Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/bugs: Create single parameter for VERW based mitigations

[Daniel Sneddon]

>>
>> Are you suggesting a name change away from "clear_cpu_buffers" since it is
>> clearly about the mitigation rather than the bug? I'm not sure there is a good
>> common name for those 4 bugs that isn't about the mitigation, but I'm open
>> to any suggestions.
>>
> 
> Yes, I think that would be better.  I wasn't sure on a name either.  In the RFDS webpage I see it described as "similar to data sampling transient execution attacks".  Perhaps something like that could be an umbrella term?
> 

Sure, I can change it. Thanks for the review!

> --David Kaplan