From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 25/27] x86/cet: Add PTRACE interface for CET Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:33:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20180713133357.GB13602@gmail.com> References: <20180710222639.8241-1-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20180710222639.8241-26-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20180711102035.GB8574@gmail.com> <1531323638.13297.24.camel@intel.com> <20180712140327.GA7810@gmail.com> <20180713062804.GA6905@amd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180713062804.GA6905@amd> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Yu-cheng Yu , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andy Lutomirski , Balbir Singh , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Hansen , Florian Weimer , "H.J. Lu" , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Mike Kravetz , Nadav Amit , Oleg Nesterov List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org * Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > to "CET" (which is a well-known acronym for "Central European Time"), > > > > not to CFE? > > > > > > > > > > I don't know if I can change that, will find out. > > > > So what I'd suggest is something pretty simple: to use CFT/cft in kernel internal > > names, except for the Intel feature bit and any MSR enumeration which can be CET > > if Intel named it that way, and a short comment explaining the acronym difference. > > > > Or something like that. > > Actually, I don't think CFT is much better -- there's limited number > of TLAs (*). "ENFORCE_FLOW"? "FLOWE"? "EFLOW"? Erm, I wanted to say 'CFE', i.e. the abbreviation of 'Control Flow Enforcement'. But I guess I can live with CET as well ... Thanks, Ingo