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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, x86@kernel.org,
	thomas.lendacky@amd.com, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:02:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180112180224.GP6718@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515779365-9032-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

> +	if ((!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI) &&
> +	     !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SMEP)) || is_skylake_era()) {
> +		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW);
> +		pr_info("Filling RSB on context switch\n");

We need to do more things for Skylake (like idle and interrupt fill
and possibly deep call cahin), so I don't think it makes sense to

- have an individual flag for each of these. It can be just a single
flag that enables all of this for Skylake

- print something for each of them. that will just be very noisy
without any useful benefit to the user.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-12 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-12 17:49 [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 18:02 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2018-01-12 18:23   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 18:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-12 18:56   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 23:41     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-14 11:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-14 17:04 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 14:35   ` David Laight
2018-01-15 14:39     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 14:42     ` Arjan van de Ven
2018-01-15 20:03       ` Kees Cook
2018-01-14 23:37 ` tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-01-15  0:05   ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-15  0:09     ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-15 10:13     ` David Woodhouse
2018-03-09 13:12 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2018-03-09 15:14   ` Andi Kleen
2018-03-09 15:33     ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2018-03-09 15:38     ` Woodhouse, David

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