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x86/spectre_v2: Fix the documentation to say the right thing.
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:36:08 +0000 (16:36 -0500)
committerJack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
Fri, 2 Mar 2018 02:45:27 +0000 (18:45 -0800)
That is if you disable the heuristics then it will just
use retpoline all the time instead of enabling IBRS for
Skylake+.

OraBug: 27601710
Reviewed-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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@@ -3515,7 +3515,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        off             - disable all heuristics (see below)
                        skylake=off     - do not use IBRS if present on Skylake
                                          instead of retpoline (this is equivalant
-                                         to spectre_v2=ibrs).
+                                         to spectre_v2=retpoline,generic).
 
        spia_io_base=   [HW,MTD]
        spia_fio_base=