On 11/20/2018 03:59 PM, Tim Chen wrote: > Fix in this version bugs causing build problems for UP configuration. > > Also merged in Jiri's change to extend STIBP for SECCOMP processes and > renaming TIF_STIBP to TIF_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH. > > I've updated the boot options spectre_v2_app2app to > on, off, auto, prctl and seccomp. This aligns with > the options for other speculation related mitigations. > > I tried to incorporate sched_smt_present to detect when we have all SMT > going offline and we can disable the SMT path, which Peter suggested. > This optimization that can be easily left out of the patch series and > not backported. I've put these two patches at the end and they can be > considered separately. > > I've dropped the TIF flags re-organization patches > as they are not needed in this patch series. > > To do: Create a dedicated document on the mitigation options for Spectre V2. > My apology that the v6 patch series is missing the first two patches in the series. Please ignore v6 and resending the patch series as v7. Tim
