From patchwork Fri Jul 13 13:52:11 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Diana Craciun X-Patchwork-Id: 943600 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41RvZH1WQVz9ryt for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:59:51 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=nxp.com Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41RvZH0PkCzF36B for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:59:51 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=nxp.com X-Original-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=nxp.com (client-ip=92.121.34.21; helo=inva021.nxp.com; envelope-from=diana.craciun@nxp.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=nxp.com Received: from inva021.nxp.com (inva021.nxp.com [92.121.34.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41RvPl5q6nzF35V for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:52:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from inva021.nxp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inva021.eu-rdc02.nxp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CAE200034; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:52:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from inva024.eu-rdc02.nxp.com (inva024.eu-rdc02.nxp.com [134.27.226.22]) by inva021.eu-rdc02.nxp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127F1200004; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:52:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fsr-ub1664-009.ea.freescale.net (fsr-ub1664-009.ea.freescale.net [10.171.71.77]) by inva024.eu-rdc02.nxp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E8B2039E; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:52:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Diana Craciun To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: [PATCH v3 2/6] powerpc/fsl: Document nospectre_v1 kernel parameter. Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:52:11 +0300 Message-Id: <1531489935-17473-3-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1531489935-17473-1-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com> References: <1531489935-17473-1-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: oss@buserror.net, Diana Craciun , bharat.bhushan@nxp.com, leoyang.li@nxp.com Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun --- 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