linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] cpu/bugs: Disable CPU mitigations at compilation time

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Message-ID: <ff2ac80f-222b-4aad-8fa5-c8f5835b3564@debian.org>
Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2023 12:04:56 +0000
From:   Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To:     Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     leit@...a.com, tglx@...utronix.de, bp@...en8.de,
        paul@...l-moore.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cpu/bugs: Disable CPU mitigations at compilation time

On 02/02/2023 21:44, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 10:08:58AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
>> Right now it is not possible to disable CPU vulnerabilities mitigations
>> at build time. Mitigation needs to be disabled passing kernel
>> parameters, such as 'mitigations=off'.
>>
>> This patch creates an easy way to disable mitigation during compilation
> 
> s/This patch creates/Create/

Thanks for the review!

I am more curious if creating a new CONFIG option would be an acceptable
approach, and it seems so. I will send a non-RFC patch soon.