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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Add document to describe Spectre and its mitigations
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:17:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fdf4e1cd-9b28-75c7-6846-6d0f5b816936@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c7923ec-70aa-25d4-3de1-f1b1768bb80b@candelatech.com>

On 12/21/18 1:59 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 12/21/18 9:44 AM, Tim Chen wrote:
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Andi and I have made an update to our draft of the Spectre admin guide.
>> We may be out on Christmas vacation for a while.  But we want to
>> send it out for everyone to take a look.
> 
> Can you add a section on how to compile out all mitigations that have anything
> beyond negligible performance impact for those running systems where performance
> is more important than security?
> 

If you don't worry about security and performance is paramount, then
boot with "nospectre_v2".  That's explained in the document.

Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-22  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-21 17:44 [PATCH] x86/speculation: Add document to describe Spectre and its mitigations Tim Chen
2018-12-21 21:59 ` Ben Greear
2018-12-22  1:17   ` Tim Chen [this message]
2018-12-31 16:22     ` Ben Greear
2018-12-31 17:10       ` Arjan van de Ven
2019-01-07 17:57       ` Tim Chen
2019-01-09  0:58         ` Ben Greear
2019-01-09  1:35           ` Tim Chen
2018-12-23 23:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-08 21:12   ` Tim Chen
2019-01-09  1:11     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-09  1:41       ` Tim Chen
2019-01-09  2:42         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-12-28 17:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-01-08 21:18   ` Tim Chen
2019-01-13 23:10     ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-13 23:12       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-14 12:01         ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-14 12:06           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-14 13:01             ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-14 13:06               ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-14 14:39                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2019-01-30  0:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-12 12:00   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-12 17:36     ` Tim Chen

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