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| author | Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com> | 2018-04-09 11:15:08 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-09 11:15:08 +0100 |
| commit | 02956560a281eec4e9b49451f1b47369304a84b4 (patch) | |
| tree | b2c8c2c5850748163875efce70ed57a7184e8f8b /docs | |
| parent | 93883a293145f6c85b3fc8c219f400e28b7d1491 (diff) | |
| parent | 59dc4ef48757e4de2dc2de13d13e43acd5d91aa0 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1339 from dp-arm/dp/smccc
Fixup SMCCC_FEATURES return value for SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst index 9e11cdff6..65f6adb8d 100644 --- a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst +++ b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst @@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ TF-A exports a series of build flags which control which security vulnerability workarounds should be applied at runtime. - ``WORKAROUND_CVE_2017_5715``: Enables the security workaround for - `CVE-2017-5715`_. Defaults to 1. + `CVE-2017-5715`_. This flag can be set to 0 by the platform if none + of the PEs in the system need the workaround. Setting this flag to 0 provides + no performance benefit for non-affected platforms, it just helps to comply + with the recommendation in the spec regarding workaround discovery. + Defaults to 1. CPU Errata Workarounds ---------------------- |