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From: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 stable v4.4 2/2] Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:42:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1556628147-15687-2-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1556628147-15687-1-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com>

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>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index f0bdf78420a0..3ff87d5d6fea 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2449,6 +2449,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
 
 	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
-- 
2.17.1


  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-30 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-30 12:42 [PATCH v2 stable v4.4 1/2] powerpc/fsl: Add FSL_PPC_BOOK3E as supported arch for nospectre_v2 boot arg Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 12:42 ` Diana Craciun [this message]
2019-04-30 13:23   ` [PATCH v2 stable v4.4 2/2] Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter Greg KH
2019-04-30 13:25   ` Greg KH

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