[PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe at redhat.com
Fri Apr 5 03:49:08 AEDT 2019


On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 11:44:11AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation
> bugs has become overwhelming for many users.  It's getting more and more
> complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given
> architecture.  Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to
> their own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability.

... tends to _have_ its own custom way ...

-- 
Josh


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