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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 18 Nov 2018 14:36:09 -0800
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Subject: Re: STIBP by default.. Revert?
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 2:17 PM Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
> Which gets us back to Tim's fixup patch. Do you still prefer the revert,
> given the existence of that?

I don't think the code needs to be reverted, but the *behavior* of
just unconditionally enabling STIBP needs to be reverted.

Because it was clearly way more expensive than people were told.

                Linus