arm64: Provide a command line to disable spectre_v2 mitigation
authorJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:39:24 +0000 (17:39 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:21:34 +0000 (18:21 +0200)
commit59a6dc262c8500c6e5fb9f234c6078fd72ddc20f
treee1428178806bf9080a9d3c35251bdc62fdd6a79e
parentc131623b1e9d94c11e2db4635c4572a85fd8b3ce
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 <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c