linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/56] Documentation/admin-guide: Add documentation

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Message-ID: <20251022114317.GOaPjDVZoJYnkqEVQc@fat_crate.local>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:43:17 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Kaplan, David" <David.Kaplan@....com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/56] Documentation/admin-guide: Add documentation

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 01:53:11PM +0000, Kaplan, David wrote:
> Ack.  Although to be clear, all it can do is select a different mitigation.
> For instance, if there was a bug in safe-RET, it can't fix that bug.  But it
> could allow selecting a different SRSO mitigation.

Yeah, let's spell it out as this would be read by users too, I hope.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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