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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2022-10-03 10:10:15 -0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-07 09:16:55 +0200
commit2d4ce2d72c3b46f20929fa7d1c8af5d5250ccfc7 (patch)
tree6c6ecbc5ca47795a1c0d84da5996a9f96d9e1652 /Documentation
parente2d793a3742a2502533ee586a3f9151670e3f467 (diff)
x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS
commit 7c693f54c873691a4b7da05c7e0f74e67745d144 upstream. Extend spectre_v2= boot option with Kernel IBRS. [jpoimboe: no STIBP with IBRS] Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt1
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index e0fb1e5e5113..8f71a17ad544 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4553,6 +4553,7 @@
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.