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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-07-10 17:05:15 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-07-10 17:05:15 +0300
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Merge v6.12.37linux-rolling-lts
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst8
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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