* David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 19:50 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > From 82c2b2f29691143a05181333f387e786646aa28b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > 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 <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Thanks, added.
> 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.
Ok, fixed that too.
>
> And should these say 'Spectre v2' not just 'Spectre'?
Yeah, you are probably right, but I didn't want to make the messages too
specific
- do we really know that this is the end of Spectre-style speculation holes?
Thanks,
Ingo
