x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:39:52 +0000 (14:39 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 20:12:59 +0000 (21:12 +0100)
commit41f4c20b57a4890ea7f56ff8717cc83fefb8d537
treeb10e8ac40d397b3ad539384ce4b4a3182f3eb63f
parentaa8c6248f8c75acfd610fe15d8cae23cf70d9d09
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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/mm/pti.c