From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713F9C7EE2F for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S237284AbjFLSNh (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:13:37 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37742 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236764AbjFLSNd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:13:33 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:190:11c2::b:1457]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43DCEE69 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.alien8.de (mail.alien8.de [65.109.113.108]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id A9FBD1EC0304; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:13:30 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1686593610; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=KemjcYATQSnwZJl3W6y+qmeLHHLb2n7gw7s7m+Gi6So=; b=ZugQp6MfuMwQ1ljhidgLvYDvIi42Kz3wjpVtfGJ8vh+QWS5IsM0Hk8uYuZVc/BLIcvvUoP CjckKwv/Tjmx/McvFIz8NMEZ6Y58XCYtTCmkacbNYrgskQC4XmonIM6ntV0QvHUq413qd1 Zx5DynWEhNGmyC/ADZPoJQCsDQrR8sI= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.alien8.de Authentication-Results: mail.alien8.de (amavisd-new); dkim=pass (4096-bit key) header.d=alien8.de Received: from mail.alien8.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.alien8.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 7m8DI5wYk0rk; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:13:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=alien8; t=1686593607; bh=KemjcYATQSnwZJl3W6y+qmeLHHLb2n7gw7s7m+Gi6So=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Y+QJEv8z4uHyD5JGfUKcKC01sZRvn9bp5bZl1vyAbIqL79iEKPi2NNygF7fWd6bfp hpU4CNFLiZeReGDF+dYdaB1LJ6hhQoq2a06sWVq65Po7jbOkN+C50oRt8c1VW5SwPq zqtDTOScLShnueK7sONMNVzTJHUIwnPSma553bFnspC4UzaxhKb2Rz14fB6b63Gzx5 PnYV4+4/gw9DeUqufPmCEPMkuFj/oV7nBJ8WlRFLtApBTShEgzQ/vkH3tweFtUqK9Q 2IZ4K2Oi8XQIsqoffQ7fKt+muBZ+spLEg8RbF5+XkQD0gKnQkcuum06BIKkO1Ip+5C ZfES0UYLdaD78Oe1qGsTQFERLs5QmAWhuIPLcgIYN6k7CuXYXPT+uo+LKOdVSkZLrg 3hE/CkU4ahcQkNnHXykuYt92IKrs/0q8z9fZESkkIAOVhutYLWzYo4QH1rMEx6EkfT 147o9j4ZpBdOYpIIxfYgffEUjWVPOZ/Z/DU8Hx/ouJ+qzL8oLAm4b2vhhjPPgAa3wq hxt36tpKY6vesRpmmtOJcruCFK4WbteRUV88vJ+LzG1TwftJ8OOl8l5pgo01ckcRLQ qDgXf+YKeq+OlzO9pAKFPN+pQWselIrOidg6rpPO8MM3B90y8dcsOio9VWCvxEm1/V 0Ag1gxaDc1eHK1c69ClXsSmI= Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ea971dc5F0329C23FfFEa6a903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ea:971d:c5f0:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature ECDSA (P-256) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.alien8.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id AE7C840E01D0; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:13:15 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Breno Leitao , Thomas Gleixner , pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com, paul@paul-moore.com, leit@meta.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu/bugs: Disable CPU mitigations at compilation time Message-ID: <20230612181315.GPZIdgO2jz8ZZwU1vY@fat_crate.local> References: <20230203120615.1121272-1-leitao@debian.org> <87352z7xld.ffs@tglx> <20230612133230.GJZIcebkHxd8QJs0Dv@fat_crate.local> <20230612135301.GKZIcjPY0xvbNsiVNd@fat_crate.local> <20230612160807.GNZIdC58KQ8IibZjrt@fat_crate.local> <3289c90b-afee-67b9-8143-344afd47f1da@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3289c90b-afee-67b9-8143-344afd47f1da@infradead.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really > > should know what you are doing to say so. > > I would say: doing to say No. > > Was there a typo there? I don't think so - it reads right to me this way too. Yours would simply make it more explicit but the "so" is the "N" at the beginning of the sentence: "You really should know what you're doing to say so, i.e., the N". -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette