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authorJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>2019-04-15 16:21:20 -0500
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2019-04-26 16:26:42 +0100
commite5ce5e7267ddcbe13ab9ead2542524e1b7993e5a (patch)
tree67994973a829ee4f85f584c4052fa0870e4f10b1 /arch
parentcbafee55b5a0ec47baac622bce6b4d19afe45576 (diff)
downloadlinux-e5ce5e7267ddcbe13ab9ead2542524e1b7993e5a.tar.bz2
arm64: Provide a command line to disable spectre_v2 mitigation
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index 9950bb0cbd52..d2b2c69d31bb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -220,6 +220,14 @@ static void qcom_link_stack_sanitization(void)
: "=&r" (tmp));
}
+static bool __nospectre_v2;
+static int __init parse_nospectre_v2(char *str)
+{
+ __nospectre_v2 = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("nospectre_v2", parse_nospectre_v2);
+
static void
enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
{
@@ -231,6 +239,11 @@ enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
if (!entry->matches(entry, SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU))
return;
+ if (__nospectre_v2) {
+ pr_info_once("spectrev2 mitigation disabled by command line option\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
if (psci_ops.smccc_version == SMCCC_VERSION_1_0)
return;