Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter
commit 26cb1f36c43ee6e89d2a9f48a5a7500d5248f836 upstream.
Currently only supported on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9372918..94fa46d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2680,6 +2680,10 @@
nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
via the sysfs control file.
+ 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,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
