[PATCH v3 2/6] powerpc/fsl: Document nospectre_v1 kernel parameter.
Diana Craciun
diana.craciun at nxp.com
Fri Jul 13 23:52:11 AEST 2018
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
---
History:
v2-->v3
- new
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index efc7aa7..b346cc7 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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