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

[Michael Ellerman]

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at 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 :)

mitigations=xxx

?

cheers