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Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:04:50 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        karahmed@...zon.de, sironi@...zon.de, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, pbonzini@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
        peterz@...radead.org, jmattson@...gle.com, rkrcmar@...hat.com,
        arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com, dave.hansen@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Clean up various Spectre related details


* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 20:43 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > And should these say 'Spectre v2' not just 'Spectre'?
> > 
> > Yeah, you are probably right, but I didn't want to make the messages too specific 
> > - do we really know that this is the end of Spectre-style speculation holes?
> 
> Well... if a new problem is also remedied by use if IBRS/IBPB and
> retpoline, I think we can happily call it a subclass of "Spectre v2".
> 
> And if it *isn't* addressed by those same things, then it's clearly
> something different. Either way, these messages should be 'v2', no?

Ok, fair enough - I've changed it to v2 as you suggest:

-		pr_info("Filling RSB on context switch\n");
+		pr_info("Spectre v2 mitigation: Filling RSB on context switch\n");
-		pr_info("Enabling Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier\n");
+		pr_info("Spectre v2 mitigation: Enabling Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier\n");

> On the whole though, there are plenty of better things to be worrying
> about :)

Sure - nevertheless I fixed these while they were still hot ;-)

Thanks,

	Ingo

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