Re: [patch 01/24] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 17:48:48 EST


On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:28 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ugh. Now you're using the broken quilt thing that makes a mush of emails for me.
>
> Reading the series in alpine makes it look fine. No testing, but each
> patch seems sensible.
>
> And yes, triggering on seccomp makes more sense than dumpable to me.

That's what we ended up with SSBD as well. We had the same discussion before.

Btw, I really do not like the app2app wording. I'd rather go for usr2usr,
but that's kinda horrible as well. But then, all of this is horrible.

Any better ideas?

Thanks,

tglx