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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-02-16 20:57:02 +0100
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2022-02-21 10:21:41 +0100
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Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc
Update the doc with the new fun. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
retpoline - replace indirect branches
- retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
- retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
+ retpoline,generic - Retpolines
+ retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
+ retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
+ eibrs - enhanced IBRS
+ eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
+ eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
Not specifying this option is equivalent to
spectre_v2=auto.