From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linutronix.de (146.0.238.70:993) by crypto-ml.lab.linutronix.de with IMAP4-SSL for ; 22 Jan 2019 12:51:56 -0000 Received: from p4fea4364.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.234.67.100] helo=nanos) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1glvX1-0003dI-DU for speck@linutronix.de; Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:51:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:51:55 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/27] MDSv5 14 In-Reply-To: <26a54dad8cc0389afebfe14ab317bf94e0f49369.1547858934.git.ak@linux.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <26a54dad8cc0389afebfe14ab317bf94e0f49369.1547858934.git.ak@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: speck@linutronix.de List-ID: On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, speck for Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > Subject: x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=off > > Normally we execute VERW for clearing the cpu unconditionally on kernel exits So what's normally? Nothing. This is patch 2 of the series and nothing does VERW anywhere. Changelogs have to make sense on their own and not require knowledge of patches further down the road. Thanks, tglx