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

mark gross <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:43:29 -0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:53:54AM +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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.
I will do that.

--mark