Re: [PATCH] x86/bugs: Adjust SRSO mitigation to new features

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 05 2024 - 14:25:00 EST


On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 11:18:16AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> It gets there, usually (as evidenced by my response). But even for me, there's
> a non-zero chance I'll miss something that's only Cc'd to kvm@, largely because
> kvm@ is used by all things virt, i.e. it's a bit noisy:
>
> $ git grep kvm@ MAINTAINERS | wc -l
> 29

Hm, ok, so what do you guys prefer to be CCed on? Everyone from
get_maintainer.pl's output? commit signers, authors, everyone? Or?

> Heh, I found that. Not very helpful.
>
> If you can't document the specifics, can you at least describe the performance
> implications? It's practically impossible to give meaningful feedback without
> having any idea what the magic bit does.

Lemme see what I can get clearance on...

Stay tuned.

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