From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 1/2] sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 07:53:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180108065349.GA12639@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de>
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 10:48:00PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
> sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
> particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
> mitigation should be common as well.
>
> Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
> meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.
>
> Allow architectures to override the show function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thanks for the documentation update, looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-08 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-07 21:47 [patch V2 0/2] sysfs/cpu: Implement generic vulnerabilites directory Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-07 21:48 ` [patch V2 1/2] sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-07 22:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-08 6:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-01-08 7:29 ` Dominik Brodowski
2018-01-08 7:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-08 10:16 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-26 16:23 ` [patch V2 1/2] " Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-26 16:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-29 5:30 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-07 21:48 ` [patch V2 2/2] x86/cpu: Implement CPU vulnerabilites sysfs functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-07 22:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-08 6:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-08 10:17 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-07 22:22 [patch V2 1/2] sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder Alexey Dobriyan
2018-01-08 3:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-08 5:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-01-08 9:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-08 10:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-01-08 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-08 18:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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