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| author | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2024-09-11 10:53:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2025-07-10 15:59:54 +0200 |
| commit | d12145e8454fbd1de168af57d444b943e4300dc1 (patch) | |
| tree | b2597b7748fb9d01836e6934e9ed84bd28368bab /Documentation | |
| parent | 3893cd05fcf60c239a35c833a6677783ec18dfc5 (diff) | |
x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation
commit d8010d4ba43e9f790925375a7de100604a5e2dba upstream.
Add the required features detection glue to bugs.c et all in order to
support the TSA mitigation.
Co-developed-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 1468609052c7..97e695efa959 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -526,6 +526,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsa /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort Date: January 2018 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6938c8cd7a6f..eaeabff9beff 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -6400,6 +6400,19 @@ If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. + tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler + Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your + favourite search engine for more details: + + "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler + attacks". + + off - disable the mitigation + on - enable the mitigation (default) + user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions + vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions + + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this |