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

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:15:48PM +0100, speck for Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:35:26AM +0100, speck for Greg KH wrote:
> > Anyway, yes, TM shoudl have the same semantic.  But, if it's too late at
> > the moment, we can always unify this later on if PPC really wants it.
> 
> We can s/unify/add additional/ to minimize confusion. What I mean is,
> we can add "tm=" as an additional option which coexists with the "tsx="
> option on x86 because the patches would have released already and we
> would have communicated "tsx=" to people by then. So "tsx=" and "tm="
> would do the same thing on x86.

Ah, yes, that sounds like a sane plan.

thanks,

greg k-h