Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Clean up various Spectre related details | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:25:19 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 19:50 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > From 82c2b2f29691143a05181333f387e786646aa28b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:51:57 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Clean up various Spectre related details > > Harmonize all the Spectre messages so that a: > > dmesg | grep -i spectre > > ... gives us most Spectre related kernel boot messages. > > Also fix a few other details: > > - clarify a comment about firmware speculation control > > - s/KPTI/PTI > > - remove various line-breaks that made the code uglier > > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> > Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
with a couple of comments:
- * If neither SMEP or KPTI are available, there is a risk of + * If neither SMEP or PTI are available, there is a risk of
Make that 'neither SMEP nor PTI' while you're at it though please; that's bugged me a couple of times in passing.
And should these say 'Spectre v2' not just 'Spectre'? [unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature]
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