030			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3031
3032	OSS		[HW,OSS]
3033			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
3034
3035	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3036			Storage of the information about who allocated
3037			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3038			we can turn it on.
3039			on: enable the feature
3040
3041	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3042			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
3043			off: turn off poisoning
3044			on: turn on poisoning
3045
3046	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3047			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3048			timeout = 0: wait forever
3049			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3050			Format: <timeout>
3051
3052	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3053			on a WARN().
3054
3055	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3056			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3057			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3058			succeeds in any situation.
3059			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3060			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3061			kernel more unstable.
3062
3063	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3064			connected to, default is 0.
3065			Format: <parport#>
3066	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3067			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3068			Format: <mode>
3069
3070	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3071			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3072			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3073			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3074			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3075			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3076			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3077			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3078			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3079			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3080			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3081			are specified on the command line, starting
3082			with parport0.
3083
3084	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3085			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3086			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3087			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3088			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3089			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3090			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3091
3092	pause_on_oops=
3093			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3094			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3095			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3096
3097	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3098
3099	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3100			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3101			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3102
3103	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
3104		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
3105			        changes anything
3106		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3107		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3108				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3109				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3110		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3111				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3112				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3113				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3114		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3115				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3116				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3117		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3118				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3119				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3120				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3121				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3122				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3123				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3124		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3125				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3126				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3127		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3128				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3129		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3130				Configuration
3131		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3132				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3133				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3134		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3135				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3136				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3137		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3138				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3139				should never be necessary.
3140		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3141				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3142				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3143				when the system masks IRQs.
3144		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3145				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3146				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3147				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3148		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3149				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3150				on several machines and they hang the machine
3151				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3152				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3153				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3154				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3155				motherboard.
3156		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3157				Use with caution as certain devices share
3158				address decoders between ROMs and other
3159				resources.
3160		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3161				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3162				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3163		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3164				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3165		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3166				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3167				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3168				this way.
3169		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3170				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3171				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3172				F0000h-100000h range.
3173		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3174				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3175				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3176				explicitly which ones they are.
3177		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3178				numbers ourselves, overriding
3179				whatever the firmware may have done.
3180		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3181				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3182				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3183				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3184				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3185				IRQ routing is enabled.
3186		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3187				or for PCI scanning.
3188		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3189				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3190				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3191				please report a bug.
3192		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3193			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3194		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3195				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3196				so this option is a temporary workaround
3197				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3198		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3199				handle more pci cards
3200		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3201				This might help on some broken boards which
3202				machine check when some devices' config space
3203				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3204				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3205		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3206				This sorting is done to get a device
3207				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3208		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3209		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3210				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3211		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3212				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3213		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3214				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3215				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3216				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3217				or bus can support) for best performance.
3218		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3219				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3220				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3221				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3222				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3223				that hot-added devices will work.
3224		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3225				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3226				The default value is 256 bytes.
3227		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3228				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3229				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3230		resource_alignment=
3231				Format:
3232				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3233				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3234						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3235				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3236				aligned memory resources.
3237				If <order of align> is not specified,
3238				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3239				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3240				windows need to be expanded.
3241				To specify the alignment for several
3242				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3243				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3244				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3245		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3246				end-to-end CRC checking).
3247				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3248				the default.
3249				off: Turn ECRC off
3250				on: Turn ECRC on.
3251		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3252				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3253				Default size is 256 bytes.
3254		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3255				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3256				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3257		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3258				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3259				Default is 1.
3260		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3261				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3262				accommodate resources required by all child
3263				devices.
3264				off: Turn realloc off
3265				on: Turn realloc on
3266		realloc		same as realloc=on
3267		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3268		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3269				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3270				port.
3271
3272	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3273			Management.
3274		off	Disable ASPM.
3275		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3276			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3277
3278	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3279		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3280			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3281
3282	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3283		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3284			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3285			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3286		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3287			unconditionally.
3288		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3289			ports driver.
3290
3291	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3292		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3293		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3294
3295	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3296		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3297			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3298
3299	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3300
3301	pd_ignore_unused
3302			[PM]
3303			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3304			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3305			for debug and development, but should not be
3306			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3307
3308	pd.		[PARIDE]
3309			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3310
3311	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3312			boot time.
3313			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3314			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3315
3316	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3317			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3318			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3319			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3320			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3321			and performance comparison.
