Re: [PATCH v5 01/10] arm64: Provide a command line to disable spectre_v2 mitigation

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

Hi,

On 2/26/19 7:05 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> There are various reasons, including bencmarking, to disable spectrev2
> mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line to do so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

Cheers,
Andre.

> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>   Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  8 ++++----
>   arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c                  | 13 +++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 858b6c0b9a15..4d4d6a9537ae 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2842,10 +2842,10 @@
>   			check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
>   			in the system.
>   
> -	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
> -			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
> -			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
> -			to spectre_v2=off.
> +	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
> +			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
> +			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
> +			option.
>   
>   	nospec_store_bypass_disable
>   			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> index 9950bb0cbd52..d2b2c69d31bb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> @@ -220,6 +220,14 @@ static void qcom_link_stack_sanitization(void)
>   		     : "=&r" (tmp));
>   }
>   
> +static bool __nospectre_v2;
> +static int __init parse_nospectre_v2(char *str)
> +{
> +	__nospectre_v2 = true;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("nospectre_v2", parse_nospectre_v2);
> +
>   static void
>   enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
>   {
> @@ -231,6 +239,11 @@ enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
>   	if (!entry->matches(entry, SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU))
>   		return;
>   
> +	if (__nospectre_v2) {
> +		pr_info_once("spectrev2 mitigation disabled by command line option\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>   	if (psci_ops.smccc_version == SMCCC_VERSION_1_0)
>   		return;
>   
>