From: Greg KH <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
arjan@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, karahmed@amazon.de,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, bp@alien8.de, peterz@infradead.org,
pbonzini@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:31:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180123183109.GA12453@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18ca2a5a-17df-e889-9c11-f5ee4c46de53@intel.com>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:27:24AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/23/2018 08:52 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > +#define MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES 0x0000010a
> > +#define ARCH_CAP_RDCL_NO (1 << 0) /* Not susceptible to Meltdown */
> > +#define ARCH_CAP_IBRS_ALL (1 << 1) /* Enhanced IBRS support */
>
> Do we want to spell out the silly Intel acronym? I don't know how we
> fit it on the right side, but I do think we need to do it _somewhere_.
> We need the code to stand on its own to some degree and not subject the
> masses to reading the spec to understand the code.
Yes please, take pity on us :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-23 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-23 16:52 [PATCH v2 0/5] Basic Speculation Control feature support David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:43 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-24 1:23 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-24 1:28 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-24 8:13 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD " David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 8:39 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-24 8:40 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:27 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-23 18:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-01-23 18:48 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on fixed Intel processors David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:12 ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-24 1:21 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:40 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-24 1:27 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:41 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-23 18:44 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-23 18:45 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-23 19:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-23 20:45 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-23 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-23 20:50 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 16:25 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-24 17:42 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-24 18:59 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 19:37 ` David Woodhouse
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