[PATCH 4.4 086/266] Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx>

commit 26cb1f36c43ee6e89d2a9f48a5a7500d5248f836 upstream.

Currently only supported on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2450,6 +2450,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 
 	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
 
+	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