Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] x86/bugs: Add a separate config for GDS

From: Daniel Sneddon
Date: Tue Jul 16 2024 - 14:51:47 EST


On 7/15/24 05:17, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 05:14:54AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
>> Sure, I will send a v4 and get rid of GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION completely.
>
> I'm actually waiting on the people on Cc to chime in whether we really need
> it. The three distro configs we checked, don't set it.
>

If no one is using it I don't see any reason to keep it. It's just cluttering up
the code at that point. End users can still set gather_data_sampling=force anyway.