Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/cpu: Remove "noclflush"

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Mon Nov 15 2021 - 04:04:52 EST


On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:37 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> Not really needed anymore and there's clearcpuid=.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 --
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 8 --------
> 2 files changed, 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 3a4c3fc88bf1..5239d4ae2b91 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -3348,8 +3348,6 @@
>
> nocache [ARM]
>
> - noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
> -

The patch is definitely good for me, but I have no idea what
"BUGS=" relates to here.
(In the commit 191679fdfa63 ("x86: add noclflush option"))

In Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst:
BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.

For patch 3,4,5, they can have my reviewed-by:

Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>