Re: [patch 01/24] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 18:04:58 EST


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:48:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:28 PM Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ugh. Now you're using the broken quilt thing that makes a mush of emails for me.
> >
> > Reading the series in alpine makes it look fine. No testing, but each
> > patch seems sensible.
> >
> > And yes, triggering on seccomp makes more sense than dumpable to me.
>
> That's what we ended up with SSBD as well. We had the same discussion before.
>
> Btw, I really do not like the app2app wording. I'd rather go for usr2usr,
> but that's kinda horrible as well. But then, all of this is horrible.

Why not just 'user'? Like SPECTRE_V2_USER_*.

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Josh