[PATCH v5 8/8] Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2018-07-27 23:06:57
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Diana Craciun <redacted> Currently only supported on powerpc. Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <redacted> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) v5: Change log and whitespace.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index efc7aa7a0670..4167bbea51e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt@@ -2687,6 +2687,10 @@ nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. + 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] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
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