[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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