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From: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
To: "Kaplan, David" <David.Kaplan@amd.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: "hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com"
	<pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/bugs: Create single parameter for VERW based mitigations
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:44:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83686f5b-7957-432c-9e2c-d54e381c06c9@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c1de6fb-fa83-47bc-a57b-e6700860513d@linux.intel.com>

On 10/9/24 09:39, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting a name change away from "clear_cpu_buffers" since it is
>>> clearly about the mitigation rather than the bug? I'm not sure there is a good
>>> common name for those 4 bugs that isn't about the mitigation, but I'm open
>>> to any suggestions.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I think that would be better.  I wasn't sure on a name either.  In the RFDS webpage I see it described as "similar to data sampling transient execution attacks".  Perhaps something like that could be an umbrella term?
>>

data sampling feels a little too generic. How about something like
microarch_data_sampling?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-09 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-24 22:31 [PATCH 0/6] VERW based clean-up Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/bugs: Create single parameter for VERW based mitigations Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-08 19:24   ` Kaplan, David
2024-10-09 16:17     ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-09 16:36       ` Kaplan, David
2024-10-09 16:39         ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-09 19:44           ` Daniel Sneddon [this message]
2024-10-09 20:02             ` Kaplan, David
2024-10-09 20:34               ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-10  4:52     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-10-10 14:57       ` Borislav Petkov
2024-10-14 15:42         ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-15 13:52           ` Borislav Petkov
2024-10-15 14:05             ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/bugs: Remove MDS command line Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:34   ` Dave Hansen
2024-09-24 22:41     ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/bugs: Remove TAA kernel parameter Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/bugs: Remove MMIO " Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86/bugs: Remove RFDS " Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/bugs: Clean-up verw mitigations Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-02 14:20   ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-10-02 14:46     ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-02 14:54       ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-10-07 19:37   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-10-08 16:17     ` Daniel Sneddon

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