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| author | Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> | 2019-04-10 15:50:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> | 2019-04-10 15:50:49 -0400 |
| commit | 3bfaf1f7044c6a3b1e00fcad2d0529f0da449d67 (patch) | |
| tree | 490bc7e8aa29c2ee41eb4813683f1aa23971abd3 /Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst | |
| parent | 669105a74a287b14cdec04c64eb51db1bb890f64 (diff) | |
| parent | 14d2bd53a47a7e1cb3e03d00a6b952734cf90f3f (diff) | |
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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Finally have a reason for a backmerge other than "it's been a while"!
Backmerging drm-next to -misc-next to facilitate Rob Herring's work on
Panfrost.
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst index c4dbe6f7cdae..1129c7550a48 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst @@ -28,18 +28,20 @@ PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL returns the state of the speculation misfeature which is selected with arg2 of prctl(2). The return value uses bits 0-3 with the following meaning: -==== ===================== =================================================== -Bit Define Description -==== ===================== =================================================== -0 PR_SPEC_PRCTL Mitigation can be controlled per task by - PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL. -1 PR_SPEC_ENABLE The speculation feature is enabled, mitigation is - disabled. -2 PR_SPEC_DISABLE The speculation feature is disabled, mitigation is - enabled. -3 PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE Same as PR_SPEC_DISABLE, but cannot be undone. A - subsequent prctl(..., PR_SPEC_ENABLE) will fail. -==== ===================== =================================================== +==== ====================== ================================================== +Bit Define Description +==== ====================== ================================================== +0 PR_SPEC_PRCTL Mitigation can be controlled per task by + PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL. +1 PR_SPEC_ENABLE The speculation feature is enabled, mitigation is + disabled. +2 PR_SPEC_DISABLE The speculation feature is disabled, mitigation is + enabled. +3 PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE Same as PR_SPEC_DISABLE, but cannot be undone. A + subsequent prctl(..., PR_SPEC_ENABLE) will fail. +4 PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC Same as PR_SPEC_DISABLE, but the state will be + cleared on :manpage:`execve(2)`. +==== ====================== ================================================== If all bits are 0 the CPU is not affected by the speculation misfeature. @@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ Speculation misfeature controls * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0); * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0); * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0); + * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC, 0, 0); - PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH: Indirect Branch Speculation in User Processes (Mitigate Spectre V2 style attacks against user processes) |

