On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 12:01:44 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we > receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. > > The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare > metal machines. See the hostboot source for details. > > Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them > to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature > patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may > also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be > incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at > least). So for now just make them separate flags. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Series applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e cheers