From 02fd5d7f6d027912901a68d671c0449295966cd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Linton Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:48:25 +0200 Subject: arm64: Provide a command line to disable spectre_v2 mitigation [ Upstream commit e5ce5e7267ddcbe13ab9ead2542524e1b7993e5a ] There are various reasons, such as benchmarking, to disable spectrev2 mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line option to do so. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Tested-by: Stefan Wahren Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 188a7db8501b..5205740ed39b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2745,10 +2745,10 @@ (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 - allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent - to spectre_v2=off. + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for + the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) + vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this + option. nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability -- cgit v1.2.3