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Security: System security option includes nospectre_v1

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Most of the v1 mitigation is baked into the kernel and not
optional.  The swapgs barriers are, however, optional.
They have a negative performance impact so we disable them
by using the nospectre_v1 kernel bootarg.

Partial-Bug: 1860193
Depends-On: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/705300
Signed-off-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
(cherry picked from commit b7c6c2a168)

Change-Id: Ifbeaa0ac8b60addc5aefd63578ed4facebbd9b22
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Jim Somerville 2020-01-27 17:43:54 -05:00
parent 6e9c07c657
commit 39c8207cc1
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automated-pytest-suite/keywords/system_helper.py
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@ -2413,7 +2413,7 @@ def modify_spectre_meltdown_version(version='spectre_meltdown_all',
from keywords import host_helper
hosts = get_hosts(con_ssh=con_ssh)
check_val = 'nopti nospectre_v2'
check_val = 'nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1'
if check_first and version == current_version:
LOG.info(
"{} already set in 'system show'. Checking actual cmdline options "