3322
3323	pf.		[PARIDE]
3324			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3325
3326	pg.		[PARIDE]
3327			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3328
3329	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3330			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3331
3332	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3333			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3334			See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3335
3336	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3337			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3338			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3339
3340	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3341			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3342			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3343			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3344			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3345			possible settings and some assignment information.
3346
3347	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3348			{ off }
3349
3350	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3351			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3352
3353	pnp_reserve_irq=
3354			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3355
3356	pnp_reserve_dma=
3357			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3358
3359	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3360			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3361
3362	pnp_reserve_mem=
3363			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3364			autoconfiguration.
3365			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3366
3367	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3368			Default is 21.
3369			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3370			may be specified.
3371			Format: <port>,<port>....
3372
3373	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3374			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3375			platform machine description specific power_save
3376			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3377			execution priority.
3378
3379	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3380			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3381			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3382			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3383			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3384
3385	print-fatal-signals=
3386			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3387
3388			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3389			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3390			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3391			coredump - etc.
3392
3393			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3394			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3395
3396			default: off.
3397
3398	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3399			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3400			panics
3401			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3402			default: disabled
3403
3404	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3405			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3406			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3407			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3408			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3409			Default: ratelimit
3410
3411	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3412			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3413
3414	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3415			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3416			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3417
3418	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3419			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3420			instead using the legacy FADT method
3421
3422	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3423			Format: [schedule,]<number>
3424			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3425			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3426				statistical time based profiling.
3427			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3428				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3429			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3430
3431	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3432			before loading.
3433			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3434
3435	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3436			tracking.
3437			Format: <bool>
3438
3439	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3440			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3441	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3442			per second.
3443	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3444			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3445			(0 = never).
3446	psmouse.resolution=
3447			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3448	psmouse.smartscroll=
3449			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3450			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3451
3452	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3453
3454	pt.		[PARIDE]
3455			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3456
3457	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3458			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3459			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3460			system calls and interrupts.
3461
3462			on   - unconditionally enable
3463			off  - unconditionally disable
3464			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3465			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3466
3467			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3468
3469	nopti		[X86_64]
3470			Equivalent to pti=off
3471
3472	pty.legacy_count=
3473			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3474			default number.
3475
3476	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3477
3478	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3479
3480	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3481			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3482
3483	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3484			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3485
3486	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3487
3488		cec_disable	[X86]
3489				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3490				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3491
3492	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3493			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3494
3495			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3496			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3497			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3498			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3499			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3500			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3501			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3502			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3503			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3504			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3505
3506	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3507			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3508			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3509			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3510			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3511			This improves the real-time response for the
3512			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3513			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3514			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3515			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3516
3517	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3518			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3519			process in one batch.
3520
3521	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3522			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3523			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3524			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3525
3526	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3527			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3528			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3529
3530	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3531			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3532			RCU grace-period initialization.
3533
3534	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3535			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3536			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3537			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3538			the rcu_node combining tree.
3539
3540	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3541			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3542			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3543			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3544			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3545
3546	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3547			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3548			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3549			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3550			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3551			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3552			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3553
3554	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3555			Set required age in jiffies for a
3556			given grace period before RCU starts
3557			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3558			rcu_note_context_switch().
3559
3560	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3561			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3562			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3563			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3564			and maximum value is HZ.
3565
3566	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3567			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3568			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3569			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3570
3571	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3572			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3573			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3574			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3575			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3576			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3577			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3578			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3579			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3580			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3581
3582	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3583			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3584			defaults to the square root of the number of
3585			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3586			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3587			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3588
3589	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3590			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3591			batch limiting is disabled.
3592
3593	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3594			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3595			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3596
3597	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3598			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3599			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3600
3601	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3602			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3603			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3604			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3605			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3606
3607	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3608			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3609			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3610			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3611			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3612			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3613
3614	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3615			Measure performance of asynchronous
3616			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3617
3618	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3619			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3620			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3621			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3622			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3623			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3624
3625	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3626			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3627			grace-period primitives.
3628
3629	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3630			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3631			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3632			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3633			interference.
3634
3635	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3636			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3637			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3638			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3639			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3640			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3641			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3642			a single reader.
3643
3644	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3645			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3646			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3647			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3648
3649	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3650			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3651
3652	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3653			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3654
3655	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3656			Shut the system down after performance tests
3657			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3658			testing.
3659
3660	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3661			Enable additional printk() statements.
3662
3663	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3664			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3665			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3666			no holdoff.
3667
3668	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3669			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3670			callback-flood tests.
3671
3672	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3673			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3674			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3675			test.
