linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] [x86] Add command line option to enable/disable hyper-threading.

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Date:	Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:09:17 -0500
From:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] [x86] Add command line option to enable/disable
	hyper-threading.

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 15:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > The idea is that we want our users to be able to use hyper-threading,
> > but we don't want it on by default.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> can I ask why not?

I'm just basing this on the history of the patch, which preceeds me, so
if this is incorrect, please don't blame me for misinformation :)

The original patch claims that hyper-threading opens the user up to some
sort of security risk involving hardware limitations in protecting
memory across the threads. I can't recall all the details.

If this is wrong, I'm more than happy to just drop the whole damn patch.
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