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The spectre mitigations are too configurable for their own good, leading to confusing logic trying to figure out when we should mitigate and when we shouldn't. Although the plethora of command-line options need to stick around for backwards compatibility, the default-on CONFIG options that depend on EXPERT can be dropped, as the mitigations only do anything if the system is vulnerable, a mitigation is available and the command-line hasn't disabled it. Remove CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR and CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD in favour of enabling this code unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.