Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter
authorDiana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 23:06:39 +0000 (09:06 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 7 Aug 2018 14:32:25 +0000 (00:32 +1000)
Currently only supported on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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        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