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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>
Cc: Ramakrishna Saripalli <rsaripal@amd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	bsd@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] x86/cpufeatures: Implement Predictive Store Forwarding control.
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:56:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIxhCSt6t5U/Eldb@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeT=Fw-nt5h3DhRCQr8Ma71NiP7dHB+WD2hie_55SpCHR=mDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:42:46PM -0700, Reiji Watanabe wrote:
> Then, it would be a problem if its guests want to use PSFD looking at
> x86_virt_spec_ctrl().

Well, will they want to do that? If so, why? Use case?

We decided to do this lite version to give people the opportunity to
evaluate whether there's a need to make full-blown mitigation-like,
per-thread thing like the rest of the mitigations in bugs.c or leave it
to be a chicken-bit thing.

So do you have any particular use case in mind or are you simply poking
holes in this?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-30 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 13:17 [PATCH v4 0/1] Introduce support for PSF control Ramakrishna Saripalli
2021-04-30 13:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] x86/cpufeatures: Implement Predictive Store Forwarding control Ramakrishna Saripalli
2021-04-30 14:50   ` Tom Lendacky
2021-04-30 14:56     ` Saripalli, RK
2021-04-30 19:42   ` Reiji Watanabe
2021-04-30 19:52     ` Saripalli, RK
2021-05-01  1:50       ` Reiji Watanabe
2021-05-04 21:01         ` Saripalli, RK
2021-05-04 22:11           ` Reiji Watanabe
2021-05-05  1:13             ` Saripalli, RK
2021-04-30 19:56     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-04-30 21:03       ` Reiji Watanabe
2021-04-30 21:11         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-01  1:01           ` Reiji Watanabe
2021-05-05  0:11   ` Pawan Gupta
2021-05-05  1:11     ` Saripalli, RK

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