On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Alan Cox wrote: > There are people trying to tune coverity and other tool rules to identify > cases, Yeah, but that (and *especially* Coverity) is so inconvenient to be applied to each and every patch ... that this is not the way to go. If the CPU speculation can cause these kinds of side-effects, it just must not happen, full stop. OS trying to work it around is just a whack-a-mole (which we can apply for old silicon, sure ... but not something that becomes a new standard) that's never going to lead to any ultimate solution. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
