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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: suggest what to do on systems with
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> There are people who care about L1TF mitigations. I am not going to
> question their motivation. In any case a hint how to make the mitigation
> active again sounds more useful than something that sounds as scary as
> "you are vulnerable".

FWIW an early version of these patches automatically limited the available
memory, but Linus pointed out that people likely prefer their memory.
I still think his reasoning was right, and likely applies to your
message too.

-Andi