linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/bugs: Remove duplicate Spectre cmdline option descriptions

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Message-ID: <20240508055545.eix25ok3wvv6gcpg@treble>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 22:55:45 -0700
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
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	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/bugs: Remove duplicate Spectre cmdline option
 descriptions

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 08:04:37AM -0700, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> I love the idea here, but
> 
> >  	nospectre_v2
> > +	spectre_v2={option}
> > +	spectre_v2_user={option}
> > +	spectre_bhi={option}
> >  
> 
> this comes out as just a single line when I run make htmldocs.

Thanks, the below turns it into a bulleted list:

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
index f9797ab6b38f..132e0bc6007e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
@@ -598,11 +598,11 @@ current CPU.
 Spectre default mitigations can be disabled or changed at the kernel
 command line with the following options:
 
-	nospectre_v1
-	nospectre_v2
-	spectre_v2={option}
-	spectre_v2_user={option}
-	spectre_bhi={option}
+	- nospectre_v1
+	- nospectre_v2
+	- spectre_v2={option}
+	- spectre_v2_user={option}
+	- spectre_bhi={option}
 
 For more details on the available options, refer to Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt