Re: STIBP by default.. Revert?
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Nov 18 2018 - 17:42:34 EST
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 2:17 PM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Which gets us back to Tim's fixup patch. Do you still prefer the revert,
> given the existence of that?
I don't think the code needs to be reverted, but the *behavior* of
just unconditionally enabling STIBP needs to be reverted.
Because it was clearly way more expensive than people were told.
Linus