Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options

Michael Ellerman
2019-04-12T02:29:17Z

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 06:01:36PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> >> Thinking about this more, we can shave off the first 4 chars and have it
>> >> be:
>> >>
>> >> spec_mitigations=
>> >>
>> >> I think it is painfully clear which speculation mitigations we mean. And
>> >> the other switches don't have "cpu_" prefixes too so...
>> >
>> > Sure, I'm ok with renaming it to that, if there are no objections.
>>
>> What about when we have a mitigation for a non-speculation related bug :)
>
> Those kind of silicon bugs are usually mitigated unconditionally.

I guess that's true, usually :)

cheers