On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 06:25:21 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> When I added the spectre_v2 information in sysfs, I included the
> availability of the ori31 speculation barrier.
>
> Although the ori31 barrier can be used to mitigate v2, it's primarily
> intended as a spectre v1 mitigation. Spectre v2 is mitigated by
> hardware changes.
>
> So rework the sysfs files to show the ori31 information in the
> spectre_v1 file, rather than v2.
>
> Currently we display eg:
>
> $ grep . spectre_v*
> spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
> spectre_v2:Mitigation: Indirect branch cache disabled, ori31 speculation
> barrier enabled
>
> After:
>
> $ grep . spectre_v*
> spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization, ori31 speculation
> barrier enabled
> spectre_v2:Mitigation: Indirect branch cache disabled
>
> Fixes: d6fbe1c55c55 ("powerpc/64s: Wire up cpu_show_spectre_v2()")
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6d44acae1937b81cf8115ada8958e0
cheers
