[0/2] docs: a few updates to spectre CPU flag recommendations

Message

Daniel P. Berrangé March 7, 2019, 12:18 p.m. UTC

This corrects the note about spec-ctrl and adds info about the stibp
flag that was later added to QEMU/KVM.

Daniel P. Berrangé (2):
  docs: clarify that spec-ctrl is only needed for Spectre v2
  docs: add note about stibp CPU feature for spectre v2

 docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Daniel P. Berrangé March 19, 2019, 10:45 a.m. UTC | #1

ping

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:18:36PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> This corrects the note about spec-ctrl and adds info about the stibp
> flag that was later added to QEMU/KVM.
> 
> Daniel P. Berrangé (2):
>   docs: clarify that spec-ctrl is only needed for Spectre v2
>   docs: add note about stibp CPU feature for spectre v2
> 
>  docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

Regards,
Daniel

Eduardo Habkost March 20, 2019, 2:57 p.m. UTC | #2

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:45:47AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> ping

Sorry for missing it.  I'm queueing this for -rc1, thanks!

> 
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:18:36PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > This corrects the note about spec-ctrl and adds info about the stibp
> > flag that was later added to QEMU/KVM.
> > 
> > Daniel P. Berrangé (2):
> >   docs: clarify that spec-ctrl is only needed for Spectre v2
> >   docs: add note about stibp CPU feature for spectre v2
> > 
> >  docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.20.1
> > 
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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