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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 09:46:58AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > It seems confusing to have two config options which have very similar
> > names and similar purposes (with subtle differences depending on the
> > arch).
> >
> > How about we instead just get rid of the x86-specific
> > SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS and replace it with a menu which depends on
> > CPU_MITIGATIONS:
>
> Huh, didn't realize that was possible.
>
> I agree that having two things for the same thing is confusing, though Boris'
> idea to do s/SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS/X86_CPU_MITIGATIONS would help a fair bit
> on that front.
>
> My only hesitation is that x86's menu and the common config knob end up in
> completely different locations.

I'm thinking this is a minor issue because CPU_MITIGATIONS is enabled by
default, so it should almost always be enabled unless the user disables
it, in which case they wouldn't be looking for the x86-specific
mitigations anyway.

Regardless it seems very common for a menu "depends on" to be in a
different file. We could put CPU_MITIGATIONS in arch/Kconfig which is a
fairly logical place for the dependency.

--
Josh

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