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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>, x86@kernel.org
Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/cpu: Support AMD Automatic IBRS
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 09:40:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a078451-172c-40f3-c2c7-4472c5006532@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221201015003.295769-7-kim.phillips@amd.com>

On 11/30/22 17:50, Kim Phillips wrote:
> @@ -1240,8 +1240,11 @@ static const struct {
>  	{ "retpoline,lfence",	SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_LFENCE,  false },
>  	{ "retpoline,generic",	SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_GENERIC, false },
>  	{ "eibrs",		SPECTRE_V2_CMD_EIBRS,		  false },
> +	{ "autoibrs",		SPECTRE_V2_CMD_EIBRS,		  false },
>  	{ "eibrs,lfence",	SPECTRE_V2_CMD_EIBRS_LFENCE,	  false },
> +	{ "autoibrs,lfence",	SPECTRE_V2_CMD_EIBRS_LFENCE,	  false },
>  	{ "eibrs,retpoline",	SPECTRE_V2_CMD_EIBRS_RETPOLINE,	  false },
> +	{ "autoibrs,retpoline",	SPECTRE_V2_CMD_EIBRS_RETPOLINE,	  false },
>  	{ "auto",		SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO,		  false },
>  	{ "ibrs",		SPECTRE_V2_CMD_IBRS,              false },

I don't think we should expose "autoibrs" to end users like this.
"eibrs" means always-on IBRS.  Intel did it first, so gets to name it.
Those are the rules, and it's why we call it "x86_64" and not whatever
Intel's silly name for it was.

Also, expanding the strings:

> +	[SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_RETPOLINE]		= "Mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS + Retpolines",

is fine, but adding new user-visible options that we have to document is
not.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-02 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-01  1:49 [PATCH v4 0/7] x86/cpu, kvm: Support AMD Automatic IBRS Kim Phillips
2022-12-01  1:49 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/cpu: Define a scattered No Nested Data Breakpoints feature bit Kim Phillips
2022-12-05 10:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-05 17:32     ` Kim Phillips
2022-12-05 20:20       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-05 22:05         ` Kim Phillips
2022-12-01  1:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/cpu: Define a scattered Null Selector Clears Base " Kim Phillips
2022-12-01  1:49 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/cpu: Make X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC a scattered " Kim Phillips
2022-12-01  1:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/cpu, kvm: Move CPUID 0x80000021 EAX feature bits propagation to kvm_set_cpu_caps() Kim Phillips
2022-12-01  1:50 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/cpu: Define a scattered AMD Automatic IBRS feature bit Kim Phillips
2022-12-01  1:50 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/cpu: Support AMD Automatic IBRS Kim Phillips
2022-12-02 16:31   ` Pawan Gupta
2022-12-02 17:40   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2022-12-01  1:50 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/cpu, kvm: Propagate the AMD Automatic IBRS feature to the guest Kim Phillips

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