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@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. And should these say 'Spectre v2' not just 'Spectre'?
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