3676
3677	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3678			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3679			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3680			disable callback-flood testing.
3681
3682	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3683			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3684			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3685
3686	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3687			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3688			in microseconds.
3689
3690	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3691			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3692			in microseconds.
3693
3694	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3695			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3696			in seconds.
3697
3698	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3699			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3700			primitives, if available.
3701
3702	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3703			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3704
3705	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3706			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3707			update-side primitives, if available.
3708
3709	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3710			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3711			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3712			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3713			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3714			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3715			they are all non-zero.
3716
3717	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3718			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3719
3720	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3721			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3722			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3723			test, hence the "fake".
3724
3725	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3726			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3727			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3728			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3729			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3730			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3731
3732	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3733			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3734
3735	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3736			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3737
3738	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3739			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3740			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3741
3742	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3743			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3744			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3745			during the rcutorture test.
3746
3747	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3748			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3749			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3750
3751	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3752			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3753			warnings, zero to disable.
3754
3755	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3756			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3757
3758	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3759			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3760
3761	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3762			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3763			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3764			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3765			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3766
3767	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3768			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3769			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3770			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3771
3772	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3773			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3774
3775	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3776			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3777
3778	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3779			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3780			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3781
3782	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3783			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3784
3785	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3786			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3787
3788	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3789			Enable additional printk() statements.
3790
3791	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3792			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3793
3794	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3795			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3796
3797	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3798			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3799			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3800			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3801			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3802			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3803			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3804
3805	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3806			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3807			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3808			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3809			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3810			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3811			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3812			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3813			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3814
3815	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3816			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3817			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3818			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3819			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3820
3821	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3822			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3823			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3824			to zero.
3825
3826	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3827			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3828
3829	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3830			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3831
3832	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3833			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3834
3835	rdinit=		[KNL]
3836			Format: <full_path>
3837			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3838			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3839
3840	rdrand=		[X86]
3841			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
3842				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
3843				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
3844				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
3845				path).
3846
3847	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3848			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3849			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3850			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3851				rdt=cmt,!mba
3852
3853	reboot=		[KNL]
3854			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3855				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3856				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3857				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3858				[[,]f[orce]
3859			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3860			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3861			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3862			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3863					to be used for rebooting.
3864
3865	relax_domain_level=
3866			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3867			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3868
3869	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3870
3871	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3872			Format: nn[KMG]
3873			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3874			address space.
3875
3876	reservelow=	[X86]
3877			Format: nn[K]
3878			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3879			the bottom of the address space.
3880
3881	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3882			during initialization.
3883
3884	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3885			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3886			Format:
3887			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3888
3889	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3890			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3891			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3892			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3893			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3894
3895	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3896			read the resume files
3897
3898	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3899			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3900			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3901
3902	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3903		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3904				present during boot.
3905		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3906		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3907		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3908				(that will set all pages holding image data
3909				during restoration read-only).
3910
3911	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3912
3913	rfkill.default_state=
3914		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3915			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3916		1	Unblocked.
3917
3918	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3919		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3920		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3921			blocked and the previous configuration.
3922		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3923			blocked and everything unblocked.
3924
3925	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3926			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3927
3928	ring3mwait=disable
3929			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3930			CPUs.
3931
3932	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3933
3934	rodata=		[KNL]
3935		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3936		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3937
3938	rockchip.usb_uart
3939			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3940			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3941			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3942			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3943
3944	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3945			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3946
3947	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3948			mount the root filesystem
3949
3950	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3951
3952	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3953
3954	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3955			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3956			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3957
3958	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3959			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3960			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3961			managed by CMA.
3962
3963	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3964
3965	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3966
3967	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3968			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3969		strict
3970			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3971			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3972			which is faster.
3973
3974	sa1100ir	[NET]
3975			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3976
3977	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3978
3979	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3980
3981	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3982			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3983			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3984			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3985
3986	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3987			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3988			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3989			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3990			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3991			1 -- enable.
3992			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3993			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3994
3995	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3996			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3997			security module asking for security registration will be
3998			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3999			as if no module has been chosen.
4000
4001	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4002			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4003			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4004			0 -- disable.
4005			1 -- enable.
4006			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4007			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4008			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4009
4010	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4011			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4012			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4013			0 -- disable.
4014			1 -- enable.
4015			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4016
4017	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4018
4019	shapers=	[NET]
4020			Maximal number of shapers.
4021
4022	simeth=		[IA-64]
4023	simscsi=
4024
4025	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4026
4027	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4028			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4029			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4030			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4031			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4032			layout control by attackers can usually be
4033			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4034			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4035			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4036			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4037			own.
