linux-kernel - Re: Smatch check for Spectre stuff

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Message-ID: <db67acd5-ecc6-ff2c-cd10-e2e1fdf8822f@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:08:55 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Smatch check for Spectre stuff



On 04/23/2018 07:45 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 07:31:03AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 04/20/2018 07:00 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> awesome stuff...
>>>
>>> So I fear that many are actually things we want to fix. Our policy was
>>> to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
>>> completed with a dependent load/store.
>>>
>> I wonder if there is any thread where I can read the discussion about that
>> policy that you mention.
>>
>> Could you share it here, please?
> 
> I think it was somewhere in the many spectre variant1 threads when Linus
> Alexei and Dan W were hashing out the mitigation thing. I cannot quickly
> find the specific email.
> 
> Clarifying that position was one reason for the patches I did, Linus and
> Dan W are on Cc and I figure that if they all agree we should maybe add
> a little something to Documentation/speculation.txt.
> 


Yeah. I think it's important to mention that, so everybody is on the 
same page. In particular now that is very likely that many people will 
start writing patches to fix the rest of the issues Dan reported.

Thanks
--
Gustavo