Patch "powerpc64s: Show ori31 availability in spectre_v1 sysfs file not v2" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

2019-04-29 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc64s: Show ori31 availability in spectre_v1 sysfs file not v2 to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the pa

[PATCH] powerpc64s: Show ori31 availability in spectre_v1 sysfs file not v2

2018-07-08 Thread Michael Ellerman
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