Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] arm64/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Apr 16 2019 - 15:26:42 EST


On Fri, 12 Apr 2019, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> Configure arm64 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance
> with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre
> v2, and Speculative Store Bypass.
>
> The default behavior is unchanged.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> NOTE: This is based on top of Jeremy Linton's patches:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410231237.52506-1-jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx

So I keep that out and we have to revisit that once the ARM64 stuff hits a
tree, right? I can have a branch with just the 4 first patches applied
which ARM64 folks can pull in when they apply Jeremy's patches before te
merge window.

Thanks,

tglx