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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Aug 12 2023 - 08:12:32 EST


On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 01:32:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So I really hate that .Kconfig explosion, that's the very last thing we
> need :-( More random options that can cause build time trouble.
>
> I might see value in one knob that kills all speculation nonsense at
> build time, but not one per mitigation, that's maddness.

Yap, I hate them too. Linus wanted them last time and you added them.

And now we have a subset of mitigations with Kconfig options and
a subset without.

;-\

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Boris.

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