On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 03:39:58PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 11/08/2022 à 17:13, Segher Boessenkool a écrit : > > Hi! > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 04:31:11PM +1000, Rohan McLure wrote: > >> + /* > >> + * Zero user registers to prevent influencing speculative execution > >> + * state of kernel code. > >> + */ > >> + NULLIFY_GPRS(5, 12) > >> + NULLIFY_NVGPRS() > > > > "Nullify" means "invalidate", which is not what this does or is for :-( > > Would "Zeroise" be more appropriate ?
That is probably a good compromise, yes. It obviously is a verb, its meaning is clear and unamiguous, and there is precedent for it even :-) Thanks, Segher
