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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2019-04-02 09:59:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-05-14 19:19:41 +0200 |
| commit | f02eee68e2fc2ded5d620684599826d10392d055 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b42ce29a4bf2f6f30b67a30e39b6e8222fe18b4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 3880bc168f2188b7e039a9b16a13dbff7b80d462 (diff) | |
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
commit d71eb0ce109a124b0fa714832823b9452f2762cf upstream.
Add the mds=full,nosmt cmdline option. This is like mds=full, but with
SMT disabled if the CPU is vulnerable.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filenames]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst b/Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst index ff6bfdb97eee..aec9e49256b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst +++ b/Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ time with the option "mds=". The valid arguments for this option are: It does not automatically disable SMT. + full,nosmt The same as mds=full, with SMT disabled on vulnerable + CPUs. This is the complete mitigation. + off Disables MDS mitigations completely. ============ ============================================================= diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7164790b82c0..4c134700c120 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2341,8 +2341,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The options are: - full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs - off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation + full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs + full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable + SMT on vulnerable CPUs + off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation Not specifying this option is equivalent to mds=full. |