linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15 67/69] docs/kernel-parameters: Update descriptions for "mitigations=" param with retbleed

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Message-Id: <20220801114137.165241886@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  1 Aug 2022 13:47:31 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@...anix.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, corbet@....net
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 67/69] docs/kernel-parameters: Update descriptions for "mitigations=" param with retbleed

From: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@...anix.com>

commit ea304a8b89fd0d6cf94ee30cb139dc23d9f1a62f upstream.

Updates descriptions for "mitigations=off" and "mitigations=auto,nosmt"
with the respective retbleed= settings.

Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@...anix.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: corbet@....net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728043907.165688-1-eiichi.tsukata@nutanix.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3020,6 +3020,7 @@
 					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
 					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
 					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
+					       retbleed=off [X86]
 
 				Exceptions:
 					       This does not have any effect on
@@ -3042,6 +3043,7 @@
 					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
 					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
 					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
+					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
 
 	mminit_loglevel=
 			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this