[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 3/9] TAA 3

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 02:28:58PM +0100, speck for Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:01:53AM +0200, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > From: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [PATCH 3/9] x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by
> >  default
> > 
> 
> As late at this is, I really would like to change the name here.  We
> already have a powerpc command line option to disable this for those
> chips, and we should use the same name here as well.

I think powerpc calls it "ppc_tm=". We can't obviously change to this.

	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
			Format: {"off"}
			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory

> I talked a bit
> about this with some powerpc people and they really want to disable this
> option as well, much like is being done here, for lots of other,
> non-security reasons.
> 
> So can we please go back to the generic name so that we have some
> unification, making userspace stuff more uniform?

I couldn't find an existing generic name for this.

Thanks,
Pawan