Re: [patch V2 1/2] sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 10:50:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:22:04AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
> > > meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.
> > 
> > It is called "grep -e '^bugs' /proc/cpuinfo".
> > 
> > kpti is deduceable from .config and /proc/cmdline .
> > If people don't know what .config they are running, god bless them.
> 
> It is not just for meltdown (kpti). You also have retpoline and IBRS
> which is for spectre.

If you, as kernel developer, are sure that bug is properly mitigated
to the best of your knowledge then clear the bit from the bug mask.