linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeatures: Cleanup AMD speculation feature bits

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:45:18 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        thomas.lendacky@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpufeatures: Cleanup AMD speculation feature bits

On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 19:41 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> +#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB           (13*32+12) /* "" Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier MSR */

Stray quotes.

> +#define X86_FEATURE_IBRS               (13*32+14) /* Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation */

Please don't call it that. Call it X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBRS and leave
X86_FEATURE_IBRS to parallel X86_FEATURE_IBPB as the *software* bit
which is vendor-independent.

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