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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 3f390cc5f77e..fe39954ca058 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3423,6 +3423,9 @@ arch-independent options, each of which is an aggregation of existing arch-specific options. + Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the + kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. + off Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This improves system performance, but it may also @@ -3444,6 +3447,7 @@ retbleed=off [X86] spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] + spectre_bhi=off [X86] spectre_v2_user=off [X86] srbds=off [X86,INTEL] ssbd=force-off [ARM64] @@ -4169,13 +4173,11 @@ page_alloc.shuffle= [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator - should randomize its free lists. The randomization may - be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is - running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side - cache, and this parameter can be used to - override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag - can be read from sysfs at: + should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be + used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of + the flag can be read from sysfs at: /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. + This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. Storage of the information about who allocated @@ -4590,9 +4592,10 @@ norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of one PCI domain per PCI function - pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power + pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power Management. - off Disable ASPM. + off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any + configuration done by firmware unchanged. force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. @@ -4780,7 +4783,9 @@ prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports - that). + that). If enabled, the default kernel base address + might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space + Layout Randomization is disabled. Format: <bool> psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information @@ -5091,6 +5096,20 @@ delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too big. + rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] + Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach + maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it + does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not + use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a + normal grace period. + + How to enable it: + + echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp + or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" + + Default is 0. + rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] Measure performance of asynchronous grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). @@ -6064,6 +6083,15 @@ sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst + spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection + (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the + deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB + clearing sequence. + + on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation + as needed. + off - Disable the mitigation. + spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. The default operation protects the kernel from @@ -6600,7 +6628,7 @@ To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk Note, echoing 1 into this file without the - tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. + tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used to stop the printing of events to console at @@ -6736,6 +6764,7 @@ - "tpm" - "tee" - "caam" + - "dcp" If not specified then it defaults to iterating through the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the first trust source as a backend which is initialized @@ -6751,6 +6780,18 @@ If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. + trusted.dcp_use_otp_key + This is intended to be used in combination with + trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key + instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. + + trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test + This is intended to be used in combination with + trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the + blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where + having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing + scenarios. + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this @@ -7311,7 +7352,7 @@ This can be changed after boot by writing to the matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be - updated accordignly. + updated accordingly. workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work |