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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2023-11-21 08:07:32 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2024-01-10 10:52:28 +0100 |
| commit | aefb2f2e619b6c334bcb31de830aa00ba0b11129 (patch) | |
| tree | 2160c7743234068400bc5dfc4651452a1b2c1660 /Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln | |
| parent | ea4654e0885348f0faa47f6d7b44a08d75ad16e9 (diff) | |
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETPOLINE => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
Step 5/10 of the namespace unification of CPU mitigations related Kconfig options.
[ mingo: Converted a few more uses in comments/messages as well. ]
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ariel Miculas <amiculas@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121160740.1249350-6-leitao@debian.org
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst index 32a8893e5617..cce768afec6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst @@ -473,8 +473,8 @@ Spectre variant 2 -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register options. If the kernel is compiled with a Clang compiler, the compiler needs to support -mretpoline-external-thunk option. The kernel config - CONFIG_RETPOLINE needs to be turned on, and the CPU needs to run with - the latest updated microcode. + CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE needs to be turned on, and the CPU needs + to run with the latest updated microcode. On Intel Skylake-era systems the mitigation covers most, but not all, cases. See :ref:`[3] <spec_ref3>` for more details. @@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ kernel command line. Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a mitigation method at run time according to the CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the - CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the - compiler with which the kernel was built. + CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, + and the compiler with which the kernel was built. Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation against user space to user space task attacks. |