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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst index 5a2e6c0ef04a..3518671e1a85 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ enters a C-state. The kernel provides a function to invoke the buffer clearing: - mds_clear_cpu_buffers() + x86_clear_cpu_buffers() Also macro CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS can be used in ASM late in exit-to-user path. Other than CFLAGS.ZF, this macro doesn't clobber any registers. @@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ Mitigation points idle clearing would be a window dressing exercise and is therefore not activated. - The invocation is controlled by the static key mds_idle_clear which is - switched depending on the chosen mitigation mode and the SMT state of - the system. + The invocation is controlled by the static key cpu_buf_idle_clear which is + switched depending on the chosen mitigation mode and the SMT state of the + system. The buffer clear is only invoked before entering the C-State to prevent that stale data from the idling CPU from spilling to the Hyper-Thread |