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 ; 30 Oct 2019 19:28:09 -0000 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1iPtdX-0007aJ-Tc for speck@linutronix.de; Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:28:08 +0100 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:58 +0100 From: Greg KH Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 3/9] TAA 3 Message-ID: <20191030192758.GD709410@kroah.com> References: <580e02757c3e639bff00fcea830aa46eba46a92f.1571905227.git.bp@suse.de> <20191030132858.GA703436@kroah.com> <20191030172402.GB9730@guptapadev.amr> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191030172402.GB9730@guptapadev.amr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: speck@linutronix.de List-ID: On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:24:03AM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 02:28:58PM +0100, speck for Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:01:53AM +0200, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote: > > > From: Pawan Gupta > > > Subject: [PATCH 3/9] x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by > > > default > > > > > > > As late at this is, I really would like to change the name here. We > > already have a powerpc command line option to disable this for those > > chips, and we should use the same name here as well. > > I think powerpc calls it "ppc_tm=". We can't obviously change to this. > > ppc_tm= [PPC] > Format: {"off"} > Disable Hardware Transactional Memory No, but we can use "tm", and PPC said they would drop the "ppc_" prefix and use the generic flag as well. "Transactional Memory" is the generic term for this from what I can tell. thanks, greg k-h