4038			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4039
4040	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4041			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4042			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4043			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4044			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4045
4046	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4047			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4048			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4049			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4050			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4051			last alloc / free. For more information see
4052			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4053
4054	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4055			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4056			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4057			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4058			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4059			directories and files being created under
4060			/sys/kernel/slub.
4061
4062	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4063			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4064			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4065			fragmentation. For more information see
4066			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4067
4068	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4069			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4070			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4071			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4072			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4073			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4074			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4075			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4076
4077	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4078			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4079			lower than slub_max_order.
4080			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4081
4082	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4083			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4084			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4085
4086	smart2=		[HW]
4087			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4088
4089	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4090	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4091	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4092	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4093	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4094	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4095	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4096				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4097				1: Fast pin select (default)
4098				2: ATC IRMode
4099
4100	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4101			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4102			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4103			actual hardware limit.
4104			Format: <integer>
4105			Default: -1 (no limit)
4106
4107	softlockup_panic=
4108			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4109			Format: <integer>
4110
4111	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4112			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4113			backtraces on all cpus.
4114			Format: <integer>
4115
4116	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4117			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4118
4119	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4120			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4121			The default operation protects the kernel from
4122			user space attacks.
4123
4124			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4125			       spectre_v2_user=on
4126			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4127			       spectre_v2_user=off
4128			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4129			       vulnerable
4130
4131			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4132			mitigation method at run time according to the
4133			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4134			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4135			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4136
4137			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4138			against user space to user space task attacks.
4139
4140			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4141			the user space protections.
4142
4143			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4144
4145			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4146			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4147			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4148
4149			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4150			spectre_v2=auto.
4151
4152	spectre_v2_user=
4153			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4154		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4155		        user space tasks
4156
4157			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4158				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4159
4160			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4161				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4162
4163			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4164				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4165				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4166				  is inherited on fork.
4167
4168			prctl,ibpb
4169				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4170				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4171				  always when switching between different user
4172				  space processes.
4173
4174			seccomp
4175				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4176				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4177				  they explicitly opt out.
4178
4179			seccomp,ibpb
4180				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4181				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4182				  always when switching between different
4183				  user space processes.
4184
4185			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4186				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4187
4188			Default mitigation:
4189			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4190
4191			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4192			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4193
4194	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4195			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4196			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4197
4198			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4199			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4200			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4201			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4202			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4203			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4204			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4205			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4206
4207			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4208			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4209			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4210			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4211
4212			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4213			Bypass optimization is used.
4214
4215			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4216			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4217			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4218				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4219				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4220				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4221				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4222				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4223			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4224				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4225				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4226				  is inherited on fork.
4227			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4228				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4229
4230			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4231			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4232
4233			Default mitigations:
4234			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4235
4236	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4237	spia_fio_base=
4238	spia_pedr=
4239	spia_peddr=
4240
4241	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4242			Specifies how frequently to check for
4243			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4244			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4245			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4246			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4247			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4248			are ignored.
4249
4250	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4251			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4252			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4253			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4254			grace period will be considered for automatic
4255			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4256			expediting.
4257
4258	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4259			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4260
4261			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4262			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4263			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4264			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4265
4266			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4267				   for both kernel and userspace
4268			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4269				   for both kernel and userspace
4270			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4271				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4272				   to allow userspace to register its
4273				   interest in being mitigated too.
4274
4275	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4276			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4277			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4278			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4279			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4280			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4281
4282	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4283			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4284
4285	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4286			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4287			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4288			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4289			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4290			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4291			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4292
4293	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4294			Format: <num>
4295			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4296			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4297			as the initial boot-console.
4298			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4299
4300	sti_font=	[HW]
4301			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4302
4303	stifb=		[HW]
4304			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4305
4306	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4307	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4308			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4309			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4310			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4311			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4312			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4313			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4314			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4315			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4316			maximum port values.
4317
4318	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4319			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4320			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4321			process in parallel from a single connection.
4322			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4323
4324	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4325			[NFS]
4326			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4327			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4328			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4329			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4330			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4331			NFS server is running.
4332
4333			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4334				    automatically using heuristics
4335			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4336			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4337			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4338				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4339
4340	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4341	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4342			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4343			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4344			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4345			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4346			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4347			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4348
4349	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4350			[SUSPEND]
4351			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4352			mode before resuming the system (see
4353			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4354			is set. Default value is 5.
