Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options | Date | Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:29:01 +1000 |
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes: > 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.
I guess that's true, usually :)
cheers
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