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authorDiana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>2018-07-28 09:06:39 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-16 19:44:55 +0200
commitaa24636d3dc228de6f70b05e1ed553828fe6bdce (patch)
tree485f59c5ef114070a0784dbd89226256be795cc8 /Documentation
parentc816ec25621be43d6099c0d7b209e348f80a361f (diff)
Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter
commit 26cb1f36c43ee6e89d2a9f48a5a7500d5248f836 upstream. Currently only supported on powerpc. Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -2450,6 +2450,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
+ nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
+ check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
+ in the system.
+
nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent