From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] cpu/speculation: Add 'cpu_spec_mitigations=' cmdline options Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:48:48 +1000 Message-ID: <87sguqwgu7.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> References: <20190405131211.GE23348@zn.tnic> <20190405142048.burthk2jnpcvi2om@treble> <20190405152059.GG23348@zn.tnic> <20190405160136.GI23348@zn.tnic> <20190405161852.nmpk22omgiety4df@treble> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190405161852.nmpk22omgiety4df@treble> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: Josh Poimboeuf , Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Heiko Carstens , Paul Mackerras , "H . Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Will Deacon , Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Waiman Long , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Jiri Kosina , Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tyler Hicks , Martin Schwidefsky , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-ID: Josh Poimboeuf 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 :) mitigations=xxx ? cheers