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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:25:46PM -0400, speck for konrad.wilk_at_oracle.com wrote:
> We provide two sets of knobs. The first are x86 specific:
> 
>  nomdd
>  mdd=[off,auto,on]
> 
> We also support cross-architecture versions of these:
> 
>  nossbd
>  ssbd=[off,auto,on]
> 

So why does x86 have to be different? Can't it simply use the generic
named ones? I didn't see a rationale for that.