Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751320AbeADX7O (ORCPT + 1 other); Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:59:14 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:35342 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100AbeADX7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:59:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:59:09 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Tim Chen , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Dave Hansen , Andi Kleen , Arjan Van De Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] x86/spec_ctrl: Add sysctl knobs to enable/disable SPEC_CTRL feature Message-ID: <20180104235908.xcfls5upmxmuxucl@pd.tnic> References: <4d4b3752e8e533201c6983d8473eea95c747ea33.1515086770.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> <20180104225422.GG32035@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20180104235134.GC13348@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180104235134.GC13348@redhat.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 12:51:34AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > In older kernels there's not even the boilerplate to check the static > key in asm, This is the reason why I didn't use a static_key too. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.