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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, karahmed@amazon.de,
	x86@kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	 pbonzini@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org,  gregkh@linux-foundation.org,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	 ashok.raj@intel.com, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:11:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1516882315.30244.88.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180125120348.ss62p5yaviemprxn@pd.tnic>

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On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 13:03 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:58:20AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > They're immediates, not registers. So it's like the first example
> in...
> 
> Oh, I know very well what they are - I simply find the macro more
> readable if there are less or no arguments.

Oh, I agree, but having to write 0x49 there instead of
MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD was a more pressing reason *not* to change it.

There are possibly macro hacks that can make that work (the first naïve
attempt didn't) but it exceeded my boredom threshold fairly rapidly.

If you send me a version which still uses MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD and
PRED_CMD_IBPB instead of hard-coding the numbers, and which doesn't end
up with piles of __stringify() and similar crap to do so, I'll happily
change it.

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-25 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-25  9:23 [PATCH v4 0/7] Basic Speculation Control feature support David Woodhouse
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf David Woodhouse
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control David Woodhouse
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD " David Woodhouse
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs David Woodhouse
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on processors which are not vulnerable to Meltdown David Woodhouse
2018-01-25  9:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-25  9:56     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 10:01       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-25 15:12   ` Alan Cox
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL on early Spectre v2 microcodes David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 10:43   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 10:54     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-25 11:20       ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 11:34         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-25 13:41           ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 14:58             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-25 16:16             ` Alan Cox
2018-01-25 16:24               ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-25 16:35                 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-26  9:40             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-25  9:23 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 11:41   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-25 11:47     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 11:50       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-25 11:58         ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-25 12:03           ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-25 12:11             ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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