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Date:   Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:43:05 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Clean up various Spectre related details
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* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 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 <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>

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