diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 58 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a1457995fd41..722b6eca2e93 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1623,6 +1623,26 @@ Format: off | on default: on + gather_data_sampling= + [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) + mitigation. + + Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which + allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was + previously stored in vector registers. + + This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. + The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be + disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation + disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. + + force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without + microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode + mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in + userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. + + off: Disable GDS mitigation. + gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. @@ -3273,24 +3293,25 @@ Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This improves system performance, but it may also expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. - Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] - if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] - nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] - nobp=0 [S390] - nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] - spectre_v2_user=off [X86] - spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] - ssbd=force-off [ARM64] - nospectre_bhb [ARM64] + Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] + gather_data_sampling=off [X86] + kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] l1tf=off [X86] mds=off [X86] - tsx_async_abort=off [X86] - kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] - srbds=off [X86,INTEL] + mmio_stale_data=off [X86] no_entry_flush [PPC] no_uaccess_flush [PPC] - mmio_stale_data=off [X86] + nobp=0 [S390] + nopti [X86,PPC] + nospectre_bhb [ARM64] + nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] retbleed=off [X86] + spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] + spectre_v2_user=off [X86] + srbds=off [X86,INTEL] + ssbd=force-off [ARM64] + tsx_async_abort=off [X86] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on @@ -5875,6 +5896,17 @@ Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2_user=auto. + spec_rstack_overflow= + [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs + + off - Disable mitigation + microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only + safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) + ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on + kernel entry + ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT + (cloud-specific mitigation) + spec_store_bypass_disable= [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) |