From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:15:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190411131540.754t5t4tp55i6vjq@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904101408580.3479@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 02:10:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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.
Right.
But at least "mitigations=" is nice and short. We could clarify in the
documentation that it doesn't apply to *all* mitigations, only the ones
which are optional and which can affect performance.
And it would give us the freedom to include any future "optional"
mitigations, spec or not.
I kind of like it. But I could go either way.
--
Josh
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-04 16:44 [PATCH RFC 0/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 16:44 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] " Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 16:49 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 13:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-05 14:20 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 15:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-05 16:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-05 16:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-10 5:48 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-04-10 8:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-10 12:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-11 13:15 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2019-04-12 2:41 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-04-12 2:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-04-04 16:44 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] x86/speculation: Add support for " Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 13:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-05 14:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 15:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-05 16:05 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 15:18 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-04-05 15:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 16:44 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] powerpc/speculation: " Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 19:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2019-04-04 20:01 ` Timothy Pearson
2019-04-10 6:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-04-11 4:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 16:44 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] s390/speculation: " Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 16:44 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] arm64/speculation: " Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 14:39 ` Steven Price
2019-04-05 14:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-05 14:44 ` Will Deacon
2019-04-05 16:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-04 16:50 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] cpu/speculation: Add " Waiman Long
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