Documentation: Document arm64 kpti control
authorJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:07:00 +0000 (12:07 -0600)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 7 Feb 2019 00:26:04 +0000 (17:26 -0700)
For a while Arm64 has been capable of force enabling
or disabling the kpti mitigations. Lets make sure the
documentation reflects that.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

index 2238fb3c7dcf4999503d8cdc85b2ecc5ac277166..b251494d1b6617fbbf9eea8e27b6e11d9600694f 100644 (file)
                        Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
                        the default is off.
 
+       kpti=           [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
+                       and kernel address spaces.
+                       Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
+                       0: force disabled
+                       1: force enabled
+
        kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
                        Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)