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From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:07:00 -0600
Subject: Documentation: Document arm64 kpti control
Git-commit: de19055564c8f8f9d366f8db3395836da0b2176c
Patch-mainline: v5.1-rc1
References: bsc#1162623

For a while Arm64 has been capable of force enabling
or disabling the kpti mitigations. Lets make sure the
documentation reflects that.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1832,6 +1832,12 @@
 			kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
 			Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
 
+	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
+			and kernel address spaces.
+			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
+			0: force disabled
+			1: force enabled
+
 	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
 			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)