svn commit: r355436 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 x86/x86
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Fri Dec 6 21:14:35 UTC 2019
I’m not opposed to the idea, but making any change invites a bike shed on
naming, and making no change at all invites a bike shed on naming, and
honestly the name doesn’t matter to me at this point. I encourage you and
Ed to own this.
Scott
> On Dec 6, 2019, at 6:58 AM, Eric van Gyzen <eric at vangyzen.net> wrote:
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>> On Dec 6, 2019, at 4:36 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 21:43, Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>> Author: scottl
>>> Date: Fri Dec 6 02:43:05 2019
>>> New Revision: 355436
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355436
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> Move the mds, irbs, and ssb mitigation knobs into machdep.mitigations.
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>> If we're moving them and adding backwards-compatibility scaffolding we
>> really should correct the sense of the sysctls at the same time.
>
> I was just going to suggest that. For some, 0 is secure; for others, 1 is secure. Since they’re under “mitigations,” I think 1 should consistently mean “mitigated.”
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> Eric
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