4355
4356	swapaccount=[0|1]
4357			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4358			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4359			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4360
4361	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4362			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4363			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4364			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4365			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4366			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4367
4368	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4369
4370	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4371			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4372			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4373			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4374			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4375			in older udev will not work anymore.
4376			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4377			the kernel configuration.
4378
4379	sysrq_always_enabled
4380			[KNL]
4381			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4382			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4383			Useful for debugging.
4384
4385	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4386			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4387			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4388			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4389			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4390			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4391
4392	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4393
4394	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4395			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4396			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4397			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4398			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4399			The system is woken from this state using a
4400			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4401
4402	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4403			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4404
4405	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4406			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4407			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4408
4409	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4410			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4411			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4412
4413	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4414			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4415			critical and hot trip points.
4416
4417	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4418			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4419
4420	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4421			-1: disable all passive trip points
4422			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4423			value
4424
4425	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4426			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4427			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4428			0: no polling (default)
4429
4430	threadirqs	[KNL]
4431			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4432			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4433
4434	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4435			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4436
4437	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4438			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4439			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4440
4441	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4442			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4443			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4444			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4445
4446	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4447			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4448			to the hypervisor.
4449
4450	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4451			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4452			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4453			kernel based on different criteria.
4454
4455	topology=	[S390]
4456			Format: {off | on}
4457			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4458			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4459			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4460			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4461			Default is on.
4462
4463	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4464			Format: {off}
4465			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4466			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4467			LPAR.
4468
4469	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4470
4471	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4472			Format: integer pcr id
4473			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4474			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4475			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4476			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4477			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4478			are saved.
4479
4480	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4481			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4482
4483	trace_event=[event-list]
4484			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4485			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4486			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4487			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4488
4489	trace_options=[option-list]
4490			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4491			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4492			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4493			to echo the option name into
4494
4495			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4496
4497			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4498			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4499
4500			      trace_options=stacktrace
4501
4502			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4503			section.
4504
4505	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4506			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4507			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4508			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4509			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4510			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4511
4512			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4513			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4514			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4515			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4516
4517			** CAUTION **
4518
4519			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4520			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4521			the system to live lock.
4522
4523	traceoff_on_warning
4524			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4525			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4526			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4527			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4528
4529			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4530			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4531			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4532
4533			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4534			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4535
4536	transparent_hugepage=
4537			[KNL]
4538			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4539			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4540			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4541			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4542
4543	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4544			Format: <string>
4545			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4546			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4547			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4548			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4549			virtualized environment.
4550			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4551			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4552			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4553			can add overhead.
4554
4555	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4556			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4557			support TSX control.
4558
4559			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4560
4561			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4562				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4563				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4564				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4565				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
4566				with leaving it enabled.
4567
4568			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4569				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4570				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4571				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4572				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4573				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4574				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4575
4576			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4577				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4578
4579			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4580
4581			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4582			for more details.
4583
4584	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4585			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4586
4587			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4588			certain CPUs that support Transactional
4589			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4590			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4591			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4592			conditions.
4593
4594			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4595			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4596			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
4597			access.
4598
4599			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
4600			options are:
4601
4602			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4603				     if TSX is enabled.
4604
4605			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
4606				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
4607				     is not disabled because CPU is not
4608				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
4609			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
4610
4611			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
4612			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
4613			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
4614			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
4615
4616			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4617			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
4618			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
4619			required and doesn't provide any additional
4620			mitigation.
4621
4622			For details see:
4623			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4624
4625	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4626			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4627			Format:
4628			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4629			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4630
4631	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4632			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4633			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4634			help "seeing" what's going on.
4635
4636	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4637			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4638
4639	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4640			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4641			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4642			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4643			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4644			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4645			reported either.
4646
4647	unknown_nmi_panic
4648			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4649
4650	usbcore.authorized_default=
4651			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4652			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4653			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4654
4655	usbcore.autosuspend=
4656			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4657			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4658			is the time required before an idle device will be
4659			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4660			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4661
4662	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4663			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4664
4665	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4666			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4667			(default = 65536).
4668
4669	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4670			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4671
4672	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4673			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4674			scheme (default 0 = off).
