From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Nathan Chancellor' <nathan@kernel.org>, Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com>
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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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next prev parent 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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