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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 18:07:19 EST


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:56:46PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:55:20PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > part of the problem is that "sharing" has multiple dimensions: time
> > and space (e.g. hyperthreading) which makes it hard to find a nice
> > term for it other than describing who attacks whom
>
> Shared Hardware Isolation of Tasks ?

Ok, srsly:

spectre_v2_task_isol=

to mean, task isolation and it not being an abbreviation.

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Boris.

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