* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:24:11PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > How about: > > CONFIG_SPECTRE1_WORKAROUND_INDEX_MASK > > CONFIG_SPECTRE1_WORKAROUND_LOAD_FENCE > > INSTRUCTION_FENCE if anything. LFENCE for Intel (and now also for AMD as > per 0592b0bce169) is a misnomer, IFENCE would be a better name for it. Btw., we should probably propagate that naming to most places and only point it out in comments/documentation that Intel/AMD calls this CPU functionality 'LFENCE' for historic reasons and that the opcode got stolen for the Spectre fixes. Thanks, Ingo
