[PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc/fsl: Implement cpu_show_spectre_v1/v2 for NXP PowerPC Book3E

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jul 3 17:26:01 AEST 2018


Michal Suchánek <msuchanek at suse.de> writes:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 02:59:11 +0000
> Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan at nxp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Diana,
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Diana Craciun [mailto:diana.craciun at nxp.com]
>> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 6:23 PM
>> > To: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> > Cc: mpe at ellerman.id.au; oss at buserror.net; Leo Li
>> > <leoyang.li at nxp.com>; Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan at nxp.com>;
>> > Diana Madalina Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
>> > Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc/fsl: Implement
>> > cpu_show_spectre_v1/v2 for NXP PowerPC Book3E  
>> 
>> Please add some description
>
> To me the subject is self-explanatory. It implements a kernel interface
> that was already described elsewhere.
>
> What are you missing here?

It should at least explain why it's reimplementing a function that
already exists for powerpc. ie. Why can't the existing version be used?

cheers


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