From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linutronix.de (193.142.43.55:993) by crypto-ml.lab.linutronix.de with IMAP4-SSL for ; 22 Oct 2019 19:16:24 -0000 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1iMzdl-0005Rg-Vn for speck@linutronix.de; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:16:23 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:16:14 -0700 From: "Luck, Tony" Subject: [MODERATED] Re: Re: [PATCH v7 04/10] TAAv7 4 Message-ID: <20191022191614.GA26396@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20191022165112.GK31458@zn.tnic> <20191022170230.GM31458@zn.tnic> <20191022180032.GF29216@guptapadev.amr> <20191022181215.GP31458@zn.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191022181215.GP31458@zn.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: speck@linutronix.de List-ID: On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:12:15PM +0200, speck for Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:00:32AM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote: > > It was called taa= in earlier versions. There was a feedback to change > > it to tsx_async_abort=. > > I know, I'm just saying it is confusing. > > > tsx_async_abort is consistent with sysfs file. > > > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort > > Well, that's not really an argument. It might have been Linus that objected to "taa" (but I can't recall if it was for the sysfs file name, or the boot argument) Rationale was that in a couple of years time nobody will remember what "taa" stands for. -Tony