From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC5DC433ED for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BA36144E for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S245346AbhDUTAI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:08 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:49760 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239751AbhDUTAH (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:07 -0400 Received: from zn.tnic (p2e58483a.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [46.88.72.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id B5B141EC01B7; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:59:32 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1619031572; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=1o1imbBarj6dETiKm39DNAq8E4f8mKRo2g5LdAjz65c=; b=NlSSQs1FHjYasXdCKmBnNCKi3SmUh72P7QVZYdsFMQl/49C1jQlmpnhaV4Rnwp6TY0bdBe JUoL5xnxAp9Lc7nwFTQQlemIJozLTkAyf4umIZ9GDW0qPTyo08UO7WU/s0WZslAGPhIUjb JIWHpRRO4qUef/K1By4PJeC9++L7ZBs= Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:57:25 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Saripalli, RK" Cc: Bandan Das , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/speculation: Add PSF mitigation kernel parameters Message-ID: <20210421185725.GC22401@zn.tnic> References: <20210421090117.22315-1-rsaripal@amd.com> <20210421090117.22315-5-rsaripal@amd.com> <4c688fc7-67df-3187-54b2-bf20e510fb39@infradead.org> <20210421184826.GA3120@zn.tnic> <863ece71-463f-fc50-db13-7fd280902d6b@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <863ece71-463f-fc50-db13-7fd280902d6b@amd.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 01:55:03PM -0500, Saripalli, RK wrote: > I separated them into separate patches because the KVM patch depends on one of the patch. > The corresponding QEMU patch depends on another patch. > > By separating them into 4 separate patches, my thinking was I could keep them logically separate. Sure but they all go together through the same tree - why does that matter for Qemu/KVM? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette