RE: [PATCH] ARM: Implement Clang's SLS mitigation

From: David Laight
Date: Fri Feb 12 2021 - 05:44:27 EST


> > on -mharden-sls=all, which mitigates the straight-line speculation
> > vulnerability, or more commonly known as Spectre, Meldown.
>
> ^ I would drop "or" here
> ^ drop comma,
> use "and",
> typo: "Meltdown"
>
> Although, is that a fair statement? SLS is not called Spectre or
> Meltdown by ARM, it is a speculative processor vulnerabilty. It
> might just be better to drop eerything after the first comma (although
> maybe that is just being pedantic).

or replace with:
(speculative execution of the instruction following some unconditional jumps).

Which will save a lot of people looking up what it means.

David

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