[PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Apr 12 12:29:01 AEST 2019
Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> 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 :)
>
> Those kind of silicon bugs are usually mitigated unconditionally.
I guess that's true, usually :)
cheers
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