[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 3/9] TAA 3

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:24:03AM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 02:28:58PM +0100, speck for Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:01:53AM +0200, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > > From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH 3/9] x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by
> > >  default
> > > 
> > 
> > As late at this is, I really would like to change the name here.  We
> > already have a powerpc command line option to disable this for those
> > chips, and we should use the same name here as well.
> 
> I think powerpc calls it "ppc_tm=". We can't obviously change to this.
> 
> 	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
> 			Format: {"off"}
> 			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory

No, but we can use "tm", and PPC said they would drop the "ppc_" prefix
and use the generic flag as well.  "Transactional Memory" is the generic
term for this from what I can tell.

thanks,

greg k-h