Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:10:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options |
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 06:01:36PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >> Thinking about this more, we can shave off the first 4 chars and have it > >> be: > >> > >> spec_mitigations= > >> > >> I think it is painfully clear which speculation mitigations we mean. And > >> the other switches don't have "cpu_" prefixes too so... > > > > Sure, I'm ok with renaming it to that, if there are no objections. > > What about when we have a mitigation for a non-speculation related bug :)
Those kind of silicon bugs are usually mitigated unconditionally.
Thanks,
tglx
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