4675
4676	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4677			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4678			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4679
4680	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4681			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4682			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4683
4684	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4685			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4686                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4687			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4688
4689	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4690
4691	usbhid.mousepoll=
4692			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4693
4694	usbhid.jspoll=
4695			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4696
4697	usb-storage.delay_use=
4698			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4699			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4700
4701	usb-storage.quirks=
4702			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4703			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4704			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4705			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4706			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4707			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4708			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4709				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4710					of sense data, not on uas);
4711				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4712					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
4713				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4714					device capacity by one sector);
4715				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4716					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
4717				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4718					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4719				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4720					command, uas only);
4721				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4722					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4723				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4724					reported device capacity by one
4725					sector if the number is odd);
4726				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4727					device);
4728				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4729					command, uas only);
4730				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4731					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
4732				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4733					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
4734					not on uas);
4735				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4736					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
4737				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4738					reported by the device, not on uas);
4739				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4740					by default, not on uas);
4741				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4742					bogus residue values, not on uas);
4743				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4744					Logical Unit);
4745				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4746					commands, uas only);
4747				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4748				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4749					medium is write-protected).
4750				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4751					even if the device claims no cache,
4752					not on uas)
4753			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4754
4755	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4756			Format: <int>
4757			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4758				 1 - undefined instruction events
4759				 2 - system calls
4760				 4 - invalid data aborts
4761				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4762				16 - SIGBUS faults
4763			Example: user_debug=31
4764
4765	userpte=
4766			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4767
4768				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4769					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4770					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4771
4772	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4773			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4774
4775			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4776			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4777
4778	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4779			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4780			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4781
4782			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4783			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4784			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4785
4786			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4787			alias for vdso32=0.
4788
4789			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4790			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4791
4792	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4793			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4794
4795	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4796			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4797
4798	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4799			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4800			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4801			level and then send out the event to user space through
4802			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4803			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4804			brightness level.
4805			default: 1
4806
4807	virtio_mmio.device=
4808			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4809
4810				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4811			where:
4812				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4813						like K, M and G)
4814				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4815				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4816						request_irq())
4817				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4818			example:
4819				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4820
4821			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4822
4823	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4824			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4825			Documentation/svga.txt.
4826			Use vga=ask for menu.
4827			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4828			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4829
4830	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4831			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4832			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4833			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4834			mapped kernel RAM.
4835
4836	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4837			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4838			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4839
4840	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4841			Format: <command>
4842
4843	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4844			Format: <command>
4845
4846	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4847			Format: <command>
4848
4849	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4850			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4851			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4852			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4853			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4854			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4855			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4856
4857			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4858			            emulated reasonably safely.
4859
4860			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4861			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4862			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4863			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4864			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4865
4866			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4867			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4868			            might break your system.
4869
4870	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4871			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4872			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4873
4874	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4875			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4876			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4877			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4878
4879	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4880			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4881			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4882			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4883			ranging from 0-255.
4884
4885	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4886			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4887			Change the default green palette of the console.
4888			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4889			ranging from 0-255.
4890
4891	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4892			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4893			Change the default red palette of the console.
4894			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4895			ranging from 0-255.
4896
4897	vt.default_utf8=
4898			[VT]
4899			Format=<0|1>
4900			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4901			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4902			newly opened terminals.
4903
4904	vt.global_cursor_default=
4905			[VT]
4906			Format=<-1|0|1>
4907			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4908			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4909			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4910			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4911			cursors, 1 will display them.
4912
4913	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4914			Default: 2 = green.
4915
4916	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4917			Default: 3 = cyan.
4918
4919	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4920			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4921			or other driver-specific files in the
4922			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4923
4924	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4925			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4926			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4927			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4928			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4929			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4930			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4931			corresponding sysfs file.
4932
4933	workqueue.disable_numa
4934			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4935			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4936			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4937			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4938			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4939			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4940			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4941
4942	workqueue.power_efficient
4943			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4944			they show better performance thanks to cache
4945			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4946			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4947
4948			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4949			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4950			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4951			power usage at the cost of small performance
4952			overhead.
4953
4954			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4955			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4956
4957	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4958			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4959			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4960			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4961			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4962			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4963			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4964			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4965			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4966			impacted.
4967
4968	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4969			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4970			supporting x2apic.
4971
4972	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4973			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4974			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4975			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4976			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4977
4978	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4979			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4980			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4981			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4982			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4983			domains.
4984
4985	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4986			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4987			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4988			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4989			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4990			nics -- unplug network devices
4991			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4992			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4993				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4994				the unplug protocol
4995			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4996
4997	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
4998			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
4999			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5000
5001	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5002			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5003			optimizations.
5004
5005	xen_nopv	[X86]
5006			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5007			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5008
5009	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5010			Format:
5011			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5012