On Thu 23-08-18 12:38:33, Andi Kleen wrote: > > There are people who care about L1TF mitigations. I am not going to > > question their motivation. In any case a hint how to make the mitigation > > active again sounds more useful than something that sounds as scary as > > "you are vulnerable". > > FWIW an early version of these patches automatically limited the available > memory, but Linus pointed out that people likely prefer their memory. Nobody is questioning that. The point is to give them a hint on how to make the mitigation active again without going to call for help. The message does tell them how to _enable_ it and point them to the documentation on how to _decide_. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
