Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] v2: more sampling fun 1

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:53:54 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
Message-ID <[email protected]>
speck for mark gross <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 07:16:33PM +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> speck for Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> writes:
>> > What you should actually be doing is setting those bug flags in
>> > early_init_intel() where you can go wild with the steppings checking and
>> > then you won't need to touch x86_cpu_id at all.
>> 
>> Either that or add a new cpu_vuln_shitlist beside the whitelist and
>> stick the new stuff into that. It kinda makes sense to keep all this
>> vulnerability nonsense in one place.
>
> I'm ok with either way.  is there a consensus for making annother
> cpu_vuln_list?

Go for the extra list at the same place so all that stuff is in one
place.