Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64/mm: show TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC warning if the cache size is over the spec.

Masayoshi Mizuma
2019-06-11T16:18:41Z

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:41:06PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:17:31AM -0400, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote:
> > From: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
> >
> > Show the warning and taints as TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC if the cache line
> > size is greater than the maximum.
>
> In general the "out of spec" part is a misnomer, we tend to apply it to
> CPU features that are not supported by the kernel rather than some CPU
> feature not compliant with the architecture (we call the latter errata).
>
> I suggest you drop this patch.

Thank you for your comments. I agree with you, so I drop this
patch.

Thanks,
Masa