Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/17] x86/cpu: Add SRSO untrain to retbleed=

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Aug 12 2023 - 08:10:56 EST


On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 01:24:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That very experience wants me to avoid doing it again :-/ But you all
> really want to keep the parameter, can we at least rename it something
> you can remember how to type, like 'srso=' instead of this horrific
> 'spec_rstack_overflow=' thing?

I'm all for short'n'sweet but last time I did that, Linus said we should
have option names which aren't abbreviations which don't mean anything.

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