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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst5
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
index 9edb2860a..e0a1be97f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
@@ -439,12 +439,12 @@ The possible values in this file are:
- System is protected by retpoline
* - BHI: BHI_DIS_S
- System is protected by BHI_DIS_S
- * - BHI: SW loop; KVM SW loop
+ * - BHI: SW loop, KVM SW loop
- System is protected by software clearing sequence
- * - BHI: Syscall hardening
- - Syscalls are hardened against BHI
- * - BHI: Syscall hardening; KVM: SW loop
- - System is protected from userspace attacks by syscall hardening; KVM is protected by software clearing sequence
+ * - BHI: Vulnerable
+ - System is vulnerable to BHI
+ * - BHI: Vulnerable, KVM: SW loop
+ - System is vulnerable; KVM is protected by software clearing sequence
Full mitigation might require a microcode update from the CPU
vendor. When the necessary microcode is not available, the kernel will
@@ -661,18 +661,14 @@ kernel command line.
spectre_bhi=
[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
- (BHI) vulnerability. Syscalls are hardened against BHI
- regardless of this setting. This setting affects the deployment
+ (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the deployment
of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB clearing sequence.
on
- unconditionally enable.
+ (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
+ needed.
off
- unconditionally disable.
- auto
- enable if hardware mitigation
- control(BHI_DIS_S) is available, otherwise
- enable alternate mitigation in KVM.
+ Disable the mitigation.
For spectre_v2_user see Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b2c7b2f01..e6f0570cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3283,6 +3283,7 @@
reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
retbleed=off [X86]
spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
+ spectre_bhi=off [X86]
spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
@@ -5734,16 +5735,13 @@
See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
- (BHI) vulnerability. Syscalls are hardened against BHI
- reglardless of this setting. This setting affects the
+ (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the
deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
clearing sequence.
- on - unconditionally enable.
- off - unconditionally disable.
- auto - (default) enable hardware mitigation
- (BHI_DIS_S) if available, otherwise enable
- alternate mitigation in KVM.
+ on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation
+ as needed.
+ off - Disable the mitigation.
spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
@@ -6605,6 +6603,9 @@
pause after every control message);
o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
delay after resetting its port);
+ p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
+ (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
+ request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
usbhid.mousepoll=
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
index 6394f5dc2..e3894c928 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ Will increase power usage.
Default: 0 (off)
+mem_pcpu_rsv
+------------
+
+Per-cpu reserved forward alloc cache size in page units. Default 1MB per CPU.
+
rmem_default
------------