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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/cpuinfo.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst | 9 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 0c648a867dfa..1169a4acfeb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -631,12 +631,17 @@ Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 10 seconds when built into the kernel. - clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] + clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit - numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily - stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific + numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily + stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific ones should be. + X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line + in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above + instability issue. However, not all features have names + in /proc/cpuinfo. + Note that using this option will taint your kernel. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly or using the feature without checking anything will still see it. This just prevents it from @@ -3478,8 +3483,6 @@ nocache [ARM] - noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction - delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. @@ -3490,16 +3493,11 @@ noexec [IA-64] - noexec [X86] - On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. - noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) - noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings - - nosmap [X86,PPC] + nosmap [PPC] Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) even if it is supported by processor. - nosmep [X86,PPC64s] + nosmep [PPC64s] Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) even if it is supported by processor. @@ -3699,8 +3697,6 @@ nosbagart [IA-64] - nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. - nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, diff --git a/Documentation/x86/cpuinfo.rst b/Documentation/x86/cpuinfo.rst index 5d54c39a063f..08246e8ac835 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/cpuinfo.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/cpuinfo.rst @@ -140,9 +140,8 @@ from #define X86_FEATURE_UMIP (16*32 + 2). In addition, there exists a variety of custom command-line parameters that disable specific features. The list of parameters includes, but is not limited -to, nofsgsbase, nosmap, and nosmep. 5-level paging can also be disabled using -"no5lvl". SMAP and SMEP are disabled with the aforementioned parameters, -respectively. +to, nofsgsbase, nosgx, noxsave, etc. 5-level paging can also be disabled using +"no5lvl". e: The feature was known to be non-functional. ---------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst index 4efb1fa039ef..03ec9cf01181 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst @@ -157,15 +157,6 @@ Rebooting newer BIOS, or newer board) using this option will ignore the built-in quirk table, and use the generic default reboot actions. -Non Executable Mappings -======================= - - noexec=on|off - on - Enable(default) - off - Disable - NUMA ==== |