Received: by 10.223.176.46 with SMTP id f43csp41769wra; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:46:37 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x227T4KULoQluHza91ISoCagGF8C8MVDYjnbrPLX8wvfYuzweh7eyTao25sTKaKi1qPKihGN3 X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:9a8b:: with SMTP id w11-v6mr325599plp.118.1516751197442; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:46:37 -0800 (PST) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1516751197; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=oozQxmRqw5KZBrgoT+A8Gyjzj0s3pga0JE/pjSLJRl9RUQGM6XwKKIdpDRYYBshY7I 94qa4nO1Ilr/akO5aiERIIoACUoYK3TfVrus/6oLcWq3xKTZkQ68B+UZKT92ZgsJ9v39 AN2PfvHiM2uoN2NjANDNdn/h17iTQzX6QbfM27dFwpoWH/zqUlMrnct0nsMNdez/T2a6 sIRbrb/1QkGiGeTA1RoEkhdfOKrCZBPzVgUHx3lPmbBhkYI8Fpt9P0600kjoNAI0vfjC qjpuiymgFyJFgWPY3GZNrNoYBJBPNV/vMsSsBZB8DcR788Xq/g7axCMbTYTiemUZYrPO 3bbA== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:sender:user-agent:in-reply-to :content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:cc :to:from:date:arc-authentication-results; bh=bbsqWgFOMjNMceFD+hV2Iw2Ks9/kTwfpWvQAx/cFSuY=; b=TSprR+xz6IP+WGnv2iKKH1vFz5zDcZatWQCkGjHYF91cpQXt6KtIl/SyTSA+SLuxVw uZgwspnb+uDR6FAs+HAC//m99aou+ztprNt+7RL1SY46YJrmlDuLuSXK5ePsYst8dvcC 99jD8jaLZ1CRiFy35MjkaKbcjhiiqkoFIYx7xo+pU5IQ3/2cja2Uf3YCqh0CDNup3O+A sWZWH0pgLXZGfSn6jeOA5OqzoJUANLq/ZggvJOhKRevTP1AAcKTMjiBvoXUQVgRssZmo 6W5rCWLfc5Yim9omUwfICxpBjIfNjYCfKaMBqqAVNr1geA+qbK4jfwy5t+6zc7gY2SYf 3d2g== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id g17si1918502pfa.245.2018.01.23.15.46.18; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752455AbeAWXpk (ORCPT + 99 others); Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:45:40 -0500 Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.43]:7471 "EHLO mga05.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751993AbeAWXpj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:45:39 -0500 X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 23 Jan 2018 15:45:38 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,403,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="198264323" Received: from tassilo.jf.intel.com (HELO tassilo.localdomain) ([10.7.201.35]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Jan 2018 15:45:38 -0800 Received: by tassilo.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BDF3300305; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:45:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:45:29 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Borislav Petkov , David Woodhouse , Paul Turner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tim Chen , Dave Hansen , Thomas Gleixner , Kees Cook , Rik van Riel , Peter Zijlstra , Andy Lutomirski , gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, x86@kernel.org, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, Josh Poimboeuf Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 04/12] x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation Message-ID: <20180123234529.GU7844@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <1515707194-20531-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk> <1515707194-20531-5-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk> <20180123224014.dsbzps4hydt6h7ed@pd.tnic> <20180123232125.GS7844@tassilo.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Thanks for pointing this out, Andi. I've been just now writing more or > less the same thing; ditching that and will reuse your patch instead. > > Why was the more aggresive version (6cfb521ac0d5b) merged into Linus' tree > instead of that? Greg prefered using modversions, and in the end simplicity won out for 4.15 -Andi