From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Borislav Petkov' <bp@alien8.de>, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] x86/speculation: Support Automatic IBRS
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 11:39:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49e01e4d819a4e3aa1ef13da6bc654e4@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y2WJjdY3wwQl9/q9@zn.tnic>
From: Borislav Petkov
> Sent: 04 November 2022 21:52
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 04:36:50PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > - Allow for spectre_v2=autoibrs in the kernel command line,
> > reverting to auto-selection if the feature isn't available.
>
> Why?
>
> What the whole logic here should do is enable autoibrs when detected
> automatically, without the need for the user to even select it as it is
> the superior mitigation.
The only useful option is to allow a different option be
selected for code testing.
So maybe you want an option for completeness - for when
an 'even better' option is available.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-05 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-04 21:36 [PATCH 0/3] x86/speculation: Support Automatic IBRS Kim Phillips
2022-11-04 21:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/cpufeatures: Add support for cpuid leaf 80000021/EAX (FeatureExt2Eax) Kim Phillips
2022-11-04 21:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-15 23:10 ` Kim Phillips
2022-11-16 11:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-16 20:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-16 21:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-04 21:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/speculation: Support Automatic IBRS Kim Phillips
2022-11-04 21:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-05 11:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-11-07 22:39 ` Kim Phillips
2022-11-07 23:41 ` Dave Hansen
2022-11-08 8:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-11-11 12:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-11 12:40 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2022-11-12 0:46 ` Kim Phillips
2022-11-12 0:54 ` Jim Mattson
2022-11-05 11:39 ` David Laight [this message]
2022-11-07 22:40 ` Kim Phillips
2022-11-04 21:36 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/speculation: Support Automatic IBRS under virtualization Kim Phillips
2022-11-04 22:00 ` Jim Mattson
2022-11-07 22:29 ` Kim Phillips
2022-11-07 22:42 ` Jim Mattson
2022-11-08 22:48 ` Kim Phillips
2022-11-08 22:59 ` Jim Mattson
2022-11-06 8:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-04 22:06 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86/speculation: Support Automatic IBRS Dave Hansen
2022-11-07 22:43 ` Kim Phillips
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