Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Add "or" to mitigations for multiple errata

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue May 12 2020 - 10:12:07 EST


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:42:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Several actions are not mitigations for a single erratum, but for
> multiple errata. However, printing a line like
>
> CPU features: detected: ARM errata 1165522, 1319367, 1530923
>
> may give the false impression that all three listed errata have been
> detected. This can confuse the user, who may think his Cortex-A57 is
> suddenly affected by Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 errata.
>
> Add "or" to all descriptions for mitigations for multiple errata, to
> make it clear that only one or more of the errata printed are
> applicable, and not necessarily all of them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

This seems to conflict with the other patch you sent to reorder the entries.
Please can you send another version, based on the arm64 for-next/kconfig
branch?

Will