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

On Wed 30-10-19 20:27:58, speck for Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:24:03AM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > 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
> 
> No, but we can use "tm", and PPC said they would drop the "ppc_" prefix
> and use the generic flag as well.  "Transactional Memory" is the generic
> term for this from what I can tell.

Are those two (tsx and tm) going to have the same semantic? I have
little doubts TBH considering how tsx itself is tricky.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs