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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Nathan Chancellor' <nathan@kernel.org>, Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] ARM: Implement Clang's SLS mitigation
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:41:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f61af0eee9b495e8e8c032902d033c5@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210212055508.GA3822196@ubuntu-m3-large-x86>

> > on -mharden-sls=all, which mitigates the straight-line speculation
> > vulnerability, or more commonly known as Spectre, Meldown.
> 
>                  ^ I would drop "or" here
>                                                   ^ drop comma,
>                                                     use "and",
>                                                     typo: "Meltdown"
> 
> Although, is that a fair statement? SLS is not called Spectre or
> Meltdown by ARM, it is a speculative processor vulnerabilty. It
> might just be better to drop eerything after the first comma (although
> maybe that is just being pedantic).

or replace with:
   (speculative execution of the instruction following some unconditional jumps).

Which will save a lot of people looking up what it means.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-12  5:14 [PATCH] ARM: Implement Clang's SLS mitigation Jian Cai
2021-02-12  5:55 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-02-12 10:41   ` David Laight [this message]
2021-02-12 19:52     ` [PATCH v2] " Jian Cai
2021-02-17  9:49       ` Will Deacon
2021-02-17 11:05         ` David Laight
2021-03-25 14:01         ` Linus Walleij
2021-02-17 18:20       ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-19 20:18       ` [PATCH v3] ARM: Implement " Jian Cai
2021-02-19 20:30         ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-02-19 23:08         ` [PATCH v4] " Jian Cai
2021-02-21 10:13           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-22 11:58           ` Will Deacon
2021-02-22 21:50             ` Jian Cai
2021-02-23 10:04               ` Will Deacon
2021-03-03 15:18                 ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-03 15:29                   ` David Laight
2021-03-03 15:31                     ` Linus Walleij
2021-02-23  2:31           ` [PATCH v5] " Jian Cai
2021-02-23  2:35             ` Jian Cai
2021-03-03 15:04               ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-04 23:22                 ` Jian Cai
2021-03-06 12:25                   ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-10  4:43                     ` Jian Cai
2021-03-22 11:45                       ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-23 22:39                         ` Jian Cai
2021-03-05  0:53               ` [PATCH v6] " Jian Cai
2021-03-05  9:52                 ` Will Deacon
2021-03-06 12:27                   ` Linus Walleij

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