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The Spectre-v2 mitigation code is pretty unwieldy and hard to maintain. This is largely due to it being written hastily, without much clue as to how things would pan out, and also because it ends up mixing policy and state in such a way that it is very difficult to figure out what's going on. Rewrite the Spectre-v2 mitigation so that it clearly separates state from policy and follows a more structured approach to handling the mitigation. 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.