Re: [PATCH] x86/umip: Add a umip= cmdline switch

[Ricardo Neri]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 06:14:59PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > If it is printing the same information again and again, wouldn't it be
> > simpler to have a umip_pr_warn_once()?
> 
> If you do a once thing, you're blocking any other programs from warning,
> output you probably wanna see.

That is right. Although, I am not sure programs you can have in
the same machine that also want to use UMIP-protected instructions.
> 
> With the command line switch you do the same but you're at least pushing
> the user to become active and do it first. I.e., with enabling that
> option, the user basically says that she/he is not interested in any of
> that output and that is ok.
> 
> The optimal thing would be to ratelimit it per process but that would be
> an overkill and not really needed.

Indeed.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo