[PATCH v2] arm64: spectre: increase parameters that can be used to turn off bhb mitigation individually

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 03:29:05PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 07:40:50PM +0800, Liu Song wrote:
> > From: Liu Song <liusong at linux.alibaba.com>
> > 
> > In our environment, it was found that the mitigation BHB has a great
> > impact on the benchmark performance. For example, in the lmbench test,
> > the "process fork && exit" test performance drops by 20%.
> > So it is necessary to have the ability to turn off the mitigation
> > individually through cmdline, thus avoiding having to compile the
> > kernel by adjusting the config.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liusong at linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> If people want to disable this mitigation and know what they are doing,
> I have no objection:
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Thanks!

> (I guess that's more like 6.1 material)

Yup, agreed. I take it you'll pick it up, then?

Will