linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Return ENXIO instead of EPERM when speculation control is unimplemented

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:02:54 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
        Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return ENXIO instead of EPERM when speculation control is unimplemented

Anthony,

Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@...gle.com> writes:
>  		return "";
>  
>  	switch (spectre_v2_user) {
> -	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE:
> +	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_UNAVAILABLE:
> +		return ", STIBP: unavailable";

Shouldn't this for correctness differentiate between the case where the
STIBP mitigation feature is not available and the case where STIBP is
not used because SMT is not possible?

Thanks,

        tglx