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 ; 25 Feb 2020 14:44:39 -0000 Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.81] helo=us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1j6bRu-0005c6-6H for speck@linutronix.de; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:44:38 +0100 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 239E8800D53 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from treble (ovpn-124-129.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.124.129]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AADA71001B30 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:44:25 -0600 From: Josh Poimboeuf Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 2/2] more sampling fun 2 Message-ID: <20200225144425.pz3mqjdyzt57ptu3@treble> References: <20200224173121.GA32673@char.us.oracle.com> <20200224181734.GB29636@zn.tnic> <20200224213929.GA100552@mtg-dev.jf.intel.com> <20200224231034.GE29636@zn.tnic> <20200225012641.slc34bromzk3yj3l@treble> <20200225104658.GA6012@zn.tnic> <20200225141852.wqjdulg46dfztxe4@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: speck@linutronix.de List-ID: On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 03:23:31PM +0100, speck for Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, speck for Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > Well, I see it the opposite way. Those jumbles of letters do actually > > mean something. I still call them "MDS", "L1TF", "SSBD". If you google > > BTW as a sidenote -- I think you actually nicely demonstrated all the > confusion coming from all these crazy acronyms. > > While MDS and L1TF are the names of the actual vulnerability, SSBD is > acronym for the mitigation. Right - we should have just called it "ssb=", to match the Intel acronym, instead of creating our own. -- Josh