On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Fenghua Yu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 01:19:41AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > > > > The kernel option clearcpuid currently only takes feature bit which > > > can be changed from kernel to kernel. > > > > > > Extend clearcpuid to use cap flag string, which is defined in > > > x86_cap_flags[] and won't be changed from kernel to kernel. > > > And user can easily get the cap flag string from /proc/cpuinfo. > > > > If your machine dies because init triggers #AC then please explain how that > > easily can be read from /proc/cpuinfo and how the sysadmin can figure out > > what the heck he needs to write on the kernel command line. > > > > The whole 'clearcpuid' thing should have never been merged. It's a pure > > testing/debugging thing. And no, we are not going to proliferate it and > > extend it for dubious value. Quite the contrary, we should simply rip it > > out. > > So I can remove the four 'clearcpuid' related patches 0018-0021 in the next > version, right? Yes please. They are unrelated to this problem and 'noac' is way more admin friendly than that. Thanks, tglx
