Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:38:33 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM |
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> There are people who care about L1TF mitigations. I am not going to > question their motivation. In any case a hint how to make the mitigation > active again sounds more useful than something that sounds as scary as > "you are vulnerable".
FWIW an early version of these patches automatically limited the available memory, but Linus pointed out that people likely prefer their memory. I still think his reasoning was right, and likely applies to your message too.
-Andi
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