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authorDaiane Angolini <daiane.angolini@foundries.io>2022-10-05 12:55:07 -0300
committerDaiane Angolini <daiane.angolini@foundries.io>2022-10-05 12:55:13 -0300
commit8c8464177402c32a21546530426e4995ab21c510 (patch)
treebdc37e3985a40b5facb40342af4a056198ac4698 /Documentation
parent143ca87ada4aeca55c5418be921d07d12763878a (diff)
parenta9e2d8e52e1c0d87c0fa4f9d2d38e210aabed515 (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.15.57' into 5.15-2.1.x-imx
This is the 5.15.57 stable release Signed-off-by: Daiane Angolini <daiane.angolini@foundries.io>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 205ad5cfe63d..452082e28128 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4968,6 +4968,30 @@
retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
+ retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
+ Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
+ vulnerability.
+
+ off - no mitigation
+ auto - automatically select a migitation
+ auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
+ disabling SMT if necessary for
+ the full mitigation (only on Zen1
+ and older without STIBP).
+ ibpb - mitigate short speculation windows on
+ basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest
+ perf impact.
+ unret - force enable untrained return thunks,
+ only effective on AMD f15h-f17h
+ based systems.
+ unret,nosmt - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP
+ is not available.
+
+ Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
+ time according to the CPU.
+
+ Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
+
rfkill.default_state=
0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
etc. communication is blocked by default.
@@ -5314,6 +5338,7 @@
eibrs - enhanced IBRS
eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
+ ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
Not specifying this option is equivalent to
spectre_v2=auto.