[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] [PATCH v6 07/10] Linux Patch #7

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

..giant snip..
> > Taking this one step further - the init_amd or init_intel could
> > call the ssb_latch_mitigation_boot_cpu() function (which now should be
> > called ssb_latch_mitigation) - and that would put all the bit/MSR
> > fiddling code in one location (bugs.c).
> > 
> > I think this is what you had in mind. I will do those changes tomorrow
> > night and try them out, unless you had in mind a different way?.
> 
> Very close. I just integrate it with a sane version of the prctl stuff and
> I should have something later today. Untested obviously because I have no
> access to the magic ucode ...

I would be more than happy to test it and do the fixes up (just in case
some gremlin came by) tonight on the Intel box. Please send a tarball.

Or alternatively if you would like to send me your public SSH key
I have an Skylake monster beast in the cloud (the SSH key would be used
for SSH in the machine and in the serial console).

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx