linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 086/266] Documentation: Add nospectre

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Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 12:53:13 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@....com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 086/266] Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter

From: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@....com>

commit 26cb1f36c43ee6e89d2a9f48a5a7500d5248f836 upstream.

Currently only supported on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@....com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2450,6 +2450,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 
 	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
 			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent