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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] perf/x86/intel/lbr: use setup_clear_cpu_cap instead of clear_cpu_cap
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:13:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1EtUiyXkPlCe8/Z@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cc09554f20231aecdf0cd762a282c42aee9273c.camel@redhat.com>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 01:21:30PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> I agree with you, however this patch series is just
> refactoring/hardening of the kernel - if the kernel can avoid crashing
> - why not.

Because we're already drowning in patches which are trying to fix real
problems. If we open the floodgates on alleged hardening just because
some other part of the stack is misbehaving, there'll be no end of it.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-18 14:11 [PATCH v2 0/5] x86: cpuid: improve support for broken CPUID configurations Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] perf/x86/intel/lbr: use setup_clear_cpu_cap instead of clear_cpu_cap Maxim Levitsky
2022-09-19 14:31   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-09-20  8:20     ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-09-26 13:12       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-09-28 10:49         ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-10-20  8:59           ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-20  9:05             ` Herbert Xu
2022-10-20 10:21               ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-10-20 11:13                 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2022-10-22 21:08             ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-11-02 13:40             ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-02 14:27               ` Elliott, Robert (Servers)
2022-11-02 16:23                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-11-02 18:19                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-11-02 19:14                     ` Elliott, Robert (Servers)
2022-11-03 13:26                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-03 13:30                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-10-20 15:17   ` [tip: x86/urgent] perf/x86/intel/lbr: Use setup_clear_cpu_cap() instead of clear_cpu_cap() tip-bot2 for Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/cpuid: refactor setup_clear_cpu_cap()/clear_cpu_cap() Maxim Levitsky
2022-10-21 16:19   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-07 19:10     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-11-07 21:57       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/cpuid: move filter_cpuid_features to cpuid-deps.c Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/cpuid: remove 'warn' parameter from filter_cpuid_features Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-18 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/cpuid: check for dependencies violations in CPUID and attempt to fix them Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-28  7:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] x86: cpuid: improve support for broken CPUID configurations Maxim Levitsky
2022-08-01 16:05   ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-08-01 16:31     ` Dave Hansen
2022-08-01 16:41       ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-09-19 13:43     ` Maxim Levitsky

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