[MODERATED] Re: Re: [patch V6 10/14] MDS basics 10

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:35:26PM +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Following up on our conversation on IRC, I've reworded the comment:
> 
>  	/*
> 	 * Enable the idle clearing if SMT is active on CPUs which are
> 	 * affected only by MSBDS and not any other MDS variant.
> 	 *
> 	 * The other variants cannot be mitigated when SMT is enabled, so
> 	 * clearing the buffers on idle just to prevent the Store Buffer
> 	 * repartitioning leak would be a window dressing exercise.
>  	 */
>  	if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MSBDS_ONLY))
>  		return;

Yap, looks good.

With that addressed:

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

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