From 41f4c20b57a4890ea7f56ff8717cc83fefb8d537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:39:52 +0100 Subject: x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation Keep the "nopti" optional for traditional reasons. [ tglx: Don't allow force on when running on XEN PV and made 'on' printout conditional ] Requested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirsky Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171212133952.10177-1-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 5dfd26265484..520fdec15bbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3255,6 +3255,12 @@ pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. + pti= [X86_64] + Control user/kernel address space isolation: + on - enable + off - disable + auto - default setting + pty.legacy_count= [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in default number. -- cgit v1.2.3