On Mon 19-11-18 14:36:32, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > > > + It also drops the swap size and
> > > > available
> > > > + RAM limit restriction.
> > >
> > > Minor nit: I think this should explicitly mention that those two things
> > > are related to bare metal mitigation, to avoid any confusion (as
> > > otherwise
> > > the l1tf cmdline parameter is purely about hypervisor mitigations).
> >
> > Do you have any specific wording in mind?
> >
> > It also drops the swap size and available RAM limit restrictions on both
> > hypervisor and bare metal.
> >
> > Sounds better?
> >
> > > With that
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz>
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Yes, I think that makes it absolutely clear. Thanks,
OK. Here is the incremental diff on top of the patch. I will fold and
repost later this week. I assume people are still catching up after LPC
and I do not want to spam them even more.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a54f2bd39e77..c5aa4b4a797d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2096,7 +2096,8 @@
Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
emit any warnings.
It also drops the swap size and available
- RAM limit restriction.
+ RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
+ bare metal.
Default is 'flush'.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
b/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
index b00464a9c09c..2e65e6cb033e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
@@ -405,7 +405,8 @@ The kernel command line allows to control the L1TF
mitigations at boot
off Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any
warnings.
- It also drops the swap size and available RAM limit
restrictions.
+ It also drops the swap size and available RAM limit restrictions
+ on both hypervisor and bare metal.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
