[MODERATED] Re: [patch 06/11] [PATCH v2 06/10] Linux Patch #6

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:33:05AM -0400, speck for Jon Masters wrote:
> (your mail was unreadable by enigmail on Thunderbird for some reason,
> manually extracted using GPG, excuse any copy+paste errors below)

Use mutt :-)
> 
> On 04/20/2018 07:21 AM, speck for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:25:46PM -0400, speck for konrad.wilk_at_oracle.c=
> om wrote:
> >> We provide two sets of knobs. The first are x86 specific:
> >>
> >>  nomdd
> >>  mdd=3D[off,auto,on]
> >>
> >> We also support cross-architecture versions of these:
> >>
> >>  nossbd
> >>  ssbd=3D[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.
> 
> x86 doesn't have to be different. I originally proposed keeping also
> "mdd" just to keep everyone happy on the x86 side in case they cared.
> But "ssbd" is a nice industry neutral term and also works for x86. It
> also will fit with the language that Google will use in their text.

Ugh, another web-page. ssbdattack.com?

Let me rip out the mdd from the documentation and the code.